Average Rating: 3.61 Rating Variance: 1.73 Objectivity Score: 68% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2021 Adele 301.0Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic3.5IDLES Crawler4.0Parquet Courts Sympathy For Life4.0Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix5.0clairo Sling5.0Yves Tumor The Asymptotical World4.0Tkay Maidza Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 34.5Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost4.0Wolf Alice Blue Weekend4.0Black Midi Cavalcade1.0Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy1.0Olivia Rodrigo Sour4.0J. Cole The Off-Season2.0CZARFACE and MF DOOM Super What?3.0DRAM Shelley FKA DRAM3.0Cordae Just Until...4.0Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine5.0It doesn't take long into Roadrunner for the listener to realize that it's the best album Brockhampton have released thus far - let alone, their best post-Saturation work. Sonically speaking, this album is immaculate and the producers of the group came through harder than ever. Yes, some of the members are less utilized than others (trust me, I wish Dom was on this more) but I think this album more so than any other BH album emphasizes Brockhampton as an individual idea rather than a defined collective. You are Brockhampton, I am Brockhampton, etc etc. Just holy shit, man. That's really all I can say. I love both Ginger and Iridescence but this blows both those out of the water to the point where they look worse in comparison. Easily my AOTY so far and I gotta remind myself to never doubt these guys again. They just keep releasing quality material, even if they've sort of fallen out of favor in the music community.AJR OK Orchestra1.0Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club1.0Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth4.0Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage4.0Sia Music (OST)1.0Black Country, New Road For the first time2.0Weezer OK Human3.5Viagra Boys Welfare Jazz4.0Jazmine Sullivan Heaux Tales4.02020 Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Soul OST3.5Kid Cudi Man on the Moon III: The Chosen3.5The Avalanches We Will Always Love You4.5Taylor Swift Evermore3.0Miley Cyrus Plastic Hearts4.5Phoebe Bridgers Copycat Killer4.0Kali Uchis Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios)4.0JPEGMAFIA EP!1.0food house food house2.0Black Thought Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel3.5Adrianne Lenker Songs4.0Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez4.0Jean Dawson Pixel Bath4.0clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned5.0beabadoobee Fake It Flowers3.0Bartees Strange Live Forever4.0Joji Nectar1.0Deftones Ohms2.0IDLES Ultra Mono4.0Sylvan Esso Free Love5.0Sault (UK) Untitled (Rise)3.0Slauson Malone Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak)1.0Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos1.0Everything Everything RE-ANIMATOR2.5The Microphones Microphones in 20201.0Amine Limbo3.0Tkay Maidza Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 24.5Dominic Fike What Could Possibly Go Wrong1.0Fontaines D.C. A Hero's Death2.5Taylor Swift Folklore3.0Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas4.5Blu and Exile Miles4.5Bladee 3331.0100 Gecs 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues4.0HAIM Women In Music, Pt. III4.5Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure?2.5Phoebe Bridgers Punisher4.5The Koreatown Oddity Little Dominques Nosebleed4.5Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour4.0Run the Jewels RTJ44.0Lady Gaga Chromatica3.5Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo4.5The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form4.5Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B5.0Yung Lean Starz1.0Moses Sumney grae3.0Perfume Genius Set My Heart On Fire Immediately4.0Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now4.0No more metalheads. Society has progressed past the need for metalheads. Natalia Lafourcade Un Canto por México‚ Vol․ 14.5Car Seat Headrest Making a Door Less Open1.0Drake Dark Lane Demo Tapes1.0Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still2.5Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters4.5Lido Pimienta Miss Colombia4.5Rina Sawayama Sawayama5.0The Strokes The New Abnormal4.0Laura Marling Song For Our Daughter4.5Bladee Exeter1.0Thundercat It Is What It Is2.0Yves Tumor Heaven To A Tortured Mind5.0Waxahatchee Saint Cloud4.0Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia4.0Childish Gambino 03.15.204.0Conan Gray Kid Krow1.0The Weeknd After Hours3.5Porridge Radio Every Bad4.0R.A.P. Ferreira purple moonlight pages3.0Soccer Mommy Color Theory2.0Christine and the Queens La vita nuova4.5King Krule Man Alive!2.0Grimes Miss Anthropocene3.5HMLTD West of Eden4.5Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked4.5070 Shake Modus Vivendi4.0Mac Miller Circles5.0Poppy I Disagree3.02019 Harry Styles Fine Line1.0Kanye West Jesus Is King1.0clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood4.0Caroline Polachek Pang4.0Angel Olsen All Mirrors4.0Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen4.0Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿4.5Hot take: this isn't as much of a step down from Atrocity Exhibition as most people pretend it is. Maybe it's my more pop centric ear, but for my money, this is some of the best bars Danny has laid on a record and the hooooksss are so catchy. I really fail to find a dud in the entire tracklist and though the record is brief, it still feels incredibly cohesive. Sure there's not much of a narrative thread but that in and of itself is a narrative thread (since Danny is aware of the fact) and I think we give Atrocity Exhibition too much credit for its themes. Like sure, there are some significantly depressing hip hop tunes on there but there's also stuff like "Get Hi" which really don't feel like they add much to the album's themes. Also, every single feature on here is absolute heat. Obongjayer kills it on both his features, while Run the Jewels deliver two excellent, clever verses on 3 Tears, a big highlight. I particularly love El-P's "MMM...FOOD" reference. I just really fail to find anything here to critique honestly. If you're not going into this expecting something really heavy and deep, you're gonna enjoy this I think. Ameer Vann EMMANUEL3.0Charli XCX Charli5.0Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!4.0Tool Fear Inoculum1.0Taylor Swift Lover1.0Brockhampton Ginger5.0Dorian Electra Flamboyant4.0Blood Orange Angel's Pulse4.0Daniel Caesar Case Study 012.0Ultimate cornball Daniel Caesar has always been somewhere nestled between the Frank Oceans and the Brent Faiyazes of R&B. His debut record Freudian wasn't a game changer, but it was a great record nonetheless. Whatever Caesar did next would establish where he stood as an artist. Enter Case Study 01 - Caesar's sophomore record dropped with nearly no promotion. And ugh...what a letdown. There's nothing memorable here, except maybe a few sparse moments on tracks here and there. The lyricism is godawful and comes off as someone trying to sound deep ("complexity / come get with me / in spite of thee"). The lyricism on Freudian wasn't great, but the music was pretty enough to make up for it. Here...the music is wallpaper R&B. It really doesn't help that Caesar was never such a fiery singer. On Freudian, it was used to his advantage but here, nothing makes Daniel stick out. It's a shame to see such a promising talent release such a subpar record. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana4.5Poppy Choke4.5Poppy's "Vroom Vroom" moment. Only wish it were a full length...but this is the shape of pop to come, I think?100 Gecs 1000 gecs4.0Denzel Curry Zuu4.5Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Apollo XXI3.0Compton bisexual singer-producer Steve Lacy seemingly struck gold on his debut Demos EP which featured sugary short lofi R&B tracks with some sweet guitar work. While that EP wasn't anything groundbreaking, it was enough to solidify Lacy as a voice to watch in the industry for me. Two years later, Lacy has dropped his debut album, Apollo XXI. Unfortunately, it played out just how I imagined...it isn't very good. I mean, it could've been a lot worse but there just isn't much here to latch on to. It feels like Lacy thinks writing a good hook means repeating the same phrase over and over again (N Side, Like Me). I also realize now how much the lofiness added to Lacy's music - with it gone, it feels like the authenticity is missing. But even still...this album is worth a listen, and I can probably see it growing on me as there's some nice instrumentation, vocals and hooks. Favorite tracks are Only If, Playground, Amandla's Interlude, and Basement. Worst track is probably N Side?Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated3.0Tyler, the Creator IGOR4.0Megan Thee Stallion Fever4.0Injury Reserve Injury Reserve4.5A significant improvement over their past two projects. While it may not have the highs of Floss (Bad Boys 3, S on Ya Chest), it is far more consistent. I'm kind of confused by the complaints of there not being that much Groggs? I feel like he's here a normal amount. There are some moments that I don't like, namely Groggs reusing the same line on a different song. It was most likely intentional, but it's not framed in a way that's obvious so it comes off as if it were unfinished. Similarly, detours like Hello?! and Qwerty Interlude come off as unnecessary and ruin the flow of the album. Some cuts also feel like they depend too much on their features rather than adding to the strength of the songs. rBest Tracks: Jawbreaker, GTFU, Gravy n Biscuits, Rap Song TutorialrWorst Track: Hello?!Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride2.5Kevin Abstract ARIZONA BABY4.0Lizzo Cuz I Love You3.5Slauson Malone A Quiet Farwell, 2016–20181.0Anderson .Paak Ventura4.5Weyes Blood Titanic Rising5.0Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?4.5Despite already having the opinion that Eilish is fake deep, I went into this with an open mind. For one because I generally love pop as long as it doesn't take itself too seriously. Not to mention there are countless other artists who have cringey public personas that I love once I checked out their music. rBut...this is not one of those instances. Billie Eilish's debut is just barely enough to stomach, which means it'll be hyped up for the remainder of the year like it isn't anything anyone could make. There are some interesting ideas in here, but it has all these unnecessary generic trap influenced beats and mindlessly dull lyrics. And that's not even mentioning Eilish's bored singing. Her bored voice would be fine if it had any kind of uniqueness to it, but it doesn't. In the end, Billie Eilish's debut record ends up being forgettable, generic, and downright cringeworthy. Solange When I Get Home4.5Ariana Grande Thank U, Next2.5James Blake Assume Form4.02018 Bladee Icedancer1.0XXXTENTACION Skins1.0Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs4.5The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships5.0Anderson .Paak Oxnard3.0Anderson .Paak's hotly anticipated follow up to the deliciously soulful Malibu is a bit of a disappointment. It seems Dre persuaded .Paak to focus on more of a rap sound than the R&B sound of past releases. While there are some pretty good moments here, and a lot of the songs are moderately catchy, there isn't much to chew on lyrically here. It's a nice record to put in the background, but it just doesn't do anything to really hook you in. I settled on a 3 because it's not the WORST thing ever, but it really does fall victim to sophomore slump (even though this is his third record).rBest Tracks: Tints, Brothers Keeper, Who R U?, Smile/PettyrWorst Track: Saviers RoadNicholas Britell If Beale Street Could Talk: Soundtrack5.0Rosalia El Mal Querer4.5Poppy Am I a Girl?4.5Poppy finally finds her voice by not forcing it. Where Poppy.Computer was nothing more than a rip off of everything unique in pop, Am I a Girl? embraces itself by just being a simple pop album. Gone is the ultra forced references to computers and technology. rEven the detours into heavy metal all work. They're self aware, catchy, and even a little hard. This was easily the best pop album of the year, and eventually it'll be embraced as such. rBest Tracks: Aristocrat, Girls in Bikinis, Play Destroy, Hard FeelingsrWorst Track: Iconic (which still fucks)Joji BALLADS 11.0Thom Yorke Suspiria4.0Dominic Fike Don't Forget About Me, Demos1.0Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper A Star is Born3.5Brockhampton Iridescence5.0Noname Room 254.0Russ Zoo1.0IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance5.0Blood Orange Negro Swan4.5Ariana Grande Sweetener3.0Mitski Be the Cowboy4.5H.E.R. I Used To Know Her: The Prelude3.5Mac Miller Swimming5.0The Internet Hive Mind4.0Childish Gambino Summer Pack3.0HMLTD Hate Music Last Time Delete EP2.5Brockhampton WILDFIRE, TRUMAN, DIANA4.0Gorillaz The Now Now2.5Charli XCX Focus / No Angel4.5Teyana Taylor K.T.S.E.3.0Death Grips Year of the Snitch5.0Nas NASIR2.0After Kids See Ghosts and Daytona, there's no way this couldn't have been great. But then it wasn't! Even the kind of good tracks like Cops Shot the Kid are painfully annoying. Not to mention, there's just nothing here that you couldn't find done better on TPAB or any other politically conscious hip hop record. Oh wellSophie Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides4.5Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts5.0Part 3 of the Wyoming Sessions sees Kanye West connect with long time collaborator and protege Kid Cudi. It can be said that both artists are perhaps five years late to the party, but oh boy...Kids See Ghosts is the best thing both artists have put out in a long time. There are hints and spades of both artists in this...808's, MOTM...all these albums are obvious points of references, but Kids See Ghosts doesn't ever feel like a mere continuation of those sounds, but rather a natural evolution. The rock elements are executed best here than on any of their solo projects. It really serves as a reminder of what made us fall in love with the Cudder and Yeezy in the first place. While it cannot be overstated how essential Cudi is to this project, holy shit...this is some of Kanye's best bars ever. He doesn't have a weak performance on any of these tracks. His verse on Cudi Montage is top 3 Ye for me. This is the best Wyoming project...it's cohesive, innovative, well produced, lyrically dense, grandiose, meditative and beautiful. This is their beautiful dark twisted fantasy. Kanye West ye4.5Kanye West has basically done it at all at this point in his lengthy career. Ye arrives as one of his more introspective releases, touching on his marriage, his children, and his recent controversies. These sparse seven songs are all fantastic - some ranging from grandiose, others are BANGERS, and then there are a few sad boy ballads. As with almost all post-MBDTF Kanye releases, there's some bad lyricism, but most of it is pretty solid. While some of the Wyoming releases don't feel like an album, Ye feels like a complete journey with a great opener and a solid closer. Also...Ghost Town...so yeah. Phenomenal album, I think. Tierra Whack Whack World4.0Pusha T DAYTONA3.5The first entry of Kanye West's Wyoming Sessions, Daytona is an impeccably produced and lyrically intricate album from Pusha T. These two things, however, feel at odds with each other. While Kanye West's production is once again captivating...I much prefer hearing Pusha T rap over Neptunes beats. Kanye cannot rap as well as Pusha, but there's no denying these are beats Yeezy would sound great over. And that's not to say Pusha T doesn't deliver BARS, he does, but every now in then there's a weird sample thrown in that throws off the track. Take for example, Come Back Baby, a track that has a banger beat but an old sample shoehorned in just for the sake of the song having a hook. Pusha's the kind of rapper who doesn't need to depend on a hook to latch on to a listener. Aside from that...I don't feel like the album has much of a theme to it. Not all albums need one, but this just feels like good song after good song. But...very few GREAT songs. I'd say Santeria and If You Know, You Know are the best. Don't get the hype for this...it's pretty well produced and rapped, but...that isn't enough :/Parquet Courts Wide Awake4.5ASAP Rocky TESTING1.0Bladee Red Light1.0Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino4.5Playboi Carti Die Lit5.0Janelle Monae Dirty Computer5.0Frank Ocean Endless4.5The Weeknd My Dear Melancholy,2.0Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour4.0XXXTENTACION ?1.06ix9ine DAY691.0"imagine being so out of touch that you think this is everything wrong with modern hip-hop meanwhile listening to brockhampton, migos and kendrick lamar"rGODDAMN THAT'S EDGYrCar Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)4.0Soundtrack (Film) Black Panther The Album2.5MGMT Little Dark Age3.5Ravyn Lenae Crush4.52017 Charli XCX Pop 23.5Brockhampton SATURATION III5.0Brockhampton Saturation Drafts3.0Taylor Swift Reputation1.0Joji In Tongues1.0Rina Sawayama RINA4.5King Krule The OOZ4.0Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down1.0Kelela Take Me Apart2.5Wolf Alice Visions of a Life5.0Injury Reserve Drive It Like It's Stolen!3.0XXXTENTACION 171.0Daniel Caesar Freudian4.0Brockhampton SATURATION II5.0Everything Everything A Fever Dream5.0Brand New Science Fiction3.0Amine Good For You3.5Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy4.5Jay-Z 4:444.0Vince Staples Big Fish Theory2.5SZA Ctrl3.5Lorde Melodrama5.0Brockhampton SATURATION5.0Bleachers Gone Now2.0Paramore After Laughter3.0Harry Styles Harry Styles3.5Russ There's Really a Wolf1.0Mac DeMarco This Old Dog4.5Perfume Genius No Shape4.5Gorillaz Humanz2.5Kendrick Lamar DAMN.4.0Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me3.0Drake More Life3.5Charli XCX Number 1 Angel4.0IDLES Brutalism4.0Ravyn Lenae Midnight Moonlight3.0Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Steve Lacy's Demo4.5Rosalia Los Angeles3.5Big Sean I Decided.1.0Sampha Process4.5The xx I See You3.02016 Kid Cudi Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’3.0Injury Reserve Floss3.5Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"4.5The Weeknd Starboy4.0Bruno Mars 24K Magic4.0Kevin Abstract American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story4.5Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis1.0Lady Gaga Joanne4.0NxWorries Yes Lawd!4.5Bon Iver 22, A Million2.0Solange A Seat at the Table4.0Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition4.5Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree5.0clipping. Splendor and Misery5.0Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B4.0Frank Ocean Blonde5.0Noname Telefone4.0Brand New 3 Demos, Reworked3.5Blood Orange Freetown Sound4.0Mitski Puberty 24.0Bladee Eversince1.0Chance the Rapper Coloring Book3.5Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool4.0Vektor Terminal Redux1.0Death Grips Bottomless Pit4.0James Blake The Colour in Anything5.0Weezer The White Album5.0The Last Shadow Puppets Everything You've Come To Expect5.0Brockhampton All-American Trash3.5Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered.4.5Charli XCX Vroom Vroom4.5Kanye West The Life of Pablo4.0The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It5.0Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor3.5Anderson .Paak Malibu5.0David Bowie Blackstar4.5Joji Chloe Burbank Volume 11.02015 Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven2.0Brand New Leaked Demos 20065.0Sophie Product5.0CHVRCHES Every Open Eye4.0The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven4.0Beach House Depression Cherry3.5Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion5.0Injury Reserve Live From The Dentist Office4.0The Internet Ego Death3.0Everything Everything Get to Heaven5.0Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin2.0ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP1.0Twenty One Pilots Blurryface2.5Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb3.0Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell5.0Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside4.5Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly5.0Big Sean Dark Sky Paradise1.0Kali Uchis Por Vida4.0Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho2.0Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor1.02014 Taylor Swift 19894.0Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End5.0Childish Gambino Kauai3.0Yung Lean Unknown Memory1.0Kevin Abstract MTV19872.5Bleachers Strange Desire3.5Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other4.0clipping. CLPPNG4.5Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata4.0The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There5.02013 Childish Gambino Because the Internet3.5Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe4.0Lady Gaga Artpop3.5Lorde Pure Heroine5.0The Internet Feel Good3.0CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe4.5Arctic Monkeys AM4.0The 1975 The 19755.0The 1975 The 1975 (Deluxe Edition)5.0Big Sean Hall of Fame1.0Earl Sweatshirt Doris4.5Sophie Bipp/Elle5.0Kanye West Yeezus4.5Disclosure Settle5.0Daft Punk Random Access Memories4.5The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation4.5Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll2.5Paramore Paramore4.0Tyler, the Creator Wolf3.0Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal4.0Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)1.0Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away4.0clipping. Midcity5.0ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP1.0Everything Everything Arc5.0Vektor Scion AV Label Showcase - Earache Records1.02012 Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox2.5Solange True3.5The Weeknd Trilogy5.0Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city5.0Mac DeMarco 24.0JJ DOOM Key To The Kuffs3.5Kali Uchis Drunken Babble2.0Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky4.0Frank Ocean channel ORANGE5.0Marilyn Manson Born Villain1.02011 The Roots undun4.5Vektor Outer Isolation1.0Drake Take Care2.5Childish Gambino Camp2.513 songs of Childish Gambino complaining about how he isn't perceived as Black enough. Nice production, decent hooks...Glover is undeniably talented, but this lacks any rhyme to its reason. Rarely does Gambino come through with a song filled with more than just clever one liners. But there is certainly room for growth, and he only got better with each albumASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP.1.0Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal4.0Blood Orange Coastal Grooves3.0Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne3.5Danny Brown XXX4.5Big Sean Finally Famous: The Album1.0Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver4.0The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing4.5Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See2.5Lady Gaga Born This Way4.0Tyler, the Creator Goblin1.5The Weeknd House of Balloons5.0Radiohead The King of Limbs3.5Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra.3.5James Blake James Blake4.5The Hotelier It Never Goes Out4.02010 Gorillaz The Fall2.5Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy5.0Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager2.5Danny Brown The Hybrid5.0Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans2.5Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated4.5Everything Everything Man Alive5.0Perfume Genius Learning5.0Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid5.0Earl Sweatshirt EARL4.0Gorillaz Plastic Beach5.0The Wonder Years The Upsides4.0Beach House Teen Dream5.02009 Tyler, the Creator Bastard4.0Lady Gaga The Fame Monster4.5Vektor Black Future1.0Arctic Monkeys Cornerstone4.0Brand New Daisy4.5Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day5.0fun. Aim and Ignite4.0Arctic Monkeys Humbug5.0The xx xx4.0Arctic Monkeys Crying Lightning4.0Marilyn Manson The High End of Low1.02008 Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux3.5Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak4.5Lady Gaga The Fame3.0Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite3.0Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends4.5The Last Shadow Puppets The Age Of The Understatement5.0M83 Saturdays=Youth4.5Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!4.02007 Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (DVD)3.5Radiohead In Rainbows5.0Kanye West Graduation3.5Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago4.5Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me1.0Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare5.0Arctic Monkeys Brianstorm4.5Grinderman Grinderman5.0Fall Out Boy Infinity on High3.0Vektor Hunger For Violence (Single)1.02006 Clipse Hell Hath No Fury5.0Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me5.0My Chemical Romance The Black Parade5.0Thom Yorke The Eraser4.0Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not4.5Vektor Demolition (Demo)1.0Ariel Pink Ariel Rosenberg's Thrash and Burn: Pre1.02005 DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask4.0I don't have much to say about The Mouse & the Mask except that it's pretty much as good as you can expect a DOOM album to be. People really overstate how annoying the Adult Swim references are because they really don't factor into DOOM's bars as much as they seem like they will (aside from A.T.H.F. of course...which is still a great song). I guess it helps that I grew up watching these shows but I'm sure that's true of a lot of people. Danger Mouse's production has nothing on DOOM's or Madlib's but hey, it's still one of the greatest rappers on a fine ass beat. Also, the feature list on here is insane - Talib Kwali, Cee-Lo Green, and Ghostface (and even Black Thought on a bonus track) and they all kill it. That hook on "Benzi Box" has to be one of the best hooks in DOOM's whole discography. This isn't quite S-tier DOOM but it's definitely A-tier for my money. Definitely recommend this one. Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out4.0Kanye West Late Registration4.0Gorillaz Demon Days4.0I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with this album. Ultimately, I think it's one of the most influential records of the 00's and a solid record overall. However...I think it pales in comparison to Gorillaz' debut and signals that they'd never truly return to that sound, for better or worse. In spite of that, some of Gorillaz' highest highs appear on this record, such as Feel Good Inc., Dirty Harry, Dare, and Last Living Souls. This is also undeniably more ambitious than Gorillaz' debut but not necessarily all the better for it. I think it's more that I just built this album up so much in my head based on the acclaim and it fell a little short of that. I don't consider songs like Demon Days or Don't Get Lost in Heaven as something I'd like to see Gorillaz do, even if I don't think they're *bad*. But oh man, is Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head a tedious song and I hate White Light with a passion. There's more good than bad here by far, but I do find myself pining for more of that classic downtempo trip hop sound that the band perfectly captured on their debut. Common Be4.0Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree4.0Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning5.02004 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus5.0Green Day American Idiot1.0Arcade Fire Funeral5.0Madvillain Madvillainy5.0Kanye West The College Dropout5.02003 Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism5.0OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below5.0Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque1.0King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader4.0He really couldn't miss, could he? MF DOOM's Take Me to Your Leader is decidedly not a DOOM album, and more of a DOOM & Friends album. And it's a damn great one at that. This album features some of the best and most adventurous production I've heard from DOOM thus far and while yes, his presence on the mic is never taken for granted, "I Wonder", "Krazy World" and "Fastlane" are massive highlights on this record. It also features one of the catchiest songs in DOOM's massive catalog - "Anti-Matter" with Mr. Fantastik. Even the little instrumental interludes with nothing much but samples are, to me, just as interesting as those on Madvillainy. Sure, this isn't exactly the album that will move mountains but you can tell this prolific era in DOOM's career was one where he took every little project seriously. I think I might take it over The Mouse & The Mask at the moment.Brand New Deja Entendu5.0Radiohead Hail to the Thief3.0Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave4.0Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Nocturama4.0The Microphones Mount Eerie1.02002 Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head4.02001 Brand New Your Favorite Weapon3.5Radiohead Amnesiac4.5Gorillaz Gorillaz5.0You know that feeling when you finally check an artist that pretty much everyone you know loves? You feel as if you've missed out on so many years with that artist, but you also feel so happy that you have a collection of excellent music to discover. That's how I felt upon listening to Gorillaz' debut for the first time. It's a collection of trip hop tracks that are catchy or despondent or sometimes both. And it's nothing short of a remarkable accomplishment. It's just so good...but you know that already. I wasn't expecting to love this album as quickly as I did but it's pretty much all I've been listening to this week. My only complaint is that I do think it could be a little shorter because of how vibey each song is, at times I do find myself starting to grow tired a little. But still...the highs are so high and so frequent.2000 Marilyn Manson Holy Wood1.0OutKast Stankonia4.0Radiohead Kid A5.0Coldplay Parachutes4.01999 MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday4.5This makes for a really great starting point with DOOM, in retrospect. It isn't the typical "I'm sitting on a bat, I'm sitting on a cat" rapping typical of KMD, but it also isn't quite the abstract rapping of Madvillainy. It's just the right amount of DOOM's character with accessible rapping. The thing most admirable about this album is just how lo-fi and unpolished it sounds. I find it admirable because it just gives you this feeling that Dumile just had this insatiable itch to rhyme. Every verse on this thing - not just from DOOM but also from his cohorts - sounds so vital, so gritty, and just so good. You don't get that sense on a lot of albums. The skits become a little too much at times, but I do like how they divide the album into different segments. Overall, a really excellent hip hop record that for my money doesn't really have any low lows, it's just not *quite* peak DOOM.1998 OutKast Aquemini5.0Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals1.0Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill4.0Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea5.01997 Radiohead OK Computer5.0Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call3.51996 Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar1.0Weezer Pinkerton5.0OutKast ATLiens4.5Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads5.0Fugees The Score5.01995 Radiohead The Bends4.51994 Portishead Dummy5.0Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family1.0Weezer Weezer5.0OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik4.0Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In5.01993 Red House Painters Red House Painters II1.0Nirvana In Utero4.5Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Live Seeds4.0Bjork Debut4.0Red House Painters Red House Painters1.0Radiohead Pablo Honey3.51992 Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill1.0Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream4.51991 Nirvana Nevermind4.01990 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Good Son4.51989 Nirvana Bleach5.0The Cure Disintegration5.01988 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey4.5The Smiths Rank4.0Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Mercy Seat5.01987 The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come4.5Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full5.0The Smiths Louder Than Bombs5.01986 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Your Funeral... My Trial3.5Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Kicking Against The Pricks3.0The Smiths The Queen Is Dead5.01985 The Cure The Head on the Door4.5Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Firstborn Is Dead3.0The Smiths Meat Is Murder3.51984 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds From Her To Eternity3.5Talking Heads Stop Making Sense5.0The Smiths The Smiths5.01983 Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues5.01982 Michael Jackson Thriller4.01980 Talking Heads Remain in Light5.0The Cure Seventeen Seconds4.51979 The Clash London Calling5.01978 Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food4.01977 David Bowie "Heroes"3.5Talking Heads Talking Heads: 774.0The Clash The Clash4.01972 David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars5.01971 David Bowie Hunky Dory5.01969 The Beatles Abbey Road5.01968 The Beatles The Beatles5.01967 The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour4.5
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