| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 3.5 |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.0 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon | 4.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 3.0 |
| AFI Crash Love | 3.0 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Against Me! White Crosses | 2.5 |
| Against Me! New Wave | 3.0 |
| Against Me! The Disco Before the Breakdown | 3.5 |
| Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Against Me! | 5.0 |
| there are very few albums from my teen years that i still love to this day for reasons other than nostalgia. of course nostalgia probably plays a big part in why this ep is one of my favorite albums, but this ep is just perfect. the desperation in tom's voice and the lyrics just make it so hard to fight the urge to sing along. its just such a genuine and fun album that seems impossible to dislike. |
| AJJ Operation Stackola | 3.0 |
| AJJ Only God Can Judge Me | 3.5 |
| AJJ Can't Maintain | 3.5 |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People | 4.5 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 5.0 |
| well my aoty for 2011 rapidly grew on me with every listen. all of the sudden its one of my favorite albums. its one of the most brutally honest albums i've ever heard which makes it so easy to connect to. some of the lyrics are so cheesy but they seem to fit so well. and i love how sean creatively adds in the "we're the kids in america" and "when the saints come marching in" parts. this album, along with "people who eat people" just make me feel the need to be a better person. |
| Alkaline Trio This Addiction | 2.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Alkaline Trio | 4.0 |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself | 3.5 |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs | 4.0 |
| Andy McKee Art of Motion | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.5 |
| Anti-Flag The Terror State | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In Vaya | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In El Gran Orgo | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| Bad Books Bad Books | 4.0 |
| Bayside The Walking Wounded | 3.0 |
| Bayside Sirens & Condolences | 3.5 |
| Bayside Bayside | 3.5 |
| Bayside Shudder | 3.5 |
| Bayside Killing Time | 3.5 |
| Beach Fossils Beach Fossils | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 4.5 |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4Eva N A Day | 3.5 |
| Big K.R.I.T. ReturnOf4eva | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Self-Portrait | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan Street Legal | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan Infidels | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Desire | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Planet Waves | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 5.0 |
| dylan has so many great albums, but this one will always be my favorite. at 21 years old, dylan penned the epic 'a hard rain is gonna fall' and the revolutionary lyrics to "blowin in the wind". pretty impressive. whether he is telling an entertaining and comical story, or singing about leaving his girl, he just has a way with words that never ceases to amaze me. there's not much to say other than he is a true wordsmith and deserves all the recognition that he gets. |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 5.0 |
| i guess reading the background story for the lyrics on this album makes it much easier to fall in love with it, but it's not like i wouldnt have eventually fell in love with scrambles anyway. i remember saying "man, btmi! would have been my favorite band if i would have listened to them back when i was in high school" after listening to 'band minus album'. but after listening to scrambles, i thought "wow i fucking LOVE btmi!". jeff's lyrics might make it seem like he is a miserable twenty-something year old stumbling through life, and he may be, but really hes just like a lot of young adults afraid of growing up. of course going out and getting hammered all the time can be awesome, but jeff does an amazing job of describing the shitty side of the broke rockstar partying lifestyle. do i even have to mention how relatable this is or how creatively these songs are put together? |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness | 4.0 |
| Breathe Owl Breathe Magic Central | 3.5 |
| Breathe Owl Breathe Ghost Glacier | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Discreet Music | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes Letting Off the Happiness | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes Every Day and Every Night | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes Four Winds | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 5.0 |
| well this is my favorite album and its not really close. this album changed the way i listened to music. at the time i listened to this album, freshman year in uni, i pretty much only listened to pop-punk and my favorite bands were nofx and four year strong. i still vividly remember checking out at the bottom of everything on youtube and listening to conor tell that story and i didn't know what to expect. then the song kicked in and the lyrics just amazed me. before this, i never really cared for lyrics, but for some reason, the switch just flipped. the first couple times i listened to it, i HAD to read the lyrics along with it. i listened over and over and never got tired of it. a couple years later, i still discover lines that just amaze me. i can honestly say that i believe that every lyric on this album is gold. i could go on forever about this album so i'll just say this; this album changed my life. instead of music (listening or writing) being something to do to pass the time, music is now something i love way more than words can describe and plays a huge role in my life. |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 4.0 |
| Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield | 3.5 |
| Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Again | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill Ancient Melodies of the Future | 3.0 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.0 |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love | 4.5 |
| Captain Chaos May All Liars Burn in Hell | 4.0 |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love | 3.5 |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 3.5 |
| Clams Casino Rainforest | 3.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 3.5 |
| Conor Oberst Outer South | 3.0 |
| Conor Oberst Conor Oberst | 4.0 |
| Cory Branan The Hell You Say | 4.0 |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After | 3.5 |
| Craig Finn Clear Heart Full Eyes | 3.5 |
| Criteria When We Break | 3.0 |
| Criteria En Garde | 3.5 |
| Crywank Narcissist on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 3.5 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 3.5 |
| Cursive Happy Hollow | 3.0 |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 3.0 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.0 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 3.0 |
| Damien Rice O | 4.5 |
| Dan Mangan Oh Fortune | 3.5 |
| Dan Mangan Nice, Nice, Very Nice | 5.0 |
| wow im kinda glad it took me so long to find this album. its amazing how much you can connect with an album on a personal level when youre going through some rough times. sorta like how i got attached to elliott smith a couple years back. i find myself going back to listen to road regrets everytime i finish this album. his lyrics and voice are just...remarkable |
| Darker My Love 2 | 3.0 |
| David Thomas Broughton The Complete Guide to Insufficiency | 4.0 |
| Dawes North Hills | 3.0 |
| Dead to Me Cuban Ballerina | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.5 |
| Deer Tick War Elephant | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.0 |
| Deuce The Two Thousand Eight EP | 1.0 |
| Deuce Call Me Big Deuce | 1.0 |
| Deuce Nine Lives | 1.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead | 3.5 |
| Domo Genesis Rolling Papers | 3.0 |
| Domo Genesis No Idols | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith New Moon | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith XO | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 5.0 |
| well elliott is a perfect example of an artist that has so many amazing albums and the first one that i listen to becomes my favorite, even if the others are just as good or better. while "xo" and "either/or" are equally amazing, i just became attached to this album. Not only are the lyrics and his voice on this album so chilling, his guitar work is just beautiful. he is just a brilliant songwriter and this album, pretty much featuring just him and his acoustic, showcases his songwriting ability better than his others. if this album doesn't evoke any emotions in you, it is safe to say you are a robot. |
| Eminem Relapse | 2.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 2.5 |
| Eminem Infinite | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Boulevard | 3.0 |
| Everclear So Much For The Afterglow | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Fake Problems It's Great to Be Alive | 2.5 |
| Feist Metals | 3.5 |
| Film School alwaysnever | 4.0 |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.0 |
| Four Year Strong Explains It All | 2.5 |
| Four Year Strong In Some Way, Shape, or Form. | 2.5 |
| Four Year Strong Enemy of the World | 3.0 |
| Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner Campfire Punkrock | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner The Second Three Years | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week | 5.0 |
| i always loved this album but it didn't receive classic status until i saw him live. seeing his ear to ear smile while the crowd sang his words made me think, that gotta be the best feeling in the world. when i got home around 2am i gave this a listen. and boom it just hit me. as a songwriter, this definitely has the most "GOD DAMMIT WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT" moments. frank is just one of those guys that i relate to so much that it seems like he knows me better than my best friends. and even though his fame is growing rapidly, (selling out wembley!) he is still one of the most humble and down to earth people you'll ever meet. crazy how a guy with his acoustic guitar from across the pond can become one of the people i look up to the most. |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.0 |
| Galaxie 500 Today | 4.0 |
| Ghost Mice All We Got Is Each Other | 4.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| to me, post rock has always been that genre that made great background/sleeping music. hell i even listened to this album while falling asleep like 15 times and never understood what was so great about it. other than some parts in 'sleep' i thought this was just a snoozefest. then one night (while tripping), i devoted my full attention to this and suddenly everything just clicked. it was such an amazing experience. i was actually physically and emotionally exhausted after i took my headphones off when it ended. ive never felt this way after listening to an album. this is such a huge album and not one you can't just throw in all the time. to anyone that isnt sold on this album, i recommend giving this your full attention the next time you listen. honestly it is well worth it. |
| Good Old War Only Way To Be Alone | 4.0 |
| Gravenhurst Fires In Distant Buildings | 3.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.5 |
| Green Day Warning | 3.0 |
| Green Day Kerplunk | 3.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 3.5 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| Guided by Voices Alien Lanes | 4.0 |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 4.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 4.5 |
| Hammock Kenotic | 4.0 |
| Harlem Hippies | 3.5 |
| Heatmiser Mic City Sons | 3.5 |
| Herman Dune Not on Top | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.0 |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 3.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Into It. Over It. Twelve Towns | 3.0 |
| Into It. Over It. Proper | 3.5 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 3.5 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 4.0 |
| J Mascis Several Shades of Why | 3.5 |
| Jack White Blunderbuss | 3.5 |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit | 3.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.0 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.0 |
| Jawbreaker Dear You | 3.5 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 | 2.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne | 3.0 |
| Jeff Mangum Live at Jittery Joe's | 3.5 |
| Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow | 3.5 |
| Jets to Brazil Four Cornered Night | 3.5 |
| Jets to Brazil Perfecting Loneliness | 3.5 |
| Jets to Brazil Orange Rhyming Dictionary | 4.0 |
| Jimi Hendrix Blue Wild Angel | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 4.0 |
| John K. Samson Provincial | 3.5 |
| John Mayer Heavier Things | 2.5 |
| John Mayer Battle Studies | 3.0 |
| John Mayer Continuum | 3.5 |
| Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains Love Songs For The Apocalypse | 4.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Blue | 4.5 |
| Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired | 3.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 2.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| Kevin Devine Put Your Ghost To Rest | 3.0 |
| Kevin Devine Make the Clocks Move | 3.0 |
| Kevin Devine Circle Gets the Square | 3.0 |
| Kevin Devine Split the Country, Split the Street | 3.5 |
| Kevin Devine Brother's Blood | 3.5 |
| Kurt Vile God is Saying This to You... | 3.5 |
| Kurt Vile Constant Hitmaker | 3.5 |
| Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo | 4.5 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 4.0 |
| Laura Jane Grace Heart Burns | 3.0 |
| Laura Marling Alas, I Cannot Swim | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.0 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate | 4.0 |
| Lotus Plaza Spooky Action At A Distance | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed Metal Machine Music | 1.5 |
| Lou Reed Berlin | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed Transformer | 4.5 |
| Love Forever Changes | 4.0 |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God | 3.5 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 4.0 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 3.5 |
| Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Buzzard | 3.0 |
| Margot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat | 3.5 |
| Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Not Animal. | 4.0 |
| Mark Kozelek Whats Next To The Moon | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 3.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.0 |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See | 4.0 |
| MellowHype BLACKENEDWHITE | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.0 |
| Mike G ALI | 2.5 |
| Mineral The Power of Failing | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker | 2.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Fruit That Ate Itself | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 5.0 |
| there was a point where i listened to modest mouse, and only modest mouse for about two months straight. i considered this and TLCW classics but the latter has kinda grew off me a bit but i still find myself loving TM&A more and more with each listen. you got issac's interesting philosophical lyrics backed by some catchy and beautiful guitar hooks. the desperation in issacs voice is still here, albeit not as much as his previous efforts, but perfectly utilized when needed. this album is ethereal, beautiful, creepy, sprawling, alienated, chill, and crazed. |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.0 |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 3.0 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| MV & EE Barn Nova | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.0 |
| Nana Grizol Love It Love It | 5.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Neil Young Ragged Glory | 3.0 |
| Neil Young Harvest | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Time Fades Away | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Zuma | 3.5 |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush | 4.0 |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Neil Young On the Beach | 4.5 |
| Neil Young Tonight's the Night | 5.0 |
| this is the last album you want to throw on if you're having a great day. inspired by the loss of a couple people close to him, neil belted out this heart-wrenching album. his voice is just filled with pain and angst throughout this album and you can just tell how genuinely devastated neil was by his loss. this album is about as emotional you can get when it comes to music. |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| so youre stuck in a concentration camp and youre probably gonna die a miserable death. you dont know what you did or why the world is so cruel. but even in this horrible situation, you manage to see the beauty in everything. i mean, you only get one life to live right? where does being cynical about everything get you? ok so im gonna go out on a limb and say if your reading this your life is not as bad as those who suffered in the holocaust. well mine isnt either. but man does it seem like i have the worst luck some times. but there are things beyond my control, so why even waste time worrying about those things? why not focus on the good? it is hard to explain how perfectly put together this album. jeff's raw, pure, and 'ugly' voice layered over the haunting, dirty, and surreal music just creates this hauntingly beautiful atmosphere. it just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. and the holocaust references just hit it home for me. i mean he took one of the cruelest points in human history and laced it with this naive sense of hope and optimism. yeah we are all gonna die but can you believe how strange it is to be anything at all?r/pretentious interpretation of pretentious hipster album |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (DVD) | 4.5 |
| No Use for a Name Hard Rock Bottom | 4.0 |
| Operation Ivy Energy | 4.0 |
| Paul Baribeau Paul Baribeau | 4.0 |
| Paul Baribeau Grand Ledge | 5.0 |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee | 3.5 |
| Pavement Brighten the Corners | 3.5 |
| Pavement Terror Twilight | 4.0 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 4.0 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 5.0 |
| this album is pretty much everything that i was looking for in a rock album. yeah it rocks, and is super catchy, but the lazy and seemingly effortless vocals delivered by malkmus make this ultimate slacker chill out album. i also cant get enough of how the guitars on this album seem to match the laziness of malkmus's voice, they just sound so perfect together. |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| i loved this album before i even had the attention span to enjoy 6+ minute long songs. i will admit, i wasn't really a fan of the opener or closer when i first started getting into this album. now i am in love with them. the guitar on these tracks are just so beautiful and waters vocals are so heartfelt. and then their is the title track. i have no clue how many times my friends and i drunkingly yelled this song at the top of our longs since high school. and when i'm alone, i think of those times everytime that acoustic lead comes in at the beginning. the song is perfect. how waters managed to not ruin this tribute to syd by adding two songs that feature his critique of the music industry, i have no clue. how he managed to merge that concept into a tribute for syd and make one of the best albums of all time, yeah. im speechless. |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica | 4.0 |
| Pulp Different Class | 4.0 |
| Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| the first time i ever took shrooms i threw this album on. this was the first time i have ever had such an experience with music. i wont go in depth, but i'll say that it was a pretty crazy journey that i was not expecting (in a good way). but even before that experience, i loved the album (which is why i threw it on). from the first couple notes of 'everything in its right place', to the ending of 'motion picture soundtrack' where thom sings "i will see you in the next life", kid a is packed full of emotion and hauntingly beautiful soundscapes. this album definitely opened doors for me to enjoy not only electronic based music, but also any music outside my comfort zone. |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Endgame | 2.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.5 |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker | 4.5 |
| S. Carey All We Grow | 3.5 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 3.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.0 |
| Saves the Day Through Being Cool | 3.0 |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are | 3.0 |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 2.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.0 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 4.0 |
| Sebadoh III | 4.0 |
| Sebadoh Bakesale | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail The Fire | 2.0 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 3.5 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 3.5 |
| Shellac At Action Park | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Silver Jews American Water | 4.5 |
| Silverstein Arrivals and Departures | 2.0 |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 3.0 |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul | 3.5 |
| Sleepy Sun Fever | 4.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.0 |
| Smith Westerns Dye It Blonde | 3.0 |
| Songs: Ohia Didn't It Rain | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Dirty | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Sister | 4.0 |
| Spacemen 3 The Perfect Prescription | 3.5 |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 4.0 |
| Spoonboy I Love You, This Is A Robbery | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.5 |
| Sublime Robbin' the Hood | 3.0 |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 3.5 |
| Sublime Sublime | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.5 |
| Sum 41 Underclass Hero | 2.5 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 4.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Among the Leaves | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 4.0 |
| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists The Brutalist Bricks | 3.0 |
| The Act of Estimating As Worthless Amongst These Splintered Minds//Leaden Thoughts | 3.5 |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches This Is What You Get | 3.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.5 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 3.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Help! | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.5 |
| The Black Keys Thickfreakness | 3.5 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 3.5 |
| The Clash London Calling | 4.0 |
| The Clientele Suburban Light | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 3.5 |
| The Dodos Visiter | 4.0 |
| The Doors The Soft Parade | 3.0 |
| The Doors Strange Days | 3.5 |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel | 4.0 |
| The Doors Waiting for the Sun | 4.0 |
| The Doors The Doors | 4.5 |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka | 4.0 |
| The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.5 |
| The Fratellis Here We Stand | 3.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Señor and the Queen | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.5 |
| The Halo Benders God Don't Make No Junk | 3.5 |
| The Head And The Heart The Head And The Heart | 3.5 |
| The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever | 3.0 |
| The Hold Steady Stay Positive | 3.5 |
| The Hold Steady Separation Sunday | 4.5 |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America | 4.5 |
| The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me | 5.0 |
| The Hold Steady Teeth Dreams | 5.0 |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie | 4.0 |
| The Incredible String Band The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion | 4.0 |
| The Jam All Mod Cons | 3.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society | 3.5 |
| The Kinks Something Else by The Kinks | 3.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Buttsweat and Tears | 3.5 |
| The Libertines The Libertines | 3.0 |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket | 4.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 5.0 |
| i know a lot of people say this album takes forever to grow on you, but damn did i fall in love as soon as the fuzzy title-track burst into my headphones after the warm and soft intro. after hearing the title track, i knew this album was special. i will admit that it did seem to drag throughout the second half, but it didn't take long to appreciate it as much as the first half. the crazy song arrangements and the beautiful acoustic guitars (clean and fuzzy) are the main things i admired from this album. that being said, phil's unique vocals also drew me in. throughout most of the album they were soft and quiet. even most of the times he raises his voice it still seems very soft and quiet, yet he still conveys his emotion perfectly. this is one of the most unique albums i have ever heard. |
| The Mountain Goats The Hound Chronicles | 2.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Get Lonely | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Sweden | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Zopilote Machine | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Isopanisad Radio Hour | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Nothing for Juice | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats The Coroner's Gambit | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Full Force Galesburg | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats We Shall All Be Healed | 5.0 |
| before i say anything about this album, i'll just throw out there that i am a HUGE JD fanboy. he is the only lyricist that i would put ahead of dylan. i love pretty much anything he records. 'we shall all be healed' features some of his best lyrics, which are based on people john used to know who are "mostly dead or in jail by now". he paints the most vivid pictures in the most creative and witty ways with his astounding wordplay. this album has a perfect mix of the lo-fi mountain goats sound and his more polished sound. now i dont know much about meth-addicts other than they are usually pretty fucked up people. but somehow JD manages to not only give us a sense of what life as a meth-addict is like, but he also makes us empathize with these messed up people. i guess i'll just finish this with a verse from one of his most moving songs 'your belgian things'. "The arteries are clogging in the mainframe/ There's too much information in the pipes/ I saw the mess you left up in the east bedroom/ A tiger's never gonna change its stripes/ I guess, I guess/ but Jesus what a mess/ One way in and no way out." |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers | 3.0 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| The National Alligator | 4.5 |
| The National Boxer | 4.5 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 3.5 |
| The Notwist Shrink | 4.0 |
| The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely | 3.5 |
| The Raveonettes Lust Lust Lust | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet | 4.0 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart | 3.5 |
| The Roots undun | 3.5 |
| The Shins Port of Morrow | 3.0 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 3.5 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 3.5 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.5 |
| The Submarines Declare A New State | 3.5 |
| The Subways Young For Eternity | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 5.0 |
| Matsson takes his exceptional songwriting in "Shallow Grave" to another level with The Wild Hunt. this album is just the perfect folk album. some of the best lyrics i've ever heard, beautiful guitar/fingerpicking, and an unique, expressive voice that just grabs your attention (in a good way). there is not a dull moment on this album that features Matsson alone with his acoustic/piano. this is an album that i can throw on at any time, and no matter how much i listen, it never grows old. |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine | 3.5 |
| The Twilight Singers Dynamite Steps | 3.0 |
| The Velvet Underground Squeeze | 2.0 |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.5 |
| i mean its 2012 and this album still sounds so fresh and innovative. |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground | 4.5 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes De Stijl | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.0 |
| The Who My Generation | 3.0 |
| The Who Who's Next | 4.0 |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 3.5 |
| The Wooden Sky Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun | 3.0 |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands | 4.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our | 4.0 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.5 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 3.5 |
| Tigers on Trains Grandfather | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 5.0 |
| who knew that a two hour commute to school alone could be so awesome? that is, until you don't have a voice left after. not only is the monitor the best driving album, it is also the best album to throw on while hammered (don't get any bad ideas). this album just fucking rules. when it comes to writing lyrics, stickles doesn't give a fuck about what anyone thinks of him. he knows he is a loser, and he will agree if you call him a fuck up. but hey, we are all imperfect so its okay. he has people who accept him for what he really is, so who gives a shit about the others. stickles wants us to go out get hammered, have fun, and fuck up. you can live life miserable, and do what everyone expects you to do, but in the end, what the fuck was it for anyway? |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 3.5 |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History | 3.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 3.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 3.0 |
| Voxtrot Raised By Wolves | 3.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.0 |
| Weezer Raditude | 2.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 2.5 |
| Weezer Hurley | 2.5 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 3.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 3.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.5 |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born | 3.0 |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 3.0 |
| Wilco The Whole Love | 3.5 |
| Wilco Summerteeth | 4.0 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 5.0 |
| one of the reasons i gave wilco two classics is because, besides tweedy's vocals, YHF and 'being there' sound like 2 completely different albums from two different bands. this album definitely took a while to grow on me, but damn, am i glad it did. musically, this album is about as close to perfect as you can get. wilco can take even the simplest three chord song (i am trying to break your heart), and make it into a masterpiece. you can credit that to some amazing drumming throughout the album along with the amazing sounds they created by experimenting. couple the amazing background music with tweedy's perfect voice and exceptional songwriting and you got one of the greatest albums ever produced. |
| Wilco Being There | 5.0 |
| there is one album that i just cant give anything lower than a 5, even though it's not my favorite album from the band. being there is that album. there are even songs on this double album i'm not quite fond of, but i just fucking love this album. this is wilco in their transitional period between their alt-country folk roots and their indie rockin' future albums. this album got wilco rockin' out and writing catchy songs stuck in your head for days. its also features a more somber and darker side of tweedy that just oozes emotion. like i said, wilco has done better, but it took a hell of an effort to top this. |
| Wingnut DishwashersUnion Never Trust a Man Who Plays Guitar | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.5 |
| Yuck Yuck | 4.0 |
