| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.0 |
| AFI Very Proud of Ya | 3.0 |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity | 1.5 |
| Against Me! New Wave | 2.0 |
| Against Me! The Disco Before the Breakdown | 3.0 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 4.0 |
| Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Crime as Forgiven By | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Against Me! | 4.5 |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People | 5.0 |
To call Andrew Jackson Jihad a folk-punk band does them a great disservice. Really, it does any band a disservice, but that is far from the point right now. The point is that listeners need some point of comparison, so to make everyone’s life easier, I will simply call Andre Jackson Jihad a folk-punk band.
Now that that’s out of the way, Andrew Jackson Jihad’s second full-length album is a fantastic blend of folk instrumentation, punk attitude, independent spirit, and straight up good song-writing. Lead singer and guitarist, Sean Bonnette, intones with what some might call a whine while strumming his acoustic guitar at sometimes blinding speeds. Ben Gallaty work on the standing bass adds another element rarely seen in today’s independent music.
On to what, from what most people say, is the best part: the songwriting. The songs on this album range from deadly serious to laugh-out-loud funny. Most songs have some combination of the two. I cite as an example the ninth track “People two: the reckoning.” “There’s a bad man in everyone, no matter who we are. There’s a rapist and a Nazi living in our tiny hearts. Child pornographers and Cannibals, and politicians too. There is someone in your head waiting to ***ing strangle you.” The words here themselves are incredibly funny. I laugh just reading them. But if you think about it, there is a truth behind them, a serious, dark truth. But, lest you feel this is a band of misanthropic songsmiths, take a gander at the closing lyrics of the album from “People.” “I have faith in my fellow man, and I only hope that he has faith in me.” And that is the theme of the whole album. People are bad, but god damn it they’re good too. |
| Alkaline Trio Hell Yes | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Remains | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 4.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Alkaline Trio | 5.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit | 5.0 |
| American Steel Jagged Thoughts | 3.5 |
| American Steel Destroy Their Future | 3.5 |
| Bad Brains The Youth are Getting Restless:Live in Amsterdam | 2.5 |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First | 1.5 |
| Bad Religion The Gray Race | 1.5 |
| Bad Religion New Maps of Hell | 1.5 |
| Bad Religion The New America | 2.0 |
| Bad Religion Recipe for Hate | 2.5 |
| Bad Religion Along the Way (DVD) | 2.5 |
| Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion Bad Religion | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 4.5 |
| Bad Religion No Control | 5.0 |
| Bane Give Blood | 2.0 |
| Barenaked Ladies disc one: All Their Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
| Barenaked Ladies Stunt | 3.5 |
| Baxter .baxter. | 4.0 |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands | 4.0 |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk | 4.0 |
| Beat Happening Beat Happening | 2.0 |
| Big Black Atomizer | 4.0 |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking | 4.5 |
| Big D and the Kids Table Good Luck | 3.5 |
| Black Flag The First Four Years | 3.5 |
| Black Flag In My Head | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Loose Nut | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Slip It In | 4.0 |
| Black Flag The Process of Weeding Out | 4.0 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 4.5 |
| Black Flag Everything Went Black | 4.5 |
| Black Flag My War | 5.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 2.0 |
| Bob Dylan Modern Times | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island | 5.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 4.5 |
| Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician | 3.5 |
| Catch 22 Alone in a Crowd | 2.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 4.0 |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers | 2.0 |
| Comeback Kid Turn It Around | 2.5 |
| Crass The Feeding of the 5000 | 4.5 |
| Crime In Stereo Explosions and the Will to Use Them | 1.0 |
| Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation | 2.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death | 2.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist | 4.5 |
| Defiance, Ohio Share What Ya Got | 4.5 |
| Descendents 'Merican | 3.5 |
| Descendents Cool to Be You | 3.5 |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 5.0 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.0 |
| Dillinger Four Situationist Comedy | 3.0 |
| Dillinger Four Midwestern Songs Of The Americas | 3.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind | 3.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 3.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur | 4.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 5.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Rise Above | 1.0 |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 3.5 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 4.5 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 4.5 |
| Fugazi 3 Songs | 4.5 |
| Green Day International Superhits | 1.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 2.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.0 |
| Green Day Warning | 4.0 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 4.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.5 |
| Hot Water Music Caution | 4.5 |
| Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash | 4.5 |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game | 5.0 |
| Husker Du Land Speed Record | 3.0 |
| Husker Du New Day Rising | 3.5 |
| Husker Du Metal Circus | 4.0 |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 5.0 |
| Jawbreaker Dear You | 4.5 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 4.5 |
| Jawbreaker Unfun | 4.5 |
| Jawbreaker Bivouac | 5.0 |
| Less Than Jake Borders and Boundaries | 3.0 |
| Less Than Jake Goodbye Blue & White | 3.0 |
| Less Than Jake Hello Rockview | 3.5 |
| Less Than Jake Losing Streak | 4.0 |
| Less Than Jake Losers, Kings and Other Things We Don't Understand | 4.5 |
| Less Than Jake Pezcore | 5.0 |
| Lifetime Lifetime | 3.5 |
| Lifetime Hello Bastards | 4.0 |
| Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers | 4.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 1.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 1.5 |
| Lou Reed Metal Machine Music | 3.0 |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography | 4.0 |
| Minor Threat First Demo Tape | 4.5 |
| Minutemen Paranoid Time | 4.0 |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 5.0 |
| Misfits Walk Among Us | 4.5 |
| Misfits Static Age | 4.5 |
| Mission of Burma The Obliterati | 4.0 |
| Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches | 4.5 |
| Mission of Burma Vs. | 4.5 |
| MU330 "Oh Yeah!" Live | 2.0 |
| Mudhoney My Brother The Cow | 3.0 |
| Mudhoney Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge | 4.5 |
| Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff | 5.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| New Found Glory From the Screen to Your Stereo | 2.0 |
| New Found Glory Nothing Gold Can Stay | 2.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 2.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 4.5 |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing | 2.5 |
| NOFX 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough | 3.5 |
| NOFX Pump Up the Valuum | 3.5 |
| NOFX The Decline | 4.0 |
| NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes | 4.5 |
| NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean | 4.5 |
| Operation Ivy Energy | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock | 5.0 |
| Public Image Ltd. Metal Box | 4.0 |
| Ramones Loud, Fast Ramones - Their Toughest Hits | 2.5 |
| Ramones Ramones | 5.0 |
| Rancid Rancid (2000) | 1.0 |
| Rancid Let's Go | 2.0 |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves | 2.5 |
| Rancid Rancid | 3.0 |
| Rapeman Two Nuns and a Pack Mule | 4.5 |
| Reel Big Fish Cheer Up! | 2.0 |
| Reel Big Fish Why Do They Rock So Hard? | 2.5 |
| Richard Hell and The Voidoids Blank Generation | 2.5 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 2.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute | 4.5 |
| Rise Against The Unraveling | 4.5 |
| Rites of Spring Rites of Spring | 5.0 |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are | 2.5 |
| Shellac Excellent Italian Greyhound | 3.5 |
| Sick of It All Call to Arms | 2.5 |
| Slapstick Slapstick | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Youth | 2.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 3.5 |
| Sundowner Four One Five Two | 4.5 |
| The Aquabats Myths, Legends and Other. . . Adventures | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 3.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Blue Meanies Kiss Your A$$ Goodbye | 2.0 |
| The Broadways Broken Star | 5.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 3.0 |
| The Clash Sandinista! | 4.5 |
| The Draft In A Million Pieces | 3.5 |
| The Ergs! Upstairs/Downstairs | 4.5 |
| The Falcon Unicornography | 4.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim | 4.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told | 4.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms A Guided Tour of Chicago | 4.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Cocktails and Dreams | 4.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 5.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion | 5.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Ghost Stories | 5.0 |
| The Loved Ones (USA-PA) Keep Your Heart | 3.5 |
| The Loved Ones (USA-PA) Build & Burn | 4.5 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones A Jackknife To A Swan | 2.5 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Ska-Core, The Devil, and More | 3.5 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Question the Answers | 4.5 |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers | 3.0 |
| The Replacements Tim | 4.0 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 5.0 |
| The Stooges The Stooges | 4.0 |
| The Stooges Raw Power | 4.5 |
| The Stooges Fun House | 5.0 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 1.5 |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded | 2.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 4.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground | 4.5 |
| This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb Front Seat Solidarity | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner | 1.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors | 3.0 |
| Whole Wheat Bread Minority Rules | 3.0 |
| Wire Chairs Missing | 3.0 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 4.5 |
| Wolf Eyes Dead Hills | 2.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 3.5 |
