| Eminem The Eminem Show | 5.0 |
| Gorillaz The Fall | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| N.E.R.D. Nothing | 2.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Apollo Kids | 4.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.0 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 5.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| Wavves King of the Beach | 2.5 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 2.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 2.0 |
| jj jj n° 3 | 2.0 |
| Jonsi Go | 3.5 |
| The Rocket Summer Of Men and Angels | 1.5 |
| Goldfrapp Head First | 3.0 |
| Usher Raymond v. Raymond | 3.0 |
| RJD2 The Colossus | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 2.5 |
| Alkaline Trio This Addiction | 2.5 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 3.0 |
| Dr. Dog Shame, Shame | 3.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Sky Eats Airplane The Sound of Symmetry | 2.5 |
| Wait What the notorious xx | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 5.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances | 4.5 |
| Wale Attention Deficit | 3.5 |
| Clipse Til the Casket Drops | 4.0 |
| Gucci Mane The State vs. Radric Davis | 4.0 |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | 3.5 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 5.0 |
| Lil Wayne Rebirth | 2.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 4.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| Young Money We Are Young Money | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 3.0 |
| Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young | 3.0 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 4.0 |
| I probably would've given it a 3 or a 3.5 if it wasn't for that first song... no one loves me & neither do i. I can't get over the breakdown in that song... the entire song is honestly one of the best songs i've ever heard. |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 4.0 |
| I think I heard some Of Montreal in there? and some Lil Mama? Avril Lavigne?! I could hand this man a Michael Bolton CD, a Wiggles tape cassette, and some of those obnoxious cultural music albums from coffee shops and he could make an A+ album. |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 2.0 |
| Everyone - I'mma let you finish, but Eminem had the best whiney rap album of all time. OF ALL TIME. oh - right - this album is lame. if you like good music. |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 4.5 |
| I didn't see it coming - but this album is amazing. Catacomb Kids and None Shall Pass are some must-listens. |
| MF DOOM Born Like This | 4.0 |
| Not a very well put-together or organized album, but hey, what am I reviewing here, a Black Eyed Peas album? this is a f***ing DOOM album, and I got what I came for. He is the undisputed villain of rap. |
| Eminem Relapse | 2.5 |
| Well, it's Shady, so there were obviously things about this album I liked. Not a very good album overall, though. I'm glad he was able to shotgun himself back into the industry, though. My hopes are that as he gets older, Marshall will stray from the goofy aesthetic and return to his grumpy roots. |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| One of the most angry, chilling rap albums of all time, the Marshall Mathers LP puts all other rap (excluding everyone associated with him - Snoop, Dre, etc.) to bitter shame. |
| Amanda Blank I Love You | 2.0 |
| It's just so... empty. I can't believe anyone would willingly make this album. And to think I thought she was just such an enjoyable garnish on Spank Rock's songs. |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset | 4.0 |
| Yeah so this album was just screaming to explode into sing the sorrow. |
| AFI The Art of Drowning | 4.5 |
| Without using the word "raw" for the millionth time, this album is... great? Yeah. the most accepted "different" punk rock album to come out at the time. |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 4.5 |
| Such amazing hodgepodge of genres - this album is made to seem like a classic by many and garbage by many others. I'd have to side with the more pessimistic view - while taking a journey from their punk roots to a more emotional, aesthetic realm of rock music, they kept me as a diehard fan. |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 3.0 |
| A disappointment to many, this album seemed to be more of an experiment than it was the real, new direction of the band. |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 5.0 |
| YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS. ahem. that is all. (I guess this wasn't a review...) |
| Q and Not U No Kill No Beep Beep | 4.5 |
| This band was so incredibly driven by their drums that I used to completely change my speaker config whenever I played them. Another amazing post-gem. |
| Rites of Spring End on End | 4.5 |
| These dudes knew how to make a finely crafted, raw, emotional audial piece of artwork, I'm tellin ya. |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk | 5.0 |
| This album was a totally random post-hardcore gem. I never saw it coming, and then I loved it forever. |
| Anthony Green Avalon | 4.0 |
| You gotta really love A Green's voice to get into this - but all the same, it's a beautiful album. It's eerie, too - I went to Avalon many times as a child, and get a familiar chill when listening to the new songs on the album. I need to go back there. |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 3.5 |
| This isn't an immaculate album by any means, but it certainly kicked them off into the big boy's deep end of post-hardcore. Ya gotta show some respect for the Juturna. |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 4.0 |
| it's such an interesting sensation to love a band and the noise they produce, but not get everything you want from their albums. hopefully the new album will put them in a better light. |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
| I could make the obvious acid joke, or say that Strawberry Jam was better - but I'd rather just say that this album is the reason I haven't given up on the music scene this year (but there should soon be more reasons, hopefully) |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| This album was like the f***ing Beetles of modern indie. |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.5 |
| I'll always respect that this band stuck with the whole "hardcore" thing (even though people tend to tag them as this "metalcore" crap. but that's what pisses me off about them, too - that they're in a scene where people like to put big, fancy, stupid labels on them. |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Slightly disappointing in ways, and yet thrilling - and an interesting change of pace. i'd like to see where they head from here |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 3.0 |
| The first and last songs are sick - the rest doesn't seem to meet Cursive's standard |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.5 |
| This is like one of those sequel albums I wasn't alive long enough to really feel the anxiety of its release - but after hearing it AND it's prequel, I can really feel the intensity |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| this album is an excellent addition to Mastodon's already stellar discography. it's intense and moving - all without sacrificing artistic quality, like many in the metal scene tend to do today |
