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2013
Static Colours Sun Swells	4.5

2011
Das Racist Relax	2.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage	4.0
Beirut The Rip Tide	4.0
Devin Townsend Project Ghost	3.0
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction	4.0
Owl City All Things Bright And Beautiful	2.5
Moving Mountains Waves	2.5
At least I'll always have Foreword to listen to...
Jesu Ascension	3.5
The Antlers Burst Apart	3.5
Sarah Fimm Near Infinite Possibility	3.5
Giles Corey Giles Corey	4.0
dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy	2.0
TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light	3.0
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues	3.0
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising	4.0
Protest the Hero Scurrilous	3.5
Radiohead The King of Limbs	4.0
The Decemberists The King Is Dead	2.5

2010
Daft Punk Tron: Legacy	4.0
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit	4.5
Nicki Minaj Pink Friday	3.0
She has promise as a lyricist and I really enjoy her flow, but this album comes across as a pop album first, rap album second. If she gets her priorities in order, she has the potential to become my favorite female rapper.
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	4.5
A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You	3.0
The Ocean Anthropocentric	4.0
Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Pop 3	2.0
Young the Giant Young the Giant	3.0
Sarah Fimm Karma Phala	3.5
All That Remains For We Are Many	3.0
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz	4.0
How to Dress Well Love Remains	2.5
Daniel Licht Dexter - Season 4	3.5
Pretty Lights Spilling Over Every Side	2.5
Max Richter Infra	3.5
Eminem Recovery	3.5
Foals Total Life Forever	3.0
The Flashbulb Arboreal	4.0
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality	4.0
Cynic Re-Traced	3.0
As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise	2.5
The National High Violet	4.0
Broken Social Scene Lo-Fi for the Dividing Nights	2.0
Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record	4.0
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma	3.5
Twilight Monument To Time End	3.5
Kayo Dot Coyote	2.5
Sky Eats Airplane The Sound of Symmetry	1.5
The Ocean Heliocentric	3.5
Alcest Écailles De Lune	4.0
Immolation Majesty and Decay	4.0
Burzum Belus	3.5
Pretty Lights Making Up A Changing Mind	3.0
Agalloch The Compendium Archive	3.5
Have a Nice Life Time of Land	3.0
High on Fire Snakes for the Divine	2.5
In Mourning Monolith	4.5
Beach House Teen Dream	3.5
Vampire Weekend Contra	2.0
Kesha Animal	1.0

2009
009 Sound System 009 Sound System	3.0
Sarah Fimm The Vanishing Sessions (B-Sides Part I)	3.5
Les Discrets/Alcest Split	3.5
Lady Gaga The Fame Monster	3.0
Justin Bieber My World	1.0
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures	3.0
Devin Townsend Project Addicted	4.5
Wale Attention Deficit	3.5
The Paper Raincoat The Paper Raincoat	4.0
Amber Rubarth and Alex Wong have managed to pull together an eclectic and lovable collection of tracks and, somehow, make New York City feel like home, even to an outsider. Leaning heavily on Amber Rubarth's adorable voice and fantastic songwriting, The Paper Raincoat have created an impressive, albeit top-heavy, debut album. Notable tracks include Sympathetic Vibrations, Brooklyn Blurs, and Rough Cut (and Rewind is worth mentioning too).
Anarchy Club The Art of War	2.0
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect	3.0
Pelican What We All Come to Need	3.5
Papadosio Observations	2.5
Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky	2.5
Do Make Say Think Other Truths	3.5
Have a Nice Life Voids	4.0
Tiesto Kaleidoscope	2.0
HORSE the band Desperate Living	3.5
A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head	3.5
Built to Spill There Is No Enemy	4.0
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More	3.5
Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk	3.0
Brand New Daisy	3.0
Porcupine Tree The Incident	4.0
Muse The Resistance	2.5
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II	3.5
Emmure Felony	1.5
The xx xx	3.5
Owl City Ocean Eyes	3.0
Lmfao Party Rock	1.0
Jesu Infinity	3.0
The Mars Volta Octahedron	3.5
Panopticon Collapse	3.5
The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)	1.0
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca	3.0
dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion	3.5
OceanLab Sirens Of The Sea Remixed	3.5
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest	3.0
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix	3.5
Devin Townsend Project Ki	3.0
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!	2.0
Passion Pit Manners	3.0
Eminem Relapse	2.5
All the Empires of the World Last Rites	3.0
maudlin of the Well Part the Second	3.5
Exivious Exivious	3.0
Closure in Moscow First Temple	3.5
False Awakening Living Legends	2.5
Nadja When I See The Sun Always Shines on TV	2.0
Japandroids Post-Nothing	4.0
ISIS Wavering Radiant	3.5
Silversun Pickups Swoon	3.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade	4.5
Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor	3.0
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind	3.5
Mastodon Crack the Skye	3.5
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love	4.0
Cobalt Gin	2.0
Trespassers William The Natural Order of Things	3.5
U2 No Line on the Horizon	2.5
The Antlers Hospice	4.5
"I wish I had known in that first minute we met, the unpayable debt that I owed you." Well, Hospice, now I know.
Rachael Please Repulse and Devastation	3.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain	4.0
Beirut March of the Zapotec/Holland	3.0
This EP seems to be the tale of two discs. While March of the Zapotec doesn't come close to living up to the expectations set by Gulag Orkestar or The Flying Club Cup, the Realpeople Holland portion (Condon's electronic side-project) does a remarkable job innovating on Beirut's classic sound. Tracks like "Venice" and "No Dice" capitalize on the haunting vocal melodies Beirut fans know and love, but wonderfully introduce electronic beats that give the music an entirely new feel. Luckily, the captivating second half of the album fully compensates for the stale and unimpressive first half.
The Lonely Island Incredibad	3.0
A Day To Remember Homesick	2.5
Solstafir Köld	3.5
Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains	2.5
Afterlives A Ticking Clock I Couldn't Stop	3.0
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion	2.5
Fall of Efrafa Inle	3.0
Agalloch The Silence of Forgotten Landscapes	4.0
Amesoeurs Amesoeurs	4.5

2008
Sarah Fimm White Birds	3.5
Ikuinen Kaamos Closure	3.5
Opeth Burden	3.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Live at Roadburn 2008	3.5
Moving Mountains Foreword	4.5
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak	2.0
Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly	1.0
Lady Gaga The Fame	3.0
Enslaved Vertebrae	3.5
Cynic Traced in Air	4.0
brokeNCYDE BC 13	1.0
of Montreal Skeletal Lamping	2.5
From Monument To Masses Beyond God & Elvis	3.0
Bohren und der Club of Gore Dolores	3.5
Rise Against Appeal to Reason	3.5
Rise Against succeeds once again with the release of "Appeal To Reason." However, this album seems to lack the level of frustration and angst that made "The Sufferer and the Witness" such a powerful album. While not Rise Against's best, this album is nonetheless an excellent release.
The Nightwatchman The Fabled City	2.5
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God	3.5
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season	1.5
TV on the Radio Dear Science	2.5
Kings of Leon Only By The Night	4.0
Musically, I love this album. Lyrically, though, Kings of Leon's "Only By The Night" leaves much to be desired. When these boys grow up and stop singing about trivial and immature concepts, they have the potential to be an excellent band. Until then, this album proves that they are at least ready musically to make a significant impact. Highlights on the album include "Manhattan," "Closer," and "Crawl."
All That Remains Overcome	2.5
Burst Lazarus Bird	3.5
Metallica Death Magnetic	2.5
Pete and J Plenty Good Reasons EP	3.0
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone	2.0
Protest the Hero Sequoia Throne: Remixed	1.5
Tearwave Different Shade of Beauty	4.0
Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane	1.5
What a let down. "Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day" was such an outstanding album - a catchier and more accessible form of electronicore than HORSE the Band produces - and I was a big supporter. This album, perhaps self-titled because Sky Eats Airplane wanted to begin to recreate themselves, sees SEA regress into the shadows of dozens of other decently talented, cookie-cutter post-hardcore bands. Not only does this album fall short in every way of the leading post-hardcore and tech-metal albums of today, it lacks everything that made their debut album such an innovative step for hardcore music. Nothing about the electronic accompaniment in this album is mature, whereas at the least the prior album had something memorable to offer. Instead, this sophomore album features more of the generic, industrial hardcore high school bands across the country have been producing for years. In fact, I'm sure several high school bands producing music in obscurity are more talented and have more to offer than what Sky Eats Airplane has become.
Mouth Of The Architect Quietly	2.5
Dr. Dog Fate	4.0
OceanLab Sirens Of The Sea	4.0
Nadja The Bungled and the Botched	3.5
Whitechapel This Is Exile	2.0
3OH!3 Want	2.0
Immortal Technique The 3rd World	1.5
Girl Talk Feed the Animals	3.0
Katy Perry One of the Boys	2.5
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends	3.5
Weezer The Red Album (Deluxe Edition)	2.5
pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You!	4.0
My Morning Jacket Evil Urges	2.0
Flying Lotus Los Angeles	2.5
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill	3.5
Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect?	3.0
Disturbed Indestructible	2.0
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	3.5
Opeth Watershed	4.0
Opeth have certainly mastered their trade. For 7 years Opeth tried to replicate the perfection achieved in the form of Blackwater Park on one single album, but to no avail. Finally, Watershed has accomplished the once-believed-impossible task of matching BwP in beauty and brutality. The clean vocals are haunting and poignant and the death growls are equal parts grating and soothing - just what every Opeth fan expects. However, Opeth continues to innovate musically, to the surprise of many. The jazz interlude in "The Lotus Eater", the detuning of the guitar to close out "Burden", and the beautiful female vocals featured in "Coil" are sure highlights on the album. Only Opeth could release such a masterpiece album and have it considered routine.
Radiohead The Best Of	2.0
Jason Mraz We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things	2.0
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward	2.0
Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky	3.5
Mindless Self Indulgence If	1.0
Portishead Third	4.0
Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords	3.0
Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Crunk	1.0
Fleet Foxes Sun Giant	3.0
Peter Bjorn and John Living Thing	3.0
sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow	4.0
Muse HAARP	3.5
Draconian Turning Season Within	3.5
The Paper Raincoat Safe In The Sound EP	3.5
Agalloch The White	3.5
The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride	4.0
Dreamerion The Pain Without Name	3.5
Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static	1.5
Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire	1.0
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend	2.0
Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental)	3.0
Protest the Hero Fortress	4.0
Both highly acclaimed and highly despised, Protest the Hero's "Fortress" has stirred up much controversy in the metal community. I fall clearly into the camp that supports the album as an enjoyable and intriguing composition worthy of high praise. While the constant fluttering of the guitars can be slightly gaudy, it's a guilty pleasure I thoroughly enjoy. The highlight of the album, however, is Rody Walker's vocals. The drastic switches from falsetto wails to piercing screams to the occasional guttural growl match perfectly the schizophrenic changes in song structure. The only feature of the album that keeps it from achieving a classic rating in my eyes is the lyrics, which are mostly about goddess worship. Although, many proponents of the album consider the lyrics a guilty pleasure as well (I do).
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath	4.0
The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life	4.0
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness	5.0
Black Mountain In the Future	3.0
Woods of Ypres Woods III: Deepest Roots and Darkest Blu	3.0
In Mourning Shrouded Divine	4.0
Third Day Revelation	1.0
Six Red Carpets Nightmares + Lullabies	2.5
Gates of Winter Lux Aeterna	3.0

2007
Pending Disappointment New York Penn, NY	4.0
Indie rock gets some backbone. In the era of Animal Collective and Passion Pit, it's refreshing to hear a brand of indie rock that isn't afraid to play with distortion. With definite punk influences and a Franz-esque vocal performance, this album entertains all the way through. While the riffs were great (a la Sonic Youth, minus 2 minutes of feedback), it would have been nice to hear them played out a bit, perhaps sacrificing some of the compact song-lengths. Overall, the composition is good, the execution delivers, and the songs pack energy. Check out Held Taught, Hanged For Treason, and Firedamp for starters.
Daft Punk Alive 2007	4.0
Sigur Ros Heima (DVD)	4.0
sleepmakeswaves Sleepmakeswaves	3.0
The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe	3.0
Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim	4.0
Burial Untrue	3.0
Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes	3.5
Novembre The Blue	4.0
Novembre's "The Blue" is a rare album that is so flawlessly assembled that individual tracks are effectively meaningless. Without being redundant, this album is united under one picturesque theme that paints a panoramic landscape for the imaginative listener. Standout clean and growled vocals thrive in the environment created by walls of electric guitar riffs and mesmerizing drum patterns. Novembre has certainly made a name for themselves as genre-redefining innovators with this ambient release.
The Ocean Precambrian	4.0
The Pack Based Boys	1.5
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold	2.0
Emmy Rossum Inside Out	3.0
Radiohead In Rainbows	3.5
Jesu Pale Sketches	3.0
Beirut The Flying Club Cup	4.5
After thoroughly enjoying Beirut's previous releases, "Gulag Orkestar," "Pompeii EP," and "Lon Gisland EP," this is precisely the album for which I had been waiting. The album flows seamlessly and Condon's forlorn and beautiful voice perfectly fits the haunting, eastern-european-inspired folk melodies. This album is definitely a keeper and leaves me anxious for Beirut's next release.
MGMT Oracular Spectacular	4.0
Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com	1.0
Rosetta Wake/Lift	4.0
Oceansize Frames	3.5
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog	4.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters	5.0
Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying	1.5
Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory	3.5
Between the Buried and Me Colors	4.0
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam	1.0
50 Cent Curtis	1.0
Kanye West Graduation	2.0
Winds Prominence and Demise	3.5
Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor	1.0
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I	4.0
The Devil Wears Prada Plagues	2.5
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us	3.5
Nadja Guilted by the Sun	3.0
As consistent as Nadja usually are, this release is a harder pill to swallow - even by their standards. While it's nice to see a band pay homage to it's influences or favorite artists, not every song works in a doom drone landscape. I enjoyed "Needle in the Hay" and "Only Shallow" a bit, but overall this doesn't live up to Nadja's usual quality (but, hey, it is a cover album).
Flight of the Conchords The Distant Future	3.0
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde	5.0
Korn Untitled	1.5
Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum	3.0
Uaral Lamentos A Poema Muerto	3.0
An interesting folk/doom metal band in the vein of Agalloch, Uaral develops some very enthralling soundscapes with prominent latin influence. The only downside for me is the vocals - especially the clean vocals. While Agalloch enhances its music with fantastic clean and black metal vocals, Uaral fails to achieve the same effect and the music suffers somewhat as a result.
pg.lost Yes I Am EP	3.5
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga	2.5
Justice †	2.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist	3.0
Nick Drake Family Tree	3.5
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago	3.5
# Psy Brazil # Erotic Dream - Progressive Sensations	4.0
A free album from Jamendo, # Psy Brazil # has made the trance album I feel like I've been waiting to hear. Mesmerizing and poignant, the pulsating beats and waves of synths make for the ideal trance experience.
El Ten Eleven Every Direction is North	2.0
Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.II	2.5
August Burns Red Messengers	2.5
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel	3.5
Peste Noire Folkfuck Folie	2.5
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True	3.0
The Bravery The Sun and the Moon	2.5
Neurosis Given to the Rising	3.5
The National Boxer	4.0
Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient	3.5
Job For A Cowboy Genesis	2.0
Framing Hanley The Moment	2.0
The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand	4.0
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight	2.5
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds	4.0
Deerhunter Fluorescent Grey	3.0
Feist The Reminder	3.5
The Fall of Troy Manipulator	3.5
Joy Wants Eternity You Who Pretend to Sleep	3.5
The Nightwatchman One Man Revolution	2.0
Bassnectar Underground Communication	3.0
Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty	3.5
Dark Tranquillity Fiction	4.0
Drudkh Anti-Urban	3.0
Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad	3.5
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet	4.0
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline	3.5
Shadows Fall Threads of Life	2.5
Kings of Leon Because Of The Times	3.0
Enter Shikari Take to the Skies	1.0
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank	3.5
Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha	3.5
Between the Buried and Me Alaska (Instrumental)	3.0
Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn	1.0
Tyler Bates 300	3.5
Arcade Fire Neon Bible	4.0
Big Business Here Come the Waterworks	4.0
Bang Camaro Bang Camaro	1.0
Eluvium Copia	3.5
Jesu Conqueror	4.5
Brain Drill Apocalyptic Feasting	1.0
Moving Mountains Pneuma	4.0
of Montreal Icons, Abstract Thee	3.0
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart	3.5
Benny Benassi Best of Benny Benassi	2.5
Radius System Escape/Restart	4.0

2006
Beirut Lon Gisland	3.0
Ying Yang Twins Chemically Imbalanced	1.0
Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas	1.5
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me	4.0
While I really didn't enjoy either of Brand New's previous releases, I was definitely able to connect with "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me." It's always refreshing to see a band moving in a positive and more progressive direction, breaking out of the molds of a given genre. "Sowing Season," "Jesus Christ," and "Limousine" are standout tracks.
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies	4.0
Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain	4.5
The Game Doctor's Advocate	2.5
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss	5.0
Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo	4.0
Various Artists (Hip Hop) Eminem Presents: The Re-Up	1.5
ISIS In the Absence of Truth	4.0
Drudkh Songs of Grief and Solitude	2.0
The Angelic Process We All Die Laughing	3.5
Senses Fail Still Searching	3.0
Johann Johannsson IBM 1401, A User's Manual	3.5
My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings	4.0
Califone Roots and Crowns	3.5
The Decemberists The Crane Wife	3.5
Evanescence The Open Door	3.5
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side	4.0
Negura Bunget OM	3.5
The Killers Sam's Town	3.0
Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic	3.0
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister	4.5
Smash Mouth Summer Girl	1.0
Diecast Internal Revolution	2.5
David Gilmore Unified Presence	3.0
Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell	4.0
Envy Insomniac Doze	3.0
Swollen Members Black Magic	3.0
Mastodon Blood Mountain	3.5
The Black Keys Magic Potion	3.5
Aaron Neville Bring It On Home... The Soul Classics	3.5
The Mars Volta Amputechture	2.5
Audioslave Revelations	2.5
Alexisonfire Crisis	2.5
Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium	3.0
Paris Hilton Paris	1.0
Lamb of God Sacrament	3.0
Bel Auburn Lullabies In A & C	3.5
Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day	3.5
All Shall Perish The Price of Existence	3.5
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain	5.0
The haunting masterpiece "Ashes Against the Grain" by Agalloch is epic in every sense of the word. The layered guitar riffs and timely clean vocals set an eerie, atmospheric scene, while the perfectly contrasting black metal vocals are the most beautiful and disturbing I have heard. Pale Folklore and The Mantle were outstanding, but Ashes Against the Grain is utterly flawless and a major achievement for Agalloch.
Peste Noire La Sanie des Siècles	4.0
Silversun Pickups Carnavas	3.5
Jurassic 5 Feedback	2.5
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals	3.5
Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras	3.5
Muse Black Holes & Revelations	4.0
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness	4.0
Underoath Define the Great Line	3.0
Shadows Fall Fallout From The War	1.5
Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of	2.5
Zion I Break a Dawn	2.5
AFI Decemberunderground	1.0
The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us...	2.0
Voxtrot Mothers, Daughters, Sisters and Wives	3.5
Girl Talk Night Ripper	2.5
Beirut Gulag Orkestar	3.5
Tool 10,000 Days	4.0
Enslaved Ruun	4.0
Godsmack IV	2.5
Above and Beyond Tri State	4.0
Feist Open Season	3.5
Novembre Materia	4.0
Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy	1.5
Built to Spill You in Reverse	3.5
Jesu Silver	4.0
Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday	2.5
Mono You Are There	3.5
Matisyahu Youth	2.5
Mogwai Mr. Beast	3.5
Gantz La Chambre Des Morts	3.5
Trespassers William Having	4.5
Cascada Everytime We Touch	2.5
State Radio Us Against the Crown	3.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars	4.0
Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block	4.0
The Sword Age of Winters	2.5
The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra	3.5
CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange	3.5
Bury Your Dead Beauty and the Breakdown	2.5
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue	3.5
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage	1.0
Lloyd Banks Rotten Apple	1.5
Basshunter LOL	2.5
Pete and J Dressed for Conversation	2.5
The Angelic Process Sigh	3.0
Moving Mountains Moving Mountains Demo	3.0
Year of No Light Nord	3.5
Drudkh Blood In Our Wells	4.0

2005
Daddy Yankee Barrio Fino En Directo	1.0
Anthony Hamilton Ain't Nobody Worryin'	2.5
T-Pain Rappa Ternt Sanga	1.0
Korn See You on the Other Side	2.5
Lil Wayne Tha Carter II	3.5
Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits	4.0
Fort Minor The Rising Tied	2.5
System of a Down Hypnotize	3.0
Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge	3.0
Boris Pink	3.0
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss EP	4.0
Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold	3.5
blink-182 Greatest Hits	2.5
Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance	3.5
Wolfmother Wolfmother	3.5
Rammstein Rosenrot	1.5
Buckethead Enter the Chicken	2.5
Animal Collective Feels	2.5
Sunn O))) Black One	3.0
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites	4.0
Burst Origo	3.5
Nadja Truth Becomes Death	4.0
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene	3.5
Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken...	2.5
Nickelback All the Right Reasons	1.0
Deathspell Omega Kenose	2.0
Peter Bjorn and John Falling Down	3.0
My Morning Jacket Z	3.5
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better	3.0
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison	3.0
R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12)	1.0
Daturah Daturah	3.0
Ill Nino One Nation Underground	3.0
Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself	3.5
Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists	2.5
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness	3.5
Oceansize Everyone Into Position	3.0
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?	2.5
Damian Marley Welcome To Jamrock	2.5
The Decemberists Picaresqueties	3.0
Sigur Ros Takk...	4.0
Voxtrot Raised By Wolves	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Alaska	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Plans	3.0
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie	3.0
MGMT Time to Pretend	3.0
Kanye West Late Registration	3.5
Opeth Ghost Reveries	4.0
Protest the Hero Kezia	4.0
Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon	1.5
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger	3.0
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Bestial Machinery: ANb Discography Vol 1	1.5
Silversun Pickups Pikul	3.0
Flipsyde We the People	2.5
Sufjan Stevens Illinois	4.0
Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames	2.0
dredg Catch Without Arms	4.0
Nadja Bliss Torn From Emptiness	3.5
As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security	3.0
Foo Fighters In Your Honor	3.0
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill Acoustic	3.5
The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business	1.0
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil	3.0
Coldplay X&Y	3.0
Dream Theater Octavarium	3.0
Oasis Don't Believe the Truth	2.5
The Beach Boys The Platinum Collection: Sounds of Summer Edition	3.0
Common Be	2.0
Audioslave Out of Exile	3.0
Alkaline Trio Crimson	3.0
Negura Bunget Inarborat Kosmos	2.5
System of a Down Mezmerize	3.0
Weezer Make Believe	2.0
A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason	3.0
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World	4.0
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree	1.5
Bohren und der Club of Gore Geisterfaust	3.0
Alcest Le Secret	3.5
Porcupine Tree Deadwing	4.5
I often find anything labeled "progressive," be it rock or metal, to be inconsistent. This is inherent in the nature of the style as the musicians strive to experiment with new sounds and blend genres and there's usually something with which I don't connect. However, one album stands out in my prog catalogue: Porcupine Tree's "Deadwing." An ideal proportion of mellow atmosphere, heavy riffage, and melodic composition keeps this album consistent throughout. What drives this album to the top of the progressive rock heap? Those familiar with basic algebra will understand when I say that the ratio of killer to filler on this album is simply "Cannot Divide By Zero."
Zion I True & Livin'	3.0
Jaga Jazzist What We Must	4.0
of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins [Bonus EP]	2.5
The National Alligator	4.0
of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins	4.0
The Bravery The Bravery	3.0
The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections	2.0
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky	2.5
The Decemberists Picaresque	4.0
Hammock Kenotic	4.0
Drudkh The Swan Road	3.5
The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree	3.5
Immolation Harnessing Ruin	3.5
50 Cent The Massacre	1.5
Jack Johnson In Between Dreams	2.5
Evoken Antithesis of Light	3.0
Moonsorrow Verisäkeet	4.0
Children of Bodom Trashed, Lost & Strungout	2.0
Lotus Nomad	2.5
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute	3.5
Bloc Party Silent Alarm	2.5
High on Fire Blessed Black Wings	2.5
Aesop Rock Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives	2.5
The Evpatoria Report Golevka	4.0
Big Business Head for the Shallow	3.0
Dark Tranquillity Character	3.5
Draconian Arcane Rain Fell	4.0
Draconian is one of the most severely underrated bands in the metal world today. Seamlessly intertwining doom, death, and gothic metal, Draconian stands out in that they feature two vocalists - one male and one female. And when Lisa Johansson's beautifully transcendent vocals are used in harmony with the brutal death growls of Anders Jacobsson, heaven and hell become one on Earth. Developed by the same producers who worked with Opeth and Katatonia, Arcane Rain Fell is Draconian's most compelling album to date. Also deserving mention, "Death, Come Near Me" is the album closer and a supreme chef-d'oeuvre of epic proportions.
The Game The Documentary	3.5
Santana All That I Am	2.0
Subterranean Masquerade Suspended Animation Dreams	3.5
If you think you've heard genre-redefining music, you might have to reconsider. The product of members of Novembers Doom and Agalloch, Subterranean Masquerade is an extremely unique and experimental progressive metal band. "Suspended Animation Dreams," Subterranean Masquerade's first full length release, typifies the band's style: employing death growls, spoken doom vocals, and clean singing layered over any instrument imaginable, from acoustic guitar to clarinet to harmonica to violin to trumpet. The fact that the album is unorthodox doesn't inherently make it a success, however. What impresses me is the seamless transitions between, seemingly, completely unrelated sections. Well done, guys.
Wolves in the Throne Room Demo	3.5

2004
Ludacris The Red Light District	2.0
Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course	3.5
Evanescence Anywhere But Home	3.0
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb	3.0
Eminem Encore	2.0
Fabolous Real Talk	2.5
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe	2.5
Prussian Blue Fragment Of The Future	1.0
Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak	3.5
Bury Your Dead Cover Your Tracks	2.5
ISIS Panopticon	4.5
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes	4.0
Pig Destroyer Terrifyer	3.5
Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1	3.0
DeVotchKa How It Ends	4.0
Wintersun Wintersun	2.5
Scala and Kolacny Brothers Dream On	3.0
After seeing the trailer for the movie "The Social Network," the poignant cover of Radiohead's "Creep" was intriguing enough to prompt some research. As a result, I stumbled upon this Belgian girls' choir - Scala and Kolacny Brothers. While many of the covers are hit or miss, ranging from amusing to interesting, the two Radiohead covers (Creep & Exit Music) are incredibly moving and worth checking out.
Jesu Jesu	3.5
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake	3.5
Shadows Fall The War Within	3.0
Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood	3.0
Arcade Fire Funeral	3.5
Senses Fail Let It Enfold You	2.5
Amon Amarth Fate of Norns	3.5
The Black Keys Rubber Factory	4.0
Nachtmystium Eulogy IV	2.5
Drudkh Autumn Aurora	4.0
Mase Welcome Back	2.5
Off Minor Innominate	3.0
Young Buck Straight Outta Cashville	3.5
Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture	3.0
Xasthur To Violate the Oblivious	3.5
Atreyu The Curse	2.5
Unearth The Oncoming Storm	2.5
Lil Wayne Tha Carter	2.5
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm	3.0
Chronic Future Lines in My Face	2.0
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety	3.5
The Killers Hot Fuss	3.5
Velvet Revolver Contraband	2.5
Joy Wants Eternity Must You Smash Your Ears Before You Lear	3.5
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses	3.5
Feist Let It Die	3.0
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Pretty Little Lightning Paw	1.5
Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive)	2.5
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache	3.0
D12 D12 World	3.0
Winds The Imaginary Direction of Time	3.5
A fairly unknown metal band, Winds features a style of neo-classical metal that makes for an entertaining listen. While the vocals and song structures can be somewhat pedestrian, it all seems worth it when the electric guitar interrupts the strings, drums, and acoustic guitars and executes some of the most beautiful sweeps and solos ever composed. And I say composed because this music more closely resembles classical music than metal. "The Imaginary Direction of Time" is Winds' best album to date and features several standout tracks, such as "What is Beauty?," "Theory of Relativity," and "Visions of Perfection."
Agalloch The Grey	3.0
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News	3.5
Buckethead Population Override	3.5
Phoenix (FRA) Alphabetical	2.5
All That Remains This Darkened Heart	3.0
Madvillain Madvillainy	3.5
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days	3.5
Buckethead Island of Lost Minds	1.0
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans	4.0
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	3.5
The Decemberists The Tain	3.0
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks	4.0
Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)	3.5
My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light	4.0
Nachtmystium Demise	2.0
Draconian Where Lovers Mourn	4.0
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo	4.0
LL Cool J The DEFinition	1.5
Girl Talk Unstoppable	2.0
Agalloch and Nest Split	2.5
In Mourning Confessions Of The Black Parasite	2.5
TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes	3.0
Murs Murs 3:16: the 9th Edition	3.0
Kanye West The College Dropout	3.0
Lloyd Banks The Hunger For More	3.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Wolves in the Throne Room	3.0
El Ten Eleven El Ten Eleven	3.0
Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined	3.5
Woods of Ypres Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth	3.5
Circ Love Electric	4.0
John Legend Get Lifted	3.5

2003
The Offspring Splinter	2.0
Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium (DVD)	4.0
Keelhaul Subject To Change Without Notice	2.5
Howard Shore The Return of the King	3.5
blink-182 Blink-182	1.0
Nadja Corrasion	3.5
Jay-Z The Black Album	3.5
Ferry Corsten Right of Way	3.0
From Monument To Masses The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps	4.0
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy	3.0
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place	3.5
Anathema A Natural Disaster	3.5
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow	2.5
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus	2.5
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye	4.0
Darkspace Dark Space I	2.5
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism	2.5
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3	3.0
Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress	3.0
Ill Nino Confession	2.5
Muse Absolution	4.0
Oceansize Effloresce	4.0
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll	3.0
Nickelback The Long Road	2.0
DMX Grand Champ	2.5
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step	4.0
My Morning Jacket It Still Moves	2.5
The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists	3.0
Radiohead Go to Sleep	1.5
YoungbloodZ Drankin Patnaz	2.0
Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi	3.0
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen	3.5
Rightly criticized for devolving as a band from a solid metal outfit to a mediocre pop-rock band, Avenged Sevenfold should be given credit where credit is due. Waking the Fallen features solid technical ability, a refreshingly unique vocal performance, and fairly consistent quality throughout. In essence, this is an excellent album, puts most modern metalcore to shame, and deserves significant kudos from the metal community.
Envy A Dead Sinking Story	4.0
Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood	2.5
Drudkh Forgotten Legends	3.5
Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar	1.5
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance	2.5
Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2	4.0
Smash Mouth Get the Picture	1.5
TV on the Radio Young Liars	3.5
The Gathering Souvenirs	4.0
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse	2.5
Sufjan Stevens Michigan	3.5
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium	4.0
Brand New Deja Entendu	2.5
Radiohead Hail to the Thief	5.0
While most fans consider Radiohead's best album to be OK Computer or Kid A, Hail To The Thief is my choice for the top spot. You want me to defend this claim? I can't. I don't know why, but without hesitation I place this album just ahead of OK Computer in Radiohead's prestigious discography. Hail To The Thief.
Metallica St. Anger	2.0
Staind 14 Shades of Grey	2.5
The Angelic Process Coma Waering	4.0
Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja	3.5
Senses Fail From the Depths of Dreams	2.5
Opeth Damnation	4.0
All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge	3.0
Rise Against Revolutions per Minute	3.5
CunninLynguists Southernunderground	4.0
The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution	4.0
Linkin Park Meteora	3.5
Evanescence Fallen	3.5
The Postal Service Give Up	2.5
Zion I Deep Water Slang V2.0	3.0
Massive Attack 100th Window	3.5
50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin'	2.5
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing	2.0
Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown	2.5
The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk	2.5
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn	3.0
Linkin Park Live In Texas	3.0
Agalloch Tomorrow Will Never Come	3.0
Jaga Jazzist The Stix	3.5
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe	4.0

2002
Howard Shore The Two Towers	3.5
Snoop Dogg Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$	2.0
System of a Down Steal This Album!	2.5
Busta Rhymes It Ain't Safe No More...	2.5
Audioslave Audioslave	3.0
Amon Amarth Versus the World	4.0
Opeth Deliverance	4.0
The Mountain Goats Tallahassee	3.5
My first venture into The Mountain Goats, "Tallahassee" is an extremely entertaining album from many perspectives. From a lyrical perspective, the story John Darnielle tells is twisted and nuanced, but grounded in reality. From a musical perspective, the compositions are simplisitc and minimalistic for the majority of the album, and additional instrumentation is added only during the most crucial parts of the album. In addition, Darnielle has a captivating voice that perfectly suits the nature of the music. Overall, this album is an entertaining listen that exceeded my wildest expectations and deserves a listen from all.r
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.	4.0
Various Artists (Hip Hop) 8 Mile OST	3.5
Sigur Ros ( )	4.0
Buckethead Electric Tears	3.0
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People	4.0
Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz Kings of Crunk	1.0
Mono One Step More and You Die	4.0
Negura Bunget 'N Crugu Bradului	2.5
Gantz Les jours se suivent et ne se ressemblent plus	4.5
Trespassers William Different Stars	5.0
Porcupine Tree In Absentia	4.0
Disturbed Believe	2.5
Shadows Fall The Art of Balance	3.5
Winds Reflections of the I	3.5
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head	3.5
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights	3.0
Linkin Park Reanimation	2.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way	3.0
Orchid Orchid	3.0
mewithoutYou A to B: Life	3.5
Weezer Maladroit	2.5
Bury Your Dead You Had Me at Hello	2.0
Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing	3.0
The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts	4.0
Eminem The Eminem Show	3.5
Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose	3.0
City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me	3.0
The Rolling Stones Forty Licks	3.5
All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude	2.5
Led Zeppelin Early Days/Latter Days	3.5
dredg El Cielo	5.0
Dredg's "El Cielo" is a simply wonderful album. Never has an album managed to be simultaneously depressing and uplifting, but somehow "El Cielo" repeatedly breaks down the emotions of the listener, only to build them back up again. While each individual track is fantastic, this album really needs to be consumed as a whole for full effect. Enjoy "El Cielo" responsibly.
Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane	2.5
Arcturus The Sham Mirrors	3.0
Santana Shaman	3.0
CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food	3.0
ISIS Oceanic	3.5
Woods of Ypres Against the Seasons	3.5
Immolation Unholy Cult	3.5
Shining (SWE) III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie	3.5
Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness	4.0
Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth	4.0
Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik	4.0
Agalloch The Mantle	4.5
Korn Untouchables	2.5

2001
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map	3.0
Breach Kollapse	2.5
Smash Mouth Smash Mouth	2.0
Busta Rhymes Genesis	2.5
Ludacris Word Of Mouf	3.0
Mono Under the Pipal Tree	3.5
Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring	3.5
Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead	4.5
My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours	4.5
Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame	3.0
DMX The Great Depression	3.0
Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire...	3.0
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon	2.0
Damian Marley Halfway Tree	2.5
Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks	3.5
Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost	2.5
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	3.5
Aesop Rock Labor Days	3.5
Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1	3.5
Xasthur A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors	4.0
P.O.D. Satellite	2.0
Nickelback Silver Side Up	2.5
Jay-Z The Blueprint	3.5
Converge Jane Doe	3.0
System of a Down Toxicity	3.5
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...	3.5
Radiohead Amnesiac	3.0
Slipknot Iowa	3.0
Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet	2.0
Muse Origin of Symmetry	3.5
maudlin of the Well Bath	4.0
Built to Spill Ancient Melodies of the Future	3.5
The Shins Oh, Inverted World	3.0
D12 Devil's Night	1.0
Devin Townsend Terria	3.5
Drowning Pool Sinner	2.0
Jessica Simpson Irresistible	2.0
Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor	3.0
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler	2.0
Weezer The Green Album	3.0
Tool Lateralus	4.5
The tribal drumming gets me every time... Maynard's voice and Tool's innovativeness come together to form the MJK masterpiece.
The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples	4.0
Rise Against The Unraveling	3.0
Daft Punk Discovery	3.5
Alien Ant Farm ANThology	2.5
Opeth Blackwater Park	4.5
Widely considered Opeth's magnum opus, Blackwater Park is the epitome of one of the world's greatest and most innovative bands. Flawlessly uniting progressive rock and death metal, Blackwater Park's sound might possibly be the most unique and captivating ever recorded.
Spoon Girls Can Tell	3.5
The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera(Original 1986)	4.0
Puddle of Mudd Come Clean	2.0
Creed Weathered	2.5
City High City High	2.5
Alcest Tristesse Hivernale (Demo)	3.0
Shining (SWE) II - Livets Andhallplats	3.0
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward	4.0
Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte	4.0

2000
Backstreet Boys Black and Blue	1.0
The Offspring Conspiracy of One	2.0
U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind	3.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor can, in my eyes, proudly proclaim to have created one of the greatest post-rock albums ever with "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven." GY!BE have perfected the ability to show utmost restraint while building a sweeping soundscape, and still reward the listener greatly with powerful and inspirational crescendos. For this reason, this album transcends post-rock and could be considered as one of the best pieces of music ever recorded - no exaggeration.
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory	3.5
Everclear Songs From An American Movie, Vol. 2	2.5
Electric Wizard Dopethrone	4.0
Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design	4.0
Radiohead Kid A	4.0
Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream	3.0
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command	3.5
Dark Tranquillity Haven	3.5
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage	2.0
Coldplay Parachutes	3.0
Deftones White Pony	3.0
Cursive Domestica	3.0
Uncle Kracker Double Wide	1.5
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica	3.5
Zion I Mind Over Matter	3.5
Iron Maiden Brave New World	3.0
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms	4.0
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP	4.5
Kim is almost certainly the most emotionally-charged rap song ever composed. I never "felt" a hip-hop album until this one came out.
Jeff Buckley Mystery White Boy	3.5
Racer X Technical Difficulties	2.0
Elliott Smith Figure 8	3.5
Rage Against the Machine Renegades	3.0
Shadows Fall Of One Blood	3.0
Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 2: Latter Days	4.0
High on Fire Art of Self-Defense	2.0
Disturbed The Sickness	3.0
Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants	2.0
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper	3.0
Blue Oyster Cult Don't Fear The Reaper: The Best Of	3.0
Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something	3.5
Shining (SWE) I - Within Deep Dark Chambers	4.0
The Mountain Goats The Coroner's Gambit	3.0
Lamb of God New American Gospel	1.5
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our	2.5
Aghora Aghora	3.0
Boris Flood	3.0
Belle and Sebastian Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant	3.0
VAST Music For People	3.0
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030	3.5
Gas Pop	3.5
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun	4.0
Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission	4.0
Negura Bunget Maiastru Sfetnic	4.0
Immolation Close to a World Below	4.5

1999
Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter	3.0
Burzum Hlidskjalf	2.0
Blue Man Group Audio	2.5
Taake Nattestid Ser Porten Vid	4.0
Trespassers William Anchor	3.0
Third Eye Blind Blue	2.5
Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 1: Early Days	3.0
Korn Issues	3.0
Dr. Dre 2001	3.5
Sublime Greatest Hits	2.5
Jessica Simpson Sweet Kisses	2.5
Opeth Still Life	4.0
Creed Human Clay	2.5
Sting Brand New Day	3.0
Deadsy Commencement	3.5
Sigur Ros Svefn-g-englar	3.5
The Beatles Yellow Submarine Soundtrack	3.5
Machine Head The Burning Red	2.0
Estatic Fear A Sombre Dance	4.0
Estatic Fear's "A Sombre Dance" is a beautifully breathtaking album. Though it suffers from stagnation in some places, the vast majority of the album effectively captures the listener in epic, symphonic metal soundscapes. The stark contrast between the satanic male vocals and the angelic female vocals is marvelously highlighted by the meandering violin, flute, and electric guitar-driven passages. This album is a must for fans of Draconian or My Dying Bride.
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself	2.5
Slipknot Slipknot	3.0
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun	4.5
In Flames Colony	4.0
Anathema Judgement	3.0
Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum	3.5
Muse Showbiz	3.5
Santana Supernatural	3.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication	3.0
Smash Mouth Astro Lounge	3.0
blink-182 Enema Of The State	2.0
dredg Leitmotif	3.0
Backstreet Boys Millennium	2.5
Emperor IX Equilibrium	3.0
Buckethead Monsters & Robots	2.5
Mogwai Come On Die Young	3.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada	4.0
Eminem The Slim Shady LP	3.0
of Montreal The Gay Parade	2.5
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret	4.0
Aesop Rock Appleseed	3.0
Immortal At the Heart of Winter	3.5
Moby Play	3.5
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream	3.5
Immolation Failures for Gods	3.5
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible	3.5
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles	4.0
Agalloch Pale Folklore	4.5

1998
Portishead Roseland NYC Live	4.0
Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl	2.5
Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap	4.0
Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause	2.0
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse	4.0
Scooter No Time To Chill	2.5
System of a Down System of a Down	3.0
Shadows Fall Somber Eyes to the Sky	3.0
DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot	3.0
Massive Attack Mezzanine	5.0
Dirty Three Ocean Songs	3.5
Buckethead Colma	2.5
Tortoise TNT	2.5
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea	5.0
This really shouldn't be any good. Yet, for some absurd reason, it is amazing.
Dan Swano Moontower	3.5
Air Moon Safari	3.5
NSYNC NSYNC	1.5
Negura Bunget Sala Molksa	3.0
Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life	3.0
Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving?	2.5

1997
Will Smith Big Willie Style	2.5
Metallica Reload	2.5
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West	3.0
Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1	3.0
Jedi Mind Tricks The Psycho-Social	3.5
Chicane Far From the Maddening Crowds	2.5
Dream Theater Falling into Infinity	2.5
Bjork Homogenic	3.0
Portishead Portishead	4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.	2.0
This album isn't groundbreaking, nor does it represent the best of 90's music. Even by 1997, the ideas employed by Incubus were stale and outdated - exhausted by the Beastie Boys and the Chili Peppers, and perfected by Rage Against The Machine in 1992. And while Incubus introduced the pop-funk-rap-rock scene to the masses, they certainly didn't improve upon an idea that was flawed to begin with. Filled with weak songs and stale concepts, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. may hold nostalgic value for some, but that doesn't make it good. There was plenty of good music made in the 90's, but, sadly, Incubus made none of it.
Dispatch Bang Bang	3.0
Fleetwood Mac The Dance	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞	4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have created an utterly breathtaking concept album in "F# A# ∞" This album truly defines "post-apocalyptic rock" and illustrates a beautifully devastating soundscape that depicts the end of the world. I hope to live to see the end of the world, someday. Then, I will listen to this album and everything will be right. Just right.
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech	4.0
Creed My Own Prison	1.5
Radiohead OK Computer	4.5
Most likely a product of the ridiculous hype surrounding this album, my first few listens left me quite unsatisfied with OK Computer. I was impressed by a few tracks, but the album didn't quite make the impression I had expected. Every time I listened, though, I found a new track I had missed recognizing as a solid track the previous time around. Where did that leave me? Over the course of a month, my rating for OK Computer slowly climbed from a 3 to its current standing as a 4.5. It took time and an open mind, but I now view OK Computer as Radiohead's second greatest album, one of the top alternative records of all time, and, most surprisingly, capable of living up to the tremendous hype.
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape	3.0
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind	3.0
Muddy Waters His Best: 1947 to 1955	3.5
Ulver Nattens Madrigal	4.5
Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space	3.5
Elliott Smith Either/Or	3.5
Strapping Young Lad City	3.0
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On	4.0
Burzum Daudi Baldrs	1.0
T. Rex The Very Best Of	1.5
dredg Orph	2.5
The Prodigy The Fat of the Land	3.0
Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics...	3.0
Sigur Ros Von	3.5
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk	3.5

1996
Negura Bunget Zîrnindu-să	3.0
Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister	4.5
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album	3.5
Eminem Infinite	2.5
Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.	1.5
Mazzy Star Among My Swan	3.0
Agalloch From Which of This Oak	3.5
Tool Ænima	4.0
Weezer Pinkerton	3.5
Dirty Three Horse Stories	3.5
Manowar Louder Than Hell	1.0
Sublime Sublime	3.0
Various Artists Phenomenon: Music From The Motion Picture	3.5
Opeth Morningrise	3.5
Metallica Load	2.5
Soundgarden Down on the Upside	3.0
Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys	2.5
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About	3.5
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire	3.5
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island	4.0
Celine Dion Falling into You	3.0
In Flames The Jester Race	4.0
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....	3.5
Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die	3.0
dredg Conscious	1.5
Limbonic Art Moon In The Scorpio	3.0
Porcupine Tree Signify	3.5
Satyricon Nemesis Divina	4.0
Burzum Filosofem	4.0

1995
Dark Tranquillity The Gallery	4.0
Stevie Ray Vaughan Greatest Hits	4.0
GZA Liquid Swords	3.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	4.0
Insane Clown Posse Riddle Box	1.0
Dc Talk Jesus Freak	1.0
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	2.5
Opeth Orchid	3.5
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?	3.5
Cream The Very Best Of Cream	3.5
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill	4.0
Tricky Maxinquaye	3.5
Radiohead The Bends	4.0
Death Symbolic	3.0
Bruce Springsteen Greatest Hits (1995)	3.5
Hallucinogen Twisted	3.5
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler	4.0
Burzum Burzum/Aske	3.5
Fugazi Red Medicine	2.0
Slowdive Pygmalion	2.5
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane	4.0

1994
Eagles Hell Freezes Over	3.5
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York	3.5
Gorgoroth Pentagram	3.5
Radiohead My Iron Lung	3.0
Massive Attack Protection	3.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot	4.0
Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes	3.5
Jeff Buckley Grace	4.0
Portishead Dummy	4.5
Enslaved Frost	3.5
Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley	3.0
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger	4.5
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse	4.0
Weezer Weezer	4.0
Nas Illmatic	3.5
Pink Floyd The Division Bell	2.5
Soundgarden Superunknown	3.0
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral	3.5
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain	3.5
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas	2.0
Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is	2.5
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss	4.0
Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love	4.0

1993
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	4.0
Immortal Pure Holocaust	4.0
Nirvana In Utero	3.5
X Japan Art of Life	3.0
Burzum Det Som Engang Var	3.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream	4.5
Morbid Angel Covenant	3.5
Helloween Chameleon	1.5
Slowdive Souvlaki	3.5
2 Unlimited No Limits	2.0
Primus Pork Soda	2.0
Radiohead Pablo Honey	2.5
Tool Undertow	3.5
My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans	3.0
Burzum Aske	3.0
Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon	4.0
The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart	2.5
Atheist Elements	3.0
Cynic Focus	3.5
Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See	3.5
Satyricon Dark Medieval Times	4.0

1992
Dr. Dre The Chronic	3.0
Nirvana Incesticide	2.0
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine	4.5
The pinnacle of modern, mainstream music. Plain and simple. Musically, Rage Against The Machine's self titled marks the apex of rap, punk, metal, and funk at a single point in time. Never has a band so seamlessly blended such contrasting styles of music and infused such passion into the mix. What sets this album apart, however, is the gravity and power of the message and the importance to our current society. Rage Against The Machine singlehandedly took on the task of acting as the opposing force to a corrupt government and a propaganda-fueled media. When music of great quality has a message of great importance, it is untouchable. "Rage Against The Machine" is untouchable.
Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated	2.0
Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill	3.5
Praxis Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)	2.5
Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky	3.5
Sonic Youth Dirty	3.5
Catherine Wheel Ferment	3.0
Burzum Burzum	3.5
Miles Davis The Best of Miles Davis	3.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92	3.5
Apator Masturbate in Praise of Black Satan	1.0
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom	2.5
Santana Milagro	4.0
Often overlooked, Santana's earlier works were outstanding albums! Without the pop-stylings and big-name artist accompaniment on these albums, the focus shifts to the rightful place - on the beautiful guitar work of Carlos Santana. While Abraxas and Supernatural were great albums, I firmly believe Milagro is Santana's greatest work and is deserving of much more attention. Those seeking a few tracks to sample, "Saja Right On" and "Somewhere In Heaven" are standout tracks on this standout album.

1991
U2 Achtung Baby	3.0
Talk Talk Laughing Stock	3.5
My Bloody Valentine Loveless	5.0
Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten	3.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik	1.5
Nirvana Nevermind	4.0
Atheist Unquestionable Presence	3.0
Pearl Jam Ten	3.0
Metallica Metallica	3.5
Massive Attack Blue Lines	2.5
Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick	3.5
Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese	1.5
R.E.M. Out of Time	2.0
Ride Today Forever	3.5
Slowdive Just for a Day	3.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Gish	3.0
Entombed Clandestine	3.0
Slint Spiderland	3.5
Immolation Dawn of Possession	3.5

1990
Ride Nowhere	4.0
Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas	4.0
The Allman Brothers Band Seven Turns	2.5
Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly	3.0
Obituary Cause of Death	2.0
Blue Oyster Cult On Flame With Rock and Roll	2.5

1989
Stevie Ray Vaughan In Step	3.0
Lynyrd Skynyrd Skynyrd's Innyrds	3.5
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	3.0
Slint Tweez	2.5
Pixies Doolittle	3.5
Apator Het Geluid Kruipt	1.0
My Bloody Valentine Ecstasy and Wine	3.5

1988
Dinosaur Jr. Bug	3.5
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation	4.0
Talk Talk Spirit of Eden	4.0
Metallica ...And Justice for All	3.0
Pixies Surfer Rosa	2.5
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back	3.5
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything	3.5

1987
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me	4.0
The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come	3.0
Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason	2.5
Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun	3.0
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction	3.5
U2 The Joshua Tree	3.5
Nick Drake Time Of No Reply	4.0
The Smiths The World Won't Listen	3.5

1986
Slayer Reign in Blood	4.0
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead	4.0
Metallica Master of Puppets	3.5
Europe The Final Countdown	2.0
Talk Talk The Colour of Spring	3.5

1985
The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy	4.0
Tom Waits Rain Dogs	2.0
The Smiths Meat Is Murder	4.0
Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur	3.0

1984
Cocteau Twins Treasure	4.0
Iron Maiden Powerslave	3.5
Kansas The Best of Kansas	2.5
Metallica Ride the Lightning	4.0
Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather	3.5
Spinal Tap This Is Spinal Tap	2.0
Talk Talk It's My Life	2.0
Ray Lynch Deep Breakfast	3.5

1983
Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon	2.0
Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi	3.5
Metallica Kill 'Em All	3.0
Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood	3.5
He doesn't play particularly fast. He doesn't make his guitar sound like any instrument besides a guitar. He doesn't do anything technically that has never been done before. Hell, he's not even in a metal band! Yet, he's one of the greatest guitarists of all time - Stevie Ray Vaughan. And his ultimate album, "Texas Flood," is a prime showcase of a musician who injects more feeling into every note than most guitarists manage in entire careers.
R.E.M. Murmur	2.5

1982
Talk Talk The Party's Over	2.0
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast	4.0

1981
Yes Classic Yes	3.5
Queen Greatest Hits	3.0
Men at Work Business as Usual	2.5

1980
Joy Division Closer	2.0
Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth	3.0

1979
Pink Floyd The Wall	4.0
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures	2.0

1978
Kraftwerk The Man-Machine	1.5
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports	3.0

1977
Pink Floyd Animals	3.5

1976
Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene	3.5
James Taylor Greatest Hits	3.5
Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record	3.0
Penguin Cafe Orchestra Music from the Penguin Cafe	3.0

1975
Black Sabbath We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll	3.0
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	4.5
Brian Eno Another Green World	2.5
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti	4.0

1974
King Crimson Red	3.5
King Crimson Starless and Bible Black	2.5
Ken By Request Only	1.0

1973
Janis Joplin Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits	4.0
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon	4.5

1972
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	4.0
Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds	3.0
Nick Drake Pink Moon	4.5
The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach	3.0
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick	3.5

1971
Pink Floyd Meddle	3.0
Nick Drake Bryter Layter	4.0
Jethro Tull Aqualung	4.0

1970
King Crimson Lizard	3.5
David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World	3.0
Grateful Dead American Beauty	2.0
Black Sabbath Paranoid	3.5
Santana Abraxas	3.5
King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon	3.0
Van Morrison Moondance	4.0
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Lick My Decals Off, Baby	2.0

1969
Pink Floyd Ummagumma	2.5
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II	3.0
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King	4.0
The Beatles Abbey Road	4.0
Jethro Tull Stand Up	3.0
Nick Drake Five Leaves Left	3.5
David Bowie Space Oddity	3.5
The Beatles Yellow Submarine	2.5
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	2.5
Amon Duul II Phallus Dei	2.5

1968
The Beatles The Beatles	3.5
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland	3.0
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets	2.5
The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat	3.5

1967
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	4.0
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico	3.5

1966
The Beatles Revolver	3.5

1965
The Beatles Help!	2.5

1964
The Beatles Beatles for Sale	3.5

1962
The Beach Boys Surfin' Safari	1.5

1959
Miles Davis Kind of Blue	3.0

1928
Maurice Ravel Boléro	2.5

1924
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue	3.5

1916
Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32	4.0

1887
Gabriel Faure Pavane, Op. 50	3.5

1882
Pyotr Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, Op. 49	4.0

1808
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67	4.0

1801
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2	4.0

1791
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem in D minor, K. 626	4.0

1788
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Jupiter" Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551	4.0
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550	3.5

1783
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331	3.5

1725
Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons	4.0

1721
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048	3.5

1680
Johann Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in D	3.5

Unknown
False Awakening Dreams Are Gone EP	2.0

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