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Average Rating: 3.56
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5.0 classic
Metallica Master Of Puppets
Operation Ivy Energy
The Clash London Calling

4.5 superb
(Young) Pioneers Free The (Young) Pioneers Now!
Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose
Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity
blink-182 The Mark, Tom and Travis Show
Box Car Racer Box Car Racer
Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
Culture Two Sevens Clash
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse
Feeder Yesterday Went Too Soon
Finch What It Is to Burn
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Jimi Hendrix Experience Hendrix: The Best of Hendrix
Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Global A Go-Go
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison
Lee Scratch Perry The Upsetter: Essential Madness From The Scratch Files
Metallica S&M
Rancid Life Won't Wait
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between
Symphony X The Odyssey
The Clash Combat Rock
The Clash Super Black Market Clash
The Clash Clash On Broadway
The Jam Setting Sons
The Jam Sound Affects
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
The Mars Volta Octahedron
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell

4.0 excellent
(Young) Pioneers On Trial
Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy
Against Me! Crime as Forgiven By
Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion
At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational
blink-182 Cheshire Cat
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
blink-182 Dude Ranch
Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island
Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World!
Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer
Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A.
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Feeder Comfort In Sound
Feeder The Singles
Green Day American Idiot
Jimi Hendrix Blue Wild Angel
Johnny Cash At San Quentin
Johnny Cash American V: A Hundred Highways
King Tubby Crucial Dub
Live The Distance To Here
Metallica Kill 'Em All
Pearl Jam Riot Act
Rancid Rancid (2000)
Rancid Indestructible
Rancid Radio Radio Radio EP
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come
The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope
The Clash Live: From Here To Eternity
The Clash Sandinista!
The Clash The Clash
The Clash London Calling: Legacy Edition
London Calling is undeniably a classic album, so it is nice to see it reissued. The bonus stuff is okay:

The Vanilla Tapes are interesting but you wont listen to them more than once or twice. Of the five new songs on there only Hearts and Minds is really any good (and even that deviates into a 101ers cover at the end). The rest include a cover of Dylan's The Man In Me, a pointless blues instrumental, A Don Gibson country song called Lonesome Me. The only otheroriginal Clash composition here is a by-the-numbers quasi-reggae tune called Where You Gonna Go, which is pretty boring. Other than that it is London Calling demos and a run through of Remote Control.

Most of the docmentary is bits from Westway To The World about the making of London Calling interspersed with a new Kosmo Vinyl interview. This is a bit disappointing, as you will probably have already seen it. Also included is the London Calling video, plus two awesome live vids of Clampdown and Train In Vain. However, all three are included on The Essential Clash DVD anyway. Not essential stuff by any means.
The Jam All Mod Cons
The Jam Live Jam
The King Blues Under The Fog
The King Blues Save the World, Get the Girl
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta Tremulant
The Mars Volta Scab Dates

3.5 great
Against Me! The Disco Before the Breakdown
Against Me! Against Me!
Against Me! Americans Abroad! Against Me! Live In London!
Bedouin Soundclash Sounding a Mosaic
Bedouin Soundclash Root Fire
blink-182 Blink-182
blink-182 Enema Of The State
blink-182 Greatest Hits
Burning Spear Hail HIM
Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner
In my opinion, this is the best of Dizzee Rascals albums. He uses inventive samples and peppers his straight-up grime/hip-hop backing with dub-inflected ideas and rhythms. Add to this his insanely fast rapping (Jus' A Rascal) and a good use of one liners (I Luv U) and you have a real quality album that has proved to be quite crossover - tracks like Fix Up Look Sharp are often played in rock clubs. The best tracks are quite often the slower, more pensieve tracks - my personal favourite is opener Sittin Here - and his lyrics mostly avoid the typical grime cliches of 'thug life' (which he has slipped into with his latest release), with his take on modern sociality a more prevalent theme.

Joe
Easy Star All Stars Radiodread
Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
Metallica Ride The Lightning
Metallica ...And Justice For All
Metallica Death Magnetic
NOFX They've Actually Gotten Worse Live
Rancid Rancid
Rancid Let the Dominoes Fall
Seasick Steve Dog House Music
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb
Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler
Sum 41 Half Hour Of Power
The Clash The Clash (US version)
The Clash The Essential Clash
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath
Tim Armstrong A Poet's Life

3.0 good
Against Me! New Wave
Against Me! The Original Cowboy
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper
Arch Enemy Wages of Sin
Bedouin Soundclash Street Gospels
blink-182 Buddha
Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend
Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band
Feeder Echo Park
Feeder Two Colours
Laura Jane Grace Heart Burns
Metallica Reload
Metallica Metallica
NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
Operation Ivy Hectic
Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves
Rancid Let's Go
Rancid Rancid [EP]
Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights
Sum 41 Does This Look Infected?
Sum 41 Chuck
The Aggrolites The Aggrolites
I can't exactly remember how I came across The Aggrolites, it was probably a 'if you like that then you might like this' suggestion by Amazon or something. Anyway I got hold of this record in the end. And I find it a confusing record. There are sme very definite awesome songs on here - Countrman Fiddle, Mr.Misery, Someday, Time To Get Tough, A.G.G.R.O - but to find them you he to trawl trough a lot of similar sounding instrumental tracks and filler songs that add very little to the overall album. The instrumentals that litter the album do serve the purpose of showing just how tight The Aggrolites are as a band, and it is awesome how they have nailed that old-school -chicka-chic-chicka-chic sound, but the balence between filler and good material is very thin - except that the good material is very, very good. Needless to say, i find this quite difficult to listen to in one sitting, as it seems to go on for ages in the same vein. Cut down to 12 or 13 tracks this would be an essential record, but as it is the album gets boring quite quickly.
Joe
The Cat Empire The Cat Empire
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
Various Artists (Metal) Kerrang Remastered: Master of Puppets...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zwan Mary Star Of The Sea

2.5 average
Billy Bragg Tooth and Nail
Decent though quiet effort, disappointed by the inclusion of several previously released tracks from several years ago.
blink-182 Flyswatter
Bunny Wailer Blackheart Man
Dizzee Rascal Showtime
Dizzee Rascal Maths and English
Lee Scratch Perry Mastercuts
Pearl Jam Vs.
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone
Stereophonics Just Enough Education to Perform
System of a Down Hypnotize
The Gaslight Anthem SeƱor and the Queen
The Jam In The City
The Mars Volta Amputechture
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones

2.0 poor
Against Me! White Crosses
Arch Enemy Rare and Unreleased
Feeder Pushing the Senses
Metallica St. Anger
Metallica Load
Metallica Garage Inc.

1.5 very poor
The Clash Cut The Crap
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