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Dream Theater Awake4.0
Helmet Meantime3.5
Helmet Betty4.0
Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Zero4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Lull4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Peel Sessions4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins 19794.0
The Beatles Revolver5.0
Beck Guero4.0
Bloc Party Silent Alarm4.0
Marillion Brave3.0
Quicksand Slip4.0
Foster the People Torches3.5
Marcy Playground Marcy Playground3.0
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City3.5
Days of the New Days of the New3.5
The Posies Frosting On The Beater3.0
Lifehouse Stanley Climbfall3.0
Slowdive Souvlaki3.0
Semisonic All About Chemistry2.0
Better Than Ezra Friction, Baby3.0
Paula Cole This Fire3.0
The Kingsbury Manx Aztec Discipline3.5
Live Throwing Copper3.5
Def Leppard Pyromania2.0
Travis The Man Who3.0
GTR GTR3.0
Travis The Boy With No Name3.0
Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are3.0
Sting ...Nothing Like the Sun3.0
Train Train3.0
Jars Of Clay Jars Of Clay3.0
Yellowjackets Dreamland4.0
Styx Pieces of Eight3.0
Matchbox Twenty Mad Season2.5
The Grays Ro Sham Bo3.0
Green Day Dookie4.0
Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When?2.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder...4.0
Belly (USA-MA) King2.5
The Alan Parsons Project I Robot3.0
Opeth Damnation4.0
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary4.0
The Beatles Please Please Me3.5
Nirvana In Utero4.0
Stone Temple Pilots Core4.0
Gorillaz Demon Days4.0
Hum Downward Is Heavenward4.0
Tool Opiate4.0
Tool Fear Inoculum4.0
Boston Don't Look Back3.5
Genesis Wind & Wuthering4.0
Local H Pack Up the Cats3.5
Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl3.0
Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo4.0
Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring4.0
Porcupine Tree Deadwing4.0
Irving Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers3.5
Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See2.0
Porcupine Tree In Absentia4.0
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream4.0
Genesis From Genesis to Revelation3.0
The Juliana Hatfield Three Become What You Are3.5
The Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic3.5
Seal Seal4.0
Chris Squire Fish Out of Water4.0
Journey Journey4.0
George Winston Autumn2.5
The Breeders Last Splash3.5
Grizzly Bear Shields4.0
Everclear World Of Noise3.5
Dada How to Be Found3.5
Ned's Atomic Dustbin Brainbloodvolume3.5
Liam Finn FOMO3.0
Shadowfax Too Far to Whisper3.0
Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love3.0
Soul Asylum Let Your Dim Light Shine2.5
Hootie and The Blowfish Fairweather Johnson3.0
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 Frontier3.0
Elastica Elastica3.5
Toad The Wet Sprocket Fear3.5
Emerson Lake and Palmer In the Hot Seat2.5
Sandbox Bionic2.5
Oasis Definitely Maybe3.0
Kaiser Chiefs Off With Their Heads3.0
Saves the Day In Reverie3.0
Snow Patrol Eyes Open3.0
The Killers Hot Fuss3.5
Asia Asia3.5
U2 Zooropa2.5
Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming4.0
Hootie and The Blowfish Cracked Rear View2.5
Semisonic Great Divide3.5
Spock's Beard Beware of Darkness4.0
Queensryche American Soldier3.0
Creed Human Clay3.0
3 Doors Down The Better Life3.0
The Wallflowers Breach2.5
Jethro Tull Heavy Horses4.0
Amaran's Plight Voice in the Light1.5
Genesis Invisible Touch3.5
Guardian Buzz2.5
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic4.0
Three Days Grace Life Starts Now2.5
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters4.0
Porcupine Tree The Incident3.5
Lifehouse No Name Face3.5
Pearl Jam Vs.4.0
Blitzen Trapper Furr4.0
Merzbow Venereology1.0
The Fray How to Save a Life2.5
Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You3.5
Counting Crows Recovering The Satellites3.0
Orbit XLR8R4.0
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 Speedway4.0
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 Pinkerton4.5
The Chieftains The Long Black Veil2.5
Souls at Zero Souls at Zero2.5
Big Head Todd and the Monsters Sister Sweetly2.5
Metric Live It Out4.0
Yoshihisa Hirano & Hideki Taniuchi Death Note Original Soundtrack III4.0
Yoshihisa Hirano & Hideki Taniuchi Death Note Original Soundtrack II4.0
Yoshihisa Hirano & Hideki Taniuchi Death Note Original Soundtrack4.0
Dada Dada3.5
Dada El Subliminoso4.0
U2 Pop2.5
The Verve Urban Hymns3.0
Pearl Jam Ten4.0
Blind Melon Soup4.0
Blind Melon Blind Melon4.0
The Cult Ceremony2.5
Kansas Kansas4.0
Journey Escape3.0
Boston Boston4.0
Boston Third Stage3.5
Budgie Never Turn Your Back on a Friend4.0
Eagles Hotel California3.5
The Strokes Angles4.0
U2 Achtung Baby3.0
U2 Boy4.0
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies4.0
Stone Temple Pilots Purple4.0
Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop4.0
Stone Temple Pilots No. 44.0
Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La-Dee-Da4.0
Self Subliminal Plastic Motives4.0
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 Aerolithe4.0
Finding this in the $1 bin was a very pleasant surprise indeed
Nirvana Nevermind4.0
Collective Soul Collective Soul3.5
The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen2.0
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights4.0
R.E.M. Automatic for the People3.5
AC/DC Back In Black3.0
Spyro Gyra Rites of Summer3.5
Spyro Gyra Stories Without Words3.5
The Police Ghost in the Machine3.5
Travis 12 Memories4.0
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends4.0
Coldplay Parachutes4.0
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head4.0
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto3.5
Coldplay X&Y3.5
The Who Who's Next5.0
T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca4.0
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV5.0
The Beatles Rubber Soul4.5
The Beatles Abbey Road5.0
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band5.0
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime4.5
Queensryche Dedicated to Chaos1.5
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings4.0
Dream Theater Images and Words4.0
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory4.0
Dream Theater Train of Thought4.0
Scale the Summit The Migration4.0
Scale the Summit The Collective4.0
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders4.5
Animals As Leaders Weightless4.0
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion4.0
Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many3.5
Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 24.0
Radiohead My Iron Lung3.5
Radiohead Pablo Honey3.5
Radiohead The Bends4.0
Radiohead OK Computer4.0
Radiohead Kid A4.0
Radiohead Amnesiac3.0
Radiohead Hail to the Thief4.0
Radiohead In Rainbows4.5
Gentle Giant Interview4.0
Gentle Giant Free Hand4.5
Genesis ...And Then There Were Three...4.0
Yes 901253.5
Yes Drama4.0
Yes Close to the Edge5.0
Rush 21124.0
Rush A Farewell to Kings4.5
Rush Hemispheres4.5
Rush Permanent Waves4.0
Rush Moving Pictures4.5
Rush Signals4.5
R.E.M. Chronic Town4.0
R.E.M. Reckoning4.5
R.E.M. Murmur4.5
Weezer Weezer4.5
Riverside Second Life Syndrome4.0
Riverside Out of Myself4.5
Tool 10,000 Days4.0
Tool Ænima4.0
Tool Lateralus4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Gish4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream4.5
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms4.0
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step4.0
Chevelle Wonder What's Next3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.4.0
Third Eye Blind Blue3.5
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind4.5
Better Than Ezra Deluxe3.5
Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience3.5
Toad The Wet Sprocket Coil3.5
Toad The Wet Sprocket Pale4.0
Toad The Wet Sprocket Dulcinea4.0
Dada Puzzle4.0
This is a masterpiece and desperately needs a review
Dada American Highway Flower4.0
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 Together2.5
The Veils The Runaway Found2.0
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