Average Rating: 4.00 Rating Variance: 0.28 Objectivity Score: 54% (Somewhat Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2011 Riverside Memories In My Head3.52010 Bruce Springsteen The Promise4.0Sindre Hunsbedt Refraction4.0Debut album. Very good album. Hunsbedt is influenzed by Johnny Cash, Jeff Buckley, A-ha, U2, Metallica and Pink Floyd.... and in some well made alternative rock setup then the album sounds like a good mix of these bands and artists.Porcupine Tree Atlanta4.5Almost as good as Anesthetize. A sure buy. As with Anesthetize the setlist could be better.Trentemoller Into the Great Wide Yonder3.5Not as good as his debut. But still a good album. Ambient electronic industrial sound.The Pineapple Thief Someone Here Is Missing3.5Anathema We're Here Because We're Here4.0Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots (2010)3.5Porcupine Tree Anesthetize5.0Small 5 rating. Only reason for "only" a small 5 is that the setlist is not near perfect. Allright setlist but not the best. But the tunes that they play are so damn good. Almost every track is near perfection. Love this album. The National High Violet4.5The Black Noodle Project Ready to Go4.0A little 4 rating. That its not a big 4 rating is due to the fact that there are some less inspiring tracks on this album. But the best ones are very strong songs. Songs like: Ready to Go part I and II, We've Let You Go, The One and The World We Live in are all very good.Jeff Beck Emotion & Commotion4.0PM Today In Medias Res4.0Haken Aquarius3.5HIM Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice3.5Lady A Need You Now2.52009 Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue4.0Porcupine Tree The Incident4.5Pearl Jam Backspacer3.5The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death4.0Riverside Anno Domini High Definition4.0Karnivool Sound Awake4.0Phideaux Number Seven4.5Their best album so far. Great inspirations from the old classics (Genesis, Van Der Graff Generator, Yes, Jethro Tull) over say Oldfield and to more modern indie/alt rock.Airbag Identity4.0If the next album sounds a bit more like Airbag a little less like their idols then we have something great to come.rI can only give 4 for this superb album. It sounds so god d... good. This is Pink Floud territory. Im not kidding when I say that 5 or 6 of the songs on this album would blend in fine if Pink Floyds DSOTM or WYWH were double albums and these songs were put in.rThe sound and guitar is so much mid 70 pink Floyd that it can be. rAnd though its not at all copy it is still a bit too much like their idols.rBut the next album......I cant wait.The Church Untitled #234.0Together with Uninvited Like The Clouds the stronest Church album the last 20 years. The sound of this album is more like Forget Yourself than Uninvited. Dreamy pop with a little more indie touch than Forget Yourself. As always with The Church there are some only a little above average songs on the album and because of that yet again with do not have a 4.5 album.rSuper tunes on this album is: Cobalt Blue, On Angel Street and Sunken Sun.rSunken Sun have an almost floydian touch to it.U2 No Line on the Horizon3.52008 Jeff Beck Live At Ronnie Scott's4.5Kings of Leon Only By The Night4.0David Gilmour Live in Gdansk4.5Gilmour is on fire on this album. Not all - but most - off the Pink Floyd are very very good versions. Pompeii's version of Echoes is classic. But this really is even better. Fantastic live albums. Only reason for not giving it a 5 rating is the Gilmours songs from On an Island that are okay good but near as strong af the PF-songs.Beardfish Sleeping in Traffic: Part Two3.5Demians Building An Empire4.0The Tangent Not As Good As the Book3.0Madrugada Madrugada4.0Hard one to call. The music is maybe Madrugadas best music. But there is a little lack of really great melodies (like they use to have in spades) and "big" songs (like Majesty, Vocal or Sail Away). Have these been here, then this would have been a 4.5 and maybe even 5.2007 Riverside Rapid Eye Movement4.0The Pineapple Thief What We Have Sown4.0One PTs best albums. These tunes are great:rAll You Need To Know - Good poppy melody with nice mellotron and guitarsolo.rWest Winds - Great instrumental with ambient beginning and more thunderious ending.rWhat We Have Sown - The first 12 min are very, very good. The last 15 min a bit boring.Oceansize Frames4.5David Gilmour Remember That Night (Video)4.53 (USA) The End is Begun4.0Antimatter Leaving Eden4.0*shels Sea of the Dying Dhow4.0Phideaux Doomsday Afternoon4.5Their second best album so far (only behind "Number Seven"). Great inspirations from the old classics (Genesis, Van Der Graff Generator, Yes, Jethro Tull) over say Oldfield and to more modern indie/alt rock.Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient3.5Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet4.5Gazpacho Night3.5The Gourishankar 2nd Hands3.5Really not my kind of taste in music. But strangely enough it grew on me as listen to it. Great expetimental post rock.2006 Gary Moore The Platinum Collection4.5Porcupine Tree Arriving Somewhere...4.5Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third4.0Muse Black Holes & Revelations4.0Pearl Jam Pearl Jam4.0The Church Uninvited Like the Clouds4.0Midway through this album I was leaning to a 4.5 rating. But secound half have just a bit too many only medium above average songs. So only a 4 rating album. The style on this album is new to The Church. And by new I mean new. Its fresh and modern. Harder than normal. Up to 7th song (Pure Chance) there are only great songs. I like them all.Madrugada Live at Tralfamadore4.5Madrugada is a band who play even better live than on their studio albums. This album shows that. The Musicians (and singer) in the band show how very talented they were (the guitarist is now dead and the band has split up 2 years ago).rMadrugada is best described asrMusic with deep roots in The Doors, The Gun Club, REM, Chris Isaak, Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen combined with everything good you can find i indie music and alt rock.rOnly one "good" song on the album......the rest is very good or better.Phideaux The Great Leap4.0Osada Vida Three Seats Behind A Triangle3.5For people who like heavy prog this should be a good album. For me the melodies were a bit weak. And with not super melodies I do not often give a lot i rating.2005 Riverside Second Life Syndrome4.5Mew And the Glass Handed Kites4.0Indukti S.U.S.A.R.4.0Negative Zone Negative Zone4.0Call it a Pink Floyd light album. Clear inspiration from PFs Meddle-WYWH period. Bug also some hints from King Crimson and Magma.rSome few weaker songs......but most songs pretty good.....though still a bit "light" compared to the inspirations.Porcupine Tree Deadwing4.5Madrugada The Deep end4.0This could easily have been a 4.5 rating. But there are some only average songs on the album. Had these been cut out then I would give it more. There are super songe, melodies and music on this album.2004 U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb4.0The Church Forget Yourself4.0Very good album. With just a 1 or 2 really outstanding songs this would be an easy 4.5 rating. Its hard to descripe how The Church Sound. This also because they have changed their sound many times in their 30 years life. But maybe this will help: Take twangy guitars (think The Byrd) add classic rock (think Lou Reed, David Bowie and (semi) Pink Floyd) add 80s mainstream rock (think Simple Minds, U2) add some "epic" ambitions add some semi prog add some pure pop add some ambient music. That could be "the average Church sound".This album is mostly ambient cool dreamy pop with a touch of prog. No songs are classics but almost all songs are good or better.Riverside Out of Myself4.52003 Stone Temple Pilots Thank You3.5Anathema A Natural Disaster4.0Muse Absolution4.0Gary Moore Live at Monsters of Rock4.0Very good raw and rocking version of some good Gary Moore songs. A goreat live album.David Bowie Reality4.0Heathen was neo classic Bowie deep rooted in 70s Bowie albums. Reality is more rooted in period Low to Scary Monsters. That combined with a very modern 00's sound, production and song composition makes Reality the most interesting and modern Bowie album since Scary Monsters. Only reason for not getting a higher rating is that though there are many good songs on the album there too few monster songs/outstanding songs on it. With just a little bit better songs in average and 2 or 3 monster songs on it Reality could have been one of best albums.Jeff Beck Jeff3.5The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium4.5Mew Frengers4.0Metallica St. Anger1.5Opeth Damnation4.5OSI Office of Strategic Influence3.5Had hoped for more. Easy to hear that is well composed music og pretty high standard. And there are very good moments on this album. But mostly it never really grew on me. But still a good listen.No-Man Together We're Stranger4.5Taal Skymind3.52002 Pearl Jam Riot Act3.0Sigur Ros ( )4.5Madrugada Grit3.5Madrugada's - only a little - weak album. Still okay but not that many great songs on it. There however Majesty and that one is a masterpiece. Another good song is I Don't Fit. Besides that then this is their most "rocky" album.Porcupine Tree In Absentia5.0Bruce Springsteen The Rising4.0The Who The Ultimate Collection4.0David Bowie Heathen4.0RPWL Trying To Kiss The Sun3.5Fine album. A "Pink Floyd light" type of album. Much like semi Pink Floyd combined with mainstream serious pop.The Church After Everything Now This4.0Excelent album. Really like the style on this album. The sound is dark ambient drone rock. The two longer tracks at the end is a little disappointing. But the rest are great songs. I really like Numbers, The Awful Ache, Song For The Asking and Repieve. Those a really strong tunes.Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane4.0Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness4.02001 Anathema A Fine Day to Exit4.0Muse Origin of Symmetry4.0Devin Townsend Terria4.5Madrugada Nightly disease4.5Dont know why this is a low(er) rating album from Madrugada. For me it is their best album. Their debut album have better songs and their latest album maybe have thier best music. But this one isent far behind either and the combo makes it the best.Gov't Mule The Deep End: Volume 14.0David Bowie BBC Radio Theatre: London June 27, 20004.5Very, very strong live album from Bowie. The set list is great and spands most of his career. The performance is much like how a "Scary Monster Tour" could have sounded like. In other words a rich layered musis with rock/hard rock in the center and krautrock, electronica, funk, pop, prog, disco and avantagarde music around that. Very strong performances. The guitar is strong and rocky.Alias Eye Field of Names4.0This is like Bon Jovi meets Savatage meets Dream Theater. Very talented band and great music. The guitar - both rhythm and lead - is great all over the album. A 4 rating is really too low. But a 4.5 rating is a little to much.2000 U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind4.0Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven4.5Placebo Black Market Music4.0Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump4.5Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There?4.5Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun4.0Pearl Jam Binaural3.51999 David Bowie Hours3.5First half is a 4 rating. Second half a 3 rating. Really like the first half where Bowie both sound a little like old times and at the same time crafts new music on the old pedigry.East River Pipe The Gasoline Age4.0A really great indie album. Dreamy and warm (in sound and melody).rI cant get enough of the tune Astrofarm. That song alone is worth all the money for the whole album.rBuy it if you like dreamy indie.Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun4.0Anathema Judgement4.0Muse Showbiz3.5Suede Head Music3.0Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider3.5Madrugada Industrial Silence4.0A bit too all songs sound alike. But besides that a very good record. A bit of Chris Isaak, a bit of Jim Morrison, a bit of country, a bit of Springsteen and then some alt rock and indie pop.rThe songs Vocal and Shining are near classic in quality.Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream4.51998 The Gathering How to Measure a Planet?4.0King Crimson Absent Lovers4.5Basicly I onli know In Court With the Crimson King, In the Wake of Poseidon and Red og KC?many albums: So where were a lot of songs on this live album I didn't knew. Despite that I liked almost every song on this album and the live music were beyound great. Super live album. Fripp so good.Anathema Alternative 44.0Pearl Jam Yield2.5Chroma Key Dead Air For Radios4.0The Church Hologram of Baal3.5Would like to give it more than 3.5. But the second half of the album is at bit boring. The first half is great and close to 4.5 (but only close....my rating here is 4). What is The Church? Hard to explaine. But without sounding anything like them then they are like a 75 % working Pink Floyd (without Gilmour solos) and 75 % working U2. They are pop, rock, progressive, ambient, alt rock at the same time but always backing of a bit too much on all parts.1997 Suede Sci-Fi Lullabies4.5Almost at 5 rating. These b-sides are as good as any a-side you can find from any band. Super abum with great tunes and great guitar playing from Bernard Butler. Outstanding tunes: "Where the Pigs dont Fly" and "Europe is Our Playground"Porcupine Tree Coma Divine4.0Live album from PTs early periode. That means psychedelic space rock period. Most of the songs on the album is re-arranged, more varied and better than the original versions. A must have for PT-fans. I totally dig Radioactive Toys. What a super version of that super song. The Verve Urban Hymns5.0Radiohead OK Computer4.5In the Woods... Omnio4.0U2 Pop3.0Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space4.01996 Anathema Eternity4.0R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi4.5Suede Coming Up3.5Pearl Jam No Code4.0Porcupine Tree Signify4.0The Church Magician Among the Spirits3.5Good but not essential Church album. Too many songs is just not above medium. But there are great songs on this album. I really like: Welcome, Grandiose and The Further Adventures of the Time Being. The "big" (almost 15 minuts) Magician Among the Spirits is the albums center piece. Though okay and enjoyable then this is not as good as one would hope for being the title track and almost 15 min long.1995 The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness4.0Pink Floyd Pulse — The Film5.0Pink Floyd Pulse4.5Radiohead The Bends4.0Anekdoten Nucleus4.0Though not my taste in prog this is a strong album in the subgenre Heavy Prog. To me the melodies are too weak. But the music is strong.1994 Pearl Jam Vitalogy4.0Suede Dog Man Star5.0R.E.M. Monster3.5Portishead Dummy4.0Neil Young Sleeps with Angels4.5Most be Youngs most underrated album. The 3 last tunes is not that great (medium). But the rest of album is very, very, very strong. And then a rare thing: On this album Young both sound like him self and contemporary (album from 1994). Young was contemporary in the 70s. But doing the 80s and 90s he sound dated (of cause almost old legends sound dated the newer the material are). But not on this album. It have a very alt. rock/grunge sound to it that really fit the album.rAnd leaving the last 3 songs for them selves, then the rest of the album have great songes on it.Pink Floyd The Division Bell4.0Derek and the Dominos Live at the Fillmore4.0We miss Duane Allman. But Claton plays very well on his own here. Many good live versions of both tracks from Layla and other songs he like to play.1993 Guns N' Roses The Spaghetti Incident?2.0Pearl Jam Vs.4.0The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream4.5Ozric Tentacles Jurassic Shift4.5Amazing. Sound almost like nothing else I've listen to before. Psychedelic - yes. Space rock - yes. But also electronica, 80's british underground and dance rhythms. Very good. Very interesting.U2 Zooropa3.5Slowdive Souvlaki4.5Radiohead Pablo Honey3.0Suede Suede5.0Kingston Wall Kingston Wall II4.5Aerosmith Get a Grip4.01992 Neil Young Harvest Moon3.5Soul Asylum Grave Dancers Union4.0R.E.M. Automatic for the People4.0Alice in Chains Dirt4.0Joe Satriani The Extremist4.0Great White Psycho City3.5Sounds more like Twice Shy than Hooked. Not that ambitious. A straight forward southern glam hard rock album. Good but nothing that great.Ride Going Blank Again4.5Very ,very good album. Great songs and very good music. Indie pop/rock at its best. Outstanding tunes are: OX4 Chrome Waves Howard HughesThe Church Priest=Aura3.5I mostly like the post 80s Church albums. Thier 80s is more twang guitar soft rock. This album though........in lack of a better word to explain their sound (typical a blend of twang guitar, 70s rock, post punk, mainstream 80s rock, ambient, epic, progressive) I would call this album quite "alternative rock" sounding. For me too many average tunes. But Dome, Feel and Mistriss are very good songs.1991 Talk Talk Laughing Stock4.5U2 Achtung Baby4.0Savatage Streets: A Rock Opera4.5Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II4.0Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I4.0Pearl Jam Ten5.0R.E.M. Out of Time3.0Great White Hooked4.0Great White's most mature and serious album. Trying to sound like themselves and still sounding like at mature big rock band. Good effort. Maybe their best album. Slint Spiderland4.0The Legendary Pink Dots The Maria Dimension3.51990 Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks4.0Neil Young Ragged Glory4.0Half the songs (Country Home, F*!#in' Up, Mansion on the Hill, Love and Only Love) are to rating 4.5. But the other half id just a little below par to make it a 4.5 album. But at its best Ragged Glory is classic young-magic.Rush Chronicles4.5Gary Moore Still Got The Blues4.51989 Joe Satriani Flying In A Blue Dream4.0Neil Young Freedom4.0Great album. Many strong songs. Favorite tune is the masterpeice Crime in the City. Jeff Beck Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop4.0Some of Becks most delicate guitar work are on this album. Not using a pick since about 1980 he is fingerpicking here. That + looking for crazy harmonics + stunning controll over the whammy bar makes his phrasing on this album out of this world. Simple Minds Street Fighting Years3.5Good album. Some fillers. But the best songs (Street Fighting Years, Mandela Day, Belfast Child and Biko) is almost as classic pop-rock tunes as it can be from around the late 80s. Forget the boring songs and enjoy the above songs and you are in fine pop-rock.The Cure Disintegration4.5The Cult Sonic Temple4.0The Stone Roses The Stone Roses4.5Pixies Doolittle4.5Great White ...Twice Shy4.0Sound a little outdated today with its southern hard glam rock style. But good tunes and good guitar loads of places. Better than Once Bitten... More good songs on this one.1988 Guns N' Roses G N' R Lies3.5Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of Thunder4.5The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 24.0U2 Rattle and Hum4.0Talk Talk Spirit of Eden4.5The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 14.0R.E.M. Green3.0Most of this album dont do anything on me. But the three songs Orange Crush, Turn Your Inside Out and I Remember California is great (alt) rock song and I like them very much.1987 Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love3.0R.E.M. Document4.5Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason3.5Def Leppard Hysteria4.0Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction4.5Great White Once Bitten....3.5Simple Minds Live in the City of Light4.0Sounds a little bit outdated in style and a bit wrong produced/mixed/edited. But good live performances of many of SMs best songs. There good moments on this record if you can live with 80s style and production.David Bowie Never Let Me Down2.0Bowies worst album. Nothing good here. Makes one wonder why Bowie made such an album. And so too wonders Bowie years later.U2 The Joshua Tree4.5Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien4.51986 R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant3.5Genesis Invisible Touch3.5Quality 80s pop. Nothing like the old prog Genesis. Maybe because of their history the get punishment for making a pop album. Because this is an album better than 3.1985 The Cure The Head on the Door3.5R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction4.01984 U2 The Unforgettable Fire4.0Metallica Ride the Lightning4.5Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A.5.0Gary Moore We Want Moore!4.5Dire Straits Alchemy: Dire Straits Live4.5One of the best live albums of the 80. And some of their best tunes are on it. Classic album.David Bowie Tonight2.5Let's Dance light. Nothing special. Blue Jean is a good track. Tonight and God Only Knows are okay tracks. The rest is sub-standard Bowie material.R.E.M. Reckoning4.01983 Genesis Genesis3.5If the album was as good all the way as the nr. 1 and nr. 3 song then this would be a classy pop album. Cant if it more than 3.5 because the rest of the songs aint near as good.David Bowie Let's Dance3.5Pink Floyd The Final Cut4.0U2 War4.0Def Leppard Pyromania4.0R.E.M. Murmur4.0Rainbow Bent Out of Shape3.01982 The Cure Pornography4.0R.E.M. Chronic Town3.5Bruce Springsteen Nebraska3.01981 Genesis Abacab3.51980 Bruce Springsteen The River4.0David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)5.0Joy Division Closer4.5Genesis Duke3.0Rainbow Difficult to Cure3.01979 Pink Floyd The Wall5.0Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps4.5Joy Division Unknown Pleasures4.5David Bowie Lodger4.0Funkadelic Uncle Jam Wants You3.01978 Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll4.0Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove4.0Genesis ...And Then There Were Three...3.0Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town4.01977 David Bowie "Heroes"4.5Rainbow On Stage4.0Fleetwood Mac Rumours4.5Pink Floyd Animals5.0David Bowie Low4.5Eloy Ocean4.01976 Funkadelic Hardcore Jollies4.0Rainbow Rising4.0Jeff Beck Wired4.0Genesis A Trick of the Tail3.5David Bowie Station to Station4.0Eloy Dawn4.0Good space rock. Not as "big" as Pink Floyd in sound and not as wild as Hackwind. More focused. First half is strong. Second half a little weaker.1975 Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert5.0Some of the best jazz impro ever. Its such a joy to listen to. Classic, classic, classic.Neil Young Zuma4.0Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here5.0Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow4.0Black Sabbath Sabotage4.0Neil Young Tonight's the Night4.5David Bowie Young Americans3.5Jeff Beck Blow by Blow4.0Bruce Springsteen Born to Run4.51974 King Crimson Red4.5Neil Young On the Beach4.5David Bowie Diamond Dogs4.0Funkadelic Standing on the Verge of Getting It On4.01973 Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath4.0David Bowie Pin Ups3.0Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle4.0David Bowie Aladdin Sane4.5Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon4.5Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.3.51972 Genesis Foxtrot4.0Black Sabbath Vol. 44.0Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii4.5Great PF album from the time before they got so "complex" that there there was no room for impro og free jamming when they played live. Here the band as a whole is playing great and with good impros.David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars5.0Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds4.0The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St.4.0Nick Drake Pink Moon4.5Neil Young Harvest4.0Nektar A Tab in the Ocean4.0A classic "space rock" album from one of the classic bands in this prog categorie. Good album.1971 David Bowie Hunky Dory4.5Genesis Nursery Cryme3.0Pink Floyd Meddle4.0The Who Who's Next4.5Black Sabbath Master of Reality4.5Funkadelic Maggot Brain4.01970 Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs4.5David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World4.0Genesis Trespass3.5Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother3.5Black Sabbath Paranoid5.0Atomic Rooster Death Walks Behind You3.5All right big psychedelic hard rock. But nowhere near a masterpiece.Neil Young After the Gold Rush4.5The Beatles Let It Be4.0Black Sabbath Black Sabbath4.51969 Pink Floyd Ummagumma3.5King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King4.5The Beatles Abbey Road5.0Pink Floyd More3.0David Bowie Space Oddity3.5The Who Tommy4.0The Beatles Yellow Submarine3.51968 The Beatles The Beatles4.5Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets3.51967 The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour4.5Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn4.0The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band4.5The Doors The Doors5.01966 The Beatles Revolver4.51965 The Beatles Rubber Soul4.5The Beatles Help!4.01964 The Beatles Beatles for Sale3.5The Beatles A Hard Day's Night4.01963 The Beatles With the Beatles3.5The Beatles Please Please Me3.5
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