| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| Aghora Aghora | 4.0 |
| Al Di Meola Elegant Gypsy | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.0 |
| Archive Londinium | 4.5 |
| Chroma Key Dead Air For Radios | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.5 |
| Dido No Angel | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 5.0 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 4.0 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 5.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.0 |
| Jeff Beck Blow by Blow | 4.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.0 |
| Kingston Wall Kingston Wall II | 5.0 |
| This psych-rock trio inspired by the inventive guitar play of Petri Walli was formed in Helsinki in 1987. By the end of 1994, six months after the release of their third album, it seemed they were on the verge of breaking through when their leader, Walli, committed suicide by jumping off a church tower. Tragic, but at least he left us something to remember him by. Only the best pure progressive rock record, which is actualy very easy to get into, but strangely complex. Their guitarist/singer Petri Walli incorporated Pink Floyd psychadelia, middle-eastern even indian scales in a time nobody had the balls to. The best thing for me in this album is the drumming. The guy is insane! Really rocking and innovative drumming. Just listen to Two Of A Kind. The vocals are mostly unobtrusive and rarely distract from the incredible musicianship over which they are placed. An incredible power trio. |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 4.0 |
| Lovage Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By | 4.5 |
| Mansun Six | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 4.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 5.0 |
| My favorite album of all time. Like most people and their favorite albums I can't really describe why I like it so much. Something about this post-apocalyptic netherworld that gets me every time. I wouldn't change a single note of it and I listened to this quite possibly hundreds of times so I know it pretty well. I first started felling deeply about it after hearing Hysteria at Live 8 and now it' s my favorite song of all time dethroning Paranoid Android. Absolution is just their best work, surpassing even the incredible Origin Of Symmetry. I literally get goosebumps every time I hear it. I think it's pretty insane three man can make music of five, six men. Quite possibly these are the limits of what three people can record and still reproduce live. Marriage of pop and prog is a soaring masterpiece of unappreciated proportions. This will never really be dethroned in my book. It's just simply too far ahead for anyone to catch up. |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Still | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 5.0 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 4.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 4.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 5.0 |
| Good bands are hard to find these days. They all seem like a carbon copy of one another. Almost everything seems to be geared towards pleasing high-school kids. Enters Orphaned Land. I'm not even going to try to describe this beast of a refreshment. Here I am minding my own business one day, thinking there is nothing more to be done. Wrongly thinking Opeth did everything. Enters Orphaned Land. Like Alexander's marriage of east and west this album strikes you and strikes you hard. Never has the Middle East sounded so engaging, so full of life, so breathakingly beautiful and deliciously headbangable at the same time. Steven Wilson is producing their next album. I have high hopes. |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 4.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third | 5.0 |
| When I tell people this album had the potential to be an OK Computer of this decade they are quick to disregard it. FOOLS! Sampling a song is not the same thing as listening to the whole album. And believe me this monster does not need to grow. One listen will be sufficient. Album of the decade has passed you by. Music that sounds like an evolution of Porcupine Tree's sound. And I'm not trying to diss Porcupine Tree. I love them dearly. But this band has me hooked. Shocking, beautiful, brilliant. Four frackin vocalists. You think you know your stuff about vocal harmonies. Believe me this will blow you away. This band pushes the limit to a new level making this (Orphaned Land aside) the second most brilliant debut album I ever heard. Get this by all means possible. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.5 |
| The Dresden Dolls The Dresden Dolls | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack meets futuristic Deftones. This is the album I thought I would listen to in high school year 2100. Trutfully this album's first half owns the second half with the best of the bunch (Capricorn, Edge Of The Earth, Buddha For Mary). Catchy melodies, spacey music, Chino Moreno esque vocals, futuristic distortion. These are the things this album did excellently and way way better than A Beautiful Lie which is IMO a considerably worse release. Jared Leto was on the right track with this one. If only his future releases will expand on the unique sound presented here. |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Can tastes really be so different. Can anyone really find this album dare I say boring, uninspiring, cold, calculated. EXCUSES, I SAY! Yes tool fanboys are a bunch low-lives who like to analyze things but surely you are not using that as an excuse for dissing a masterpiece. That is simply an absurdity. Given proper time, this album can't be disliked, unless you really try hard to be biased on disliking it consciously. It all really fits together and you can really tell this is a work of a band, not a single person trying to play every instrument. It touched grounds no music touched before. It inspired many to look into philosophy, eastern cultures, alternate history, magic... Many people thought this album was crafted by means of sorcery. Many people still believe you can use an alternate track order, find a hidden meaning by using a fibonnaci sequence, create a holy gift. Books can?t do that and they are a far superior form of inspiration to a non-musician. |
