| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 4.0 |
| 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged | 4.0 |
| 12 Stones 12 Stones | 3.0 |
| 2Pac Me Against the World | 5.0 |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me | 5.0 |
| 2Pac The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory | 4.5 |
| 2Pac 2Pacalypse Now | 4.5 |
| 2Pac Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. | 4.5 |
| 2Pac Live at the House of Blues | 3.5 |
| 2Pac Resurrection | 3.5 |
| 3 Doors Down The Better Life | 3.5 |
| 311 Grassroots | 4.0 |
| 311 311 | 4.0 |
| 311 From Chaos | 4.0 |
| 3OH!3 3OH!3 | 1.0 |
| 3rd Bass The Cactus Album | 4.0 |
| 3rd Bass Derelicts of Dialect | 3.5 |
| 45 Grave Sleep In Safety | 4.0 |
| Essential goth death-rock with surf rock influences and punk rock ethos, hugely influential to the psychobilly scene, but still rooted in gothic horror punk. Fantastic album for partying in the Halloween season (DO YOU WANT TO PARTY? IT'S PARTYTIME!) |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 4.5 |
| 50 Cent The Massacre | 3.0 |
| 50 Cent The Big 10 | 2.5 |
| 50 Cent Power of the Dollar | 3.0 |
| 7 Seconds The Crew | 4.5 |
| 7 Seconds Walk Together, Rock Together | 3.5 |
| 7 Seconds New Wind | 3.0 |
| 7 Year Bitch ¡Viva Zapata! | 4.0 |
| 7L & Esoteric Soul Purpose | 4.0 |
| Quite simply put, the sound of the Boston Underground of hip-hop. Fantastic production in the vein of Deltron 3030 and fantastic rapping from Esoteric make this album practically a modern classic in the world of underground hip-hop. |
| 7L & Esoteric Moment of Rarities | 3.5 |
| 88 Fingers Louie Go Away 7" | 3.5 |
| Debut of one of the very best melodic hardcore punk bands of the 90s, this is 88 Fingers Louie at their fiercest and most reckless. All four songs are great, an exhilarating debut. "There's No Way" and "Intellectual Lover" remain two of my favorite 88 songs to this day. |
| 88 Fingers Louie Behind Bars | 3.0 |
| 88 Fingers Louie Back On The Streets | 4.0 |
| 88 Fingers Louie The Dom Years | 4.0 |
| 88 Fingers Louie Thank You For Being A Friend | 3.0 |
| 8Ball and MJG Comin' Out Hard | 4.0 |
| A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Hoodie Szn | 3.0 |
| Swervin' is a certified fuckin' banger, regardless of how shitty of a person 6ix9ine is. |
| A Certain Ratio The Graveyard and The Ballroom | 4.0 |
| A Certain Ratio Do The Du | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 3.0 |
| A Flock of Seagulls A Flock of Seagulls | 4.5 |
| A tour-de-force of new romantic new wave, everyone knows the brilliance of "I Ran" but it's a damn shame not as many know the brilliance of tracks like "Space Age Love Song" and "Modern Love is Automatic", which should have been just as big hits as "I Ran" was if the world were a just place. Don't dismiss this group for their silly haircuts and one-hit-wonder status, this is one of the absolute best new wave albums of the 80s. |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.5 |
| A Static Lullaby ...And Don't Forget to Breathe | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm | 4.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 5.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders | 5.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Beats, Rhymes And Life | 3.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Love Movement | 3.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Benefits of Thinking Out Loud | 3.5 |
| Aaliyah Aaliyah | 4.5 |
| Aaliyah One in a Million | 3.5 |
| Aaliyah Age Ain't Nothing but a Number | 3.5 |
| Above The Law Livin' Like Hustlers | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 5.0 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 4.5 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 5.0 |
| AC/DC Powerage | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Live | 4.5 |
| AC/DC Who Made Who | 3.0 |
| AC/DC High Voltage (Australia) | 3.0 |
| AC/DC T.N.T. | 3.5 |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Power Up | 3.0 |
| Ace Frehley Ace Frehley | 3.5 |
| Ace of Base The Sign | 4.0 |
| Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops | 4.5 |
| Acid Bath Paegan Terrorism Tactics | 3.0 |
| Acid Witch Witchtanic Hellucinations | 3.0 |
| Adam and the Ants Dirk Wears White Sox | 5.0 |
| Adam and the Ants Kings of the Wild Frontier | 4.0 |
| Adam and the Ants Prince Charming | 4.0 |
| Adolescents Adolescents | 4.0 |
| Adventures Supersonic Home | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith Aerosmith | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Get Your Wings | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Toys in the Attic | 4.5 |
| Aerosmith Rocks | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Permanent Vacation | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Pump | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Get a Grip | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Just Push Play | 2.0 |
| AFI Answer That and Stay Fashionable | 2.5 |
| AFI Very Proud of Ya | 3.5 |
| AFI Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes | 3.0 |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset | 4.5 |
| AFI The Art of Drowning | 5.0 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 4.5 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 3.5 |
| AFI Crash Love | 2.0 |
| AFI All Hallow's E.P. | 4.0 |
| AFI Burials | 3.0 |
| AFI The Missing Man | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Evergreen | 3.5 |
| Some thicc ass proggy metalcore riffs and grooves to be found here my dudes and dudettes |
| Against Me! Vivida Vis! | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Crime as Forgiven By | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Against Me! | 4.5 |
| Against Me! The Disco Before the Breakdown | 3.0 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 5.0 |
| Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity | 3.5 |
| Against Me! New Wave | 3.0 |
| Against Me! White Crosses | 2.5 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Shape Shift With Me | 4.0 |
| Agent Orange Living in Darkness | 5.0 |
| Agent Orange Sonic Snake Session | 3.0 |
| Agnostic Front Victim in Pain | 4.0 |
| Aimee Mann Magnolia [OST] | 4.0 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 5.0 |
| IF GOD DOESN'T LIKE UGLY, THEN GOD DOESN'T LIKE ANYBODY, SO FUCK GOD ANYWAYS! GOD IS OBSOLETE! |
| Akala Doublethink | 4.0 |
| Akon Trouble | 3.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 5.0 |
| Albert King Born Under A Bad Sign | 5.0 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 3.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.5 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.5 |
| Alcest Shelter | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 4.0 |
| Alice Cooper Constrictor | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Love It To Death | 4.5 |
| Alice Cooper School's Out | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies | 4.5 |
| Alice Cooper Killer | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Sap | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 3.5 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning | 3.5 |
| Alter Bridge AB III | 2.0 |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 2.0 |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains | 1.5 |
| Amebix Arise! | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage | 4.5 |
| Superb drum 'n' bass electronica with a heavy dose of jazz, a hypnotic album that you can easily find yourself lost in. Highlights include "Easy Muffin", "Yasawas", "Creatures", "Defocus" and many others. |
| Amon Tobin Permutation | 3.5 |
| Amphetamine Discharge I Just Wanna Kiss | 3.5 |
| Angel Witch Angel Witch | 4.0 |
| Angry Samoans Inside My Brain | 4.0 |
| Angry Samoans Back From Samoa | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 5.0 |
| Anthrax I'm the Man | 2.5 |
| Anthrax Armed and Dangerous | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Fistful of Metal | 2.5 |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease | 4.5 |
| Anthrax State of Euphoria | 3.5 |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 5.0 |
| Anthrax Persistence of Time | 3.5 |
| Anti-Flag Die For the Government | 4.0 |
| Anti-Flag A New Kind of Army | 5.0 |
| Anti-Flag Underground Network | 4.0 |
| Anti-Flag Mobilize | 4.5 |
| Anti-Flag The General Strike | 3.0 |
| Anti-Flag American Spring | 3.0 |
| Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire | 3.5 |
| Anti-Flag The Terror State | 3.0 |
| Anti-Flag 20/20 Vision | 2.5 |
| Anti-Nowhere League Streets Of London | 3.0 |
| Anti-Nowhere League We Are... The League | 3.0 |
| Antisect In Darkness, There Is No Choice | 3.5 |
| Antisect The Rising Of The Lights | 3.0 |
| Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons | 5.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.5 |
| April March Chick Habit | 3.0 |
| Aqua Aquarium | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.5 |
| Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle | 4.5 |
| Archers of Loaf White Trash Heroes | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 3.0 |
| Arlo Guthrie Running Down the Road | 3.5 |
| "Coming into Los Angeles" is abso-posi-tively one of the best folk songs of the 60s, and anyone whose ever seen the Woodstock film already knows that. |
| Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant | 5.0 |
I don't want a pickle
I just want to ride my motor-sickle |
| Army Of The Pharaohs The Five Perfect Exertions/War Ensemble | 5.0 |
| Arrested Development 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days... | 4.0 |
| Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll | 4.0 |
| Arthur Lee Vindicator | 4.0 |
| Artifacts Between A Rock and A Hard Place | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 4.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.5 |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. | 4.5 |
| Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle | 2.5 |
| Ashlee Simpson Autobiography | 1.0 |
| At the Drive-In Hell Paso | 2.5 |
| At the Drive-In Alfaro Vive, Carajo! | 3.5 |
| I'm baffled as to why people don't seem to like this EP more than they do, this is the first example of the true ATDI sound and most of the songs on this EP are awesome, especially "Instigate the Role" which has just an absolutely gnarly riff. Great EP. |
| At the Drive-In El Gran Orgo | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Vaya | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 4.0 |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 4.0 |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels | 4.0 |
| Atmosphere Overcast! | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Fractures in the Facade of your Porcelain Beauty | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| Aus-Rotten Anti-Imperialist | 4.0 |
| Aus-Rotten The System Works...For Them | 4.5 |
| Probably their best and most consistent album, this is anarcho-punk at it's absolute fucking finest, in the spirit of bands like Flux of Pink Indians, Subhumans, Crass and others but with a much more hardcore-influenced style than those particular bands. This album is a classic and a must-have for any fan of punk or hardcore, as is most of this group's discography. Get it. Now. |
| Aus-Rotten ...And Now Back To Our Programming | 3.5 |
| Aus-Rotten Not One Single Fucking Hit Discography | 5.0 |
| The most important and influential anarcho-punk record post-80s. |
| Aus-Rotten The Rotten Agenda | 3.0 |
| Aus-Rotten Fuck Nazi Sympathy | 4.0 |
| Autopsy Severed Survival | 5.0 |
| Avengers Avengers | 4.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 1.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne | 1.0 |
| AWOLNATION Megalithic Symphony | 3.5 |
| AZ Doe or Die | 5.0 |
| AZ Pieces of a Man | 4.0 |
| B.B. King The Ultimate Collection | 5.0 |
| B.B. King Singin' The Blues | 4.5 |
| Babes In Toyland Spanking Machine | 3.5 |
| Babes In Toyland Fontanelle | 4.0 |
| Bachman-Turner Overdrive Not Fragile | 3.0 |
| Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bachman–Turner Overdrive II | 3.5 |
| AND WORKIN OVERTIME---WORK OUT!!!! r(Homer Simpson dance) |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys | 2.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet's Back | 3.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium | 2.5 |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains | 5.0 |
| Bad Brains Black Dots | 4.0 |
| Bad Brains Rock For Light | 4.5 |
| Bad Brains I Against I | 4.5 |
| Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 [DVD] | 5.0 |
| As someone else once said, if you didn't give this a 5, you didn't watch it. |
| Bad Company Bad Company | 4.0 |
| Bad Meets Evil Hell: The Sequel | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion The Dissent of Man | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion Bad Religion | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? | 4.5 |
| Bad Religion Into the Unknown | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion Back to the Known | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion No Control | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Generator | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion Recipe for Hate | 3.5 |
| Balam Balam (demo) | 4.0 |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 4.0 |
| Band of Skulls Baby Darling Doll Face Honey | 3.0 |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms | 4.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 3.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 4.0 |
| Basement I Wish I Could Stay Here | 4.5 |
| Basement Songs About The Weather | 3.5 |
| Basement Colourmeinkindness | 4.5 |
| Basement Promise Everything | 3.5 |
| Basement Beside Myself | 3.5 |
| Basement Jaxx The Singles | 3.5 |
| Basement Jaxx Remedy | 4.0 |
| Basement Jaxx Rooty | 4.0 |
| Bastille Bad Blood | 3.0 |
| BATS Cruel Sea Scientist | 3.0 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.0 |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field | 5.0 |
| One of the most influential albums in the entire canon of post-punk acts that swept across Britain in the early 1980s, Bauhaus created the blueprint for gothic post-punk on their debut release. Yet still after all these years, nothing has ever sounded anything quite like Bauhaus or this album, and it holds up just as aggressive, emotional, abrasive, and brilliant as ever. The vocals range from soft whispering to Peter Murphy screaming his lungs out while the guitar has a gothic drone effect that cannot be matched. Yet somehow on songs like "St. Vitus Dance", they take all of these things and make it DANCEABLE! Truly a landmark album and one of the best of the initial onslaught of post-punk acts, highlights include the amazing "St. Vitus Dance", "Stigmata Martyr", "In the Flat Field" and "Double Dare". If you have even a passing interest in gothic music and/or post-punk, you need this album immediately. |
| Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead | 5.0 |
| Bauhaus Mask | 4.0 |
| Bayside Bayside | 3.0 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 3.0 |
| Beanie Sigel Public Enemy #1 | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 5.0 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 5.0 |
| Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two | 3.0 |
| Beat Happening Jamboree | 4.5 |
| Beat Happening You Turn Me On | 4.5 |
| Beck Modern Guilt | 3.5 |
| Beck Mellow Gold | 4.5 |
| Beck The Information | 3.0 |
| Beck Mutations | 3.5 |
| Beck Odelay | 4.5 |
| Beck Sea Change | 3.5 |
| Beck Guero | 4.5 |
| Beck Midnite Vultures | 3.5 |
| This generation's modern chameleon of rock and roll changes his colors again, this time trying his hand at dirty, sexy, funk music, and as usual he succeeds with flying colors, spinning out another pair of gem singles in the album opener "Sexx Laws" and "Mixed Bizness". The horn section goes wild in an almost Motown fashion, Beck's guitar work has never been catchier and he even manages to impress vocally, showing range he had previously never shown in his singing voice. Yet another home run for one of the greatest artists of the last twenty years. |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap | 4.0 |
| Ben Folds Five Whatever and Ever, Amen | 4.0 |
| Ben Harper Fight For Your Mind | 3.5 |
| Benny The Butcher Tana Talk 4 | 4.5 |
| Straight fire, Alchemist kills it with the production and Benny is at the top of his game. Definitely gonna be a contender for hip hop album of the year. My man really had the audacity to do a sequel to Ten Crack Commandments and pulls it off, complete with Diddy guest spot. |
| Berlin Pleasure Victim | 3.5 |
| Berlin's breakthrough LP is harrowing early 80s synthpop at it's most exploitative, but also at it's finest. Songs like "The Metro" and "Sex (I'm a...)" are definitive songs in the realm of synthpop and new wave. Though best remembered for their smash hit "Take My Breath Away" from the Top Gun soundtrack, this is their best work and is a must-have for any fan of synthpop and/or new wave. |
| Better Than Ezra Deluxe | 3.0 |
| Big Black Atomizer | 5.0 |
| Big Black Lungs | 3.0 |
| Big Black Bulldozer | 3.5 |
| Big Black Racer-X | 3.5 |
| Big Black Headache | 3.0 |
| Big Black Heartbeat | 3.0 |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking | 4.5 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 3.5 |
| Big Daddy Kane Long Live The Kane | 4.5 |
| Big Daddy Kane It's A Big Daddy Thing | 4.0 |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous | 5.0 |
| Big L The Big Picture | 4.0 |
| Big L The Archives 1996-2000 | 3.5 |
| Big Pun Capital Punishment | 4.5 |
| Big Star #1 Record | 5.0 |
| Big Star Radio City | 4.5 |
| Bikini Kill Pussy Whipped | 4.0 |
| Bill Haley Rock Around The Clock | 4.5 |
| Billy Bragg Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy | 4.5 |
| Billy Idol Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Billy Idol Rebel Yell | 3.5 |
| Billy Idol Billy Idol | 3.5 |
| Billy Squier Don't Say No | 3.5 |
| Biohazard Urban Discipline | 4.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.0 |
| Black Flag Nervous Breakdown | 5.0 |
| Black Flag Everything Went Black | 4.0 |
| Black Flag The First Four Years | 4.5 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 5.0 |
| Black Flag My War | 4.5 |
| Black Flag Slip It In | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Loose Nut | 3.0 |
| Black Flag In My Head | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Who's Got the 10 1/2? | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Family Man | 3.0 |
| Black Moon Enta Da Stage | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Born Again | 2.0 |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! | 2.5 |
| Black Sheep A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing | 4.5 |
| Black Star Black Star | 5.0 |
| Black Uhuru Chill Out | 5.0 |
| Black Uhuru Sinsemilla | 4.0 |
| Black Uhuru Showcase / Guess Who's Coming To Dinner | 4.0 |
| Black Uhuru Red | 4.0 |
| Black Uhuru 20 Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Blind Faith Blind Faith | 5.0 |
| Blind Melon Blind Melon | 4.0 |
| Blind Melon Soup | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 5.0 |
| blink-182 The Mark, Tom and Travis Show | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 5.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 5.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Buddha | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Dogs Eating Dogs | 3.0 |
| blink-182 California | 2.0 |
| blink-182 Nine | 2.5 |
| blink-182 One More Time... | 3.5 |
| Blitzkrieg A Time Of Changes | 4.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.0 |
| Blondie Blondie | 4.0 |
| An excellent debut album for the pop-minded new wave outfit Blondie, featuring some of their very best work in the singles "X Offender" and "Rip Her to Shreds". Not their strongest album, but the Blondie formula is introduced here with it's punk aggression, new wave instrumentation and bubblegum pop-minded songwriting. Recommended for fans and newcomers alike. |
| Blondie Parallel Lines | 4.5 |
| Blondie Eat to the Beat | 3.0 |
| Blondie Plastic Letters | 3.5 |
| Blood Cultures Happy Birthday | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 4.0 |
| Bloodhound Gang Hooray For Boobies | 4.0 |
| Bloodhound Gang One Fierce Beer Coaster | 3.5 |
| Bloodhound Gang Use Your Fingers | 2.0 |
| Bloods and Crips Bangin On Wax | 3.5 |
| Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum | 4.5 |
| Blue Murder Blue Murder | 2.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult | 4.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Spectres | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin | 3.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult The Symbol Remains | 3.5 |
| Blues Traveler Four | 3.5 |
| Blur Leisure | 3.0 |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish | 3.5 |
| Blur Parklife | 5.0 |
| Blur The Great Escape | 4.0 |
| Blur Blur | 4.0 |
| Blur 13 | 3.5 |
| Blur Think Tank | 3.0 |
| Bo Diddley Bo Diddley | 5.0 |
| Oh, hey, what's up, just Bo Diddley here basically inventing rock and roll. |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Together Through Life | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live in 1975 | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Modern Times | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Desire | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Love and Theft | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Tempest | 4.0 |
| Why the fuck isn't there a staff review for this yet? It's excellent. |
| Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan New Morning | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan and The Band The Basement Tapes | 4.5 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend | 5.0 |
| Bob Seger Ramblin' Gamblin' Man | 4.0 |
| Bobby Brown Don't Be Cruel | 3.0 |
| Body Count Body Count | 4.0 |
| Matches Ice It's lyricism and social consciousness with great thrash/hardcore punk worship. For you youngins who only know T from Law and Order the man was legitimately one of the best rappers in the game when this came out and his lyrics propel the album beyond good thrash punk into really fucking good thrash punk with a hip hop flow |
| Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer | 3.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 3.5 |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet | 3.0 |
| Bon Jovi Bon Jovi | 2.0 |
| Bon Jovi Crush | 1.0 |
| Bonnie Tyler Faster Than The Speed Of Night | 3.0 |
| Boogie Down Productions By All Means Necessary | 5.0 |
| Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded | 5.0 |
| Booker T. and The MGs Green Onions | 4.5 |
| Boredoms Super Ae | 3.0 |
| Boris Akuma no Uta | 4.5 |
| Boris Pink | 3.5 |
| Boston Boston | 5.0 |
| Boston Don't Look Back | 3.5 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 3.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer | 4.0 |
| Boy Hits Car Boy Hits Car | 3.0 |
| Braid Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five | 3.5 |
| Some of Braid's absolute best work can be found on here. Highlights include "Capricorn", "Three Point Turn", and "Zero Frisco". This band wrote some of the best material of the early 90s emo scene. |
| Braid The Age of Octeen | 4.0 |
| Braid Frame & Canvas | 4.0 |
| Braid Movie Music Vol. One | 3.0 |
| Braid Movie Music, Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 5.0 |
| Brand New The Holiday | 3.0 |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) | 4.0 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.0 |
| Brand New Mene | 4.0 |
| Brand New/Safety In Numbers Split | 3.0 |
| Brand Nubian One For All | 4.5 |
| Brenton Wood Brenton Wood's 18 Best | 4.5 |
| Though I was already familiar with "Oogum Boogum" through it's use in several films and television shows, discovering the rest of Brenton Wood's work has been one of my favorite musical discoveries this year. This is a must-have album for fans of the classic soul of the 60s and 70s, and an artist and album I was more than happy to add to Sputnik's database.rIf only his absolutely stellar cover of The Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction" were included, this might be perfect. |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Before and After Science | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 4.0 |
| Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time | 2.5 |
| Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again | 2.0 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 3.0 |
| Broken Bells Meyrin Fields | 3.5 |
| Brotha Lynch Hung 24 Deep | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen The River | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Hammersmith Odeon London '75 | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 4.5 |
| Buckcherry Buckcherry | 2.5 |
| Average late 90s/early 00's post grunge/radio rock, but "Lit Up" is a real ass-kicker and fist-pumper (and also basically just a love song to cocaine). |
| Buddy Guy Stone Crazy! | 5.0 |
| Buddy Holly The Chirping Crickets | 4.5 |
| Budgie Budgie | 4.5 |
| Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield | 4.0 |
| Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Again | 4.5 |
| Buffalo Springfield Retrospective | 5.0 |
| Buffalo Tom Big Red Letter Day | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love | 5.0 |
| Built to Spill Ultimate Alternative Wavers | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine EP | 2.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 3.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 5.0 |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var | 4.0 |
| Bush Sixteen Stone | 4.5 |
| Busta Rhymes The Coming | 4.0 |
| Busta Rhymes When Disaster Strikes... | 3.5 |
| Busta Rhymes Extinction Level Event | 3.5 |
| Busta Rhymes The Big Bang | 3.0 |
| Butthole Surfers Electriclarryland | 3.5 |
| Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician | 4.0 |
| Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady | 5.0 |
| Buzzcocks Another Music in a Different Kitchen | 4.5 |
| Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch | 4.0 |
| Buzzcocks Love Bites | 4.0 |
| Buzzcocks A Different Kind of Tension | 4.0 |
| Cactus Cactus | 4.0 |
| Calabrese 13 Halloweens | 3.5 |
| Camper Van Beethoven Telephone Free Landslide Victory | 5.0 |
| The weirdest, funnest damn indie record of the 80s, this album is atleast 10 years ahead of it's time. It's astounding that songs as absolutely ridiculous as "The Day Lassie Went to the Moon" or their big hit "Take the Skinheads Bowling" could be so mind-blowingly catchy and listenable. One word best describes this entire record, and it's fun. A landmark indie record of the 80s. |
| Can Tago Mago | 5.0 |
| Can Ege Bamyasi | 4.0 |
| Candlebox Candlebox | 4.0 |
| Canned Heat Boogie With Canned Heat | 4.5 |
| Canned Heat The Very Best Of | 4.0 |
| Capone-N-Noreaga The War Report | 4.5 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe As Milk | 5.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 5.0 |
| Caribou Swim | 3.5 |
| Carl Perkins Dance Album of Carl Perkins | 5.0 |
| Cashis The County Hound EP | 3.0 |
| Don't listen to "TheIllmatics", this is a solid debut EP from a talented young artist. He deals with the same cliched gangster-isms of the hardcore rap genre, true, but he does it with a flair a dark sense of realism that is reminiscent of the work of Notorious B.I.G. in a way, particularly on the spectacular track "Thoughts of Suicide". There are hints of true artistry and complexity through-out this EP, and it gives me great hope for the future of this rapper. Highly recommended to all serious hip-hop fans, especially those who enjoy the works of Eminem, Biggie, Tupac, Dre, and all the other hardcore rap classics. |
| Cassidy I'm a Hustla | 3.0 |
| Cat Stevens Matthew & Son | 3.5 |
| "Here Comes My Baby" is legitimately one of the greatest pop songs ever written. |
| Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman | 5.0 |
| Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat | 4.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 4.0 |
| Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror | 4.0 |
| Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer | 3.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Ruined | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park | 4.0 |
| While some might see Ceremony's shift from violent modern hardcore to the more melodic hardcore of the early 1980s as a regression, it winds up being Ceremony's best record to date as they progress as songwriters by leaps and bounds. This is without a doubt the best punk record of 2010, and an album that would feel right at home on your shelf next to copies of classic Black Flag and Circle Jerks records. |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Violence Violence | 4.0 |
| Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf Big Shots | 4.0 |
| Charli XCX Sucker | 1.5 |
| Cheap Trick Cheap Trick | 4.0 |
| Cheap Trick In Color | 4.5 |
| Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight | 4.0 |
| Cheap Trick Dream Police | 5.0 |
| Cheap Trick Cheap Trick at Budokan | 4.5 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.5 |
| Chicago Chicago II | 4.0 |
| Chickenfoot Chickenfoot | 1.5 |
| Childish Gambino 03.15.20 | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino Culdesac | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino Camp | 3.0 |
| Childish Gambino Royalty | 4.0 |
| Childish Gambino Kauai | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet | 3.0 |
| Children of the Corn Children of the Corn: The Collector's Edition | 3.5 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 4.0 |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers | 4.5 |
| Choking Victim Squatta's Paradise | 4.0 |
| Chris Isaak Heart Shaped World | 3.5 |
| Chris Isaak Forever Blue | 5.0 |
Why the fuck didn't anyone tell me Chris Isaak is actually fucking amazing and the living
embodiment of a David Lynch film filtered through Roy Orbison and Jeff Buckley?
WHY WASN'T I INFORMED OF THIS MAN'S SUPREMELY UNDERRATED TALENT AND GENIUS HOLY SHIT BRO
every shitty black metal album ever has 500+ ratings but we can't even get 50 for this one?
Come on! |
| Christian Death Only Theatre of Pain | 4.0 |
| Chubby Checker Twist With Chubby Checker | 3.0 |
| Chuck Berry The Great Twenty-Eight | 5.0 |
| Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll [Soundtrack] | 5.0 |
| Chuck Berry proves to a new generation that not only does he still have it, but rock and roll is still endlessly in debt to him. Of course it helps when you're joined by the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, Etta James and many more at various points. rOne of the best live albums ever, capturing a legendary performance. |
| Chuck Berry Chuck Berry Is on Top | 5.0 |
| Chuck Berry After School Session | 4.5 |
| Chuck Berry One Dozen Berrys | 4.5 |
| Circle Jerks Group Sex | 5.0 |
| Circle Jerks Wild in the Streets | 5.0 |
| Circle Jerks Golden Shower of Hits | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| Citizen Cope Citzen Cope | 3.0 |
| CIV Set Your Goals | 3.0 |
| CKY Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild | 3.5 |
| CKY Volume 1 | 3.5 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 3.0 |
| Classics of Love Classics of Love | 4.0 |
| JESSE MICHAELS IS MAKING STRAIGHT UP PUNK MUSIC AGAIN I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MY HANDS WHAT DO I DO WITH MY HANDS |
| Cliff Martinez Drive | 4.0 |
| Cloud Cult Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus | 3.0 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 5.0 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 3.0 |
| Candidate for their best record yet, with the added benefit of being bloody danceable of all things. Vibrant, sweeping, epic, triumphant, perhaps even a little bit transcendent. This is music to listen to while soaring over an electric Paris night sky. Even a random cameo appearance by Rihanna of all people works. Proper review on the way when this is released in the US/UK. |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 4.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Everyday Life | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Brothers & Sisters | 2.5 |
| Coldplay The Blue Room | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March | 3.5 |
| Collective Soul Collective Soul | 3.5 |
| Collective Soul Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid | 3.5 |
| Color Me Badd C.M.B. | 1.0 |
| Comeback Kid Turn It Around | 4.5 |
| Absolutely amazing album, one of the best hardcore records of the past decade. |
| Comeback Kid Wake the Dead | 3.5 |
| Commodores Machine Gun | 4.0 |
| Common Be | 4.0 |
| Common Rider Last Wave Rockers | 4.0 |
| Concrete Blonde Bloodletting | 4.0 |
| Conflict The House That Man Built | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 3.5 |
| Converge Halo in a Haystack | 3.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 3.5 |
| Corey Feldman Angelic 2 The Core | 1.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Animosity | 4.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity No Cross No Crown | 4.0 |
Music to smoke a lot of fuckin' dope to; but what might be most impressive besides the
heaviness are the somber and downright gorgeous interludes of soft melodies in between
bashing your face in with riffs. |
| Count Five Psychotic Reaction | 4.0 |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After | 3.0 |
| Counting Crows This Desert Life | 3.0 |
| Country Joe And The Fish Electric Music for the Mind and Body | 4.0 |
| Country Joe And The Fish I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die | 4.0 |
| What are we fightin' for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet-nam |
| Courtney Barnett The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas | 4.0 |
| An incredible hodge-podge of previously recorded material from one of Australia's most talented new young songwriters. Her lyrics are some of the most witty and immediately gratifying you'll ever hear, and the music is a wonderfully heady mixture of garage psychedelia and indie rock with just a hint of grunge. Keep your eyes on this one. |
| Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice | 3.5 |
| Cracker Kerosene Hat | 3.5 |
| Crass Penis Envy | 4.5 |
| Crass The Feeding of the 5000 | 3.5 |
| Crass Stations of the Crass | 4.0 |
| Crazy Town The Gift Of Game | 2.5 |
| Cream Anyone For Tennis | 4.5 |
| Cream Goodbye | 3.5 |
| Cream Wheels of Fire | 4.5 |
| Cream Disraeli Gears | 5.0 |
| Cream Fresh Cream | 4.5 |
| Creed Weathered | 2.5 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 3.5 |
| Creed Human Clay | 3.0 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy and the Poor Boys | 4.5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou Country | 4.0 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival | 3.5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River | 5.0 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory | 5.0 |
| Cro-Mags The Age of Quarrel | 4.5 |
| Crocodiles Sleep Forever | 3.5 |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Deja Vu | 5.0 |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Crosby, Stills and Nash | 5.0 |
| Cryptic Slaughter Convicted | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh | 4.5 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 4.0 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 3.0 |
| Currensy Pilot Talk | 4.0 |
| Currensy and Wiz Khalifa How Fly | 2.5 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 5.0 |
| Cursive Domestica | 4.5 |
| Cursive Vitriola | 4.0 |
| Curtis Mayfield Superfly | 5.0 |
| Curtis Mayfield Curtis | 5.0 |
| Curtis Mayfield Roots | 5.0 |
| Cut Off Your Hands You and I | 3.0 |
| Cut Off Your Hands Shaky Hands | 3.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.0 |
| Cypress Hill Cypress Hill | 4.0 |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday | 5.0 |
| CZARFACE A Fistful of Peril | 4.0 |
| CZARFACE CZARFACE | 4.0 |
| CZARFACE Every Hero Needs a Villain | 4.0 |
| D.I. Team Goon | 3.5 |
| D.I.T.C. D.I.T.C. | 3.5 |
| D.O.A. Something Better Change | 3.5 |
| D.R.I. Crossover | 4.5 |
| D.R.I. Dealing with It! | 3.5 |
| D.R.I. Dirty Rotten | 4.0 |
| D12 Devil's Night | 3.5 |
| Da Lench Mob Guerillas in tha Mist | 4.0 |
| How can you not love an album featuring the line "I'm glad that Lincoln got bucked in the face, we shoulda been free in the first place"? Over the top mix of early 90s g-funk with a political side, but all very angry and nihilistic. The title track is a classic example of the early 90s West Coast gangsta rap sound. Worth noting that Ice Cube, who produced the album, is featured on several songs along with an appearance by B-Real of Cypress Hill. |
| Daft Punk Homework | 4.5 |
| Dag Nasty Can I Say (Reissue) | 4.5 |
| Dag Nasty Wig Out At Denko's | 4.5 |
| Every bit as good as their debut, if not quite as essential and influential. Contains some of their best material though in songs like Safe and the title track. Definitely required listening for fans of the post-hardcore emo explosion. |
| Dag Nasty Can I Say/Wig Out at Denko's | 5.0 |
| Damian Marley Welcome To Jamrock | 3.5 |
| Dance Hall Crashers The Old Record | 4.5 |
| Danger Mouse The Grey Album | 4.5 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.0 |
| Daniel Johnston Hi, How Are You | 4.0 |
| Daniel Johnston Songs of Pain | 4.0 |
| Daniel Johnston 1990 | 4.0 |
| Daniel Johnston Don't Be Scared | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown's debut album lives up to the street hype. Tony Yayo's Detroit-based protege sounds confident and assured on every track while he delivers rapid-fire lines musing on everything from Super Nintendo games to drug dealing. The beats are consistently engaging, the production is slick yet still maintains the feeling of an underground release, and there's nary a weak moment to be found. Keep your eyes on Mr. Danny Brown from Detroit ladies and gentlemen, because he has big things in his future and his debut album is a rousing success on almost every front. |
| Danzig Danzig | 4.0 |
| Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge | 4.0 |
| Danzig Danzig III: How The Gods Kill | 4.5 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Believeyoume | 3.0 |
| Das EFX Dead Serious | 4.0 |
| Das Racist Shut Up, Dude | 2.0 |
| Daughters Canada Songs | 3.0 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 3.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 3.5 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 3.5 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory | 5.0 |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Low | 5.0 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Lodger | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Young Americans | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Let's Dance | 3.5 |
| David Bowie David Bowie | 1.5 |
| David Bowie Space Oddity | 4.0 |
| David Duchovny Hell Or Highwater | 3.5 |
Q: Is there anything this beautiful man can't do?
A: Fuck outta here, of course not. |
| David Gilmour On An Island | 3.5 |
| David Gray White Ladder | 4.5 |
| David Guetta One Love | 3.0 |
| David Lee Roth Eat 'em And Smile | 3.0 |
| Days of the New Days of the New | 3.0 |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising | 5.0 |
| De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead | 4.5 |
| Dead Boys Young Loud and Snotty | 5.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 5.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death | 4.5 |
| Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc. | 3.5 |
| Dead or Alive Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know | 3.5 |
| Dead Prez Let's Get Free | 5.0 |
| Deadeye Dick A Different Story | 3.0 |
| New Age Girl is fucking majestic, the kind of wonderful 90s Merseybeat pop rock throwbacks we saw from the Lemonheads and The La's, and it's a shame the album isn't nearly as good as that song. But god damn, what a single, well worth hitting up your Spotify or YouTube. |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 4.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.5 |
| Death (USA-MI) ...For the Whole World to See | 4.5 |
| Death Angel Humanicide | 3.5 |
| Death Angel The Ultra-Violence | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.5 |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 3.5 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 3.5 |
| Deeds of Flesh Trading Pieces | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 5.0 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 5.0 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 3.5 |
| Def Leppard Pyromania | 4.5 |
| Def Leppard Hysteria | 4.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 5.0 |
| Defiance (USA-OR) No Future No Hope | 3.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio Share What Ya Got | 4.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression | 4.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 5.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.0 |
| Deftones Ohms | 4.0 |
| Deftones Black Stallion | 3.5 |
| Del Shannon Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Del Shannon Runaway With DeL Shannon | 4.0 |
| No one has ever or will ever be able to hit a falsetto note like Del Shannon could. When he hits that falsetto in the chorus of the essential "Runaway", it's one of those perfect musical moments that sends a chill up your spine. |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.0 |
| Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode The Singles 81→85 | 4.5 |
| Depeche Mode Some Great Reward | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Construction Time Again | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode A Broken Frame | 3.0 |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration | 4.5 |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses | 5.0 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 5.0 |
| Depeche Mode Speak & Spell | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion | 4.0 |
| Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs | 5.0 |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 5.0 |
| Descendents Everything Sucks | 3.5 |
| Desire (CAN) II | 3.0 |
| Devo Freedom of Choice | 4.5 |
| Devo Duty Now for the Future | 4.0 |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! | 5.0 |
| Devo Be Stiff | 5.0 |
| DeVotchKa How It Ends | 4.0 |
| Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations | 5.0 |
| Dicks Hate the Police | 4.0 |
| Dig Dig | 3.0 |
| Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) | 4.0 |
| Dilated Peoples Expansion Team | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 4.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 5.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 4.5 |
| Dio Holy Diver | 5.0 |
| Dio The Last in Line | 3.5 |
| Dion Runaround Sue | 4.5 |
| One of the preeminent figures during the peak of the doo-wop/early rock and roll era, Dion puts almost every other frontman of his era to shame. "The Wanderer" and "Runaround Sue" are timeless classics that every rock and roll fan needs to hear. |
| Dire Straits Communiqué | 3.0 |
| Dire Straits Dire Straits | 4.0 |
| Dire Straits Making Movies | 4.0 |
| Dire Straits Brothers in Arms | 4.5 |
| Discharge Why | 3.5 |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing | 4.5 |
| Discharge Never Again | 4.5 |
| Discharge State Violence State Control | 4.0 |
| Discharge Fight Back | 4.0 |
| Discharge Decontrol | 3.5 |
| Discharge Grave New World | 1.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.0 |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner | 5.0 |
| DJ Khaled Listennn... the Album | 3.0 |
| "Grammy Family" is absolutely stellar, a jaw-dropping single with an unbelievably smooth and catchy beat. Rest of the album ranges from average to great, the guest spots are frequently switched up so it never feels stale or repetitive, overall a very good debut for DJ Khaled here. Did I mention how good "Grammy Family" is? |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot | 5.0 |
| DMX Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood | 4.0 |
| DMX ...And Then There Was X | 3.5 |
| DMX The Great Depression | 3.0 |
| DMX Grand Champ | 3.0 |
| Donovan Sunshine Superman | 4.5 |
| Donovan Donovan's Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| A nearly flawless collection of most of Donovan's best material, it's just one classic after another here, not a single weak spot to be found. Essential listening for anyone with an interest in the folk and psychedelic rock scenes of the 60s and early 70s. Absolute magic. |
| DOOM Total Doom | 5.0 |
| Down NOLA | 4.0 |
| Down By Law Last of the Sharpshooters | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 5.0 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 5.0 |
| Dr. Dre Dr. Dre Presents... The Aftermath | 2.5 |
| Dr. Dre Compton | 3.5 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 4.5 |
| Drain (USA-CA) California Cursed | 3.5 |
| Drain (USA-CA) Good Good Things | 3.5 |
| Drake So Far Gone | 3.5 |
| Drake Thank Me Later | 3.0 |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same | 3.0 |
| Dramarama Cinema Verite | 5.0 |
| The greatest record of 1985 and possibly the entire decade that no one heard. "Anything, Anything" is a legitimate contender for the single greatest rock song ever written and the rest of the album absolutely blazes with energy, melodicism, and a special kind of punk energy only comparable to similar alternative bands of the time like the Replacements or Husker Du. "Emerald City" will haunt you for weeks on end, as elegant and beautiful a song you will ever hear.rHyperbolic? Perhaps. But this album is really that damned good. |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 3.5 |
| dredg El Cielo | 2.5 |
| Dropdead Discography | 4.0 |
| Dropdead Dropdead | 4.0 |
| Dropdead 1st LP | 3.5 |
| Dropdead 2nd LP | 3.0 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 3.0 |
| Duran Duran Duran Duran | 4.0 |
| Duran Duran Rio | 4.0 |
| Eagles Hotel California | 5.0 |
| Eagles Eagles | 3.5 |
| Eagles Desperado | 4.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 4.5 |
| Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version | 4.5 |
| Earth Crisis All Out War | 3.5 |
| Earth Crisis Firestorm | 4.0 |
| Earth Crisis Destroy the Machines | 4.5 |
| Earth Crisis Gomorrah's Season Ends | 3.0 |
| Eazy-E 5150: Home 4 tha Sick | 3.0 |
| Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It | 4.5 |
| Eazy-E It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Crocodiles | 4.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine | 4.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain | 4.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Songs to Learn and Sing | 4.5 |
| Eddie Cochran Somethin' Else: Fine Lookin' Hits of Eddie Cochran | 4.5 |
| Edie Brickell and New Bohemians Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars | 4.0 |
"What I Am" is a shot of brilliance, sarcastic, funky, and indie at a time where that kind
of combination was actually a huge breath of fresh air. Top notch late 80s alternative
singer-songwriter type stuff.
Bonus points for me when I realized A) My mom used to play this album quite a bit when I
was a wee youngin and B) What I Am is the main sample that Brand Nubian used for their
classic "Slow Down". |
| Editors The Back Room | 3.5 |
| Ekulu Ekulu | 4.0 |
| Excellent crossover thrash/New York hardcore, the final track "S.O.D. (Sanctuary of Depression)" is an old school jam that would fit well on either a thrash or hardcore album circa 1986, hard to pin it down. Metal or hardcore, it's a fucking ripper. |
| Elastica Elastica | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World | 4.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record | 5.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra | 4.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue | 4.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra ELO 2 | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.5 |
| Elf Elf | 3.0 |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle | 5.0 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 5.0 |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 4.0 |
| Elvis Costello My Aim Is True | 4.5 |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model | 4.5 |
| Elvis Costello Armed Forces | 4.0 |
| Elvis Presley Elvis Presley | 5.0 |
| Elvis Presley The Sun Sessions | 5.0 |
| Elvis Presley Elvis: 30 #1 Hits | 5.0 |
| Elvis Presley Elvis | 4.0 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 4.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.5 |
| Eminem Relapse | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 5.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| Eminem Infinite | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 3.0 |
| Eminem Music to Be Murdered By: Side B | 3.0 |
Tone deaf indeed. "Alfred's Theme", "Book of Rhymes" and "Gnat" are worth a listen
but the
rest is just generic Eminem album #1112. And that is neither a condemnation nor
recommendation, You should know what to expect by now at this point in Em's career.
A few slivers of quality stuff, some crossover pop shit for the radio, some features
that sporadically outshine Em, and a metric fuck ton of angry resentment at the
critics. The world's most insecure emcee is back at it again. |
| Eminem Revival | 2.0 |
| Eminem Kamikaze | 3.0 |
| Eminem Music to Be Murdered By | 2.5 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 4.0 |
| EPMD Strictly Business | 5.0 |
| Erasure Wonderland | 4.0 |
| Erasure The Innocents | 4.0 |
| Eric B and Rakim Follow the Leader | 4.5 |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full | 5.0 |
| Eric Clapton Slowhand | 3.5 |
| Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Boulevard | 3.0 |
| Eric Clapton Unplugged | 3.5 |
| Clapton may be a racist, rapist, woman-beating, wife-stealing piece of human shit but you cannot deny his musical talent. The recent loss of his young child provides an entirely different aspect to his performance here, instead of just covering blues and reggae standards the man really puts his (shitty) heart and soul into things here. His rendition of "Tears in Heaven" is absolutely god damn heart breaking. |
| Eve 6 Eve 6 | 3.0 |
| Everclear Sparkle And Fade | 4.5 |
| Everclear So Much For The Afterglow | 4.0 |
| Everclear World Of Noise | 3.5 |
| Everclear Songs From An American Movie, Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Evergreen Terrace Losing All Hope Is Freedom | 3.5 |
| Everlast Songs of the Ungrateful Living | 3.0 |
| Everlast Whitey Ford Sings The Blues | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.0 |
| Exciter Heavy Metal Maniac | 3.5 |
| Fabolous Real Talk | 3.5 |
| Fabulous Disaster Put Out or Get Out | 3.5 |
| Faces A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...To a Blind Horse | 4.5 |
| Faces Ooh La la | 4.5 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.0 |
| Faith No More We Care a Lot | 3.0 |
| Faith No More Introduce Yourself | 3.5 |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 4.5 |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Album of the Year | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.0 |
| Fastway Trick or Treat | 4.0 |
| Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry | 5.0 |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby | 4.5 |
| Fatboy Slim Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars | 4.5 |
| Fatboy Slim Palookaville | 3.0 |
| Fats Domino Walking to New York: Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| Fear The Record | 5.0 |
| Fear Before Art Damage | 4.5 |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake | 5.0 |
| The best post-hardcore record of 2004, this album basically is what got me into the genres of post-hardcore, mathcore and screamo in the first place. Every single song is amazing, no way I could ever give this album anything less than a 5. One of the crowning achievements of the entire last decade of punk and metal music in my humble opinion, a classic in every sense of the word. |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.0 |
| Fear Before A Little Less Teeth | 3.0 |
| Fear Before Fear Before The March Of Flames | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 4.0 |
| Feeder Polythene | 4.0 |
| Feeder Echo Park | 4.0 |
| Feeder Yesterday Went Too Soon | 4.0 |
| Feeder Comfort In Sound | 3.5 |
| Fenix TX Fenix TX | 2.0 |
| Filter Short Bus | 3.0 |
| Finch What It Is to Burn | 4.0 |
| Fine Young Cannibals Fine Young Cannibals | 3.0 |
| Fine Young Cannibals The Raw and the Cooked | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters | 3.0 |
| Fishbone Fishbone | 3.5 |
| A wonderfully fun and eclectic debut from one of the most versatile bands of it's era, Fishbone's titular EP is more straight-forward ska than the crazy mixture of ska, funk, punk, metal, and rap they'd become known for, but it also contains some of their strongest material. "Party at Ground Zero" is a joyous ska anthem. |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Wrong Side of Heaven and The Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2 | 1.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 5.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac | 4.0 |
| Damn shame no one remembers the original Fleetwood Mac, the Peter Green fronted version that was probably one of the best damn white blues bands to ever play. Songs like "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "My Heart Beat Like a Hammer" are raw blues-rock at it's absolute finest. Great album that's right up there with any other blues revival rock being produced at the time. Green was such a guitar virtuoso he allegedly even gave BB King the cold sweats upon seeing him live. |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac | 5.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk | 5.0 |
| Flipper Album – Generic Flipper | 4.5 |
| Flobots Fight with Tools | 3.0 |
| Flux of Pink Indians Strive to Survive Causing Least Suffering Possible | 3.5 |
| Flux of Pink Indians Neu Smell | 3.5 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
| Foghat Foghat | 3.0 |
| Foghat Fool for the City | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 5.0 |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Forbidden Forbidden Evil | 4.0 |
| Foreigner Foreigner | 3.0 |
| Foreigner Double Vision | 3.0 |
| Foreigner 4 | 3.0 |
| Foster the People Torches | 3.0 |
| Four Year Strong Explains It All | 1.5 |
| Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours | 5.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| Freddie King Getting Ready | 4.0 |
| "Going Down" is one of the greatest electric blues jams ever conceived. |
| Freeway Philadelphia Freeway | 4.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 4.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful | 4.5 |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count | 3.0 |
| Fu Manchu The Action is Go | 3.5 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 5.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 4.5 |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing | 3.5 |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 3.5 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 4.0 |
| Fugazi End Hits | 3.5 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.5 |
| Fugazi Furniture | 3.5 |
| Fugees The Score | 4.5 |
| fun. Some Nights | 2.0 |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain | 5.0 |
| Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down | 4.0 |
| G-Unit Beg For Mercy | 3.0 |
| Gang Green Another Wasted Night | 4.0 |
| Definitely a candidate for the best album the 80s Boston hardcore scene produced. Everyone in that scene was trying to be straight edge Minor Threat knockoffs and these dudes were singing about booze, skateboards, and coke and spelling their name out of lines of coke for album covers. Definitely an essential Boston hardcore record. "Skate to Hell" and "Alcohol" are all timers. |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! | 5.0 |
| Gang of Four Solid Gold | 4.0 |
| Gang Starr Step in the Arena | 4.5 |
| Gang Starr Daily Operation | 4.5 |
| Gang Starr Hard to Earn | 4.0 |
| Gang Starr Moment of Truth | 4.0 |
| Gang Starr Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr | 5.0 |
| Gangrene Vodka & Ayahuasca | 3.5 |
| Underground stoner rap duo goes on a long, strange Ayahausca trip. Hip hop fans profit. |
| Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle | 5.0 |
| GBH City Baby Attacked By Rats | 4.5 |
| Gene Vincent Bluejean Bop! | 4.5 |
| Gene Vincent Gene Vincent & The Bluecaps | 4.5 |
| General Public All the Rage | 5.0 |
| A tour-de-force of 1980's pop with a new wave edge and the almost care-free brilliance of ex-English beat members Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger. Nearly as good as the Beat were at their best, there isn't a moment wasted on this album from the inescapably catchy hit single "Tenderness" to the laid-back cool of tracks like "Never You Done That" or the driving, heart-on-it's-sleeve anthem "Are You Leading Me On?" there really isn't a moment wasted here. Highest recommendation for any fans of new wave, the Beat, fans of 80s music or anyone looking for an achingly catchy pop album. Oh and did I mention that Mick Jones, freshly booted from The Clash, plays lead guitar for half the album (including most of the singles)? |
| Generation X Generation X | 4.0 |
| George Harrison All Things Must Pass | 5.0 |
| Germs (GI) | 5.0 |
| Geto Boys The Geto Boys | 4.0 |
| Geto Boys We Can't Be Stopped | 4.5 |
| GG Allin Freaks, Faggots, Drunks and Junkies | 3.5 |
| GG Allin Hated In The Nation | 3.5 |
| Amateurish as fuck and the production is atrocious, but it's hardcore punk, so that basically means absolutely nothing. Some of his best, funnest shit is on here. Bite It You Scum is his signature song, and for good reason---it's a hell of an angry and aggressive song, indicative of the whole movement. |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman | 5.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 3.5 |
| Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience | 4.5 |
| Giorgio Moroder Chase | 5.0 |
| Girlschool Demolition | 3.5 |
| Glass Bones The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 3.5 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.5 |
| Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple | 3.5 |
| Goblin Profondo Rosso | 5.0 |
| Goblin Suspiria | 5.0 |
| Goblin Tenebre OST | 4.5 |
| Godsmack Godsmack | 4.0 |
| Godsmack Awake | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 3.5 |
| Goldfinger Goldfinger | 3.5 |
| Goldfinger Hang-ups | 3.5 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl | 4.5 |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 5.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 2.0 |
| Good Charlotte Good Charlotte | 3.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless | 2.5 |
| Good Charlotte Cardiology | 1.5 |
| Good Riddance A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion | 4.5 |
| Goodie Mob Soul Food | 4.0 |
| Gorilla Biscuits Start Today | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.5 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Gotye Making Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Grateful Dead American Beauty | 5.0 |
| Grateful Dead Anthem of the Sun | 3.5 |
| Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead | 5.0 |
| Grateful Dead Grateful Dead | 4.0 |
| Grateful Dead Shakedown Street | 3.0 |
| Grateful Dead In the Dark | 3.5 |
| Grateful Dead The Closing of Winterland | 4.5 |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep | 4.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 5.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 4.0 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 4.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.0 |
| Green Day Warning | 3.0 |
| Green Day Kerplunk | 4.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 1.5 |
| Green Day Shenanigans | 3.0 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 2.0 |
| Green Day International Superhits | 4.5 |
| Green Day 39/Smooth | 2.5 |
| Green River Dry As A Bone/Rehab Doll | 3.5 |
| Gregg Allman I'm No Angel | 3.0 |
| Grimes Visions | 4.0 |
| Soooo I'm quite late to the party but this one just burrowed into my soul a squeenchy little bit, "Oblivion" and "Genesis" are electro dream pop bliss turned up to eleven and are so good they're nearly transcendental for fuck's sake. I've clearly got a lot o catching up to do on Grimes. |
| Grimes Geidi Primes | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.0 |
| Groundswell Wave of Popular Feeling | 3.5 |
| Much better than anything Three Days Grace ever went on to do. Catchy post-grunge that doesn't outstay it's welcome. Highlights include the title track, Eddie, Snatch, and Stare. |
| Group Home Livin' Proof | 3.5 |
| Gruntruck Push | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 1.5 |
| Guthrie Govan Erotic Cakes | 4.0 |
| Guttermouth Covered With Ants | 3.0 |
| GWAR Hell-O | 4.0 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 5.0 |
| GZA Beneath the Surface | 3.5 |
| Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| Hanson Middle of Nowhere | 3.0 |
| Happy Mondays Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches | 4.5 |
| Happy Mondays Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party... | 3.5 |
| Happy Mondays Bummed | 4.0 |
| Hardcore Superstar Split Your Lip | 3.5 |
| "Last Call for Alcohol" is a neo-glam metal fist pumping classic. |
| Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson | 4.0 |
| Harvey Danger Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone? | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.5 |
| Havok Time Is Up | 3.5 |
| Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain Grill | 4.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 3.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights Hate | 3.5 |
| Some of the best music they've ever made, if not the best. The lyrics remain a bit amateurish and sophomoric, but they make up for it in spades with the performances on each song. Perhaps this band can finally win over some of the more ardent post-hardcore/emo fans with this EP. Or maybe not. Either way, it's a great little record and "Hate" might be the best song they've ever made. |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 3.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights Hope | 3.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights Hurt | 3.0 |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 4.0 |
| Heart Dreamboat Annie | 4.5 |
| Heatmiser Mic City Sons | 4.5 |
| Heatmiser Dead Air | 3.5 |
| Much more grunge, metal, and punk tinged than their later stuff, and definitely more dominated by Neil Gust's songwriting, but that's actually a good thing. Elliott shows up from time to time but you can tell this was Neil's band at this point, and it works honestly. They could be labeled queercore for some of the songs where Neil is open about his sexuality, but really, that label doesn't fit because this is hardly Pansy Division or The Queers. More aggressive than anything else they released, and full of melodic, punky riffage. |
| Heatmiser Cop and Speeder | 3.5 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 3.5 |
| Heavy Temple Chassit | 4.0 |
| Hellwitch Syzygial Miscreancy | 3.5 |
| Helmet Meantime | 4.5 |
| Helmet Strap It On | 3.5 |
| Hieroglyphics 3rd Eye Vision | 4.5 |
| HIM Razorblade Romance | 3.0 |
| Hodgy Untitled | 3.5 |
| Hole Celebrity Skin | 3.0 |
| Hole Nobody's Daughter | 2.0 |
| Hole Live Through This | 5.0 |
| Hole Pretty On The Inside | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs | 3.0 |
| Hoobastank Hoobastank | 3.0 |
| Hootie and The Blowfish Cracked Rear View | 1.5 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 4.5 |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of | 4.0 |
| Hot Hot Heat Make Up the Breakdown | 3.5 |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game | 4.0 |
| House of Pain House of Pain | 4.0 |
| Howlin Wolf Smokestack Lightning – Complete Chess Masters 1951 | 5.0 |
| Howlin Wolf Moanin' in the Moonlight | 4.5 |
| Howlin Wolf Howlin' Wolf | 4.5 |
| Howlin Wolf The Real Folk Blues | 4.5 |
| Huey Lewis and the News Sports | 3.5 |
| Huggy Bear Taking the Rough With the Smooch | 4.0 |
| Hulk Hogan and The Wrestling Boot Band Hulk Rules | 1.5 |
| Humble Pie Smokin' | 4.0 |
| Definitely a highlight in the often times generic and badly aged boogie rock genre, some killer blues guitar and the somehow still underrated and still incredble vocals of original Faces singer Steve Marriott. 30 Days in the Hole sounds like if the Faces had decided to cover John Mayall tunes. |
| Husker Du Everything Falls Apart | 3.5 |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 5.0 |
| Husker Du New Day Rising | 4.5 |
| Husker Du Flip Your Wig | 4.5 |
| Husker Du Candy Apple Grey | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | 5.0 |
| Ice Cube Death Certificate | 5.0 |
| Ice Cube The Predator | 4.5 |
| Ice Cube Lethal Injection | 4.0 |
| Ice-T Rhyme Pays | 3.5 |
| Ice-T The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What Yo | 4.5 |
| Ice-T Power | 4.0 |
| Ice-T O.G. Original Gangster | 4.5 |
| Iggy Azalea The New Classic | 1.0 |
| Iggy Azalea Ignorant Art | 1.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions | 1.5 |
| Imagine Dragons ƎVOLVE | 1.5 |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust | 4.0 |
| Imperial Teen Now We Are Timeless | 3.5 |
| I Think That's Everything is amazing, best song they've ever written. This whole album is actually pretty damn fine, had no idea these guys were stilll making good music, funky dark electro-pop with indie leanings. |
| Imperial Teen What Is Not to Love | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.0 |
| Infest No Man's Slave | 4.5 |
| Inspectah Deck Uncontrolled Substance | 3.0 |
| Inspiral Carpets Life | 4.0 |
| Integrity Those Who Fear Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| INXS Kick | 4.5 |
| Iris DeMent Infamous Angel | 4.0 |
| Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| Iron Reagan The Tyranny Of Will | 3.5 |
| Iron Reagan Crossover Ministry | 3.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.0 |
| Ivy Apartment Life | 4.0 |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 3.0 |
| Ja Rule Venni Vetti Vecci | 3.0 |
| Jack Harlow Sweet Action | 3.0 |
| Jackson Browne Jackson Browne | 4.5 |
| Jackson C. Frank Jackson C. Frank | 5.0 |
| James Laid | 4.0 |
| James Seven | 3.5 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| James Brown Live At The Apollo | 5.0 |
| James Brown The Payback | 4.0 |
| James Brown Say It Loud, I'm Black And I'm Proud | 4.0 |
| James Brown 20 All Time Greatest Hits! | 5.0 |
| James Brown Hot Pants | 4.0 |
| James Brown Out Of Sight | 3.5 |
| James Brown Please Please Please | 4.0 |
| Jane Wiedlin Jane Wiedlin | 3.5 |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking | 4.0 |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual | 4.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.0 |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart | 4.5 |
| Jawbox Novelty | 4.0 |
| Jawbox Jawbox | 4.0 |
| Jawbreaker Bivouac | 3.5 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 5.0 |
| Jawbreaker Unfun | 3.5 |
| Jawbreaker Etc. | 3.5 |
| Jawbreaker Dear You | 5.0 |
| Jay Reatard Blood Visions | 4.5 |
| A modern punk classic, Reatard mixes raw garage rock guitars with aggressive punk vocals and energy and ties it all together with superb moments of power-pop cut into the noisy chaos of it's surroundings. An amazing album from an artist that passed away far too soon. |
| Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall | 3.5 |
| Jay Reatard Singles 06-07 | 3.5 |
| Jay Reatard Matador Singles '08 | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 5.0 |
| Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course | 3.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 5.0 |
| Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow | 5.0 |
| Jefferson Airplane Volunteers | 5.0 |
| Jefferson Airplane After Bathing at Baxter's | 4.0 |
| Jefferson Starship Red Octopus | 3.5 |
| Jerry Lee Lewis Live at the Star Club, Hamburg | 5.0 |
| Jeru the Damaja The Sun Rises in the East | 4.5 |
| Jeru the Damaja Wrath of the Math | 3.5 |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.5 |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 5.0 |
| Jewel Pieces of You | 4.0 |
| Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys | 5.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Singles | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 5.0 |
| Joan Baez Joan Baez | 4.5 |
| Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Bad Reputation | 3.5 |
| Joe Jackson Look Sharp! | 4.5 |
| Joe Jackson I'm The Man | 4.0 |
| John Carpenter Prince of Darkness | 4.0 |
| John Carpenter Assault on Precinct 13 | 4.5 |
| John Carpenter The Fog | 4.5 |
| John Carpenter Halloween | 5.0 |
| John Cena and Tha Trademarc You Can't See Me | 2.0 |
| John Denver Poems, Prayers & Promises | 4.5 |
| If Country Roads doesn't spark a tear in your eye you're a god damned heathen. |
| John Denver Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| John Frusciante Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People | 4.0 |
| John Grant Queen Of Denmark | 4.0 |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band | 5.0 |
| John Lennon Imagine | 5.0 |
| John Lennon Rock 'n' Roll | 4.0 |
| John Lennon Shaved Fish | 4.5 |
| John Lennon Double Fantasy | 3.5 |
| John Lennon Live Peace In Toronto 1969 | 4.0 |
| Incredible concert, the version of Give Peace a Chance here is the best ever. Lennon's random improvisational lyrics really make it. |
| John Lennon Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins | 1.5 |
| John Lennon Some Time in New York City | 3.0 |
| John Lennon Mind Games | 4.0 |
| John Lennon Walls and Bridges | 3.5 |
| John Maus We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves | 4.0 |
| John Prine John Prine | 4.5 |
| Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison | 5.0 |
| Johnny Cash At San Quentin | 5.0 |
| Johnny Cash Johnny Cash With His Hot And Blue Guitar | 4.5 |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around | 4.5 |
| Jon Brion Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind OS | 4.0 |
| It's hard to describe how much Jon Brion's score and the accompanying tracks that make up this soundtrack album mean to me. Just let it be known that the track entitled "Phone Call" is quite possibly the most beautiful 64 seconds of music I've ever heard. |
| Joni Mitchell Blue | 5.0 |
| Jose Gonzalez Veneer | 5.0 |
| Jose Gonzalez In Our Nature | 4.0 |
| Jose Gonzalez Vestiges and Claws | 3.5 |
| Journey Escape | 3.0 |
| Journey Evolution | 3.0 |
| Journey Infinity | 3.0 |
| Journey Departure | 3.0 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 5.0 |
| Joy Division Substance | 5.0 |
| Joy Division Closer | 5.0 |
| Joy Division An Ideal for Living | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Preston 28 February 1980 | 3.5 |
| Joy Division Warsaw | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979 | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Stained Class | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Rocka Rolla | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest British Steel | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny | 5.0 |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Invincible Shield | 3.5 |
| Jungle Brothers Straight Out The Jungle | 4.5 |
| Jungle Brothers Done By The Forces Of Nature | 4.0 |
| Jungle Rot Jungle Rot | 3.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 4.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 1.0 |
| Justin Bieber Under the Mistletoe | 1.5 |
| Juvenile 400 Degreez | 4.0 |
| Kansas Leftoverture | 3.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 5.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| Katy Perry Prism | 1.0 |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream | 1.0 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 1.0 |
| Kavinsky Nightcall | 4.0 |
| Keith Richards Talk Is Cheap | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.0 |
| Kesha Warrior | 1.0 |
| Kesha Animal | 1.0 |
| Kevin Abstract American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story | 3.5 |
| Kevin Abstract ARIZONA BABY | 4.0 |
| Kevin Federline Playing with Fire | 1.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager | 4.5 |
| It's everything we could have hoped for and so much more. Dark, brooding, experimental, effervescent and ultimately brilliant. This is somehow an even more personal record than his first, reflecting the personal troubles that Cudi has experienced since his first album (mainly his cocaine addiction), and you can hear the sadness, desperation, bravado and torment Cudi releases from his very soul on almost every track. I think it's safe to say this is not only Cudi's best work to date, it's one of the finest hip-hop albums to be released in years. |
| Kid Cudi A Kid Named Cudi | 3.5 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon III: The Chosen | 4.0 |
| Kid Rock The History of Rock | 3.0 |
| Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause | 3.5 |
| Kid Rock Born Free | 1.5 |
| Kid Rock Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp | 3.0 |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Killer Mike Bang X3 | 3.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 3.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 5.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.5 |
| KISS Destroyer | 4.5 |
| KISS KISS | 4.0 |
| KISS Hotter Than Hell | 3.0 |
| KISS Love Gun | 4.5 |
| KISS Alive! | 5.0 |
| KISS Dynasty | 2.5 |
| KISS Rock and Roll Over | 3.5 |
| KISS Dressed to Kill | 3.5 |
| KISS Unmasked | 2.5 |
| KISS Music from The Elder | 1.5 |
| Kittie Spit | 3.5 |
| Knapsack Silver Sweepstakes | 3.5 |
| Excellent mid-90s emocore, highly recommended for fans of groups like The Get Up Kids, Texas is the Reason, Braid, etc. |
| Knapsack Day Three Of My New Life | 4.5 |
| should be on every single "best of 90s emo" list along side Sunny Day Real Estate, Jimmy Eat World, Texas is the Reason, etc |
| Knapsack This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now | 4.5 |
| Kno Death Is Silent | 3.5 |
| Kool and The Gang Wild and Peaceful | 4.0 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 2.0 |
| Korn Korn | 5.0 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.5 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 4.5 |
| Korn Issues | 3.5 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 2.5 |
| Korn Untouchables | 2.5 |
| KRS-One Return Of The Boom Bap | 4.0 |
| Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 4.5 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 4.5 |
| L7 Bricks Are Heavy | 5.0 |
| L7 L7 | 3.5 |
| L7 Smell the Magic | 4.0 |
| L7 Scatter The Rats | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.5 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 3.5 |
| Lagwagon Duh | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 1.5 |
| Lard Power of Lard | 4.0 |
| Laura Branigan Branigan | 3.5 |
| Thanks for getting Gloria stuck in my head the entire summer GLOW. |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem | 4.5 |
| Lead Belly The Best of Leadbelly | 5.0 |
| Leatherface Mush | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Coda | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won | 5.0 |
| A serious contender for the greatest live album ever. Everything that made Led Zeppelin the most acclaimed and popular rock band of the 70s as well as one of the most heralded live acts ever can be found within this triple album---the unGodly long jams that routinely went 20-30 minutes yet never got boring for a second, Bonham making his case as the greatest rock drummer ever on his definitive track "Moby Dick", Jimmy Page shredding guitars with violin bows and proving himself as one of the preeminent rock guitarists ever, Jones driving bass lines, and Robert Plant's soaring vocals that define 70s rock as a whole, everything there was to love about this band can be found in the depths of this remarkable album. A must-have for anyone with even a passing interest in that "rock and roll" thing. |
| Led Zeppelin Celebration Day | 4.0 |
| Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade | 4.0 |
| Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica | 3.5 |
| Lenny Kravitz Let Love Rule | 3.0 |
| Lenny Kravitz Are You Gonna Go My Way | 3.5 |
| Lenny Kravitz 5 | 3.5 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen | 4.5 |
| Less Than Jake Pezcore | 5.0 |
| Not only LTJ's best work, but also one of the best ska albums ever produced, period. The guitar work is uber catchy, the melodies are fantastic, the horns are great, and almost every single song is a winner. It's also far and away their most overtly punk album. Liquor Store, My Very Own Flag, Growing Up on a Couch, and Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts are some of the strongest material the band ever recorded. A borderline classic for some, a beloved favorite to me. Also outstanding summer music, like a lot of ska. |
| Less Than Jake Losing Streak | 4.0 |
| Less Than Jake Losers, Kings and Other Things We Don't Understand | 3.5 |
| Less Than Jake Hello Rockview | 4.0 |
| Less Than Jake Anthem | 4.5 |
| Lifetime Hello Bastards | 3.5 |
| Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers | 4.5 |
| Lil Nas X Montero | 4.0 |
| Lil Peep Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1 | 3.0 |
| Lil Pump Lil Pump | 2.0 |
| Lil Wayne No Ceilings | 3.5 |
| Lil Wyte Doubt Me Now | 3.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 1.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 5.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 2.0 |
| Lit A Place In The Sun | 3.0 |
| Little Richard Here's Little Richard | 5.0 |
| Little Richard Little Richard | 4.5 |
| Live Throwing Copper | 4.0 |
| Living Colour Vivid | 4.0 |
| LL Cool J Radio | 4.5 |
| LL Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out | 4.5 |
| Lloyd Banks The Hunger For More | 4.0 |
| Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking | 1.0 |
| I could go into detail about all of the things that make this group and particularly this album so unfathomably vapid, obnoxious, stupid, and borderline offensive (not morally, but artistically and culturally) but instead I'll just say this...rKill it with fire. |
| Lmfao Party Rock | 1.0 |
| Local H As Good as Dead | 4.5 |
| Local H Pack Up the Cats | 3.0 |
| Logic Young Sinatra IV | 3.5 |
| Lord Finesse Return Of The Funky Man | 3.5 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 2.5 |
| Lords of the Underground Here Come the Lords | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed Transformer | 5.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 2.0 |
| Love Four Sail | 3.0 |
| Love Love | 4.5 |
| Love Da Capo | 5.0 |
| Love Forever Changes | 5.0 |
| Love Battery Dayglo | 4.0 |
| Luniz Operation Stackola | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool | 3.5 |
| Lush Split | 4.5 |
| Dude...Sput...how do you not have a review for this yet?! |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Gimme Back My Bullets | 4.0 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd | 5.0 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping | 4.0 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Nuthin' Fancy | 3.5 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 3.0 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.5 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Mac Miller K.I.D.S. | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 4.0 |
| Macho Man Randy Savage Be A Man | 1.5 |
| Mack 10 Mack 10 | 3.5 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist | 3.5 |
| Madness One Step Beyond | 4.5 |
| Madonna Like a Virgin | 3.0 |
| Madonna Ray of Light | 3.0 |
| Madonna Like a Prayer | 3.5 |
| Madonna Madonna | 4.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
| Main Source Breaking Atoms | 4.5 |
| Malfunkshun Return to Olympus | 3.5 |
| You like Mother Love Bone? You'll definitely love this. Andy Wood kicking ass with a band that wasn't quite sure what it was, but we can at least say it was definitely awesome. Grunge? 80s metal? Whatever. |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 5.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists | 3.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul | 3.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours | 3.0 |
| Manners Pale Blue Light | 4.0 |
| Mansun Six | 4.0 |
| Mantronix Mantronix: The Album | 4.0 |
| Marcy Playground Marcy Playground | 3.5 |
| Mariah Carey Butterfly | 3.0 |
Two indisputable facts about Mariah Carey:
1) She was on a whole other level of hotness in the 90s
2) "Fantasy" is the motherfucking jam. |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 4.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 4.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me | 2.5 |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low | 2.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children | 2.5 |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On | 5.0 |
| Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On | 4.5 |
| Marvin Gaye Midnight Love | 3.5 |
| Mase Harlem World | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
| Masta Ace Take A Look Around | 4.5 |
| Master P Ghetto D | 4.0 |
| Master P Ice Cream Man | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.5 |
| Matisyahu Shake Off the Dust...Arise | 3.5 |
| Matisyahu Live At Stubb's | 4.0 |
| Maybach Music Group Self Made Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| BITCH IMA BOSS |
| Mazzy Star Among My Swan | 4.0 |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See | 4.0 |
| MC Breed The New Breed | 3.5 |
| MC Hammer Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em | 3.5 |
| MC Lyte Lyte As A Rock | 3.5 |
| MC Ren Kizz My Black Azz | 3.5 |
| MC Ren Shock of the Hour | 3.5 |
| MC5 Kick Out the Jams | 4.5 |
| MDC Millions of Dead Cops | 4.5 |
| Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II | 5.0 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 5.0 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 5.0 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 3.5 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.0 |
| Melanie Gather me | 3.5 |
| Melissa Auf Der Maur Auf der Maur | 5.0 |
| Where has this thing been hiding? This should be at the top of every riot grrl's playlist |
| MellowHype BLACKENEDWHITE | 4.0 |
| Melvins Gluey Porch Treatments | 4.0 |
| Melvins Houdini | 4.0 |
| Men at Work Business as Usual | 4.0 |
| Men Without Hats Rhythm of Youth | 3.0 |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath | 4.0 |
| Mercyful Fate Mercyful Fate | 4.0 |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 5.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 5.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
| Metallica Load | 1.5 |
| The amount of Metallica fanboys on this shoutout page is hilarious. No one is complaining about this album because it's "different" and "not metal". We're calling it shit because it's fucking awful, and sounds like Bob Seger and James Hetfield fucked, conceived a mentally challenged child who spent his entire childhood eating paint chips and watching Chevy commercials, and then told that child to make some rock n roll music. This is the soundtrack to being a 40 year old mechanic who beats his wife. |
| Metallica Reload | 2.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.0 |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 3.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.5 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.0 |
| Method Man Tical | 5.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 4.0 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 4.5 |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 5.0 |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Invincible | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I | 3.5 |
| Michael Penn March | 3.5 |
| Damn Sputnik only one rating? "No Myth" was a moderate radio hit that those of us listening to the radio in the early 90s will remember fondly, but the whole album is remarkably assured and consistent for a debut record. Highly recommended for fans of the singer-songwriter "genre" and that late 80s/very early 90s period of alternative pop rock before Nirvana made anything that wasn't grunge passe. |
| Middle Class Out of Vogue | 4.0 |
| The most important punk record you've probably never heard, this EP by the Middle Class is generally recognized as the first hardcore punk release in the genre's history, and all of the trademarks and building blocks for the scene can be found here: explosive vocals, pulsing guitars and lightning fast drumming. While it isn't particularly the best hardcore record, it's certainly one of the most important and a hidden gem for any fans of punk rock. |
| Midnight Satanic Royalty | 4.0 |
| Mike G ALI | 3.0 |
| Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells | 5.0 |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic EP | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 5.0 |
| Miley Cyrus Bangerz | 1.5 |
| Millencolin Pennybridge Pioneers | 4.0 |
| Millencolin Life On A Plate | 4.0 |
| Millencolin Same Old Tunes | 4.0 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy | 4.0 |
| Ministry With Sympathy | 3.0 |
| Ministry The Land of Rape and Honey | 5.0 |
| Ministry Psalm 69 | 4.0 |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography | 5.0 |
| Minor Threat Minor Threat | 5.0 |
| Minor Threat Out of Step | 4.5 |
| Minor Threat In My Eyes | 5.0 |
| Minor Threat Salad Days | 5.0 |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 5.0 |
| Minutemen Paranoid Time | 3.5 |
| Minutemen Joy | 3.0 |
| Minutemen The Punch Line | 4.0 |
| Minutemen Bean-Spill | 4.0 |
| Misfits Collection I | 4.5 |
| Misfits Collection II | 4.5 |
| Misfits Beware | 4.5 |
| Misfits Static Age | 4.5 |
| Misfits Walk Among Us | 4.5 |
| Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood | 4.5 |
| Miss May I Apologies Are for the Weak | 3.0 |
| Mission of Burma Vs. | 4.5 |
| Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches | 5.0 |
| Mobb Deep Murda Muzik | 3.5 |
| Mobb Deep Black Cocaine | 3.0 |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous | 5.0 |
| Mobb Deep Hell on Earth | 4.5 |
| Mobb Deep Blood Money | 3.0 |
I have no idea why this album is so unpopular on this site. Sure it's not at all
Infamous
or Hell on Earth era Mobb, this isn't gritty East Coast shit, it's a total slick G-
Unit
album that came out right at the height of that group's fame, and it showed Mobb
Deep in a
more lightweight, freewheeling, party rap mood and that they could still hang with
the new
young cats coming up in the mainstream at that time. Havoc's production remains
rooted in
the East Coast tradition but it incorporates the swagger of the G-Unit sound of the
era
really well, and there's good stuff from The Alchemist and what I consider Mobb
Deep's best
track of the mid 2000s era, the Dr. Dre produced remix of "Outta Control" which is
has been
a summer time party anthem staple for many years now for me. "Pearly Gates" and
"Capital P,
CApital H" are standouts as well. Underrated. |
| Moby Grape Moby Grape | 5.0 |
| Modern English After the Snow | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 5.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| Monks Black Monk Time | 4.5 |
| Monster Magnet Dopes to Infinity | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Suden uni | 4.0 |
| Morphine Cure for Pain | 5.0 |
| Morrissey You Are the Quarry | 3.5 |
| Morrissey Ringleader of the Tormentors | 3.5 |
| Morrissey Viva Hate | 4.0 |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic | 4.0 |
| Mother Love Bone Mother Love Bone | 4.0 |
| Motley Crue Shout at the Devil | 4.0 |
| Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood | 4.5 |
| Motley Crue Girls, Girls, Girls | 2.5 |
| Motley Crue Too Fast for Love | 4.0 |
| Motley Crue Theatre of Pain | 2.5 |
| Motorhead Motörhead | 4.0 |
| Mott The Hoople All the Young Dudes | 4.5 |
| Mouth Sewn Shut Doomed Future Today | 3.5 |
| Muddy Waters At Newport 1960 | 5.0 |
| Muddy Waters Hoochie Coochie Man | 4.5 |
| Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff | 4.0 |
| Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles | 5.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.0 |
| Municipal Waste The Art of Partying | 4.0 |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls | 3.0 |
| Mustard Plug Evildoers Beware! | 4.0 |
| MxPx Let It Happen | 3.0 |
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE MORE PUNK ROCK THAN CHRISTIAN POP PUNK?! NOTHING THAT'S WHAT!
No but "Creation" is actually an awesome song (in spite of it's "Ernest Denies Science!"
lyrical content) and there's some fun bratty skate punk stuff on here. About as hardcore as
a Wiggles concert though. |
| My Bloody Valentine Feed Me with Your Kiss | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise | 5.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine This Is Your Bloody Valentine | 2.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Sunny Sundae Smile | 2.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Ecstasy | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 4.5 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 1.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Number One | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Number Two | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Number Three | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Number Four | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Number Five | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 2.5 |
| My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Confessions Of A Knife | 4.0 |
| That Acid and Flowers remix of "Daisy Chain 4 Satan" is absolutely one of the best fucking songs ever for the Halloween season. Or any time really. |
| My Morning Jacket The Tennessee Fire | 3.0 |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 3.0 |
| My Morning Jacket It Still Moves | 4.0 |
| My Morning Jacket At Dawn | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Z | 4.5 |
| N.W.A. N.W.A. and the Posse | 3.0 |
| N.W.A. 100 Miles and Runnin' | 3.5 |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 5.0 |
| N.W.A. Niggaz4Life | 5.0 |
| Nada Surf High/Low | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Scum | 4.0 |
| Nas I Am... | 3.0 |
| Nas It Was Written | 4.5 |
| Nas Nastradamus | 2.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| Nas Hip Hop Is Dead | 3.5 |
| Nas God's Son | 4.0 |
| Nas STILLmatic | 4.5 |
| Nas Life Is Good | 3.5 |
| Nas King's Disease III | 4.5 |
| Nas King’s Disease | 3.5 |
| Nas Magic | 4.0 |
| Nashville Pussy High as Hell | 3.5 |
| These guys and Reverend Horton Heat were my first "real" concert/show, and I'll always cherish that memory. Played a lot of stuff off of this album and it was a rip-roaring good time of beer, Southern rock and psychobilly. |
| Nausea (USA-NY) Extinction | 4.5 |
| Nebula To The Center | 4.0 |
Excellent heavy stoner psych with folk influences, in the vein of Sleep and Fu Manchu.
"Fields of Psilocybin" is stunning, a kind of folk psychedelic freak out with shimmering
guitars that mesmerize you. |
| Necros Necros | 4.0 |
| Negative Approach Tied Down | 4.5 |
| One of the best hardcore records of the 80s. Nothing is one of the best songs the movement ever produced. |
| Negative Approach Negative Approach | 4.0 |
| Neil Diamond Hot August Night | 4.0 |
| Neil Diamond Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show | 3.5 |
| Neil Diamond Just For You | 4.0 |
| Neil Sedaka Oh Carol! | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps | 5.0 |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush | 4.5 |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | 5.0 |
| Neil Young Harvest | 5.0 |
| Neil Young Freedom | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Psychedelic Pill | 4.0 |
| Neil Young This Note's for You | 3.5 |
| Title track is an all time classic anti-commercialism anthem. |
| Neil Young The Visitor | 3.0 |
| This is such a jumbled mess. Half laughable, half brilliant, all Neil Young. |
| Neil Young Live Rust | 4.5 |
| Neil Young Decade | 4.5 |
| Neuroticfish Gelb | 3.5 |
| Neuroticfish No Instruments | 4.0 |
| A superb collection of New Order/Depeche Mode influenced darkwave, really creative stuff that engages you from start to finish with nary a misstep. "Close" and "Skin" would feel right at home on Technique-era New Order, and I mean that in the best possible way because they're amazing songs that make you just want to get up and dance, but almost in a bittersweet manner. Stellar album from an underrated group that carries the torch of the 80s darkwave flame into the 21st century, this is their best release and a forgotten gem. |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 4.0 |
| New Boyz Skinny Jeans and a Mic | 1.0 |
| New Found Glory Nothing Gold Can Stay | 4.0 |
| New Found Glory New Found Glory | 3.5 |
| New Model Army Vengeance | 4.0 |
| Bittersweet is one of the best songs of the early post-punk movement, hands down. |
| New Order Republic | 3.0 |
| New Order Brotherhood | 4.0 |
| New Order Substance | 5.0 |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies | 5.0 |
| New Order Movement | 3.5 |
| New Order Low-Life | 4.5 |
| New Order Technique | 4.5 |
| New Order Get Ready | 3.5 |
| "Crystal" starts the album off with a bang as it's the best song New Order has recorded in over a decade when it was released in 2001. The rest of the album delivers the goods as well, showing a spirited, reinvigorated group of musicians returning to their roots and producing some of their very best songs in many years in the process. Highly recommended for both New Order fans and newcomers alike. Also worth noting that Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame and Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream fame have guest appearances on the album, Corgan's in particular is excellent. |
| New Order Waiting for the Siren's Call | 3.0 |
| New York Dolls New York Dolls | 5.0 |
| Nice and Smooth Ain't a Damn Thing Changed | 4.0 |
| "Sometimes I Rhyme Slow" and "Hip Hop Junkies" are straight up hip hop classics, and these guys are cool people as well. |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.5 |
| Nick Lowe Jesus of Cool | 4.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 1.5 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 1.0 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday | 1.5 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded | 1.0 |
| Nico Chelsea Girl | 5.0 |
| Nico The Marble Index | 3.5 |
| Nicola Roberts Cinderella's Eyes | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! | 4.5 |
| Nirvana With the Lights Out | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Live at Reading | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Live at the Paramount | 5.0 |
| There are not enough superlatives for me to heap onto this project so that I could adequately pay justice to the quality and power of the music and this film, so I'll just simply say that this is a "classic" in every definitive sense of that word. This is a time capsule into one of the most important eras of of rock music, and it encapsulates everything that there was and is to love about Cobain and Nirvana all at once with a perfectly performed set of some of their greatest songs. This is the type of concert that legends are, and have been, made of. Happy Halloween Kurt. |
| Nirvana Blew | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Hormoaning | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 5.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 4.5 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 5.0 |
| Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nirvana | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Live and Loud | 5.0 |
| Worth any price of admission for the fully electric cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World". As someone who has obsessively listened to this band for 20 years and thought there were no hidden gems left, I was wrong. Dead wrong. The guitar shreds and soars and both Kurt and Pat Smear absolutely kill it in an almost unfathomable way. Throw in Kurt's flawed-yet-utterly-perfect vocal harmonies towards the end and you have one of the band's absolute best live performances ever. Oh, and everything else on here is amazing. The band at their creative peak, kicking ass and taking names like only they could. |
| No Age Everything In Between | 3.0 |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 4.0 |
| No Doubt Rock Steady | 2.5 |
| No Doubt Return of Saturn | 3.5 |
| NOFX 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough | 4.0 |
| NOFX Liberal Animation | 2.0 |
| NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean | 3.5 |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic | 4.0 |
| NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes | 3.5 |
| NOFX Pump Up the Valuum | 4.0 |
| NOFX The Decline | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 4.0 |
| NSYNC Home for Christmas | 1.0 |
| NSYNC NSYNC | 2.0 |
| NSYNC No Strings Attached | 2.5 |
| Nu Sensae Sundowning | 4.0 |
| O.C. Word...Life | 4.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 5.0 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.5 |
| Oasis The Masterplan | 3.5 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 3.5 |
| OFF! First Four EPs | 4.0 |
| Oingo Boingo Nothing to Fear | 4.5 |
| Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party | 4.0 |
| Oingo Boingo Only a Lad | 4.0 |
| Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party 12" Promo | 5.0 |
| if you don't like this song we can't be friends |
| Oingo Boingo Oingo Boingo | 3.5 |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version | 5.0 |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Nigga Please | 3.5 |
| Old 97s Too Far to Care | 3.5 |
| OMC How Bizarre | 3.5 |
| A wonderful record that unfortunately isn't remembered as much as it should be outside of OMC's native New Zealand. Everyone remembers the smash hit "How Bizarre", and it remains one of the best pop songs of the 90s with a carefree summertime feeling to it that permeates every facet of this record, making the entire album a pleasure to listen to. OMC mixes rock, rap, electronica, and even worldbeat and folk while always maintaining a keen and structured pop songwriting sensibility. A nostalgic gem from the 90s that has remained a part of my playlist for many years. |
| Onyx Bacdafucup | 4.5 |
| Onyx All We Got Iz Us | 4.0 |
| Operation Ivy Energy | 5.0 |
| Orange Juice Rip It Up | 3.5 |
| How great is that title track? Seriously. Just try not to tap your foot or bob your head. Just try. |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | 4.0 |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Organisation | 4.0 |
| Enola Gay is one of the best synthpop songs ever and really utterly beautiful. That's all. |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Architecture & Morality | 4.5 |
| Orgy Candyass | 3.0 |
| Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul | 5.0 |
| Otis Redding Pain in My Heart | 4.5 |
| Otis Redding The Dock of the Bay | 4.5 |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik | 4.5 |
| OutKast ATLiens | 4.0 |
| OutKast Aquemini | 5.0 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 4.5 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3.5 |
| OutKast Idlewild | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man | 3.0 |
| P.M. Dawn Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross | 4.5 |
| One of the great albums of hip hop that sadly has been almost forgotten over the years because of legal and royalty issues, much like De La Soul's classic albums (until recently) this has never been available on any streaming service, which is just a shame because this was a hugely important and influential album for hip hop at a time when it was still considered a minor, fringe genre. Set Adrift on Memory Bliss hit number one, a big thing at the time for hip hop, and you could see how this influenced the entire alternative and conscious hip hop movement in a world where gangsta rap was quickly becoming the only acceptable mainstream version of the genre. rSet Adrift on Memory Bliss is a total triumph, one of the dreamiest and most soulful examples of the genre at the time, and Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine is another absolute banger and classic that was all over the radio. But the whole album is killer stuff, hopefully this comes to streaming someday so newer generations can understand and appreciate how great of an album this is. The production is just insane. |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 3.0 |
| P.O.S Ipecac Neat | 4.0 |
| Pagan Altar Pagan Altar | 4.5 |
| Pagan Altar Volume 1 | 4.5 |
| Pale Saints The Comforts of Madness | 4.5 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 4.0 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 5.0 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 3.0 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 4.0 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 3.0 |
| Pantera Metal Magic | 1.5 |
| Pantera Projects in the Jungle | 2.0 |
| Pantera I Am the Night | 2.0 |
| Pantera Power Metal | 3.0 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 3.5 |
| Parliament Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome | 5.0 |
| Parliament Mothership Connection | 5.0 |
| Patsy Cline Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| Heartbreaking. Country music at it's absolute finest from the greatest female singer the genre ever saw. Strange is one of the greatest ballads ever composed. |
| Patti Smith Horses | 5.0 |
| Patti Smith Easter | 4.5 |
| Paul McCartney Ram | 5.0 |
| Paul McCartney McCartney III | 3.5 |
| Paul Simon Graceland | 5.0 |
| Paul Simon Paul Simon | 4.0 |
Garfunkel who?
Paul Simon's debut is practically a tangible explosion of creative energy and musicianship from one of the great songwriters of the 60s. Gone are the elegant ballads of Bridge Over Troubled Water, as the opening track "Mother and Child Reunion" is an incredible reggae song (and a Top 5 hit in both the US and the UK) that lets you know from the get-go that Simon had far-ranging eclectic interests beyond the folk-rock he had been known for. He mixes a certifiable maelstrom of music mixing reggae, folk, country, blues, psychedelic rock and pop and proved from the beginning that he had so much more to offer the world after the split of Simon & Garfunkel. This is simply an extraordinary record, and one of the few solo records to have succeeded both commercially and critically as well as Paul Simon did. |
| Paul Simon Still Crazy After All These Years | 4.0 |
| Paul Simon There Goes Rhymin' Simon | 3.5 |
| Paula Abdul Forever Your Girl | 3.0 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 4.5 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 5.0 |
| Pearl Jam Vs. | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Binaural | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged | 4.5 |
As good as it sounds in theory. The version of "State of Love and Trust" on here is mind
blowing. |
| Pearl Jam Dark Matter | 3.0 |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour | 3.0 |
| Pennywise Pennywise | 4.0 |
| Pennywise Full Circle | 4.0 |
| Pentagram First Daze Here (The Vintage Collection) | 4.5 |
| Pentagram Pentagram | 4.5 |
| Pentagram First Daze Here Too | 3.5 |
| Pere Ubu The Modern Dance | 4.0 |
| Pestilence Malleus Maleficarum | 4.5 |
| Pete Rock and CL Smooth Mecca and the Soul Brother | 4.5 |
| Pete Shelley Homosapien | 4.0 |
| Title track is the best thing Shelley ever did post-Buzzcocks, but the rest of the album is really fun, consistent new wave with synth-pop and punk influences. |
| Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive! | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Car | 4.0 |
| Peter, Paul and Mary Peter, Paul and Mary | 4.0 |
| The first LP from one of the finest folk acts of the 60s, Peter, Paul, and Mary's self titled debut is an historically important and wonderfully crafted album highlighted by the immortal folk classic "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", as beautiful and somber as folk has ever been with a timely political message. |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 3.5 |
| Phantogram Eyelid Movies | 4.0 |
| Phil Ochs I Ain't Marching Anymore | 4.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Pierce the Veil A Flair for the Dramatic | 3.5 |
| Pilgrim II: Void Worship | 4.0 |
Awesome band, even cooler guys. Sludgey doom metal in the vein of St Vitus or later
Pentagram. Shocked
they're on here since I see the guys all the time at shows and parties but I forget they're
on Metal Blade now.
Watch out metal heads cause Rhode Island is producing some of the best young metal bands
around right now.
2017 edit: Rest in Peace Jon. We became close these past few years and it breaks my fucking
heart to know he's gone. It still doesn't even seem real.
We're going to drink the shittiest of cheap vodka and listen to L7 all night in the
afterlife when I get there man. I love you. |
| Pilgrim Misery Wizard | 4.0 |
| Pilgrim Forsaken Man (Demo) | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd More | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 5.0 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 5.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 5.0 |
| Pixies Bossanova | 4.0 |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde | 4.0 |
| Pixies Complete B-Sides | 3.5 |
| Placebo B3 | 3.0 |
| Placebo Placebo | 4.5 |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing | 5.0 |
| Honestly just trying to explain how much this album means to me on a personal level is likely impossible, so all you really need to know is that this is some of the most beautiful, melodic, haunting, dark, and cathartic music to come out of the last 20 years. Brian Molko is inimitable and "Pure Morning", "Brick Shithouse" and obviously "Every You Every Me" are some of his best songs. |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Placebo Black Market Music | 4.0 |
| Placebo Meds | 3.5 |
| Placebo Battle for the Sun | 3.0 |
| Placebo Covers | 3.5 |
| Plasmatics New Hope for the Wretched | 3.5 |
| Poison Poison'd! | 1.0 |
| Poison Flesh & Blood | 1.5 |
| Poison Open Up and Say... Ahh! | 2.0 |
| Poison Look What The Cat Dragged In | 1.5 |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder | 4.5 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 5.0 |
| Polaris (USA) Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.5 |
| Porno For Pyros Porno For Pyros | 3.5 |
| I firmly stand by the belief that "Pets" is the best song Perry Farrell ever wrote. |
| Portugal. The Man Woodstock | 3.0 |
| Positive K The Skills Dat Pay da Bills | 3.5 |
| "I Got a Man" is one of those unsung early 90s pre-gangsta-takeover hip hop classics that's been unfairly forgotten in the wake of everything post Dre/2Pac/Biggie. Fun, catchy, and underrated. |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic | 4.0 |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt | 3.5 |
| Prick Prick | 4.0 |
| Really good NIN-inspired (Reznor produced and distributed this on his label) industrial rock/metal that strangely turns into what I can only imagine a Collective Soul album produced through a tin can sounds like on the second half. Strangely that isn't really an insult, believe it or not. Definitely recommend for fans of the 90s industrial movement. |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica | 5.0 |
| Primal Scream Give Out But Don't Give Up | 3.0 |
| Primus Tales from the Punchbowl | 3.5 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.5 |
| Prince Prince | 3.5 |
| Prince Batman | 4.0 |
| Prince For You | 3.5 |
| Prince Purple Rain | 5.0 |
| Prince Sign o' the Times | 5.0 |
| Prince Controversy | 4.0 |
| Prince Dirty Mind | 4.0 |
| Prince 1999 | 4.5 |
| Prince Lovesexy | 4.0 |
| Prince Paul A Prince Among Thieves | 5.0 |
| Princess Chelsea Lil' Golden Book | 3.0 |
| Probot Probot | 4.0 |
| Prong Age Of Defiance | 3.5 |
| Prong Cleansing | 4.0 |
| Proof Searching for Jerry Garcia | 3.0 |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything | 4.5 |
| Public Enemy Yo! Bum Rush the Show | 4.5 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 5.0 |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet | 4.5 |
| Public Enemy Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black | 4.0 |
| Public Enemy He Got Game | 3.0 |
| Public Image Ltd. First Issue | 4.0 |
| Public Image Ltd. Metal Box | 3.5 |
| Public Image Ltd. This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get | 3.5 |
| Public Image Ltd. Album | 3.0 |
| Public Image Ltd. This Is PiL | 3.0 |
| Puff Daddy No Way Out | 4.0 |
| Pulp Different Class | 4.5 |
| Pulp His 'n' Hers | 4.0 |
| Pusha T Fear of God II: Let Us Pray | 3.5 |
| Imagine if Kanye West was actually a gangsta rapper and you pretty much have this album here. GOOD Music for sure, in the vein of Kanye and CuDi but a bit more grim. |
| Pusha T It's Almost Dry | 4.0 |
| PWR BTTM Ugly Cherries | 3.0 |
| PWR BTTM Pageant | 4.0 |
| Improved songwriting, a new sense of maturity, the same catchy-as-fuck empowering queer punk ranthems you expect, fantastic lyrics. This is the most vital band working today for anyone rin the LGBT community. But they transcend that label completely. A bit more mellow than rtheir previous work with some somber, 90s alt-rock inspired tunes providing some of the best rsongs on the album.rI'm probably biased because this band has stolen my heart this past year rin a way that a band hasn't in a long time, but this was everything I was hoping for and rmore, so much more. There's a noticeable progression in their sound here, and it works like rfucking gangbusters.rThe only (minor) complaint is that there is simply not enough Liv vocals. Though, really, rcan there ever be? |
| Quarterflash Quarterflash | 3.0 |
| Queen The Works | 3.0 |
| Queen Sheer Heart Attack | 4.5 |
| Queen A Night at the Opera | 5.0 |
| Queen News of the World | 5.0 |
| Queen Jazz | 4.5 |
| Queen The Game | 3.5 |
| Queen Queen | 3.5 |
| Queen Queen II | 4.5 |
| Queen A Day at the Races | 5.0 |
| Queen Flash Gordon | 2.5 |
| Queen Hot Space | 3.0 |
| Queen A Kind of Magic | 2.5 |
| Queen The Miracle | 3.0 |
| Queen Innuendo | 4.0 |
| Queen Made in Heaven | 3.0 |
| Queen Latifah All Hail The Queen | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 5.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 4.0 |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service | 4.0 |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails | 4.5 |
| Quiet Riot Metal Health | 4.0 |
| R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12) | 1.5 |
| R.E.M. Accelerate | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 5.0 |
| R.E.M. Out of Time | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Document | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 5.0 |
| R.E.M. Reckoning | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Green | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Chronic Town | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Monster | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| This is the Radiohead I love. Experimental, beautiful, haunting, emotional. As great as the group is I've always found them a bit overrated, feeling that their epic ballads were sometimes quite sterile, but this album just clicked with me from start to finish. While some say it's a return to the Kid A sound, it's more than that, it's a progression of that and it's both fresh and unique. There are some amazing songs on here, mainly "Bloom", "Codex", and "Separator", but all of the songs are good really. Maybe it helps that I first listened to it on a rainy Monday afternoon so the downtempo mood was appropriate. rTheir best since Amnesiac. |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 5.0 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 5.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.5 |
| Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Rainbow Rising | 5.0 |
| Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll | 4.0 |
| Rainbow Down To Earth | 3.0 |
| Rainbow Difficult to Cure | 3.0 |
| Rainbow Straight Between the Eyes | 3.0 |
| Ramones Ramones | 5.0 |
| Ramones Leave Home | 5.0 |
| Ramones Rocket to Russia | 5.0 |
| Ramones Road to Ruin | 4.0 |
| Ramones Ramones Mania | 5.0 |
| Ramones End of the Century | 4.0 |
| Ramones Too Tough to Die | 3.0 |
| Ramones Animal Boy | 3.0 |
| Ramones Subterranean Jungle | 2.5 |
| Ramones Pleasant Dreams | 3.0 |
| Rancid Let's Go | 4.5 |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves | 4.5 |
| Rancid Life Won't Wait | 4.0 |
| Rancid Rancid (2000) | 3.5 |
| Rancid Let the Dominoes Fall | 2.5 |
| Rancid B Sides and C Sides | 3.0 |
| Ranger Where Evil Dwells | 3.5 |
| Ratt Out of the Cellar | 3.5 |
| Ratt Infestation | 3.0 |
| Ratt Dancing Undercover | 3.0 |
| Ratt Invasion of Your Privacy | 3.5 |
| Ratt Detonator | 2.5 |
| Ratt Reach for the Sky | 2.5 |
| Ray Charles Ray Charles | 5.0 |
| Ray Charles Very Best of Ray Charles | 5.0 |
| Ray Charles The Genius of Ray Charles | 5.0 |
| Ray Charles What'd I Say | 5.0 |
| Reagan Youth Youth Anthems for the New Order | 4.5 |
| Reagan Youth Volume Two | 3.5 |
| Reagan Youth A Collection of Pop Classics | 5.0 |
| Reagan Youth Volume One | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love | 3.0 |
| Redman Whut? Thee Album | 5.0 |
| Reflection Eternal The RE:Union Mixtape | 3.5 |
| Reflection Eternal Revolutions Per Minute | 3.5 |
| Reflection Eternal Train of Thought | 4.5 |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent | 4.5 |
| Refused The Demo Compilation | 3.0 |
| Refused This Just Might Be... The Truth | 3.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| Refused The EP Compilation | 4.0 |
| Remo Drive Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| No doubt the influence of 90s emo is all over this band and they absolutely do throw a good deal of that style of music and lyricism into the album, but I'd hate for someone to think this is like a Sunny Day Real Estate tribute or something because this is absolutely a dance-punk record first and foremost before it's an emo record. The lyrics are emotional and biting (and occasionally simplistically brilliant in their familiarity) and there are definitely somber moments and influences through out, but there are also a bunch of REALLY catchy songs full of just the right amount of angst that will make you want to dance and shout the lyrics along.rOne of the best new groups in 2017 I've discovered, thanks Sputnik. |
| REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity | 3.5 |
| Richard and Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights | 4.5 |
| Richard Hell and The Voidoids Blank Generation | 4.5 |
| Richie Havens Mixed Bag | 4.5 |
| Rick James Street Songs | 4.0 |
| Rick James Come Get It! | 3.5 |
| Ricky Nelson Greatest Hits [Capitol 2005] | 4.5 |
| Ride Nowhere | 5.0 |
| Ride Smile | 5.0 |
| Drive Blind melts my fucking brain every single god damn time. |
| Ride Ride | 4.5 |
| Drive Blind is a likely candidate for the group's best song, a shimmering, dark, mesmerizing piece of shoegaze and 80s British indie angst, an utterly remarkable song. |
| Rise Against The Unraveling | 5.0 |
| Their absolute best work, this is Rise Against at their melodic hardcore best. Everything about this album stands out from the instruments to McIlrath's half-screamed half-crooned vocals and absolutely mesmerizing lyrics, there isn't a weak point to this entire album. "My Life Inside Your Heart" may be the best song RA ever wrote, as it refuses anything less than tearing into your heart and psyche. One of the best modern punk records, period. |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute | 4.5 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.0 |
| Ritchie Valens The Very Best Of | 4.5 |
| Rites of Spring End on End | 5.0 |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe | 4.0 |
| Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge | 3.0 |
| Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Singers | 5.0 |
| Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings | 5.0 |
| Robert Palmer Clues | 4.0 |
| Rockwell Somebody's Watching Me | 3.0 |
| Fun and all kinds of funky, Rockwell's Somebody's Watching Me is one heck of a fun relic from the 80s, mixing up rock, soul, dance, and R&B under the Motown label to create a well-crafted album of tunes to dance to. It helps when Michael Jackson sings the hook of your single ("Somebody's Watching Me") and it hits number one for five weeks straight on the R&B charts as well. The paranoid single is undoubtedly the highlight, but the whole album is worth a spin if you're feeling nostalgic for the 80s. |
| Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells A Story | 4.5 |
| Rollins Band The End of Silence | 4.0 |
| Rollins Band Life Time | 4.0 |
| Roxy Music Stranded | 4.0 |
| "Mother of Pearl" is quite possibly Roxy Music's finest moment, an absolute stunning epic love song that manages to have not one but two distinct and incredible arrangements amidst the flurry of Ferry's majestic, soaring voice. There are other great moments on this album as well, from the near-punk of "Street Life" to the achingly beautiful ballad "A Song for Europe", this is yet another classic album in the canon of what very well may have been the most important rock band of the 1970s (in terms of pushing the rules and boundaries of the artform). |
| Roxy Music Roxy Music | 4.0 |
| Roxy Music For Your Pleasure | 4.5 |
| Roxy Music Avalon | 4.5 |
| Roxy Music Siren | 4.0 |
| Roxy Music Country Life | 4.0 |
| Roy Orbison Lonely and Blue | 3.5 |
| Roy Orbison Crying | 3.5 |
| Roy Orbison In Dreams | 4.5 |
| Roy Orbison All-Time Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| Roy Orbison Black & White Night | 5.0 |
| Rudi Big Time / No 1 | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 5.0 |
| Killer Mike is quickly solidifying his legendary resume to lay claim as one of the greatest emcees to ever pick up a microphone. His artistry is essential in these times, it is the message and music of the people by the people for the people man. They've done it again, those motherfuckers. They are pushing the boundaries of hip hop production and forging a fiercely political legacy that will stand the test of time in history. |
| Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell | 5.0 |
| Run-D.M.C. Tougher Than Leather | 4.5 |
| Run-D.M.C. Run DMC | 5.0 |
| Run-D.M.C. Down With The King | 3.5 |
| Most of the album is average at best, but the title track is the best song Run DMC ever wrote in the 90s, yeah they were kind of out of their element trying the "gangsta rap" phase, but "Down With the King" still hits HARD after all these years and is their last truly great song. |
| Run-D.M.C. King Of Rock | 4.5 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 3.5 |
| RZA Ooh I Love You Rakeem | 2.0 |
| S.O.A. No Policy | 4.0 |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex | 1.0 |
| Saccharine Trust Paganicons | 3.5 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 4.0 |
| Saint Vitus Born Too Late | 4.5 |
| Saliva Every Six Seconds | 2.5 |
| Sam and Dave Soul Men | 4.5 |
| Sam and Dave Hold On, I'm Comin' | 4.5 |
| Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 | 5.0 |
| Without hyperbole, the single greatest soul album of all time. This album changed my life when I was fifteen. |
| Sam Cooke Night Beat | 4.5 |
| Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 | 5.0 |
| Samhain Initium | 4.0 |
| Samiam Clumsy | 5.0 |
| Incendiary early 90s emo punk before the genre became a joke. Right on par with the best of Jawbreaker, Sunny Day Real Estate, early Jimmy Eat World, or the Get Up Kids, if not better. More alternative punk than emo in some ways musically but lyrically it hits hard emotionally, which is only heightened in effect by the absolutely stellar vocals and ridiculously melodic songs. Good luck getting half of this album unstuck out of your head immediately after listening. One of the best albums I've discovered recently and clearly I'm late to the party but man this is still so underrated. Capsized, Stepson, and She's a Part of Me all should have been massive radio hits. |
| Santana Santana | 5.0 |
| Santana Abraxas | 5.0 |
| Santigold Santogold | 4.5 |
| Savage Garden Savage Garden | 3.0 |
| Saves the Day Can't Slow Down | 4.0 |
| Saves the Day Through Being Cool | 4.5 |
| Saves the Day I'm Sorry I'm Leaving | 5.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 5.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.5 |
| Say Anything Menorah/Majora | 3.5 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 3.5 |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 3.0 |
| Say Anything Baseball | 3.0 |
| Scapegoat (Boston) Scapegoat | 3.0 |
| Scarface Mr. Scarface Is Back | 4.5 |
| Scarface The Diary | 5.0 |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids After Dark | 3.5 |
| Scorpions Love At First Sting | 4.5 |
| Scorpions Lonesome Crow | 3.5 |
| Scratch Acid The Greatest Gift | 5.0 |
| Experimental post-hardcore/noise rock that is a must for anyone who enjoys flat out weird music or the above genres. Or Big Black. Or you enjoy the eclectic musical taste of Kurt Cobain. Man, just fucking listen to it. |
| Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion | 4.5 |
| Screeching Weasel Boogadaboogadaboogada! | 4.0 |
| Screeching Weasel My Brain Hurts | 5.0 |
| An essential cornerstone of pop-punk that defined the genre and influenced an entire generation of imitators. Nobody ever got it better though. |
| Seax Speed Metal Mania | 3.5 |
| Sebadoh III | 4.0 |
| Sebadoh Harmacy | 3.5 |
| Seduce Too Much Ain't Enough | 3.5 |
Crash Landing is pretty fuckin' rad. Best known for their appearance in Decline of
Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. EDIT 2021: Hey they finally
remastered and re-released this band's discography on Spotify, it's a good day for
headbangers |
| Seduce Seduce | 3.0 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 2.0 |
| Seether Disclaimer | 2.0 |
| Seether Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 5.0 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail From the Depths of Dreams | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains | 4.5 |
| Sepultura Morbid Visions | 3.0 |
| Sepultura Schizophrenia | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Arise | 5.0 |
| Seven Mary Three American Standard | 3.0 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 5.0 |
| Sex Pistols Flogging A Dead Horse | 4.5 |
| Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Savvy Show Stoppers | 3.0 |
Having an Average Weekend (AKA the theme song to Kids In the Hall) is the best instrumental surf
rock since motherfuckin' Link Wray. |
| Shaggy Hot Shot | 3.5 |
| Sheck Wes Mudboy | 3.5 |
| Showbiz and A.G. Runaway Slave | 5.0 |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? | 3.0 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 3.5 |
| Shyne Shyne | 3.0 |
| Sia Colour the Small One | 3.5 |
| Sick of It All Blood,Sweat, & No Tears | 4.0 |
| Siege Drop Dead | 4.0 |
| Silverchair Freak Show | 4.0 |
| Silverchair Frogstomp | 4.5 |
| Silverchair Neon Ballroom | 4.0 |
| Silverchair Diorama | 3.5 |
| Silverstein Rescue | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul | 4.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. | 4.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence | 4.5 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 5.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bookends | 5.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 5.0 |
| Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) | 4.0 |
| Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls | 3.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees The Scream | 5.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Kaleidoscope | 4.0 |
| Skid Row Slave to the Grind | 4.0 |
| Skip Spence Oar | 4.0 |
| Skrewdriver All Skrewed Up | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver Hail The New Dawn | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver Blood And Honour | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver Skrewdriver | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver Boots and Braces/Voice of Britain | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver After The Fire | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver Warlord | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver Hail Victory | 1.0 |
| Skycamefalling 10.21 | 4.5 |
| Skycamefalling To Forever Embrace The Sun | 4.0 |
| Slayer Show No Mercy | 4.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 5.0 |
| Slayer God Hates Us All | 3.5 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.5 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.5 |
| Slayer Hell Awaits | 4.0 |
| Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick | 4.0 |
| Slick Rick The Art Of Storytelling | 4.0 |
| Slick Rick's real return to hip-hop after his prison sentence, complete with all star production and guest spots everywhere. Rick's flow is as impeccable as ever, and the production is deeper and richer than his classic first album even if the rhymes aren't always up to the same quality as his old work. You don't go to Rick for lyricism though, you go to him for style, and he's got it in spades here. Underrated album. |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 4.5 |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 2.5 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 4.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.0 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Dance To The Music | 4.5 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Stand! | 5.0 |
| Sly and The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On | 5.0 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Fresh | 4.0 |
| Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake | 4.5 |
| Smash Mouth Fush Yu Mang | 4.0 |
| Smash Mouth Astro Lounge | 3.0 |
| Smash Mouth Smash Mouth | 2.0 |
| Smile Empty Soul Smile Empty Soul | 3.0 |
| Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Best of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles | 4.5 |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 5.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Tha Doggfather | 3.0 |
| Snuff Snuff Said | 4.0 |
| Sodom Persecution Mania | 4.5 |
| Soen Cognitive | 3.0 |
| Soft Cell Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret | 5.0 |
| Solomon Burke The Very Best of Solomon Burke | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 5.0 |
| Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Youth | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex | 2.5 |
| Soulfly Soulfly | 3.5 |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity | 4.5 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 5.0 |
| A serious candidate for the best grunge record the 90s ever produced, Soundgarden's third album saw the band break out from their Seattle peers in a way only Nirvana or Pearl Jam could claim similar paths to. Just like Nirvana's "Nevermind" and Pearl Jam' "Ten", "Badmotorfinger" is both a slice of it's time and timeless, truly a masterpiece in the world of alternative rock, highlights include...well almost every single track is a highlight really, but "Room a Thousand Years Wide" may just be Soundgarden and Chris Cornell at their very darkest and best. An amazing album that belongs in everyone's collection. |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 5.0 |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Friday (Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Colors | 4.5 |
| Amazing slice of late 80s hip hop at it's absolute best. The title track by Ice-T is one of the early gangsta rap anthems and still one the very best, and all over this soundtrack are some of the best artists at the time like Big Daddy Kane, Eric B & Rakim, Kool G. Rap, MC Shan, etc. Includes the infamous Coldcut remix of "Paid in Full" that's an amazing slice of late 80s hip hop DJ work at it's finest. The only thing holding this album back is a goofy attempt at dub sung by none other than the star of the film Sean Penn, under the guise of the "Decadent Dub Team". Otherwise, a nearly perfect soundtrack for a great film that accurately represents the true "sounds of the street" at the time. |
| Soundtrack (Film) Once More With Feeling | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Inside Llewyn Davis | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Inglourious Basterds Motion Picture Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Notable mainly for featuring some amazing Ennio Morricone pieces that have been reused for the film. |
| Soundtrack (Film) Batman Forever | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Perks of Being a Wallflower | 3.5 |
| Some great stuff on here but when the book your film is based on literally references and even lists songs and bands as, like, major plot points and you don't include a bunch of them, well that's just not cool man (yes I realize the author also directed the film adaptation). |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Hangover | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Hustle & Flow | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Garden State | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Black Snake Moan | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Death Proof | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) High Fidelity | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) South Park (Original Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Detroit Rock City | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Big Lebowski | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) SLC Punk | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Kids OST | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Dumb and Dumber | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Dazed and Confused | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Donnie Darko | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Singles (Original Soundtrack) | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Manhunter | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pretty in Pink | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Repo Man | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Halloween III - Season of the Witch | 4.0 |
| Spacehog Resident Alien | 3.0 |
| Spacemen 3 Playing With Fire | 4.0 |
| Spacemen 3 The Perfect Prescription | 4.0 |
| Spacemen 3 Taking Drugs (To Make Music To Take Drugs To) | 4.0 |
| Spice 1 Spice 1 | 3.5 |
| Spice 1 187 He Wrote | 4.0 |
| Spice 1 AmeriKKKa's Nightmare | 4.0 |
| Spice Girls Spice | 2.5 |
| Spice Girls Spiceworld | 2.0 |
| Spin Doctors Pocket Full of Kryptonite | 3.0 |
| "Two Princes" is one of those songs that is so unabashedly catchy and melodic and poppy that it blew up, was played 12,000 times per day on every radio station on the planet for a few years, and then became a bit of a pop culture joke, one of those songs that everyone has heard so many times that we've all come to an unspoken agreement to never, ever listen to it again. Kind of like "Stairway to Heaven", or "Smells Like Teen Spirit". rBut if I hear it on the radio, I still stop every time and sing along. It's just one of those songs, y'know? Try as hard as you want to hate it, it's never going to work. Just surrender to the cheesy doo-wop pop bliss and go about your day. |
| Spirit Caravan Jug Fulla Sun | 3.0 |
| Fun Sabbath worship side-project of St. Vitus' Wino, derivative but enjoyable even if their drummer is a dick. |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 4.5 |
| Spitboy True Self Revealed | 4.0 |
| Spooky Tooth Spooky Two | 4.0 |
| Squirtgun Squirtgun | 3.5 |
| Staind Break The Cycle | 4.5 |
| Starship Knee Deep In The Hoopla | 1.5 |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 2.5 |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 3.5 |
| Status Quo Picturesque Matchstickable Messages | 4.0 |
| Stealers Wheel Stealers Wheel | 3.5 |
| Steel Pulse Handsworth Revolution | 4.0 |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill | 4.5 |
| Steppenwolf The Second | 4.0 |
| Steppenwolf Steppenwolf | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Refried Ectoplasm | 4.5 |
| One of Stereolab's finest records, a collection of singles and rarities that shows the growth of this magnificent group while remaining instantly accessible because of the high quality of the songs, including classic Stereolab songs like "Lo Boob Oscilattor", "John Cage Bubblegum", "French Disko" and "Mountain". A superb record and well worth your time. |
| Stetsasonic On Fire | 3.0 |
| Stetsasonic In Full Gear | 4.0 |
| Steve Earle Copperhead Road | 4.0 |
| Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Steve Lacy's Demo | 4.0 |
| Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 1974-1978 | 3.5 |
| Steve Miller Band Fly Like an Eagle | 3.5 |
| Steve Miller Band The Joker | 3.0 |
| Stevie Nicks Bella Donna | 4.0 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood | 5.0 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather | 4.5 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan In Step | 4.5 |
| Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material | 4.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core | 4.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop | 3.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots No. 4 | 3.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots High Rise | 3.0 |
| Stonebride Heavy Envelope | 3.5 |
| Stormtroopers of Death Speak English or Die | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 4.5 |
| Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense and Peppermints | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.5 |
| Strike Anywhere Change Is a Sound | 4.0 |
| Strung Out Twisted By Design | 4.0 |
| Styx Pieces of Eight | 3.5 |
| Styx Styx II | 3.0 |
| Styx The Grand Illusion | 3.0 |
| Styx Paradise Theatre | 3.0 |
| Subhumans EP-LP | 5.0 |
| Subhumans Reason for Existence | 3.5 |
| Subhumans Religious Wars | 3.5 |
| Subhumans The Day the Country Died | 5.0 |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 5.0 |
| Sublime Sublime | 5.0 |
| Sublime Second Hand Smoke | 4.0 |
| Sublime Robbin' the Hood | 4.0 |
| Sublime with Rome Yours Truly | 3.0 |
| Suede Suede | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came | 3.0 |
| Sugar Ray Floored | 3.5 |
| Sugar Ray 14:59 | 3.0 |
| Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies | 4.5 |
| Suicide Suicide | 4.5 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 3.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 5.0 |
| Superchunk Superchunk | 3.5 |
| Superchunk No Pocky For Kitty | 4.5 |
| From the opening chords of "Skip Steps 1 & 3" to the closing, crashing drums and crunchy guitars at the end of "Throwing Things", you're hooked. It's just one incredibly catchy riff after another with punk rock fury, indie rock originality, and this driving force that just keeps you listening and tapping your toes along to the music. And clearly it's underrated on Sputnik, doesn't even have a full review yet! Such a pity for a cornerstone of indie rock as we know it. |
| Supergrass I Should Coco | 4.5 |
| Supertramp Crime of the Century | 5.0 |
| Supertramp Crisis? What Crisis? | 4.0 |
| Swans Filth | 4.0 |
| Sweet Desolation Boulevard | 4.5 |
| Swell Maps A Trip to Marineville | 4.0 |
| Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs | 4.0 |
| Syd Barrett Barrett | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 5.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 5.0 |
| T. Rex Electric Warrior | 5.0 |
| T. Rex The Slider | 4.5 |
| T.I. King | 4.0 |
| T.I. Urban Legend | 3.5 |
| T.S.O.L. T.S.O.L./Weathered Statues | 5.0 |
| T.S.O.L. Dance With Me | 5.0 |
| T.S.O.L. T. S. O. L. | 5.0 |
| TAD God's Balls | 3.0 |
| TAD 8-Way Santa | 3.0 |
| TAD Inhaler | 4.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 4.5 |
| Tales of Terror Tales of Terror | 4.0 |
| Talib Kweli Quality | 4.5 |
| Talib Kweli & Styles P The Seven | 5.0 |
| Talk Talk It's My Life | 3.0 |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food | 5.0 |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.5 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 5.0 |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting | 5.0 |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair | 4.5 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 5.0 |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog | 4.0 |
| Ten Years After A Space in Time | 4.0 |
| Tesla Mechanical Resonance | 3.5 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.5 |
| Tha Alkaholiks Likwidation | 3.5 |
| Tha Dogg Pound Dogg Food | 3.5 |
| The (International) Noise Conspiracy Survival Sickness | 4.0 |
| The 13th Floor Elevators The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators | 4.5 |
| The 13th Floor Elevators Easter Everywhere | 4.0 |
| The Adicts Songs of Praise | 4.0 |
| The Adicts Sound of Music | 5.0 |
| The Adverts Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts | 4.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 4.0 |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects | 3.0 |
| The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach | 5.0 |
| The Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band | 4.5 |
| The Allman Brothers Band Idlewild South | 4.0 |
| The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East | 5.0 |
| The Amboy Dukes Journey to the center of the mind | 3.5 |
| The Amboy Dukes Tooth fang & claw | 4.0 |
| The Animals The Animals (US) | 3.0 |
| The Animals Animal Tracks | 4.0 |
| The Animals Animalization | 3.5 |
| The Animals Winds of Change | 4.0 |
| The Animals Eric Burdon & The Animals | 3.5 |
| The Animals The Best of the Animals | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 3.0 |
| The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats! | 4.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 4.5 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Built to Fail | 3.0 |
| The raw, chaotic, but fun early beginnings of The Arrogant Bastards. Not essential but it has it's merits. |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 3.5 |
| The B-52s The B-52's | 5.0 |
| The B-52s Wild Planet | 4.0 |
| The Band Music from Big Pink | 4.5 |
| The Band The Band | 5.0 |
| The Bar-Kays Nightcruising | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 5.0 |
| The Beach Boys Smiley Smile | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Party! | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Today! | 4.5 |
| The Beach Boys The Beach Boys' Christmas Album | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys All Summer Long | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Shut Down Volume 2 | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Surfer Girl | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Surfin' U.S.A. | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Surfin' Safari | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Wild Honey | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Friends | 3.5 |
| The Beat I Just Can't Stop It | 5.0 |
| The Beat Wha'ppen? | 4.5 |
| The Beat Special Beat Service | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 5.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Help! | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 4.0 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 4.5 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 2 | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Remixed & Remastered) | 4.0 |
| The Beatles 1962 - 1966 | 5.0 |
| The Beatles 1967 – 1970 | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine | 3.5 |
| The Beatles 1 | 5.0 |
| The judgments of "Yeah it's amazing but it leaves out SOOO MUCH" is bullshit, judge an album on it's merits, you realize if we were to make a true "Best of the Beatles" album it would be roughly 173 songs long over about 10 discs right? And even that would still piss some people off. rIt's 27 of literally the greatest songs ever written, with the added benefit of containing some of their very best early singles that were never included on their albums (like the classics "Love Me Do" and "She Loves You"). How anyone could give this anything but a 5 with a straight face is beyond me. |
| The Beta Band The Three EPs | 5.0 |
| The Birthday Party The Birthday Party | 3.5 |
| The Black Angels Passover | 4.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) | 1.0 |
| The Blasters Hard Line | 4.0 |
| If there's a better song on the planet than "Dark Night", I haven't found it yet. |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.0 |
| The Blues Brothers Music From The Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| The Box Tops The Letter / Neon Rainbow | 4.0 |
| The Boys Next Door Door, Door | 3.5 |
| The Breeders Last Splash | 4.0 |
| The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man | 4.5 |
| The Byrds Turn! Turn! Turn! | 4.0 |
| The Byrds Fifth Dimension | 5.0 |
| The Byrds Younger Than Yesterday | 4.0 |
| The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers | 4.0 |
| The Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo | 4.0 |
| The Byrds Ballad of Easy Rider | 3.0 |
| The Byrds The Byrds' Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| The Cars Candy-O | 3.5 |
| The Cars The Cars | 5.0 |
| The Casualties Die Hards | 4.0 |
| The Cat Empire The Cat Empire | 4.0 |
| The Cat Empire Stolen Diamonds | 3.5 |
| The Chainsmokers Memories...Do Not Open | 1.0 |
| The Chambers Brothers The Time Has Come | 4.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust | 4.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole | 4.5 |
| The Church Starfish | 5.0 |
| The Clash The Clash | 5.0 |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) | 5.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 5.0 |
| The Clash Combat Rock | 4.0 |
| The Clash Sandinista! | 3.5 |
| The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope | 4.0 |
| The Clash Super Black Market Clash | 4.0 |
| The Clash Cut the Crap | 2.0 |
| The Coral The Coral | 4.0 |
| The Cowsills The Cowsills | 3.0 |
| The Cramps Bad Music For Bad People | 5.0 |
| The Cramps Songs the Lord Taught Us | 4.5 |
| The Cramps Psychedelic Jungle | 3.5 |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? | 4.5 |
| The Cranberries To the Faithful Departed | 4.0 |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue | 5.0 |
| The Cranberries Bury the Hatchet | 3.0 |
| The Cranberries Anything | 2.5 |
| The Cranberries Water Circle | 3.5 |
| The Cranberries Nothing Left at All | 3.0 |
| The Cranberries Uncertain | 3.0 |
| The Crazy World of Arthur Brown The Crazy World of Arthur Brown | 3.5 |
| The Cult Sonic Temple | 4.0 |
| The Cult Electric | 4.5 |
| The Cult Dreamtime | 4.5 |
| The Cult Love | 4.5 |
| The Cure Wild Mood Swings | 2.5 |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | 4.5 |
| The Cure Faith | 3.5 |
| The Cure Boys Don't Cry | 4.5 |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys | 4.0 |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds | 3.5 |
| The Cure Pornography | 4.0 |
| The Cure The Top | 3.0 |
| The Cure Wish | 3.5 |
| The Cure Japanese Whispers | 3.5 |
| The Cure The Head on the Door | 5.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 5.0 |
| The Cure Bloodflowers | 3.0 |
| The Cure Galore | 4.0 |
| The Cure Staring at the Sea | 4.5 |
| The D.O.C. No One Can Do It Better | 5.0 |
| The Damned Damned Damned Damned | 4.5 |
| The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette | 5.0 |
| The Damned Grave Disorder | 3.0 |
| Democracy is easily the best song they came out with since the early 80s. |
| The Dangerous Summer War Paint | 2.5 |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 5.0 |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.0 |
| The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! | 4.5 |
| I KNOCKED 'EM DEAD IN DALLASrAND I DIDN'T PAY MY DUESrYEAH I KNOCKED 'EM DEAD IN DALLASrTHEY DIDN'T KNOW WE WERE JEWS |
| The Diplomats Diplomatic Immunity 2 | 3.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 4.5 |
| The Distillers Sing, Sing Death House | 4.0 |
| The Doors Absolutely Live | 4.5 |
| The Doors L.A. Woman | 5.0 |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel | 5.0 |
| The Doors The Soft Parade | 4.0 |
| The Doors Strange Days | 5.0 |
| The Doors The Doors | 5.0 |
| The Doors Waiting for the Sun | 5.0 |
| The Doors An American Prayer | 4.0 |
| The Durutti Column The Return of the Durutti Column | 4.0 |
| The Durutti Column Vini Reilly | 4.5 |
| In which Reilly fully comes into his own and creates one of the most beautiful songs ever (Otis). One of the unsung geniuses of the Factory records scene. |
| The Electric Flag A Long Time Comin' | 3.5 |
| The Equals Baby, Come Back | 4.0 |
| The Exploited Troops of Tomorrow | 5.0 |
| A landmark classic of the entire spectrum of punk, this is both The Exploited and punk rock in general at it's finest, combining incredible little melodies with a raw, blistering form of British punk results in some not only the finest Exploited songs, but some of the best punk songs ever (like "Alternative"). rHighly recommended for anyone with ears and an interest in punk. Truly a classic. |
| The Exploited Punks Not Dead | 4.5 |
| The Fall 458489 A-Sides | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.5 |
| The Feelies Crazy Rhythms | 4.5 |
| "Raised Eyebrows" is one of the all time greatest guitar songs, ever, of any genre. That's not exaggeration either, seriously, go listen to it right now, simply one of the best songs of the 1980s if not ever. |
| The Fixx Reach the Beach | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.5 |
| The Flys Holiday Man | 3.5 |
| Got You Where I Want You is one of the best songs of the 90s. Grabs you the minute you hear that strumming in the opening and doesn't let you go.rRest of the album is fun too. |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 3.5 |
| The Freeze Rabid Reaction | 3.5 |
| The Freeze Land Of The Lost | 4.0 |
| The Freeze Token Bones (A Collection Of Recordings 1980-1996) | 4.5 |
| The Game The R.E.D. Album | 3.5 |
| The Game The Documentary | 5.0 |
| The Gap Band Gap Band IV | 4.0 |
| "You Dropped a Bomb On Me" is as good as electrofunk gets. Fuck, it's as good as funk gets. Make sure to check out the incredibly bizarre completely 80s music video.rRest of album is almost as funky. Almost. |
| The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile | 4.5 |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 4.0 |
| The Get Up Kids There Are Rules | 3.5 |
| People giving this a low rating for not being like their older stuff is just bullshit. This is quite possibly their most cohesive and engaging album ever, it grabs you right at the start with the frenetic, nervous energy of "Regent's Court" before doing a total 180 and making their most whimsical and synth-laden song ever in "Shatter Your Lungs", which almost reminds me of good chillwave. Be forewarned, this is a very different band from the emo/pop-punk unit they started out as all those years ago with beloved albums like Four Minute Mile and Something to Write Home About. But that's not a bad thing. These guys have matured, they've grown up, and they've expanded their musical vocabulary. You should do the same and give this album a chance, you won't regret it. |
| The Get Up Kids Problems | 3.5 |
| The Gits Frenching the Bully | 4.5 |
| Absolutely incredible grunge/punk from the Washington area late 80s/early 90s, a magical scene and time, one of the most underrated groups of that era, a huge influence on the burgeoning riot grrl movement not to mention the female grunge bands of the time like 7 Year Bitch, L7, babes in Toyland, etc. Mia Zapata's tragic and senseless murder is one of rock and roll's lesser known tragedies, and it's a shame, because she and the Gits were amazing. Cut My Skin, It Makes Me Human is stellar. Really the whole album is. Rest in Peace Mia. |
| The Gits Kings and Queens | 4.0 |
| The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat | 5.0 |
| An absolute classic of new wave and alternative music of the 1980s, there isn't a solitary wasted moment on the entire LP from the catchy singles "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat" to the slow-burning rocker "Lust to Love", this is all gold. I legitimately could count on one hand the number of better songs in the 1980s than "Lust to Love", it's that amazing and brilliant.rTruly a classic album, deserving of the five star rating without a doubt. 80s new wave and pop simply did not get any better than this, and neither did the Go-Go's. |
| The Go-Go's Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's | 4.0 |
| The Go-Go's Talk Show | 3.5 |
| The Go-Go's Vacation | 3.5 |
| The Gun Club Fire of Love | 5.0 |
| The Gun Club Miami | 4.0 |
| The Halo Benders God Don't Make No Junk | 4.5 |
| Willfully weird in a wonderful way. You'll laugh, you'll dance, you'll wonder why the hell Calvin Johnson and Doug Martsch didn't get together sooner. Just try not to love "Don't Touch My Bikini". Go ahead, try. |
| The Hives Barely Legal | 3.5 |
| The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious | 5.0 |
| The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives | 4.5 |
| The Hives Black and White Album | 3.0 |
| The Hives Lex Hives | 3.5 |
| In a day and age where every rock band is trying to be experimental and alternative and indie and different it's good to know The Hives are still kicking out straight up, no frills garage rock with some heart to it. There will always be a place for that kind of rock and roll band. |
| The Holly Springs Disaster Motion Sickness Love | 2.5 |
| The Homeless Gospel Choir You Work So Hard Just to Be Like Everyone Else | 4.0 |
| The Horrors Skying | 4.0 |
| It's every band from the 80s that you loved, through the drug haze-laced spectacles of the Britpop movement, with a dash or two of classic punk thrown in for good measure. In other words, it's mesmerizing and a contender for album of the year. |
| The Horrors Primary Colours | 3.5 |
| The House of Love Shine On | 4.0 |
| The House of Love Real Animal | 4.0 |
| The Human League Dare! | 4.0 |
| The Internet Hive Mind | 3.5 |
| It should be certifiably illegal to be as chilled out and funky as "Roll (Burbank Funk)" |
| The Isley Brothers Shout! | 3.0 |
| Shout is, basically, the best soul song ever written, still able to get an entire floor of white people to dance like they were on Soul Train nearly 50 years later. |
| The Isley Brothers Givin' It Back | 4.0 |
| Sick of seeing one white artist after another take their original songs and make them hits with cover versions, the Isley Brothers decided to return the favor and produce an album of cover songs. Of course, it's fucking incredible and puts many of the originals to complete shame. Their version of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Ohio" in particular is just electric, taking an already incredible song and turning it into a psychedelic funk soul freak out of truly epic proportions. One of the most consistently excellent albums the band produced during this period. |
| The Isley Brothers 3+3 | 3.5 |
| The Jam In The City | 4.5 |
| The Jam This Is The Modern World | 3.5 |
| The Jam All Mod Cons | 4.5 |
| The Jam Sound Affects | 4.0 |
| The Jam The Gift | 3.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 5.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands | 4.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Automatic | 3.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Honey's Dead | 3.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Stoned & Dethroned | 3.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 5.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced | 5.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience BBC Sessions | 5.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 4.5 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 3.5 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 3.0 |
| The Killers Battle Born | 2.5 |
| A mostly redundant album with occasional flashes of brilliance. |
| The Killers Imploding the Mirage | 3.0 |
| The Killing Tree Bury Me at Make-Out Creek | 3.5 |
| The Kinks Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround | 5.0 |
| The Kinks Kinks | 4.0 |
| The Kinks Kinda Kinks | 3.5 |
| The Kinks The Kink Kontroversy | 3.5 |
| The Kinks The Ultimate Collection | 5.0 |
| The Kinks Face to Face | 4.0 |
| The Knack Get the Knack | 4.0 |
| The La's The La's | 5.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion | 5.0 |
| The Lemonheads Come On Feel the Lemonheads | 4.0 |
| The Lemonheads It's a Shame About Ray | 5.0 |
| The Lemonheads Hate Your Friends | 2.5 |
| The title track is a great little bit of snotty punk, but otherwise this is a very inconsistent debut with a couple of flashes of the promise of Evan Dando's songwriting abilities that he'd fully grow into within a few years. |
| The Lemonheads Lick | 3.5 |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket | 4.5 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.5 |
| The Lovin' Spoonful Do You Believe in Magic | 3.0 |
| The Lovin' Spoonful Daydream | 4.5 |
| The LOX Money, Power & Respect | 3.5 |
| The Lumineers The Lumineers | 4.0 |
| The Mamas and The Papas If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears | 5.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 4.0 |
| The Marshall Tucker Band The Marshall Tucker Band | 4.0 |
| The Marshall Tucker Band A New Life | 3.0 |
| The Marshall Tucker Band Where We All Belong | 3.5 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It | 4.5 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Pay Attention | 3.0 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Don't Know How to Party | 3.5 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Question the Answers | 4.0 |
| The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers | 4.5 |
| The Moldy Peaches The Moldy Peaches | 3.5 |
| The Monkees The Monkees | 3.5 |
| The Monkees More of the Monkees | 4.0 |
| The Monkees Head | 4.5 |
| The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed | 5.0 |
| The Morning Benders Big Echo | 3.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! | 4.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money | 5.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Nine Black Poppies | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Zopilote Machine | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Sweden | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Nothing for Juice | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Coroner's Gambit | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 4.5 |
| The Movielife This Time Next Year | 4.0 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 4.0 |
| The National The National | 3.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 5.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death | 5.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Americana | 5.0 |
| The Offspring Smash | 5.0 |
| The Offspring Ignition | 3.5 |
| The Offspring The Offspring | 4.5 |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre | 4.0 |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One | 3.0 |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde | 4.0 |
| The Pharcyde Labcabincalifornia | 4.0 |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour | 5.0 |
| The Police Reggatta de Blanc | 4.0 |
| The Police Zenyatta Mondatta | 4.0 |
| The Police Ghost in the Machine | 3.5 |
| The Police Synchronicity | 4.0 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 5.0 |
| The Presidents of the United States of America Pure Frosting | 3.5 |
| The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America | 4.0 |
| The Pretenders Pretenders | 5.0 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 5.0 |
| The Proletariat Voodoo Economics and Other American Tragedies | 4.0 |
| The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good | 4.5 |
| The Psychedelic Furs The Psychedelic Furs | 4.5 |
| The Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk | 5.0 |
| The Psychedelic Furs Forever Now | 4.5 |
| The Psychedelic Furs Mirror Moves | 3.5 |
| The Queers Love Songs for the Retarded | 4.0 |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers | 3.5 |
| The Raincoats The Raincoats | 4.5 |
| The Rapture Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks | 3.5 |
| Pretty much what hipnotoad said. But man, the title track is really, really, really, really, REALLY amazing. Really. |
| The Replacements Tim | 5.0 |
| The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me | 5.0 |
| The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash | 4.5 |
| The Replacements Hootenanny | 3.0 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 5.0 |
| The Reverend Horton Heat Smoke 'em If You Got 'em | 4.0 |
| The Reverend Horton Heat The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds Of... | 3.5 |
| The Reverend Horton Heat Liquor in the Front | 3.5 |
| The Reverend Horton Heat It's Martini Time | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones | 3.5 |
| Great representation of what The Stones were all about in their early days, which was working-class rhythm and blues. You really won't find a better collection of cover songs from this era or any, raw rock and roll at it's finest. I toyed with a 4.5 and a 5 rating, but then I remembered the absolute brilliance of "Tell Me", one of the Stones very first original songs that plays like The Ronettes were a rock and roll band and I had to go ahead and give this album the full five star treatment. Before the legend of the Rolling Stones, there was this---the dirty, funky rock and roll band. |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones No.2 | 3.5 |
| Their version of Solomon Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" is the greatest version ever in my opinion. Great album all around. |
| The Rolling Stones 12 x 5 | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones, Now! | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones December's Children (And Everybody's) | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Aftermath | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Between the Buttons | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones It's Only Rock 'n' Roll | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Some Girls | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Tattoo You | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Black and Blue | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds | 3.5 |
| Wow, how does this not have a review yet? It's the Stones man, and it's been near six months since release.r"Bite My Head Off" is the Stones finally understanding punk, and it rules There's some real fire here, like that old primal fire we all fell in love with, but Andrew Watt does his best as producer to ruin everything, including soaking every second of Jagger's vocals in nauseating distortion and reverb where it isn't needed. Still, this is some of the best material the lads have written in decades, and a genuinely great album, defying all odds. |
| The Romantics The Romantics | 3.0 |
| The Roots undun | 3.5 |
| The Roots The Tipping Point | 5.0 |
| The Roots ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin | 3.5 |
| The Roots Phrenology | 4.0 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart | 4.5 |
| The Roots Game Theory | 3.5 |
| The Runaways The Runaways | 4.0 |
| The Runaways Queens of Noise | 3.5 |
| The Runaways Waitin' for the Night | 3.5 |
| The Seeds The Seeds (I) | 4.5 |
| The Selecter Too Much Pressure | 4.5 |
| Some of the best two-tone ska of it's era, not as good as The Specials or English Beat, but not far off either. |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 4.5 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 4.0 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 3.5 |
| The Shirelles 25 All-Time Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
Everyone boo Cyclotron. Joking, joking (Not really).
Easily the best slice of this wonderful era of girl groups and female doo wop/soul/R&B ever
outside of The Ronettes' "By My Baby" single. Songs like "Soldier Boy" and "Will You Still
Love Me Tomorrow?" are without hyperbole two of the greatest pop songs ever written in any
era. The Beatles and Rolling Stones worshipped these gals and there's good god damn reason
why. |
| The Slits Cut | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 5.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 4.0 |
| The Smithereens Especially For You | 4.0 |
A sorely forgotten gem and noted influence on Kurt Cobain's writing of the album Nevermind, this is the debut and ultimately best release of the forgotten 80s alternative/college rock group The Smithereens. This is alternative rock with huge hooks and serious nods back to the groups of the British Invasion, and songs like "Blood and Roses", "Behind the Wall of Sleep", and "Time and Time Again" are so catchy and irresistible it's remarkable they weren't major hits.
Do yourself a favor and give this a listen, highly recommended for fans of alternative rock. |
| The Smithereens Green Thoughts | 3.0 |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 5.0 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 5.0 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 5.0 |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 4.0 |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow | 5.0 |
| The Smiths Louder Than Bombs | 5.0 |
| The Smiths Singles | 5.0 |
| Will forever remember the two albums I bought while visiting Disney World when I was thirteen (maybe fourteen?), a best of Bob Dylan compilation, and The Smith's Singles. Walking around with my headphones on or on shuttles between parks this incredible music streamed into my ears unlike anything I had ever heard before. The guitar, my god, THE GUITAR...I never knew something could be so fucking catchy and melodic, yet sad and desperate. Morrissey's lyrics enchanted me and by the end of the trip I had discovered a new favorite band. There are better albums, sure, but this one is the most nostalgic for me. |
| The Smiths The World Won't Listen | 4.5 |
| The Smiths Rank | 4.0 |
| The Smiths The Peel Sessions | 4.0 |
| The Smoke It's Smoke Time | 3.5 |
| The Smoking Popes Get Fired | 4.5 |
| The Smoking Popes Born to quit | 4.0 |
| The Smoking Popes Destination Failure | 3.5 |
| The Sounds Dying to Say This to You | 4.0 |
| The Specials Specials | 5.0 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 5.0 |
| I am appalled by some of the things respected members of this community have said about this album, and how frustratingly wrong they are. This is a classic album in every sense of the word, from the incredibly melodies of "She Bangs the Drums" to the epic magnum opus of rock and roll that is "I Am the Resurrection", this is a classic album in every sense of the word. Don't let the pseudo hipsters who have to go against whatever NME is saying this week try to convince you otherwise, this is a landmark of British rock music and an absolutely STUNNING record from start to finish. |
| The Stone Roses Second Coming | 3.0 |
| The Stooges The Stooges | 4.5 |
| The Stooges Fun House | 4.5 |
| The Stooges Raw Power | 5.0 |
| The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 5.0 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 4.0 |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.0 |
| Not a return to form, but an evolution in the band's sound. They can still be the full-of-piss and vinegar street punks with the bittersweet romantic side ("Under Cover of Darkness" is an immediate and uber-catchy Strokes single in every sense of the word) but they've decided to start experimenting a bit with their trademark sound and the results are both engaging and natural. New wave, reggae, dance-punk and other genres are flirted with and it never sounds forced or out of character. Whenever someone tries to tell me that rock and roll is dead, I simply put them in the direction of The Strokes, who continue to make familiar yet wholly unique music that manages to capture the sounds of hope, frustration, and yearning of this modern generation. It's low-key in comparison to previous albums, and certainly no "This is It", but it's still an excellent album that is rewarding upon multiple listens. |
| The Strokes Future Present Past | 2.0 |
| The Subways Young For Eternity | 4.0 |
| The Suicide Machines Destruction By Definition | 4.5 |
| The Suicide Machines Battle Hymns | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 3.5 |
| The Temper Trap Conditions | 3.0 |
| The Temptations The Definitive Collection | 5.0 |
| The The Soul Mining | 5.0 |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine | 5.0 |
| The Turtles It Ain't Me Babe | 3.0 |
| The Turtles Happy Together | 4.0 |
| The Vandals Peace Thru Vandalism | 4.5 |
| The Vandals Live Fast Diarrhea | 3.5 |
| The Vaselines The Way Of The Vaselines | 4.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5.0 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 5.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded | 4.0 |
| The Verve Pipe Villains | 4.0 |
| The Vibrators Pure Mania | 4.0 |
| The Von Bondies Lack Of Communication | 3.5 |
| An extremely fun throwback to the Detroit punk garage rock blues of the past (ala The Gun Club, MC5, etc). Although this isn't their strongest album, it's still an engrossing and fun listen. Highly recommended for fans of psychobilly and the like. |
| The Von Bondies Pawn Shoppe Heart | 4.0 |
| Excellent sophomore effort from the Detroit garage-punk outfit, headlined by the spectacular, blazing single "C'mon C'mon", which may be best remembered as the theme song of the television series Rescue Me. There are many other high points to the album however, the neo-glam sheen of "No Regrets", the Gun Club-esque punk-blues of "Poison Ivy" and the swampy-stomp of "The Fever" help carry this album to memorable status. Definitely worth checking out for any self-respecting fan of indie and rock music. |
| The Von Bondies Love Hate And Then There's You | 4.0 |
It's great to see after nearly 5 years and several lineup changes that The Von Bondies still have something great to offer the public, and that's extremely hooky Detroit-based garage rock with more than a touch of punk, although this album definitely scales that influence down a bit. A much more polished affair than it's predecessors and certainly more pop-oriented, the album only excels because of these facts and the group deliver a batch of some of their finest songs to date, including the sublime trio of "Pale Bride", "I Don't Wanna", and "Earthquake". They may never top "C'mon C'mon", but this is the group's most consistent and focused release to date.
Highly recommended. |
| The Walkmen Heaven | 4.0 |
| The Wallflowers Bringing Down the Horse | 3.5 |
| The Weakerthans Fallow | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd After Hours | 5.0 |
| The Weeknd Dawn FM | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 5.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.5 |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 4.5 |
| The Who Who's Next | 5.0 |
| The Who Tommy | 4.5 |
| The Who The Who Sell Out | 4.0 |
| The Who A Quick One | 4.0 |
| The Who My Generation | 4.5 |
| The Who The Who by Numbers | 3.5 |
| The Who Who Are You | 3.5 |
| The Who Endless Wire | 3.0 |
| The Who Who | 3.0 |
| The Wombats A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation | 3.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides | 3.5 |
| The xx xx | 4.0 |
| The Yardbirds BBC Sessions | 5.0 |
| I maintain the version of "Smokestack Lightning" recorded on this album is hands down the greatest version of the song ever recorded, including the original. |
| The Yardbirds For Your Love | 4.0 |
| The Yardbirds Having a Rave Up | 5.0 |
| The Yardbirds Yardbirds (Roger the Engineer) | 4.0 |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle | 4.5 |
| Therapy? Troublegum | 4.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Jailbreak | 5.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 5.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Blue | 3.5 |
| Three 6 Mafia Mystic Stylez | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 3.5 |
| Throwing Muses Throwing Muses | 5.0 |
| Batshit insane post punk freakout jams. These guys went to the same high school as me (years earlier of course). |
| Thug Life Thug Life | 4.0 |
| Thursday Waiting | 3.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 5.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 4.0 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 5.0 |
| Tiger Army Tiger Army | 4.5 |
| Tim Buckley Goodbye and Hello | 4.5 |
| Title Fight Shed | 4.0 |
| Tito and Tarantula Tarantism | 4.0 |
| Catchy and passionate Chicano stoner blues-punk from the ex-leadman of the great LA punk band The Plugz. Best known as being the kick-ass vampiric human-corpse-guitar totin' badass band in the film From Dusk Till Dawn. |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.0 |
| TNGHT TNGHT | 2.5 |
| Toadies Rubberneck | 4.0 |
| Todd Rundgren The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect | 3.0 |
| Tom Petty Full Moon Fever | 4.0 |
| Tom Petty Wildflowers | 4.0 |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedoes | 4.5 |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | 4.5 |
| Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 4.5 |
| Tomorrow Tomorrow | 4.5 |
| Some of the best under-the-radar British psychedelia of the 1960s, highlighted by such brilliant tracks as "My White Bicycle" and "Revolution". |
| Too $hort Life is... Too Short | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.5 |
| Tool 72826 | 3.5 |
| Tool Salival | 3.0 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 3.5 |
| Toto Toto IV | 3.5 |
| Really has not stood up as well over the years despite the critical and commercial orgasm the country had for this album when it came out, but it's well worth your time if only for the utter brilliance that is "Africa", which might just contain some of the best vocal harmonizing in rock history this side of the Beach Boys. |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.0 |
| Toxic Narcotic Toxic Narcotic: 88-99 | 4.5 |
| Literally the sound of the Boston hardcore scene for a few brief but wonderful years, |
| Toxic Narcotic We're All Doomed | 4.0 |
| Traffic Mr. Fantasy | 4.0 |
Dear Mr. Fantasy is absolutely one of the best songs of the '60s. The rest of the album
doesn't quite reach that high again, but it's still excellent stuff and it's easy to see why
Steve Winwood was such a force in music in the late 60s and early 70s (though we still
haven't forgiven you for your 80s solo work Mr. Winwood, even if Dennis Reynolds loves it.
Okay, fuck it, "Higher Love" is a catchy 80s slice of guilty pleasure tripe, but really,
what the fuck were you thinking?). |
| Train Drops of Jupiter | 1.0 |
The worst kind of middle class white girl AOR pop "rock" imaginable. Imagine if Maroon 5
were somehow five times more shit than they already are and you have an idea of the quality
of this album. |
| Transplants Transplants | 4.0 |
| Trapt Trapt | 2.5 |
| Tree Downsizing the American Dream | 3.5 |
| Wow, thanks Spotify, this is awesome. If you dig that early 90s hardcore/metal/hip-hop mash-up vibe that bands like Biohazard or Snot innovated (y'know before mixing hip hop and hardcore/metal became the worst thing on the planet in the early 2000s), this is for you. Very fun and politically motivated Biohazard-lite. |
| Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman The Last of the Mohicans | 5.0 |
| Utterly fucking majestic in every sense of the word. |
| Trio Trio | 3.0 |
| Da Da Da might be the dumbest, simplest, catchiest song ever. It will work it's way into your brain and stay there for weeks. Nifty German new wave. |
| Tripping Daisy I Am an Elastic Firecracker | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 2.5 |
| Trust Company The Lonely Position of Neutral | 3.0 |
| Tubeway Army Replicas | 5.0 |
| Turnstile Nonstop Feeling | 3.5 |
| Twisted Sister Stay Hungry | 3.0 |
| Two Voyeurs | 3.0 |
| Type O Negative Slow, Deep, and Hard | 4.0 |
| U-Roy Dread In A Babylon | 5.0 |
| U.K. Subs Brand New Age | 3.5 |
| U.K. Subs Another Kind of Blues | 5.0 |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind | 3.5 |
| U2 War | 3.5 |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire | 3.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 4.5 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 3.0 |
| U2 Songs of Experience | 2.0 |
| UFO UFO 2: Flying | 2.5 |
| UFO Force It | 4.0 |
| UFO UFO 1 | 3.0 |
| UFO Phenomenon | 4.0 |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty | 4.5 |
| Ultravox Ultravox! | 4.0 |
| Ultravox Vienna | 4.5 |
| The title track is one of the most beautiful, haunting, heartbreaking, moving examples of synthpop ever composed. The rest of the album is nearly as good, which means it's utterly brilliant and probably the creative peak of Ultravox. |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.5 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.5 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 4.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 3.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.0 |
| United Nations The Next Four Years | 3.5 |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 4.5 |
| Unwound Repetition | 4.5 |
| Unwound Fake Train | 4.0 |
| Unwritten Law Elva | 3.5 |
| V-Sect Ivy | 3.5 |
| V-Sect Nature's Only Promise Is Death | 3.0 |
| V-Sect Nature's Casket | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 4.5 |
| Van Halen 1984 | 4.0 |
| Van Halen Fair Warning | 3.5 |
| Van Halen Women and Children First | 3.5 |
| Van Halen Van Halen II | 3.5 |
| Van Halen A Different Kind of Truth | 3.0 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 5.0 |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Vanilla Fudge Vanilla Fudge | 3.5 |
| Vanna This Will Be Our Little Secret | 4.0 |
| Vanna The Search Party Never Came | 4.0 |
| Vanna Curses | 3.5 |
| Various Artists Anthology of American Folk Music | 5.0 |
| The amount of sheer emotion that the artists on this compilation are able to convey in their music is simply astounding. Your heart will break over and over again. |
| Various Artists Cazumbi - African 60s Garage Vol. 1 | 4.5 |
| Mind-blowing obscure hand picked gems from the explosion of garage and psychedelic rock that happened in Africa during the 60s. There's more soul and passion here than on a thousand albums combined. Get your hands on this somehow. |
| Various Artists Nuggets: Original Artyfacts | 5.0 |
| You know how the word "influential" gets thrown around alot? Well this is more than influential, it's fucking essential. The seeds of punk rock can be found in the psychedelic garage rock of groups like the 13th Floor Elevators and The Seeds who are only two of the many great artists that contribute a track to this compilation. File this under bloody rock and roll perfection. |
| Various Artists Punk Goes Pop 4 | 1.0 |
| Various Artists Deep Six | 4.0 |
| Various Artists Woodstock: Music From the Original Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 3.0 |
| Vertical Horizon Everything You Want | 3.0 |
| Veruca Salt American Thighs | 3.5 |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes | 5.0 |
| Violent Femmes Freak Magnet | 3.0 |
| Violent Femmes Hallowed Ground | 3.5 |
| Violent Soho Violent Soho | 3.5 |
| W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P. | 4.5 |
| Wall Of Voodoo Dark Continent | 5.0 |
| Wall Of Voodoo Call Of The West | 4.0 |
| War (USA) Eric Burdon Declares "War" | 3.5 |
| Warrant Cherry Pie | 2.0 |
| Warren G Regulate...G Funk Era | 3.5 |
| Warren Zevon Warren Zevon | 4.0 |
| Warren Zevon Excitable Boy | 4.5 |
| Warrior Kids Les Enfantes De L'Espoir | 4.0 |
| Washed Out Life of Leisure | 5.0 |
| Wavves King of the Beach | 4.5 |
| Wavves Life Sux | 3.5 |
| Wavves Afraid of Heights | 3.5 |
| Weezer The Black Album | 2.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 5.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 5.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 3.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 3.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.0 |
| Aside from "This is Such a Pity" (which is an excellent throwback to 80s power-pop new wave) and maybe "Perfect Situation", this is without a doubt Weezer's worst work to date. Still worth checking out for those two previously mentioned songs, but don't expect anything else to be anything but mediocre. Still though, even mediocre Weezer is better than your average modern radio-rock group so it's not a complete waste of your time. |
| Weezer The Red Album | 3.0 |
| Weezer Raditude | 2.0 |
| Weezer Hurley | 3.0 |
| Weezer Death to False Metal | 3.5 |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End | 3.5 |
| Weezer The White Album | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream | 2.0 |
| Weezer The Teal Album | 2.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors | 3.5 |
| Westside Connection Bow Down | 4.0 |
| Wheatus Wheatus | 3.0 |
| White Zombie Gods on Voodoo Moon | 3.0 |
| White Zombie La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| White Zombie Astro Creep: 2000 | 4.0 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 4.0 |
| Wild Nothing Gemini | 3.5 |
| Will Smith Big Willie Style | 3.0 |
| Windhand Windhand | 4.0 |
| Windhand Soma | 4.0 |
| Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower | 3.5 |
| Winger Winger | 1.0 |
| Wingnut DishwashersUnion Burn the Earth, Leave it Behind | 4.5 |
| Wipers Is This Real? | 4.0 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 5.0 |
| Wire Chairs Missing | 4.5 |
| Wire 154 | 4.0 |
| Witch Hunt This Is Only The Beginning... | 4.0 |
| Witchcraft Witchcraft | 4.0 |
| Witchfinder General Death Penalty | 5.0 |
| Witchfinder General Soviet Invasion | 3.5 |
| Witchfinder General Friends Of Hell | 3.5 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 4.5 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 3.0 |
| Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads | 4.5 |
| Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land | 5.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 5.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever | 4.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The Saga Continues | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The W | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag | 3.5 |
| WZRD WZRD | 2.5 |
| X (USA) Los Angeles | 5.0 |
| X (USA) Wild Gift | 4.5 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 5.0 |
| X-Ray Spex Germfree Adolescents | 4.5 |
| XTC Skylarking | 4.5 |
| XTC Black Sea | 3.5 |
| XTC Fossil Fuel: the XTC Singles Collection 1977-1992 | 4.5 |
| XXXTENTACION Revenge | 3.0 |
| XXXTENTACION 17 | 3.0 |
| XXXTENTACION ? | 3.0 |
| XXXTENTACION Skins | 2.0 |
| Yazoo Upstairs at Eric's | 4.5 |
| Yeasayer Odd Blood | 4.0 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 3.5 |
| Yes 90125 | 3.0 |
| Yes The Yes Album | 4.5 |
| Yes Fragile | 4.5 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 5.0 |
| Yes Yes | 3.5 |
| Yes Time and a Word | 3.0 |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans | 3.0 |
| You Say Party! We Say Die! Hit the Floor! | 3.0 |
| Young Buck Straight Outta Cashville | 3.5 |
| Young Fathers DEAD | 3.5 |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant | 3.5 |
| YoungbloodZ Evry'body Know Me | 3.0 |
| Presidential remix is a fuckin' classic, you could not walk down the street in the mid 2000s without hearing some ghetto dude's shitty ass system bumping the fuck out of that song. |
| ZillaKami DOG BOY | 3.5 |
Great production, fuses trap metal/emo rap elements with a grungy tone (note the Smells Like Teen
Spirit-esque "Hello? Hello? Hello? How low?" chorus of "Hello"). Highlight for me is "Bleach",
featuring Denzel Curry. Would recommend this album to someone who isn't necessarily a hip hop fan,
has riffs for days. |
| ZZ Top Fandango! | 4.5 |
| ZZ Top Eliminator | 4.0 |
