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2015
Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven	1.5
Foxing Dealer	3.5
Bay Faction Bay Faction	3.5
George Clanton 100% Electronica	4.0
Section Boyz Don't Panic	2.0
Mild High Club Timeline	3.5
such a blazed album
The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven	3.5
Tame Impala Currents	3.0
Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes III	3.5
hear for the beats
Bully Feels Like	3.0
Everything Everything Get to Heaven	3.5
Turnover Peripheral Vision	4.0
Earl Sweatshirt Solace	4.5
Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb	2.0
Doldrums (CAN) The Air Conditioned Nightmare	3.0
Runaway Brother Mother	4.0
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell	4.0
Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside	4.0

2014
PRhyme PRhyme	3.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy	3.5
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways	3.0
Taylor Swift 1989	3.5
Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End	3.5
Posture and The Grizzly Christians and Freemasons Will Kill Me	4.0
Beach Slang Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street	3.5
Aphex Twin Syro	4.5
Free Throw Those Days Are Gone	3.5
The guitar work is the highlight for me. The guitars twinkle over the rhythm section creating a sort of warm, hazy sound (nicely encapsulating the purple of the album art,) that's somewhat shoegaze-influenced--especially in harmony with the clean vocals. The screamed vocals sound out of place to me though and all-in-all, it's midwest emo we've all heard before.
Ryan Adams Ryan Adams	3.5
Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again	4.0
Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other	3.5
Beach Slang Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken?	4.0
Ben Watt Hendra	4.0
Although lyrically poor at times, "Hendra" by Ben Watt (previously one-half of Everything But the Girl) excels with its relaxed summery charm, complimented by the breezy guitar lines of Suede's Bernard Butler ("The Levels" even features slide guitar/backing vocals from David Gilmour).
Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else	4.0
Behind all the sloppy punk goodness, Cloud Nothings have put intricate care into this - the hooks creep out with each repeat listen, making the album that bit more enjoyable each time. Where as Attack On Memory grew off me pretty fast, I just keep coming back to this.
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream	4.5
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There	4.5
Neck Deep Wishful Thinking	3.0
You Blew It! Keep Doing What You’re Doing	3.0

2013
Foxing The Albatross	4.0
Friendzone DX	4.0
Bully Bully	3.5
Yuck Glow and Behold	3.0
Lorde Pure Heroine	3.5
Earl Sweatshirt Doris	3.0
John Mayer Paradise Valley	3.0
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever	4.0
The Lay-Lows Pick Up And Go	3.5
Chance the Rapper Acid Rap	4.0
Turnover Magnolia	3.0
Neck Deep A History of Bad Decisions	3.5
Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper	2.0
Unknown Mortal Orchestra II	3.0
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension	4.0
My Bloody Valentine m b v	4.5
Funeral for a Friend Conduit	3.5
The Lay-Lows Happy Families	4.0

2012
Modern Baseball Sports	3.5
Soundgarden King Animal	4.0
An older, lighter Soundgarden that surprisingly still manages to create a hypnotic energy that one can only love to be engrossed in. They've been away for too long, and it's great to have them back.
Deftones Koi No Yokan	4.0
Here deftones expertly master their distinctive meld of dreamy metal. No, their sound has not changed; Chino's voice still melts over the pounding rhythm section and the whirling fuzz of distortion (occasionally coming up for air with a meaty riff or two--see the latter half of "Tempest"). But the material here is so good that the stasis is more of a consistency. rOn paper, opener "Swerve city" is a disaster. The headbanging riff pounds, reassuring the band have not quite abandoned their metal roots, and before we know it, we're straight into a verse that swerves and swirls under Chino's vocals. And then it's back to the riff. But it works, and serves as a perfect introduction for what's to come. rEven the tracks that drift furthest away from the band's nu-metal roots (the beautiful "Entombed" and closer "What happened to you?), whose sound resembles that of Chino's side project "Crosses", have something (maybe in the guitar lines that accompany their souring choruses) that is distinctively Deftones about them. Great album.r"Shapes and colours are all I see."
Violent Soho Tinderbox, Neighbour Neighbour EP	4.0
Black Country Communion Afterglow	4.0
Gary Clark Jr. Blak and Blu	4.0
Sithu Aye Invent the Universe	3.5
another solid release from Sithu Aye, even if some of those riffs and jazzy interludes are losing their punch.
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension	4.0
Death Grips No Love Deep Web	3.5
Green Day ¡UNO!	2.5
Handguns Angst	3.0
The Killers Battle Born	2.5
WHAT IS THIS!? will probably appeal to ageing married couples on the brink of divorce. Can't stop listening to runaways though
Neck Deep Rain in July	3.0
Down Down IV - Part I	3.5
riffs man, riffssssssssss
Aramid Obsidian	3.5
The Bilinda Butchers goodbyes	3.5
Masked Intruder Masked Intruder	3.5
Forever Came Calling Contender	4.0
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE	4.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania	4.0
Currensy The Stoned Immaculate	4.0
Gates (USA-NJ) You Are All You Have Left to Fear	3.5
Slash Apocalyptic Love	3.0
John Mayer Born and Raised	4.0
Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix	4.0
the fucking D is baacckkkk! yeah this rocks, the honesty in the 'hollywood jack' thing and how their film sucked is cool, and the production is awesome.
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods	4.0
Damon Albarn Dr. Dee	1.0
You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude	3.5
Dry The River Shallow Bed	3.5
The Lay-Lows Your Old Best Thing	3.0
Stoned Jesus Seven Thunders Roar	3.5
Pity Sex Dark World	3.5
nice 90's vibe
Lil Ugly Mane Mista Thug Isolation	3.5
Sithu Aye Isles	4.0
Sithu Aye released Cassini, played Skyrim and then released this. Awesome.
Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory	3.5
Crosses EP II	4.0
Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour	3.0
Cyanotic MedPack Vol. 1	2.0

2011
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence	4.0
Metallica Beyond Magnetic	3.5
Receivers Haunts	3.5
Korn The Path of Totality	1.5
Megadeth Th1rt3en	3.5
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds	3.5
Rich Robinson Through a Crooked Sun	4.0
blink-182 Neighborhoods	3.5
Sithu Aye Cassini	3.5
It is in the second half of the album -as its true prog colours are shown- where Cassini shines. The first half falls victim to pedictable song structures and downtuned riffs that chug, chug, chug. EXCELLENT guitar work, though, and the fact that pretty much all of this was done by one guy amazes me!
The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms	3.5
Old Gray Do I Dare Disturb The Universe	3.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You	3.5
The Weeknd Thursday	3.5
Gary Clark Jr. The Bright Lights	3.5
Crosses EP	3.5
Danny Brown XXX	4.0
Wiley Chill Out Zone	1.5
Wiley 'chilling out' by producing some light, stripped-down beats and hiring a few guest singers. Oh, he also made a rubbish EP in the process.
Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday	3.0
Not a terrible album, but many of the tracks struggle to push beyond mediocrity. 'El Paso' and 'You Got Me' are awesome, though, and John Nolan's backing vocals make a welcome return.
Shabazz Palaces Black Up	4.5
The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt	4.0
The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing	4.5
Black Country Communion 2	4.5
Black Stone Cherry Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	3.0
When will they realise that their Southern-tinged hard rock tracks are like 100X better than the shite attempts to top the charts?
Crucial Dudes 61 Penn	4.0
Tyler, the Creator Goblin	3.0
Dowsing All I Could Find Was You	2.5
Snowmine Laminate Pet Animal	4.0
Twin Atlantic Free	2.5
Death Grips Exmilitary	3.0
Duff McKagan's Loaded The Taking	3.5
Most of the tracks on 'The Taking' punch you in the face with their hard rock-meets-grunge approach, helped by the low-end production. It's the commercial tracks (e.g. "We Win" SPEW) that let this down.
Foo Fighters Wasting Light	4.5
The Weeknd House of Balloons	4.0
Travis Barker Give The Drummer Some	2.0
Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon	4.0
The Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?	3.0
Sylosis Edge of the Earth	3.5
Sylosis have crafted what is an excellent piece of modern thrash metal here, possessing an instrumental section that is almost flawless to listen to. The album does, however, run for 70+ minutes - way longer than it should, and the vocals occasionally come off as weak in comparison to the rest of the band. With a few minor tweaks, these guys will be putting out a classic in the near future - no doubt. Heads up for a new album in the works....Safe!
Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra.	3.5
Yuck Yuck	4.5
Black Spiders Sons of the North	3.5
Papercranes Let's Make Babies in the Woods	4.0
Braids Native Speaker	4.0
The Jet Age Of Tomorrow Journey to the 5th Echelon	2.0
Living With Lions Holy Shit	3.5
Pretty much pop punk we've all heard before. But the vocalist weaves some nice melodies into the reverb-dipped, flat sounding production (when he's not grunting).. and I just like listening to it.

2010
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Josh Is Dead	3.0
The Damned Things Ironiclast	3.5
Deadmau5 4x4=12	3.0
My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys	4.0
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...	3.5
Black Country Communion Black Country	4.0
Stone Sour Audio Secrecy	4.0
Funeral for a Friend The Young And Defenseless	4.0
Blood on the Dance Floor EPIC	1.0
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness	4.0
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare	3.0
Wild Nothing Gemini	4.0
Deftones Diamond Eyes	4.0
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow	4.0
Plan B The Defamation Of Strickland Banks	3.5
Earl Sweatshirt EARL	3.5
Slash Slash	3.0
Violent Soho Violent Soho	3.5
Athlete Black Swan	3.0
The Hextalls Get Smashed	3.5
The Wonder Years The Upsides	4.0
Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life	4.0
Lostprophets The Betrayed	4.0

2009
Tyler, the Creator Bastard	3.5
Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War	2.5
John Mayer Battle Studies	3.5
Decidedly simple and poppy song structures that shot him to stardom, but John's smooth Clapton-esque guitar lines make this irresistible. A great album to chill to.
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day	4.0
The Blackout The Best in Town	3.5
Enter Shikari Common Dreads	3.5
The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)	2.0
Chickenfoot Chickenfoot	2.5
Taking Back Sunday New Again	3.5
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown	2.5
Silversun Pickups Swoon	3.5
this one's a bit too sparkling pumpkins

2008
Soulja Boy iSouljaBoyTellEm	1.0
Akon Freedom	2.0
AC/DC Black Ice	3.0
Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity	3.0
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season	2.0
Defeater Travels	4.0
Don't usually like this type of music, but this is great. A chilling tale told with the usual screamed/shouted vocals and good lyrics. I also like the atmosphere the guitarists create.
Metallica Death Magnetic	3.5
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone	3.5
Living With Lions Make Your Mark	3.0
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	2.5

2007
Enter Shikari The Zone	3.0
The non-album tracks on this are great. However, the remixes/alternate versions don't interest me.
Caspa and Rusko FabricLive.37	3.5
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold	3.0
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow	3.5
The Wonder Years Get Stoked on It!	3.0
Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com	1.0
ASG Win Us Over	4.0
The Main Drag Yours As Fast As Mine	4.5
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago	4.0
Wiley Playtime Is Over	3.5
wiley, the 'Godfather' of grime, put (and still puts) out some great tracks, but his first few LP's were inconsistent and contained a high abundance of shit.
Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves	3.5
Enter Shikari Take to the Skies	4.0
There's something about the hypnotic mess of manic hardcore -- complete with a distinctive techno atmosphere and pretty harmonies (Adieu rules) -- that keeps my inner 14-year-old self coming back to this.
LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God	4.0

2006
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me	4.5
+44 When Your Heart Stops Beating	3.5
Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny	4.0
Bowling for Soup The Great Burrito Extortion Case	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings	1.5
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist	3.5
Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls	2.5
Stone Sour Come What(ever) May	3.5
Silversun Pickups Carnavas	4.5
Lostprophets Liberation Transmission	2.5
Lordi The Arockalypse	3.5
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper	2.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium	3.5
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now	3.5
His Name Is Alive Detrola	3.5
Plan B Who Needs Actions When You've Got Words	4.5

2005
Nickelback All the Right Reasons	2.5
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison	4.0
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness	4.0
Funeral for a Friend Hours	4.0
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil	4.0
Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory	4.0
Stereophonics Language.Sex.Violence.Other?	4.0
Athlete Tourist	2.0

2004
Bowling for Soup A Hangover You Don't Deserve	4.0
Wiley Treddin' on Thin Ice	3.5
Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy	4.5
Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be	4.0
Metallica Some Kind of Monster	2.0
Lostprophets Start Something	4.0

2003
blink-182 Blink-182	5.0
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism	4.0
John Mayer Heavier Things	3.5
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen	4.0
Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner	5.0
Metallica St. Anger	2.0
Athlete Vehicles & Animals	3.5
The electronic influence and infectious hooks on this record proved Athlete both unique and promising. Too bad they settled with becoming a less successful Coldplay.
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue	4.0

2002
Beck Sea Change	3.5
Stone Sour Stone Sour	4.0
My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love	3.0
Something Corporate Leaving Through The Window	3.0
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends	4.5

2001
Ryan Adams Gold	4.0
Tenacious D Tenacious D	4.5
Saves the Day Stay What You Are	4.0
The Shins Oh, Inverted World	4.0
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket	4.5
John Mayer Room for Squares	4.0
My Morning Jacket At Dawn	4.0

2000
New Found Glory New Found Glory	3.5
The Weakerthans Left and Leaving	4.0
Mock Orange The Record Play	4.5
Deftones White Pony	4.5

1999
The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About	4.5
American Football American Football	4.5

1998
Alkaline Trio Goddamnit	4.5
American Football American Football EP	4.0
James Iha Let It Come Down	3.5
After hearing 'Take me down' from Mellon collie I had to hear this. Granted, nothing here really sounds like that song, or any other song in the Pumpkins' discography for that matter. But it's a pleasant record full of sunny, country-tinged, 70s soft rock.

1997
Deftones Around the Fur	4.5
The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile	3.5

1995
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	4.5
Down NOLA	5.0
Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous	4.5

1994
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York	5.0
Jeff Buckley Grace	4.5
Portishead Dummy	4.5
Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep	5.0
6 Feet Deep oozes fun. The Gravediggaz' shockingly good rhymes are coupled with a halloween-ready soundtrack that's trippy, yet completely danceable, and never lets up the fun. For me, 6 Feet Deep has all I could ask for from a hip-hop album.
Failure Magnified	4.0
The Wannadies Be a Girl	2.5

1993
Nirvana In Utero	5.0
her shit is my milk, my milk is her shit. DOLL STEAK!
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream	5.0

1992
Nirvana Incesticide	4.0
Nirvana Hormoaning	3.5
Paint in Watercolour Unknown	3.5

1991
My Bloody Valentine Loveless	5.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik	4.5
Nirvana Nevermind	5.0
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II	4.0
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I	4.5
Metallica Metallica	4.5
Paint in Watercolour Flow	2.5

1989
Nirvana Bleach	4.0
Back when Kurt wrote songs about masturbation, blowjobs and serial rapists/killers. Evidence that Nirvana were actually grunge as fuck.
Roy Orbison Mystery Girl	2.5

1988
Soundgarden Ultramega OK	4.0
Metallica ...And Justice for All	4.0
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son	4.0

1987
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction	5.0
Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded	5.0

1986
Kate Bush The Whole Story	4.5
Metallica Master of Puppets	4.5
Cocteau Twins Victorialand	4.0

1984
Metallica Ride the Lightning	4.5
Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend	5.0

1983
Don Henley Building the Perfect Beast	3.5
Metallica Kill 'Em All	4.0
Thin Lizzy Thunder and Lightning	4.0

1982
Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)	4.0
Suzanne Ciani Seven Waves	4.0

1981
Thin Lizzy Renegade	3.5

1980
Thin Lizzy Chinatown	3.5
AC/DC Back In Black	4.5

1979
AC/DC Highway To Hell	5.0
But Bon Scott told me it's OK to slip into her room, crawl across her floor and make a mess of her while she sleeps!
Thin Lizzy Black Rose: A Rock Legend	5.0

1978
Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous	5.0

1977
Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation	5.0
AC/DC Let There Be Rock	4.5

1976
Thin Lizzy Johnny the Fox	5.0
AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	4.5
AC/DC High Voltage	4.5
Aerosmith Rocks	5.0
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak	5.0

1975
Thin Lizzy Fighting	4.5
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic	5.0

1974
Thin Lizzy Nightlife	4.0
"Just a slight guitar injection", a cool Phil Lynott shouts in Nightlife's opening track, right before we get a first taste of the twin-guitar harmonies that defined Lizzy's career. In comparison to later releases, Nightlife is best described as laid-back, but it is a gem of an album in a discography that is largely underrated.
Ry Cooder Paradise And Lunch	4.0

1973
Thin Lizzy Vagabonds of the Western World	4.0
Eric Clapton Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert	3.0

1972
Todd Rundgren Something/Anything?	4.5
Fleetwood Mac Bare Trees	4.0

1971
Judee Sill Judee Sill	4.0
John Martyn Bless the Weather	4.5

1969
The Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat	3.5
Jim Sullivan U.F.O.	4.0
Bridget St John Ask Me No Questions	4.0

1967
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love	5.0

1965
The Beatles Rubber Soul	4.5
Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas	4.5

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