| The Go-Betweens 16 Lovers Lane | 4.0 |
| My Disco Little Joy | 3.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands | 4.0 |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat | 4.0 |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty | 4.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 3.0 |
| J Dilla The Shining | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 3.5 |
| Kool G. Rap and DJ Polo Live and Let Die | 4.0 |
| The Drones Havilah | 3.5 |
| The Cool Kids The Bake Sale | 3.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 4.0 |
| Eric's Trip Love Tara | 3.5 |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday | 3.5 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 4.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 3.5 |
| T.I. Paper Trail | 3.0 |
| Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect? | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele | 3.5 |
| The Game LAX | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus L.A. EP 1 X 3 | 3.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 3.5 |
| Gang of Four Solid Gold | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Nas Untitled | 2.0 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 3.0 |
| Oh No Dr. No's Oxperiment | 3.5 |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead | 2.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III | 2.0 |
| T.I. King | 3.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 3.5 |
| UGK UGK (Underground Kingz) | 4.0 |
| Cursive Domestica | 3.5 |
| Gang of Four Another Day / Another Dollar | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 3.5 |
| Gregor Samsa Rest | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 3.5 |
| Boris Smile | 3.0 |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 2.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 3.5 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 1.5 |
| Beat Happening Jamboree | 2.5 |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking | 3.0 |
| Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 3.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 3.5 |
| The Presets Apocalypso | 3.0 |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value | 2.5 |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! | 5.0 |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire | 3.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks | 4.0 |
| Dirty Three Whatever You Love, You Are | 4.0 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 2.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.5 |
| Om Pilgrimage | 3.5 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance School of the Flower | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This | 3.5 |
| Joy Division Closer | 3.5 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.5 |
| Om Conference of the Birds | 4.0 |
| Lilys Everything Wrong Is Imaginary | 2.5 |
| Red House Painters Ocean Beach | 3.5 |
| Burial Burial | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z American Gangster | 2.5 |
| Dirty Three Cinder | 3.5 |
| The Presets Beams | 1.5 |
| Simian Mobile Disco Attack Decay Sustain Release | 3.0 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams | 2.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise | 4.0 |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Evol | 3.5 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 2.0 |
| Dizzee Rascal Maths and English | 3.5 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.0 |
| Ride Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 4.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 3.5 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 3.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 2.0 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 2.5 |
| The Stooges Fun House | 4.0 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 3.5 |
| The Stooges The Stooges | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 3.0 |
| Motley Crue Red, White, & Crue | 3.5 |
| If this compilation consisted only of the first disc, then it would an easy 4/5. It contains pretty much all the great songs M?y Cr?ver did, which makes for a light-hearted and fun compilation full of some great hits, but disc 2 on the other hand is full of their weaker '90s songs, which bring the rating down to a 3.5. |
| Nas The Lost Tapes | 3.0 |
| Decent compilation. The Lost Tapes starts off quite well, with Doo Rags through to Nothing Lasts Forever all being pretty nice songs, and then it takes a serious dive until the utterly fantastic Poppa Was A Playa. How that song didn't make it onto any of Nas' albums is mystifying, as it's easily one of the best post-Illmatic songs I've from him. Anyway, The Lost Tapes is worth picking up for any big Nas fans. |
| Daft Punk Musique Vol. 1 (1993-2005) | 3.0 |
| A Daft Punk best-of will always make for an excellent collection of songs, but a couple of glaring omissions bring this one down. The fact that there are four tracks from the lacklustre Human After All compared to only three from Discovery is puzzling, and the absence of Digital Love is just criminal. |
| Nas STILLmatic | 3.5 |
| toe New Sentimentality | 3.5 |
| Ghost (JPN) Hypnotic Underworld | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 2.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 2.5 |
| Flying Saucer Attack Further | 3.0 |
| Boris Akuma no Uta | 3.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 3.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 3.0 |
| Boris Pink | 4.0 |
| AZ Doe or Die | 3.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 2.5 |
| Flying Lotus Reset | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 2.5 |
| Sunn O))) Black One | 2.0 |
| Sunn O))) White2 | 2.5 |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs | 3.5 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.0 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 4.5 |
| Can Tago Mago | 3.5 |
| Faust Faust IV | 3.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.0 |
| Dirty Three Ocean Songs | 4.5 |
| Common Be | 2.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| Various Artists Lost in Translation OST | 4.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 2.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus 1983 | 3.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 2.5 |
| The Game The Documentary | 2.5 |
The Game isn't a bad Rapper, but really, with the amount of money that must have been thrown at this album in terms of production, along with 50 Cent's (alleged) ghostwriting, anyone could have made this album sound good. The production credits here pretty much read like a who's-who of mainstream Hip-Hop. Dr. Dre, Timbaland, Kanye West, Scott Storch, Just Blaze and even Eminem contribute tracks to the album, along with underground stalwarts Buckwild and Havoc.
As for The Game, like I said, he isn't bad, but he has a tendency to be pretty hit-and-miss. The first half of the album is pretty good, but after the title track the songs become a lot less interesting. It would also help if The Game could resist name-dropping NWA, Tupac or any other Rap legend in every second verse. For a fans of mainstream Hip-Hop you could do a lot worse but despite what The Game says, "Ready To Die, Reasonable Doubt and Doggystyle in one" this is not. |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep | 4.0 |
| Fugazi 3 Songs | 3.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 3.5 |
| Kavinsky 1986 | 3.0 |
| Solid Electro-House from yet another French DJ. 1986 is a repetitive yet enjoyable romp, with a slightly dark edge and a distinctly '80s vibe. If you're a fan of Justice, SebastiAn (who's remix here is probably the highlight of the EP) or any other artist from the Ed Banger stable then check it out. |
| Michio Kurihara Sunset Notes | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.0 |
| Boredoms Super Ae | 3.0 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 3.0 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 3.5 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Tremolo | 2.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous | 3.5 |
| Great album that's let down by repetitive and somewhat bland production, but Big L's skills are good enough to keep you listening. Could have been a masterpiece. |
| Off Minor Problematic Courtship | 3.5 |
| Battles Mirrored | 4.0 |
| Hot Cross Fair Trades and Farewells | 3.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 3.0 |
| Beach House Beach House | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 3.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 3.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 3.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway | 4.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 4.0 |
| Busy P Rainbow Man | 3.5 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 4.0 |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee | 4.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 5.0 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 3.5 |
| Low The Great Destroyer | 3.5 |
| SebastiAn Ross Ross Ross | 3.5 |
| Justice † | 4.5 |
| Air Premiers Symptomes | 3.5 |
| The Seabellies Wave Your Fingers To Make The Winters | 3.5 |
| Municipal Waste The Art of Partying | 2.5 |
| Municipal Waste has predictably provided us with another solid Thrash release. If you're looking for a band evolving and expanding on their previous releases, look elsewhere, but if you're a die hard fan of Municipal Waste's previous efforts you'll probably find it caters to your needs quite nicely. |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 4.5 |
| Repulsion Horrified | 4.0 |
| Words cannot describe how intense this album is. From the fuzzy power chords that open 'The Stench of Burning Death' to the closing "Fuck!" of the title track, this album never lets up its chaotic assault on the senses. This album is a milestone in Extreme Music, and has been cited as a huge influence by legends such as Napalm Death, Carcass and Entombed. And make no mistake, this album is fucking fast. |
| Exodus Another Lesson in Violence | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 1.0 |
| Megadeth Rude Awakening | 1.0 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 1.0 |
| It's definitely a step up from the lacklustre efforts on God Hates Us All and Diabolous In Musica, but yet again Slayer fail to deliver the goods to their legions of loyal fans (something they've failed to do since 1988's South of Heaven, really) Dave Lombardo's presence behind the kit helps, and the occasional Thrashy riff scattered throughout the album has promise. But overall, all but the most rabid of Slayer fanboys will find themselves wanting much more. |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 2.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 2.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 2.0 |
| Obituary Cause of Death | 2.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 2.5 |
| Air 10,000 Hz Legends | 2.5 |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 2.5 |
| Jesu Silver | 2.5 |
| Infected Mushroom Classical Mushroom | 2.5 |
| Ratatat Classics | 2.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 3.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug | 3.0 |
| Bjork Post | 3.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Start A People | 3.0 |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 3.0 |
| Every time I listen to this album, it hurts to think how good it could have been. "Straight Outta Compton", "Fuck Tha Police", "Gangsta Gangsta", "Parental Discretion Iz Advised" and "Express Yourself" are all stunningly good songs, and if they could have produced 5 or 6 more tracks anywhere near as good as these then NWA would have easily made one of the best Hip-Hop albums ever. Straight Outta Compton still recieves that accolade in many places, and while it's certainly one of the most influential albums of the past 20 years, in the end it's just not consistent enough to really warrant it. |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Live & Rare | 3.0 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Earphoria | 3.0 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 3.0 |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? | 3.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Painful | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Fight Test | 3.0 |
| Hallucinogen Twisted | 3.0 |
| Minotaur Shock Maritime | 3.0 |
| Clipse Lord Willin' | 3.0 |
| DJ Shadow Live! In Tune and On Time | 3.0 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 3.0 |
| Tortoise Tortoise | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 3.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith XO | 3.5 |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 3.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 3.5 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 3.5 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 3.5 |
| Jamiroquai A Funk Odyssey | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 3.5 |
| The National Alligator | 3.5 |
| Parliament Mothership Connection | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 3.5 |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press | 3.5 |
| Zero 7 Simple Things | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Summer Sun | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 3.5 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 3.5 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 3.5 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman | 3.5 |
| Artillery By Inheritance | 3.5 |
| Mew Frengers | 3.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse — The Film | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Team America: World Police | 3.5 |
| Four Tet Pause | 3.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.5 |
| Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns | 3.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 3.5 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum | 3.5 |
| This is my first taste of Black Moth Super Rainbow, and it's very sweet indeed. On Dandelion Gum BMSR create dreamy, colourful Trip-Hop with some upbeat and cheerful overtones, which is a nice refreshment from Tricky and Portishead's dark and moody tunes. While it's a little long at 15 tracks, it's still an interesting listen. Recommended. |
| Cassius 1999 | 3.5 |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 3.5 |
| Fridge The Sun | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.0 |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 4.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.0 |
| Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Sister | 4.0 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 4.0 |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa | 4.0 |
| Tortoise TNT | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 4.0 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 4.0 |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath | 4.0 |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous | 4.0 |
| Nas It Was Written | 4.0 |
| It's a shame this is overshadowed so heavily Illmatic. It Was Written sees Nas swapping DJ Premier and Large Professor for Trackmasters and Dr. Dre, creating one of the finest (and definitely the most underrated) mainstream Hip-Hop albums of the '90s in the process. |
| Air The Virgin Suicides | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part | 4.0 |
| Air Pocket Symphony | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.5 |
| Exodus Bonded by Blood | 4.5 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.5 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 4.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 4.5 |
| Air Talkie Walkie | 4.5 |
| Talkie Walkie is right up there with Moon Safari as Air's finest moment. Talkie Walkie is more long-winded than their debut, but makes up for it with a more diverse and varied set of songs, and a far superior production job. |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 4.5 |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 4.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 4.5 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 4.5 |
| Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 5.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| Air Moon Safari | 5.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| On Illmatic, Nas assembled a dreamteam of producers consisting of DJ Premier, Q-Tip, Large Professor and Pete Rock to create this masterpiece. The beats on the albums are an excellent example of grimey, mid-'90s New York Hip-Hop complete with haunting piano loops and jazz samples which are an perfect companion to Nas' lyrics. While four producers might sound like a recipe for incoherence, the team of producers manage to create a consistent atmosphere while retaining elements of each induvidual's particular style. Lyrically, Nas is in career best form, creating vivid narratives with strong lyrical substance. NY State of Mind is a definite highlight. If there's one Hip-Hop album I would not hesitate in recommending to any music lover, it's Illmatic. |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 5.0 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 5.0 |
