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2020
Westerman Your Hero Is Not Dead	4.5

2018
Kurt Vile Bottle It In	3.0
Big Red Machine Big Red Machine	3.0
Oneohtrix Point Never Age Of	3.0
Tierra Whack Whack World	4.0
Frank Ocean Endless	4.5
Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour	4.0
The Decemberists I’ll Be Your Girl	3.0
of Montreal White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood	3.5
Andrew W.K. You're Not Alone	2.0
Soccer Mommy Clean	4.0
A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017	3.5
U.S. Girls In A Poem Unlimited	3.5
Jeff Rosenstock POST-	4.0

2017
Special Explosion To Infinity	3.0
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice	3.5
The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding	4.5
Mac DeMarco This Old Dog	3.5
Real Estate In Mind	3.0
Visible Cloaks Reassemblage	3.0
Japandroids Near To The Wild Heart Of Life	2.5

2016
Kraus End Tomorrow	3.5
dvsn Sept. 5th	3.5
Pinegrove Cardinal	4.0
Wet Don't You	3.0

2015
Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete	4.0
Tame Impala Currents	4.0
Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material	4.0
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell	4.5

2014
Aphex Twin Syro	4.0
Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal	4.0

2013
The Dismemberment Plan Uncanney Valley	3.0
Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer Different Park	4.0

2012
Parquet Courts Light Up Gold	4.0
Japandroids Celebration Rock	4.5

2011
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues	4.0
The Weeknd House of Balloons	4.5
R.E.M. Collapse Into Now	2.5
Yuck Yuck	4.5
James Blake James Blake	4.0
Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean	3.5

2010
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	4.0
There's no telling where the melodramatic saga of Kanye West will go from here, but My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, his magnum opus, is the culmination of all the hubris, all the contradictions of image, all the public meltdowns, and all the inner demons and paranoia made public from life under a magnifying glass. As someone who was not particularly enthralled by West's antics or music until buzz tracks for Twisted Fantasy started dropping, this album has floored me in its excitement, honesty and boundary-bending ambition. "Power" indulges West's self-glorifying tendencies to startling impact, "Devil in a New Dress" gorgeously samples Smokey Robinson's "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?", and centerpiece "Runaway" closes on several minutes of auto-tuned, destroyed vocals that is riveting in its opaqueness. West raps with a confidence reflected in his music and the guest appearances shine brightly, especially Nicki Minaj's scorched-earth verse on "Monster", John Legend's graceful piano and singing on "Blame Game", and the numerous contributions of Bon Iver's (?!) Justin Vernon, which includes the generous donation of his song "Woods" for West's re-imagining in "Lost in the World". You could say Dark Fantasy is a game-changer in hip hop, and it should be, but perhaps it's not. Instead maybe it's just a stand-alone masterwork from an artist in a league all his own.
Just Like Vinyl Just Like Vinyl	2.0
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz	3.5
Guster Easy Wonderful	2.5
Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People	3.0
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Let It Sway	2.5
Wavves King of the Beach	3.5
Arcade Fire The Suburbs	3.5
Candy Claws Hidden Lands	3.5
Baths Cerulean	1.5
Male Bonding Nothing Hurts	4.0
Beach Fossils Beach Fossils	3.0
It's more lo-fi, lazy summer music in the vein of Real Estate. Guitars jangle and interweave, beach bum vocals echo, and the tambourine rattles with glee. Unfortunately, Beach Fossils is so sun-bleached it virtually dissipates, as there's little substantial about the melodies, lyrics, or any insight on the band itself. The album's psychedelic fog and easy aesthetic are certainly chill to the core (and for that lo-fi summer sound I'm absolutely a sucker) but as each melody meanders by in about the same fashion as the last, the album progresses by walking in place.
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid	4.5
LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening	4.5
Avi Buffalo Avi Buffalo	2.5
The Radio Dept. Clinging to a Scheme	4.5
"Heaven's on Fire" just floors me every time. Now with that song hitting a perfect balance of the Radio Dept.'s shoegaze haze, catchy hook-reaching and symphonic punch, where does that leave the rest of Clinging to a Scheme? Well, while never touching the success of "Heaven's on Fire," hooks abound, and the album's thoughtful indie pop is both tonally calming and instrumentally propulsive. When the band settles for reflective mood-setting ("A Token of Gratitude", "Memory Loss") the mix can get a bit drab, but when they dish out poppier offerings ("Heaven's on Fire", "David"), their sonic beauty is breathtaking.
Dr. Dog Shame, Shame	4.0
Not much is different for Dr. Dog since 2008's Fate, as the band is still glorifying their '60s pop rock idols, but the formula works better here. The songs distinguish themselves much better and instrumentation is a bit more varied, producing great tracks like "Where'd All the Time Go" and "Jackie Wants a Black Eye". Whether it's something the band have never been able to accomplish after six albums or if it's just in their DNA (I think the latter), Dr. Dog still doesn't have the teeth to make them a breakthrough group. But Shame, Shame is an easy rock pleasure, and sometimes that's really all you need.
Dum Dum Girls I Will Be	3.5
She and Him Volume Two	3.0
Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I	3.5
The exuberance feels spur-of-the-moment, but each Streetlight release has spent a good while in the incubator under Tomas Kalnoky's care. He and the rest of the ska punk outfit, arguably the most exciting and unique on the scene today, love to tease fans with delayed releases and several years between LPs. So some skepticism could be in order as the band's efforts are now focused on a 99 song, 8 album project of cover songs. Yes, it could be a while until we get original tunes from Kalnoky's pen, but beggars can't be choosers. Besides, it's hard to dislike the project's first installment, as the band's signature frenzy makes for innovative and fun remakes. In particular check out their chaotic take on Radiohead's "Just", a friendlier version of Bad Religion's "Skyscraper", and damn clever retooling of Postal Service hit "Such Great Heights".
Delorean Subiza	4.0
The Morning Benders Big Echo	4.0
Gorillaz Plastic Beach	4.0
jj jj n° 3	2.5
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists The Brutalist Bricks	3.5
Free Energy Stuck On Nothing	4.0
Title Tracks It Was Easy	3.0
So Cow Meaningless Friendly	1.5
Yeasayer Odd Blood	3.5
Beach House Teen Dream	3.0
Surfer Blood Astro Coast	4.0
Dom (USA) Sun Bronzed Greek Gods	3.5
Vampire Weekend Contra	4.0

2009
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind	4.0
Real Estate Real Estate	4.5
Local Natives Gorilla Manor	3.5
Neon Indian Psychic Chasms	4.0
Christmas Island Blackout Summer	2.0
No Age Losing Feeling	4.0
The Raveonettes In and Out of Control	3.0
Memory Tapes Seek Magic	3.0
Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk	3.5
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Higher Than the Stars	4.0
Girls Album	4.0
Polvo In Prism	3.0
The Dodos Time to Die	3.0
fun. Aim and Ignite	4.0
Ducktails Landscapes	3.5
Smith Westerns The Smith Westerns	4.0
jj jj n° 2	3.5
Bibio Ambivalence Avenue	3.5
Dinosaur Jr. Farm	3.0
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca	3.5
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest	3.0
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix	3.5
Iron And Wine Around the Well	3.5
Japandroids Post-Nothing	4.0
Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career	4.5
Fightstar Be Human	2.5
The Thermals Now We Can See	3.0
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love	4.0
The Lonely Island Incredibad	3.5
Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You	3.0
Mishka Above the Bones	2.0
Wavves Wavvves	3.0
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart	4.0
Umphrey's McGee Mantis	2.0
Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains	3.5
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion	4.0

2008
Taylor Swift Fearless	3.5
Little Joy Little Joy	3.5
Sleepingdog Polar Life	2.0
Jack's Mannequin The Glass Passenger	3.0
Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It	3.5
Miniature Tigers Tell It To The Volcano	3.5
Okkervil River The Stand Ins	3.5
Dr. Dog Fate	3.0
Feral Children Second to the Last Frontier	2.5
John Mayer Where the Light Is	4.0
Girl Talk Feed the Animals	4.5
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends	3.5
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	4.0
Weezer The Red Album	2.0
The Explorers Club Freedom Wind	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs	4.0
No Age Nouns	3.5
Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema	3.0
Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords	3.5
Jukebox the Ghost Let Live & Let Ghosts	3.5
Metaform Standing on the Shoulders of Giants	3.0
Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances	2.5
Fleet Foxes Sun Giant	4.0
Man Man Rabbit Habits	2.0
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Pershing	3.5
R.E.M. Accelerate	3.0
The Black Keys Attack & Release	3.5
The Dodos Visiter	3.5
She and Him Volume One	3.0
Why? Alopecia	3.0
El Guincho Alegranza!	2.0
Bersarin Quartett Bersarin Quartett	2.5
Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static	3.0
Basia Bulat Oh, My Darling	3.5
Xiu Xiu Women As Lovers	1.0
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend	4.0

2007
Okkervil River Golden Opportunities Mixtape	3.5
Dewey Cox Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story	3.5
Gorillaz D-Sides	2.5
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between	4.5
Burial Untrue	3.0
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand	4.5
Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals	3.0
Radiohead In Rainbows	4.5
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide	4.0
MGMT Oracular Spectacular	2.5
The Most Serene Republic Population	2.5
State Radio Year of the Crow	3.5
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog	4.5
KT Tunstall Drastic Fantastic	3.5
Rogue Wave Asleep at Heaven's Gate	2.5
Soundtrack (Film) Across the Universe	3.5
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam	4.0
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice	3.0
Caribou Andorra	2.5
Liam Finn I'll Be Lightning	3.5
Okkervil River The Stage Names	4.0
The New Pornographers Challengers	2.5
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga	4.5
Reel Big Fish Monkeys for Nothin' and The Chimps...	3.0
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago	4.0
The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading	3.0
Battles Mirrored	4.0
Mirrored is from the future, I'm convinced. The band's precise math rock sounds like it was produced by machines being calculatedly operated by other machines. The album is largely instrumental and thrives on paranoia and suspense, creating a futuristic, non-human world that's probably more dystopian than utopian. The sparse lyrics are often indecipherable or decidedly opaque, so the album's "concept" comes from the flickering electronics, mesmerizing guitars, and pounding drums and cymbals which drive the action, altogether saying more than words could. On "Atlas," the effect-ridden vocals of Tyondai Braxton tell us all we need to know: "People won't be people when they hear this sound."
Elliott Smith New Moon	4.5
Manic Street Preachers Send Away The Tigers	3.5
Miranda Lambert Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	3.5
Feist The Reminder	3.5
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet	3.5
God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge	3.0
Soundtrack (Film) Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film.	1.5
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank	2.5
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Living With the Living	3.0
Panda Bear Person Pitch	4.0
The Snake The Cross The Crown Cotton Teeth	3.5
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone	2.0
Lily Allen Alright, Still	3.5
The Good, The Bad and The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen	2.5
The Shins Wincing the Night Away	3.0
Oh No! Oh My! Between the Devil and the Sea	2.5

2006
Ben Folds Supersunnyspeedgraphic	3.0
Jet Shine On	3.0
The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North	3.0
Horse Feathers Words Are Dead	3.0
John Mayer Continuum	4.5
The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine	4.0
The Pipettes We Are The Pipettes	3.5
Muse Black Holes & Revelations	3.0
Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras	3.5
Cut Chemist The Audience's Listening	2.5
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness	3.0
Guster Ganging Up on the Sun	3.0
By Guster standards, this isn't that great of an album. Like everyone else is saying, the album is too drab and lifeless. But I think there are some excellent songs on here, and overall the album's mostly just inconsistent in terms of just basic quality. While I hate "Lightning Rod", the first half of the album (especially "Satellite," "Captain," and "Ruby Falls") is actually quite good. From "C'Mon" to "Beginning of the End," however, it's sounds completely lazy and unmemorable. Oddly enough, though, "Hang On" is one of my favorite Guster songs.
Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country	4.5
Alexi Murdoch Time Without Consequence	4.0
Girl Talk Night Ripper	4.0
Maritime We, the Vehicles	3.0
Built to Spill You in Reverse	3.5
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics	3.5
Umphrey's McGee Safety In Numbers	3.0
Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood	3.5
Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights	3.0
Man Man Six Demon Bag	2.0
State Radio Us Against the Crown	3.0
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	2.5
We Are Scientists With Love and Squalor	2.0
Oh No! Oh My! Oh No! Oh My!	3.0

2005
John Mayer Trio Try!	4.0
Rogue Wave Descended Like Vultures	4.0
Animal Collective Feels	3.0
This is pretty good. I've heard this and Strawberry Jam and prefer the latter. I don't like the album's order with the longer, quieter tracks filling up the second half because they seem to run together too much and become a bit boring. Despite the ever-present freak sound effects and ambient noises that play in their songs that create a cool environment, they don't impress much after a while when not much happens. The first half of the album up to "Bees" and the closer "Turn into Something" are great, but the longer tracks really drag it down. Strawberry Jam is more accessible and exciting.
George Strait 50 Number Ones	5.0
Nine Black Alps Everything Is	3.0
Harvey Danger Little By Little...	3.0
Damian Marley Welcome To Jamrock	2.0
The Fray How to Save a Life	3.0
Augustana All the Stars and Boulevards	2.5
Death Cab for Cutie Plans	3.5
Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit	4.0
The New Pornographers Twin Cinema	3.5
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger	3.5
Sufjan Stevens Illinois	4.0
Coldplay X&Y	3.0
Gorillaz Demon Days	3.0
Spoon Gimme Fiction	3.5
Ben Folds Songs for Silverman	3.0
Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy	4.0
The Decemberists Picaresque	4.5
Jack Johnson In Between Dreams	4.0
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute	2.5
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright	3.0
Medications Your Favourite People All in One Place	3.0

2004
Nirvana With the Lights Out	4.0
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Shake The Sheets	4.0
Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill	4.5
Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood	2.0
Ambulance LTD. LP	4.0
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days	4.0
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks	3.0
Umphrey's McGee Anchor Drops	4.0
Animal Collective Sung Tongs	2.5

2003
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow	4.0
Jet Get Born	2.5
Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress	3.0
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism	3.5
The Dismemberment Plan A People's History of the Dismemberment Plan	3.0
Sufjan Stevens Michigan	4.0
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium	3.5
Guster Keep It Together	4.0
Radiohead Hail to the Thief	3.5
O.A.R. In Between Now And Then	4.0
The New Pornographers Electric Version	3.5
Jack Johnson On and On	3.5
Mad Caddies Just One More	4.0
Great great album, and the best from the Mad Caddies. Here the band matures their sound (with better production and more mature subject matters) while incorporating a number of secondary genres that make for a more diverse listen than prior albums. Above all, however, the band remains extremely catchy and sports strong hooks throughout the record, which is unfortunately more than can be said for their more recent outing "Keep It Going." Nostalgic bursts of raw punk, like the regrettable "Contraband" and "Riot," ironically don't fair too well here, as the smarter, more sophisticated slow grooves like "Drinking for 11" and "Spare Change?" steal the show.
The Thermals More Parts Per Million	3.5
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Hearts of Oak	4.5
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb	4.5
Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964	4.5

2002
Elton John Greatest Hits 1970-2002	3.5
Nirvana Nirvana	4.0
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People	3.0
Max Tundra Mastered by the Guy at the Exchange	4.0
Beck Sea Change	3.5
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head	3.0
Nickel Creek This Side	3.5
RJD2 Deadringer	3.0
The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts	4.0
Something Corporate Leaving Through The Window	3.5
Gorillaz G-Sides	3.0
Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle	3.5
Bad Religion The Process of Belief	3.0
Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See	4.5
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb Demo	3.5

2001
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms	4.5
The Dismemberment Plan Change	4.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View	3.5
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	4.0
Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs	3.5
The Moldy Peaches The Moldy Peaches	1.5
System of a Down Toxicity	2.5
Radiohead Amnesiac	3.5
Circulatory System Circulatory System	4.0
The Shins Oh, Inverted World	4.0
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists The Tyranny of Distance	4.0
Gorillaz Gorillaz	3.0
This album is pretty good, plenty of strong songs and good trip-hop beats, but there are also a good deal of duds. You can have both here because the album is, unfortunately, too long and a bit repetitive. It is however brought up by few really awesome songs, namely "Re-Hash," "5/4," "Slow Country" (my favorite), and "M1 A1."
Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales	4.0
Camera Obscura Biggest Bluest Hi Fi	4.0

2000
Soundtrack (Film) O Brother, Where Art Thou?	4.5
The Avalanches Since I Left You	4.5
The New Pornographers Mass Romantic	4.0
Q and Not U No Kill No Beep Beep	4.0
Dispatch Who Are We Living For?	3.5
Radiohead Kid A	4.5
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command	3.5
O.A.R. Souls Aflame	2.5
Coldplay Parachutes	4.5
Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came	3.0
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica	2.5
Matchbox Twenty Mad Season	3.5
Elliott Smith Figure 8	5.0
Flogging Molly Swagger	4.5
Nickel Creek Nickel Creek	4.0
D'Angelo Voodoo	5.0
Jurassic 5 Quality Control	3.5
Faraquet The View From This Tower	4.0

1999
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I	5.0
Guster Lost And Gone Forever	3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself	3.5
blink-182 Enema Of The State	3.5
Lonestar Lonely Grill	3.0
Ben Folds Five The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner	3.5
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret	4.0
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream	2.5

1998
Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl	4.0
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children	4.0
Elliott Smith XO	5.0
Massive Attack Mezzanine	3.0
Quasi Featuring "Birds"	4.5
Guster Goldfly	3.0
Catch 22 Keasbey Nights	5.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea	4.0
Air Moon Safari	4.0
Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology	3.0
UNKLE Psyence Fiction	4.0
Fugazi End Hits	4.0
Reel Big Fish Why Do They Rock So Hard?	4.0
The Field Mice Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way?	3.0

1997
Sublime Second Hand Smoke	3.5
Five Iron Frenzy Our Newest Album Ever!	3.5
The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good	3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.	4.0
Dispatch Bang Bang	5.0
Radiohead OK Computer	4.5
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind	5.0
Ben Folds Five Whatever and Ever, Amen	4.0
The Dismemberment Plan The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified	4.0
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It	3.5
Elliott Smith Either/Or	4.5
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On	3.5
Ween The Mollusk	3.5

1996
Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister	2.0
2Pac The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory	3.5
Heatmiser Mic City Sons	3.5
Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You	3.5
Weezer Pinkerton	4.0
R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi	4.0
The Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script	4.5
Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off	4.0
Sublime Sublime	4.0
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....	5.0
Dispatch Silent Steeples	4.5
The Olivia Tremor Control The Giant Day	3.0

1995
The Dismemberment Plan !	4.0
Toadies Rubberneck	3.5
Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five	5.0
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith	4.5
D'Angelo Brown Sugar	4.5
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?	4.0
Radiohead The Bends	4.0

1994
R.E.M. Monster	3.0
Millencolin Same Old Tunes	3.0
Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction	3.0
Sebadoh Bakesale	4.0
Portishead Dummy	4.0
Sublime Robbin' the Hood	3.5
Elliott Smith Roman Candle	4.0
Guided by Voices Bee Thousand	4.0

1993
Ace of Base The Sign	2.5
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders	3.0
Nirvana In Utero	5.0
Eric's Trip Love Tara	3.5
Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly	3.5

1992
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted	3.5
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine	3.5
R.E.M. Automatic for the People	4.5
The Flaming Lips Hit To Death In The Future Head	2.5
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom	5.0

1991
Live Mental Jewelry	2.5
Besides "Pain Lies on the Riverside," which is an absolutely bitchin' song, Mental Jewelry is largely bland and unmemorable. "Pain Lies on the Riverside" is by far the most enthusiastic and exciting track here, reaching epic proportions but remaining serious, urgent, and hard-rocking. "Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition)" and "Brothers Unaware" are decent tracks, but the rest of the album, while perhaps piquing interest at times, never yields lasting moments or enduring, enjoyable tunes. Regardless, considering this album directly precedes the band at their commercial (and perhaps critical) peak with Throwing Copper, loyal Live fans will more thoroughly enjoy Mental Jewelry.
My Bloody Valentine Loveless	4.5
Nirvana Nevermind	4.0
Nirvana was huge in broadening my musical horizons. It was through this band that I really looked into music that was beyond my comfort zone (which then was mostly country music, which i still enjoy however). I was appropriately introduced to Nirvana through their radio hits and then this album itself, which I love. Beyond just myself, it brought alternative music into the mainstream and generally is a landmark in rock music. Great album, but I would discover that things got even better with In Utero, which I consider a stronger release.
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory	4.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik	3.0
Massive Attack Blue Lines	3.0
When I first heard this a few weeks ago, I was expecting this to be alot better than it turned out to be. While I respect it for its importance in founding trip-hop, numerous songs themselves leave much to be desired. While the generally soothing groove and instrumentation are good, the singing, despite often being upbeat, is what really brought the rating down for me. Many of the songs, namely "Safe From Harm" (the female's voice), "One Love," "Lately," and "Hymn of the Big Wheel" (which is by far the worst song here), are hurt by overdone vocals that sound very corny and dated. In contrast, "Blue Lines" is far and away the best song here, radiating pure cool with almost whispered rhymes for an incredible ambiance. Other than these songs, the trip-hop grooves are good, but not very memorable to me. Overall, this album has much less musical focus than their other major album Mezzanine, although I find that to be overrated as well.
Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing	2.5
R.E.M. Out of Time	3.0
Slint Spiderland	4.5
Pixies Trompe Le Monde	4.0

1990
Ride Nowhere	3.5
Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual	3.0
Minor Threat Complete Discography	4.0

1989
Nirvana Bleach	2.5
Pixies Doolittle	4.0
Fugazi 13 Songs	4.0

1988
Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking	3.5
My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise	4.5
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	3.5
Pixies Surfer Rosa	3.5

1987
R.E.M. Document	3.0
Michael Jackson Bad	3.5
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction	2.5

1986
R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant	4.0
Paul Simon Graceland	3.5

1985
R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction	4.0
Rites of Spring Rites of Spring	4.0

1984
R.E.M. Reckoning	5.0

1983
R.E.M. Murmur	4.5

1982
Michael Jackson Thriller	4.5
Bad Brains Bad Brains	4.0

1980
AC/DC Back In Black	4.0

1979
The Clash London Calling	4.5
Pink Floyd The Wall	4.0
The Specials Specials	3.5
Michael Jackson Off the Wall	4.0
AC/DC Highway To Hell	3.0

1978
The Rolling Stones Some Girls	4.5
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports	4.5

1977
Billy Joel The Stranger	3.0
Fleetwood Mac Rumours	4.0
Pink Floyd Animals	5.0

1976
James Taylor Greatest Hits	4.0

1975
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	4.5
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac	4.0
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti	3.5

1973
Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On	3.0
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon	5.0
Dreamies Auralgraphic Entertainment	4.0

1972
Nick Drake Pink Moon	4.5

1971
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV	4.0
Pink Floyd Meddle	4.0
Marvin Gaye What's Going On	3.5
The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers	4.0
Nick Drake Bryter Layter	4.0
Can Tago Mago	4.5

1970
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III	3.5

1969
Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy and the Poor Boys	4.0
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II	3.5
The Beatles Abbey Road	4.5
Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River	4.5
Nick Drake Five Leaves Left	4.5
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	4.5

1968
The Beatles The Beatles	4.5
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison	4.0

1967
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour	4.5
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	4.5
Aretha Franklin I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You	4.5

1966
The Beatles Revolver	4.0
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds	4.0
Ken Nordine Colors	3.0

1965
The Beatles Rubber Soul	4.0
Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul	4.5

1959
Miles Davis Kind of Blue	5.0

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