| 4.0 excellent |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Worlds Apart |
| 10,000 Maniacs In My Tribe |
| 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged |
| 16 Horsepower Folklore |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math |
| 65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas |
65dos submit a serious contender for album of the year, but even if their work in contrast to the work of others gets overshadowed, its still a damn good release.
What we have learned from "The Destruction of Small Ideas" is that:
a. A little more recognition has been good for this group
b. Vocals indeed enhance the music and do not take any bit away from it
c. Robb Jonze is a machine at drums and this work can be listened to just for that
This album will go on to be a cool part of this discography as it is both satisfying and still leaves even the most pedestrian of fans something in the future to anticipate. |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| Aceyalone Magnificent City |
| Adolescents Adolescents |
| Air The Virgin Suicides |
| Air Pocket Symphony |
| Probably the most difficult Air album to get right into, the guest vocalists and change of song structures might be a put off but if given enough time the soothing instrumentals and the haiku-inspired vocal tracks balance each other out and coexist. What is especially good about this is the musical expansion that has went into making this. It may seem like a pedestrian album but its the only thing they'll put out for another three years, give it time. |
| Anthrax We've Come For You All |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Ben Kweller Sha Sha |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking |
| Big Black Atomizer |
| Big Star Third/Sister Lovers |
| Blonde Redhead 23 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island |
| Butthole Surfers Rembrandt Pussyhorse |
| Calexico Feast of Wire |
| Chrome Alien Soundtracks |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Cornelius Sensuous |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Damien Rice O |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Desert Sessions Volumes 9 and 10 |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press |
| DJ Shadow The Outsider |
| Duran Duran Rio |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| Husker Du New Day Rising |
| Iron And Wine Woman King |
| Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation 1814 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy |
| John Frusciante Curtains |
| Jose Gonzalez Veneer |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kyuss Blues For The Red Sun |
| Less Than Jake Losing Streak |
| Living Colour Vivid |
| Lou Reed Transformer |
| Manic Street Preachers Forever Delayed |
| mclusky The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire |
| Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Minutemen 3-Way Tie (For Last) |
| Moby Play |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Morphine Yes |
| Morphine Cure for Pain |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| The songs were single and didn't build any type of flow, but darned if they weren't catchy and memorable. Nowadays Oasis are viewed as a joke, a group of 2 loud mouthed talentless hacks, I suppose in a way that makes Definitely Maybe better in the sense that is also contains a view of the band in their earliest days. Some of the tunes go on for too long and Married With Children pops up in a really awkward place, but the anthems of Slide Away, Rock and Roll Star, and Live Forever make this whole album worth giving a spin. |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pere Ubu The Modern Dance |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde |
| Portishead Dummy |
| R.E.M. Eponymous |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Reagan Youth A Collection of Pop Classics |
| Saves the Day Through Being Cool |
| Sonic Youth Dirty |
| Sonic Youth Goo |
| Sonic Youth Sister |
| Sonic Youth Washing Machine |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire |
| Sugar Copper Blue |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| The Beat I Just Can't Stop It |
| The Books The Lemon Of Pink |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel |
| The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart |
| The Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script |
| The Radio Dept. Lesser Matters |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Tindersticks Tindersticks |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf |
| Ween Quebec |
| Ween 12 Golden Country Greats |
| Ween Live In Chicago |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Wovenhand Consider the Birds |
| X (USA) Los Angeles |
| X (USA) Live In Los Angeles |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| 3.5 great |
| 16 Horsepower Secret South |
| 311 311 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose |
| Air Premiers Symptomes |
| All-Time Quarterback All-Time Quarterback |
| Ben Gibbard without much of a supporting cast, also a Ben Gibbard without much recognition or fans. Listen to him in his pre-DCFC/PS days as he sounds very opposite to those bands in the fact that there is no outlandish production that aplifies the noise he makes, instead these are different times of minimal production, as well as instrument usage. |
| Amplive Rainydayz Remixes |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Bad Religion The Process of Belief |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Beck Odelay |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Big D and the Kids Table Good Luck |
| Big Star #1 Record |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Blonde Redhead Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons |
| Boris Pink |
| Braid Closer To Closed |
| Brian Wilson Smile |
| Buckner and Garcia Pac-Man Fever |
| What happens when video games, guitar solos, and the 80's combine and are interpreted by two average joes? The result is Pac-Man fever, an infectious collection of songs that each deal with different video games. While this may be considered a parody album and a gimmick, "Pac-Man Fever" is legitimately catchy, as well as "Ode to a Centipede" which has a neat solo. |
| Built Like Alaska Hopalong |
| Busdriver RoadKillOvercoat |
| With his quick spitting approach and willingness to get beats from anywhere (Yes fans should check out "The Troglodyte Wins") Busdriver puts out an album that must be remembered at the end of the year for one of the best of 07. Fans of more bass heavy tunes will delight in the up tempo songs such as "Kill Your Employer" or "(Bloody Paw on the) Kill Floor" while tracks like the lead single Less Yes's, More No's" is more relaxed with a synthesizer cot. Roadkillovercoat is a consistent piece and one worth a listen. |
| Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician |
| Butthole Surfers Electriclarryland |
| Calexico and Iron and Wine In the Reins |
| Chrome Blood on the Moon |
| Ciccone Youth The Whitey Album |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square |
| Common Be |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug |
| DJ Shadow Preemptive Strike |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Images And Words |
| Duran Duran Astronaut |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Faith No More Introduce Yourself |
| Fantomas Suspended Animation |
| Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagrave Phantasm |
| Ghost (JPN) In Stormy Nights |
| Glassjaw El Mark |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Junior Senior Hey Hey My My Yo Yo |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers |
| Lady Sovereign Public Warning |
| Laura Radio Swan is Down |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Massive Attack Protection |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See |
| The album suffers from an unwillingness to change the overall gameplan (acoustic chords by David Roback, topped with the soft and smooth voice of Hope Sandoval) but the formula they use is one that works to success. Individual songs are hard to pick out, but when they can be spotted (Fade Into You which is the bands most successful song, Five String Symphony which is the best song on here, and Wasted which introduces the idea of electric guitar) it is good. |
| Mercury Rev All Is Dream |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Load |
| Metallica S&M |
| Morphine Like Swimming |
| My Bloody Valentine Tremolo |
| My Bloody Valentine Glider |
| NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Piebald If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curt |
| Polaris (USA) Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Prefuse 73 Preparations |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| The 2nd worst Radiohead album. Certainly not a bad one, and features some standout tracks ("Dollars and Cents", "Knives Out", "Pyramid Song") but the other songs just don't keep up with the mood or tempo these have. |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| Silence L'autre endroit |
| Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Youth |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell |
| Stones Throw Records Chrome Children |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Shake The Sheets |
| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead |
| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Living With the Living |
| The Aquabats Myths, Legends and Other. . . Adventures |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Knife - interesting lookin guys, and occasionally interesting music. What the band does well is make beats on the comp where most of their music is made, but this hurts them in the long run. This makes live shows hard to do and thus limits them. Dispite their limitations the album is solid. "Like a Pen" and "We Share our Mothers Health" are definetly highlights. |
| The Mr. T Experience Revenge is Sweet, And So Are You |
| The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free |
| The Zombies Live at the BBC |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Tokyo Police Club A Lesson in Crime |
| Tool Ænima |
| Ween The Pod |
| Wham! Make It Big |
| X (USA) Wild Gift |
| X (USA) Under The Big Black Sun |
| Yo La Tengo Summer Sun |
