| Ryan Adams Ryan Adams | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! | 2.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 4.0 |
| Osees Warm Slime | 3.0 |
| Osees Carrion Crawler/The Dream | 3.5 |
| Gram Parsons Grievous Angel | 3.5 |
| Gram Parsons GP | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Ashes And Fire | 3.0 |
| Townes Van Zandt Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas | 4.5 |
| Justin Townes Earle Harlem River Blues | 3.5 |
| Justin Townes Earle Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me | 3.0 |
| Caitlin Rose Own Side Now | 3.0 |
| Poolside Pacific Standard Time | 4.0 |
| Chromatics Kill for Love | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 2.5 |
| Jens Lekman I Know What Love Isn't | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 4.0 |
| ODESZA Summer's Gone | 3.5 |
| The Walkmen Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone | 3.5 |
| The Walkmen Heaven | 4.0 |
| The Rapture In the Grace of Your Love | 3.5 |
| Strange Talk Strange Talk - EP | 3.5 |
| Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost! | 3.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 4.0 |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner | 3.0 |
| Cults Cults | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 2.5 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 2.5 |
| Cults Cults 7" | 3.0 |
| Wiz Khalifa Rolling Papers | 3.0 |
| Yelle Safari Disco Club | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.5 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis VS. | 3.5 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.0 |
| The Rapture !K7 Tapes - The Rapture | 3.5 |
| Cut Copy Zonoscope | 4.0 |
| Alexi Murdoch Time Without Consequence | 2.5 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 3.5 |
| Matisyahu Live At Stubb's | 3.5 |
| Annie Don't Stop | 3.0 |
| ceo White Magic | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird | 3.0 |
| Ryan Adams III/IV | 2.5 |
| Clive Tanaka y Su Orquesta Jet Set Siempre No. 1 | 4.0 |
| This album wins my Air France chill-out record of the year award. Soothing electronic music to lay on the beach to. An unexpected favorite album of 2010 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy | 2.0 |
| Its not a Daft Punk album, its very much a Soundtrack. The very generic, BIG sounding strings drown out most of the DP beats. It was fine to listen through the first time, but I don't really see myself revisiting any more than 2 tracks ever again. I can't recommend Daft Punk fans buy this album. |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk All Day | 3.5 |
| Brandon Flowers Flamingo | 2.5 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 2.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress | 3.5 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 3.0 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 3.5 |
| Beirut Lon Gisland | 3.5 |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar | 3.5 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 3.5 |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction | 3.5 |
| Paul Van Dyk Reflections | 3.5 |
| Neon Neon Stainless Style | 2.5 |
| Javelin No Mas | 3.0 |
| Washed Out High Times | 2.5 |
| Washed Out Life of Leisure | 3.0 |
| Neon Indian Psychic Chasms | 2.5 |
| Discovery LP | 2.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.5 |
| The Walkmen Lisbon | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 3.5 |
| Revolver Music For A While | 3.0 |
| The Morning Benders Big Echo | 3.0 |
| Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals | 3.0 |
| Yeasayer Odd Blood | 3.5 |
| Miami Horror Illumination | 3.0 |
| Sea Wolf Leaves in the River | 3.0 |
| Sea Wolf White Water, White Bloom | 3.0 |
| Miike Snow Miike Snow | 3.0 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 3.5 |
| The Head And The Heart The Head And The Heart | 4.0 |
| The xx xx | 3.5 |
| Delorean Subiza | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 4.0 |
| Spin Doctors Pocket Full of Kryptonite | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.0 |
| The Very Best Warm Heart of Africa | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.0 |
| D'Angelo Voodoo | 4.0 |
| jj jj n° 3 | 2.0 |
| The Tough Alliance The New School | 4.0 |
| Bob Sinclar Western Dream | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.0 |
| Elefant Black Magic Show | 2.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 3.0 |
| The Walkmen You & Me | 3.5 |
| The Walkmen Bows + Arrows | 4.0 |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below | 3.0 |
| Daft Punk Daft Club | 1.5 |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.5 |
| Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream | 2.5 |
| Kasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum | 2.5 |
| You Say Party! We Say Die! XXXX | 3.0 |
| Ladyhawke Ladyhawke | 3.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Kitsuné Tabloid | 3.0 |
| No new songs by Phoenix on this album. Just songs that influenced them, or they really like. I would recommend this only for the super Phoenix fan. |
| The Tough Alliance A New Chance | 4.0 |
| jj jj n° 2 | 2.5 |
| People Under the Stairs Fun DMC | 3.0 |
| Miami Horror Bravado | 3.0 |
| Hot Chip DJ Kicks: Hot Chip | 4.0 |
| Hot Chip One Life Stand | 2.5 |
| Nujabes Modal Soul | 3.5 |
| k-os Yes! | 2.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
| Cody ChesnuTT The Headphone Masterpiece | 3.5 |
| Common Universal Mind Control | 2.0 |
| Common Market Common Market | 3.0 |
| Common Market Tobacco Road | 3.5 |
| Delorean Ayrton Senna | 3.5 |
| The Rapture Pieces Of The People We Love | 3.5 |
| The Rapture Echoes | 4.5 |
| Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young | 4.0 |
| The Postmarks Memoirs At The End Of The World | 3.0 |
| El Perro del Mar Love Is Not Pop | 3.0 |
| Tahiti 80 Activity Center | 2.0 |
| The Whitest Boy Alive Dreams | 3.0 |
| The Whitest Boy Alive Rules | 4.0 |
| I used to write-off Whitest Boy Alive as Erlend trying to make a Phoenix album and coming up a little bit short. Since Phoenix no longer really sounds like Phoenix, I gave Whitest Boy another chance. This album is much more polished and, in my opinion, better than Dreams. It is filling my United / Alphabetical void quite nicely. Best songs are Island, Rollercoaster Ride, & 1517. |
| Kings of Convenience Declaration of Dependence | 3.5 |
| Passion Pit Chunk of Change | 3.5 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 4.0 |
| Whiskeytown Stranger's Almanac | 2.5 |
| The Cool Kids Totally Flossed Out EP | 3.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Annie Anniemal | 3.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand | 3.0 |
| French Kicks Swimming | 3.0 |
| Whiskeytown Pneumonia | 3.5 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life | 3.5 |
| Hercules and Love Affair Hercules and Love Affair | 3.0 |
| The Virgins The Virgins | 3.0 |
| Jens Lekman When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog | 3.5 |
| Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala | 4.0 |
| Cut Copy In Ghost Colours | 5.0 |
| Air France No Way Down | 4.0 |
| I disagree, Air France doesn't sound like Jens Lekman. There are vague similarities such as string and horn arrangements, but Air France uses vocal samples and drum machines instead of corny, crooned lyrics and a live band. Don't get me wrong, I like Jens fine, but I'd choose these guys anyday. The best tracks are the middle three: June Evenings, Collapsing at Your Doorstep, &, my personal favorite, No Excuses. |
| Ryan Adams Cardinology | 3.5 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 3.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 2.0 |
| The Physics Future Talk | 3.5 |
| Oasis Dig Out Your Soul | 3.0 |
I think with this Oasis album, I have finally realized that Oasis are not, and never, will be the band they were from 94 to 98. This album no longer pines for those days like Let There Be Love and Stop Crying Your Heart Out did. It�s all Oasis mark 2 on this album, building on the groundwork of Don�t Believe The Truth and adding a lot of organ. And while I�m glad that they are moving on, I just wish it was better than this. Its so by the numbers that they no longer bother to emulate The Beatles, they just sample their songs and voices. In the DVD that comes with the album, Noel says something like, �People are always telling me to get out of my comfort zone, but I am just going to stay there and keep making great songs.� Minus the great songs, that about sums up this album.
...Oh, and Shock Of The Lightning is an unbelievably blatant rip-off of The Way It Is by The Strokes. |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 4.0 |
| Moby Play | 4.0 |
| Moby 18 | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 3.5 |
| Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Z | 2.5 |
| My Morning Jacket It Still Moves | 2.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.0 |
| Athlete Beyond The Neighbourhood | 2.0 |
| Feist Let It Die | 3.5 |
| Time Machine (USA-CA) Life Is Expensive | 3.0 |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.0 |
| This is how every review of Viva La Vida begins, “After the boring ‘X&Y,” Coldplay have returned with a daring new experimental album that, while no Radiohead, is miles better than their last album.” The problem with this statement is that X&Y wasn’t a bad album because it wasn’t experimental enough, it was bad because the songs, for the most part, weren’t very good. The fact is that this album has worse songs than X&Y, they’re just dressed up in fancier clothers (kinda like Chris Martin himself). It is no A Rush of Blood to the Head. Not even close. |
| Hot Chip Coming on Strong | 2.5 |
| Hot Chip Made in the Dark | 3.0 |
| People Under the Stairs O.S.T. | 3.0 |
| El Perro del Mar El Perro Del Mar | 2.5 |
| "God Knows" is the reason I bought this album and it is simply an amazing song. Dripping with strings and horns that sound like they�re from the turn of the last century, Sarah Assbring�s unique take on girl group vocals lilts over the track, but the music is what sells this song. The instrumental at about 2 and a half minutes will make you melt. The rest of the album doesn�t work as well. With sad, hollow sounding tunes and lyrics that are sometimes too melodramatic (at least for my liking), it is passable as background music when you're getting ready for bed, but little else. That said definitely download "God Knows." That song earns a 5! |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| Feist Open Season | 3.0 |
| Yelle Pop-Up | 4.0 |
| Lykke Li Youth Novels | 3.0 |
| Cut Copy Bright Like Neon Love | 3.5 |
| Holy Fuck LP | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 3.5 |
| Cornelius Sensuous | 2.0 |
| Cornelius Point | 3.0 |
| Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple | 3.0 |
| Dire Straits On Every Street | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 4.0 |
| U2 War | 3.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 2.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 4.5 |
| Ryan Adams Follow The Lights | 3.0 |
| Ryan Adams Demolition | 3.5 |
| Doves (UK) Some Cities | 3.0 |
| Doves (UK) The Last Broadcast | 3.5 |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me | 3.5 |
| People Under the Stairs ...Or Stay Tuned | 3.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 3.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Born Again | 2.0 |
| The Police Ghost in the Machine | 2.5 |
| The Police Synchronicity | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 3.5 |
| Beck Odelay | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales | 3.0 |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 3.5 |
| Royksopp The Understanding | 2.0 |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind | 3.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 4.0 |
| Embrace (UK) This New Day | 1.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.5 |
| Blur Blur | 3.0 |
| Sublime Sublime | 4.0 |
| Air Pocket Symphony | 2.5 |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around | 4.0 |
| Razorlight Razorlight | 2.5 |
| Kings of Convenience Versus | 4.0 |
| Starsailor Silence Is Easy | 3.5 |
| Starsailor Love Is Here | 3.0 |
| Travis The Man Who | 3.0 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 3.5 |
| Cassius 15 Again | 2.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value | 3.0 |
| Wyclef Jean The Preacher's Son | 1.5 |
| Wyclef Jean The Carnival Volume II (Memoirs of an Immigrant) | 3.0 |
| The Music Welcome To The North | 2.5 |
| The Music The Music | 3.0 |
| Embrace (UK) Out Of Nothing | 1.5 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 3.0 |
| Tiesto Just Be | 3.0 |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket | 3.0 |
| Hot Chip The Warning | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd Relics | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma | 2.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.5 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.5 |
| Athlete Tourist | 1.5 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 3.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 4.0 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Grand National Drink and A Quick Decision | 3.0 |
| Royksopp Melody A.M. | 3.5 |
| Elefant Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid | 3.0 |
| Jet Get Born | 3.5 |
| Common Finding Forever | 3.0 |
| The Thrills Teenager | 3.5 |
| After their last album (except for the only memorable song "Not For All The Love In The World"), The Thrills had me hoping they'd head back to San Diego and write another "So Much For The City." Fortunately, they stayed away and the result is this darker, equally good album that has anything but a So-Cal feel. The first three tracks grow on me everyday and the whole album has a much greater emotional impact. Worth another listen if you wrote this band off after their "Lets Bottle Bohemia." |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.5 |
| Damien Rice O | 3.0 |
| The Thrills Let's Bottle Bohemia | 3.0 |
| The Thrills So Much For The City | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Rock 'n' Roll | 2.5 |
| Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block | 3.5 |
| Grand National Kicking The National Habit | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Easy Tiger | 3.5 |
This is a great Ryan Adams starter album like the review says, a microcosm of his body of work. It is solid all the way through, which is not representative of most of Adam's records (usually there are a handful of misses on each album).
Here's a guide to which album to buy depending on which song you like. These songs would fit well on the albums that follow them:
Goodbye Rose – Cold Roses
Two – Love is Hell
Everybody Knows – Gold
Halloweenhead – Rock ‘n’ Roll
Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. – Heartbreaker
Tears of Gold – Jackson Cit Nights
The Sun Also Sets – Love is Hell
Off Broadway – Love is Hell
Pearls on a String – Cold Roses
Rip Off – Gold
Two Hearts – Gold
These Girls – Heartbreaker
I Taught Myself How To Grow Old – Heartbreaker
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| Ryan Adams 29 | 3.0 |
| Ryan Adams Cold Roses | 4.0 |
| French Kicks One Time Bells | 2.5 |
| Athlete Vehicles & Animals | 3.5 |
| Common Be | 4.5 |
| Justice †| 3.5 |
| Air Talkie Walkie | 3.5 |
| Air Moon Safari | 3.5 |
| Cassius Au Reve | 3.0 |
| French Kicks Two Thousand | 3.5 |
| French Kicks The Trial Of The Century | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| Neil Young Harvest Moon | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 4.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd More | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 3.0 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 5.0 |
| Modill Midnight Green | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker | 4.5 |
| k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco | 4.0 |
| k-os Joyful Rebellion | 3.5 |
| k-os Exit | 2.5 |
| Wyclef Jean The Ecleftic (2 Sides II A Book) | 3.5 |
| Wyclef Jean The Carnival | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 3.5 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.0 |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw | 3.0 |
| Keane Under The Iron Sea | 2.0 |
| Keane Hopes & Fears | 3.5 |
| Kasabian Kasabian | 3.5 |
| Kasabian Empire | 1.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.0 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 5.0 |
| Oasis Be Here Now | 4.0 |
| Oasis The Masterplan | 4.0 |
| Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants | 3.0 |
| Oasis Heathen Chemistry | 3.0 |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 2.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.5 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 4.5 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 4.0 |
| Erlend Oye DJ-Kicks | 4.5 |
| Kings of Convenience Quiet is the New Loud | 3.0 |
| Kings of Convenience Riot on an Empty Street | 5.0 |
| Ryan Adams Jacksonville City Nights | 4.5 |
| Ryan Adams Gold | 4.5 |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell | 4.0 |
| Tahiti 80 Puzzle | 2.5 |
| Tahiti 80 Wallpaper for the Soul | 3.0 |
| Tahiti 80 Fosbury | 3.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) United | 5.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) It's Never Been Like That | 4.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Alphabetical | 5.0 |
