| Tones and I Welcome to the Madhouse | 4.0 |
| phenomenal sound, near brilliant execution. Tones and I's criminally underrated, and she has a very bright future ahead of her |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.0 |
| One Direction Midnight Memories | 4.5 |
| AJR OK Orchestra | 4.0 |
| Tones and I The Kids Are Coming | 4.0 |
| Eponymous "The Kids are Coming" seduces you the human in a way that terrifies the corrupt of yesteryear. And into hit music banger "Dance Monkey", the EP sets a rapid pace that may be difficult for a few plebs to follow. A lot of you here need to progress to professional behaviour and not violate your best principles. Go like a pro.rY'all wish you were ripple litecoin and dogecoin are immature sellouts. |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia | 1.5 |
| Ages awful. Sounds redundant. A not bad Song, the eponymous title track, basically doesn't exist. You're not "all good already"; you are the girl from "break my heart". You "uhh like were gonna not go near this dude who makes you become a terrible person" and then "uhh went anyways and everything sucks if it's anything near your disgusting existence". Worst new music. This fad's over. |
| The Weeknd Starboy | 4.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench | 3.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 5.0 |
| Madonna True Blue | 5.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 5.0 |
| Ava Max Heaven and Hell | 4.0 |
| Best music of its kind since 1989. This here's the next Madonna at best. Tough to see this aging well though |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 5.0 |
| An insta classic for b-side junkies with identikit and oft performed "true love waits" with an elegant piano based studio recording. "burn the witch" and "daydreaming" being more upbeat and chipper than "bloom" and "magpie" setting it above. that video for daydreaming especially was quite nice. |
| .L.W.H. The Tape Hiss Hooligan | 3.5 |
| hey downer i'm jamming this and i'm digging thisrhey downer i'm jamming this and i'm digging thisrhey downer i'm jamming this and i'm digging thisrhey downer i'm jamming this and i'm digging thisrhey downer i'm jamming this and i'm digging thisrhey downer i'm jamming this and i'm digging thisrhey downer i'm jamming this and i'm digging thisr |
| Ab-Soul Longterm Mentality | 4.0 |
| Fuck Sobhi Youssef EMERITUS he doesn't know what he's talking about |
| Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated | 3.5 |
| Kendrick tells it like it is. Kendrick's always told it like it is. Kendrick always will tell it like it is. Awesome mixtape that got him his start. More raw, but at times even more passionate than his later releases |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 3.5 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.5 |
| Flatbush Zombies BetterOffDEAD | 4.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 4.5 |
| King Fantastic Finger Snaps And Gun Claps | 5.0 |
| thug life. thug life. thug life. thug life. |
| Disclosure Settle | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced | 5.0 |
| Flatbush Zombies D.R.U.G.S. | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| Susumu Yokota Sakura | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 4.0 |
| The xx Coexist | 3.0 |
| Four Tet Pink | 3.5 |
| about what i expected. cool new loops and some of his most impressive musicianship, but it doesn't establish as much of an emotional relationship with me as 'there is love in you' . dunno which one i like more between this and 'rounds' |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.0 |
| Anais Mitchell Young Man in America | 4.0 |
| Grimes Visions | 4.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 2.0 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 4.0 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 3.0 |
| Smoke Room Vol. 2 | 4.5 |
| Whoa. thanks washboardsuds for the awesome rec =] |
| Darkside Darkside | 4.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 3.5 |
| Lone Lemurian | 3.5 |
| Lone Galaxy Garden | 2.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
| Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love | 4.5 |
| The Beatles 1962 - 1966 | 4.0 |
| The Beatles 1967 – 1970 | 5.0 |
| John Talabot Fin | 4.0 |
| Faithless Reverence | 4.5 |
| Ab-Soul Control System | 4.5 |
| A little choppy in a couple spots or it'd be a classic.r"you aint gotta love it cause the hood gon love it" |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions | 5.0 |
| Actress R.I.P | 3.0 |
| Caribou Swim | 4.0 |
| The Shins Port of Morrow | 3.0 |
| Autechre Incunabula | 2.5 |
| Autechre Amber | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| Burial Street Halo | 3.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| Nightmares On Wax Smoker's Delight | 3.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders | 4.0 |
| Martina Topley-Bird The Blue God | 3.0 |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l | 3.0 |
| of Montreal Paralytic Stalks | 2.0 |
| ugh, i agree with robertsona? at least i have aids |
| Nosaj Thing Drift Remixed | 3.5 |
| Seems like he's better at remixing others than they are at remixing him. borderline 3-3.5 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.0 |
| Efdemin Efdemin | 3.0 |
| Clark Body Riddle | 2.5 |
| Prefuse 73 Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 3.0 |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 3.5 |
| Modeselektor Monkeytown | 3.0 |
| Kassem Mosse EP5 | 3.0 |
| Paul Kalkbrenner Icke Wieder | 3.0 |
| Trentemoller Reworked / Remixed | 4.0 |
| Lotus Lotus | 3.5 |
| Discomendments Tales From the Bunka | 3.5 |
| James Zabiela Blame | 4.0 |
| Dominik Eulberg Diorama | 3.5 |
| No Regular Play Fall Up To the Sky | 3.0 |
| Arandel In D | 3.5 |
| Bonobo Black Sands | 4.0 |
| Bonobo Dial 'M' For Monkey | 3.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III | 2.0 |
| Usher Confessions | 2.0 |
| David Guetta Nothing but the Beat | 2.0 |
| Maroon 5 Hands All Over | 2.0 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 2.0 |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 3.0 |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name | 3.5 |
| Deadmau5 Random Album Title | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Zeit | 3.0 |
| Tangerine Dream The Angel from the West Window | 3.5 |
| As Good as a lot of vintage Tangerine Dream, which is quite an achievement sadly gone unnoticed |
| Boys Noize Oi Oi Oi | 3.5 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 1.5 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 3.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Alpha Centauri | 3.5 |
| Zomby Dedication | 4.5 |
| Real Estate Days | 3.0 |
| Ratatat Classics | 3.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Rubycon | 4.0 |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 | 3.0 |
| Lil B I'm Gay (I'm Happy) | 2.5 |
| DJ Shadow The Less You Know, the Better | 3.5 |
| Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things | 3.0 |
| Xploding Plastix Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents | 4.0 |
| Gui Boratto III | 3.5 |
| Leftfield Leftism | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 2.5 |
| A decent album by one of the '90s best. Enough to show they're still alive and kicking, but not enough to really add anything to their legacy |
| Tangerine Dream Stratosfear | 4.0 |
| during the middle of invisible limits i was like omg dj shadow! |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives | 3.5 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 3.0 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst | 3.0 |
| Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension | 4.0 |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise | 5.0 |
| Polygon Window Surfing On Sine Waves | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker | 4.5 |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour | 3.5 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin ISAM | 4.0 |
| Burial Burial | 4.0 |
| Thievery Corporation Culture of Fear | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 3.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra | 5.0 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 3.0 |
| The KLF Chill Out | 3.0 |
| Amon Tobin Foley Room | 4.0 |
| The National High Violet | 2.5 |
| DJ Shadow I Gotta Rokk | 4.0 |
| Bowery Electric Beat | 2.5 |
| Wonder Bear Avalanche | 3.5 |
| Gui Boratto Chromophobia | 3.5 |
| Pantha Du Prince This Bliss | 4.0 |
| Usher Raymond v. Raymond | 1.5 |
| Exoplanet Bourbon Tape Machine | 4.5 |
| The Sad Demise Of R. Milhous is an absolutely phenomenal use of context for a song to have, and all 3 tracks on here are absolutely sensational.r(offered by the label for free at: http://specialfordjs.com/house/3268-exoplanet-bourbon-tape-machine-ep.html ) |
| DJ Shadow Excessive Ephemera | 3.5 |
| , but http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/d/dj_shadow/midnight_in_a_perfect_world_gift_of_gab_mix.html are still are still some of the best lyrics i've ever read. |
| Memory Tapes Seek Magic | 3.0 |
| Childish Gambino Culdesac | 2.0 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.5 |
| Talib Kweli The Beautiful Struggle | 2.5 |
| Amon Tobin Permutation | 4.5 |
| Exoplanet Nothing Divides Us Here | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Street Spirit (Fade Out) | 4.0 |
| Easily the greatest Radiohead release in the pre Ok Computer era and one that goes far too unnoticed. The depth of 'Street Spirit', the brilliance of 'Talk Show Host' and 3 other solid tracks make this an excellent release and also make it perhaps the best starting point for someone looking to get into the band. |
| Feed Me Feed Me's Big Adventure | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 3.0 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 3.0 |
| Thievery Corporation Radio Retaliation | 3.0 |
| DJ Krush Kaku-Sei | 3.0 |
| Zero 7 When It Falls | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Garden State | 4.5 |
| Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.5 |
| The Future Sound of London Dead Cities | 4.0 |
| Nosaj Thing Drift | 5.0 |
| Brilliant in its simplicity, Nosaj Thing manages to deliver a Flying Lotus esque sound to the masses while still putting enough of himself in it to leave fans excited for his sophomore release |
| Bonobo Animal Magic | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 3.0 |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified | 3.5 |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms | 5.0 |
| I'd never given something a 5 after only 1 full listen before. But then again, I'd never heard Future Sound of London before either |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 3.5 |
| An infectious album that tempers the power of dubstep with an incredibly smooth trip hop atmosphere |
| Animal Collective Keep + Animal Collective | 2.5 |
| Beck Midnite Vultures | 4.0 |
| Juanes Fijate Bien | 2.5 |
| Juanes Un Dia Normal | 3.0 |
| Juanes Mi Sangre | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.5 |
| Nas STILLmatic | 4.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 3.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 3.0 |
| Panda Bear Tomboy | 3.0 |
| As talented as Noah Lennox is, his latest release is neither novel enough nor engaging enough to merit the endless praise that undoubtedly will be lavished upon it. |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 3.0 |
| Chet Baker The Best of Chet Baker Sings | 4.5 |
| This jazz trumpeter, with a backing piano and a minimalist drummer, has a voice that melts my heart every time i hear him sing |
| Ali Farka Toure Savane | 4.5 |
| Lamb Lamb | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 3.0 |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld | 4.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 3.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 2.0 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 2.5 |
| Blue Stahli Blue Stahli | 3.0 |
| Unwritten Law Swan | 1.5 |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains | 3.0 |
| Air Talkie Walkie | 3.0 |
| Julian Plenti Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper | 1.5 |
| Kosheen Resist | 2.5 |
| William Hung Hung For The Holidays | 1.5 |
| Danger Mouse The Grey Album | 2.0 |
| Sneaker Pimps Becoming X | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.0 |
| Marxman 33 Revolutions Per Minute | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask | 3.0 |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday | 3.0 |
| Dido No Angel | 3.5 |
| The Bravery Stir The Blood | 1.5 |
| Dido Life For Rent | 3.0 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 3.5 |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort | 4.5 |
| Coil Horse Rotorvator | 4.5 |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange | 3.0 |
| Boston Boston | 3.5 |
| Broken Bells Meyrin Fields | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 3.0 |
| Burial and Four Tet Ego/Mirror | 4.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 2.5 |
| Gayngs Relayted | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino EP | 2.0 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 3.5 |
| Thievery Corporation The Richest Man in Babylon | 3.5 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 4.0 |
| Burial and Four Tet Moth/Wolf Cub | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.5 |
| Phish Billy Breathes | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow The Outsider | 2.0 |
| DJ Shadow Preemptive Strike | 4.0 |
| Handsome Boy Modeling School So ... How's Your Girl? | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.0 |
| Moby Play | 3.0 |
| Born Ruffians Red, Yellow and Blue | 2.0 |
| The Egg Forwards | 2.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.0 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 3.0 |
| Mana Revolución de Amor | 3.0 |
| Morcheeba Blood Like Lemonade | 2.5 |
| Morcheeba Big Calm | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express | 3.5 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 2.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 3.0 |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects | 2.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 2.0 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Rounds | 3.5 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 4.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 5.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 5.0 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 2.0 |
| The Bravery The Sun and the Moon | 1.5 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 2.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 5.0 |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising | 3.5 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| RJD2 Deadringer | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
| Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Hawk | 3.5 |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free | 2.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 2.0 |
| The Karminsky Experience Inc. Power Of Suggestion | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 5.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 2.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 2.5 |
| Massive Attack 100th Window | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| The optimistic tone of in rainbows, the cohesiveness of amnesiac, the experimentalism of hail to the thief taken in as new a direction as has been seen since kid a. Old timers hoping for something more like ok computer will be disappointed, but such a carefully constructed album could be the closest to true beauty that radiohead has ever come |
| Mylo Destroy Rock And Roll | 5.0 |
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| Daft Punk Discovery | 5.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 5.0 |
| Richard D James has a way with producing such bizarre sounds that never cease to boggle the mind, and his first LP is him at his smoothest. Standout 'Green Calx' blows my mind every time I hear it, while 'Ageispolis' has the perfect amount of reverb. Every track on here is such a weird assortment of strange noises that are so original and manage to resonate each and every time I hear them. |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 4.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.0 |
| first half of the album is awesome, but aside from 'when september ends' i think the back half really lags. still kinda cool though i s'pose. |
| Lotus Nomad | 4.0 |
| You probably haven't heard of these guys -- and that's a mistake. Being a kind of fusion between Phish and Aphex Twin, their music has been dubbed jamtronica (electronic jam band). Constantly touring and playing big festivals to clouds of weed, with hippies on all sorts of drugs, they are a band to watch in the coming years as well as one you have to see live if they're coming to a town near you. (sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1syZXrL9WA4) |
| Lotus Hammerstrike | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 4.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy | 5.0 |
| Zero 7 Simple Things | 4.0 |
| Air Moon Safari | 5.0 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 5.0 |
| If Tricky's cover of 'black steel' isn't the greatest cover of all time, it is certainly the most inventive |
| Massive Attack Protection | 4.5 |
| Portishead Third | 3.5 |
| The xx xx | 5.0 |
| consider the VCR angle & run back to me when you realize she's wrong.rfortunately, that wasn't until the next album started. this one is complete and utter perfection. just don't listen next to somone whose only wish is to rave every moment of every day |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 4.0 |
| An ingeniously inventive album with some tracks ('safe from harm', 'daydreaming', 'unfinished symphony', 'blue lines') that are still unfathomably good. But whereas Mezzanine and Heligoland have a cover to cover flow, some tracks on here don't quite stand the test of time |
| Matt Costa Unfamiliar Faces | 1.5 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 3.0 |
| Avey Tare Down There | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 1.5 |
| Philip Selway Familial | 2.5 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 2.5 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.0 |
| The Bravery The Bravery | 2.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 3.5 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bookends | 4.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 3.0 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 4.0 |
| AFI Crash Love | 1.5 |
| Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive) | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.0 |
| Wolfmother Cosmic Egg | 3.0 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 4.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 5.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.5 |
| Beck Sea Change | 3.5 |
| Beck Odelay | 4.0 |
| Beck Modern Guilt | 3.5 |
| Beck The Information | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 3.0 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.5 |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.0 |
| So everyone knows Endtroducing is awesome, and everyone knows The Outsider was garbage. But The Private Press is nearly as good as Endtroducing and nobody seems to realize it. If you're a fan of Endtroducing, you gotta jump into The Private Press |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Heligoland | 4.0 |
| The kings of trip-hop released an excellent album last year and it didn't even make it on Sputnik's top 100 of 2010? "Paradise Circus," "Psyche," "Rush Minute" and "Atlas Air" are all phenomenal tracks on an album that doesn't have a weak point. Is it as good as Mezzanine? No, but will a trip-hop album ever be released that is? |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| If you've never heard the song 'Angel' you need to put it on. Right now. Just be patient with it and it will slowly blow your mind. Nothing but great tracks on here all creating such a dark brooding tone that twist and turn. Unlike anything before or after. |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
| The Morning Benders Big Echo | 3.5 |
| K'naan The Dusty Foot Philosopher | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.0 |
| AFI All Hallow's E.P. | 3.5 |
| Local Natives Gorilla Manor | 3.5 |
| K'naan Troubadour | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | 4.0 |
| Before he had to work his ass off to get the voice he currently has, Anthony Kiedis was afraid to sing. But he had a sick flow and rapped the truth on top of an innovative group of funk/punk badasses. This is the last album to feature Hillel Slovak on guitar before he died and Jack Irons on drums before he quit, but even with a change of personnel, this sounds more like the following LP, Mother's Milk, than the previous Freaky Styley. With tracks "Fight Like a Brave" and "Behind the Sun" leading the way, this is an album that I'm always up to listen to. |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Help! | 3.5 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.0 |
| Slightly Stoopid Slightly Not Stoned Enough... EP | 2.5 |
| Slightly Stoopid Everything You Need | 3.0 |
| Slightly Stoopid Chronchitis | 3.0 |
| Matt Costa Songs We Sing | 2.5 |
| Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson On and On | 3.0 |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 3.5 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 2.5 |
| The Morning Benders Talking Through Tin Cans | 3.0 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 4.0 |
| A new take on their first two albums and every bit as good. Considering The Shins is one of the best pure Indie bands around, this is a crucial 3rd LP that adds so much to their repertoire. |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 4.5 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend | 5.0 |
| So universal. Backpacking through West Africa was proof that everyone can connect with this album. Rightfully revered around the world, Marley has put forth a standard in Reggae music that hasn't been touched and strikes a chord with everyone in the room. |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
| This here's almost as good as the 2000 masterpiece Kid A. The transition from 'Pyramid Song' to 'Pulk / Pull' to 'You and Whose Army' is one of the most fascinating 3 song segments Radiohead has ever put together. Delve into this gem, and you'll be thrown in opposite directions simultaneously. Not easy listening at first, yet once you've made your peace, the songs become so soothing and so natural that you realize your entire world has changed. |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 4.0 |
| Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static | 2.5 |
| Mutemath Armistice | 3.0 |
| Mutemath Mutemath | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 2.0 |
| The Doors The Doors | 5.0 |
| Philosophical, psychedelic and absolutely phenomenal. The keyboard work was so many years ahead of its time with lyrics that are so profound and hypnotizing. They just keep getting better the more you listen. |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
| Beck Guero | 4.5 |
| This is pretty easily my favorite Beck album, and though I haven't plunged into Midnite Vultures or Mutations, I would be shocked if either overtook this gem. From start to finish, Beck unleashes every bit of his diverse influences on us and while everyone may know 'Hell Yes,' 'Girl' and 'E-Pro,' every track on this album is phenomenal and if you haven't listened to this one all the way through, you should -- right now |
| Sublime Sublime | 4.0 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 4.5 |
| Whatever People Say I Am was the fastest selling debut in British history for a reason. It isn't musical genius, but it put a great punk-spin on Indie comparable to what Mumford and Sons has done in the folk genre. Favourite Worst Nightmare is more punk and less Indie. Anyone who enjoyed their first album should definitely check this out. Even though it may not be quite as good, I actually enjoy this album considerably more than the original (Oh, and Humbug is a piece of garbage) |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| 'Yesterday I woke up sucking on lemon.' Nonsensical lyrics, twisted arrangements and bizarre beats. Genius |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| 'I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad...' Perfect composition, incredible inventiveness and precursors to an eerie yet soothing style of music that has in some ways never been matched. |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| My favorite album from my first favorite band. Cover to cover, this is the most complete Beatles album, and 'A Day in the Life' is their seminal achievement. Even the tracks on here that not everyone knows are gems that contribute to a sublime musical progression. |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.5 |
| Slightly Stoopid Closer To The Sun | 3.5 |
