| Sleater-Kinney The Woods | 5.0 |
| xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? | 1.0 |
| Kimbra The Golden Echo | 3.3 |
| Say Anything Hebrews | 4.0 |
| Saintseneca Dark Arc | 3.8 |
| Red City Radio Titles | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers Rented World | 3.7 |
| The Menzingers make pretty much a straight up alternative rock album. It's pretty good. It will not, however, change Channing Freeman's life this time around. |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 5.0 |
| I can't claim to know anything about why Trophy Scars make the music they do. I want to say something cliche like "Trophy Scars set out to save rock music, and fucking blow that goal away" but in reality they probably just had a shitload of great ideas, recorded them all, and made an immaculate record. This is the culmination of what the band has been working towards since "Bad Luck", and it's goddamn fantastic. No qualms giving this a classic rating. |
| Hop Along Freshman Year | 4.5 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 2.5 |
| People still listen to La Dispute? Lol I thought 2010 happened |
| GridLink Longhena | 4.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 3.8 |
| Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe | 3.5 |
| Masked Intruder Masked Intruder | 3.0 |
| Washboard Leo Thomas Louisiana Bluegrass | 5.0 |
| Crusades Perhaps You Deliver This Judgement... | 3.8 |
| The Lawrence Arms Metropole | 3.0 |
| Brendan Kelly doesn't care as much anymore and voila, TLA is at maximum whatevercore |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 3.3 |
| Direct Hit! Brainless God | 3.5 |
| Dangers 5 O'Clock Shadows At The Edge Of The Western World | 4.0 |
| It's really, really hard for Dangers not to sound awesome. It might be impossible. |
| Warpaint Warpaint | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 4.7 |
| Tone down the Bruce Springsteen influence, turn up the the other 80s rock/punk influences to the max. Laura Jane has brought back the fire and passion of early Against Me! while simultaneously creating the most focused record she's ever written, culminating in a simple triumph of the human spirit |
| Lil B 05 Fuck Em | 5.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher | 4.1 |
| Los Campesinos! No Blues | 3.8 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.0 |
| The fact that Arcade Fire has reached the point where the trend is to start an anti-hype train in advance of a record dropping, when you imply that nobody even likes them that much in the first place and they aren't worthy of attention, is a marvelous thing. The ultimate "Fuck you, flakey, flighty, shitty internet music fans". |
| Crusades The Sun Is Down and the Night is Riding In | 4.1 |
| Celtic Frost Cold Lake | 5.0 |
| Friendzone DX | 3.8 |
| Danny Brown Old | 3.5 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 4.0 |
| Pusha T My Name Is My Name | 4.1 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.1 |
| THIS IS PRETTY GOOD RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF TOUCHE AMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Neko Case The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight... | 4.0 |
| Satyricon Satyricon | 2.1 |
I wasn't gonna choose between the two, but apparently I have to so I hate it  |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King | 1.0 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 4.0 |
| Surprisingly fucking great |
| Vali Skogslandskap | 4.6 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 3.8 |
| I mean it's another MLiW album and it's really good. If you wanted any more why don't you go START A BAND AND DRESS IN ALL BLACK |
| The Smith Street Band Don't Fuck With Our Dreams | 4.8 |
| Graduating from the best punk band on the planet to the best rock band on the planet. Wil Wagner and the boys literally just don't know how to write a bad song. |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.6 |
| Sed Non Satiata Mappo | 3.9 |
| Sed Non Satiata more like Get A Better Name am I right guys how do you even pronounce that??? |
| All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 1.0 |
| Bosnian Rainbows Bosnian Rainbows | 3.2 |
| Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle | 4.1 |
| I will write a staff review as soon as I get a working computer again my good friend! |
| Enemies Embark Embrace | 3.3 |
| Embark on a fun romp with Enemies as they embrace the tired mathy post rock sound of sunny Ireland! #jacobroyalsoundoffs2013 |
| Kylesa Ultraviolet | 2.3 |
| The Smith Street Band Sunshine and Technology | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
"This album may not make you deaf, but it certainly will take you to heaven!!!!!!!!"
- discarded Jacob Royal soundoff, 2013 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 3.5 |
| This Soundoff Is a Waste of Space, And I Have become a Terrible User |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 2.9 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 4.9 |
| Wow this is a real pop punk album fuck the wonder years ugh |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 2.0 |
| high violet 2.0. did someone already make that soundoff? i hope not i know im pretty late =/ |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Sweden | 4.2 |
| Modern Life Is War My Love. My Way. | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 5.0 |
| Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed | 2.5 |
| 3 Mice Send Me a Postcard | 4.3 |
| The feel good album of 2012. This album makes me happy in ways that I didn't know I could still feel from music. |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 3.3 |
| Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky | 4.3 |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 4.0 |
| Troubled Medium CAN U FEEL IT??? | 4.5 |
| Btmi worship via Smith Street Band. this album is everything I want in a punk record. more please |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 3.8 |
| An album that isn't as grand or incredibly OVERWHELMING as their previous records, but is probably an easier listen. Best praise I could give it is that I listened to this more than once in a row when I first heard it, unlike Microcastle or Halcyon Digest |
| Trvth Black Horse Plague | 3.7 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 4.5 |
| false bullshit with an ethos that makes me want to fucking puke r |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 3.1 |
| Get ready to see how easy it is to review this album: this album is an album demanding respect and showcasing a unique understanding of contrarian ideas and execution. It's too bad I honestly get disinterested and immediately fall back to wondering what kind of point the Knife really think they're making with this record. |
| Tyler Brown The Hollows | 3.7 |
| More good music to be coming out of nowhere but I am scared this will become another example of people overvaluing something pleasant and indie |
| James Blake Overgrown | 5.0 |
Most of the time I'm joking when I say this but: seriously, this album is important and
wonderful.
GYPSY SWAG EMREIEIEITUS THIS IS A FOUR POINT FOUR
actually sorry after listening to this for 17 hours in the first day and a half of having it
it's a 5 sorry |
| Paramore Paramore | 1.5 |
this is the biggest mess of the year and I seriously have no idea how anyone could think
this should honestly count as a real attempt at a real album |
| Siekiera Nowa Aleksandria | 4.0 |
| I laughed, I cried, I danced, I think this album did every last thing it could for me. A really great album, if a little on the "extreme"end of the post-punk spectrum. |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 3.8 |
| This is a lot better than Sit. Resist. Is it the second coming of music? No. Is it a lovely and heartrendingly beautiful outlook on someone's own partial existential death? Yes. This album is striking in all the right ways. |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.6 |
| Fire! Orchestra Exit! | 3.9 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 5.0 |
| bump for black metal history month twenty thirteen yoli swag jt love |
| RVIVR The Beauty Between | 4.2 |
| In case people didn't know, this album rules and is easy top 3 for the year. Probably the best pop punk album I've heard in...forever |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt | 4.4 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.2 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 4.9 |
| Trinidad James Don't Be S.A.F.E. | 4.9 |
| ill review Trinidad Jame$ |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.2 |
| bump in honor of kit brown story scout history month |
| Grotesque In the Embrace of Evil | 4.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 3.0 |
| Modestep Evolution Theory | 2.2 |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 3.0 |
| every Tyler, the Creator album is immaculate and beautiful and more important than anything us shithead's will ever do with our lives |
| Infest Slave | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Babel | 5.0 |
| won the grammy for album of the year any non-5 ratings are objectively wrong |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 4.9 |
| bump in honor of black metal history month |
| James Blake James Blake | 2.5 |
| Sweet Smoke Just A Poke | 4.0 |
| Sweet Smoke From Darkness To Light | 4.5 |
| Autechre Exai | 3.4 |
| this is the only time ill ever agree with baseline00000000000000 lolnot |
| A City Sorrow Built Motions | 3.4 |
| John Lithgoat Who Gives a Fuck Nowhere | 3.7 |
| this jams hard one can only hope the rumors of a potential break up ARE NOT TRUE |
| Love Forever Changes | 4.1 |
| Third Ear Band Third Ear Band | 3.9 |
| Kingston Wall Kingston Wall II | 4.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.0 |
| koi no yokan / jane doe / every other dumb album version 2 apparently right guys hurr hurr hurr |
| Camel The Snow Goose | 4.2 |
| wow another bitch ass who hasnt heard camel did you realise camel is the best band ever besides rush? did you even know?r |
| Camel Moonmadness | 4.1 |
| wow another bitch ass who hasnt heard camel did you realise camel is the best band ever besides rush? did you even know?r |
| Camel Mirage | 4.2 |
| wow another bitch ass who hasnt heard camel did you realise camel is the best band ever besides rush? did you even know?r |
| Shakira Fijacion Oral Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 2.1 |
| Wil Wagner Laika | 4.9 |
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| Laura Stevenson Runner | 3.7 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 4.1 |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob | 3.9 |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 3.1 |
| Despite its occasional (maybe even frequent moments of brilliance), "Get Disowned" suffers from being an album trying to aspire to some sort of transcendent experience, where the true joy in it lies in its simple folk-punk sections. When Frances Quinlan starts to go apeshit with her vocal interplays you really start to notice her lack of control and general tonal oddness, and while its endearing at times at others it becomes a chore to sit through. Give this girl a good songseamstress to back her and hell yes I'd be totally down. As it is, some cute little lyrics and pop-punk songs. |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.0 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 2.3 |
| I don't know what you guys are thinking. This is the same shit as Year if the Black Rainbow, with more guitar pedals and vocal effects. Number City is a really cool pop song, and Gravity's almost becomes something great, but the rest of the album is full of boring songwriting and extremely forgettable riffs. Coheed and Cambria are fucking dead. |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 3.0 |
| this does nothing for me. i had a good conversion with weepingbanana about this last night. i won't share what we said, but it would make people rating this 4+ upset! |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 3.0 |
| Kodan Armada A Collection Of Songs | 4.0 |
| The Vidablue Our Miracle Point of Contact | 4.5 |
| The Smith Street Band South East Facing Wall | 4.5 |
| Ship Thieves Canyons | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.0 |
| Rachel Grimes Book Of Leaves | 3.0 |
| listen to rachels listen to rachels listen to rachels listen to rachels listen to rachels lateen to travels listen to rachels |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Hotline Miami Official Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Merchandise (Strange Songs) In the Dark | 4.0 |
| Merchandise Children of Desire | 4.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine | 2.0 |
| Honestly, anyone who hates this with enough passion to get butthurt on the internet about it probably hasn't heard it. It's cock rock with a few extra bells and whistles and an attempt to personally connect to the band's audience with some silly story about a girl and her nightmares. I'd suggest staying away, but if you're, for some reason, in the mood for some bland radio metal, go for it and take a peek! |
| A Hawk And A Hacksaw Delivrance | 3.5 |
| After they put on a surprisingly moving performance opening for Swans (when you got forty year old neckbeards grooving, you're doing something right), I decided to check em out. While I love all the eaten European flavor, its honestly just a little too far being on the side of kitsch for me, and without a live setting, it losses some appeal. still a solid, interesting listen. |
| The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore | 5.0 |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | 2.5 |
| RVIVR RVIVR | 4.0 |
| Comadre Comadre | 4.5 |
Sometimes I give up on hardcore music, and then sometimes a band like Comadre release an album and my
faith is briefly restored. A rare band that can really transfer the energy of their live show to record.
Combining the frantic musicianship of their past material with a newf pound willingness to go full on with
their 80's post-punk and 90's Weezer influence, Comadre is hopefully a stepping stone for more dense,
macabre and danceable punk music to come into the scene. |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.5 |
| okay so i knew the first half would be a 4, and the second half lives up to that. no big surprise, except for the fact that it feels so fucking long. i don't think its really any longer than as the roots undo, but it just lacks the dynamic songwriting that really made that record. |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business | 3.0 |
| I mean its another Titus Andronicus record. They sound a little different. And yet they still sound exactly the same. Fucking weird. |
| Against Me! The Original Cowboy | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Total Clarity | 2.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.5 |
| This is undeniably the best album I have heard this year. This is a monument to the fact that as long as what you're doing is passionate and creative, you can get away with songs that 'go nowhere' for five minutes a time. However, its the fact that at times I have to actively tell myself to sit through sections that causes me to readily pick this as my 'favorite' album of the year, despite the impressive and often brilliant songs on it. |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves | 1.0 |
| I honestly cannot stress how painfully unoriginal and grating this band has become. Just because they don't sound like any other epitaph or equal vision band does not mean they're doing something new or exciting. Fuck this band. |
| Frank Turner The First Three Years | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week | 3.5 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.9 |
| Love American Disquiet | 2.5 |
| this would have been so much better if they would have paid for a decent mastering job!!!!!!! |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante | 4.0 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Mantra Hiroshima | 1.0 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez ã©ã†ã„ãŸã—ã¾ã—㦠| 4.5 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Un Corazón De Nadie | 3.5 |
| Ghost Mice All We Got Is Each Other | 4.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity | 2.5 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 5.0 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.5 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 4.5 |
| Dad said "the worst part about living is, the mars volta haven't released an album for almost three years" WELL FUCK YOU DAD NOCTOURNIQUET RULES |
| letlive. Fake History | 2.7 |
| I mean...I guess this isn't bad post-hardcore, but people loving this? I guess there really hasn't been a glassjaw full length in a long, long time...the lyrics are just god awful. |
| letlive. Fake History (Re-Release) | 3.0 |
| I mean...I guess this isn't bad post-hardcore, but people loving this? I guess there really hasn't been a glassjaw full length in a long, long time... |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.5 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta finally live up to their potential and create a great screamo record, and then Sputnikmusic lives up to its reputation and overrates the hell out of it. |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure | 3.5 |
| Mahria Mahria | 3.0 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony | 4.5 |
| Esoteric Subconscious Dissolution Into the... | 3.0 |
| Esoteric The Pernicious Enigma | 3.5 |
| Esoteric Metamorphogenesis | 4.0 |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance | 3.5 |
| Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 3.0 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 3.0 |
| Architects Nightmares | 3.5 |
| Architects Ruin | 3.5 |
| Anti-Flag The Terror State | 1.0 |
| Anti-Flag The People or the Gun | 1.0 |
| Anti-Flag The Bright Lights of America | 1.0 |
| An Albatross Blessphemy (Of The Peace-Beast Feastgive | 3.5 |
| An Albatross The An Albatross Family Album | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Out From Out Where | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Chaos Theory - Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Foley Room | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Adventures In Foam | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Damnesia | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 4.0 |
| Air 10,000 Hz Legends | 2.0 |
| Air Moon Safari | 4.0 |
| Air Pocket Symphony | 3.0 |
| Air Love 2 | 3.0 |
| AFI Crash Love | 3.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print | 4.0 |
| A Static Lullaby Rattlesnake! | 2.5 |
| A Static Lullaby ...And Don't Forget to Breathe | 2.5 |
| A Static Lullaby Faso Latido | 2.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Beats, Rhymes And Life | 2.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Love Movement | 2.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 3.5 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 3.5 |
| 3 (USA) Summercamp Nightmare | 2.5 |
| 3 (USA) Wake Pig | 3.0 |
| 3 (USA) The Ghost You Gave To Me | 3.0 |
| Against Me! Against Me! (12'') | 2.0 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 3.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Powerage | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 3.5 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 3.5 |
| AC/DC T.N.T. | 3.5 |
| Rush Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland | 5.0 |
| god you guys are idiots for having this at a 4.5 what the fuck is wrong with you |
| Seahaven Winter Forever | 2.5 |
| Loma Prieta Life/Less | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification | 3.5 |
| Drake Take Care | 4.0 |
| Seriously, Drake has always been awesome. This is just more awesome stuff from Drake with only like, two filler songs this time as opposed to the half records worth he normally populates. Word. |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 3.0 |
| More pretty decent stuff for people who are into 'the wave' or whatever its called. Still not really getting it but enjoyable nonetheless. The songs I heard live off of this were cool |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Black Crosses | 3.0 |
| Worse in almost every way than White Crosses. There are reasons a band gets more streamlined |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 3.0 |
i THINK i HEARD THIS IN MY DREAMS, DARLING. iT WAS PRETTY MEDIOCRE i GIVE IT A lA dISPUTE
OUT OF /5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow | 4.5 |
| It's Dear Hunter, just way happier and sunnier than normal. One of the EPs that really shows just how influenced by The Beatles "White Album" this whole thing really is. |
| The Dear Hunter Green | 4.5 |
| The only 'experiment' of The Color Spectrum that succeeds with flying colors. Slightly psychedelic, incredibly heartfelt, and astounding musicianship make this a contender with Violet for my favorite EP. |
| The Dear Hunter Blue | 3.5 |
| The literally blues-y, oftentimes Led Zeppelin like record of the Color Spectrum. Some great tunes, but a little boring in its adherence to the concept. |
| The Dear Hunter Orange | 3.0 |
| The Incubus worship album of The Color Spectrum. Not bad, just kind of an odd listen. |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo | 2.5 |
| Better than "Black" but still way, way worse than any of the traditional/sunnier Color Spectrum records. |
| The Dear Hunter White | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Violet | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 2.0 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 3.5 |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 4.0 |
| Deep Sleep Turn Me Off | 4.0 |
| Listener Wooden Heart | 1.5 |
| The fountain of creative energy here would best be used towards something that isn't music. Hell, ANYTHING that isn't this. |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 2.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances | 3.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 4.5 |
| Somebody mentioned recently that Vacation is the Pet Sounds of punk music. Obviously, that is a ridiculous statement, but the thing is Bomb The Music Industry! fans really might think that. In today’s music scene, BTMI! might have the most slavishly devoted fan base in the US. Its interesting that all the reasons BTMI! is great to those people, the sloppy punk riffs, silly and ridiculous shouted gang vocals and hooks, the hilariously stupid (but imminently relatable and thought out) lyrics, and the disregard for songwriting conventions, are why most people would HATE them, but BTMI! do everything with so much enthusiasm and energy its like watching a kid learn how to ride a bike for the first time. Its pure magic.r |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 5.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Everybody That You Love | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits | 4.3 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 3.5 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud | 2.5 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 5.0 |
In the end though, all of that crazy orchestration and songwriting only serves to highlight
the simple elegance of Never Born, Never Dead. Regardless of what the story may be behind
the album, regardless of what instruments they use or how they put them together, or even
what they may have expressly meant to produce, Never Born, Never Dead succeeds because it
taps into some deeper meaning of what music can be: a sprawling, emotional, spiritual and
ambitious work that by not pretending to take itself seriously, becomes so much more honest
than 99% of music being put out today. |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs | 3.0 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.5 |
| RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII |
| Anasarca Discography 1994-1997 | 4.0 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 3.0 |
| Kind of like a band that is going to flame out in a year or two. |
| Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans | 3.0 |
| Ampere Like Shadows | 4.0 |
| The best emo album of the short year so far, but after being spoiled for years with bands who played a longer, more satisfying style of music, is Ampere as impactful as they once were? Eh, still gonna rule live. |
| Sean Milo Sunroom | 2.5 |
| Empty Space Orchestra Empty Space Orchestra | 4.5 |
| Instrumental bands are always a really cool novelty, but in the end if they don't perform in the vein of a Godspeed You! Black Emperor or early Explosions in the Sky, they rarely can keep my attention for very long. Enter Empty Space Orchestra, one of those crazy bands from the northwest that play a super eclectic blend of progressive, jazz and post-rock. They jump from so many different genres, styles, and rhythms that is could be overbearing, but the musicianship is so tight and the songwriting so fluid, its enters the realm of sublime often. Hopefully, this is a band that breaks through this year. |
| Cave In White Silence | 3.5 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression | 4.5 |
| Probably the most important "folk punk" album (at least, of the scene they hail from), "The Great Depression" is a beautiful achievement that probably wont be matched by a bunch of smelly hippies again. |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 4.5 |
| Algernon Cadwallader Parrot Flies | 3.5 |
| Hey did you listen to the first Algernon Cadwallader album? The one with all the twinkly fun bullshit that was sort of like a weirdly darker Cap'n Jazz? Yeah, this is their second album. Its more twinkly bullshit that is sort of like a weirdly darker Cap'n Jazz. Weirdly Darker Jazz'n Cap |
| Love American Love American | 3.0 |
| Amon Tobin ISAM | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.0 |
| As awesome as this is, they have the potential to do so much more. |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.5 |
| A solid to borderline exceptional album, marred by the fact that Vernon still doesn't delve into depths worthy of his obvious songwriting ability. |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 2.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 3.5 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 3.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 3.5 |
| Atmosphere The Family Sign | 3.0 |
| After the initial blast of honesty and "ohmygod i love atmosphere!1!" wore off, this has really become quite a disappointment. Yeah, the record is fucking "real", and some of the songs really touch a nerve. Thing is, a lot of it is tripe. "The Last to Say" is a stunning song, and if even most of the album had been in a similar vein, this would be so much better. Unfortunately, most of its more akin to "Bad Bad Daddy". Being pretty cheesy has always been a pretty big part of Atmosphere, but here it overwhelms. "im a bad bad daddy, im a bad bad daddy". Are you, fucker? |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. | 4.5 |
| Panda Bear Tomboy | 3.5 |
| People are gonna come at this album expecting to "get" Animal Collective/Panda Bear, and its unfortunate that this doesn't do anything to convert the 'non-believers' that Merriweather Post Pavilion didn't already do. However, its still a great album, only marred by its perhaps too light nature. Also, "Drone" is kind of annoying (and yes, I get it). |
| Against Me! The Disco Before the Breakdown | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| You know, for someone who once said "George Bush doesn't care about black people", Kanye West sure makes good music for us white folks!rThanks Kanye! |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.5 |
| There is only one thing that matters here, and its going to keep all the old nancyboy underoath fans from appreciating this: HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS IS HEAVY |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 5.0 |
| Against Me! White Crosses | 4.5 |
| I don't think anyone has made as big of a "fuck you" album to their old fans as Against Me! have done here. Luckily, those fans were all dirty, disgusting hippies anyways. White Crosses is louder, more frenetic, and catchier than their previous record New Wave, while providing an even bigger adrenaline rush. This is a new Against Me! for a new fanbase, and its kick-ass. |
| Against Me! New Wave | 3.5 |
| Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Against Me! | 5.0 |
| Against Me! Crime as Forgiven By | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Vivida Vis! | 3.5 |
| Valencia Dancing With A Ghost | 1.0 |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio | 2.5 |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned | 1.0 |
| Envy Recitation | 1.0 |
| Goodbye, Envy. We will all really, really (probably) miss you. |
| Magma Mekanïk DestruktïẠKommandöh | 5.0 |
| Okay guys, I finally got this after two years of thinking it was just ridiculous. This is so good. |
| Punch Push Pull | 3.5 |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter | 2.5 |
| Unfathoms Da Lowd NOIZ Demo | 1.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.3 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 2.5 |
| mewithoutYou Blood Enough For Us All | 2.0 |
| Aaron Weiss has said something about this EP being a huge downer on him in his life. I must agree, it hurts me to know something like this exists from one of my favorite bands of all time. |
| Nothing Rhymes With David Beard Logic Riddles | 2.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 3.0 |
| The Swell Season Strict Joy | 4.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.5 |
| B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever | 2.5 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 2.5 |
| The National High Violet | 1.0 |
| I even bought this cd thinking "maybe, just maybe I was missing something before". NOPE, SHIT IS STILL SUPER FUCKING BORING. |
| Write This Down Write This Down | 2.5 |
| Sick of It All Based on a True Story | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 2.5 |
| There was a review on rateyourmusic that pretty much said this reminds them of Choirs of the Eye minus the metal. I would pretty much agree, except also strip the wide eyed wonder that album made me have. Toby Driver is dead. |
| Ghastly City Sleep Moondrifts | 4.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| Kaki King Junior | 3.0 |
| Army Of The Pharaohs The Unholy Terror | 3.0 |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them | 2.5 |
| Masashi Hamauzu Final Fantasy XIII: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Noisy Sins of the Insect Discography | 2.0 |
| Zao All Else Failed (2003) | 3.5 |
| Envy On The Coast Lowcountry | 4.0 |
| Celeste Morte(s) Nee(s) | 2.5 |
| The Death of Anna Karina New Liberalistic Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Everything you ever knew about screamo and electronic music is turned UPSIDE DOWN ON ITS HEAD IN THE DEFINING RELEASE OF THE TRUE ELECTROSKRAMZ SCENE. Neophytes be warned: your face WILL be danced off. |
| Meth, Ghost and Rae Wu-Massacre | 3.5 |
| Ten Grand The Comprehensive List | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.5 |
| Every single time you've gone over 100 on the freeway, every single time you've ever been at a metal show headbanging, every single time you've ever seen or heard a large explosion, every single time you've ever seen a transvestite dance on a table, every single time this has been WAY HEAVIER, WEIRDER, LOUDER, AND FASTER THAN ANYTHING YOU'VE EVER FUCKING EXPERIENCED get bent |
| Portugal. The Man American Ghetto | 2.0 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 3.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 3.3 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 4.0 |
| Sometimes at night, I believe I will spend my hours dancing on my couch in tighty whities listening to this album. That's how silly, fun, and explosive it is. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine | 3.5 |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 2.5 |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast | 3.0 |
| Jaguar Love Hologram Jams | 1.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.5 |
| Haha I feel like this is one of the most ridiculous, stupid albums I've ever heard. I was a casual fan of Ys, not getting the hype and totally understanding why people hated it but still enjoying it all the same. This however, is so much easier to listen to even though its over two hours long. Fuck me man, fuck meeee |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 3.5 |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 3.0 |
| Past Lives Tapestry of Webs | 4.5 |
| Trash Talk Trash Talk | 2.0 |
| I just got reminded how lame and repetitive and boring this shitty album is. Listen to Plagues like 3 times if you are in the mood to listen to a Trash Talk LP, its better to pretend than actually do it. |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| consistent death metal band puts out another consistent death metal album, but at the same time delivering it so well that it comes close to matching the epic heights set by their mid-era masterpieces. |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year | 2.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Ark | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Danse Manatee | 2.0 |
| Eluvium Similes | 3.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 3.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit | 3.0 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 3.0 |
| Native Wrestling Moves | 3.0 |
| Cogito Vital EP | 3.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| This Time We Will Not Promise and Forgive æŒè©žã‚’èªã¾ãªã„世代ã¸ç¶™ã | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Heligoland | 4.0 |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value II | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.0 |
| Kesha Animal | 3.0 |
| TiK ToK is pure bliss. The rest of the album is suitably sluttily adorable as well. None of you would like this, however, so steer very very clear. |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 3.5 |
| Drake So Far Gone | 4.0 |
| Takaru There Can Be Only None | 4.0 |
| Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 | 4.0 |
| Men As Trees Weltschmerz | 3.5 |
| i really didnt want to bother rating this but unfortunately I feel like I'm being forced too. would be much better post rockish emo if they just had a better vocalist and/or lyricist. |
| Converge Halo in a Haystack | 3.0 |
| Looking 15 years back on it, you really see how much goddamn potential this band and even this album had. With a decent remastering this could be almost equal to their other works. But even for Converge, the sound here is just so awful its hard to really appreciate whats going on here. Couple that with the fact at times its a bit too weird, makes this arguably the "worst" Converge record, but goddamn if it isn't impressive nonetheless. |
| AJJ Can't Maintain | 1.0 |
| Age Sixteen Open Up Finders, Please | 3.0 |
| Blacklisted No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me | 3.0 |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Plastique | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Saltwater | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 4.0 |
| Various Artists (Punk) The Importance of Falling | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 3.0 |
| Rihanna Rated R | 3.5 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.0 |
| Three 6 Mafia When the Smoke Clears | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.5 |
| Pretty sure from here on out, Animal Collective is going to be a band you desperately love, sort of enjoy, or think are really, really stupid. Its pretty certainly the best EP the Co have released, with its fairly condensed running time and fantastic version of "What Would I Want? Sky" being the biggest contributing factor to its excellence. |
| John Mayer Battle Studies | 4.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 3.5 |
| pg.lost In Never Out | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland | 3.0 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 5.0 |
| Say Anything sell out, but you realize that they've been sellouts forever, and what excellent sell outs they are. Track after track of witticisms and catchy riffs, culminating in the incredible "Ahhh...Men" |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls | 4.0 |
| Some bands just have it. A City Safe From Sea may not have anything to worry about from the Caspian, but they might be treading knee-deep in that shit. |
| Natalie Imbruglia Come to Life | 3.5 |
| HORSE the band Secret Rhythm of the Universe | 1.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.3 |
| Ghostface Killah Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City | 2.5 |
| Hatebreed Hatebreed | 2.5 |
| Daitro Y | 3.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.0 |
| If you ever want to hear what a smart guy can do when he tries to make a record as messy as possible, Daisy is probably the place to start with. |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Xenophanes | 3.0 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Los Sueños De Un Higado | 3.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 5.0 |
| Belle Epoque Wicked Ones and Thieves | 4.0 |
| Portraits Of Past Cypress Dust Witch | 3.0 |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit | 3.0 |
| Kidcrash Snacks | 1.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 3.0 |
This will be revised.
Brand New Eyes sounds different than either Riot! or All We Know is Falling, but the differences are fairly irrelevant. It's like listening to the same record as last time: you'll sing along to a bunch of Hayley's hooks, sometimes think there is a cool moment in a song musically, and skip over the slower, ballady type of songs. Hayley Williams can still rule a mic, but the band still plays a little too safe to really compliment her voice beyond mere competence.
See, the problem is that while Hayley is a ridiculously accessible singer, the songs are just so boring a lot of the time that the album drags on and on despite its relatively short length. They do pop rock fine, and the singles will be great, but as an album this is merely just fairly okay. |
| Doomriders Darkness Come Alive | 3.5 |
| I had a dream last night doomriders had high top nikes, they had diamonds on their necks and diamonds on there mikes |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer | 3.5 |
| Solid rock songs from a solid rock band. three point five |
| Massive Attack Splitting the Atom | 4.0 |
do people not realize these are all just remixes or are people just retarded
the half that arent are basic mixes that arent even going to be what resembles the record durr |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 3.5 |
| I've gotta be honest, usually I don't particularly like rap as hyped up as this especially due to the type of rap it "is", but damn if this isn't a damn good record. |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 3.5 |
| Colbie Caillat Breakthrough | 2.0 |
| Chuck Ragan Gold Country | 2.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.5 |
| pretty much the best hip hop album since...oh hey Only Built for Cuban Linx. what a weird fucking coincidence |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 3.0 |
| Mew No More Stories | 3.5 |
| AJJ Only God Can Judge Me | 1.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 3.0 |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 3.0 |
| Michael Franti and Spearhead All Rebel Rockers | 4.0 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 4.0 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 4.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Towers Full Circle | 3.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 3.0 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 3.5 |
| Shining (SWE) VI - Klagopsalmer | 3.5 |
| Kaospilot Shadows | 3.0 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 3.0 |
| La Roux La Roux | 2.0 |
A Revolution in british pop/electroclash, it's almost as if La Roux and her partners have looked into the future and seen what the world needed next in music and then RECREATED IT but it isn't really recreation because what she was her was her album in the first place.
MINDFREAK |
| Eels Hombre Lobo | 4.0 |
| CSTVT Summer Fences | 3.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist | 2.0 |
| The album cover has a gross nipple on display. That's almost kind of like what Portugal. the Man have become: a dry withered teet that while gave life to a fledgling "progressive indie rock" genre years ago, is now all scabby and gross from all the suckling. It's nothing new. |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death | 3.0 |
| Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 2.0 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 4.5 |
| Remember how Versions was a really cool record, that just ended up not being that good? Well, Tropic Rot is a really cool record that rivals The Opposite of December as being their most focused and aggressive, and You Come Before You as their most interesting and accessible. Besides the mediocre "Celebrate the Pyre", every song here is a hit, in particular...well everything. The light country aesthetic is more fully integrated in the clean sections, which meld seamlessly with the heavy metal sections. It's tough to call this a real metalcore album, but whatever the hell it is, it is fucking great. Could bump up to a 4.5 if it stays on this level of excellence with time. |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.0 |
| Narrows New Distances | 3.0 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 3.0 |
| Her next album I will definitively be able to describe as "more overrated psuedo-intellectual pop". |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 3.5 |
| A bunch of really good rock songs. The vocals can be grating and the song formula is pretty consistent and unvariable, but all in all it contains some of the most instantly accessible music alexisonfire have made to date. |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.8 |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 2.0 |
| Loma Prieta Dark Mountain | 3.0 |
| Haram Haram | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.5 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 5.0 |
| Coalesce OX | 1.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 5.0 |
It's hard for me to say this, but the old Eminem every white kid in America used to love just isn't there anymore. With that STUNNING realization out of the way, the Eminem that was essentially hinted to on Encore turns out to not be all that bad, as "Relapse" shows Em experimenting with his flow and voice to create a weird, if still familiar record. While it may be horribly offensive to old fans, the album is filled with oddly appealing raps and lyrics, with the best tracks living up to the potential we all know he still has somewhere in him. "Insane", "Medicine Ball", "Stay Wide Awake" and particularly "Beautiful" and "Underground" are all excellent songs, and despite some awful duds in the early stages of the album, the album is surprisingly solid. Here's to Slim
Word of warning to the people though, Eminem is not from the UK still so you may still hate it |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 3.5 |
| The first three songs are as good as anything motW had ever put out. Now I just wish the last two were at that same level. It was a nice thing of Driver to do I suppose though! |
| The Audition Self-Titled Album | 3.5 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 4.0 |
| Makes me kind of wish I was alive for the days when metal was just fucking metal and wasn't caught up with being heavy as shit or technical as fuck. |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 4.5 |
| I thought this was going to suck so bad and was ready to absolutely de-hype it to hell but now I think I am going the opposite way. "Pariah" could be the best song they have ever written. |
| Comadre Burn Your Bones | 5.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us | 3.5 |
| Spires (USA) Flowers And Fireworks | 3.0 |
| Skramz isis. This would be a lot better if it wasn't so contrived and long, but I mean for what it is it is pretty great. If you are looking for slow music to headbang too, Spires are a pretty solid choice. |
| North What You Were | 3.5 |
| The atmospheric post-metal crap mixed with a grungier sound than most gives the album a life of its own, but the vocals bring down an otherwise spectacularly entertaining and interesting record. |
| VersaEmerge VersaEmerge | 3.5 |
| Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 5.0 |
| My problem with the album is that despite all of its good intentions it plain and simple delivers like previous mewithoutYou efforts. |
| Finale A Pipe Dream and a Promise | 3.0 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Old Money | 3.5 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Megaritual | 2.5 |
| The Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quintet The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean | 3.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.5 |
| She Screams Remedy She Screams Remedy EP | 3.5 |
| El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez Cryptomnesia | 1.0 |
| Fireworks All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion | 3.0 |
| From Monument To Masses On Little Known Frequencies | 2.0 |
| A week or two I bitched about Isis this and that and post-rock being dead. Well, if you need any more proof, you can listen to this album. |
| Neko Case Middle Cyclone | 4.0 |
| Micachu and the Shapes Jewellery | 4.5 |
| I love Lewis Parry as much as I love this album. If you know the man, then you know this album. |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust | 4.0 |
| The last "great" thing Bruce will ever record. If something akin to this was released during his heyday, it would be compared with Nebraska as his strongest record. |
| KMFDM Blitz | 2.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Neverender | 5.0 |
I have only listened to three songs but I already know how much I'm going to like this and so do you.
Only review needed. |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 2.5 |
A few years ago, I listened to a little album called "Panopticon" and I thought it was okay. Boring, tepid, and a little uninspired but it was a time when such was just the norm. A few less years ago, I heard an album called "In the Absence of Truth", which was less heavy but retained all the other weaknesses of Isis' previous work, and was quite underwhelming. Now I hear "Wavering Radiant", and I wonder; when will post-post-rock finally get here so I can stop hearing crap like this.
For people too stupid to get it: This sounds like Panopticon and In the Absence of Truth smashed together and it is average generic and uneventful. |
| Therapy? Crooked Timber | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 3.0 |
| Soap and Skin Lovetune for Vacuum | 3.0 |
| Butch Walker Sycamore Meadows | 2.5 |
| The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 5.0 |
| The most focused Trophy Scars outing yet (EP or otherwise), epic in scope yet smooth and incredibly listenable, "Bad Luck" shows the band treading into a slower groove, and creating more noteworthy "crescendos". While "Anna Lucia" is the most obvious standout, the trio of songs "Toronto", "Nola", and "Years so Much" (All six minutes plus) are excellent forays in odd song structures and musical and lyrcial tones. Straight off from "Bad Dreams" through "Good Luck", "Bad Luck" is the culmination of what one small punk band from Jersey can do with enough time and vision.rWhich is to say, a lot. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.0 |
| I don't know why people go crazy for Two Hunters or this. I guess when an american black metal band doesn't suck it must mean they are amazing. |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| The Ting Tings We Started Nothing | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 3.0 |
| Schoolyard Heroes Abominations | 4.0 |
| Conducting from the Grave When Legends Become Dust | 2.0 |
| New Found Glory Not Without a Fight | 3.5 |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 4.0 |
| I had extreme anxiety coming into "Mama, I'm Swollen". On one hand, the two studio songs I had heard were amazingly catchy and well written, and the live version of "What Have I Done?" was astounding. On the other hand, this is now their 6th full studio record, and I was scared that perhaps Tim Kasher would run out of things to write about. He did. This album is still amazing. |
| Sara Bareilles Little Voice | 3.0 |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 2.5 |
| Giant Squid Metridium Fields | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Untitled | 2.5 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha | 3.0 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 4.0 |
| I figured that the 4 songs released before the album was completed were going to easily be the best material, but I was mistaken. A musically accomplished comedy album, the brilliance of certain songs makes up for the more filler-ish moments on the record. Filled with ridiculous hooks and lyrics, Incredibad is just plain awesome. |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 2.5 |
| Giant Squid The Ichthyologist | 2.5 |
| VersaEmerge Perceptions | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 1.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 3.5 |
| Krallice Krallice | 3.5 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 2.5 |
| When this album is on it's the most mature and overall excellent stuff they've made (Last Call, As He Climbed the Dark Mountain, You Were the Cancer). Slightly progressive in nature and highly "experimental" when it comes to their sound, Common Existence doesn't fail at its attempts to evolve the band, for better or worse. However, most of the songs don't work well, as the acoustic/ambient droning of "Time's Arrow" or the attempt at making another At this Velocity in "Unintended Long Term Effects" prove. Another hit or miss Thursday record, Common Existence is undeniably their weakest overall effort yet, and its time for even the hardcore of Thursday fans to start questioning the amount of juice the band really has left. |
| Harvey Milk Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men | 4.5 |
| El-P Fantastic Damage | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 2.5 |
| Energy Punch The Clock | 3.5 |
| Energy Invasions Of The Mind | 3.0 |
| Ludacris Theater of the Mind | 3.5 |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists Always the Bridesmaid | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 5.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.5 |
| Iluvatar Iluvatar | 5.0 |
| Rifles at Recess To Whisper in Tongues | 3.5 |
| In First Person Lost Between Hands Held Tight | 5.0 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 2.5 |
| Tom Jones 24 Hours | 4.0 |
| I have no idea how Tom Jones has managed to keep his voice as strong today as it was over 40 years ago when he started, but however he has God bless him. "24 Hours" features Tom Jones having arguably the most fun he has ever had in his epic career, every song feeling like a blast of energy and nostalgia for a new generation of listeners. While it is heavily rooted in 60's and 70's pop and soul, there is a definite new age twist on it that makes it not feel dated. Cuts like "I'm Alive" and "Feels Like Music" are funky pop anthems, while "If He Should Ever Leave You" and "Never" are classic love tunes that we've just come to expect from Mr. Jones. A triumphant collection of new songs, "24 Hours" is just another affirmation that Tom Jones is still the sexiest voice in show business. |
| The Killers Day & Age | 4.0 |
Brandon Flower's drops the ridiculous posturing he has had in the past of being a "cool guy", and in the process finds the chemistry with his music he has always been looking for. Incredibly upbeat, catchy, uplifting and well thought out, it's a perfect blend of 80's pop music and a bit of 90's alt brit rock. Each song is filled to the brim with memorable hooks and interesting nuances. Truly a surprising and fantastic effort by a band I had written off as good, but standard pop fare.
As a side note, I give this a 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 3.5 |
| The Killers Sawdust | 3.0 |
| Carpathian Isolation | 3.0 |
| Sons of Noel and Adrian Sons of Noel and Adrian | 2.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 2.5 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 4.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 5.0 |
| Listening to "Traced in Air", it isn't some massive evolution from "Focus". However, everything about the band has been tightened in the 15 year layover, and the album is far smoother and more focused, resulting in a much more listenable and flowing affair. The incredible riffs and solos are back, and the vocals are far better and are actually now reason enough to listen. With improved percussion, bass work that while not as show-offy as before is still just as precise, and an incredible overarching sense of beauty, "Traced in Air" is one of the best records of 2008, even with only a night of listening under my belt. |
| T-Pain Thr33 Ringz | 2.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.5 |
| Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed | 1.0 |
| Forgive Durden Razia's Shadow: A Musical | 2.5 |
| The Khayembii Communique The Khayembii Communiqué | 4.0 |
| Skepticism Alloy | 3.5 |
| pg.lost Yes I Am EP | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 3.5 |
| Mihai Edrisch Un Jour Sans Lendemain | 3.0 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 5.0 |
| Crossed Out 1990-1993 | 4.0 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 3.5 |
| Vessels White Fields and Open Devices | 3.5 |
| I Am Ghost Those We Leave Behind | 2.0 |
| Envy/Jesu Split | 3.0 |
| Cynic Demo 1991 | 3.5 |
| Combatwoundedveteran I Know A Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos | 3.0 |
| Combatwoundedveteran This is Not an Erect, All-Red Neon Body | 4.0 |
| An essential collection of spazzcore/grind songs, this compilation includes everything Combatwoundedveteran did besides their full length, and thus also is everything good that they ever recorded. Gritty as fuck and also ridiculous and sometimes hysterically intense, everyone who wants to pretend to be a hardcore nut should pick this up. |
| Fucked Up Hidden World | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 3.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room | 1.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.5 |
| T.I. Paper Trail | 3.5 |
| Capsule (US) Blue | 4.0 |
| Ohana Dead Beat | 4.0 |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life | 3.5 |
| Young Widows Old Wounds | 3.0 |
| Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy | 2.5 |
This highly awaited split lands to mixed opinions it seems. The Thursday side is highly "experimental" and pushes the electronic/atmospheric side of A City By the Light Divided to greater heights, but besides "An Absurd and Unrealistic Dream of Peace" the songs tend to get a bit full of themselves, with closer "Appeared and Was Gone" being the most pretentious thing Thursday have ever done.
The Envy side is as mixed of a bag, being solid in its own right but adding absolutely nothing to the cannon of Envy. They keep treading old waters, and its starting to become apparent that water is shallower than any of us wanted to admit. "Pure Birth and Loneliness" stands out but when it comes after the borefests that are "An Umbrella Fallen into Fiction" and "Isolation of a Light Source", it's hard to really care.
All in all, a disappointing release from both bands to an extent. Envy prove themselves to be almost irrelevant here, and Thursday despite their best effort still can't reach any sort of real high points. Better luck next time guys. |
| Small Brown Bike The River Bed | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 4.0 |
| For all the praise Bon Iver gets for being a simple, enjoyable listen, TV on the Radio accomplish all that while creating truly inspiring, eclectic, forward thinking music. Pretentious while not being pretentious; "Dear Science," is an indie album that combines itself with elements of hip hop, electronica and a good 'ol helping of soul to make it the ultimate vision of what the band has always done. Surprise of the year. |
| Black Tusk Passage Through Purgatory | 3.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 2.0 |
| Trivium go from being a wannabe thrash outfit back to a psuedo metalcore band, and improve on their last horrific outing by making a bad album that is at least listenable. Good riffs abound with little else to call "good" here. |
| Nahvalr Nahvalr | 3.5 |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 4.0 |
| Jessica Simpson Do You Know | 2.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Ceremonial Oath Carpet | 2.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Censored Colors | 2.5 |
| If I have ever heard a more self indulgent, repetitive, tiring, and harder to listen to album than "Censored Colors"...wait I haven't. |
| ...Who Calls So Loud ...Who Calls So Loud | 3.5 |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun | 3.0 |
| Feral Children Second to the Last Frontier | 3.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove | 3.5 |
| With "Tail Swallower and Dove" These Arms Are Snakes have toned down the crazyness without sacrificing their X-factor. It's one of the most rock and roll records I've heard all year, heavy hitting and deliciously riff-heavy. They still leave room for just enough experimentation to not get stale. A very good album. |
| These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You | 4.0 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit | 3.5 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 3.0 |
| Steinski What Does It All Mean? | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 3.5 |
| Jardin de la Croix Pomeroy | 4.0 |
| Don Caballero Punkgasm | 3.0 |
| The Game LAX | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned | 3.5 |
| Alias Resurgam | 3.0 |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.0 |
| It's a joke/tribute album featuring some of the most ridiculous music written this year that purists are already starting to hate. However, the combination of Thursday's sound with a real "screamo" bent with some grind musicians being thrown into the mix is an immense one. Arguably the record of the year. |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 2.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 3.5 |
It's interesting, no doubt, and filled with the most mature music underoath have made to date. The songs are all tight, compound pieces with very little fluff, and the new ideas all compliment the heavily "Define the Great Line" derived sound well. However, listenability has been lost in the evolution, and there is a distinct lack of the heavyness that made their last record so catchy and enjoyable.
Edit: Insert insulting remark to another user here! |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry | 4.5 |
| The album is "scarier" and arguably more experimental than anything the Blood Brothers ever made. Less genre defying than just plain genreless, "Strange Symmetry" is something of a weird evolution from "Crimes" by the Blood Brothers, an EP with 5 short, direct songs filled with well executed ideas and unique songwriting. You won't hear anything quite like this for a while, so best to get your fill while you can. |
| Jaguar Love Take Me to the Sea | 2.0 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 2.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 3.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Ruined | 5.0 |
| Anthony Green Avalon | 2.5 |
| Mirrorthrone Gangrene | 2.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You | 4.0 |
| cLOUDDEAD Ten | 3.5 |
| Yip-Yip Two Kings of the Same Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 2.5 |
| Machinae Supremacy Overworld | 2.5 |
| Stephen Lynch Superhero | 4.0 |
| Fugazi End Hits | 4.2 |
| Showbread Anorexia Nervosa | 2.5 |
| The Swell Season The Swell Season | 4.5 |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 3.0 |
| Ratatat LP3 | 3.5 |
| Ghostlimb Ghostlimb | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure | 3.5 |
| All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste | 4.0 |
| Ghostlimb Bearing & Distance | 3.5 |
| Beck Modern Guilt | 3.5 |
| Emarosa Relativity | 2.5 |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain | 4.5 |
| What Maps & Atlases have done with "You and Me and the Mountain" is create a more melodic, less flashy, and overall far more listenable version of their trademark sound. The tapping is still here, but with stronger vocal melodies and a great emphasis on songwriting than random wankery. Its a magic EP sure to make Maps & Atlases even bigger than they already are. |
| Demians Building An Empire | 3.5 |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 4.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III | 4.5 |
| Subtle ExitingARM | 4.5 |
| Subtle For Hero: For Fool | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 4.5 |
| Less Than Jake GNV FLA | 3.0 |
| Esoteric The Maniacal Vale | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.0 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 4.5 |
| With Some Blood, Off Minor have perfected their trade so much that its astounding how much they were able to fit into this twenty two minute LP. Drawing mostly from their previous record Innominate, but with enough fresh ideas and slightly reminiscent parts from the days of Heat Death of the Universe to make a fanboy cream his pants, Some Blood ups the ante on the technicality Off Minor have previously shown, with Behar's jazz influenced guitar playing and Roche's surprisingly improved bass work and tone pushing Off Minor to the limit of what they can do. While the rest of the album may be overshadowed by "Practice Absence" a bit, every song here is an astounding portrayal of the chaotic blend of screamo, hardcore and math rock that one would expect and anticipate from one of the true innovators in the genre. |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.5 |
| Temposhark The Invisible Line | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 1.5 |
| Listening to this album is so painful that the only way I know how to ease the pain is to kill a kitten. From the generic songs (everything sounds the fucking same, and don't say "BUT THE SLOW SONG" kill yourself), the boring riffing and shredding (and don't say "BUT CLASSICAL SCALES" kill yourself), and Alexi's affront to vocalists everywhere (and don't say...ok well no one likes his vocals on this album KILL YOURSELF), there is nothing of note here for anything but CoB fans. |
| So the Story Goes As We March With Victims | 1.5 |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.0 |
| Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwallader | 3.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Violence Violence | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Scared People | 3.5 |
| Daitro/Sed Non Satiata Split | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 3.0 |
| From First to Last From First to Last | 1.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 3.5 |
| Maybe Trent has realized his masterpiece days are over, so he is just going to release a steady stream of solid albums from now on? One would certainly hope so, as this is his strongest traditional album since The Fragile, and perhaps even The Downward Spiral. It's almost what "Year Zero" should have been, a conglomeration of all of his past sounds that doesn't sound redundant and uninspired. Its a different, less angry Trent whose days of youth angst and bitterness are gone, replaced by a sense of uneasy acceptance. Not to say that the album doesn't have Trent's edge, or that it isn't as "aggressive" as his previous albums. |
| Boomerang Sounds of Sirens | 2.5 |
| Kill Your Ex From Words to Motion | 2.5 |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... | 4.0 |
| Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings! | 3.5 |
| godheadSilo Skyward in Triumph | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.5 |
| November 5th 1955 Bears of the Sea | 3.0 |
| Lydia Illuminate | 3.0 |
| Off Minor Problematic Courtship | 4.0 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Daitro Des Cendres, Je Me Consume | 3.5 |
| BATS Cruel Sea Scientist | 3.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release) | 3.5 |
| Sinaloa Oceans of Islands | 2.5 |
| A terrible disappointment, for the second full length in a row Sinaloa take all the promise they have of reigniting a more traditional emo style's fire and turn it into a tired, monotonous record filled with filler. The attempts at variety hardly work, and unlike previous works the intensity isn't even at a high level anymore. Maybe next time. |
| Cursive The Storms of Early Summer | 2.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 3.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 4.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 3.5 |
| September 22nd Hello, Throne | 2.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 2.0 |
| Terror Rhythm Amongst The Chaos | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou I Never Said That I Was Brave | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 5.0 |
It's arguably one of the most emotionally impacting debut records of all time, squeezing every ounce of sorrow and pain out of a relationship that can be imagined. The lyrics, atmosphere and singing almost make the music a non-point (despite its excellence), transcending genre.
It's one of the most underappreciated albums on sputnik and all of you should adhere to its greatness immediately. |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 5.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 1.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.0 |
| Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep | 3.0 |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes | 3.0 |
| Army Of The Pharaohs The Torture Papers | 2.5 |
| Snoop Dogg Ego Trippin' | 3.0 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Eleventh Hour | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 3.0 |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Real Emotional Trash | 3.5 |
| 3 (USA) The End is Begun | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 4.0 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 3.5 |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One: 4th World War | 3.5 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 4.5 |
| Time of Orchids Namesake Caution | 3.5 |
| Dismember Dismember | 3.0 |
| Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static | 4.0 |
| Look What I Did Minuteman For The Moment | 3.5 |
| Kid Kilowatt Guitar Method 1996-1999 | 3.5 |
| Gregor Samsa 55:12 | 3.5 |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge | 2.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Women As Lovers | 3.5 |
| Dewey Cox Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | 3.5 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| Make Me Make Me | 4.5 |
| Cat Power Jukebox | 3.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.0 |
| Klute The Emperors New Clothes | 3.5 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 3.0 |
| Death By Stereo Death Alive | 3.5 |
| Pulling Teeth Martyr Immortal | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.5 |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror | 2.0 |
| The Cape May Glass Mountain Roads | 3.0 |
| Robert Glasper In My Element | 3.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 4.0 |
| Minor Threat Out of Step | 4.0 |
| Dolores O'Riordan Are You Listening? | 3.0 |
| Orthrelm Iorxhscimtor | 2.5 |
| Pedro the Lion Control | 3.0 |
| Integrity Humanity is the Devil | 4.0 |
| Integrity was one of the most influential hardcore bands of the early/mid 90s, paving the way for pretty much everything that is called hardcore today. Combining elements of metal into their sound, they along with a few others like Biohazard really pushed hardcore into a new direction and essentially kept the genre alive. "Humanity is the Devil" is perhaps the best output these 'legends' (relatively) released, and features extended songs that don't conform to any formula. While the last track can go fuck itself, everything else here is Integrity's formula played to near perfection. |
| Trash Talk Plagues | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.5 |
| Cease Upon the Capitol Cease Upon the Capitol | 3.0 |
| Cease Upon the Capitol Untitled | 4.0 |
| An eclectic mix of various different types of emo, Cease Upon the Capitol have somewhat adopted the recent post-rock trend that bands have been jumping on for years it seems, Cease Upon the Capitol combine the tension of a band like In First Person with the theatrics and churning/building nature of City of Caterpillar, all the while not overblowing it with songs twice as long as they need to be. Definitely one of the strongest emo releases of 2007, and possibly the only real challenger to the Kidcrash's "Jokes". |
| Army Of The Pharaohs Ritual Of Battle | 3.0 |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain | 3.5 |
| Native Nod Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 2.0 |
| Pygmy Lush Bitter River | 3.0 |
| I Hate Myself 10 Songs | 3.5 |
| Chris Brown Exclusive | 3.0 |
| Blacklisted We're Unstoppable | 3.5 |
| Chiodos The Heartless Control Everything | 1.5 |
| The Moldy Peaches The Moldy Peaches | 3.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space II | 3.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 3.5 |
| Quiet Steps Quiet Steps [EP] | 3.5 |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 3.5 |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People | 3.0 |
| Shangrala This Is How We Communicate | 3.5 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum | 4.0 |
| The best album released this year that I have reduced to background music, "Dandelion Gum" is a trippy ass psychedelic/trip hop album that features some heavily upbeat material, and has some great 60/70's vibes going on throughout it. It's a great record to just have playing while you're browsing the internet, taking a relaxing drive down an empty highway, or even watching a low-key movie. A massive improvement over "Start a People". |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.5 |
| Crank That itself is catchy before it gets overplayed for you, as is Yahhh!, but besides that this is pretty bad stuff, I don't do it really. Yeah its meant to be mindless dance/driving music, but its really just horrible in every aspect besides perhaps the novelty. |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab | 3.5 |
| Nelly Furtado Whoa, Nelly! | 3.0 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.0 |
| Overview Forty-Four Stone Tigers | 4.0 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Fear, The Fear, The Fear | 4.0 |
| Celeste Nihiliste(s) | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 3.5 |
| Shipwreck A.D. Abyss | 3.0 |
| Burton Wagner 21 | 3.5 |
| Les Savy Fav Let's Stay Friends | 3.5 |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer | 4.0 |
| Rush Retrospective I: 1974 - 1980 | 4.5 |
| The Click Five Greetings from Imrie House | 1.5 |
| Celeste Pessimiste(s) | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 2.0 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad | 4.5 |
| V- Halmstad is only a black metal record by the loosest stretch. Progressive black metal may be the best tag for this, and purists are going to absolutely hate it. Shining actively combat stereotypes and standards within the genre, and whether or not they should be applauded for it depends on your idea about the black metal scene. What they deliver with V- Halmstad is a black metal album for people who don’t really like black metal, but have always sort of wished they would. It’s heavy, it’s vaguely intelligent (musically- lyrically the translations I’ve been able to find are hilariously bad), and its got the ability to make you rethink your hate for an entire genre. Then again, Shining probably would want you to say “Fuck black metal” anyways. |
| Luna Halo Luna Halo | 2.5 |
| 108 A New Beat From A Dead Heart | 4.0 |
| Shipwreck A.D. Shipwreck | 4.0 |
| SuidAkrA Caledonia | 3.5 |
| Styx Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Raine Maida The Hunters Lullaby | 3.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| Dead Man In Reno Dead Man In Reno | 3.5 |
| Ampere/Daitro Split | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| So, Circle Takes the Square is rapidly becoming a favorite band of mine. They only have 13 true songs to even choose from, but every single one of those 13 songs is amazing in its own right. The strongest of those come from this, As the Roots Undo. It's epic, its incredibly emotional, it's technically stunning, and the lyrics are pure poetry. It's a triumph of recent times that should be required listening, if not required love. |
| Buried Inside Chronoclast | 3.0 |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 1.5 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 2.5 |
| Envy On The Coast Lucy Gray | 4.0 |
| Eagles Hotel California | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z American Gangster | 2.5 |
| T-Pain Epiphany | 3.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| Equus Osaka Rose | 1.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.4 |
| American Steel Destroy Their Future | 3.0 |
| Britney Spears Blackout | 2.0 |
| Comadre More Songs About The Man | 3.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Unbreakable | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.5 |
| BUS (US-NC) Moving People | 3.0 |
| Justice †| 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream | 4.0 |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 2.5 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 5.0 |
I totally pop a boner whenever I hear this record.
Its really good I dunno it turns me on. Its like the Jessica Alba of musical pieces. |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| She Wants Revenge This is Forever | 1.0 |
| State Radio Year of the Crow | 3.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Magic | 3.5 |
| Dashboard Confessional The Shade of Poison Trees | 3.0 |
| An Albatross We Are The Lazer Viking | 3.5 |
| 1000 Travels of Jawaharlal Owari Wa Konai | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Frames | 3.0 |
| Mat Kearney Nothing Left to Lose | 3.0 |
| Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me | 3.5 |
| AVAST! Faultlines | 4.0 |
| Portrait Discography | 5.0 |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 3.0 |
| Blu and Exile Below the Heavens | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.0 |
| The Chicks Taking the Long Way | 2.0 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 2.5 |
| Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory | 4.0 |
Chamillionaire produces the hip hop album of the year, in one of the biggest efforts I've heard this side of a Martin Scorsese film. Ultimate Victory is a collection of intelligent raps on current affairs, traditional southern crunk songs about cash and groupies, and discussion on the current state of Hip Hop itself. Featuring one of the smoothest flows in mainstream rap, Chamillionaire is truly the shining gem among all those other "gangsta" rappers out there, up there with the duo from Clipse as the leading figures in popular rap. |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 2.5 |
| Blaqk Audio CexCells | 3.0 |
| HORSE the band A Natural Death | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.0 |
| 50 Cent Curtis | 2.0 |
| Enochian Theory A Monument to the Death of an Idea | 3.5 |
| Lifetime Lifetime | 3.5 |
| Ladytron Light and Magic | 3.5 |
| Kidcrash New Ruins | 3.0 |
| Bars Introducing... | 3.5 |
| The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby | 4.0 |
| Orange 9mm Driver Not Included | 2.5 |
| Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death | 3.0 |
| Eluvium Copia | 4.0 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep | 4.5 |
| Twain Harte A Sunny Place for Shady People | 3.5 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
| Snapcase Progression Through Unlearning | 4.0 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.0 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain | 4.0 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.0 |
| Yaphet Kotto We Bury Our Dead Alive | 3.0 |
| Blacklisted Peace On Earth, War On Stage | 4.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth | 3.0 |
| Sean Kingston Sean Kingston | 1.5 |
| From First to Last Heroine | 3.5 |
| Ja Rule Blood in My Eye | 2.0 |
| Destiny's Child #1’s | 3.5 |
| Quicksand Manic Compression | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 2.5 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 3.5 |
| Usher Confessions | 3.5 |
| Usurp Synapse Disinformation Fix | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 3.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.5 |
| Pokemon Pokemon 2.B.A. Master | 3.0 |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 5.0 |
| The Thirty Years War Martyrs Among the Casualties | 4.5 |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime | 4.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.0 |
| Kodan Armada Ohio Killed the Grey Ghost | 4.0 |
| Clipse Lord Willin' | 3.5 |
| Tim McGraw Set This Circus Down | 2.5 |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Believes In Patterns | 3.0 |
| Shakira ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? | 4.0 |
| Embrace (US) Embrace | 4.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.5 |
| Sparta Threes | 3.0 |
| Ladytron Witching Hour | 4.5 |
| Ladytron are what one can consider a good Electroclash band; they barely even fit in the genre. However, their mixture of rock, pop, and massive amounts of various electronica influences are almost unrivaled, and their ability to craft songs that stick inside your head can only be described as N*Sync-esque. Easily the best pop release of 2005, and one of the most captivating albums of the century. |
| Stephen Lynch A Litte Bit Special | 4.5 |
| Peaches The Teaches of Peaches | 3.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 1.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves? More like Angels and Suckwaves amirite? No, but seriously folks, how about them guitar effects? Yeah, they're supposed to make Tom and crew look really neat, but all they really do is make me want to listen to a better band that uses them. Did I mention Tom still can't write a good song by himself worth a shit? Well, he can't. He still also has a very, very boring voice, and we now see the genious that was Mark on the Blink records. If you want pretentious prog, get something by The Mars Volta. If you want catchy pop punk, well, get Blink 182. Just plain don't get this. It has AIDS. AIDS is evil. |
| HORSE the band Pizza | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 2.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.1 |
| Amputechture is both TMV's most all-around solid work, et it isn't their best. The album itself contains a huge amount of highlights and melds the breakout-pace and style of De-Loused with the vastness and musicianship or Frances, all while taking it a step further in terms of songwriting. However, it isn't anything truly new, and despite the fact that "Tetragrammaton" and "Day of the Baphomets" are two of the finest songs I've heard all year, the album is just a tad bit too long for its own good. |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count | 2.5 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Usually, I save 5's for albums that either have huge influential purposes, or in which every song is just so brilliant that it would be unjust to give anything lower. For some reason, Good Apollo has 9 outstanding songs and 5 pretty good ones, yet I can't help but be in love with it. Don't let anyone else deter you; Coheed are staking themselves as the commercial leaders of this new movement of radio prog, and this album has cemented the fact that they're also largely unique and competent as musicians (particularly Sanchez and Stever). |
| Jessica Simpson A Public Affair | 3.5 |
| George Strait For the Last Time: Live From the Astrodome | 3.5 |
| Alias The Other Side Of The Looking Glass | 4.0 |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End | 4.0 |
| Neil Perry Lineage Situation | 3.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 5.0 |
| In 1998, System of a Down came out with a little album called, gasp, System of a Down. Although the singles Sugar and Spiders received airplay, the album never blew up, especially compared to their next effort. However, this is arguably their best output. It is by far the weirdest album they’ve put out, relying for less on the heavy riffs found on Toxicity and beyond, and rather on strange intertwining bass and guitar lines. It’s also the only time you ever really hear Serj growl, and to those who were introduced to the band with Toxicity, it’s quite a surprise. The albums only low point is the extremely repetitive “Darts”, although on an album as strong as this, it still isn’t a bad song (“Life threatening lifestyles” is one of the memorable lines on the album). Highlights include Spiders (Featuring a rare Daron solo), War? (System at their political best), and Mind (Their longest song to date, and also the most haunting). This was one of the most promising debuts of the 90’s, and System followed it up well with… |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.0 |
| The String Quartet Tribute to The Mars Volta | 2.0 |
| Handsome Boy Modeling School White People | 3.5 |
| Danny Elfman Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 4.0 |
| Nick Lachey What's Left of Me | 1.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 5.0 |
| So yeah I'm generally a Mars Volta fanboy. Particularly for this album. I get rather agitated and I hit things when someone gives this below a 4.5, and I eat babies whenever I see a 3.5 I black out otherwise. Anyways, this album is pretty goddamn amazing. Despite there being only 5 (6 if you include the single) songs, there's more variety here than on many a more bloated disc (traks wise), with salsa-y L'via juxtaposing with a power ballad in The Widow and a very industrialized song in Miranda. All in all though, it's a rather fantastic album that should be picked up by everyone. Everyone. |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 2.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.5 |
| Ready to Fall and the second half of the cd are so so good, I just wish the rest of the first half was more distinguished. |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) South Park (Original Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional Dusk and Summer | 3.0 |
| The Dum Dum Project Export Quality | 3.5 |
| Machinae Supremacy Redeemer (Underground Edition) | 4.5 |
| Redeemer is undoubtedly the most impressive album I’ve heard all year, not only because its from some no name bunch of losers from Sweden (seriously, shouldn’t they be playing death metal or something?), but because they’ve truly crafted an inimitable record with an incredible amount of musicianship, songwriting prowess, and overall zest for what they’re doing. Every song they make could (relatively) be a highlight on a good amount of the albums I’ve heard not only this year, but of the past 5. Redeemer deserves to be the album that, at the end of the year, everyone is talking about, and Machinae Supremacy at least deserve to be the band you next check out when you have a few minutes of free time to spare. Oh, but make sure you can miss whatever appointment you’ll have next, as you’ll probably want to go play Space Invaders afterwards. |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 3.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In Hell Paso | 3.5 |
| James Blunt Back To Bedlam | 1.5 |
| It revels in being stereotypical and clich?with oh-so-little room for originality outside of the rather trippy cover art. I honestly cannot find an ounce of real talent to even be able to say the standby line in these circumstances, “He has talent and hopefully he’ll build on that next album” This album may not have originally made to be a major label tool for selling albums, but honestly, the only people I see enjoying this album are housewives in turbulent marriages and pre-teens who just got broken up with because summer came. If you have a strong tolerance for utter manufactured pop, you may be able to tolerate this album. If you like crap for music, well, this is just for you. What I see her is nothing but artificial balladry with the occasional attempt to be edgy; and by golly, it sure does sell records. But I can’t give this above a 1.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 4.0 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 4.5 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime II | 2.5 |
| She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge | 2.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 5.0 |
| Mad Season is the magnum opus of one of our times most talented singer-songwriter and rock act, and while it would be an absolute delight to see them ever overtake this album, to do so would be nigh impossible. What matchbox twenty have done here is make an album completely devoid of filler, and then also crafting such meticulate pieces that you never want it to stop. While its fairly obvious that my love for matchbox twenty and everything they do may skew my vision slightly, all that originated from this little album right here. While it would be a rare occurrence for one to never have heard Bent or any number of the hit singles matchbox twenty has produced, Mad Season would be the perfect place to start your listening. |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 4.5 |
| A lot of people don't like The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I think it's a rather fantastic thing to be perfectly honest. Blending rock with jazz with pop with blues, it's actually a stunning musical composition in its own right, with songs that range from impossibly danceable (Time Warp, Hot Patootie) to sad, almost touching songs (Science Fiction/Double Theatre, I Can Make you a Man). Oh, and its about transvestites and stuff. Hot. |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In Alfaro Vive, Carajo! | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| Sometimes, you just dont like an album when you first hear it. That was the case with me and Relationship of Command; I just didn't like it at first. After a year of laying off of it, I gave it another listen, and it absolutely blew me away. The energy on the album is incredible, almost greater than anything you could imagine them doing live. Oh, did I mention that the guys can play their instruments pretty goddamn well? Each member is far more than competent at their instrument, and in combination with the eclectic song structures and Cedric's passionate shouting and screaming, this album is rather brilliant in every fashion. |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 5.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 5.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 5.0 |
| Back in 7th and 8th grade, I was pretty much listening to Linkin PArk constantly. Then I go this album (even though I heard it sucked by my num etal-head friends), and I was absolutely smitten by it. I had to hide my love for it due to the obvious reaction I would have gotten, but it really got me into pop punk, along with Blink 182's self titled. |
| Soundtrack (Film) Once More With Feeling | 4.0 |
| Shakira Oral Fixation Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 1.5 |
| It’s more of this mainstream “emo” as the kids call it (I prefer faux-emo in this context), and it’s not even average for that. It’s certainly catchy-how could it not be at this point?-but it also has almost no other merits to it. Those looking for a technicality-don’t get this album. Those looking for a good singer-don’t get this album. Those looking for introspective lyrics-don’t get this. Those looking for moderately catchy, whiney, and accessible music-get about 10 other artists discography’s before you pick this up. Sans Untitled, this album is just the same song on repeat. And that song is I’d Do Anything from their previous. Please, unless you’re really desperate for mediocre radio pop-punk, don’t buy this album. |
| Disney Disney's Princess Collection... | 3.5 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy | 4.5 |
| "I love my mommy cause she fucked my dad" is all that really needs to be said about this album. Some say its more of a collection of half songs than actual music. Those people are communist. This album is rpetty goddamn amazing, and sans The Downward Spiral the best industrial release of all time. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 5.0 |
| Styx Kilroy Was Here | 2.5 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.5 |
| Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Scab Dates | 2.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 1.5 |
| Deep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel? | 4.5 |
| Pennywise Pennywise | 3.5 |
| Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape | 2.0 |
| Hilary Duff Dignity | 2.0 |
| Pito Perez Con Más Poder | 3.0 |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Strength And Loyalty | 3.0 |
| Daddy Yankee Barrio Fino En Directo | 1.0 |
| Cursive Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes | 2.5 |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless | 1.5 |
| Oh dear lord its Good Charlotte. So, I really don't have anything against them, really. Their first album is pretty good, and their newest one showed flashes of promise. However, this album is one of the few times I'll scream along with pople in "SELL OUT." It's rather obvious much of the money was meant to just sell records, as evidenced by the completely cliche lyrics, whiney vocals with little emotion, and the generic instrumentation I expect off of a Click Five album. This is pretty bad in all honesty. |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 1.5 |
| He Is Legend Suck Out the Poison | 1.5 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 2.0 |
| Ice Cube The Predator | 4.0 |
| To be completely honest, gangsta rap sucks. Hardcore. However, thats merely in todays society where the gangsta lifestyle has been glamourized. While Ice Cube may have been rather affluent, it's almost impossible to deny this albums absolute amazingness. Cube is one of the most passionate rappers of his day with a sick flow yo, and the production on this album is still nearly untouched to this day. Quite possibly the best hip hop album of all time. |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 4.4 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 5.0 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 2.5 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 5.0 |
| This album holds its place as overall the best album of all time in my book. Listening to it, it really doesnt feel as though it is. Sure, four of the tracks are breathtaking (21st Century and the title track being the choice cuts), but Moonchild has 8 minutes of boring noise. All this matters not; this was the pioneering record of '69, and easily one of the most influential (directly and indirectly) in history. |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius | 4.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 2.5 |
| Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs | 3.5 |
| The BEastie Boys had been gone for a while, and the announcement of another project without the Dust Brothers was kind of scary. However, the boys pull it off well; while their production skills have nothing on the Dust Brothers, they still pull it off quite well ("Triple Trouble" has chimes that make me shiver). Their flow, while getting a bit tired, is still as solid as ever, and Adrock continues to shine through as a standout rapper in his own right. The lyrics are a product of the times; political and social commentary that is perhaps a tad bit too preachy. While the album isn't made for repeated listens, it's more than a small bit enjoyable for a few listens here and there. |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| There are really only two albums you can choose when answering the age old question "Whats your favorite Trip Hop album?" Personally, this would have to be it. Not only does the album work as the perfect atmospheric music for a variety of activities, you can just plain out listen to it and be awestruck by the arrangements and scope of it. |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 3.0 |
| Santana Abraxas | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 4.5 |
| Santana Santana III | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 4.0 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 3.9 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 5.0 |
| Rush is a silly little band. Geddy Lee has a silly voice, and Alex Lifeson uses entirely too silly guitar tones. It's too bad that Lifeson (along with Lee and Peart) are each among the top musicians for each of their respective instruments, and no where was this showcased better than Hempispheres. The title track is second only to 2112 in Rush's standards, and "The Trees" and "La Villa Strangiato" are both Rush's best single and instrumental (respectively). |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.0 |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.5 |
| Yes The Yes Album | 4.0 |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans | 4.0 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 3.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 4.0 |
| So yeah, I got laid while listening to this album. Pretty much sums up my feelings in a nutshell on the subject. Stadium Arcadium = Sex. Albeit ear sex. |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Vaya | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 4.0 |
| Hot Cross Cryonics | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied | 3.5 |
| Common Be | 3.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 4.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 1.0 |
| I so wish I was "saying Goodbye" to this album. I had heard there was vast improvement on this disc as opposed to the first, so because I'm a dumbass I acquired it. I was pleased to hear...well, none of it. It's pretty much the generic embodiment of generisticity, which isn't even a word, which should indicate just how bad this album really is. Oh and they have 3 guitarists, og which they nee about a keyboard player to accomplish everything they do. Probably to better effect. |
| Kamelot Epica | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos | 4.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 1.0 |
| The impressive debut record from Hawthorne Heights features an almost decent song in "Ohio is For Lovers" and then nothing else. Being a true mark that hardcore is getting ready to blow up (but labels refuse to see it and try to sugarcoat it), Hawthorne Heights incorporate a psuedo-TOCS-era Underoath with even more pop punk sensibilities, and a vocalist who should really not be singing professionally anywhere but at a Barmitzvah. |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 2.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 2.5 |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds | 4.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 1.5 |
| In all honesty, I don't really have many reasons to back up my 1.5 Rating, obviously, every time you have a 1 or 1.5, it means you have a particular distaste for an album, but I honestly can't get past how unoriginal this album sounds. It's like Green Day wanted to pretend they were making musical progress, so they just took a bunch of things they did in the past, took some ideas from better bands, and threw it all together. The thing is, it only really works on Jesus of Surburbia. Yeah, kind of a shitty situation overall. |
| Matisyahu Youth | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| This is a double album. Yet it has 4 songs. Each songs about 22 minutes long, which means its barely a double album. Who cares. This is the peak of what GY!BE does for me; epic and moving music that is really excellent for sleeping to be perfectly honest. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.5 |
| Fightstar Grand Unification | 3.5 |
| Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed | 1.5 |
| What do you want me to do here, really? Silverstein are a rather bland pop punk band, with hardcore influences, much in the vein of Hawthorne Heights. While they are slightly better than their contemporaries, it still sounds like a watered down version of Atreyu, aka its watered down suck. That does help the album slightly, as it isn't in your face suck. It's just bad lyricism (cliched and rather shoddy writing overall) and mediocre instrumentation combined with vomit-inducing vocals. |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 1.5 |
| So, underOATH used to be really, really, really bad. But before that, they were decent. This is when they were really, really, really bad. It sounds like a pop band trying to be really hardcore and impressive with their musicianship, but instead its faux-christian lyrics (by this point they had begun to shed them) and bland musicianship. Why the 1.5? Spencer is one of the most god awful vocalists I've ever heard. I honestly want to punch Hilary Duff in the mouth when I hear him scream, but since I don't know Hilary Duff, I just punch the picture of her I have in my room, but as theres a concrete wall behind it, my hand just starts to bleed and get infected and stuff... |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.0 |
| The Bled Found in the Flood | 2.5 |
| Air Talkie Walkie | 4.0 |
| Kottonmouth Kings High Society | 1.5 |
| Hahahahah. It's the Kottonmouth Kings. They're a rowdy bunch of guys. This is teen angst music at its height within the nu metal genre. They rap and stuff, but its really done quite terribly. I honestly havent the faintest what they're talking about, as when I listen to them, I'm too busy being rebellious and telling my parents I wont wash my own clothes to really pay attention. |
| Atreyu Fractures in the Facade of your Porcelain Beauty | 1.5 |
| leik omg there is no base on this album. No seriously, where is it? I don't know. The guitarists are almost passable here, but overreach their goals and end up being pretentious. The vocalist is even worse than on The Curse, which means he should have been executed on this album. The drummer is ok. He lets this album get an extra .5 because I'm a nice guy if you haven't noticed. |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In El Gran Orgo | 3.5 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 2.0 |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory | 2.5 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 2.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 5.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 4.0 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 3.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 2.0 |
| God those guitarists are orgasmic. In a way. I'll give them that they're incredibly skilled, but goddamn stop jacking your guitar off and compose a decent solo that require you to travel the distance of your fretboard 5 times (in 4 seconds). Mostly everything else is meh on this album, besides the vocals. Imagine even louder, less obnoxious, but even more horrifically destructive screaming than Atreyu. Thats where you'll find the screaming on this album to be. Just even worse. |
| Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko | 1.0 |
| So, um, this is the Insane Clown Posse's best album. It has one good song in "Boogeyman" and then a bunch of pretentious tripe that attempts to be funny at every turn but instead ends up being cliche and redundant. Oh, and their flows are whack and the production/instrumental work is almost as bad as S Club 7. Just distorted. Which makes them so much more edge. Man. |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 2.5 |
| The Flower Kings The Rainmaker | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 1.5 |
| I had a big ant prepared for this album. Then I listened to "Our Lady of Sorrows". And I was sad because thats a genuinely good song surrounded by mountains of crap. Everyone here does what they're supposed to do at almost an average level, but overall the songs feel hollow and as if their all missing something. Gerard wasn't even decent on this album, which is one of the few saving graces of their next record. Honestly, dont bother with this. You'll die a happier man. I'm not politcally correct stfu women. |
| Jay-Z Unplugged | 2.5 |
| Otis Redding The Dock of the Bay | 3.5 |
| NSYNC Celebrity | 2.5 |
| Britney Spears In the Zone | 2.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 2.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.0 |
| Blah blah blah Sgt Peppers was the musical revolution of the 1960s blah blah. Fuck that shit yo, this i where its at. It was a slightly trippy record, but altogether one of the most fun listens I've ever had. Though I havent listened to it for like two years so I don't have quite as much to say about it as I normally would. Well, it basically paved the way for progressive music you could say. But then you could say the opposite. ITs oh so contrived. |
| Spice Girls Spice | 1.0 |
| So, a lot of people try and tell me/you that this album is good. Those people are phony liars. I decided to listen to this album again after a favorable review on this here site, and I was surprised to find I hated every waking moment of i. Sure, if you can stand their singing, this could be decent pop. But it's mostly female angst and by-the-numbers love lyrics sung by a bunch of women with voices I just can't comprehend people liking. Honestly, I'd say this album is overrated. |
| Primus The Brown Album | 2.5 |
| Ashlee Simpson Autobiography | 2.0 |
| Pink I'm Not Dead | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake Justified | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are | 4.0 |
| Jason Mraz Mr. A-Z | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| If I had to absolutely nail down only one album from the 90's to submit as my number 1, I would likely end up choosing this. Reznor hit his dark and moody plateu here, creating some incredibly dark and emotional music that was both heavy, yet accessible at the same time. It helps that "Hurt" is by golly one of the best songs ever recorded. |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.5 |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 4.0 |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things | 3.5 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 4.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera | 3.0 |
| Summoning Oath Bound | 3.6 |
| Secret Machines Ten Silver Drops | 3.0 |
| Rites of Spring End on End | 4.0 |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands | 2.0 |
| Cave In Perfect Pitch Black | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.5 |
| HIM Dark Light | 1.5 |
| Wow god we're up to HIM. There's really not a lot you can say about them. They revel in being some kind of love metal band. Thing is, they don't have any technicality whatsoever, and "love" doesnt describe their overall sound very well. A better title would be "bland and monotonous/pretentious radio rock." Ocassionally there'll be a decent moment, sure, but mostly its the same old boring vocal performances and guitar parts every time. Oh, and the drummers fat. Which means when he takes off his shirt for concerts, woo boy. |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.0 |
| Joe Satriani Super Colossal | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant | 4.0 |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Greatest Hits 1970–1978 | 2.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.0 |
| Dir En Grey Vulgar | 3.5 |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing | 3.0 |
| Shabutie Penelope | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Live In Texas | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Drive Well, Sleep Carefully (DVD) | 2.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch of Gold for An Inch of Time | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante Curtains | 3.0 |
| Origin Echoes of Decimation | 2.5 |
| Muse Absolution Tour | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Complete Music Video Collection | 2.5 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Midtown Forget What You Know | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.3 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Godsmack IV | 1.5 |
| Godsmasck have made the same exact album IV times now. Honest,y it was really good the first time, pretty good the second time, meh the third time, and now it's just become sucktastic. There are some generic solos to be had, but when the solos in a Maroon 5 song are better than anything on your album, what is that saying? Combined with typical and generic metal vocals, this albums pretty much summed by saying "turd." |
| Sum 41 Go Chuck Yourself | 2.5 |
| Eiffel 65 Europop | 1.5 |
| Blue is a genuinely catchy song. Everything else? Well, meh. It's all pretty much trash. They takes good european techno artist ideas (Ladytron and Miss Kittin ftw), and craft it into some weird mainstream pop album, that doesnt have the strengths of either but the weaknesses of well everything. It's boring, overdone, too intricate for its own good, lyrically retarded, and musically you can only dance to it for about 5 minutes. Then you kill yourself. I don't make the rules folks, God does. God hates this album. |
| Westlife World Of Our Own | 2.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Gutterflower | 3.5 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 3.0 |
| Jack Johnson On and On | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales | 3.5 |
| Midtown Living Well is the Best Revenge | 2.5 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 4.3 |
| Nightmare Of You Nightmare Of You | 3.0 |
| Robbie Williams Sing When You're Winning | 2.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu FFVII: Advent Children OST | 3.5 |
| Turisas Battle Metal | 3.5 |
| Yuka Tsujiyoko Paper Mario GMS (Disc 1 and 2) | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam | 2.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 1: Early Days | 3.0 |
| Falkenbach Heralding - The Fireblade | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 2.5 |
| T.I. King | 2.0 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.0 |
| Weerd Science Friends and Nervous Breakdowns | 1.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 2.5 |
| Last Laugh No Regrets | 3.5 |
| Beyonce B'Day | 2.0 |
| Dan the Automator A Much Better Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Dir En Grey MISSA | 3.5 |
| Jet Get Born | 2.0 |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 2.5 |
| The Replacements Don't Tell a Soul | 2.0 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 3.5 |
| Rush Rush | 3.0 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 4.0 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 3.0 |
| Green Day Bullet In A Bible | 3.0 |
| No Doubt Rock Steady | 3.0 |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 3.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Melt | 3.5 |
| Rush Roll the Bones | 2.5 |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open | 2.5 |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw | 3.0 |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers | 2.5 |
| Baha Men Who Let the Dogs Out | 3.0 |
| Trapt Someone in Control | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 3.5 |
| Journey Trial By Fire | 2.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Hot Hot Heat Elevator | 2.5 |
| Kamelot Karma | 3.5 |
| D12 D12 World | 2.0 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 2.5 |
| Placebo Meds | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 2.5 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 3.5 |
| The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living | 2.0 |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Say You Will | 2.0 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 4.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 3.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.0 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Trilogy | 3.0 |
| Dir En Grey Withering to Death | 3.5 |
| Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party | 4.0 |
| Seether Disclaimer II | 1.5 |
| Oh god I'm broken. Broken when it comes to this album. Honestly, this dude is just a terrible songwriter. The band itself has constructed a high 2-low 2.5 album, being generic but not terrible. But the voalist is absolutely dreadful and boring, and writes some of the most faux-touching and psuedo-emotional lyrics I've seen since Styx. But Styx was awesome. Seether is just a rock band that really should have never of made it big. |
| Rush Exit...Stage Left | 3.5 |
| Nirvana (UK) The Story of Simon Simopath | 2.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.0 |
| Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time | 2.5 |
| Sarah McLachlan Surfacing | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 3.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 3.0 |
| Moby 18 | 2.0 |
| Erykah Badu Mama's Gun | 2.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Mirage | 2.0 |
| Mastodon The Workhorse Chronicles [DVD] | 3.5 |
| The Darkness Permission to Land | 2.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Coda | 2.5 |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway | 4.0 |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me | 3.0 |
| NSYNC No Strings Attached | 3.5 |
| Mr. Fountain obviously has no idea what he is talking about. N Sync isn't about the musicianship, and his implication they had any real hand in that is absurd. What this album is pure, unadulterated bubble-gum pop, and arguably the best of the century. "Bye Bye Bye" and "It's Gonna Be Me" are both fantastic, and while there are some terrible songs, overall its an enjoyable collection of pop tunes to blast while you play "Barbie: Equestrian Fun." |
| Amanda Woodward La Decadence de la Decadence | 3.0 |
| Kelly Clarkson Thankful | 2.5 |
| Natalie Imbruglia Left of the Middle | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Help! | 3.0 |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.5 |
| Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire | 2.0 |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 3.5 |
| Rush Hold Your Fire | 4.0 |
| Rush Chronicles | 4.0 |
| King Crimson The Power to Believe | 4.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 5.0 |
| Entombed Left Hand Path | 4.0 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 3.5 |
| Good Charlotte Good Charlotte | 3.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 2.0 |
| No Doubt The Beacon Street Collection | 3.0 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 3.0 |
| blink-182 The Mark, Tom and Travis Show | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 3.5 |
| The Darkness One Way Ticket To Hell And Back | 1.5 |
| I believe in a thing called suck. Oh wait wrong Darkness album. Anyways, much like a few other albums in the abtss of my ratings, I had heard a bunch of talk of how this album was actually pretty good. So, when I listen to it, I first went "Huh, this still sucks pretty hardcore man." The vocals aren't what got me as much as the almost Jet-bad music ripoffs, with every song sounding like something out of the 70's or 80's. Honestly, The Darkness should go back to The Darkness. Mommy says she'll be me ice cream if she never has to hear them again. |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit | 4.0 |
| Hour Cast State Of Disgrace | 3.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 2.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| This was a pretty good album. Sometimes it dragged on a bit, and perhaps had too much going on for its own good. but all in all arguably the best album by Radiohead. If only the vocals were better tbqh. |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 2.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk | 2.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night | 2.0 |
| Godsmack The Other Side | 2.5 |
| Godsmack Faceless | 2.0 |
| Godsmack Awake | 3.0 |
| Godsmack Godsmack | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 2.5 |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask | 3.0 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything | 2.0 |
| I'm a Mindless Self Indulgence fanboy to the max. I'm one of the few "serious" music fans (what stfu) who would count an MSI album among their top 10, let alone top 7. So, this album was a massive dissapointment. From the horrendicity of the Rush cover to basically everything else on the album, its a tavesty to MSI's once good name. I remember going to an MSI show, and having lil Jimmy Urine pour piss on me. Yes, I was that lucky boy. Thats how this album makes me feel, except without all the godliness. |
| Tangerine Dream Mars Polaris | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 1.5 |
| I like new Slipknot. I don't like old Slipknot. What am I ever to do? Oh yes, not listen to this record. My main problem is thats its heavy without any true anger or purpose. Joey's drumming was unfocused around this time, so instead of the skilled yet powerful drumming we'd see late,r he's pretty much a thrash drummer. Albeit with a better mix. The vocals are also pretty shoddy, making me want to take a rather large piece of my hand off every time I hear them. Yeah, I don't like this album very much I think. |
| Rick Wakeman The Seven Wonders of the World | 4.0 |
| Ben Folds Songs for Silverman | 3.5 |
| Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs | 3.5 |
| Styx The Grand Illusion | 4.5 |
Ah, the Grand Illusion. What a splendid album. This was the first album I ever bought of my own accord, and it owns a special place in my heart. It's bombastic, dynamic, and by golly Dennis DeYoung has one of the most homoerotic voices I ever heard. I love it.
btw Come Saily Away > You. |
| Caliban The Opposite From Within | 1.5 |
| They sound like heavy Atreyu to me. Yeah, the vocals are ten times better, but when you're muliplying ten by zero, you still get zero. The musicianship is almost solid, but for some odd reason this album doesnt do it for me at all and I get bored about halfway through. The Beoved is a good song, but everything else? Think "You're Beautiful" in badness. |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 3.0 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 3.0 |
| Underoath Cries of the Past | 1.5 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 2.5 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 3.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 2.5 |
| R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12) | 1.0 |
| This would be a good song. Hell, it would be a good two or three songs. The beat is actually pretty nifty, and R. Kelly sounds good for the first 8 minutes or so. But then...you realize its going to go on for over half an hour. And then you get scared. And then you turn off the dvd player. And then you watch the Colbert Report, and its all better. Oh, so anyways, this is just so incredibly pretentious and so impossibly overblown I can't help but give it a 1. |
| AFI AFI | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.0 |
| Motley Crue Theatre of Pain | 2.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.0 |
| Warrant Cherry Pie | 2.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 2.5 |
| 2Pac Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn The Adversary | 2.5 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 1.5 |
| This is the third time Atreyu have been below a 2. Do I like any album I've heard by them at all? No. No I do not. The sad thing Brendan (drummer) shows he is actually probably the best backup vocalist in metalcore, and could actually hold a lot of these popcore songs together if he was allowed too. Instead, teh dinosaur decides to come shrieking back in at every possible waking hour, and leads me to want to go all Godzilla on his ass. I could take him. |
| Prince 1999 | 4.0 |
| Pyramids (PA) Following the Tracks, Forcing Motion Thr | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Life on the Murder Scene | 3.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 2.0 |
| Quicksand Slip | 4.0 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Tight | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 3.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 1.5 |
| Just Like You is a good song. Then there are a lot of bad songs on this album, And that really sucks because I really wanted to like this album. The problem is everything sounds honestly like every other radio rock song I've heard since Pearl Jam first made headway, so I really don't know what to make out of this album. Maybe if I made out with the case it would help. No, it really doesn't. So, its angsty and suffocatingly bad. And the cd case tastes like spaghetti. But that might just be me... |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 3.5 |
| Rob Zombie Educated Horses | 3.0 |
| Aiden Nightmare Anatomy | 1.0 |
Oh look at me I'm a pretty little make up wearing fairy. Oh wait you want me to make music? Is it ok if that music sounds like a bad ripoff of My Chemical Romance and Maroon 5 at the same time? Cool. Is it ok if I sound like I have a testicle clamp? Yeah? Right on dude.
Oh, and this album is terrible. Buy something by From First to Last if you want something in this vein. |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 2.5 |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 2.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Mule Variations | 3.5 |
| Everybody Else Everybody Else | 3.0 |
| 2Pac Loyal to the Game | 2.0 |
| Mike Jones Who Is Mike Jones? | 1.0 |
| Hey, I'm Mike Jones. I really do just rap about everything other rappers rap abou,t but I have that one song that goes "Who? Mike Jones!" so everybody rips me off like Dave Chappelle. Honestly, I know I'm a very bad MC and even worse lyricist and can't pick beats for the life of me, but I mean, where would we be in todays society if every white kid in high school wasn't able to shout "Who? MIKE JONES!" at every possible moment and have 5 airhead girls giggle profusely? |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 2.0 |
| Sepultura Dante XXI | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 3.0 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 1.0 |
| Rawr. I'm a dinosaur. Hear me roar. Well, squak. Wanna know what I sound like on this record? Ok. FOIHSDIGSOIDUFIPSHDIPFGUOGF*GE)GFREOUGFPIUGSDPIG. Thats sexy and catchy right? Yeah my drummers a much better singer but all the kids like to hear me rip apart my vocal chords so I get to be lead Velociraptor. Oh, and my band is like uber generic. Yeah. It's like they sound like a bad metalcore version of Hawthorne Heights. Except we kinda want to be really poppy still so we make really simple basslines and just faux-wank on our guitars. Squawk. |
| Stratovarius Destiny | 4.0 |
| Girls Aloud What Will The Neighbours Say? | 3.0 |
| Ludacris Chicken-n-Beer | 2.0 |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite | 4.0 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 5.0 |
| Tarot Suffer Our Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Dido Life For Rent | 3.5 |
| The Clash London Calling | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 3.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| 50 Cent The Massacre | 2.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 2.0 |
| Frank Zappa Zoot Allures | 4.0 |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| ABBA ABBA Gold | 3.0 |
| Ayumi Hamasaki Rainbow | 2.0 |
| The Monkees Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
| The Bacon Brothers Getting There | 2.0 |
| X Japan Blue Blood | 4.0 |
| Spice Girls Spiceworld | 2.5 |
| Thrice First Impressions | 2.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.0 |
| Beck One Foot In The Grave | 2.5 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 3.5 |
| Eagles Eagles | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Rush The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 3.0 |
| Method Man Tical | 3.0 |
| Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi | 3.5 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Carole King Tapestry | 3.0 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Stripped | 3.0 |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 2.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
| Jessica Simpson In This Skin (Collector's Edition) | 2.0 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 2.0 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 3.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.0 |
| Nelly Furtado Loose | 3.0 |
| Stratovarius Intermission | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Kerrang! / XFM UK Acoustic Sessions | 2.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.0 |
| Mago de Oz Finisterra | 4.0 |
| Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds | 4.0 |
| Macy Gray Big | 1.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 2.5 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 2.0 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy | 3.0 |
| AFI The Art of Drowning | 3.3 |
| Michael Andrews Donnie Darko | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 2.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 2: Latter Days | 2.5 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 1.0 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 2.0 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 1.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways | 2.0 |
| Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life | 1.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Voyage 34: The Complete Trip | 3.0 |
| Suede Coming Up | 3.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw El Mark | 4.5 |
| Christina Aguilera Back to Basics | 3.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 2.5 |
| Sublime Sublime | 3.0 |
| Queen Live at Wembley Stadium | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 3.0 |
| The Pink Spiders Teenage Graffiti | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 3.0 |
| Bloodhound Gang One Fierce Beer Coaster | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.5 |
| Everclear So Much For The Afterglow | 3.0 |
| Matchbook Romance Voices | 2.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.0 |
| Paris Hilton Paris | 1.0 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 2.5 |
| t.A.T.u. 200 km/H In The Wrong Lane | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart | 3.5 |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue | 3.0 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 2.0 |
| pg.99 Document #7 | 2.0 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 4.0 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 3.5 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady EP | 3.0 |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 4.0 |
| Hot Cross A New Set of Lungs | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 3.5 |
| OutKast Idlewild | 2.0 |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing | 3.9 |
| Envy From Here To Eternity | 3.5 |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 4.0 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 4.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 2.5 |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset | 4.0 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Mulholland Drive | 4.0 |
| Demons and Wizards Demons & Wizards | 3.5 |
| Demons and Wizards Touched by the Crimson King | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well Versions | 2.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.0 |
| Rush Rush Replay X3 | 4.0 |
| King Crimson THRAK | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Red | 5.0 |
| King Crimson Islands | 3.0 |
| King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth | 3.0 |
| Madonna Like a Virgin | 3.0 |
| Danny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas | 4.0 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 3.0 |
| Emery The Question | 3.0 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 2.5 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 3.3 |
| Thursday Five Stories Falling | 2.5 |
| Thursday Waiting | 2.0 |
| Underoath Act of Depression | 2.0 |
| The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Rumors Laid Waste | 3.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes | 3.5 |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague | 4.0 |
| Boysetsfire Tomorrow Come Today | 3.0 |
| Boysetsfire After The Eulogy | 2.5 |
| Boysetsfire Suckerpunch Training | 3.5 |
| Boysetsfire The Day The Sun Went Out | 2.5 |
| Boysetsfire Before The Eulogy | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 4.5 |
| John Mayer Continuum | 4.0 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 3.0 |
| Blues Traveler Four | 3.0 |
| High School Musical High School Musical | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 1.5 |
| Jack Johnson Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for Curious George | 4.0 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 3.0 |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
By far the most *** kicking release of the year, Converge drop their second guitarist but continue to be one of the most intense bands on the planet. From the brutal opening tracks, to the near ballad-y ?Grim Heart/Black Rose,? to the almost emocore ?Lonewolves,? this is arguably the most well rounded album Converge have yet to release. |
| Hot Cross Fair Trades and Farewells | 4.5 |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand | 4.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood | 2.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 3.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 4.0 |
| One of the most "developed" emo compilations I've heard from the early days of the genre, Cap'n Jazz was something special; incredibly catchy, extremely emotional, and great (if sloppy) musicians with a sense for melody and simple-but-effective. Vocalist Tim often sings completely off key, but you'd hardly notice with all the passion in his voice. The ylrics are something else, both relatable and profound (for the most part). While disc 1 is a bit better than 2, its pretty evenly distributed, and you cant fault over 90 minutes of Cap'n Jazz at all. |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X: Original Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 3.0 |
| Iced Earth The Glorious Burden | 2.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 1.5 |
| KMFDM Attak | 1.5 |
| KMFDM Symbols | 1.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 4.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.0 |
| Lostprophets Liberation Transmission | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
| While I had enjoyed about half of Picaresque, I hadn?t expected to enjoy The Crane Wife quite as much as I ended up. However, they?ve toned down the excess instruments and gone to a more streamlined, poppy sound that works magnificently for them. It also helps they have an extended track to match the heights of ?The Mariner?s Revenge Song? with ?The Crane Wife 1 and 2? |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 4.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 3.5 |
| You and I Discography | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 4.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 5.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
I fucking knocked this one kids face in once.
This album is pretty much like knocking face in for 45 minutes, plus breakdowns. |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 2.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 2.0 |
| Limp Bizkit New Old Songs | 1.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 1.5 |
| Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I | 3.0 |
| Danny Elfman The Corpse Bride | 3.0 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 4.5 |
| Clipse make a large return to form with Hell Hath No Fury, and so so with more vigor, skill, and production values than ever before. While you can vaguely tie them in with todays "gangsta-bitch" styling of rap, they do it much better than anyone else; envenomed flows, psuedo-experimental beats, and a sense of majesty T.I. wished he had. |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 2.0 |
| Navio Forge As We Quietly Burn A Hole Into... | 3.5 |
| k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco | 2.5 |
| Gorillaz Laika Come Home | 1.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 2.5 |
| It Dies Today Sirens | 1.5 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 2.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 3.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Piano Collections | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VI: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| John Legend Once Again | 3.5 |
| Zebrahead Broadcast To The World | 2.0 |
| Cold Year Of The Spider | 4.0 |
| Ten Grand This Is The Way To Rule | 3.5 |
| John Carpenter Halloween 20th Anniversary Edition | 2.5 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 4.0 |
| maudlin/Kayo Dot continue to grow with this release, which sees a larger shift away from their metal influences and into a more free form category. However, the songs are all still just as epic and gripping as ever; and right from the start you see how much more of a sustained kickass this is than its contemporaries. |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.5 |
| dredg El Cielo | 5.0 |
| In Flames Clayman | 1.5 |
| Portraits Of Past 01010101 | 2.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Sinead O'Connor The Lion And The Cobra | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 3.5 |
| The Prize Fighter Inferno My Brother's Blood Machine | 4.0 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 1.0 |
| Neurosis Pain of Mind | 2.5 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 5.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 5.0 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 4.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express | 4.5 |
| Santana Supernatural | 3.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair | 3.0 |
| King Crimson Beat | 3.0 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 3.0 |
| Angel Hair Pregnant With The Senior Class | 3.5 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 5.0 |
| A Day In Black And White My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys | 4.0 |
| Grade Under the Radar | 3.5 |
| Cursive Domestica | 5.0 |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell III | 1.0 |
| Atreyu Visions | 1.0 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 1.0 |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards | 4.5 |
| Never hearing more than one or two songs by him, Orphans and its vast scope introduced me to pretty much every aspect I could imagine about Mr. Waits. While Bastards may be the best disc, none of the three are below fantastic, and there isn?t a bad song of note on this sprawling album, while there are innumerable gems. |
| Jay-Z Kingdom Come | 2.0 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.5 |
| Engine Down Demure | 3.5 |
| Bad Brains Build A Nation | 3.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Maylene and the Sons of Disaster | 3.5 |
| Nas Hip Hop Is Dead | 2.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 4.0 |
| South Park Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics | 1.5 |
| South Park Chef Aid: The South Park Album | 2.5 |
| Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 2.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square | 3.5 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 3.5 |
| Antioch Arrow In Love with Jetts/The Lady Is a Cat | 3.5 |
| Ludacris Release Therapy | 3.0 |
| pg.99 Document #5 | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 1.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 3.5 |
| Vanilla Ice To the Extreme | 2.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 2.5 |
| Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? | 3.5 |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 4.6 |
| Machinae Supremacy Deus Ex Machinae | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 3.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie | 2.5 |
| The Bled Pass the Flask | 2.5 |
| Julia Julia | 4.0 |
| Combining some parts that sound like a more frantic Drive Like Jehu, others that are reminiscent of Rites of Spring, and then build ups akin to Moss Icon, Julia are a fairly great mid-90's emo band. Songs like "Scarification" and "Untitled" meld all of their sounds together perfectly, while others like "Trigger Happy" are great hardcore songs. While they sometimes get lost in themselves, "Julia" is a great effort that should get mentioned around these here parts more than it does. |
| Dir En Grey Gauze | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 2.0 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 3.0 |
| Emerson Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery | 3.0 |
| Various Artists Snakes On A Plane | 2.0 |
| Lovage Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By | 4.5 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 2.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| Bayside The Walking Wounded | 2.5 |
| Bayside Bayside | 3.5 |
| Bayside Sirens & Condolences | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk Computer World | 4.0 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 3.0 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers | 3.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 3.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
| The Locust Safety Second, Body Last | 4.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 3.5 |
| Gorilla Biscuits Start Today | 3.5 |
| Fates Warning FWX | 3.5 |
| A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby | 2.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 4.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' | 3.5 |
| The Locust Plague Soundscapes | 3.0 |
| Yoko Ono Yes, I'm A Witch | 3.5 |
| Orchid Orchid | 4.0 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.5 |
| Pain of Salvation Scarsick | 2.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra | 4.5 |
| Satyricon The Shadowthrone | 3.5 |
| Owen At Home With Owen | 3.5 |
| LoveHateHero White Lies | 3.0 |
| LoveHateHero Just Breathe | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash | 4.5 |
| Dust For Life Dust For Life | 1.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 1.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Last Supper: Live At Hammerstein Ballroom | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.7 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart | 2.0 |
| 1905 Voice | 4.0 |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here | 3.0 |
| Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls | 2.0 |
| Swallow the Sun Hope | 3.5 |
| Say Anything Baseball | 2.0 |
| Jeromes Dream Completed | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Grindhouse | 3.0 |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You I Would Set Myself On Fire For You | 2.5 |
| You and I The Curtain Falls | 4.0 |
| Fergie The Dutchess | 1.5 |
| Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre | 3.0 |
| The End (CAN) Elementary | 2.5 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.0 |
| The Locust New Erections | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone | 3.0 |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha | 3.0 |
| Jenny Piccolo Jenny Piccolo | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 3.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.0 |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 2.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 3.0 |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Impossible Shot | 1.5 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 4.8 |
| Converge Caring and Killing | 3.0 |
| Converge Unloved and Weeded Out | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.0 |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows | 4.0 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 5.0 |
| In/Humanity Violent Resignation: The Great... | 4.0 |
| John Murphy 28 Days Later Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 1.0 |
| Indian Summer Discography | 3.0 |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 3.0 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 2.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.5 |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops | 3.5 |
| Chuck Ragan Los Feliz | 3.0 |
| Joy Division Substance | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North | 3.0 |
| Hopesfall A Types | 2.5 |
| Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly | 4.5 |
| Undoubtedly one of the most solid hardcore/emo albums ever released, Moss Icon took the style of music created by Rites of Spring and pushed it even farther into what we call "emo" today. The first band to bring in soft breaks and loud dynamics, clean arpeggiated guitar, and of course the requisite vocals-from-a-guy-about-to-cry. Their only full length, Lyburnum was the perfection of that style of hardcore, and paved the way for later bands like Indian Summer to develop emo even further. |
| Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 3.0 |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera | 3.5 |
| Jeniferever Choose a Bright Morning | 3.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 3.0 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 4.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma | 2.0 |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2 | 3.0 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 3.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head | 3.5 |
| Silverstein Arrivals and Departures | 2.0 |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value | 3.0 |
| State Radio Us Against the Crown | 2.5 |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring | 3.5 |
| Velvet Revolver Libertad | 2.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Nouveau | 4.0 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 3.5 |
| Damien Dempsey To Hell Or Barbados | 3.5 |
