Average Rating: 3.47 Rating Variance: 0.80 Objectivity Score: 81% (Well Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2013 Dream Theater Dream Theater3.0Kayo Dot Hubardo4.5One of the most daring concept albums of 2013. Also, one of the best.Earl Sweatshirt Doris3.0Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth3.0I got lost after track one. The Mars Volta B-Sides3.5You get the good old early Mars Volta, and the newer, more recent Mars Volta. The best of both worlds, I'd say.Rosetta The Anaesthete3.0Look, I haven't gotten gold out of this. 3.2/5Asking Alexandria From Death to Destiny1.0From death to horrifying music. Norma Jean Wrongdoers2.5Nah. Misery Signals Absent Light3.0YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!...How about no.Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail2.0Not proud to say I listened to this. Run the Jewels Run the Jewels2.5El-P has reached a new level...of what? Bosnian Rainbows Bosnian Rainbows3.53OH!3 Omens1.0Kanye West Yeezus2.5Absolutely lost in all the other -expletive- nonsense.Sigur Ros Kveikur3.0All your soundoffs are irrelevant. Deafheaven Sunbather3.5Not quite the heaven I was expecting. I end up asking more questions than I should have: it sounds like quality death metal, but how come it sounds so shoegazish?!?! Why couldn't it just be instrumental? And for that matter, why am I listening to this? There are some things that skew with my brain, and this is one of them. 3.4/5Scale the Summit The Migration4.0After waiting months for something worth listening to, Scale the Summit finally gives me 2013 gold. The first in a full 2 months.Cynthesis ReEvolution4.5The reboot of "evolving" prog metal that Cynthesis desperately needed.Love and Death Between Here And Lost3.5Daft Punk Random Access Memories3.0This album isn't consistent. The songs that are shaky outnumber the good ones. So...The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer3.0Ubiquitous, anyone? 3.3/5 The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation3.5Either it's me or my generation is in trouble. 3.6/5Joe Satriani Unstoppable Momentum3.5Knife Party Haunted House1.5When drawing for exceptions: never. This one: ESPECIALLY.Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve4.5Clearly, this is FUN music. Laura Stevenson Wheel4.0Laura Stevenson's vocals in the Wheel are so sublime; the rest is pretty impressive too. 4.1/5will.i.am #Willpower1.0Blaak Heat Shujaa The Edge Of An Era4.0The boundaries to psychedelic rock are almost limitless. Blaak Heat Shujaa is just learning to break through them surprisingly well with a blend of dark, slightly metal, progressive overtones in their debut EP: The Edge Of An Era. 3.8/5Spock's Beard Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep4.0Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal3.0Wait a minute...you mean these guys are actually good?Atoms for Peace Amok4.0Surprising more distinct than the latest Radiohead, but still not as credible as Hail to the Thief or Amnesiac. 3.8/5Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)4.5Do you like prog? Do you like Yes, Camel, Genesis, Alan Parson, or King Crimson? Do you like the 1970s? Do you like Porcupine Tree? Do you like Steven Wilson? Have I been sold? Yes...ALL OF THE ABOVE. The Raven That Refused to Sing is a killer prog album and perhaps the greatest of the Steven Wilson discography so far. 4.6/5Iceage You're Nothing3.0The sharp blade of beautiful distortion is immediately dulled by the vocalist. 3.1/5Rika How to Draw a River, Step by Step4.0HRVRD From the Bird's Cage4.5I suppose I might be suffering a seizure, but I really think this is amazing. HRVRD has moved from Post Hardcore to Indie Alternative and they sound even better as a result. You might beg to differ, but this is simply just an opinion embodied with a fact.Carrollhood VIOLENCE.4.5Boys, you've done it again. You've managed to tune yourselves and still play some pretty good rock. Something's gotta give.Josh Groban All That Echoes3.5When you squeeze lemons, you get lemonade. Perfect.Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension3.5About as anticlimactic as the first album. Wil Wagner Laika3.0General music mood: 5/5 Australian accent: 5/5 Lyricism: Absolutely distraughtful when you're sober. 1/5 For me, getting drunk isn't a useful priority. 3.3/5Darkstar (UK) News From Nowhere4.0Pomegranate Tiger Entities4.0TTNG 13.0.0.0.04.0Beautiful. Despondent. Complex. By the way, I wasn't describing a gun. 4.1/5Kidz Bop Kidz Kidz Bop 231.5Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine3.0Haters, haters as usual. What the hell can you do about them?Girls' Generation I Got A Boy3.0This is almost why I believe that kpop outdid American pop.2012 Kesha Warrior2.5Green Day iDOS!2.0Some fine botchwork, I'll say.Soundgarden King Animal4.0Cornell: "Let's make a new album." Shepherd: "Great idea!" Turns out it was an excellent idea. Hence the rating.Brian Eno Lux4.0Deftones Koi No Yokan4.5I can't believe I didn't discover them any earlier. Koi No Yokan is on level with White Pony andn Diamond Eyes, I believe. Perhaps the best of the year.All That Remains A War You Cannot Win3.0The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega1.0You guys called this album talent, I called it stupidity.Lil B Illusions of Grandeur 22.5Illusions of what? I don't see the whole freaking point.Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension3.5This still beats torturing cats any day. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist1.0It's just bad enough when their best song is also their most annoying one.Muse The 2nd Law3.0Let's be honest: electronica and dubstep is just not suiting for a band that plays alt and slightly progressive band. Not today, not ever. On the bright side, this album didn't completely die.Mumford and Sons Babel3.0Green Day ¡UNO!3.0And nothing changed in the process.Steven Wilson Get All You Deserve3.5Deadmau5 >album title goes here<2.5Devin Townsend Project Epicloud3.5The Script #31.5A bicycle I won't miss. Lil B Based Jam2.0I must ask how this is better than Clockwork Angels? Because, it's not.Swans The Seer4.0Holy f**kin' s#%t. 4.2/5Carrollhood Afraid3.5Owl City The Midsummer Station2.5Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises3.0Maroon 5 Overexposed2.0Van der Graaf Generator ALT2.5Justin Bieber Believe1.5I gave you life in the music industry, now GIVE ME BACK MY MOTHER F**KING MONEY!!!The Flower Kings Banks of Eden4.0Rush Clockwork Angels4.5Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded1.0Minaj is just bad sounding enough. What's worse: she does it on purpose. What's even worse: the lyrics she writes. They are absolutely terrifying. And what's the worst of all: children like it. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE???Niechec Smierc w Miekkim Futerku4.0The revival of polish post rock progressive jazz begins here.The Mars Volta Noctourniquet3.5brokeNCYDE Guilty Pleasurez2.0The best of what? Of a the worst group I've heard of a group in a long time, yes. Still not as bad as the apparently popular JB.Big Bang Alive2.5It's fantastic, yet so terrible. Kayo Dot Gamma Knife3.02011 Lady Gaga A Very Gaga Holiday2.5It could easily have been the strangest Christmas in 2011.Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony4.0One Direction Up All Night2.5I'd say they're horrifying to a point, but not so on certain criteria...but I've heard worse pop bands than this.Drake Take Care2.5brokeNCYDE Guilty Pleasure2.0I inteed to listen to this...while plugging my ears.Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu1.0Greatest musical mistake of the whole year 2011. Opeth Heritage3.5Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events3.5A Dramatic Turn of Events is under Petrucci's foot.Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You2.5Leprous Bilateral3.5Iwrestledabearonce Ruining It for Everybody2.5Theory of a Deadman The Truth Is...2.5Yes Fly from Here3.5Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking2.0August Burns Red Leveler3.5Devin Townsend Project Ghost4.5Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction3.0There are two things that shouldn't go together: metal and satire, ok? 3.3/5Owl City All Things Bright And Beautiful1.5Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire3.0Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins A Scarcity Of Miracles4.0A graceful departure of the authentic King Crimson.Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless2.5Aiden Disguises2.5Rise Against Endgame3.0Radiohead The King of Limbs3.5Justin Bieber Never Say Never : The Remixes1.5Red (USA) Until We Have Faces3.5Adele 213.5Big Big Train The Underfall Yard4.02010 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy3.0Kesha Cannibal1.5A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You3.0Josh Groban Illuminations3.0brokeNCYDE Will Never Die1.5This is already dead. Even BOTDF sounds better than this.Iwrestledabearonce It's All Dubstep2.5Susan Boyle The Gift2.5Linkin Park A Thousand Suns2.5Disturbed Asylum2.5Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare3.5Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds3.0Better than Black Eyed Peas. Hans Zimmer Inception4.5Forget about what the movie is about, this is just about the soundtrack. High complexity and intensity makes the soundtrack worth a listen. Take several times, not just one.3OH!3 Streets of Gold1.5Drake Thank Me Later2.5Spock's Beard X4.0Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow3.5Justin Bieber My World 2.01.0The kid would've been just fine staying a low-life youtuber, but NO...Hans Zimmer Sherlock Holmes4.0Kesha Animal1.0Did someone mess up the system again? Because, I swear, Kesha just keeps breaking the rules.2009 Susan Boyle I Dreamed a Dream2.5Boyle gets too much attention from Brittain's Got Talent, and hits a dead end. Fortunately, this still sounds better than JB.Justin Bieber My World1.0Atreyu Congregation of the Damned3.0Transatlantic The Whirlwind4.5The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event2.5Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony3.5Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream3.0Dream Theater Wither3.0Not really necessary. Unless you're completionist, of course. Just listen to Black Clouds instead, you'll get a more rewarding experience for sure.Muse The Resistance3.5Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:114.5fun. Aim and Ignite3.5fun. Electric Valentine Automatic3.0There is a reason Electric Valentine exists...so that brokeNCYDE has a reason to be p****d off and jealous.Owl City Ocean Eyes2.5August Burns Red Constellations4.5Lmfao Party Rock2.5Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings4.0brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It!1.0You don't say. Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening3.0Green Day 21st Century Breakdown2.5A handful of disasters in a concept album. Nice going, Green Day. 2.4/5Aiden Knives2.0U2 No Line on the Horizon4.0Yes, TBH, I was raised under the authority of U2. I was easily built to like it. Whether that was a bad mistake or not is no longer my judgement. I will simply state that if you look in terms of what they were making in the 2000s, material was always going to be on the edge, most especially How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which spiritual properties made it easy musical propaganda. And then, suddenly you get an album, No Line On the Horizon, which builds on more of a 21st century regular rock ordeal, and you get U2's enjoyable sound, built on bright lights. This really added up to SOMETHING.Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons4.0Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct3.5A Day To Remember Homesick3.5Dream Theater Uncovered 2003-20053.5Dream Theater Train of Thought Instrumental Demos3.52008 The All-American Rejects When the World Comes Down2.5Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak3.5Lady Gaga The Fame3.0It's like any other popular album I've heard her in: not good, but not really anywhere near disappointing. 3.1/5Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder2.5brokeNCYDE BC 131.0No sign of good things to come. Rise Against Appeal to Reason3.5Dream Theater Chaos in Motion3.5Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation3.5DragonForce Ultra Beatdown3.03OH!3 Want2.0Just how did I listen to this? Disturbed Indestructible3.0Theory of a Deadman Scars and Souvenirs2.0Dream Theater Greatest Hit3.0Owl City Maybe I'm Dreaming3.0Muse HAARP4.0Saving Abel Saving Abel2.0The last people you want to rip off is Nickelback. They only so good. In fact, it only gets worse when you act like Nickelback. No other explanation required.Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire3.0The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath3.5See that big man on the album cover? BE AFRAID OF HIM.Rodrigo y Gabriela Live in Japan3.52007 Genesis Live Over Europe 20073.5Led Zeppelin Mothership4.0Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold3.5Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow4.0Radiohead In Rainbows4.5Radiohead recorded this under tons of tension and stress. No wonder it sounds like a lost diamond.Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com1.0Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace4.0Kanye West Graduation3.5Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor3.0Black Veil Brides Sex & Hollywood2.5Aiden Conviction2.5Jonas Brothers Jonas Brothers2.5Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago4.5I find myself shocked listening to this. Somehow, I like it. A lot.brokeNCYDE The Broken1.5The E.P. was not a good sign. This is not much better. Nor will it ever be.Dream Theater Systematic Chaos3.5Dream Theater tried to pound the hammer on metal just as well as they did on Train of Thought, and get themselves tied in quite a few knots. However, it certainly didn't tie too many knots...Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight3.0A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart3.5The Naked Brothers Band The Naked Brothers Band1.03OH!3 3OH!31.5Asking Alexandria The Irony of Your Perfection2.0Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce3.0Dream Theater Falling Into Infinity Demos3.0Abnormality 2007 Demo3.52006 Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me4.0U2 U218 Singles3.5Josh Groban Awake3.5Cradle of Filth Thornography2.5Josh Groban Noel3.5Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds3.0I know I don't like Timberlake, but he really isn't terrible, either. He just has a different way of making music, and it still works. My personal opinion can be further justified if you don't believe me.Dream Theater Score4.0Breaking Benjamin Phobia3.5All That Remains The Fall of Ideals4.0Muse Black Holes & Revelations4.5Muse was not going to go down without a big bang. It was a Supermassive Black Hole. It consumed all negatism wherever it went. It would often make appearances during Starlight of the darkness, feeding on the Cities of Delusion through Exo-Politics. Even Assassins and Hoodoos failed to assail this fierce enemy. A Soldier's Poem inspired a group of aparent Invincible men known as the Knights of Cydonia to stop this beast. Before the Black Hole had accepted defeat, it Took a Bow and dissappeared without a trace. Wherever it may appear again, it may plague the world yet again. But for now, our heroes walked off of the Map of Problematique, Glorious. If you look at Black Holes and Revelations in comparison to the rest of its discography, it could be considered the most powerful LP by Muse to date. It almost matches up to the standards of Origin of Symmetry and Absolution, but just falls short. Not bad for a fourth Muse Album. Incredible.Underoath Define the Great Line3.5Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela4.5This flamenco-style guitar duo debut gives a fresh new look at talent and continues to show that even two guitarists can make a really good album.Red (USA) End of Silence3.5AFI Decemberunderground4.0Hitoshi Sakimoto Final Fantasy XII: Original Soundtrack4.0Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium3.0Oh, this is supposed to be massive. I guess there might be an area where they messed up. 3.2/5Tool 10,000 Days4.0Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime II3.0Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday3.0Kidz Bop Kidz Kidz Bop, Volume 91.0This CD was just plain horrific... Acid Mothers Temple Starless and Bible Black Sabbath3.5DragonForce Inhuman Rampage4.0Dragonforce has no good honest reason to be playing the way they do in speed metal. When you pull the whole Japanese equation, you get something like this. The extremity faced in this album is so harsh it fits the power of the legend metal album. However, the consistantly uninteresting and the same old, same old story ruins the chances of it becoming an instant dose of classic.Dream Theater Awake Demos3.0Dream Theater Dark Side of the Moon3.52005 The Mars Volta Scab Dates3.0We all know that the Mars Volta can do better than THIS. 2.9/5Aiden Nightmare Anatomy2.5Nickelback All the Right Reasons2.5Bullet for My Valentine The Poison3.5Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists3.5Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness4.5The Fall of Troy Doppelganger4.5It's one thing to listen to F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X., and it's another thing to hear the whole album. It's a wholly landmass of unexpected impressiveness.Crazy Frog Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits1.0I heard this waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much from my friends and cousins that it's just boring and annoying. And so, I never plan to hear again.The All-American Rejects Move Along3.5Dream Theater Octavarium4.0Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil4.5A7X is giving us a reason to care about them. If anything they made in the future sounded like this or Waking the Fallen or the two combined, they'd be taking a step in the right direction.Hans Zimmer Madagascar3.0Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................................Gorillaz Demon Days3.0A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason3.0Porcupine Tree Deadwing4.550 Cent The Massacre1.5It's a shame when you have friends saying this is the best music when it's not really music at all.John Petrucci Suspended Animation4.5The Mars Volta Frances the Mute4.5Muscle spasm has been redefined, by a long shot...............Karnivool Themata4.0This is rather cool. Prog rock was made in AUSTRALIA??? Whoa.Dream Theater When Dream and Day Reunite3.5Dream Theater The Number Of The Beast3.0Coheed and Cambria Live At The Avalon3.5Dream Theater Images and Words Demos3.52004 Genesis Platinum Collection3.5U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb3.5Pushing spiritual flow into the equation. It sounds like U2, except for it doesn't sound quite as powerful. Maybe it's just me.Trans-Siberian Orchestra The Lost Christmas Eve4.0Dream Theater Live at Budokan4.0Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine3.0Green Day American Idiot4.0I thought the canvas was destroyed here. I guess I was wrong. It didn't turn out to be the worst Green Day album. It does a good job displaying the concept pretty well and sets itself in a different direction. Maybe that will be its downfall.Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture4.0Atreyu The Curse3.0Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone3.0Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety3.5Aiden Our Gangs Dark Oath3.0August Burns Red Looks Fragile After All3.0Dream Theater Master of Puppets3.0Dream Theater Tokyo, Japan 10/28/953.0Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite Demos3.0DragonForce Sonic Firestorm3.52003 Dream Theater Train of Thought4.0Josh Groban Closer4.0This has been the best Groban has been right now. The best he'll ever be. No better.Muse Absolution5.0Not nearly as bombastic or as fun as Origin of Symmetry, but it sure still stands clearly victorious.Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen3.5The Mars Volta Live3.0The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium4.0I really thought of this album as a new King Crimson album. It seems a little closer to prog metal, but never too far away are the possibilities of this group being the next King Crimson. After, it was an excellent debut album. That was my first soundoff about a year ago. Today, I can strictly describe this as a massive muscle spasm. 4.1/5Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day3.0Linkin Park Meteora3.5AFI Sing the Sorrow4.0DragonForce Valley of the Damned3.0Dream Theater The Majesty Demos3.0Dream Theater Los Angeles, California 5/18/983.0Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb4.02002 Phil Collins Testify3.0Chevelle Wonder What's Next3.5Disturbed Believe3.5Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head4.0Spock's Beard Snow4.0It is very impressive, but still I wonder if they were trying to match the likes of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.Kidz Bop Kidz Kidz Bop, Volume 22.0Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way3.5Green Day Shenanigans3.5They brought a bunch of b-sides pretty well together. IMPRESSIVE.Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses3.0Muse Hullabaloo Soundtrack3.5Various Artists Punk Goes Pop3.0The Mars Volta Tremulant3.5Underoath The Changing of Times3.0Damien Rice O4.5Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence4.02001 Josh Groban Josh Groban3.5Green Day International Superhits3.5Pink Floyd Echoes3.0Kidz Bop Kidz Kidz Bop, Volume 12.5Transatlantic Bridge Across Forever4.5It took forever to get through this album...and it was worth it.Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet3.0Muse Origin of Symmetry5.0There's no limits to what Muse has done in this 21st Century Magnum Opus. It stands as one of the pillars of alternative indie rock and delivers every single that is demanded, tenacity, over the top heaviness, and a warmth of keyboards all over. It's only appropriate to say that this album should come to be incredibly influentual for the next generation. 5/5Afro Celt Sound System Volume 3: Further In Time4.5Tool Lateralus5.0Opeth Blackwater Park5.0This is the breakthrough peak of Opeth's band career. No doubt about it.2000 Tool Salival3.5Cradle of Filth Midian3.0U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind4.5U2 takes back to the hills and returns to a highly regarded style of music, one that is hard to find. I their efforts, they create a more than average, perhaps one of the last superb performance.Linkin Park Hybrid Theory3.0Muse Random 1-83.5Green Day Warning4.5This was the best Green Day was ever going to get, because they calmed down the punk style just enough, and gave each song some a little emotion rather than the usual f##k you feeling. This may perhaps be the reason they fell back down to a much lower status and can't escape their trademark, recycled punk style.Radiohead Kid A5.0The biggest musically commercial suicide of the 2000s. And the greatest album by Radiohead.At the Drive-In Relationship of Command4.0CUT AWAY!!!CUT AWAY!!! Immediate 4.1/5Spock's Beard V4.5At the apex of their career, Spock's Beard tops their efforts in Day for Night and sweaps the Labyrinth of confusion and clutter with brilliant music.King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light2.5Gloria Estefan Alma Caribeña3.5Surprisingly musical. And the Spanish style just sounds better with Gloria than the regular pop style.Yo-Yo Ma and Others Appalachian Journey3.5Transatlantic SMPT:e4.0This is certain a wonderful start to a prog rock supergroup, which needs appreciation for helping launch prog in the 21st century.Disturbed The Sickness3.0Ruins Pallaschtom3.5HOLY BASS AND DRUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!John Petrucci An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess4.01999 Genesis Turn It On Again: The Hits3.5Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory4.5Dream Theater's "magnum opus" is so close to being one on my scale. It's probably one of the few concept albums I'll listen to without getting bored. It's also one of DT's best.Opeth Still Life4.5Muse Showbiz4.0This was the transformation of Muse, a sign of good things to come.Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 24.0Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication3.5AFI All Hallow's E.P.3.5Muse Muscle Museum3.5Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles3.0Pokemon Pokemon 2.B.A. Master3.0I could never get more annoyed by this album. My younger brother played this like he had no life. I guess it's true. Once you've played Pokemon, you life is never the same. On the bright side, this can't get any worse than some of the pop albums that you hear. And it's Pokemon, so who wouldn't want to listen to this?Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack4.5It's a pretty good thing that the word final has not lost meaning yet.1998 Dream Theater Once in a LIVEtime3.0Muse Muse3.0Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast3.0Yes Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969–19703.0Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment4.0Joe Satriani Crystal Planet4.0Beastie Boys Hello Nasty2.0AFI A Fire Inside3.51997 Green Day Nimrod3.5Dream Theater Falling into Infinity2.5Genesis Calling All Stations2.0Right singer, wrong time, and Genesis was already fading during We Can't Dnace anyways.Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞4.5It's not the apocalypse. It's just really incredible music.Radiohead OK Computer4.5This was when Radiohead would become extremely influential in the 1990s. Great Brittain was going to have a great musical year. I still think Fitter, Happier is just plain weird and annoying, though.U2 Pop3.0Muse Newton Abbot Demo4.0If you're a Muse completionist, you'll probably like and want this.1996 Tool Ænima4.5Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace3.5Afro Celt Sound System Volume 1 - Sound Magic3.5Soundgarden Down on the Upside3.5Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire3.0The Flower Kings Retropolis4.01995 Green Day Insomniac3.5Dream Theater A Change of Seasons4.0Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute2.5Mannheim Steamroller Christmas in the Aire4.5The best Christmas album made by Mannheim Steamroller.Radiohead The Bends4.0Being the pre-runner to a remarkable OK Computer, The Bends is a credible album to hints signs of good things to come.Spock's Beard The Light4.5The Flower Kings Back in the World of Adventures3.51994 Dream Theater Awake4.0Dream Theater takes a step back, but nevertheless, this album is still very good. 4.2/5Hans Zimmer The Lion King3.5Nas Illmatic3.0Rap/hip-hop albums usually just pass me because I don't like them. This was slightly different. At this time it was just gaining ground. Personally, I'm not really that crazy about it.Pink Floyd The Division Bell3.5Soundgarden Superunknown5.0Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh3.0Green Day Dookie4.0Beastie Boys Ill Communication1.5The Wilde Flowers Tales Of Canterbury: The Wilde Flowers Story2.5Yes Talk3.01993 Dream Theater Images and Words: Live in Tokyo3.0Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)4.0I just broke my own rules: I listened to rap. Yes Highlights: The Very Best of Yes3.5Fight War Of Words4.0This album didn't sacrifice too much power during the transition from Painkiller. It certainly gave Rob Halford a different prospective of metal. And it was fun to listen to as well.Dream Theater Live at the Marquee3.5U2 Zooropa3.5Radiohead Pablo Honey3.0Tool Undertow4.0The beginning of something very beautiful... 3.8/5Billy Joel River Of Dreams3.5Emerson Lake and Palmer Works Live3.51992 Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine3.0ABBA ABBA Gold3.0Dream Theater Images and Words5.0Beastie Boys Check Your Head1.0Tool Opiate3.51991 Green Day Kerplunk3.5U2 Achtung Baby4.5Genesis We Can't Dance3.5Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik3.5I cannot completely relate to this. 3.6/5Green Day 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours3.5If this the beginning, then it's the beginning...but, WAIT! It's Green Day.Yes Union3.0Tool 728263.01990 Megadeth Rust in Peace4.5I find it way too difficult to compare Megadeth to Metallica. I mean, Mustaine got what he was looking for, so why argue? 4.75/5Rush Chronicles4.0Judas Priest Painkiller4.5I suppose after what was Screaming for Vengeance, the best Judas Priest album made in a long time, was finished, Judas Priest to dip down during the next two albums. Then suddenly, Painkiller came by and gave us one of the heaviest metal albums to date. One of the best ones, by the way.Green Day Slappy3.0Green Day 39/Smooth3.01989 Phil Collins ...But Seriously3.5Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk3.5Operation Ivy Energy4.0Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe4.0Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite1.5The only song that will live on from this album will be Ytse Jam. Otherwise, the rest sounds ridiculous.Green Day 1,000 Hours3.0Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique2.01988 U2 Rattle and Hum3.0Sonic Youth Daydream Nation4.0A bunch of teenagers making some pretty good noise. Seems about right.Metallica ...And Justice for All4.5If you take a leap in terms of two different albums, you might see a difference. With Metallica, the difference between ...And Justice for All and Master of Puppets is almost not a difference. However, that is one simple factor that separates the two of them from each other. Master of Puppets is extremely overrated and this is almost underrated. ...And Justice for All takes a much more enjoyable approach in terms of music since you're not thrashing the whole way through it. However, it doesn't lack any metal elements whatsoever. It would be perfect, if it weren't for the results of certain sections of the album.Mannheim Steamroller A Fresh Aire Christmas4.0Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime4.5This has the standards that almost match up to the ideals of Scenes From a Memory. This is because this album showcases a really good concept, transititions through each song so well, and gives the album a name to go by. Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son5.0This would be the last brilliant Iron Maiden album, and the rest would fall the bottom out. Seventh Son is so great because Iron Maiden does a really good job with the concept and putting it into each of the songs. While each of the songs in previous albums had stories in them, these stories for each song on this album seem to have more meaning. Another nearly flawless entry for a metal band that has been that way for almost a decade.1987 Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan3.0U2 The Joshua Tree5.0This is either an album you'll love or hate. Most Bono-haters are going to drop the bomb and say "screw it, this album is horrible." Most U2 fans are going to say "this is AWESOME!" For anybody in between, the mystery remains. However, after analyzing this album for a full 10 years of my life from when I first heard this in school to now, the message of U2's Joshua Tree says more than just clever wankery and looselined lyrics and songwriting. This album is the cries of the lost in their own deceit and loss (alluding to Mothers of the Disappeared.) This album is the breaking of ethnical borders (allusion toTrip Between Your Wires.) This album the telling of old stories to new ones (allusions to Where the Streets Have No Name and Red Hill Mining Town.) Finally, this album is the culmination of perfect rock and pop combined together on an integral album (alluding to With or Without You.) So, take a good look at it from the broad perspective. I think you'll see that it's revolutionary.Yes Big Generator2.5This sounds good, but its run dry of creativity and sounds like the previous album, but worse. Also, can you stop overwriting about love in at least one song?Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy: Original Soundtrack3.5Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien4.01986 Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill2.5Genesis Invisible Touch3.5Peter Gabriel So4.0Metallica Master of Puppets4.5This album is extremely overrated. On the other hand, Metallica does not sell itself short at all. This could've easily been one of the best heavy albums in the history of music. That's if only Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, and Deep Purple hadn't done it first.Paul Simon Graceland4.51985 Koji Kondo Super Mario Bros.3.5Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume I & II (1973 - 1985)4.5Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley3.01984 Mannheim Steamroller Christmas4.0This is the stuff that rivals TranSiberian Orchestra or may even be better at certain times. You might beg to differ, but you might change your mind when you listen to it. Merry Christmas.Iron Maiden Powerslave4.5Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers2.5Metallica Ride the Lightning4.5King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair3.0Queensryche The Warning3.51983 Genesis Genesis2.5Not important at all. The quality of the audio altogether ruins most of it.Iron Maiden Piece of Mind4.0Yes 901254.0How is this Yes??? It's all so fun and catchy, but it's not the same anymore. Did I really miss the apocalypse?1982 Rush Signals4.0Rush is definately going through a transformation...it's not a bad one, though.Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance4.0King Crimson Beat4.0Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast4.5Arnold Schwarzenegger Total Body Workout1.0This compilation belongs to the rats. 1/51981 Yes Classic Yes3.5King Crimson Discipline4.0Genesis Abacab3.0Genesis is now going through dramatic changes that are shaping the history of prog rock, and are now definately pointing toward pop. It seems as if Genesis will take a skyfall for the worse.Rush Moving Pictures4.51980 Yes Drama3.5Judas Priest British Steel4.0Genesis Duke3.5Rush Permanent Waves4.01979 Pink Floyd The Wall4.0Journey Evolution3.0A plain old journey album. Nothing more. 1978 Emerson Lake and Palmer Love Beach2.0They only did it because the contract told them to. That's all you really need to know.Rush Hemispheres4.0Genesis ...And Then There Were Three...3.0Yes Tormato3.01977 Emerson Lake and Palmer Works Volume 22.5When things in ELP started to get very strange... Rush A Farewell to Kings5.0Emerson Lake and Palmer Works Volume 13.0Let's be honest...most of this album sounds as if it was made at the last minute. Some of it sounds good, others of it sounds incredibly messed up. The only reason it doesn't completely remain horrifying is that Piano Concerto saves the album from being worthless.Fleetwood Mac Rumours3.5Pink Floyd Animals4.5Pink Floyd has always been a heavily arbitrary band with their concepts and themes. So, when the year 1977 roled around, it was both a surprise and yet expected that the group would come out with Animals, an album that was filled with surprises, a concept about the political structures of society, and a very different design in comparison to that of Wish You Were Here. However, the acoustic tone, the extended themes of three different classes/animals, and a need for creating emotion within in it all still makes this album a power prog rock album to this very day.Yes Going for the One4.0Eloy Ocean4.01976 Genesis Wind & Wuthering4.0Kansas Leftoverture4.0Rainbow Rising4.5This is the best Rainbow Material you can hear. Hands down. 4.3/5Rush 21124.5Two plus one plus one plus two equals six. Done said. 6/5. Yeah.Camel Moonmadness4.5The greatest and most stunningly beautiful prog rock album in 1976. Simple as that.Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny5.0Genesis A Trick of the Tail4.5If Genesis lost anything from this album, the only variable they lost was Peter Gabriel. Everything else about the album is still there and still sounds as rich as ever. At the same time, this album also sniffs an approaching storm of pop music, though...Horslips The Book of Invasions: A Celtic Symphony4.51975 Van der Graaf Generator Godbluff4.5Rush Caress of Steel2.5Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here5.0Black Sabbath Sabotage4.0Jorm Theory of Anything3.5Camel The Snow Goose4.5Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti4.5Yes Yesterdays3.5Rush Fly by Night3.5Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks5.0Mannheim Steamroller Fresh Aire3.5Bruce Springsteen Born to Run4.51974 Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway5.0King Crimson Red5.0King Crimson Starless and Bible Black4.5When King Crimson decided to get louder, they got better.ABBA Waterloo3.5Rush Rush3.0Premiata Forneria Marconi The World Became the World4.0Yes Relayer4.5Renaissance Turn of the Cards4.5Strawbs Hero and Heroine4.5Hitting the Dark Side of Prog Rock. 4.3/5 1973 Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans4.0By the time Yes came out with their cornerstone, Close to the Edge, the music was growing beyond analysis expand a song from 10 minutes to almost 20. A Jon Anderson was growing extremely obssessed with so many different international cultures that it soon began to swamp the power that Yes had. However, it also led to one of the most unique albums of the century, with 4 songs that were heavily indulgent and almost all surpassed 18 minutes. While it was one of Yes's first flaws in their Classic age, it was not major.Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath4.5This is one of my personal favorites by Black Sabbath. It improves the styles that were almost lost from Volume 4 and brings a more mature metal sound to the group. I may only be concerned about Who Are You?, but it's just a minor concern. The second to last brilliant album from the Magnificant Six.Emerson Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery4.5The best you can ever ask of ELP. It has just about every single progressive rock element known, pretentiousness included.Genesis Selling England by the Pound5.0Jorm Jorm3.0Genesis Live3.5Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy4.5ABBA Ring Ring3.0Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon5.0There's almost nothing that can quite eclipse this.King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic4.0King Crimson takes a new form and hits the experimental rock stage. This is a beginning of a new King Crimson. A good beginning.Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.3.51972 Deep Purple Machine Head4.5One of the definative metal albums of the decade. There are only a few albums such as Paranoid by Black Sabbath that can truly beat this.Genesis Foxtrot4.5In all the years Genesis has been around, sophistication wouldn't sound better in any previous album than it would sound in Foxtrot.Black Sabbath Vol. 44.0Don't be wack. BS is for Black Sabbath, not bull s**t. And to inform you, this album isn't bull s**t. Not even close. It just has a few dissapointing flaws, but this album has mostly good characteristics.Yes Close to the Edge5.0Yes at it's best. It had been climbing the mountain of its past albums and came over the top with Close to the Edge. With an epic and two other great songs, this album deserves kudos.King Crimson Earthbound2.0If anything about this album WAS good, it was written off by the terrible sound quality.Nino Rota The Godfather4.5Perhaps one of the greatest soundtracks ever composed.Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick4.5The greatest intentional conceptual parody, I'd say.1971 King Crimson Islands3.0Yes Fragile4.5Genesis Nursery Cryme3.5Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV5.0Pink Floyd Meddle4.5Most people who heard Atom Heart Mother were probably not flattered. Meddle, the follow up album was more pleasant and a step up for Pink Floyd.Traffic The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys4.5Black Sabbath Master of Reality4.5Is the truth that difficult to face as reality? In comparison to Paranoid, Master of Reality is nearly as impressive, creating something a little milder and still very heavy.Emerson Lake and Palmer Tarkus3.5It's mostly pretentious mockery mixed with talent, flamboyance, and such. What more could there possibly be?Yes The Yes Album4.01970 King Crimson Lizard4.0Genesis Trespass3.5Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III4.5Emerson Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer3.5It was good for a debut album, but it's also easy to get lost in pretentiousness and mockery.Magma Kobaïa3.5Black Sabbath Paranoid5.0This should be considered one of the most revolutionary metal albums by Black Sabbath, the 1970s, and perhaps of all time. Why? Because, Paranoid really opened the doors to the metal music world. There are only a few albums that are as powerful.Yes Time and a Word3.0Cactus Cactus4.0Blues rock never sounded pricklier.........................................Traffic John Barleycorn Must Die4.5I'm not the type of guy to like soul, funk, R&B, or too much jazz for the matter, but this was different. This album combines the prog rock elements together creating a more enjoyable scene.Soft Machine Third4.5King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon4.0The Beatles Let It Be3.5Yeah...this sounds definately like a Paul McCartney production...but it's still the Beatles.Black Sabbath Black Sabbath4.5This should be considered the first true metal album. It was also the reason Paranoid came into existance. It puts together the styles of blues, metal, and rock in a neat display of unusual power for the time.Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water4.51969 King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King5.0At the dawning of our souls, we'll saw the light. That was many years ago. It held so much meaning we attempted to search deeper into it. King Crimson was of many explorers searching beyond the light into the darkest of all nights. They went beyond prophetic, beyond real, and beyond the mainstream music bloodlines. It was the temple that helped progressive rock move forward throughout the world. Don't overthink the main definition of prog rock. It lies in this masterpiece of masterpieces. And a sidenote: what does Robert Christgau truly know about this?The Beatles Abbey Road5.0Too much credit is always given to Sgt. Pepper. It was indeed a brilliant album, but it was also just another drug album (perhaps the same could be said about many albums). This was a very different story. When the Beatles stopped touring, and put more time into their studio material, something about their image changed. They began to discover even more purpose in the concept album and finding ways to cleverly place it in their music. And eventually, they went perfect in their true, reigning magnum opus finale act, Abbey Road.Genesis From Genesis to Revelation2.5Yes Yes3.51968 The Beatles The Beatles4.5After a revolutionary Sgt. Pepper album broke through the ice of the world, it was going to be difficult for the Beatles to top that. Instead, they matched it with massive 90 minute work, The Beatles, or the The White Album. With catchy songs, accoustic pieces, and bizarre masterpieces, this album can't quite match match the eccentricicy of the previous work, but is still head on. Also, if I tried to talk to Iai (Nick Butler) about music, I think it would end in a massive argument. Despite some of our agreements, we're mostly split by certain songs. While he thinks most of the White Album songs are just plain average, I think that there's way more importance to most of them, except maybe Wild Honey Pie. During the making of this album, all the members were going through massive revolutions in their heads, making nonsense of themselves. Yeah, they got high, but at this rate, even drugs weren't spelling the eventual split up. The only reason they stayed together, is because two is better than one. John still had some love for Paul's work (no homo :O) and it only benefited the whole group. George Harrison was only starting to show more gusto, and unified the album a little more than it originally was. And even if John was helpless without Paul or vice versa, for either, it would still be honorable. Take that, Nick Butler.The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money3.5Well...this is definitely creative, for one thing. But classic? Not entirely reaching me like other psychedelia does.Simon and Garfunkel Bookends4.0Procol Harum Shine On Brightly4.51967 The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed4.5The Nice The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack3.5These turned classical music upside down. in a good way.Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn3.5The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band5.0The Beatles essentially back in the 1960s were like any other pop artist, living the dream. But someday, they'd approach the point where they were very tired of creating the same music. So, just coincidently in the year of love, 1967, The Beatles made a groundbreaking record that would influence hundreds of artists all the way into the present, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This contains just about everything you could possibly ask for from them and more. Absolute creativity in this album has no bounds as this album would soar to the top, often being coined as one of the best albums of the 60s and the 20th century. 5/51966 Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme3.5Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence3.51965 Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited4.5Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas4.51959 Miles Davis Kind of Blue5.01944 Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring5.0In time, this would earn a Pulitzer Prize and go far beyond the merrits of contemporary music. Any classical music fan should listen to this.1934 Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 434.01928 Maurice Ravel Boléro4.0The greatness of this work isn't determined by the repetitiveness. It's more about the artistic flow, sophistication, and the interpretation of the story itself.George Gershwin An American in Paris4.01926 Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 404.01924 George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue5.01910 Igor Stravinsky L'Oiseau de feu4.5This version of the Firebird is nearly a masterpiece. I prefer and love the 1919 orchestrated version the most, though.1909 Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 304.51903 Sergei Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 223.5Sergei Rachmaninoff Preludes, Op. 234.01901 Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 185.0After the utter failure of his first symphony in Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff, a genius of the late Romantic/early Contemporary age, had sought psychiatric help. During the period in which he had been working with a psychiatrist, he had began to have the thought in his head that he could create great music. That thought was what his psychiatrist had constantly said to him in the time he was composing Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18. Piano Concerto Two is beyond words, and almost beyond analyzation. Each movement is incredibly unique and so well excercised between the Piano and the whole orchestra that it becomes a perfect blend. The combination of the use of Romantic and Contemporary music is also nearly perfect as well. The first movement, possibly the most well known, introduces the concerto with gusto, emotion, energy, and power. The second movement gives you a rest with one of the most calming pieces constructed by Rachmaninoff. The third movement revs up the bombastity, complexity, energy, and power by bring everything from the first two movements together. In a display of fury and power, the Piano Concerto ends with intense glory. Glory that only the likes of Beethoven, Mussorgsky, Bach, Copland, and Mozart could match.1893 Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 1784.51892 Pyotr Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Op. 713.51891 Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1 in F♯ minor, Op. 14.51888 Pyotr Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 643.51886 Antonin Dvorak Slavonic Dances No. 2, Op. 72, B. 1453.5Camille Saint-Saens Le Carnaval des Animaux, R. 1254.01879 Bedrich Smetana Má Vlast4.01878 Antonin Dvorak Slavonic Dances No. 1, Op. 46, B. 783.51875 Georges Bizet Carmen4.01874 Camille Saint-Saens Danse macabre, Op.403.5Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition4.01858 Ludwig van Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas3.51824 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 1255.01805 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E♭ “Eroica” Op. 554.01803 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 363.51801 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No24.51800 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 213.51787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K.5253.5It's fun, easily knowable, and it's Mozart. I rest my case.1785 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 4664.01773 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB4.01742 Johann Sebastian Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier II BWV 870-8934.01741 George Frideric Handel Messiah, HWV 564.01721 Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 10484.0Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 10463.5
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