Average Rating: 4.02 Rating Variance: 0.37 Objectivity Score: 55% (Somewhat Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicAlice in Chains Alice in Chainsblink-182 Dude RanchBlur Modern Life Is RubbishBlur 13Built to Spill Perfect from Now OnDinosaur Jr. BugDinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over MeDinosaur Jr. Green MindNumber Girl School Girl Bye ByeNumber Girl entered the indie rock scene in Japan back in 1995. After releasing a few demos, they signed to an obscure indie label and released the epic School Girl Bye Bye debut album. It was (and still is)under-appreciated in almost every aspect. It gets tossed off as being "too derivative" or "too happy." To make matters worse, the record is becoming rare to find. Since the production of this album is taken care of by a rather obscure Japanese indie label, not enough people own the record to give it the justice it deserves. When I first heard of the band (I was checking out Asian Kung-fu Generation when I found the wiki article for Number Girl) I didn't expect much. At the time I thought Japanese rock was strictly limited to power pop and death metal. I was so wrong. I put on "Omoide in my Head" and was immediately blown away. The album is both listenable and grating at the same time. The riff of "Ooatari no Kisetsu" is instantly memorable. The chorus of "Sentimental Kajou" is uplifting and simultaneously melancholy. "September Girlfriend" will make your ears bleed, but you'll be banging your head to the raw energy of the driving drums and distorted melodic bass. I could go on and on with the highlights because I feel that there are no truly weak tracks on the album; Shutoku Mukai was always a genius with songwriting. I love the lo-fi 4- track production and the heavily-reverbed vocal sound of the album. To top things off, the drums are distorted a lot of the time! It was a sound I had never heard before. Check this out; you won't regret it. Don't take people's negative words toward this album. Yes, Number Girl's other albums are also great, but they were never the same after this. (for better and for worse) This is great music in its own right and cannot be considered generic; the song craft is too memorable for that.Number Girl School Girl Distortional AddictNumber Girl OMOIDE IN MY HEAD 1 〜BEST & B-SIDES〜Pavement Wowee ZoweeThe pinnacle of anti-perfection receives a perfect score. Ah, the world makes sense. To my ears, this is the ultimate indie rock record. It covers just about every mood in clever manners that can be both euphoric and grating simultaneously. Amazingly enough, it all ends up feeling pleasant! It appears that the tracks were put into a completely random order, and it just works. The album still flows perfectly when put on shuffle, and every track (including the jokes) is a winner. Wowee zowee.Radiohead The BendsIt's just one, explosive, memorable, rocking, introspective, deep, meaningful, cathartic, emotional, guitar-driven song after another! (It's not quite that simple, but oh well.) I can't find a weak track on this album and listen to it all the way through almost every day. I didn't know I could like an album this much.The Replacements Let It BeThis album truly tops all else. Giving it anything less than a five is just wrong. The world figuratively opens up when I listen to the one-two punch of I Will Dare and Favorite Thing. Then it kicks up and goes into We're Coming Out! And the rest is history. I love Seen Your Video.Weezer MaladroitWeezer PinkertonWeezer Weezer4.5 superbAlice in Chains Jar of FliesAlice in Chains DirtAmerican Football American FootballBeck OdelayBeck Mutationsblink-182 Enema Of The StateBlur ParklifeBlur BlurBlur Midlife: A Beginner's Guide To BlurBuilt to Spill Keep It Like a SecretGraham Coxon Love Travels At Illegal SpeedsGuided by Voices Alien LanesGuided by Voices PropellerLinkin Park Hybrid TheoryMaximum the Hormone Bu-ikikaesuModest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think AboutMudhoney Every Good Boy Deserves FudgeMudhoney March To Fuzz2 discs of pure awesomeness. This encapsulates everything I like about the band.Nirvana In UteroNirvana IncesticideNirvana NevermindOasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?Oasis Definitely MaybePavement Crooked Rain, Crooked RainPavement Terror TwilightI spent almost a year listening to this before receiving it as a very thoughtful gift. It turns out that I love this album deeply, and it's only second to Wowee Zowee for me in the Pavement catalog! It's almost equally crazy, but it's somehow refined in some ways (no more punk songs coming out of nowhere, for example). CRCR and BTC wore thin after several listens, but this one and Wowee Zowee keep sounding fresher. I guess I am the atypical Pavement fan, because my ranking goes something like this: WZ, TT, Westing, S&E, CRCR, BTC. And yet I still love BTC.Pavement Slanted and EnchantedPavement Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and ReduxePavement Quarantine the PastPixies DoolittlePixies BossanovaPrimus Frizzle FryPrimus Sailing the Seas of CheesePrimus Pork SodaRage Against the Machine Evil EmpireSlowdive SouvlakiSonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No StarI used to slam this album just like everyone else, but it turned out to be my favorite. Give it a chance.Sonic Youth GooSonic Youth SisterThis is better than Daydream Nation. I bought this first, and after reading a bunch of reviews, expected a lot out of DDN. But I was actually disappointed! Concise noise rocker album!!Sonic Youth EvolStone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift ShopSystem of a Down System of a DownThe Smiths Meat Is MurderTool LateralusTool ÆnimaTricot ANDTTNG Animals4.0 excellentBeach House Depression CherryBeastie Boys Check Your HeadBeck Gueroblink-182 Blink-182Blur The Great EscapeBlur The Magic WhipBright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital UrnI really dug this one. I've never listened extensively to anything else in the Bright Eyes catalog, so I had a rather open mind. Every song is strongly written, and the flow of the tracks is admirable. The production helps make the album quite unique with all sorts of strange stereo drums and samples. I haven't really found anything like it. I totally fell in love with this album, and I was surprised to see that Bright Eyes fans don't usually like it much. The first 6 and last 3 tracks are flawless, the other 3 are pretty darn good as well.Canadian Softball Awkward and DepressedCap'n Jazz Shmap'n ShmazzDinosaur Jr. Hand It OverFoo Fighters Foo FightersGorillaz GorillazGorillaz D-SidesGorillaz Plastic BeachGraham Coxon The Golden DKinoko Teikoku Fake World WonderlandMeat Puppets Meat Puppets IIMGMT CongratulationsMudhoney My Brother The CowMudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early SinglesMy Bloody Valentine LovelessMy Bloody Valentine Isn't AnythingNirvana BleachNirvana Bleach (Deluxe Edition)Number Girl SappukeiOasis Be Here NowOasis The MasterplanOwls OwlsParquet Courts American SpecialtiesParquet Courts Light Up GoldPavement Watery, DomesticPavement Brighten the CornersPavement Westing (By Musket and Sextant)Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's DesertPavement Wowee Zowee - Sordid Sentinels EditionPavement The Secret History Vol. 1Pixies Surfer RosaPixies Trompe Le MondeRadiohead AmnesiacRadiohead Pablo HoneyExtremely underrated. Just because Radiohead got more complex later on does not mean that their simpler stuff was any worse. (Some of their newer works comes off as pretentious or unlistenable.) This has a 2.9? Really? Is everyone ignoring You, Creep, Thinking About You, Anyone Can Play Guitar, Ripcord, Vegetable, Prove Yourself, LURGEE, and BLOW OUT? Geez. This and The Bends contain Thom's most powerful vocal performances, too.Radiohead OK ComputerSome tracks just flat out clunk for me. (Fitter Happier, Exit Music, Lucky, The Tourist) Don't shoot me for having an alternative opinion. rI used their B-Sides from the era and made Superior Computer (which deserves a 4.5 or higher in my book) for my personal enjoyment!rHere's the listing, if you're interested:rAirbagrPolyethylenerLet DownrPalo AltorLullrParanoid AndroidrSubterranean Homesick AlienrElectioneeringrClimbing Up The WallsrNo SurprisesrKarma PolicerA ReminderrRage Against the Machine Rage Against the MachineRage Against the Machine The Battle of Los AngelesSonic Youth DirtySonic Youth Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr IdolsSonic Youth Rather RippedStephen Malkmus Face the TruthStephen Malkmus Stephen MalkmusStone Temple Pilots PurpleSupercar Three Out Change!!System of a Down ToxicityThe Replacements TimThe Replacements Pleased To Meet MeA lot of "hardcore" Replacements fans write off all the post-Bob albums. This album is an improvement over Tim, which was lacking in the band's humor. I was hooked from IOU and, which was immediately followed by 10 songs I consider to be classics in and of themselves. (including Shootin' Dirty Pool, which is in the same legendary tier as Gary's Got A Boner) Punk? Ballads? Rock? Jazz? Whatever "I Don't Know" might be considered? It's all here! The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If EverThurston Moore Psychic HeartsAll of the songs are totally cool and memorable, and create a nice cohseive minimalist noise rock whole, in my opinion... except for the last track. A 20 minute instrumental is not how you close an album full of punkish songs!Tool UndertowTricot 3TTNG This Town Needs GunsTTNG Animals AcousticTwenty One Pilots TrenchWeezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End3.5 greatAlice in Chains SapAlice in Chains FaceliftBeck Colorsblink-182 Take Off Your Pants And JacketBlur Think TankBlur LeisureDinosaur Jr. Where You BeenDinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer NotFoo Fighters Wasting LightGorillaz Demon DaysGrimes VisionsGrimes Art AngelsGuided by Voices Bee ThousandIn Love With A Ghost HealingLiam Gallagher As You WereMGMT Oracular SpectacularMudhoney Piece Of CakeOasis Don't Believe the TruthParquet Courts Tally All The Things That You BrokeRadiohead Kid AI thought I really dug this album, but I don't find myself revisiting it very often at all anymore. Maybe the title track, How to Disappear Completely, or Idioteque every now and then.Radiohead Hail to the ThiefSonic Youth Daydream NationThe album, while living up so some of its hype, loses a lot punch the songs may have when compared to Sister and EVOL. Sure, the expansive songs work nicely sometimes, but other times, they just get annoying. Teen Age Riot, Silver Rocket, Total Trash, Candle, Providence, Rain King, The Wonder, Eliminator Jr.... those are great tracks. The rest I could take or leave. I'm probably the one and only SY fan who favors Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star and EVOL above the rest of their catalog.Sonic Youth Washing MachineMy initial reaction to the album was that it would end up being my favorite. I was wrong. I find myself only revisiting Junkie's Promise and No Queen Blues, with occasional listens of Becuz, Unwind, Panty Lies, and The Diamond Sea. Those tracks alone are pretty powerful.Sonic Youth Bad Moon RisingSonic Youth Confusion Is SexSonic Youth The EternalStephen Malkmus and the Jicks Pig LibStephen Malkmus and the Jicks Wig Out At JagbagsStone Temple Pilots CoreThe Replacements Don't Tell a SoulCriminally underrated. It's still packed with Westerberg's fantastic songwriting, which only improved as time went on. The production is a bit off-putting, but Tim's production was much worse. The 'Mats hadn't sold out, and they never really could. Talent Show, the opening track, even pokes fun at the whole concept of making it big! Full of classics like Talent Show, Back To Back, We'll Inherit The Earth (the would-be Gen X anthem), Achin' to Be, Anywhere's Better Than Here, I'll Be You, and Rock'n'Roll Ghost...The Replacements HootenannySeverely front-loaded! The sequence from Hootenanny - Willpower is fantastic, and the sequencing from Mr. Whirly to the end works well enough, but Take Me Down to the Hospital's length just makes me feel like it's not worth finishing the album! I do enjoy the individual tracks.The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the TrashThe Replacements StinkTwenty One Pilots BlurryfaceWeezer The Green AlbumWeezer The Red Album3.0 goodBeck Stereopathetic SoulmanureNirvana With the Lights OutOasis Standing on the Shoulder of GiantsThe Replacements All Shook DownWeezer Make BelieveIt's not nearly as bad as the average rating suggests. It's not great, but it does have its moments. (Perfect Situation, This Is Such A Pity, Hold Me, Peace)Weezer HurleyWeezer The White Album2.5 averageSonic Youth NYC Ghosts & FlowersWeezer Pacific Daydream2.0 poorblink-182 CaliforniaGorillaz HumanzPixies Indie CindyWeezer Raditude
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