| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Lowborn | 2.5 |
| Anberlin Vital | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty | 3.5 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun | 4.0 |
| Secret Band Secret Band | 4.5 |
| Wolves and Machines Since Before Our Time | 4.5 |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| Icarus the Owl The Spotless Mind | 4.0 |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Glen Hansard Rhythm and Repose | 4.0 |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Church of the Good Thief | 4.5 |
| One of the greatest acoustic albums I have ever heard. The Church of the Good Thief cements Hull as one of the great songwriters of this generation. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.5 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 4.5 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.5 |
| Now, Now Threads | 4.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.0 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 3.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Attack & Release | 4.0 |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us | 3.5 |
| The Naked and Famous Passive Me, Aggressive You | 4.0 |
| Jakob Dylan Women + Country | 3.5 |
| Wolf Gang Suego Faults | 4.5 |
| Common The Dreamer/The Believer | 4.0 |
| Himsa Courting Tragedy & Disaster | 4.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.5 |
| The Chemical Brothers Hanna OST | 5.0 |
| The Roots undun | 4.5 |
| Through one full listen, I have to say this might be their best yet. |
| Ellie Goulding Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Drake Take Care | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 3.5 |
| It's better than X&Y Coldplay, but not as good as A Rush of Blood to the Head Coldplay. The band is never going to reinvent themselves, but that's ok because they are pretty damn good at what they do. |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 5.0 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 2.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate The Rising Tide | 3.5 |
| Needtobreathe The Heat | 3.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV | 2.0 |
| It's a Lil Wayne album that isn't salvaged by a few quality singles... skip. |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.5 |
| Might be their best release yet. It builds upon what worked in Beggars and turns that into straight up gold. |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home | 4.5 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne | 3.0 |
| A solid album, but one that doesn't quite live up to all the hype. |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer War Paint | 4.0 |
| Currently the best pop-rock outfit around. While the general formula for their songwriting hasn't changed since Reach For The Sun, War Paint offers a tighter and more mature sound, which gives reason for a promising future. |
| Macklemore The Language of My World | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 4.5 |
| Dot Dot Curve I'm Still Here | 1.0 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.5 |
| Leveler not only proves ABR is one of the best metalcore bands around, but that they're fucking talented musicians as well. |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday | 2.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday's self-titled album is one that lacks identity, focus, and originality. The heralded return of John Nolan offers absolutely nothing of significance, which is sure to be a disappointment to the TBS fans who were praying for a return to the good ol days of Tell All Your Friends. There are a couple great single-worthy songs , but most of the album is completely worthless and harkens back to what made us cringe throughout New Again. In the end, it looks like the rebirth of Taking Back Sunday may end up being their short final chapter. |
| La Dispute Vancouver | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.5 |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 3.5 |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love | 4.0 |
| Emery We Do What We Want | 3.0 |
| It starts off strong with Emery playing Emery at Emery's best, but then begins to lag as the album goes along and eventually ends with a gentle thud of mediocrity. |
| Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.0 |
| Song-writing at its purest, Turner is able to create an entire album that sounds like you are talking to an old friend at the local pub. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Forbidden Love | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 2.5 |
| When "You are a Tourist" came out I got extremely excited for the release of this album... then when it was released I got extremely disappointed. Let's hope to god it's a grower. |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs | 4.5 |
| The Joy Formidable The Big Roar | 4.0 |
| An extremely impressive debut album built around volume, ambient riffs, and one hell of a lead chick. |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.5 |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange | 4.5 |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food | 4.5 |
| Memphis May Fire The Hollow | 3.0 |
| Paul Simon So Beautiful or So What | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.5 |
| M. Ward Post-War | 3.5 |
| Trap Them Sleepwell Deconstructor | 4.0 |
| M. Ward Hold Time | 3.5 |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk | 3.0 |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites | 4.0 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.5 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil | 3.5 |
| Noah and the Whale Last Night On Earth | 2.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon | 4.0 |
| I've always been a huge fan of FFAF, but have never been able to give any of their releases anything above a 4. For now, that trend isn't going to change, but this may eventually receive a higher rating. Welcome Home Armageddon is by far FFAF's best album since their debut. It is extremely well-written and the production is spot on. Essentially this album is a return to their roots. except now the roots are stronger and better than ever. |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 3.5 |
| Architects Ruin | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 5.0 |
| There is something about this album that grabs you at the soul and refuses to let go. Through its agonizing yells and soothing melodies set to acoustic riffs, Empty Days and Sleepless Nights takes you on a journey that you want to go on over and over because it makes you realize that for every painful valley, there is a beautiful ocean waiting for you. |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| After hearing so much praise for this album, I really thought it would blow me away. However, in the end it is a very well-done piece of work to chill out to, but no masterpiece. |
| Defeater Dear Father | 4.0 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces | 2.5 |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands | 3.5 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 4.0 |
| You can't define it, you can't deny it... "Kaputt" is an incredible work of everything that music should be. |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive | 4.0 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 2.5 |
| Architects have stripped away their technical sound for something much more mainstream and riff-laden. Although the move isn't a failure by any means, "The Here and Now" will be viewed as a severe disappointment by the fans of any of their previous work. I think after years of touring with Bring Me The Horizon, Architects has finally found the formula to the heart of a fourteen year old scene girl. |
| Deadmau5 Random Album Title | 4.0 |
| The Nightwatchman One Man Revolution | 2.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line Special Edition CD+DVD | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Dog's Blood | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live | 4.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3.5 |
| It is undeniable that MBDTF contains amazing pieces of musicianship, but the album as a whole feels overblown and ridiculous, which I guess summarizes the man Kanye West. The lyrics in many of the songs are completely unnecessary and often just down right stupid, an aspect that ruins some of the songs (case in point would be "Runaway"). Although I am usually not one to be offended by lyrics, after 45 minutes it gets pretty exhausting listening to songs about pussies and fucking and bitches. I can't take this album seriously, although much of the music behind the lyrics makes me want to. |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail The Fire | 3.5 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor EPIC | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE Will Never Die | 1.0 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.5 |
| Badly Drawn Boy One Plus One is One | 3.5 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 3.0 |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um | 4.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 | 5.0 |
| Mt. Desolation Mt. Desolation | 2.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 | 5.0 |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell | 4.5 |
| Crash Kings Crash Kings | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend The Young And Defenseless | 4.0 |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio | 4.0 |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.5 |
| Vessels White Fields and Open Devices | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.0 |
| If this came out when I was in high school it would have been one of my favorite albums. It is by no means a bad album, it just isn't that interesting to me. Also, I can't wait for the 15 reviews that are going to be written over the next 24 hours. |
| Misery Signals Misery Signals | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.5 |
| Weezer Hurley | 2.5 |
| It's better than anything they have done in years, which means it is still very average. |
| AWOLNATION Back From Earth | 3.5 |
| There's really not a lot to this EP, but it's fun, loud, and for some reason makes you want to dry hump the closest thing to you. |
| The Word Alive Deceiver | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 3.0 |
| Goes down like water..... Really, really filtered clean water. |
| Paris Hilton Paris | 1.0 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 3.5 |
| Green Day International Superhits | 4.0 |
| Green Day Bullet In A Bible | 3.5 |
| Kidz Bop Kidz Kidz Bop, Volume 9 | 1.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 3.5 |
| Terrible Things Terrible Things | 2.5 |
| A couple tracks can be salvaged as worth your time, but as a whole Terrible Things' debut album disappoints when it is realized how much talent is in the band and how little of that talent is heard. |
| Muse HAARP | 4.5 |
| Jonezetta Popularity | 3.0 |
| Tubelord Feed Me a Box of Words | 4.0 |
| Everything Everything Man Alive | 4.5 |
| One of the best pop albums of the year, Man Alive is highlighted by superior song-writing and composition. No part of the band distinctly stands out, rather every song has an incredibly smooth feel and an atmosphere of completeness. |
| The Script The Script | 2.0 |
| Satan's Almighty Penis Into the Cunt of Chaos | 1.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Live from Orensanz | 4.5 |
| Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds | 1.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Hey Monday Beneath It All | 2.5 |
| Not near as good as Paramore used to be, but a small step above what Paramore has become. Wish You Were Here and I Don't Wanna Dance are extremely catchy and fun tracks, while the rest of the EP is very hit and miss. Also, the girl has to be the hottest frontwoman around, a title I always thought would belong to Ms. Williams. |
| Drake Thank Me Later | 2.0 |
| Infant Sorrow Get Him To The Greek | 3.5 |
| Hawk Nelson Letters To The President | 1.5 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.5 |
| Framing Hanley The Moment | 3.0 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.5 |
| The Boy Will Drown Fetish | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.0 |
| Mike Posner 31 Minutes To Takeoff | 2.0 |
| Cliche, uninspired, and sometimes a little catchy, 31 Minutes To Takeoff is sure to have success on the radio, but is not worth the time of anyone who is searching for quality music. |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks | 3.5 |
| Ivoryline Vessels | 3.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape Lift Your Burdens High For This is Where We Cross | 4.5 |
| JamisonParker Sleepwalker | 3.0 |
| The Dangerous Summer Live In Baltimore | 3.0 |
| An adequate compilation of live material, Live in Baltimore showcases some of the Dangerous Summer's best songs, but for whatever seems to lack the energy of their recorded tracks. |
| It Prevails The Inspiration | 3.5 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor It's Hard to Be a Diamond... | 1.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Let's Start a Riot | 1.0 |
| EAT ME RAW XxBurritoXX | 2.5 |
| How do you rate an album that is supposed to be a joke? Well the music is terrible but it's also pretty damn hilarious..... so i guess you rate it average. |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids Scary Kids Scaring Kids | 3.5 |
| Ivoryline There Came A Lion | 2.5 |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames | 3.5 |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk | 3.0 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Road to Revolution | 3.5 |
| Two years later, Road to Revolution presents a Linkin Park that used to be, which is a shadow of what they have become. Chester's vocals are right on and even their forgettable tracks from Minutes to Midnight are given an energy that is not found on the deadbeat studio album. |
| Digitalism Idealism | 3.5 |
| Eels Beautiful Freak | 3.5 |
| Third Eye Blind A Collection | 4.5 |
| 3OH!3 Streets of Gold | 1.0 |
| This is bad..... brokencyde bad. To be honest it pisses me off that people can make millions of dollars by making total shit like this. While "Want" had some memorable tracks that were a fun listen, "Streets of Gold" offers nothing but possibly the worst pop album ever made. |
| Emarosa Emarosa | 3.5 |
| In their self-titled release, Emarosa has taken everything that was good in Relativity and enhanced it to create a very solid album. Although the music itself is enjoyable to listen to, the lack of variation throughout the album is what keeps it from being anything fresh or original. |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 2.5 |
| I was going to write a real sound off for this, until I realized there was already 35 of them. |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 5.0 |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker | 4.5 |
| Not quite country, not quite alternative rock, but something beautiful and heartbreaking all at the same time. Adams' debut shows him at his best, both in the songwriting and the musicianship. |
| OneRepublic Dreaming Out Loud | 2.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
| Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.5 |
| Agraceful The Great I Am | 3.0 |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King | 3.5 |
| Miley Cyrus Can't Be Tamed | 1.0 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 3.5 |
| While by no means the best album they have produced, How I Got Over shows The Roots in top form doing what they do best: creating arguably the best hip-hop around. |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 4.0 |
| Kelly Clarkson Thankful | 2.5 |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 4.0 |
| Could be one of the best metalcore albums of the year. "The Powerless Rise" is undoubtedly AILD at their best and a notch better than everything else they have released. |
| Sigur Ros Von | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Garden State | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Across the Universe | 2.5 |
| Fear Before Art Damage | 3.5 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 5.0 |
| One of the most passionate and beautiful albums ever to stretch its arms across the Atlantic. |
| A Hope For Home Realis | 4.0 |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! | 2.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist Day (EP) | 3.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Monuments | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite | 4.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.5 |
| Vocally, Monae is one of the best artists in pop music today, but what sets her apart from everything else in contemporary pop music is her infusion of so many different styles, as well as the superlative amount of innovation seen throughout the album. The ArchAndroid is a little too scatter-shot to be a classic, but it exemplifies her ability to hopefully make one in the future. Monae is truly what an artist should be, one who CREATES instead of mimics. |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Our Last Night We Will All Evolve | 3.0 |
| Our Last Night The Ghosts Among Us | 2.5 |
| Jakob Dylan Seeing Things | 3.0 |
| Anullaby Anullaby EP | 2.0 |
| Blay creates songs on his first EP that more or less just sound like a more stylized version of Daughtry... which is definitely not worthy of any praise. |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 4.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights Skeletons | 2.0 |
| Blessthefall His Last Walk | 3.0 |
| John Nolan Live At Southpaw | 3.5 |
| Whatever Nolan seems to lose in his first solo release he seems to make up for in his live music. Stripped down acoustically without all the extra synth and electronic drumbeats his original music sounds much better. The addition of a Straylight Run song in the set also makes this a very worthwhile listen. |
| Apocalyptica Apocalyptica | 4.0 |
| Ashlee Simpson Autobiography | 1.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 2.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Live at Wembley Stadium | 4.5 |
| Ashley Parker Angel Soundtrack to Your Life | 2.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 4.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 3.5 |
| It's noisy, crazy, sporadic, and a refreshing take on electronic-pop music. While Treats contains some forgettable tracks, it is a damn fun listen as a whole. |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.0 |
| Jars Of Clay Jars Of Clay | 3.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Greatest Hitz | 1.5 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 5.0 |
| An acoustic album for the ages. Matsson is the Swedish Dylan of this generation..... except a better songwriter. WHAT???? Ya i said that. |
| Dr. Acula The Social Event of the Century | 2.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream | 2.0 |
| October Fall A Season in Hell | 2.5 |
| J Dilla Jay Stay Paid | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge | 4.0 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Burning | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.5 |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Holiday | 3.5 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 4.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 2.0 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 3.0 |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday | 4.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.5 |
| Beautiful, majestic, and powerful. This is what post-rock is meant to sound like. I love this album. |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps | 4.5 |
| John Coltrane My Favorite Things | 4.5 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting We Must Become the Change We Want to See | 5.0 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 3.5 |
| Hypernova Through The Chaos | 2.5 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 1.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.5 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 3.5 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 3.0 |
| Jet Get Born | 2.5 |
| B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray | 4.0 |
| A definite surprise, could end up being one of the best hip-hop albums of the year. Despite the presence of a couple filler tracks, the album as a whole is stellar with a few songs that will no doubt by sweeping across the radio waves for months to come. |
| A Wilhelm Scream Benefits of Thinking Out Loud | 3.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print | 4.0 |
| Sky Eats Airplane The Sound of Symmetry | 3.5 |
| While not a masterpiece by any means, The Sound of Symmetry offers a sample of what is to come with SEA's new vocalist, and in fact it is an improvement from anything they have done before. The clean vocals are much improved with Zimmerman leading the gang and the instrumentals are as solid as ever. The full-length album should be one to watch out for. |
| Longing For Tomorrow Idee:Mensch | 4.5 |
| I have no idea what they are saying.... All I know is that they can fucking play music and the vocals are some of the best you will ever find in the post-hardcore scene. |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.5 |
| Secret And Whisper Great White Whale | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 2.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.5 |
| One of the best progressive rock/metal albums I have ever heard. While it is evident that Abasi is the main focus of the band, every song is put together cohesively so that his amazing guitar work flows well with everything else. |
| Secret And Whisper Teenage Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dog We All Belong | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dog Fate | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.0 |
| In the midst of Lupe's debut album are gems which include "Kick, Push", "I Gotcha", "Instrumental", and "Daydreamin'". The lyrics are thoughtful and provocative and are put together with fantastic flow. What keeps F&L from being a perfect hip-hop album is the presence of a few filler tracks |
| Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line | 4.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) It's Never Been Like That | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.5 |
| The Classic Crime Vagabonds | 2.0 |
| Dropkick Murphys The Warrior's Code | 3.0 |
| Jamie Cullum Twentysomething | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 4.0 |
| Felt (USA-MN) Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 5.0 |
| This is the ultimate DEP album. In "Option Paralysis" they are able to create a masterpiece that contains endless elements of intrigue. What makes this album just a step better than "Miss Machine" or "Calculating Infinity" is that it is put together much more cohesively. Instead of a set of stand-out individual tracks, "Option Paralysis" is a constant stream of incredible musicianship and affective vocals that all of us have come to expect. It is vintage DEP with a mix of new hooks and curveballs and might just end up being the album of the year. |
| Ryan Adams Rock 'n' Roll | 3.0 |
| Ryan Adams Easy Tiger | 3.5 |
| AFI The Art of Drowning | 3.5 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 3.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 3.5 |
| Bad Rabbits Stick Up Kids | 4.0 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 2.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.0 |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake | 4.0 |
| Lil Wayne Rebirth | 1.0 |
| He Is Legend 91025 | 4.0 |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight | 4.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves Love | 3.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.5 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.5 |
| Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here | 2.0 |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics | 3.0 |
| Never Shout Never What Is Love? | 1.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 3.5 |
| The Swell Season Strict Joy | 4.0 |
| 12 Stones Potter's Field | 2.0 |
| Spoken Spoken | 3.0 |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle | 4.0 |
| Ben Harper There Will Be A Light | 3.5 |
| Ben Harper Diamonds on the Inside | 4.0 |
| Lostprophets Start Something | 2.5 |
| Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress | 2.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 3.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 4.5 |
| People In Planes As Far As the Eye Can See | 3.5 |
| Rooftops A Forest Of Polarity | 4.0 |
| Midlake Bamnan and Slivercork | 3.5 |
| Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.5 |
| Gym Class Heroes As Cruel As School Children | 3.0 |
| Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles | 4.0 |
| Static Colours Sun Swells | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.5 |
| The Cars Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| RJD2 The Horror | 3.5 |
| Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend | 1.5 |
| Alesana The Emptiness | 1.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush | 4.5 |
| Fun, light, and energetic, "A Livingroom Hush" offers an exceedingly enjoyable listen to anyone who simply just enjoys good music. This album offers much more jazz than their more recent efforts, which are centered more around prog rock, but whether one thinks this is a good or bad element it really does not matter because this album is so technically sound. |
| Jaga Jazzist The Stix | 4.0 |
| Spoon Transference | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 3.5 |
| Scott Stapp The Great Divide | 1.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.5 |
| Number One Gun Celebrate Mistakes | 2.0 |
| The Cool Kids The Bake Sale | 3.0 |
| Haste the Day Dreamer | 3.0 |
| Haste the Day Burning Bridges | 4.0 |
| RJD2 The Third Hand | 3.5 |
| RJD2 Since We Last Spoke | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
| Pinback Blue Screen Life | 4.5 |
| Anthony Green Avalon | 2.5 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.0 |
| Fergie The Dutchess | 1.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| Sean Kingston Sean Kingston | 1.0 |
| I Killed the Prom Queen When Goodbye Means Forever | 1.5 |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased | 3.0 |
| i've never given these guys a listen until recently and i have to say "Music For The Recently Deceased" is a pretty good album. however, what i will never understand is how so many people gave this a 4 or dare i even say..... a 5??? are you kidding me?? this is pretty good but if you are going to say it is perfect you have to be out of your mind. yes it is good, but it so repetitive that you only really have to listen to the first few songs to get the gist of the entire album. |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance | 3.5 |
| John Nolan Height | 2.5 |
| Jay-Z Kingdom Come | 2.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Black Star Black Star | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value II | 1.5 |
| Cobra Starship Hot Mess | 2.5 |
| Midtown Forget What You Know | 3.0 |
| Stars Heart | 3.5 |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire | 4.0 |
| Stars In Our Bedroom After The War | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.0 |
| Danger 09/14 2007 | 4.5 |
| Shakira Laundry Service | 2.5 |
| Shakira She Wolf | 1.5 |
| Damien Rice O | 4.0 |
| Something Corporate Ready...Break | 3.0 |
| Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me | 3.0 |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory | 3.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Creed Weathered | 3.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 3.0 |
| 3 Doors Down Seventeen Days | 2.0 |
| 3 Doors Down Away from the Sun | 3.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are | 3.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.5 |
| Pilot Speed Into The West | 4.0 |
| Following the blueprint of "pleasant rock" established by Coldplay and Snow Patrol, Pilot Speed offers a wonderfully constructed album for their first effort. While "Into The West" does not push any boundaries and may try too hard not to offend anyone with opinion, it is an easy listen and accessible to a variety of listeners. "Barely Listening" is the catchiest single on the album, while "Alright" is an incredibly moving song with a build-up that may be cliche, but is still done very well. |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 4.5 |
| Wale Attention Deficit | 4.0 |
| Wale Mixtape About Nothing | 4.5 |
| 50 Cent The Massacre | 1.0 |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value | 3.0 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter II | 3.5 |
| Shwayze Shwayze | 3.5 |
| "Babay will you be my corona and lime".... such a good song. The rest of the tracks are pretty great too. Nothing too original, but really fun music. |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 4.5 |
| One of the top 5 bands of the 90s. This compilation sums up the greatness of At the Drive-In and is a great listen for anyone who has never given them a chance. |
| Dead By Sunrise Out of Ashes | 2.5 |
| This album just never reaches the heights Chester apparently thinks his attempt of an "epic" rock album can achieve. While nothing is necessarily bad, there is also nothing that is really worth remembering. This is a band completely created around Chester, and his vocals we have all been hearing for the last decade can only carry this album to a level of mediocrity. It is definitely better than what LP has become though. |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 4.5 |
| Norah Jones Come Away with Me | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 3.0 |
| Weezer Raditude | 2.0 |
| Noah and the Whale The First Days of Spring | 4.5 |
| Beautiful. Haunting. Tranquil. Inspiring. These are just a few of the words that describe "The First Days of Spring". Turning a complete 180 from their first album, Noah and the Whale bring us to a place far removed from the peppy and light feel of "Peaceful the World" to a place much more in touch with the raw emotion that comes with heartbreak, but never in a way that is overbearing. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 4.5 |
| Chromeo Fancy Footwork | 4.0 |
| While nothing on "Fancy Footwork" will blow you away musically, it is infectiously entertaining and does what it is meant to do. "Bonafied Lovin" is hysterical and "Momma's Boy" is definitely a stand-out single. |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes | 3.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| I never tried out Converge until this week and I am so glad I did. This album does nothing but kick ass and blows my mind with its technical sound and raw aggression. "Homewrecker" is a killer track and the defining single of the album. |
| Jonas Brothers A Little Bit Longer | 1.0 |
| Jonas Brothers Jonas Brothers | 1.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.0 |
| without a doubt, one of the most pretentious and self-pleasuring albums ever written. this is the kind of shit you do by yourself with the door locked. |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.5 |
| Tiny Vipers Life on Earth | 3.5 |
| Sherwood QU | 2.5 |
| With the release of "A Different Light", it really seemed as if Sherwood was on their way to being one of the biggest acts in pop-rock. Now, with "QU" it seems that they have fallen back on making mediocre pop music that consists of nothing with real substance. While they are able to retain an ample amount of "catchiness" throughout the album, the songs are often unforgivably boring and seem to lack any amount of effort. A disappointment for anyone who has been a fan of Sherwood's first two releases. |
| Kid Cudi A Kid Named Cudi | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 4.0 |
| "Desperate Living" is very entertaining and showcases HORSE at their best. What slows down the album at points is a lack of focus that sends it off in different directions. It's a little bit of a grower, but overall an album that everyone should give time. |
| Our Lady Peace Gravity | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.5 |
| The Swell Season The Swell Season | 4.5 |
| Atmosphere Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs | 4.5 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.0 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.0 |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 2.0 |
| Eric Clapton Unplugged | 4.5 |
| Eric Clapton The Cream of Clapton (US) | 3.5 |
| The sexual title of this album fits perfectly for all the baby-making music found inside. Although quite a few of these songs aren't really my cup of tea, this album is a great summary of Clapton's music and a fun listen from time to time. It is indisputable that Clapton has some damn fine cream. |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.0 |
| New Junk Aesthetic is like having your balls grabbed by the grip of Zeus and it never lets you escape. This is dirrrrrty southern rock at its finest and shows that ETID has absolutely no intention of ever slowing up. This is party music for rednecks so shotgun a PABST and let your head bang! |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Brand New continues to evolve and evolve and evolve (they have literally done it three times now). Seeing their change of pace from their last two albums I knew that "Daisy" would be something totally different and Jesse and the boys did not disappoint me. Every song is so well-crafted and I really can not get enough of it. "You Stole" and "Sink" have to be my two stand-outs right now. Although I still think TDAG is Brand New's classic to date, "Daisy" has solidified Brand New as one of the best bands of our time because they continue to make excellent albums without any letdown. |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 3.0 |
| After one listen I have to say that Paramore is still not making music nearly as good as "All We Know Is Falling". Hayley's voice sounds amazing but most of the songs end up just sounding average. I'm not expecting Paramore to necessarily evolve their sound, but just make something that is on par with their first release. This is not a bad album by any means, and I do think it is better than "Riot!", but I am still disappointed. |
| Coheed and Cambria Neverender | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 3.5 |
| I understand where people are coming from in not giving this an overly high rating. However, once you see this band live it gives you a completely different perception of how talented they really are. Musically they are extremely tight in performance and the vocals are just plain amazing. I still think this album falters in some areas and drags a little bit, but if they were to record a live dvd of it I think everyone would have a new-found appreciation for "Son of the Morning". |
| Jaguar Love Take Me to the Sea | 1.5 |
| Emmure Felony | 1.0 |
| Pussycat Dolls PCD | 1.0 |
| Pussycat Dolls Doll Domination | 1.0 |
| Miley Cyrus The Time of Our Lives | 1.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.0 |
| Hoobastank The Reason | 2.0 |
| Hoobastank Hoobastank | 3.0 |
| The Frames Burn The Maps | 4.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 2.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 2.5 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 3.5 |
| Dave Matthews Band Everyday | 3.0 |
| Dave Matthews Band Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 4.0 |
| The Hush Sound Like Vines | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
| Relient K Mmhmm | 3.5 |
| Boys Like Girls Love Drunk | 1.5 |
| Saosin In Search Of Solid Ground | 2.0 |
| so here's the thing.... i didn't even think saosin was that great when i first heard the much-heralded debut a few years back. however, after awhile it really grew on me and i found myself singing along in my car at the top of my lungs to songs way out of my vocal range, and hopefully out the range of most guys out there. YOUR NOTTTTTT ALONNNNNNE THERE IS MORE TO THIS I KNOWWWWWW!!! oh.... oh so inspirational. but this???? this crap????? no..... this will not grow on me. i refuse to let this grow on me. i will not let it! please don't let me end up singing about fireflies and changing and anything else regrettably mentioned on this sorry excuse for an album. thanks for the three year wait say-it-ain't-so-sin. |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 4.5 |
| The All-American Rejects When the World Comes Down | 1.5 |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along | 2.5 |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects | 3.0 |
| this album is actually pretty decent. "swing, swing" was one of my favorite songs like.... sophmore year of high school i guess. it seems to me that there are quite a few pop punk bands like AAR that make a decent debut album and then instead of going in the "better" direction by maturing their sound, they only get progressively worse as they try hard to make radio-friendly music for teenage girls. other examples are fall out boy, the academy is..., and this providence. |
| The Academy Is... Santi | 2.5 |
| Cobra Starship ¡Viva La Cobra! | 2.0 |
| Cobra Starship While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Stree | 2.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) | 1.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business | 1.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 2.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 3.5 |
| The Used Artwork | 4.5 |
| with three albums under their belt, the used have created their masterpiece with "artwork". this album has a much more mature sound than anything they have created before and the end result is something uniquely impressive. screamo, emo, alternative, pop, whatever you want to call the used, they undeniably are a talented band and they really flex their muscles on "artwork". soooooo good. |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Moby Play | 4.5 |
| Idiot Pilot Heart Is Long | 4.0 |
| "Mercury" is one of IP's best songs. "Last Chance" sounds beautiful acoustically as well. |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course | 3.5 |
| The Bravery The Bravery | 2.0 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 2.5 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 1.5 |
| U2 The Best Of 1990-2000 | 4.0 |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind | 3.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 2.5 |
| INXS Switch | 1.5 |
| The Police Every Breath You Take: The Classics | 4.0 |
| Sting Brand New Day | 3.5 |
| Paul Simon Graceland | 4.5 |
| Forgive Durden Razia's Shadow: A Musical | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 3.5 |
| Just Surrender We're in Like Sin | 2.0 |
| Halifax The Inevitability of a Strange World | 3.0 |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 2.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 3.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.5 |
| Phantom Planet The Guest | 2.5 |
| Mat Kearney Nothing Left to Lose | 3.5 |
| Keane Hopes & Fears | 3.5 |
| Nirvana With the Lights Out | 4.5 |
| Blue Scholars Bayani | 3.0 |
| Blue Scholars Blue Scholars | 4.0 |
| Common Universal Mind Control | 1.0 |
| blink-182 Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III | 3.0 |
| Sugarcult Lights Out | 2.5 |
| Sugarcult Palm Trees And Power Lines | 3.5 |
| Noah and the Whale Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down | 4.0 |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit | 4.0 |
| Something Corporate North | 4.0 |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town | 4.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III | 3.0 |
| The Airborne Toxic Event The Airborne Toxic Event | 2.5 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.5 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 2.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 5.0 |
| i can't get enough of this album. the musicianship of this band is incredible and every song has something completely different to offer. "kezia" is CLASSIC. |
| The Weepies Hideaway | 4.0 |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.5 |
| by far their best. this album has an energy and drive that i feel they have lost on their last couple releases. "cross out the eyes" is an awesome song.... and the rest of the songs are stellar too. |
| Russian Circles Enter | 4.5 |
| i just listened to this for the first time and i am really liking it. every song is so well-crafted and i love how they go from almost utter silence to an explosion of sound in a matter of seconds. |
| The Wedding Polarity | 3.0 |
| The Sword Age of Winters | 4.0 |
| Quietdrive When All That's Left Is You | 2.5 |
| The Music Welcome To The North | 4.0 |
| Matchbook Romance Stories and Alibis | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 2.0 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Employment | 3.0 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob | 2.5 |
| Cinematic Sunrise A Coloring Story Book And A Long-Playing | 3.5 |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct | 4.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 3.5 |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 4.0 |
| Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 4.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 4.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 2.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 3.0 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 2.5 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 4.0 |
| The Format Interventions and Lullabies | 4.0 |
| Cake Comfort Eagle | 4.0 |
| Xavier Rudd Solace | 4.0 |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Agony and Irony | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 2.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.5 |
| A Static Lullaby Rattlesnake! | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 1.5 |
| ok..... i can't deny that the instruments are impressive, but seriously.... how can you listen to this for more than five minutes? it's the same ol same ol same ol same ol over and over and over and over again. even though i can be impressed with this band for a couple minutes i seriously hate their music so much..... so so much. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Plagiarism | 2.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| the talent of this band can not be debated, but honestly i was exhausted after listening to this entire album. i appreciate "colors" as a work of art and that's about it. |
| Stars of Track and Field Centuries Before Love and War | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| Amos Lee Supply And Demand | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.0 |
| A Change Of Pace An Offer You Can't Refuse | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Oasis Dig Out Your Soul | 4.0 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.5 |
| Justin Timberlake Justified | 2.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Black and Blue | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Never Gone | 3.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 1.5 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 2.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 3.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) | 2.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 3.0 |
| in my opinion nirvana is what made grunge music popular outside of just the seattle area. pearl jam is good at what they do but they tend to be overrated. |
| Smash Mouth Astro Lounge | 2.0 |
| Newsboys Shine: The Hits | 2.5 |
| Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls | 3.0 |
| William Control Hate Culture | 1.0 |
| He Is Legend It Hates You | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 2.5 |
| i first got into these guys a few years ago when i got to college cuz a couple buddies in my dorm played em all the time. then they came to play on campus and i have to say it was probably the most boring live show i have ever seen and really made me lose interest in the band.... too bad. |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso | 1.5 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 4.0 |
| Simple Plan Simple Plan | 1.0 |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 1.0 |
| Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls | 2.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 1.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 2.5 |
| one of the most overrated bands to ever try to "punish" us with their "brutal" rock. their earlier work is by far better than their previous two albums that came out the last couple years but still.... that ain't saying too much. |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Lonely Road | 1.0 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Alive at Red Rocks | 5.0 |
| The Used Lies for the Liars | 3.5 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 3.5 |
| The Used The Used | 4.0 |
| Aiden Knives | 1.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 4.0 |
| Saosin The Grey | 3.5 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 4.0 |
| Four Year Strong Explains It All | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.0 |
| Matt Costa Unfamiliar Faces | 3.0 |
| Matt Costa Songs We Sing | 4.5 |
| Acceptance Phantoms | 4.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Peregrine | 3.5 |
| The album that really marked the transition of The Appleseed Cast from indie to progressive rock. A very well-done album, but an album that portrays a band searching for an identity. |
| The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations | 4.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha | 4.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 3.0 |
| Head Automatica Decadence | 3.5 |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Everything's Watched, Everyone's Watchin | 2.0 |
| Secondhand Serenade Awake | 3.0 |
| Justice † | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.5 |
| Xavier Rudd Food In The Belly | 4.5 |
| Reggie and The Full Effect Last Stop: Crappy Town | 3.0 |
| We The Kings We The Kings | 3.0 |
| Sparta Threes | 3.0 |
| Sparta Wiretap Scars | 4.0 |
| Sparta Porcelain | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 4.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend Suck Out the Poison | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 4.5 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 3.0 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 3.5 |
| Set Your Goals This Will Be the Death of Us | 3.0 |
| The Fratellis Costello Music | 3.0 |
| Cage The Elephant Cage the Elephant | 3.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 3.5 |
| Teddybears Soft Machine | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 4.0 |
| this band gets better and better with each album and this one has very few things wrong with it. their sound is much more mature and complete now. "closer" is an awesome song, definitely the best on the album. i loved "use somebody" but now it is so overplayed everywhere that i can barely even listen to it. |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 4.0 |
| Good Charlotte Good Morning Revival | 1.5 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 2.5 |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless | 3.0 |
| New Found Glory Catalyst | 2.5 |
| New Found Glory Sticks and Stones | 2.5 |
| one of the first shows i ever went to was these guys and good charlotte... and i probably thought it was really good. |
| Bowling for Soup Drunk Enough To Dance | 2.0 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Twista Adrenaline Rush | 3.0 |
| RJD2 Deadringer | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Float | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 4.0 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 3.0 |
| Underoath Survive Kaleidoscope | 4.5 |
| Emery While Broken Hearts Prevail | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul | 4.0 |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous Hot N' Heavy | 2.5 |
| upon further listening, i can only listen to the first four songs and can't stand the rest. |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous In Vogue | 2.5 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 1.5 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 1.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.5 |
| Carolina Liar Coming to Terms | 3.0 |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 2.5 |
| i liked this way more before the notorious crabcore video and seeing a couple live videos of them..... still a lot of this album is pretty catchy and fun. |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds | 3.0 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 3.5 |
| The Weepies Say I Am You | 4.0 |
| The Almost Southern Weather | 3.0 |
| The Darkness Permission to Land | 4.0 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 3.5 |
| The Vines Melodia | 3.0 |
| The Vines Vision Valley | 3.0 |
| The Vines Highly Evolved | 3.5 |
| The Vines Winning Days | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.5 |
| A fantastic album that showcases the talent of DEP with tremendous technical skill. Instead of making 40 minutes of utter chaos, DEP create songs on "Miss Machine" that have depth with their lyrics as well as their musicianship. While most the album is a huge adrenaline rush, some of it also shows DEP's ability to slow it down and create a lot out of a little. |
| This Providence This Providence | 2.5 |
| This Providence Our Worlds Divorce | 3.5 |
| Straylight Run Prepare To Be Wrong | 3.0 |
| Straylight Run Un Mas Dos | 1.5 |
| Straylight Run Straylight Run | 4.5 |
| such a good album.... if only the stuff they made after it sounded more like this. |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 2.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 2.5 |
| i give this an "average" because this album is better than a lot of the emo crap that came out around the same time. "ohio is for lovers", no matter how terrible the lyrics, is an incredibly catchy song and some others have their moments of goodness. but for the most part this is a completely forgettable band. |
| Story of the Year The Black Swan | 3.0 |
| Story of the Year Page Avenue | 3.5 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane | 3.0 |
| Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now | 3.5 |
| Shiny Toy Guns We Are Pilots | 3.5 |
| Shiny Toy Guns Season of Poison | 2.0 |
| Sherwood Sing, But Keep Going | 3.5 |
| Sherwood A Different Light | 4.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 3.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 3.5 |
| Ray LaMontagne Gossip In The Grain | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room | 2.5 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 3.5 |
| Aiden Nightmare Anatomy | 1.5 |
| Greeley Estates Go West Young Man, Let The Evil Go East | 3.0 |
| The Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion Picture | 4.5 |
| The Fold Secrets Keep You Sick | 3.5 |
| Fiction Family Fiction Family | 4.0 |
| not sure and betrayal are amazing songs. i don't think there are many albums that have better acoustic guitar. |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 4.0 |
| Dispatch Bang Bang | 4.5 |
| The Bled Silent Treatment | 3.5 |
| The Bled Found in the Flood | 3.0 |
| The Bled Pass the Flask | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 2.5 |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 2.5 |
| Metro Station Metro Station | 1.0 |
| 3OH!3 Want | 3.0 |
| Breathe Carolina It's Classy Not Classic | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 2.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.5 |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer | 3.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves I-Empire | 2.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 3.5 |
| The Color Fred Bend To Break | 2.0 |
| John Mayer Trio Try! | 4.5 |
| John Mayer Heavier Things | 2.5 |
| John Mayer Continuum | 3.5 |
| Kevin Rudolf In The City | 2.5 |
| it's not that bad..... a couple of the songs are pretty tight |
| Mutemath Mutemath | 4.0 |
| N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds | 3.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 2.5 |
| paramore's first album was so good, not one song was a miss. but this album for the most part just sounds like them trying hard to get on the radio, pretty disappointing. |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 4.5 |
| Pharrell Williams In My Mind | 3.0 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 3.0 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 3.0 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 3.0 |
| Pinback Summer in Abaddon | 4.5 |
| Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.1 | 3.0 |
| Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.II | 4.0 |
| Ratatat LP3 | 2.5 |
| Ratatat Ratatat | 4.0 |
| Ratatat Classics | 3.5 |
| Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand | 4.5 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 4.5 |
| Dashboard Confessional Dusk and Summer | 2.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional The Swiss Army Romance | 3.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar | 3.0 |
| Secret Machines Secret Machines | 2.5 |
| Secret Machines Now Here is Nowhere | 3.5 |
| J Dilla Dillanthology | 4.5 |
| Common Be | 4.0 |
| Common Finding Forever | 3.0 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart | 4.5 |
| The Roots The Tipping Point | 3.5 |
| The Roots Game Theory | 4.5 |
| The Roots Rising Down | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 3.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 3.0 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Halos Scarecrow EP | 4.0 |
| Long-View Mercury | 3.5 |
| Hellogoodbye Mush Slowly and Guac | 4.0 |
| Hellogoodbye Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! | 2.5 |
| The Honorary Title Anything Else But The Truth | 3.5 |
| The Honorary Title Scream And Light Up the Sky | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North | 4.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs | 2.5 |
| Inhale Exhale I Swear... | 3.0 |
| Leathermouth XO | 2.0 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 2.5 |
| i don't get what the big deal is with this band. musically they aren't that great and anthony green's voice is wayyyyyy overrated. deal with it. |
| The Academy Is... Fast Times at Barrington High | 2.0 |
| The Academy Is... Almost Here | 4.0 |
| Brightwood The Love Antidote | 4.5 |
| Brightwood Wake | 3.5 |
| Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| The Dangerous Summer Reach for the Sun | 4.0 |
| Neko Case Middle Cyclone | 3.5 |
| The Subways All or Nothing | 4.0 |
| The Subways Young For Eternity | 3.5 |
| Pompeii Assembly | 4.0 |
| Pompeii Nothing Happens for a Reason | 4.0 |
| Showbread No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical | 3.5 |
| Showbread Anorexia Nervosa | 4.0 |
| Common Market Common Market | 4.0 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax | 2.0 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 3.0 |
| some of these songs are really good. my favorites are "a letter for janelle" and "the undertaker's....." but.... just like their first album, chiodos fails to make a solid and complete set of songs. |
| Emarosa This Is Your Way Out | 4.0 |
| I think jonny craig owes everyone in emarsoa a huge apology for making the band so much worse than it used to be. This album is awesome and so much more intricate and technical than "relativity". It's really too bad that the original band couldn't have stayed together to create more great music. "Utah" is definitely a can't miss song. |
| Emarosa Relativity | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm Remixed | 2.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.0 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 4.0 |
| Bloc Party Intimacy | 3.5 |
| The Classic Crime Seattle Sessions | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime Albatross | 3.5 |
| The Classic Crime The Silver Cord | 3.0 |
| People In Planes Beyond the Horizon | 3.5 |
| This band has the talent to write incredible songs, "Pretty Buildings" on this album is one of my all-time favorite songs. |
| Nickel Creek This Side | 4.0 |
| Nickel Creek Why Should the Fire Die? | 4.0 |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 3.5 |
| Band of Horses Cease to Begin | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal | 2.5 |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Cities | 3.5 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 3.0 |
| Mae The Everglow | 4.0 |
| Copeland In Motion | 4.0 |
| Copeland Eat, Sleep, Repeat | 4.5 |
| this is some of the easiest-listening rock music around. each song plays its part to complete an album that is extremely well-rounded with hardly any weak spots. "control freak" is an amazing song that everyone should listen to at least once in their life. |
| Copeland You Are My Sunshine | 4.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity | 3.5 |
| LoveHateHero White Lies | 3.5 |
| Vendetta Red Between the Never and the Now | 4.5 |
| Vendetta Red Sisters of the Red Death | 5.0 |
| The Spill Canvas Sunsets and Car Crashes | 4.0 |
| The Spill Canvas One Fell Swoop | 3.0 |
| The Spill Canvas No Really, I'm Fine | 2.5 |
| The Forecast In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 4.0 |
| This album is AWESOME. It is the most melodic music Norma Jean has written yet and offers a much more complete sound than their previous work. |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 2.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.0 |
| Cute Is What We Aim For Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch | 2.5 |
| Cute Is What We Aim For Rotation | 1.5 |
| The Maine Can't Stop, Won't Stop | 1.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Open Door | 4.0 |
| What I like about this ep is that it has a completely different feel than most Death Cab material. I think it is a nice little change for a few songs. |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw | 3.5 |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open | 4.0 |
| Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns | 3.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March | 4.0 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 3.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 1.5 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 5.0 |
| It's amazing how much this album has grown on me over the past two years. The quality of the musicianship is fantastic and Anthony Green's vocals are mesmerizing. The twists and turns through each track keep you on the edge of your seat because frankly, you can never tell what is coming next. What further adds to the mystique of TSOAF is that they almost never tour, which leaves you only with this classic album to listen to and imagine how good it would be to witness every song live. |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 4.0 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 3.5 |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 4.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 5.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.5 |
| Even though this album isn't musically the best, the songs on it made me want to get a guitar and shred up my vocal chords. It will always be awesome. |
| Two Tongues Two Tongues | 3.5 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.5 |
| Good Old War Only Way To Be Alone | 4.0 |
| Gavin Castleton Home | 2.5 |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... | 4.0 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 4.5 |
| Idiot Pilot Strange We Should Meet Here | 4.5 |
| Idiot Pilot Wolves | 4.0 |
| I See Stars 3D | 3.5 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 3.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 2.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.5 |
| DJ Shadow The Outsider | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 3.5 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 4.5 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 2.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 5.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart | 4.0 |
| A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing | 3.0 |
| A Skylit Drive Adelphia | 2.5 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 4.5 |
| Emery The Question | 5.0 |
| i hadn't listened to this album for a while but i remembered after one listen that every song is awesome. |
| Emery I'm Only A Man | 2.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 4.5 |
| upon further listening.... this album rocks. emery's second best album, not as good as "the question" but better than "the week's end". |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| apart from one or two average songs, this album is a masterpiece. |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 4.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 5.0 |
| i can't help but give this a 5, no matter what material TBS will write in the future, this is the album that will forever define them. |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 2.5 |
| This is Taking Back Sunday at rock bottom, which is still an average album with highlights that save it from being a travesty ("everything must go" is one of the best songs they have ever written). Although there are a couple good songs, as a whole New Again is generic to say the least, and honestly sounds like it could not have taken longer than a couple weeks to write. |
| Muse Absolution | 4.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 5.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.5 |
| this is close to being a 5 for me, but a couple songs fall a little short. |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 3.5 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 4.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.5 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.5 |
