Average Rating: 3.06 Rating Variance: 1.05 Objectivity Score: 97% (Very Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2019 Vordr Vordr1.5Hermodr Forest Sky3.0Veldes Flameless3.02018 Utstott Járnviðr2.0Sadness Rain3.0Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness4.02017 Dzo-nga The Sachem's Tales2.0Emyn Muil Elenion Ancalima2.5Violet Cold Anomie3.02016 Ellende Todbringer3.5Sojourner Empires of Ash3.0Eldamar The Force of the Ancient Land2.5Lascar Absence3.5Nord Frost Solstitium3.52015 Batushka Litourgiya4.0Spectral Lore Gnosis3.0Enisum Arpitanian Lands3.0Panopticon Autumn Eternal4.0Cigarettes After Sex Affection2.5We Lost the Sea Departure Songs4.5Echoes of the Moon Entropy3.0Obsequiae Aria of Vernal Tombs3.0Peste Noire La Chaise-Dyable3.5Paint The Sky Red Not All Who Wonder Are Lost3.52014 Panopticon Roads to the North4.5Saor Aura2.5Woods of Desolation As the Stars3.52013 Deafheaven Sunbather4.5Summoning Old Mornings Dawn4.0Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle3.0Emyn Muil Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga2.02012 We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth4.0Elderwind The Magic of Nature3.5Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!4.0Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes4.5Converge All We Love We Leave Behind4.0Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky3.5Cigarettes After Sex I.3.0Evergreen Refuge Evergreen Refuge1.5Panopticon Kentucky3.0Wodensthrone Curse1.5Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel2.02011 Aquilus Griseus4.5Vektor Outer Isolation1.5Solstafir Svartir Sandar2.5Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage3.5Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead4.0Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood3.0Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver3.0Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me2.5Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire1.5And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs3.0Giles Corey Giles Corey4.5Pulling Teeth Funerary3.5Ulver Wars of the Roses1.5tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l2.5Blackfield Welcome To My DNA2.0The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong3.0The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck3.0The Weeknd House of Balloons3.0Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights4.5DeVotchKa 100 Lovers3.5Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason2.5Radiohead The King of Limbs1.5Dornenreich Flammentriebe3.5Destroyer Kaputt3.0Ulcerate The Destroyers of All2.52010 Killing The Dream Lucky Me2.5My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys1.0Intronaut Valley of Smoke2.0Deerhunter Halcyon Digest3.0Jimmy Eat World Invented2.5The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive3.5Drudkh Handful of Stars1.5Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon3.0Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place4.0Arcade Fire The Suburbs4.0Menomena Mines2.0Heaven In Her Arms Paraselene4.0Eminem Recovery2.5Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park2.5Against Me! White Crosses3.0Rosetta A Determinism of Morality3.5As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise1.5The National High Violet3.5Deftones Diamond Eyes2.5Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante3.0Twilight Monument To Time End3.5The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt4.5Extra Life Made Flesh2.0Titus Andronicus The Monitor5.0From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some Trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we will live forever or die by suicide.Have a Nice Life Time of Land3.0Daniel Bjarnason Processions4.0Infinite Body Carve Out The Face Of My God3.0Sigh Scenes from Hell3.52009 Blacklisted No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me3.0Skogen (SWE) Vittra3.0Animal Collective Fall Be Kind3.5Woods of Desolation Sorh3.0Powderfinger Golden Rule1.5Gaza He Is Never Coming Back3.5Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough3.5Slayer World Painted Blood1.5Say Anything Say Anything4.5Jesu Opiate Sun3.0Pelican What We All Come to Need3.0Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect2.5Johnny Foreigner Grace And The Bigger Picture3.5Do Make Say Think Other Truths3.5Daitro Y3.5Have a Nice Life Voids4.0Baroness Blue Record3.5Thrice Beggars3.0Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down3.5Built to Spill There Is No Enemy2.5A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head4.0Converge Axe to Fall3.5Doomriders Darkness Come Alive3.0Why? Eskimo Snow3.0Brand New Daisy2.0The Chasm Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm3.5Muse The Resistance1.0Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II3.0Yo La Tengo Popular Songs3.5Weekend Nachos Unforgivable4.0David Bazan Curse Your Branches1.5Wodensthrone Loss3.0Mew No More Stories3.5As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You3.0Six Organs Of Admittance Luminous Night4.0Pissed Jeans King of Jeans3.0Iron Age The Sleeping Eye4.0Trapped Under Ice Secrets of the World3.5Ahab The Divinity of Oceans3.0Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow1.5Black Pyramid Black Pyramid3.0Mount Eerie Wind's Poem4.0Poison the Well The Tropic Rot2.0Suffocation Blood Oath3.5jj jj n° 23.0Jesu Infinity2.0Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals2.0Darkest Hour The Eternal Return3.0Dinosaur Jr. Farm4.0j mascis gets a blowjob from his guitar and makes it sound good for an hourThe Mars Volta Octahedron3.5Regina Spektor Far3.5Abigail's Ghost d_letion1.5Drudkh Microcosmos3.5Asphyx Death... The Brutal Way3.0Destroyer 666 Defiance2.0Panopticon Collapse4.5Gorod Process of a New Decline3.0Riverside Anno Domini High Definition2.5Magrudergrind Magrudergrind3.5Laconist Adveniat Infernus3.0Hilltop Hoods State of the Art3.0Coalesce OX2.0Mos Def The Ecstatic4.0Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca2.5Comadre A Wolf Ticket4.0CSTVT Summer Fences3.5dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion3.5So Many Dynamos The Loud Wars1.5Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening2.0J Dilla Jay Stay Paid2.0Taking Back Sunday New Again2.5Rome Flowers From Exile4.0Sights and Sounds Monolith3.5Grizzly Bear Veckatimest3.0Minsk With Echoes in the Movement of Stone3.0mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!4.5maudlin of the Well Part the Second4.0Slough Feg Ape Uprising3.5Waldo Wittenmyer & The Wall Of Sound Let's Get Connected3.5Long Distance Calling Avoid The Light3.5Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know3.0Japandroids Post-Nothing3.0Gwynbleidd Nostalgia4.0Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu2.5Fantastic Ideas, but extremely dry album that dragsISIS Wavering Radiant4.0Spires (USA) Flowers And Fireworks3.5Art Brut Art Brut vs. Satan1.0Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams4.0this has WAR, 666% HEILWORTHY RIFFS, and a sprinkle of AAARRRGGGGHHHHBrutal Truth Evolution Through Revolution3.0My Heart To Joy Seasons In Verse4.0Beherit Engram2.0Ulcerate Everything Is Fire2.0The Thermals Now We Can See3.0And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar4.0Punch Punch4.0Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade4.0Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions4.5Mumakil Behold The Failure2.5Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor2.5Black Sun Aeon Darkness Walks Beside Me3.0MF DOOM Born Like This3.0Dan Deacon Bromst3.0Mastodon Crack the Skye4.0The Decemberists The Hazards of Love3.5Kylesa Static Tensions3.5Trophy Scars Bad Luck2.0Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Beware!3.0Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen3.5Josh Reichmann Oracle Band Crazy Power3.5Propagandhi Supporting Caste2.5Buried Inside Spoils Of Failure4.0The Antlers Hospice2.5Urna Iter Ad Lucem3.0Embrace Of Thorns Atonement Ritual2.0Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles3.5Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain3.0Obscura Cosmogenesis3.0The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha3.0Absu Absu2.5Excoriate On Pestilent Winds...3.0Passenger Action Passenger Action3.0Ametsub The Nothings Of The North3.0The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart3.5Throne Of Katarsis Helvete - Det Iskalde Mørket3.5Architects Hollow Crown2.5Solstafir Köld4.5John Frusciante The Empyrean4.5Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains3.0Wardruna Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga2.0Fen The Malediction Fields2.0Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion3.5Desidia Desidia3.5Moss Tombs of the Blind Drugged3.5Gray Ghost Deep In The Shallow End3.5Xerath I2.02008 Woods of Desolation Toward the Depths4.0Steven Wilson Insurgentes4.0Hope For The Dying Hope For The Dying3.5Cynic Traced in Air4.5Deerhunter Weird Era Cont.2.0TV on the Radio Dear Science2.5Ohana Dead Beat1.5Intronaut Prehistoricisms3.5Burst Lazarus Bird2.5Metallica Death Magnetic1.5Adebisi Shank This is the Album3.5United Nations United Nations4.0Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation2.5Hollywood Undead Swan Songs1.0Deerhunter Microcastle3.5Jesu/Battle of Mice Split3.5Mesa Verde The Old Road4.0Krallice Krallice4.0Neuraxis The Thin Line Between3.0Whitechapel This Is Exile1.5Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust4.0Quite possibly the most surprising release of 2008, having followed the almost uninspired 4th studio album by Icelandic Post-Rock legends Sigur R?I did not think that this would show anything more than a continued downward trend. In fact I played the opening song Gobbledigook once, and immediately turned it off thinking that it was nothing more than crap. Then after my visit to UT in early November, I was asked why I don?t listen to happy music by two of the women I went to see there. I was quite simply put, offended. A day later from returning from the trip, I put this album back on and was completely and utterly floored by it. With A Buzz In Our Ears We Play Endlessly is quite simply put, a more powerfully hopeful record than anything I?ve ever heard before. From the playfulness of Inn??Syngur Vitleysingur, the unforeseen epic nature of Festival and ra B?r, to the lamenting hope of All Alright, Jonsi Birgisson creates the perfect environment for a reflective and joyous beauty. That even in the darkest and most subtle times, we can smile and listen to our music.Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe1.5Girl Talk Feed the Animals1.0pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You!2.5My Education Bad Vibrations4.0Killing The Dream Fractures3.5Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect?3.5Opeth Watershed2.0Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town3.5Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes3.0The Music Strength In Numbers1.5No-Man Schoolyard Ghosts2.5Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward2.0Russian Circles Station3.5Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace4.5Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema3.5Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV3.0Arsis We Are the Nightmare1.5Mirrorthrone Gangrene3.5Sun Kil Moon April4.5Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep4.0Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons2.5The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave3.5Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom4.0Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!2.0Genghis Tron Board Up the House3.5Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring3.5Capsule (US) Blue3.5The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath4.0The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life3.5Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness5.0In Mourning Shrouded Divine4.0Envy/Jesu Split3.0Envy side was kind of a disappointment in my eyes. All three songs featured fairly standard post rock song structures. The first song had Japanese spoken word, which worked against the song, and the heavy post-hardcore build up at the end of the second song felt severely out of place. The third Envy song was by far the best, but still nothing that great. As for Jesu, the first song takes a fairly standard, yet still good, Jesu idea and played it for way too long. 13 minutes of an electronica heavy loop, with only mild guitar distortion leads to a song twice as long as it should be. Nearly every other Jesu song over 10 minutes surpasses this one. However, the second Jesu track completely saves the split in my opinion. A fantastic , heart-warming track that still keeps the nihilistic attitude of past Jesu releases. The double bass buildup towards the end was definitely the kicker, seeing as its something Broadrick hasn't yet tried with his new project thus far. Off Minor Some Blood4.5Trapped Under Ice Stay Cold3.02007 Nobuo Uematsu Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy3.5Primordial To the Nameless Dead2.5Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between2.0Angels and Airwaves I-Empire1.0Burial Untrue2.0Britney Spears Blackout1.0Jesu Lifeline EP2.5Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II4.0Radiohead In Rainbows3.5It doesn't age very well -- but there are a couple stand out tracks to love. Videotape in particular.Jesu Pale Sketches3.5These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove3.0MGMT Oracular Spectacular2.0Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com1.0Rosetta Wake/Lift4.0After Forever After Forever1.0Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters4.5The Weakerthans Reunion Tour2.0Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant1.5Between the Buried and Me Colors4.5The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal2.5High on Fire Death Is This Communion2.5Kanye West Graduation1.5Animal Collective Strawberry Jam3.5Baroness Red Album4.0Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet2.0Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen.1.5Amorphis Silent Waters2.5Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor1.0Drudkh Estrangement3.5As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us2.0Modern Life Is War Midnight in America3.5The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi2.5Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde4.0The New Pornographers Challengers2.0Slough Feg Hardworlder3.0Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago4.0Pharoahe Monch Desire2.0August Burns Red Messengers2.0The White Stripes Icky Thump1.0Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb3.5Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris1.0Sigh Hangman's Hymn4.0The National Boxer4.0Battles Mirrored2.5Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight1.0Anyone that gives this above a 2 is insane, or being forced. I hate politically charged albums. They are so shallow and inconceivably limiting. Don't care if i agree with you, just don't sing about it.Sol (DK) Let There Be A Massacre3.0Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire2.5Dinosaur Jr. Beyond4.0Dark Tranquillity Fiction4.0Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty4.5Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet4.5God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge2.5Blonde Redhead 233.0Jesu Sun Down / Sun Rise3.0Rome Confessions D'Un Voleur D'Ames3.5John Butler Trio Grand National2.5Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank1.5Arcade Fire Neon Bible3.5Air Pocket Symphony2.0Blackfield Blackfield II3.5Jesu Conqueror3.0Eluvium Copia4.5Kroda Fimbulvinter2.0The Good, The Bad and The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen2.0Atreyu The Best of Atreyu1.0Iced Earth Framing Armageddon2.5Insect Warfare World Extermination2.5Walknut Graveforests and Their Shadows3.52006 Aghora Formless3.0Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades2.5Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies2.0Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me5.0+44 When Your Heart Stops Beating3.0Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss4.5Joanna Newsom Ys4.0Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights2.5My Chemical Romance The Black Parade3.0Converge No Heroes4.0The Decemberists The Crane Wife3.0Negura Bunget OM3.5mewithoutYou Brother, Sister3.0Kasabian Empire1.0Mastodon Blood Mountain2.5The Mars Volta Amputechture3.5There isnt as much to say about this album as there was about the two predecessors. The first four songs are quite strong and have taken a more "precision first" and an almost jazzy influence. Asilos Magdalena is the middle eastern string arrangement that makes me skip it everytime, except i have to give it credit for the good lyrics that it contained. Then is Viscera Eyes, the more radio friendly song from their At-The Drive In days which is great, but doesnt offer as much growth as the rest of The Mars Volta's work. Next, Day of the Baphomets tops the list on the level of experimentation, and it seems to switch time signatures the most out of all. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but it is just simply put, “a grower” and isn’t easy to get into at first. Lastly, El Ciervo Vulnerado is a little repetetive at times, without the same flare as Vicarious Atonement, but still is a powerful track and is a good ending to Amputechture. Even though a slight drop in performance for Omar and Cendric, it is still an overall great album, and is a must for any Mars Volta fans or prog rockers.Audioslave Revelations2.0All Shall Perish The Price of Existence1.0Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain3.5Muse Black Holes & Revelations2.0This album could have been great. Starlight through Map of the Problematique is absolutely killer to listen to. However my main problem with this album is firstly it alludes to the slow song overdose on Showbiz. Secondly, the political theme. There is a difference between a political song and a political album to me. A political song is one's opinion and holds the same weight as a girlfriend to that person at times, but a political album about their disproval over two guys seems really shallow. Take a Bow, Soldier's Poem, and Exo-Politics suffer because of the blatant overdose of hatred for these people rather than disagreement and their frustration with it. I don't take lightly on such shallow abuse of one's ability to communicate their ill-conceived opinions on something they really have no intelligence about. But that's just me. If you took a hacksaw to this and came out with six songs, it would be one of my favorite EP's ever, but not so much as an LP.Thom Yorke The Eraser2.5Lostprophets Liberation Transmission1.5Underoath Define the Great Line4.0Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here3.5Keane Under The Iron Sea1.5AFI Decemberunderground1.5Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper2.0As I Lay Dying A Long March: The First Recordings2.0Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium3.0What surprised me about Stadium Arcadium is that there is none of the old 'Red Hot Filler' that plagues the second half of the album like in BSSM, Californication and By the Way. Sure there a 3 or 4 songs that I dislike, but for the peppers to pull of a 28 track double album like this blew me away. They pull from all of their styles, extreme funk to slow jam to an almost ballad-like approach. The first two songs are very easily the highlights of the album next to "Readymade", "Wet Sand", and the title track, but nearly ever song on here is enjoyable and well crafted. Another noticeable thing is that the amazing Frusciante /actually/ showcases his talent on more than one song. Unfortunately, that doesn't take away from the fact that there aren't enough great moments to outweigh the just good moments. Inevitably, the album consists of too many just "slightly-better-than-filler" tracks. Pearl Jam Pearl Jam1.0Tool 10,000 Days1.0Thursday A City By the Light Divided3.0Intronaut Void3.0Martin O'Donnell Halo 2, Vol. 2 OST3.0Taking Back Sunday Louder Now3.5Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy2.0Jesu Silver4.5Summoning Oath Bound4.5Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday1.5Amorphis Eclipse2.0Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely1.0Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars5.0Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust3.5Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue2.5DragonForce Inhuman Rampage2.0Drudkh Blood In Our Wells5.0Sombres Forets Quintessence4.52005 Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits3.0Korn See You on the Other Side1.0Solstafir Masterpiece of Bitterness3.0Boris Pink3.5blink-182 Greatest Hits3.5Arsis A Diamond for Disease3.5Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft2.0Thrice Vheissu4.5Animal Collective Feels3.0Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better1.0HIM Dark Light1.0Sigur Ros Takk...3.0Killing The Dream In Place, Apart3.5Matt Elliott Drinking Songs4.0Opeth Ghost Reveries2.5Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation3.0Protest the Hero Kezia2.0Minus the Bear Menos El Oso3.5The New Pornographers Twin Cinema2.5Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine2.5The All-American Rejects Move Along1.0CKY An Answer Can Be Found1.0Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin4.0Aletheian Dying Vine3.0As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest2.0dredg Catch Without Arms3.0As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security2.0Foo Fighters In Your Honor1.5Coldplay X&Y3.0The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan2.0Dream Theater Octavarium2.5Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree3.5Audioslave Out of Exile2.5Gorillaz Demon Days3.5Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World5.0In Pieces Lions Write History4.0Porcupine Tree Deadwing3.5Jaga Jazzist What We Must3.5Drudkh The Swan Road2.5Moonsorrow Verisäkeet3.5The Mars Volta Frances the Mute5.0Primordial The Gathering Wilderness2.0John Frusciante Curtains4.0God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright3.5Dark Tranquillity Character3.5Cursed II3.5Wolves in the Throne Room Demo3.5Modern Life Is War Witness4.52004 Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course1.0Creed Greatest Hits1.0John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer A Sphere in the Heart of Silence3.0MF DOOM MM.. Food4.0Eminem Encore1.5Kasabian Kasabian1.5Relient K Mmhmm3.0John Frusciante Inside of Emptiness2.5Pig Destroyer Terrifyer4.0Wintersun Wintersun2.0Jesu Jesu4.0Interpol Antics2.5Green Day American Idiot2.5Converge You Fail Me4.5The Music Welcome To The North4.0 Different than the previous debut album, Welcome to the North's pace is much quicker, precise, and an all around better record. It's quality is spread pretty cleanly through the eleven tracks, and the jam band rock is easily described as both fun and satisifying for those deep listeners. However not the most original of the British Indie bands, The Music only offers a different tone. Their almost calming ambience on some tracks is very nice. It's a hard difference to describe, but whatever it is, it's there, and it brings the record to a very solid outcome. This is by far the best album i ever bought on accident.Arcade Fire Funeral4.0John Frusciante DC EP3.0Amon Amarth Fate of Norns2.0Drudkh Autumn Aurora5.0Mastodon Leviathan2.0Omar Rodriguez-Lopez A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Vol. 13.5Off Minor Innominate4.5Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy3.0Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be3.5Zao The Funeral of God4.0Xasthur To Violate the Oblivious3.0Atreyu The Curse1.0Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm3.5John Frusciante The Will to Death3.5My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge4.0Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache1.5Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News2.5Eagles Of Death Metal Peace Love Death Metal1.5Madvillain Madvillainy3.5Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand2.0Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any...1.0John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People4.0Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)2.0Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder...1.0Lostprophets Start Something2.0Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo5.0DragonForce Sonic Firestorm2.0Iced Earth The Glorious Burden4.0Arsis A Celebration of Guilt3.0Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor4.5Wolves in the Throne Room Wolves in the Throne Room2.02003 blink-182 Blink-1825.0Jay-Z The Black Album1.5Dream Theater Train of Thought3.5Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place3.5Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway4.5Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus4.0Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye3.5Xasthur The Funeral of Being3.0Muse Absolution3.0Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide1.5Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll2.0The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists1.5Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion2.0Edge of Sanity Crimson II3.5Drudkh Forgotten Legends5.0Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance4.5Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands4.5As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse2.0The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium4.5Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People3.0Mew Frengers4.5Radiohead Hail to the Thief4.0Metallica St. Anger1.0Hot Cross Cryonics3.5Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja3.5Mirrorthrone Of Wind and Weeping3.0The New Pornographers Electric Version2.5Opeth Damnation2.5All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge1.5The White Stripes Elephant1.5Linkin Park Meteora3.0Relient K Two Lefts Dont Make a Right But Three Do3.0DragonForce Valley of the Damned1.0Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe5.0Linkin Park Live In Texas2.0The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk1.0Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb3.0Cursed I4.52002 Sum 41 Does This Look Infected?3.0System of a Down Steal This Album!1.0Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend3.5Audioslave Audioslave2.5Opeth Deliverance3.0Symphony X The Odyssey4.0Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.4.5Sigur Ros ( )5.0Foo Fighters One by One1.5Demon Hunter Demon Hunter1.5Hopesfall The Satellite Years3.0The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects1.0CKY Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild1.5Porcupine Tree In Absentia3.5The Music The Music3.5Having listened to Welcome to the North first, i already heard the more precise and perfected sound of The Music. However, that isnt to say their self-titled album isnt good. They have a different tone to most British rock bands, and although somewhat underground in name and fame, they hold a very nice effect over all that seems natural and seemingly mainstream at times. It's a good album that only really trips up on the track Getaway, but its still a good buy for those who are British Indie/Jam fans.Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head3.0Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf4.0Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights3.5Dark Tranquillity Damage Done4.0Linkin Park Reanimation1.0My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love1.0The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots3.5Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way2.0This is worst and has most filler of all of the Red Hot Chili Pepper's albums with Frusciante. By the Way starts off with an absolutely stellar song, followed by another 5 great songs, and then hits a brick wall and remains average to above average at best (minus Venus Queen). By the Way also offers the most radio-friendly selection of songs (if RHCP weren't friendly enough), but this effort comes out as more of an entourage of half-baked slow songs for the RHCP. Don't get me wrong, they are good songs since Flea, Frusciante, and Chad Smith help make the Peppers possibly the most talented band of the '00's, but for the Peppers, they should also make music on par with their style and talent.Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses1.0Mastodon Remission3.0The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts2.0Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing2.5Eminem The Eminem Show2.0Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose4.0Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends3.5Knut Challenger4.0The Mars Volta Tremulant3.5dredg El Cielo4.5Thrice The Illusion of Safety4.0Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane3.5Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence2.5Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless1.5Box Car Racer Box Car Racer2.5Agalloch The Mantle4.0Arcturus The Sham Mirrors3.0Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry3.5Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting3.0Burnt By the Sun Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution3.5ISIS Oceanic4.02001 maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map4.5Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame4.0Transatlantic Bridge Across Forever4.0Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View2.57 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby4.5The Microphones The Glow Pt. 24.0Converge Jane Doe5.0Radiohead Amnesiac2.0Jimmy Eat World Bleed American3.0Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape4.0Muse Origin of Symmetry4.0maudlin of the Well Bath5.0The White Stripes White Blood Cells2.5pg.99 Document #85.0As I Lay Dying Beneath the Encasing of Ashes3.0blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket3.0American Nightmare Background Music2.5Sum 41 All Killer No Filler2.5Saetia A Retrospective3.0Gorillaz Gorillaz1.0Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You4.0Arch Enemy Wages of Sin2.5Pete Yorn musicforthemorningafter3.0Opeth Blackwater Park4.5Zao (Self-Titled)3.5John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days3.0Iced Earth Horror Show3.5Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte3.5The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster3.52000 The White Stripes De Stijl1.5The New Pornographers Mass Romantic2.5The Beatles 12.5Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven5.0Linkin Park Hybrid Theory4.0Electric Wizard Dopethrone3.5Radiohead Kid A4.0This album is given so much praise for its shock value and uniqueness. It's not as unique as people make it out to be either. The album starts off with some of its more electronic influenced songs, pulls out a jazzy/bass-driven song, brings in a beautiful acoustic ballad, How to Disappear Completely, that is haunting as it is moving. The next three songs can wane on anyone's patience as they either deliver nothing new, or are a crappy attempt at ambiance (treefingers). Then we get to the highlights. Idioteque is the most accessible, fun, and yet deepest lyrics of the album, and yet has all the stops of extreme electronica. Then is Morning Bell which drops the ball from amazing to just good, and then the album concludes on the wonderfully emotional Motion Picture Soundtrack. It's a beautifully moving track reminiscent of 'A Day in the Life' by the Beatles. This album takes some good listens to get into, but it keeps you hooked from then on.Quo Vadis Day Into Night4.0At the Drive-In Relationship of Command4.5Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon4.0In Flames Clayman2.0Dark Tranquillity Haven3.5Coldplay Parachutes2.0Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage1.5Cursive Domestica4.0Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica1.5Queens of the Stone Age Rated R4.5Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP4.0Thrice Identity Crisis2.0Shadows Fall Of One Blood1.5NSYNC No Strings Attached1.5Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper1.5Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water1.5Deltron 3030 Deltron 30304.5Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun3.5Skycamefalling 10.213.5pg.99 Document #54.0Living Sacrifice The Hammering Process3.0Weakling Dead as Dreams4.01999 Botch We Are the Romans3.5Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening3.5Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose1.0Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory4.0Opeth Still Life5.0Windir Arntor4.0Alan Parsons The Time Machine1.5American Football American Football4.0Dark Tranquillity Skydancer/Of Chaos And Eternal Night2.5Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis3.0At the Drive-In Vaya4.0Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself2.0Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun3.5In Flames Colony3.5Muse Showbiz2.0A good starter album for Muse, one of my favorite bands by the way, but its problem is that its less of an album and more of a collection of songs. The flow lacks and its cohesiveness leaves a little to be wanted. Showbiz followed by Muscle Museum are the main stand out tracks, and the first nine songs stand fairly well seperately as songs, but the last three really lack. They are slow and plainly put, unentertaining…my main falldown with the album.Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication3.5blink-182 Enema Of The State5.0dredg Leitmotif3.0Backstreet Boys Millennium1.0Children of Bodom Hatebreeder2.5The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin3.0Summoning Stronghold4.0Neurosis Times of Grace4.5Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada5.0CKY Volume 13.0Eminem The Slim Shady LP3.5The White Stripes The White Stripes2.0Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles3.0Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream4.0Agalloch Pale Folklore3.5Arvo Part Alina3.0maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible4.01998 Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come3.5Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age2.0Death The Sound of Perseverance4.5At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out3.5Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse5.0Cave In Until Your Heart Stops3.5Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest4.0Converge When Forever Comes Crashing4.5Catch 22 Keasbey Nights5.0Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea5.0Dan Swano Moontower3.0Coalesce Functioning on Impatience3.51997 In Flames Whoracle3.5Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West2.0John Frusciante Smile from the Streets You Hold4.0Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞5.0blink-182 Dude Ranch2.0Radiohead OK Computer5.0Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape3.5A very solid performance by Dave Grohl Inc. indeed. I personally think its there stand out album with such tracks as "My Hero", "Monkey Wrench", and my personal favorite "Everlong". However, unlike most Foo Fighter's albums, there are other songs you wont skip. The first 11 songs are pretty strong, and i find none of them filler. Maybe Doll isnt the most appropriate minute and a half opener to Monkey Wrench, but its fairly good, and it's not too sappy like Grohl's later efforts at the acoustic. Anyway, this is must for any Foo fan, Nirvana fan, and just Alternative rock jock in general. However, after Everlong i would quickly press stop. The last two songs make me cringe with mediocrity.Children of Bodom Something Wild3.0Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One3.5Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy3.5Ulver Nattens Madrigal4.0Elliott Smith Either/Or4.5Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk3.0Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I3.5Borknagar The Olden Domain3.0Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics...4.0John Frusciante Estrus4.51996 The Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script 3.0Opeth Morningrise4.5Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire2.0Edge of Sanity Crimson4.0In Flames The Jester Race3.5Summoning Dol Guldur4.0At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement2.5Porcupine Tree Signify2.5Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky4.5Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst3.5Arvo Part Litany4.0Burzum Filosofem4.51995 Dark Tranquillity The Gallery4.5GZA Liquid Swords5.0The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness2.0Summoning Minas Morgul4.5The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic4.0Elliott Smith Elliott Smith3.5Foo Fighters Foo Fighters2.0Opeth Orchid3.5Iced Earth Burnt Offerings2.5Radiohead The Bends4.5Death Symbolic3.5Summoning Lugburz2.5Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler5.0At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul3.0Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane3.0Suffocation Pierced from Within4.51994 Tiamat Wildhoney3.0Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow3.0Jeff Buckley Grace3.5Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound3.0Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley3.5Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger3.0Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse4.0Weezer Weezer3.0Nas Illmatic3.5Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VI: Original Soundtrack5.0John Frusciante Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt5.0Green Day Dookie2.0Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas2.0Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss4.5Sunny Day Real Estate Diary3.5Unbroken Life. Love. Regret.4.51993 Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain3.5Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)3.0Arvo Part Te Deum3.5Nirvana In Utero3.5Melvins Houdini3.5Burzum Det Som Engang Var3.5Death Individual Thought Patterns3.5Radiohead Pablo Honey2.0Burzum Aske3.0Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been4.0At first the album seemed linear, one-angled, and it dragged on a bit towards the end. Yet, upon further, deeper listens, the music began to speak to me in a different way. It doesn't grasp the listener at the first, or second, or maybe even fifth listen. But suddenly it becomes different notes, different vocals, different music on that Nth listen. On that Nth listen it just fits, it works, and it hit me. Where You Been is a deeper and more complex album than you would initially realize on first listen. It might boil down to be alienating at first, Johnson's inaudible bass may begin peeve you, or simply J Mascis doesn't end up having your style of voice. Yet, the impurities of this album is what makes it so honest and fascinating. There is no heart wrenching pain, no hidden messages, no joyous celebration, no over-production. It's crude, unperfected, surface oriented alternative rock. Yet, whenever i spin this CD, it makes me just want to sit down and...smile. The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart3.0Cynic Focus4.5Carcass Heartwork2.5Mortification Post Momentary Affliction3.0Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity3.5Unbroken Ritual3.51992 Dr. Dre The Chronic2.0Nirvana Incesticide1.5Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine2.5Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky3.0Dream Theater Images and Words5.0Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism2.5Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun4.0Black Sabbath Dehumanizer4.0Burzum Burzum2.0Pantera Vulgar Display of Power1.5Mortification Scrolls of the Megilloth4.01991 Talk Talk Laughing Stock2.5My Bloody Valentine Loveless3.5Death Human4.5It is quite simply put, the greatest expression of traditional Death Metal ever written. Albeit only 34 minutes in length, Chuck Shuldiner?s 4th studio album with his legendary band named Death is the embodiment of what Death Metal, and all extreme metal should strive for. There is no wasted time, no weak riffs, nothing that isn?t inspiring and powerful. From the beginning ferociousness of Flattening Of Emotions, to the ending cascade of Vacant Planets, these 8 songs showcase the ingenuity of the premature subgenre, while still being able to go beyond the constraints of it to unseen territory, that many could argue have yet to have been equaled. Not to mention that the fact that this beast was written by the Godfather of Death Metal, in a time as early as 1991, speaks enough for itself. Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten3.5Nirvana Nevermind3.0Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik3.0Considered a landmark in Funk Metal and Alternative history, Blood Sugar Sex Magik is considered the Magnum Opus of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I partially agree with the former statement. This is the magnum opus of the RHCP as we know them by 1991. The first 13 songs rock like hell, but starting with The Greeting Song, the RHCP provide their age old problem of filling the tail end of the album with unneeded and mediocre filler. Apache Rose Peacock isnt an album ender, but anything is better than ruining the last tracks of an album. I dunno, im not a fan of the last four tracks. It really brings the album down for me. Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II1.5Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I1.5Atheist Unquestionable Presence4.0Pearl Jam Ten1.0Metallica Metallica1.0Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream4.5Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind3.0Gorguts Considered Dead4.5Mortification Mortification4.0Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious3.0The Smashing Pumpkins Gish3.0Slint Spiderland3.01990 Megadeth Rust in Peace4.5Judas Priest Painkiller4.0Pantera Cowboys from Hell1.5Entombed Left Hand Path4.0Bathory Hammerheart2.0Naked City Naked City3.51989 Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk1.0Nirvana Bleach2.5Bleach is an "Alright" album. It doesnt get more above average than this really when it comes to rock. It starts fairly solid with Blew and Floyd the Barber, then gives a more Alternative foreshadowing with About a Girl, and it slowly gets more and more mediocre. It helps that Nirvana made this, i'm sure, but the album isnt too exciting for non-Nirvana fans. Then again, for $600, i guess this record is a "masterpiece" in some retrospects. It also makes one wonder how Nirvana jumps from this album to their next Magnum Opus, Nirvana in just two short years. One has to wonder...Morbid Angel Altars of Madness3.5Godflesh Streetcleaner4.01988 Guns N' Roses G N' R Lies1.0Dinosaur Jr. Bug3.5Metallica ...And Justice for All2.0I'm sorry, i just finished this album again...start to finish...and these tracks seem to run all together and sound so similar. They weren't given the same effort, have the same beauty, and nothing memorable when it comes to hooks. The musicianship is amazing, and Kirk's solo's have never sounded so good, but once you get past that, there is really nothing deeper to find in the record. Everything is surface based. Excluded from these thoughts are Blackened, the title track, and One of course. One is absolutely amazing. I think any Metal fan should purchase the album just for these tracks, but be prepared to grow tired of the recycled guitar sounds and riffs throughout the whole second half of the album. Where's my bass guitar?Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son4.5Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!2.01987 Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me5.0Candlemass Nightfall3.0Def Leppard Hysteria2.0Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction2.51986 Slayer Reign in Blood3.5Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time3.0Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?2.5Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus3.5Metallica Master of Puppets3.01985 Slayer Hell Awaits2.5Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!3.0Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur3.01984 Arvo Part Tabula Rasa4.0Iron Maiden Powerslave3.5Metallica Ride the Lightning3.5Dio The Last in Line2.0Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather3.5The Alan Parsons Project Ammonia Avenue2.0Black Flag My War2.51983 Metallica Kill 'Em All2.5Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood3.0Dio Holy Diver4.0Iron Maiden Piece of Mind3.0Def Leppard Pyromania1.51982 Rush Signals3.0Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance3.5The Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky2.5Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast4.5Asia Asia2.0Misfits Walk Among Us2.51981 Black Flag Damaged3.5AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You1.0Black Sabbath Mob Rules4.0Journey Escape1.0Rush Moving Pictures4.0Iron Maiden Killers5.01980 Motorhead Ace of Spades3.5Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz2.5AC/DC Back In Black2.5Being one of the best selling and most legendary albums of all time is more than enough reason to purchase this album. However, it's main notary is that AC/DC and Brian Johnson were able to come back from the devastating loss of Bon Scott with an even more powerful album than the last. Not to mention that Back In Black and You Shook Me All Night Long are amazing anthems which have become a pure definition of AC/DC and the 70's rock n' roll they represent (Irony aside of its '80 release). The difference between Back in Black and Highway to Hell is that this album doesnt have the consistent good filler songs that Highway to Hell had. Particularly Givin the Dog a Bone and What Do You Do For Money Honey are a foreshadowing of Johnson's weak and clichéd lyrics later in the 80's. However, that aside, when the song was good...it was amazing, non-stop rock n' roll.Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell3.5Iron Maiden Iron Maiden4.5Def Leppard On Through the Night1.0Rush Permanent Waves3.51979 The Clash London Calling2.0Pink Floyd The Wall2.0Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door1.5AC/DC Highway To Hell2.5Motorhead Overkill3.5Each of these songs are purely fun and nostalgic (even though this album was released 11 years before i was even born). Their simple, raw nature is what makes each one of them so individualistic and appealing. From the raspy speech to grinding guitar chords, excellent drumming, and headbanging bass 'riffs'. To anyone who loves their classic metal origins, buy this album. In its veins lie some of the real roots of metal in its purest form. One word can summarize this album. Baddassery.1978 Rush Hemispheres3.0AC/DC Powerage1.0Judas Priest Stained Class3.5Boston Don't Look Back1.51977 Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors2.5Kansas Point of Know Return1.5Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols1.5Rush A Farewell to Kings3.5The Clash The Clash2.0AC/DC Let There Be Rock1.5Pink Floyd Animals3.51976 Kansas Leftoverture1.5AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap2.0To me Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is by all means equal in entertainment and playable to its predecessor High Voltage. It's title track along with Rocker are the stand out tracks, and overall the album seems to cohere better than High Voltage. However, there is no monstrously awesome song that serves as a climax or milestone in the album. Not to mention it has Squealer and Big Balls which brings the whole album down with its ineffective double entendres and almost annoying lyrics. Although this album receives high praise as their #3 release, I think it?s the weakest of Bon Scott's.Boston Boston2.5Ramones Ramones1.0AC/DC High Voltage2.0When it comes to straight up, hardcore, and simple rock n' roll, High Voltage is a milestone. First released in 1975, its main songs are quite catchy, memorable, and above all, exciting to listen to. AC/DC is awesome. But it suffers where they also lack. Depth. Little Lover and She's Got Balls are stupid lyrics with a decent riff behind them, and The Jack's cool blues theme barely boosts it to an above average song with its also shallow poker lingo. But with that aside, It's a Long way to the Top is one of AC/DC's most famous songs ever, along with personal favorites of TNT and High Voltage. When AC/DC does it right, they do it damn good.Rush 21125.0Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny3.5Eagles Hotel California3.01975 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here4.5Lynyrd Skynyrd Nuthin' Fancy2.0Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti2.0Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks4.01974 King Crimson Red5.0Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping3.5Eagles On The Border2.5When it comes down to this album, On the Border has some very nice tunes and catchy hooks, but all in all, the great songwriting ability of the Eagles doesn't always shine through. Too often do they find themselves rehashing the same old material, or they exhibit their obligation to a southern jam. Intended to be fun, they often drag and bore, losing at the song's most obvious purpose. The album is also often plagued with clich? unoriginal lyrics about love. Being from a time where love and women are all that is sung about in popular music, the Eagles contribute yet another album that would have been lost with the test of time had it not been for their future releases and great singles.Yes Relayer3.51973 Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath2.5Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd5.0The Allman Brothers Band Brothers and Sisters3.5ZZ Top Tres Hombres1.5Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells5.0Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy2.5Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon4.0The Allman Brothers Band Beginnings4.01972 Black Sabbath Vol. 41.5Yes Close to the Edge4.0Nick Drake Pink Moon5.0The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach4.51971 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV3.5The Who Who's Next3.0Black Sabbath Master of Reality4.5It might be a little too bold of a statement to say that this album gives the framework for the history of metal that followed, but I'm going to say it anyway. It has the subject matter, the atmosphere, and the RIFFS to rival the best of the best. When it comes to metal, Tony Iommi started it all. This album may not have the eponymous "Black Sabbath" or the mainstream staples "Iron Man" and "Paranoid," but damn does it have everything else. Nick Drake Bryter Layter3.5Yes The Yes Album3.5Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat3.01970 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III3.0Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother3.0Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman4.5The Allman Brothers Band Idlewild South4.5Black Sabbath Paranoid2.5The Beatles Let It Be2.5Black Sabbath Black Sabbath5.01969 The Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band3.5Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II3.0King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King4.0The Beatles Abbey Road4.0The Who Tommy3.5Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin3.51968 The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland2.01967 The Who The Who Sell Out2.5The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love2.0The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour3.0Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn3.5The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band3.0The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico4.51965 The Who My Generation2.5Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited3.0
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