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2013
Deafheaven Sunbather	3.5
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork	4.5
I knew they had it in them to make a really great, coherent record, but damn! This is one of the high points of hard rock from any era, a record to improve QotSA's back-catalog (especially Them Crooked Vultures, which anticipates this album on many levels) because from now on, we'll know this is where Homme's uneven moments were headed.
David Bowie The Next Day	3.5
My Bloody Valentine m b v	4.0

2012
Led Zeppelin Celebration Day	3.5
Swans The Seer	4.0
Passion Pit Gossamer	2.5
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...	4.0

2011
The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions	5.0
Mastodon The Hunter	3.0
St. Vincent Strange Mercy	4.0
Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See	2.5
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues	4.0
Radiohead The King of Limbs	3.5
Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean	3.0

2010
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	4.0
Neil Young Le Noise	3.5
Arcade Fire The Suburbs	3.5
The National High Violet	4.5
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise	3.5
Titus Andronicus The Monitor	3.5
Spoon Transference	3.5

2009
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures	3.0
Nirvana Live at Reading	4.0
Polvo In Prism	3.5
Arctic Monkeys Humbug	3.5
Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next	4.0
The Mars Volta Octahedron	3.0
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix	3.0
St. Vincent Actor	4.0
Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name	4.0
Mastodon Crack the Skye	3.5
U2 No Line on the Horizon	2.5
Giant Squid The Ichthyologist	4.0
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion	3.5

2008
Deerhunter Weird Era Cont.	4.0
TV on the Radio Dear Science	3.5
Portugal. The Man Censored Colors	4.0
Deerhunter Microcastle	3.5
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends	3.5
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	4.0
Fleet Foxes Sun Giant	4.5
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath	3.0
Off Minor Some Blood	4.0

2007
Burial Untrue	4.5
Eagles Long Road Out Of Eden	2.5
Radiohead In Rainbows	4.5
Band of Horses Cease to Begin	2.5
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog	4.5
Thurston Moore Trees Outside the Academy	3.5
Baroness Red Album	4.0
Portugal. The Man Church Mouth	3.0
Interpol Our Love to Admire	3.0
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga	3.5
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris	3.5
The National Boxer	4.0
Battles Mirrored	3.0
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare	3.5
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet	3.0
The Field From Here We Go Sublime	4.0
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank	3.5
Arcade Fire Neon Bible	3.5
Portugal. The Man It's Complicated Being a Wizard	4.0
The Shins Wincing the Night Away	3.0
of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?	3.5
Fats Domino Walking to New York: Greatest Hits	4.5

2006
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me	3.5
Mastodon Blood Mountain	4.0
TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain	4.5
The Mars Volta Amputechture	3.5
AFI Decemberunderground	2.5
The Walkmen A Hundred Miles Off	3.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium	3.0
Tool 10,000 Days	3.0
Band of Horses Everything All the Time	3.0
Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!''	3.5
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	4.0
The Cassettes 'Neath the Pale Moon	3.0

2005
Boris Pink	4.0
The Mars Volta Scab Dates	3.0
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase	4.0
Mew And the Glass Handed Kites	4.0
Sufjan Stevens Illinois	4.0
Spoon Gimme Fiction	4.5
The National Alligator	4.0
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze	3.0
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute	4.0
Bloc Party Silent Alarm	4.0
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning	3.5

2004
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb	2.5
Brian Wilson Smile	4.0
ISIS Panopticon	4.0
The Blood Brothers Crimes	3.5
Interpol Antics	3.5
Arcade Fire Funeral	4.5
Mastodon Leviathan	5.0
Off Minor Innominate	4.0
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News	3.0
Wilco A Ghost Is Born	4.0
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	4.0
The Walkmen Bows + Arrows	4.5
This album's wavering organ throughout makes this a parallel world to "Everyone Who Pretended..." with its music box piano, but Bows + Arrows keeps up the drive, roughness, and power its predecessor was too often wanting. And I'm not even that big a fan of "The Rat"--I prefer all but maybe 3 songs on the album to it.
The Coral Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker	4.0
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo	3.0
Kanye West The College Dropout	3.5

2003
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place	3.5
The Strokes Room on Fire	3.0
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow	3.0
Barenaked Ladies Everything to Everyone	4.0
The Wrens The Meadowlands	5.0
The Coral Magic & Medicine	3.5
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium	4.0
Radiohead Hail to the Thief	3.5
The Postal Service Give Up	3.5
The Microphones Mount Eerie	3.0
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb	3.5
The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn	4.5
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe	4.5

2002
Elton John Greatest Hits 1970-2002	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.	3.5
Sigur Ros ( )	3.0
The Books Thought For Food	4.0
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People	4.0
Beck Sea Change	3.0
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head	3.0
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf	4.0
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights	4.0
Spoon Kill the Moonlight	4.0
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots	3.5
Mastodon Remission	4.0
David Bowie Heathen	3.0
The Walkmen Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone	3.5
The Mars Volta Tremulant	3.5
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes	4.0
Boards of Canada Geogaddi	4.5
Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth	4.0
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade	3.0
Boris Heavy Rocks	4.0
ISIS Oceanic	4.5

2001
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Grand Opening and Closing	3.5
Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid	4.5
The Dismemberment Plan Change	4.0
Fugazi Furniture	4.5
The Strokes Is This It	4.0
Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks	4.0
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	4.5
Jay-Z The Blueprint	4.0
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2	4.0
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...	4.0
Radiohead Amnesiac	3.5
The White Stripes White Blood Cells	4.0
Tool Lateralus	3.5
Saetia A Retrospective	4.0
Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker	3.0
Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You	4.5
Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea	4.0
Spoon Girls Can Tell	4.0
Bob Dylan Love and Theft	3.5
Fugazi The Argument	5.0
Fugazi's latest LP (but not last, Canty Lally Mackaye Picciotto willing) is their richest and most internally conflicting release, I suspect because the members let haunting, catchy, nocturnal melodies gradually enter into and warp the grooves they've relied on since their beginning. The effect is that The Argument sounds like being lulled to sleep for all the wrong reasons. Companion EP Furniture +2 is a must, and I'm not convinced the band made the right decision when they released it separately from this.

2000
The Avalanches Since I Left You	4.0
The Beatles 1	3.5
U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind	3.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	4.0
Radiohead Kid A	4.5
The Microphones It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water	3.5
AFI The Art of Drowning	3.5
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command	4.0
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica	4.5
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R	4.0
Blackalicious Nia	3.5
Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something	5.0
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our	4.5

1999
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I	4.5
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Madonna	3.5
Brant Bjork Jalamanta	4.5
Nine Inch Nails The Fragile	3.5
American Football American Football	3.0
At the Drive-In Vaya	4.5
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun	4.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication	3.0
Pavement Terror Twilight	3.0
AFI Black Sails in the Sunset	3.0
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada	4.0
Wilco Summerteeth	3.5

1998
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come	4.0
The Beta Band The Three EPs	4.0
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age	3.5
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children	4.5
At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out	3.5
Massive Attack Mezzanine	4.0
Spoon Series of Sneaks	4.0
Frodus Conglomerate International	3.0
Tortoise TNT	4.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea	5.0
Mark Hollis Mark Hollis	4.5
Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society	4.0
Pixies At the BBC	3.5
Fugazi End Hits	4.0
Archers of Loaf White Trash Heroes	4.0
Haven't heard anything else by them, but this album is absolutely brimming with ideas and daring. Bachman's voice runs quite a range, from his delicate, fragile falsetto in Dead Red Eyes to his Joey Ramone affectations in the mesmerizing title track.
Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves	4.0

1997
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West	4.5
Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions	3.5
I Hate Myself 10 Songs	4.0
Mew A Triumph for Man	3.5
Portishead Portishead	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞	5.0
Misfits Static Age	4.0
Radiohead OK Computer	4.0
Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy	4.0
Elliott Smith Either/Or	3.5
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On	3.5
Pavement Brighten the Corners	3.5
Mogwai Young Team	3.0
Latyrx The Album	4.0
Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind	4.0
I Hate Myself 4 Songs	4.0
The Supremes The Ultimate Collection	4.0

1996
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album	3.0
Wilco Being There	3.5
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind	4.0
Tool Ænima	4.0
Weezer Pinkerton	4.0
R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi	4.5
This is the crystallization of everything R.E.M. had been doing since Out of Time. The studio songs have the atmospherics of Automatic for the People without that album's occasional ponderousness. And the live rockers make up entirely for Monster.
The Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script	3.5
Fiona Apple Tidal	3.5
Beck Odelay	3.0
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About	4.0
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood	2.5
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island	4.0
Brainiac Hissing Prigs in Static Couture	4.0
Guided by Voices Under the Bushes Under the Stars	4.5
The Wrens Secaucus	4.5
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....	5.0
Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die	4.5
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement	3.0
Steve Reich Proverb/Nagoya Marimbas/City Life	4.0

1995
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains	4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	3.5
Kyuss ...And the Circus Leaves Town	3.5
Pavement Wowee Zowee	4.0
Bjork Post	4.0
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?	2.5
Radiohead The Bends	4.0
Wilco A.M.	2.5
Guided by Voices Alien Lanes	4.5
Fugazi Red Medicine	4.5
Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do	3.5

1994
The Beatles Live At The BBC	3.5
Brainiac Bonsai Superstar	4.0
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York	4.0
Massive Attack Protection	4.0
Shudder To Think Pony Express Record	3.5
Oasis Definitely Maybe	3.0
Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible	4.0
Jeff Buckley Grace	3.5
Portishead Dummy	4.0
Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley	3.5
Guided by Voices Bee Thousand	5.0
Weezer Weezer	3.5
Nas Illmatic	3.5
Beck Mellow Gold	3.5
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral	4.0
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II	4.0
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain	4.5
Hoover The Lurid Traversal of Route 7	3.5
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies	4.5
Shellac At Action Park	3.0
King Crimson VROOOM	3.0
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary	3.5
Slint Slint	3.5
The Wrens Silver	3.5
Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love	4.0
Tortoise Tortoise	4.0
Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz	4.0
Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart	4.5

1993
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	4.0
Nirvana In Utero	4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream	4.0
Fugazi In on the Kill Taker	4.5
Liz Phair Exile In Guyville	4.5
Red House Painters Red House Painters	4.0
Radiohead Pablo Honey	2.5
His Name Is Alive Mouth By Mouth	4.0
Tool Undertow	3.5

1992
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted	4.0
R.E.M. Automatic for the People	4.0
Alice in Chains Dirt	3.5
Sonic Youth Dirty	3.5
Dream Theater Images and Words	3.5
Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun	4.0
Faith No More Angel Dust	3.0
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92	4.5
Jawbreaker Bivouac	3.0
Guided by Voices Propeller	3.5

1991
U2 Achtung Baby	4.5
Talk Talk Laughing Stock	4.5
My Bloody Valentine Loveless	4.5
Phil Spector Back to Mono (1958-1969)	4.0
Nirvana Nevermind	3.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik	3.5
Massive Attack Blue Lines	3.5
The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld	3.0
Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing	4.0
R.E.M. Out of Time	3.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Gish	3.5
Pixies Trompe Le Monde	3.5
The Jesus Lizard Goat	4.0
Slint Spiderland	4.0

1990
Ride Nowhere	2.5
Neil Young Ragged Glory	4.0
Pixies Bossanova	4.0
Sonic Youth Goo	3.5
The Breeders Pod	3.5
Minor Threat Complete Discography	4.0
Fugazi Repeater	4.0
Fugazi 3 Songs	4.0

1989
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine	3.0
Neil Young Freedom	4.0
Operation Ivy Energy	3.5
Nirvana Bleach	3.0
The Cure Disintegration	3.5
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	4.0
Slint Tweez	3.0
Steve Reich Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint	4.5
Pixies Doolittle	4.5
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique	4.0
Fugazi 13 Songs	4.0

1988
Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits (Warner Bros)	3.5
The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 2	4.5
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation	4.5
Talk Talk Spirit of Eden	4.0
Pixies Surfer Rosa	4.0
Despite the gorgeous ugliness of the first half, more casual and spontaneous than Doolittle, Cactus is my favorite track--it's a perfect translation of old-school blues longing to a pop rock idiom, which Cobain tried at but never achieved quite as well. I can do without the last few songs, mostly.
The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 1	4.0
R.E.M. Green	3.0
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything	3.5
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back	4.5

1987
Pixies Come On Pilgrim	4.0
Embrace (US) Embrace	3.5
R.E.M. Document	4.0
Midnight Oil Diesel and Dust	4.0
Sonic Youth Sister	4.0
Prince Sign o' the Times	4.0
U2 The Joshua Tree	4.0
Steve Reich Early Works	3.5
Don't think them as compositions. Think of them as field work.

1986
XTC Skylarking	3.0
Egg Hunt Egg Hunt	4.0
Talking Heads True Stories	2.0
Warren Zevon The Best of Warren Zevon: A Quiet Normal Life	4.5
R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant	4.0
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead	3.5
Metallica Master of Puppets	4.0
Paul Simon Graceland	4.0

1985
The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy	2.5
Philip Glass Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (soundtrack)	4.0
The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace	3.5
Tom Waits Rain Dogs	4.5
Talking Heads Little Creatures	3.0
R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction	4.5
Ry Cooder Paris, Texas OST	4.0
Kate Bush Hounds of Love	4.5
Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart	3.0
Echo and The Bunnymen Songs to Learn and Sing	3.0
Brian Eno Thursday Afternoon	3.5
Misfits Legacy Of Brutality	4.0

1984
Cocteau Twins Treasure	3.5
U2 The Unforgettable Fire	4.0
Prince Purple Rain	4.0
Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime	4.0
Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend	3.5
Roger Waters The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking	4.0
Talking Heads Stop Making Sense	4.0
King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair	3.0
Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II	3.5
Michael Hedges Aerial Boundaries	4.0
Steve Reich The Desert Music	4.0
R.E.M. Reckoning	4.5

1983
Sonic Youth Kill Yr Idols	3.5
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	3.0
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones	4.5
Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks	4.0
Neil Young Everybody's Rockin'	2.5
Metallica Kill 'Em All	3.5
Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues	4.0
Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex	2.5
Pink Floyd The Final Cut	3.5
U2 War	3.5
Swans Filth	3.5
The Police Synchronicity	4.5
Bo Diddley His Greatest Sides, Vol. 1	4.5
R.E.M. Murmur	5.0

1982
King Crimson Beat	3.5
Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land	4.0
Talking Heads The Name of this Band Is Talking Heads	5.0
Mission of Burma Vs.	4.0
XTC English Settlement	4.0
Philip Glass Glassworks	3.5
Squeeze Singles – 45's and Under	3.5

1981
Neil Young Re-ac-tor	3.0
U2 October	2.5
King Crimson Discipline	3.5
Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches	4.5
Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts	4.5
Elvis Costello Trust	4.0
Glenn Branca The Ascension	3.0
Michael Hedges Breakfast In The Field	4.0

1980
Neil Young Hawks & Doves	3.5
U2 Boy	4.5
Talking Heads Remain in Light	4.5
The Police Zenyatta Mondatta	4.0
The B-52s Wild Planet	3.5
David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)	4.0
XTC Black Sea	4.5
Joy Division Closer	4.0
Steve Reich Octet/Music For a Large Ensemble/Violin Phase	4.0
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	3.5
Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror	4.0

1979
The Clash London Calling	5.0
Pink Floyd The Wall	4.0
The Police Reggatta de Blanc	3.5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedoes	3.0
Wire 154	4.0
Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door	3.0
Talking Heads Fear of Music	4.0
XTC Drums And Wires	3.5
The Clash The Clash (US version)	4.0
The B-52s The B-52's	4.5
Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps	5.0
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures	4.0
Nick Lowe Labour of Lust	3.5
David Bowie Lodger	3.5
Supertramp Breakfast in America	3.0
Graham Parker Squeezing Out Sparks	3.5
Gang of Four Entertainment!	4.0
Throbbing Gristle 20 Jazz Funk Greats	4.0
Pere Ubu Dub Housing	4.0
Elvis Costello Armed Forces	4.5

1978
The Police Outlandos d'Amour	3.5
Neil Young Comes a Time	4.0
The Who Who Are You	3.5
Wire Chairs Missing	5.0
Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food	4.0
Elvis Costello This Year's Model	5.0
You're welcome to your copy of My Aim Is True. The Attractions make Clover sound like a Saturday night bar band (which is probably what they were going for, but that doesn't mean I have to prefer it), and I like the lyrics and songwriting better too.
Television Adventure	3.5
Big Star Third/Sister Lovers	3.5
Kate Bush The Kick Inside	3.5
Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town	4.0
Pere Ubu The Modern Dance	3.0
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports	4.0
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians	5.0

1977
Wire Pink Flag	4.5
Stevie Wonder Looking Back	4.0
David Bowie "Heroes"	5.0
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols	3.5
Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77	3.5
Iggy Pop Lust For Life	4.5
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True	4.0
Neil Young American Stars 'n Bars	4.0
Steely Dan Aja	4.5
Iggy Pop The Idiot	3.5
Television Marquee Moon	5.0
Fleetwood Mac Rumours	4.0
Pink Floyd Animals	4.0
David Bowie Low	5.0
Weather Report Heavy Weather	3.5
Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed	3.5
Richard Hell and The Voidoids Blank Generation	3.0

1976
Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene	4.0
James Taylor Greatest Hits	2.5
Boston Boston	3.0
Ramones Ramones	3.0
Led Zeppelin Presence	3.0
Phil Ochs Chords of Fame	3.5
Rush 2112	3.0
David Bowie Station to Station	4.5
Elvis Presley The Sun Sessions	4.0
Bob Dylan Desire	3.5
Eagles Hotel California	3.0
Steely Dan The Royal Scam	3.0
Al Stewart Year of the Cat	4.0

1975
Fripp and Eno Evening Star	4.0
Neil Young Zuma	4.0
Patti Smith Horses	5.0
America History: America's Greatest Hits	3.5
Brian Eno Discreet Music	3.0
Van der Graaf Generator Godbluff	4.0
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	4.5
Grateful Dead Blues for Allah	3.5
Brian Eno Another Green World	4.5
Neil Young Tonight's the Night	4.5
Roy Harper HQ	3.5
David Bowie Young Americans	3.5
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti	4.0
John Lennon Rock 'n' Roll	2.5
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks	4.5
Steely Dan Katy Lied	3.5
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run	4.5

1974
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway	3.5
Ringo Starr Goodnight Vienna	3.5
King Crimson Red	4.5
Supertramp Crime of the Century	3.0
Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom	4.0
Neil Young On the Beach	4.5
Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel	2.5
The Beach Boys Endless Summer	4.0
Steely Dan Pretzel Logic	4.0
David Bowie Diamond Dogs	2.5
King Crimson Starless and Bible Black	3.0
Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)	4.0
Tangerine Dream Phaedra	3.5
Big Star Radio City	4.5
Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets	5.0
Eno's first album picks up from the rough, droning sounds of the VU and Roxy Music but adds something those bands lacked: sheer joy at creation. It's not easy to carry through this kind of carelessness with conviction, which is a shame, since that's such an important part of what pop music is about.

1973
Can Future Days	4.0
Wings Band on the Run	4.5
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	3.5
Fripp and Eno No Pussyfooting	3.5
Neil Young Time Fades Away	4.5
Genesis Selling England by the Pound	3.0
The Who Quadrophenia	4.5
David Bowie Pin Ups	3.0
Faust Faust IV	3.0
Stevie Wonder Innervisions	4.5
New York Dolls New York Dolls	3.0
Queen Queen	3.0
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells	3.5
David Bowie Aladdin Sane	4.5
Roxy Music For Your Pleasure	4.0
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy	3.5
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon	4.0
King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic	4.0
John Cale Paris 1919	4.5
Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy	4.0
The Stooges Raw Power	4.0
Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.	3.5
Ringo Starr Ringo	4.5

1972
Gentle Giant Octopus	3.5
Stevie Wonder Talking Book	4.0
Black Sabbath Vol. 4	4.0
Yes Close to the Edge	4.5
T. Rex The Slider	4.0
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	4.5
Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds	3.0
The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St.	4.5
Big Star #1 Record	3.0
Nick Drake Pink Moon	4.5
Neil Young Harvest	3.5
Miles Davis On the Corner	3.5
Can Ege Bamyasi	4.5
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick	3.5

1971
George Harrison The Concert for Bangladesh	4.0
The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks	4.5
David Bowie Hunky Dory	4.0
Aphrodite's Child 666	4.0
Yes Fragile	3.5
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV	4.0
Pink Floyd Meddle	4.0
T. Rex Electric Warrior	4.0
If only more of it were like the first song and the eighth one...
John Lennon Imagine	4.0
The Who Who's Next	4.5
Black Sabbath Master of Reality	4.0
The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East	3.5
Supertramp Indelibly Stamped	2.5
The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers	4.5
Nick Drake Bryter Layter	4.0
Carole King Tapestry	3.5
Miles Davis Jack Johnson	4.0
Yes The Yes Album	3.5
Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame	3.0
Weather Report Weather Report	3.0
Jethro Tull Aqualung	3.5
Harry Nilsson The Point!	3.5
Faust Faust	4.0
Roy Harper Stormcock	4.5
Can Tago Mago	4.5

1970
John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	4.5
John Cale Vintage Violence	3.5
Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs	4.5
George Harrison All Things Must Pass	3.5
King Crimson Lizard	3.0
David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World	3.0
Grateful Dead American Beauty	4.0
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III	4.0
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother	2.5
Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman	2.5
The Velvet Underground Loaded	3.5
Black Sabbath Paranoid	4.5
Neil Young After the Gold Rush	4.0
The Stooges Fun House	3.5
King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon	3.0
The Beatles Let It Be	4.0
Jethro Tull Benefit	3.0
Miles Davis Bitches Brew	4.5
Van Morrison Moondance	4.0
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	3.5
Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead	2.5
The Doors Morrison Hotel	3.5
Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water	3.5
Chicago Chicago II	4.0
Randy Newman 12 Songs	4.0

1969
The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed	4.0
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	3.0
Pink Floyd Ummagumma	3.5
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II	4.0
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King	4.0
The Beatles Abbey Road	4.5
The Band The Band	4.5
The Stooges The Stooges	3.0
Jethro Tull Stand Up	2.5
Grateful Dead Aoxomoxoa	3.5
David Bowie Space Oddity	3.0
Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere	5.0
Chicago Chicago Transit Authority	3.5
Miles Davis In a Silent Way	4.5
Buffalo Springfield Retrospective	3.0
The Beatles Yellow Submarine	3.5
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	3.5
Can Monster Movie	3.0

1968
The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet	3.5
James Taylor James Taylor	3.5
The Beatles The Beatles	4.5
Neil Young Neil Young	3.0
Van Morrison Astral Weeks	4.0
The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money	3.0
The Band Music from Big Pink	4.5
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets	2.5
Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida	2.0
I'd only recommend this if you're interested in the early development of hard rock. Compared to its contemporaries, it's poorly stitched together and simply has no energy. And the vocals sound a little like Creed's. Disturbing.
Otis Redding The Immortal Otis Redding	4.0
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison	4.0
Simon and Garfunkel Bookends	4.0
The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat	3.5
Jethro Tull This Was	2.5

1967
The Beach Boys Wild Honey	4.0
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love	4.5
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour	4.5
Miles Davis Miles Smiles	4.5
The Doors Strange Days	3.0
The Beach Boys Smiley Smile	2.5
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	4.0
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	4.0
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced	3.0
David Bowie David Bowie	2.0
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico	4.0
The Rolling Stones Between the Buttons	4.0
The Doors The Doors	3.5
Cream Disraeli Gears	3.5
Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding	4.5
Dylan's not kidding when he says Harding "was never known to make a foolish move"--the wisest thing the bandit did was to get out of his own song by the third stanza, before his story got too morally ambiguous. Much of the album is built on unresolved fragments and haunting half-scenes, which at their best have all the surreality of earlier albums without some of the excess.

1966
Cream Fresh Cream	2.5
The Beatles Revolver	5.0
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde	4.0
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds	4.5
The Rolling Stones Aftermath	4.0
The Mothers of Invention Freak Out!	4.0

1965
The Who My Generation	4.0
The Beatles Rubber Soul	5.0
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited	4.5
Thelonious Monk Monk.	3.5
The Beatles Help!	4.0
The Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads	3.5
Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage	4.0
The Beach Boys Today!	4.0
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home	5.0
Casual paranoia ("phone's tapped anyway..."), drugs, wage slavery, xenophobia, mass voicelessness, instability of self, the destabilization of American heteronormativity, corruption within the family unit, Christ kitsch, the blues, the scariest false start in popular music, and the profundity of silence, for a start. Highway 61 Revisited has several of these things, but not with the same cohesiveness or sustained intensity. And I wonder what it means that "Live Minus Zero" and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" start off with the same chords.
John Coltrane A Love Supreme	5.0
B.B. King Live at the Regal	3.5
The Sonics Here Are the Sonics	3.5

1964
The Beatles Beatles for Sale	3.5
Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan	4.0
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night	4.5
Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus	3.5
Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin'	4.0

1963
The Beatles With the Beatles	3.0
Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	4.0
The Beatles Please Please Me	3.0
Thelonious Monk Monk's Dream	4.5

1962
Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	3.0
Chuck Berry Chuck Berry Twist	3.5
Art Blakey Caravan	3.5

1961
John Coltrane My Favorite Things	4.0
Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth	4.5
Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come	3.0
Art Blakey A Night in Tunisia	4.0

1960
John Coltrane Giant Steps	4.5
Wes Montgomery The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery	4.5
Miles Davis Sketches of Spain	3.5

1959
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out	4.5
Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um	4.0
Miles Davis Kind of Blue	5.0
Ben Webster Soulville	3.5
Howlin Wolf Moanin' in the Moonlight	4.0

1958
Miles Davis Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet	3.5
John Coltrane Blue Train	4.0
Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else	4.5

1957
Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners	4.0
Miles Davis Birth of the Cool	3.5
Thelonious Monk Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane	3.5
Miles Davis Miles Ahead	4.0

1956
Sonny Rollins Tenor Madness	3.5
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley	3.5

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