Dream Theater Awake | 4.0 |
Helmet Meantime | 3.5 |
Helmet Betty | 4.0 |
Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut | 4.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 4.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Zero | 4.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Lull | 4.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Peel Sessions | 4.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins 1979 | 4.0 |
The Beatles Revolver | 5.0 |
Beck Guero | 4.0 |
Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.0 |
Marillion Brave | 3.0 |
Quicksand Slip | 4.0 |
Foster the People Torches | 3.5 |
Marcy Playground Marcy Playground | 3.0 |
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 3.5 |
Days of the New Days of the New | 3.5 |
The Posies Frosting On The Beater | 3.0 |
Lifehouse Stanley Climbfall | 3.0 |
Slowdive Souvlaki | 3.0 |
Semisonic All About Chemistry | 2.0 |
Better Than Ezra Friction, Baby | 3.0 |
Paula Cole This Fire | 3.0 |
The Kingsbury Manx Aztec Discipline | 3.5 |
Live Throwing Copper | 3.5 |
Def Leppard Pyromania | 2.0 |
Travis The Man Who | 3.0 |
GTR GTR | 3.0 |
Travis The Boy With No Name | 3.0 |
Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are | 3.0 |
Sting ...Nothing Like the Sun | 3.0 |
Train Train | 3.0 |
Jars Of Clay Jars Of Clay | 3.0 |
Yellowjackets Dreamland | 4.0 |
Styx Pieces of Eight | 3.0 |
Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 2.5 |
The Grays Ro Sham Bo | 3.0 |
Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 4.0 |
Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? | 2.5 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus | 3.5 |
Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 4.0 |
Belly (USA-MA) King | 2.5 |
The Alan Parsons Project I Robot | 3.0 |
Opeth Damnation | 4.0 |
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.0 |
The Beatles Please Please Me | 3.5 |
Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
Stone Temple Pilots Core | 4.0 |
Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
Hum Downward Is Heavenward | 4.0 |
Tool Opiate | 4.0 |
Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.0 |
Boston Don't Look Back | 3.5 |
Genesis Wind & Wuthering | 4.0 |
Local H Pack Up the Cats | 3.5 |
Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl | 3.0 |
Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 4.0 |
Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring | 4.0 |
Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.0 |
Irving Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers | 3.5 |
Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See | 2.0 |
Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 4.0 |
Genesis From Genesis to Revelation | 3.0 |
The Juliana Hatfield Three Become What You Are | 3.5 |
The Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic | 3.5 |
Seal Seal | 4.0 |
Chris Squire Fish Out of Water | 4.0 |
Journey Journey | 4.0 |
George Winston Autumn | 2.5 |
The Breeders Last Splash | 3.5 |
Grizzly Bear Shields | 4.0 |
Everclear World Of Noise | 3.5 |
Dada How to Be Found | 3.5 |
Ned's Atomic Dustbin Brainbloodvolume | 3.5 |
Liam Finn FOMO | 3.0 |
Shadowfax Too Far to Whisper | 3.0 |
Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love | 3.0 |
Soul Asylum Let Your Dim Light Shine | 2.5 |
Hootie and The Blowfish Fairweather Johnson | 3.0 |
Personally I think the album's better than Cracked Rear View. Firstly, the album has more of a country rock sound than their debut, which gives Fairweather Johnson a bit more personality. In particular, the song "Earth Stopped Cold at Dawn," an acoustic ballad featuring a mandolin and vocal harmonies by Nanci Griffith, is definitely one of the album's highlights. The album has a number of memorable pop rock tunes, including "Tucker's Town," "She Crawls Away," "Old Man & Me," and "Honeyscrew." These are probably the best songs on the album. On the downside, the album suffers somewhat from Darius Rucker's oversinging, which is pretty obvious from the moment the album begins. The album is also quite long, with 14 songs and a 49 minute runtime. I think it would have benefited from simply excluding a couple ballads toward the end. Overall, if you can get past the singing Fairweather Johnson might be worth owning for its better songs. |
Queensryche Hear in the Now Frontier | 3.0 |
Elastica Elastica | 3.5 |
Toad The Wet Sprocket Fear | 3.5 |
Emerson Lake and Palmer In the Hot Seat | 2.5 |
Sandbox Bionic | 2.5 |
Oasis Definitely Maybe | 3.0 |
Kaiser Chiefs Off With Their Heads | 3.0 |
Saves the Day In Reverie | 3.0 |
Snow Patrol Eyes Open | 3.0 |
The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
Asia Asia | 3.5 |
U2 Zooropa | 2.5 |
Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming | 4.0 |
Hootie and The Blowfish Cracked Rear View | 2.5 |
Semisonic Great Divide | 3.5 |
Spock's Beard Beware of Darkness | 4.0 |
Queensryche American Soldier | 3.0 |
Creed Human Clay | 3.0 |
3 Doors Down The Better Life | 3.0 |
The Wallflowers Breach | 2.5 |
Jethro Tull Heavy Horses | 4.0 |
Amaran's Plight Voice in the Light | 1.5 |
Genesis Invisible Touch | 3.5 |
Guardian Buzz | 2.5 |
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic | 4.0 |
Three Days Grace Life Starts Now | 2.5 |
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 4.0 |
Porcupine Tree The Incident | 3.5 |
Lifehouse No Name Face | 3.5 |
Pearl Jam Vs. | 4.0 |
Blitzen Trapper Furr | 4.0 |
Merzbow Venereology | 1.0 |
The Fray How to Save a Life | 2.5 |
Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.5 |
Counting Crows Recovering The Satellites | 3.0 |
Orbit XLR8R | 4.0 |
An excellent record. I liked Libido Speedway so much I had to order a copy of this. This one
offers a more pop-friendly sound than Libido Speedway, but without compromising the quality of
songwriting. Recommendations: "Electric" and the instrumental "Ve la Luz". Of course, this is so
obscure I don't think you'll be able to find the latter online |
Orbit Libido Speedway | 4.0 |
Overlooked album. It's a shame more people don't know about this band. Found this in a dollar bin,
along with a record of another terribly underrated and criminally obscure band called Dada, and
was immediately impressed by the quality of songwriting and musicianship. Their sound has a nice
balance of pop and grunge. Track recommendations: "Bicycle Song," "Amp," "Nocturnal Autodrive,"
"Medicine" |
Weezer Pinkerton | 4.5 |
The Chieftains The Long Black Veil | 2.5 |
Souls at Zero Souls at Zero | 2.5 |
Big Head Todd and the Monsters Sister Sweetly | 2.5 |
Metric Live It Out | 4.0 |
Yoshihisa Hirano & Hideki Taniuchi Death Note Original Soundtrack III | 4.0 |
Yoshihisa Hirano & Hideki Taniuchi Death Note Original Soundtrack II | 4.0 |
Yoshihisa Hirano & Hideki Taniuchi Death Note Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
Dada Dada | 3.5 |
Dada El Subliminoso | 4.0 |
U2 Pop | 2.5 |
The Verve Urban Hymns | 3.0 |
Pearl Jam Ten | 4.0 |
Blind Melon Soup | 4.0 |
Blind Melon Blind Melon | 4.0 |
The Cult Ceremony | 2.5 |
Kansas Kansas | 4.0 |
Journey Escape | 3.0 |
Boston Boston | 4.0 |
Boston Third Stage | 3.5 |
Budgie Never Turn Your Back on a Friend | 4.0 |
Eagles Hotel California | 3.5 |
The Strokes Angles | 4.0 |
U2 Achtung Baby | 3.0 |
U2 Boy | 4.0 |
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.0 |
Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 4.0 |
Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop | 4.0 |
Stone Temple Pilots No. 4 | 4.0 |
Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La-Dee-Da | 4.0 |
Self Subliminal Plastic Motives | 4.0 |
After another listen, I realized I needed to up my rating. This is such a creative record. I find myself returning to a few tracks specifically. "Superstar" in particular is my favorite because it showcases Self's experimentation, their more raw, grunge inspired sound, as well as their softer acoustic sound. "Cannon," "Missed the Friction," and "Mother Nature's Fault," "Borateen," and "Sophomore Jinx" are also quite good. The album has an overall alt-rock/ pop sound, and the lyrics are cynical and sarcastic. This is definitely a worthwhile listen and you should get it if it shows up in a thrift store or something |
Fall of the Leafe Aerolithe | 4.0 |
Finding this in the $1 bin was a very pleasant surprise indeed |
Nirvana Nevermind | 4.0 |
Collective Soul Collective Soul | 3.5 |
The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 2.0 |
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 3.5 |
AC/DC Back In Black | 3.0 |
Spyro Gyra Rites of Summer | 3.5 |
Spyro Gyra Stories Without Words | 3.5 |
The Police Ghost in the Machine | 3.5 |
Travis 12 Memories | 4.0 |
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.0 |
Coldplay Parachutes | 4.0 |
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.0 |
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 3.5 |
Coldplay X&Y | 3.5 |
The Who Who's Next | 5.0 |
T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca | 4.0 |
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 5.0 |
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 4.5 |
Queensryche Dedicated to Chaos | 1.5 |
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.0 |
Dream Theater Images and Words | 4.0 |
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.0 |
Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.0 |
Scale the Summit The Migration | 4.0 |
Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.0 |
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.5 |
Animals As Leaders Weightless | 4.0 |
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.0 |
Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 3.5 |
Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 | 4.0 |
Radiohead My Iron Lung | 3.5 |
Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.5 |
Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
Radiohead OK Computer | 4.0 |
Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.0 |
Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
Gentle Giant Interview | 4.0 |
Gentle Giant Free Hand | 4.5 |
Genesis ...And Then There Were Three... | 4.0 |
Yes 90125 | 3.5 |
Yes Drama | 4.0 |
Yes Close to the Edge | 5.0 |
Rush 2112 | 4.0 |
Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.5 |
Rush Hemispheres | 4.5 |
Rush Permanent Waves | 4.0 |
Rush Moving Pictures | 4.5 |
Rush Signals | 4.5 |
R.E.M. Chronic Town | 4.0 |
R.E.M. Reckoning | 4.5 |
R.E.M. Murmur | 4.5 |
Weezer Weezer | 4.5 |
Riverside Second Life Syndrome | 4.0 |
Riverside Out of Myself | 4.5 |
Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 4.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 3.5 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.0 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.0 |
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.0 |
Third Eye Blind Blue | 3.5 |
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 4.5 |
Better Than Ezra Deluxe | 3.5 |
Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience | 3.5 |
Toad The Wet Sprocket Coil | 3.5 |
Toad The Wet Sprocket Pale | 4.0 |
Toad The Wet Sprocket Dulcinea | 4.0 |
Dada Puzzle | 4.0 |
This is a masterpiece and desperately needs a review |
Dada American Highway Flower | 4.0 |
Excellent song-writing and musicianship makes this an overlooked 90's classic. I really need to
review this if no one else gets to it first... |
Guster Keep It Together | 2.5 |
The Veils The Runaway Found | 2.0 |