| Alice in Chains Sap | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 5.0 |
| American Football American Football | 4.5 |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head | 4.0 |
| Beck Stereopathetic Soulmanure | 3.0 |
| Beck Colors | 3.5 |
| Beck Guero | 4.0 |
| Beck Odelay | 4.5 |
| Beck Mutations | 4.5 |
| blink-182 California | 2.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 5.0 |
| Blur Think Tank | 3.5 |
| Blur Leisure | 3.5 |
| Blur The Great Escape | 4.0 |
| Blur The Magic Whip | 4.0 |
| Blur Parklife | 4.5 |
| Blur Blur | 4.5 |
| Blur Midlife: A Beginner's Guide To Blur | 4.5 |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish | 5.0 |
| Blur 13 | 5.0 |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 4.0 |
| I really dug this one. I've never listened extensively to anything else in the Bright Eyes catalog, so I had a rather open mind. Every song is strongly written, and the flow of the tracks is admirable. The production helps make the album quite unique with all sorts of strange stereo drums and samples. I haven't really found anything like it. I totally fell in love with this album, and I was surprised to see that Bright Eyes fans don't usually like it much. The first 6 and last 3 tracks are flawless, the other 3 are pretty darn good as well. |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 5.0 |
| Canadian Softball Awkward and Depressed | 4.0 |
| Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been | 3.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not | 3.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Hand It Over | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug | 5.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 5.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind | 5.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Humanz | 2.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz D-Sides | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 4.0 |
| Graham Coxon The Golden D | 4.0 |
| Graham Coxon Love Travels At Illegal Speeds | 4.5 |
| Grimes Visions | 3.5 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 3.5 |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 3.5 |
| Guided by Voices Alien Lanes | 4.5 |
| Guided by Voices Propeller | 4.5 |
| In Love With A Ghost Healing | 3.5 |
| Kinoko Teikoku Fake World Wonderland | 4.0 |
| Liam Gallagher As You Were | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 4.5 |
| Maximum the Hormone Bu-ikikaesu | 4.5 |
| Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II | 4.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.5 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.5 |
| Mudhoney Piece Of Cake | 3.5 |
| Mudhoney My Brother The Cow | 4.0 |
| Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles | 4.0 |
| Mudhoney Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge | 4.5 |
| Mudhoney March To Fuzz | 4.5 |
| 2 discs of pure awesomeness. This encapsulates everything I like about the band. |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 4.0 |
| Nirvana With the Lights Out | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach (Deluxe Edition) | 4.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.5 |
| Number Girl Sappukei | 4.0 |
| Number Girl School Girl Bye Bye | 5.0 |
Number Girl entered the indie rock scene in Japan back in 1995. After releasing a few
demos, they signed to an obscure indie label and released the epic School Girl Bye Bye
debut album.
It was (and still is)under-appreciated in almost every aspect. It gets tossed off as being
"too derivative" or "too happy." To make matters worse, the record is becoming rare to
find. Since the production of this album is taken care of by a rather obscure Japanese
indie label, not enough people own the record to give it the justice it deserves.
When I first heard of the band (I was checking out Asian Kung-fu Generation when I found
the wiki article for Number Girl) I didn't expect much. At the time I thought Japanese
rock was strictly limited to power pop and death metal. I was so wrong. I put on "Omoide
in my Head" and was immediately blown away.
The album is both listenable and grating at the same time. The riff of "Ooatari no
Kisetsu" is instantly memorable. The chorus of "Sentimental Kajou" is uplifting and
simultaneously melancholy. "September Girlfriend" will make your ears bleed, but you'll be
banging your head to the raw energy of the driving drums and distorted melodic bass. I
could go on and on with the highlights because I feel that there are no truly weak tracks
on the album; Shutoku Mukai was always a genius with songwriting. I love the lo-fi 4-
track production and the heavily-reverbed vocal sound of the album. To top things off, the
drums are distorted a lot of the time! It was a sound I had never heard before. Check this
out; you won't regret it. Don't take people's negative words toward this album. Yes,
Number Girl's other albums are also great, but they were never the same after this. (for
better and for worse) This is great music in its own right and cannot be considered
generic; the song craft is too memorable for that. |
| Number Girl School Girl Distortional Addict | 5.0 |
| Number Girl OMOIDE IN MY HEAD 1 〜BEST & B-SIDES〜 | 5.0 |
| Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants | 3.0 |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth | 3.5 |
| Oasis Be Here Now | 4.0 |
| Oasis The Masterplan | 4.0 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.5 |
| Owls Owls | 4.0 |
| Parquet Courts Tally All The Things That You Broke | 3.5 |
| Parquet Courts American Specialties | 4.0 |
| Parquet Courts Light Up Gold | 4.0 |
| Pavement Watery, Domestic | 4.0 |
| Pavement Brighten the Corners | 4.0 |
| Pavement Westing (By Musket and Sextant) | 4.0 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert | 4.0 |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee - Sordid Sentinels Edition | 4.0 |
| Pavement The Secret History Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 4.5 |
| Pavement Terror Twilight | 4.5 |
| I spent almost a year listening to this before receiving it as a very thoughtful gift. It turns out that I love this album deeply, and it's only second to Wowee Zowee for me in the Pavement catalog! It's almost equally crazy, but it's somehow refined in some ways (no more punk songs coming out of nowhere, for example). CRCR and BTC wore thin after several listens, but this one and Wowee Zowee keep sounding fresher. I guess I am the atypical Pavement fan, because my ranking goes something like this: WZ, TT, Westing, S&E, CRCR, BTC. And yet I still love BTC. |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 4.5 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe | 4.5 |
| Pavement Quarantine the Past | 4.5 |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee | 5.0 |
| The pinnacle of anti-perfection receives a perfect score. Ah, the world makes sense. To my ears, this is the ultimate indie rock record. It covers just about every mood in clever manners that can be both euphoric and grating simultaneously. Amazingly enough, it all ends up feeling pleasant! It appears that the tracks were put into a completely random order, and it just works. The album still flows perfectly when put on shuffle, and every track (including the jokes) is a winner. Wowee zowee. |
| Pixies Indie Cindy | 2.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.0 |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.5 |
| Pixies Bossanova | 4.5 |
| Primus Frizzle Fry | 4.5 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.5 |
| Primus Pork Soda | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| I thought I really dug this album, but I don't find myself revisiting it very often at all anymore. Maybe the title track, How to Disappear Completely, or Idioteque every now and then. |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 4.0 |
| Extremely underrated. Just because Radiohead got more complex later on does not mean that their simpler stuff was any worse. (Some of their newer works comes off as pretentious or unlistenable.) This has a 2.9? Really? Is everyone ignoring You, Creep, Thinking About You, Anyone Can Play Guitar, Ripcord, Vegetable, Prove Yourself, LURGEE, and BLOW OUT? Geez. This and The Bends contain Thom's most powerful vocal performances, too. |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.0 |
| Some tracks just flat out clunk for me. (Fitter Happier, Exit Music, Lucky, The Tourist) Don't shoot me for having an alternative opinion. rI used their B-Sides from the era and made Superior Computer (which deserves a 4.5 or higher in my book) for my personal enjoyment!rHere's the listing, if you're interested:rAirbagrPolyethylenerLet DownrPalo AltorLullrParanoid AndroidrSubterranean Homesick AlienrElectioneeringrClimbing Up The WallsrNo SurprisesrKarma PolicerA Reminderr |
| Radiohead The Bends | 5.0 |
| It's just one, explosive, memorable, rocking, introspective, deep, meaningful, cathartic, emotional, guitar-driven song after another! (It's not quite that simple, but oh well.) I can't find a weak track on this album and listen to it all the way through almost every day. I didn't know I could like an album this much. |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.5 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth NYC Ghosts & Flowers | 2.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 3.5 |
| The album, while living up so some of its hype, loses a lot punch the songs may have when compared to Sister and EVOL. Sure, the expansive songs work nicely sometimes, but other times, they just get annoying. Teen Age Riot, Silver Rocket, Total Trash, Candle, Providence, Rain King, The Wonder, Eliminator Jr.... those are great tracks. The rest I could take or leave. I'm probably the one and only SY fan who favors Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star and EVOL above the rest of their catalog. |
| Sonic Youth Washing Machine | 3.5 |
| My initial reaction to the album was that it would end up being my favorite. I was wrong. I find myself only revisiting Junkie's Promise and No Queen Blues, with occasional listens of Becuz, Unwind, Panty Lies, and The Diamond Sea. Those tracks alone are pretty powerful. |
| Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Dirty | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr Idols | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star | 4.5 |
| I used to slam this album just like everyone else, but it turned out to be my favorite. Give it a chance. |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Sister | 4.5 |
| This is better than Daydream Nation. I bought this first, and after reading a bunch of reviews, expected a lot out of DDN. But I was actually disappointed! Concise noise rocker album!! |
| Sonic Youth Evol | 4.5 |
| Stephen Malkmus Face the Truth | 4.0 |
| Stephen Malkmus Stephen Malkmus | 4.0 |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Pig Lib | 3.5 |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Wig Out At Jagbags | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 4.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop | 4.5 |
| Supercar Three Out Change!! | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.5 |
| The Replacements All Shook Down | 3.0 |
| The Replacements Don't Tell a Soul | 3.5 |
| Criminally underrated. It's still packed with Westerberg's fantastic songwriting, which only improved as time went on. The production is a bit off-putting, but Tim's production was much worse. The 'Mats hadn't sold out, and they never really could. Talent Show, the opening track, even pokes fun at the whole concept of making it big! Full of classics like Talent Show, Back To Back, We'll Inherit The Earth (the would-be Gen X anthem), Achin' to Be, Anywhere's Better Than Here, I'll Be You, and Rock'n'Roll Ghost... |
| The Replacements Hootenanny | 3.5 |
| Severely front-loaded! The sequence from Hootenanny - Willpower is fantastic, and the sequencing from Mr. Whirly to the end works well enough, but Take Me Down to the Hospital's length just makes me feel like it's not worth finishing the album! I do enjoy the individual tracks. |
| The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash | 3.5 |
| The Replacements Stink | 3.5 |
| The Replacements Tim | 4.0 |
| The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me | 4.0 |
| A lot of "hardcore" Replacements fans write off all the post-Bob albums. This album is an improvement over Tim, which was lacking in the band's humor. I was hooked from IOU and, which was immediately followed by 10 songs I consider to be classics in and of themselves. (including Shootin' Dirty Pool, which is in the same legendary tier as Gary's Got A Boner) Punk? Ballads? Rock? Jazz? Whatever "I Don't Know" might be considered? It's all here! |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 5.0 |
| This album truly tops all else. Giving it anything less than a five is just wrong. The world figuratively opens up when I listen to the one-two punch of I Will Dare and Favorite Thing. Then it kicks up and goes into We're Coming Out! And the rest is history. I love Seen Your Video. |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 4.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 4.0 |
| Thurston Moore Psychic Hearts | 4.0 |
| All of the songs are totally cool and memorable, and create a nice cohseive minimalist noise rock whole, in my opinion... except for the last track. A 20 minute instrumental is not how you close an album full of punkish songs! |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Tricot 3 | 4.0 |
| Tricot AND | 4.5 |
| TTNG This Town Needs Guns | 4.0 |
| TTNG Animals Acoustic | 4.0 |
| TTNG Animals | 4.5 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface | 3.5 |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench | 4.0 |
| Weezer Raditude | 2.0 |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream | 2.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 3.0 |
| It's not nearly as bad as the average rating suggests. It's not great, but it does have its moments. (Perfect Situation, This Is Such A Pity, Hold Me, Peace) |
| Weezer Hurley | 3.0 |
| Weezer The White Album | 3.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 3.5 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 3.5 |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End | 4.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 5.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 5.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 5.0 |
