| Neko Case Hell-On | 4.5 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 4.0 |
| Anais Mitchell Hadestown | 4.0 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate | 5.0 |
| Baton Rouge Fragments D'eux Memes | 3.5 |
| Marissa Nadler The Saga of Mayflower May | 4.5 |
| No Doubt The Singles 1992-2003 | 4.5 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| Mutyumu Il y a | 4.0 |
| Marissa Nadler Ballads of Living and Dying | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 3.0 |
| Julianna Barwick The Magic Place | 2.0 |
| Laura Stevenson A Record | 3.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Holy Ghost! | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. III | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Vancouver | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Untitled | 4.0 |
| Algernon Cadwallader Parrot Flies | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
| Shannon Wright Over the Sun | 3.5 |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset | 3.5 |
| Made Out of Babies The Ruiner | 3.5 |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong | 4.0 |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 3.0 |
| Cults Cults 7" | 4.0 |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire | 3.5 |
| Cults Cults | 4.5 |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses | 3.5 |
| Peccatum Lost in Reverie | 2.0 |
| Kate Bush Never for Ever | 4.0 |
| Ludicra The Tenant | 4.0 |
| Rose Kemp Unholy Majesty | 3.5 |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights | 3.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.0 |
| Akphaezya Anthology II:Links From the Dead Trinity | 4.0 |
| Sleepingdog Polar Life | 3.5 |
| Julianna Barwick Florine | 2.5 |
| Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth | 3.0 |
| Ludicra Fex Urbis Lex Orbis | 4.0 |
| Knapsack This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now | 3.5 |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine | 3.5 |
| Lumber Lung Lumber Lung | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 3.0 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 3.5 |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- | 3.5 |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Tangled | 4.5 |
| Sarabeth Tucek Sarabeth Tucek | 4.0 |
| EMA Past Life Martyred Saints | 3.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou I Never Said That I Was Brave | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou Blood Enough For Us All | 2.5 |
| Various Artists A Clockwork Orange | 5.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 3.5 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key | 3.0 |
| Yann Tiersen Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes There Is No Beginning To The Story | 2.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Blue | 4.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 3.5 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Arcade Fire | 2.5 |
| Mew No More Stories | 2.5 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 4.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 3.5 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 3.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In El Gran Orgo | 4.0 |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? | 3.5 |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent | 3.0 |
| Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now | 2.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 2.0 |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 3.5 |
| The National Boxer | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.0 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 3.5 |
| Warpaint The Fool | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 4.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band | 3.5 |
| Say Anything Say Anything's Secret Origin | 3.5 |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) | 3.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 3.0 |
| Bjork Post | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes | 3.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 5.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes Noise Floor: Rarities 1998-2005 | 3.0 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 2.5 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 3.0 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 4.0 |
| Interpol Interpol | 2.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 2.5 |
| The Gathering Mandylion | 3.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 3.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 3.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On | 3.0 |
| Trespassers William Different Stars | 4.0 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 4.0 |
| The Cardigans First Band on the Moon | 2.5 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 3.0 |
| Misfits Walk Among Us | 3.0 |
| France Gall Baby Pop | 4.5 |
| American Football American Football | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 2.5 |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes Letting Off the Happiness | 3.5 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Inspiration Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 3.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.0 |
| letlive. Fake History | 3.0 |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | 4.0 |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites | 3.0 |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Frames | 2.5 |
| Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton Knives Don't Have Your Back | 2.5 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 3.5 |
| Rilo Kiley Rilo Kiley | 3.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 2.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.0 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 4.0 |
| Metric Fantasies | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 2.5 |
| Defeater Travels | 3.5 |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 1.5 |
| Fergie The Dutchess | 1.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 3.5 |
| Heroin Heroin | 1.5 |
| Honeywell Discography | 1.0 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 3.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 1.5 |
| Rites of Spring All Through A Life | 2.5 |
| Rites of Spring End on End | 3.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz | 3.5 |
| Navio Forge As We Quietly Burn A Hole Into... | 3.5 |
| Hot Cross A New Set of Lungs | 3.0 |
| Rites of Spring Rites of Spring | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. II | 3.0 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 2.5 |
| Hot Cross Cryonics | 3.0 |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 1.5 |
| Orchid Orchid | 2.0 |
| Off Minor Innominate | 3.0 |
| Hot Cross Fair Trades and Farewells | 3.0 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 2.0 |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures | 3.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square | 2.5 |
| Suis La Lune Heir | 2.0 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 3.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 1.5 |
| Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings! | 2.5 |
| Rilo Kiley Live at Fingerprints EP | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 5.0 |
| If I was to listen to this without knowing who the leading singer was and then afterwards you told me it was Patrick Stickles, I would punch right in the Conor Oberst. |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.0 |
| Koji Kondo Super Mario 64 Original Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker OST | 4.0 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask OST | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 3.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 2.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business | 1.5 |
| The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) | 1.0 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.0 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 3.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Emiliana Torrini Me and Armini | 3.0 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST | 5.0 |
| Stars The Five Ghosts | 3.0 |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell | 3.5 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.0 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 3.0 |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America | 3.5 |
| Agent Orange Living in Darkness | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.0 |
| Mew Frengers | 4.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 3.0 |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 1.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.5 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.5 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 1.5 |
| The Doors Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nirvana | 4.0 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 2.0 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 3.0 |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise | 3.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 3.0 |
| Mercyful Fate Mercyful Fate | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Garbage Garbage | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.0 |
| Funkadelic Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow | 3.5 |
| Gang of Four Solid Gold | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.5 |
| Rainer Maria Look Now Look Again | 3.5 |
| Straylight Run Straylight Run | 3.5 |
| The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society | 3.0 |
| Paramore The Summer Tic | 3.0 |
| King Diamond ''Them'' | 3.5 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| I find it kind of strange that I love this album. For starters, I'm not exactly the most religious person and most bands that write lyrics about religion, usually, turn me off. However, I love the lyrics on this album because it's not praising God or anything else of the sort. The band itself realizes that at times there is an absence of God and it's only human to question the existence of any type or form of a god. Another reason I love this album is because of the emotion and the passion each band member displays. The lead singer, Aaron Weiss, is an amazing vocalist and one of the best frontman I've heard in a long time. He is energetic and brings something special to each song on the album. Another standout is the drumming. The drumming may not be the best or most technical, but the drumming on this particular album adds to the album and it really makes each song special. I will always cherish this album and in times of need I know it will bring me great comfort. |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 3.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 3.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.0 |
| Cursive Domestica | 4.0 |
| The Distillers Coral Fang | 3.5 |
| Tegan and Sara If It Was You | 3.0 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 2.5 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 3.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Pins and Needles | 4.0 |
| dredg Orph | 2.5 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 2.5 |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga | 3.0 |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 3.0 |
| pg.99 Document #5 | 2.0 |
| Say Anything Baseball | 2.5 |
| Can Ege Bamyasi | 3.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.0 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 4.5 |
| Sly and The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On | 3.5 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.0 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 4.5 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Stand! | 4.0 |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains | 3.0 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 4.0 |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 4.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground | 4.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 3.0 |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded | 4.0 |
| The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 3.0 |
| Say Anything Menorah/Majora | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Edward the Great | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| The Beatles 1 | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Sugar | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.5 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) | 4.0 |
| Stars In Our Bedroom After The War | 3.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 2.0 |
| At the Drive-In Vaya | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.0 |
| The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia... | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 2.5 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
| Husker Du New Day Rising | 2.0 |
| The Dresden Dolls The Dresden Dolls | 4.5 |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 3.0 |
| Regina Spektor Songs | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk Computer World | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 3.0 |
| Brand New The Holiday | 3.0 |
| NOFX The Decline | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.0 |
| The Birthday Massacre Violet | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 3.0 |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips In A Priest Driven Ambulance | 2.5 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 1.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| X (USA) Los Angeles | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 3.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 3.0 |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| When it comes to the post-hardcore genre it is hit and miss for me. I love some of it that I hear and I absolutely loathe the other post-hardcore material I hear. However, with Relationship of Command, At the Drive-In have crafted something very special here. Everything song on this classic is a unique its own way and brings something, not only new, but refreshing to the table. I have this album to thank for easing me into the post-hardcore genre and I fear without this album right here I still would loathe the entire genre. Now that's not to say I loved this album immediately. In fact, I'm pretty sure I hated it and only liked two songs of the entire album, One Armed Scissor and Invalid Litter Dept. But, nonetheless, this album had something that kept bringing me back to it and finally after, what seemed like a dozen or so listens, the entire album clicked and I was able to call it a classic. |
| King Diamond Abigail | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 3.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 3.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 2.0 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 2.0 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Low | 4.0 |
| Can Future Days | 2.0 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.5 |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion No Control | 4.5 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 2.5 |
| Regina Spektor 11:11 | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 3.0 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 3.5 |
| Easily the best rap album of all time. However, Rap isn't my genre so I can't say I love this record, but it is great and very influential. |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 3.0 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 3.5 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 3.0 |
| Brotha Lynch Hung Season of da Siccness | 1.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 4.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 2.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 1.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 1.0 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 1.5 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.0 |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| This is easily one of the best albums I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. I'm normally not into post-rock, but Godspeed You! Black Emperor make it so rewarding to listen to and even without saying a word they can evoke so much emotion out of the listener. It's really quite something. If I had to pick a favorite song of all time it would be "The Dead Flag Blues". The song sets the entire stage for this classic album and it sets the mood for the album's post-apocalyptic theme. During the beginning the song, and even the middle, it seems that there is no more hope for humanity, but then the last two minutes of the song come in and it seems that Godspeed are telling the listener that everything is going to be okay and that, perhaps, death is not the end. |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| This album certainly is a grower that is for sure. It gets better with every listen, but it will never be my one of favorites. However, I respect this album very much as I know it is a landmark of the 90's. |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 5.0 |
| Regina Spektor seems like a pretty cool chick and I think it shows a lot in her music. Especially in her album, which is also her undisputed masterpiece, "Soviet Kitsch". Her lyrics don't really make a lot of sense most of the time and it seems like she just wrote about a bunch of words down and threw them together into song. I think that's what makes this album work so well. It's not generic and listening to it I can tell Regina had a fun time writing and making this beautiful music. While her lyrics are all over the map her piano playing is wildly addicting and it adds another dimension to her music. The piano line in the song Us is one of my favorites of all time and it can almost bring me to tears. Especially after watching the movie "(500) Days of Summer." Other standouts include Ghost of Corporate Future and Ode to Divorce. The fact is this album is phenomenal and makes every second of its 39 minute run time count. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 5.0 |
| This is without a doubt the album Conor Oberst will be remembered for when he is done making music. Every song on here is brilliant. It was with this album than Conor solidified his "new" Dylan tag and proved to everyone he could make a complete record that is both lyrically and musically perfect. Before this album Conor seemed to struggle with making the music match is lyrical brilliance. On Bright Eyes first record "Letting Off the Happiness" the music was quite weak and the entire record suffered from it. "Fevers & Mirrors" was certainly a step in the right direction as the music on that record better and it showed that Conor had an ear for good melodies, but it was with "Lifted..." that Conor perfected everything about the music he was making. If you're looking to get into Bright Eyes this is easily the place to start as it shows a time when Conor was on top of his game and could not be stopped. |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 1.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 2.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| I don't understand Opeth. Like at all. Maybe its just not my type of music, but I just don't find this amazing at all. It's a good listen once in a blue moon and for that and also the excellent musicianship it gets a solid 4. |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.0 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 2.0 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 2.5 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 4.5 |
| Roxy Music Country Life | 2.5 |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 4.0 |
| Blondie Blondie | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 2.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes | 2.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| One of the few records that on my first listen I fell in love with it. Jesse Lacey knows how to connect with an audience and that is unheard of in this generation. Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis and Okay I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't must be heard. |
| King Crimson Red | 4.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 2.0 |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 1.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Aion | 2.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 2.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 3.0 |
| PJ Harvey Dry | 2.0 |
| Parliament Mothership Connection | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Stained Class | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny | 2.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 5.0 |
| Without a doubt one of my favorite albums of all time. I loved it when I first listened to it years ago and still love it to this day. I personally feel that this is The Beatles work and nobody is going to convince me otherwise. I think I have a strong connection to this album because it was the first Beatles album I had ever heard. I saw that it was ranked #1 on Rolling Stones 500 greatest albums of all time list and I just had to hear it. While it might not be the best or greatest album of all time it certainly worthy of the title as very few albums have the impact this one has had. On the other hand I can certainly see why people might see this as inferior to other Beatles albums. It is quite childish at times and that can be a turn off too many people who listen to expecting it to be like Revolver or Rubber Soul. With that said this will always remain my favorite Beatles album as I personally don't understand the hype around either Revolver or Rubber Soul, but I do recognize as very good and important albums of their time. |
| Green Day Bullet In A Bible | 4.0 |
| No Doubt Return of Saturn | 3.5 |
| No Doubt Rock Steady | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 2.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 3.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
| The Doors Strange Days | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 3.5 |
| Genesis Foxtrot | 3.0 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 3.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.5 |
| Probably the most entertaining trash metal album ever. It is short and sweet yet at the same time fast and devastating. Not a poor track on here really of course the obvious standouts are Raining Blood and Angel of Death. This is better to listen to then Master of Puppets and Rust in Peace. |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 3.5 |
| The Cure Pornography | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 1.0 |
| Yes Fragile | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 1.5 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 1.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 3.5 |
| Yes The Yes Album | 4.5 |
| The best progressive rock album not made by Pink Floyd. This is by far Yes' best album and every progressive rock lover needs to have this in his/her collection. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 3.0 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 2.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 3.5 |
| A very good album. There is no debating that. However, I can't really get into. I love Only Shallow the most and some others are good as well, but as a whole I can't really listen to it that often. |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 2.5 |
| Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow | 4.5 |
| Cat Power You Are Free | 4.0 |
| Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.0 |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock | 3.5 |
| Blondie Parallel Lines | 4.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 3.5 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 4.5 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 1.0 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 4.0 |
| Funkadelic Uncle Jam Wants You | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.5 |
| The New Pornographers Mass Romantic | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 3.5 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.0 |
| Lord knows I am no fan of the death metal genre. I admit it is too hardcore me, but melodic death metal I can handle. I guess it's because it's not "real" death metal. Anyway, this album is awesome, and a must hear for any metal fan. The album starts of with "Blinded By Fear" and doesn't let down after that. The guitar riffs are not as technical as previous efforts but still catchy as hell and the drumming is tighter and faster than ever. I recommend every track on this Gothenburg melodic death masterpiece, even the two short instrumentals that are easily the two worst songs on the album, but still worth hearing because after all this is the best metal album to come out of Gothenburg, Sweden. |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 3.5 |
| Overrated? Sure. Good album? Yes. This is album is just plain fun and nothing more. Don't take it too seriously and the album will be enjoyable, but gets very old very quick. |
| Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5.0 |
| It is know that this album didn't sell well when it was first released to the public in the late 1960's, but it is also said that everyone that heard this album back in the day started a band right after they first heard it. "The Velvet Underground & Nico" should be known as the most influential record of all time because it simply gave birth to so many new genres of music. Most importantly the alternative genre. This record took a while to grow on me, but when I finally started loving it there really was nothing quite like it. A mix of Lou Reeds' soothing voice and Nico's haunting german vocals. This album has everything a music lover could ever want and more. I can't really recommend one song because the album needs to be listened to as whole for the amazing experience to happen. |
| Television Marquee Moon | 3.0 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 2.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 2.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
| Joy Division Closer | 2.0 |
| Green Day Kerplunk | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 5.0 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Personally, I believe this to the Joy Division's best work. I cannot stand Closer and don't understand its appeal. But, Unknown Pleasures is amazing and Ian Curtis is a one time genius on this album. His lyrics are so haunting that one can feel his pain. |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 5.0 |
| The Doors The Doors | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 4.5 |
| The Fratellis Costello Music | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 3.5 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 4.5 |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.5 |
| This album changed everything people knew about music along with Led Zeppelin's debut. At the time this was the darkest album out there. No one had heard anything else like this before. From the opening track "Black Sabbath" the listener can tell they are in for a treat. Ozzy's voice comes in at the perfect time and makes the song creepier than it already is. "N.I.B." and "Evil Woman" are amazing as well, but really the whole album needs to be heard , not only because of its importance because it is the record everyone says it. It is dark, flawless, and most importantly became the most influential record in metal history and really that is all that matters. |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I | 2.0 |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking | 3.5 |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun | 3.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 3.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.0 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 3.0 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood | 4.0 |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Sister | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Dirty | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Evol | 2.5 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc. | 3.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters | 3.5 |
| Sleater-Kinney The Woods | 2.5 |
| Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out | 3.0 |
| AFI The Art of Drowning | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.0 |
| Rilo Kiley Under the Blacklight | 1.5 |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa | 5.0 |
| While "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath may be the best and most influential metal album of all time "Melissa" is just as influential in the sense that it helped formed the black metal genre. While I am no fan of black metal this is perhaps my favorite metal record of all time. King Diamond is amazing on vocals and the rest of the band are no slouches either. Seriously this album is perfection. It may not last very long, but it makes up for it with pure aggression. The album hits you and it hits hard. Every song on here is perfectly crafted. From "Curse of the Pharaohs" to the eleven minute epic "Satan's Fall" this album is the epitome of what all metal should set out to be loud, fast, and straight up bad-ass vocals. |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 3.0 |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | 3.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.0 |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds | 3.0 |
| The Who The Who Sell Out | 3.0 |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 3.0 |
| The Who Tommy | 4.0 |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain | 5.0 |
| While Sly & the Family Stone were out changing the world Funkadelic were in the studio having fun and recording some of the best Funk material ever to be recorded. George Clinton is one crazy mother fucker, but he is a musical genius as well. I mean "Maggot Brain" is so emotional that nothing else really compares to it. Eddie Hazel is a master of his craft and proved it with his masterful solo on "Maggot Brain". While the rest of the album cannot live up to "Maggot Brain" it is still the best funk album of all time. There are no bad tracks on this album and it shall go down as the definitive funk album. NOT "There's A Riot Goin' On". |
| The Cars The Cars | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 4.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 2.0 |
| Guns N' Roses G N' R Lies | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 3.5 |
| Tegan and Sara Sainthood | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| One of the most important albums all time for me. I don't think I have ever been more emotionally connected with an album than this one. Every word sung by Jesse Lacey on this brilliant album means so much to me. I, like Lacey, have had my troubles in life and I feel that because of those experiences I am a better person for it. What I like most about this album is that the protagonist of each song is not asking for forgiveness or making excuses for their actions in the past. They are pouring their heart and soul out and explaining their actions for what they have done. Limousine remains one of the most haunting songs of all time as it based on the tragic story of 7 year old Katie Flynn's death. I cannot think of a single second on this album that I don't enjoy. Everything flows together perfectly on this masterpiece and I cannot think of any other band writing lyrics as brilliantly as Lacey and his band mates on The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. |
| The Who Who's Next | 5.0 |
| The Who are one of the greatest musical live acts of all time that is for sure. What's amazing about The Who is that they managed to capture their live performance charisma and bring into the studio. The result was "Who's Next". A rock masterpiece if there ever was one and perhaps my personal favorite drum album of all time. Keith Moon shines on every track here, especially the closing track "Won't Get Fooled Again" which is my pick for greatest rock song of all time. Eight minutes of a band in its prime outshining every other band at the time. The album also boasts "Baba O' Riley" which is my pick for greatest opener to any album of all time. Sandwiched in the middle of those two great rock songs are "Bargain" and "Behind Blue Eyes" two of the greatest rock songs to ever be recorded. There is nothing wrong with this album at all. It is perfect! |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.5 |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! | 4.5 |
| Easily the best post-punk album of all time. Joy Division can't touch this and I'm sick of critics thinking otherwise. Oh well, to each his own. |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 4.5 |
| Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country | 3.5 |
| Boston Boston | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 5.0 |
| Don't listen to the haters. This album is awesome. It beats out "Loveless" by My Bloody Valentine and "Ok Computer" by Radiohead as the best album of the 90's. I mean no record proved to be more influential than this one right here. One of the most important guitar riffs of all time is present on "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which also happens to be the best song of the 90's. Anyway as I said the album is pretty much perfect. "Come As You Are", "Lithium", "In Bloom", and "Stay Away" are all present and all those tracks make for one excellent listen that any listener will soon forget regardless if they end up hating or loving Nirvana. That is the reason this record is important because it is so controversial among music fans. However, among music critics this album will be cited as the main influence for all music for years and years to come whether the world likes it or not. |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 3.0 |
| Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day | 4.0 |
| Neko Case Blacklisted | 5.0 |
| Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat | 4.0 |
| Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 5.0 |
| Ok so you wanna know where the metal genre begin do ya. Well actually go back an album and listen to Black Sabbath's first album. However, if you want the best metal album of all time listen to Paranoid(album). Every song on here is important as the last, but perhaps the most important song on here is Paranoid. The guitar riff is genius and the guitar solo is absolutely flawless. Black Sabbath peaked with this album and sadly never created anything else quite like this. Not to say their other albums are bad, just inferior to this. Than again not many albums in any genre can top this album. Black Sabbath was not about Ozzy Osbourne they were about Tony Iomni and his amazing guitar work. |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
| I'm gonna be honest here I don't listen to much Led Zeppelin anymore. So much so that I no longer have their albums memorized. But, denying this album a classic rating is criminal. It's not considered by critics to be the best rock record of all time for no reason right? Right! Now I realize that "Stairway to Heaven" is often considered to be the most overrated song of all time by teenagers these days, but as for me I absolutely love it. Now even if you hate Zeppelin for some strange reason at least listen to this album once because I guarantee there will be something to love. Whether it is the hit songs "Rock and Roll" and "Black Dog" or the later tracks "Misty Mountain Hop" and "Four Sticks" one can simply not go wrong with this album. |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 2.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.5 |
| I love this record!!! I love Green Day and Billie Joe, but most importantly the songs on the record are so catchy. When I Come Around and Basket Case go stuck in my head for days and also Longview and Welcome to Paradise explain my life perfectly. Nostalgia at its finest. |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
| If I had to pick the most important album of the past 10 years it would probably this one right here. Yes, that's right I'm choosing it over Kid A, which is still growing on me to this day with each listen. However, I completely adore Funeral. Every song is pure gold and I can't think of no other record of the past decade to be quite as memorable or beautiful as this one. It's true I didn't like this record on my first listen. In fact, I'm pretty sure I fell asleep upon my first listen and was determined to declare this the most overrated album of all time. But a part of me couldn't do it. Something was drawing me back to this album and with each listen it got better and better until I finally understood this entire album. I would have to say my favorite off of this album is Neighborhood #1. It is the epitome of a good indie rock tune and it is my choice for song of the decade. |
| Jefferson Airplane Volunteers | 5.0 |
| Now I know "The" Jefferson Airplane are know for their summer of love album "Surrealistic Pillow", but the truth is they created their masterpiece with "Volunteers". The record was very controversial at the time and captured not only how every member of Airplane felt, but how the whole nation felt about the Vietnam War. Jefferson Airplane truly did not give a rat's ass about what others thought of them and because of it were able to make an album relevant with the times. This is one of the very first records I ever owned and right away I fell in love with it. I mean how can someone not love songs like "We Can Together", "Hey Frederick", and "Eskimo Blue Day". And that's just the tip of the ice burg because the album also boasts "Wooden Ships" and the title track "Volunteers". Hell! Just listen to the entire album because it is flawless, and Let us be honest who doesn't love Grace Slick's voice. She has, without question, the best female voice of all time. |
| Rilo Kiley More Adventurous | 5.0 |
| While Funeral might be the most important record of the last 10 years and The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me might be the most emotional record More Adventurous stands as the single most overlooked record of the past decade. Jenny Lewis and co. have never been better than on this record. The recording is perfect and Jenny's voice is as strong and as versatile as it has ever been. She proves this on songs like "Portions for Foxes" and "I Never", two great love pop songs where Jenny proved she could write lyrics with the best of them. I love this record so much because it mixes Funeral and The Devil and God... together into one. It has the emotional intensity of The Devil and God... and the perfection of Funeral. This record got written off as just another good indie pop record, but truly it is so much more than that. I can listen to this record anytime and it will instantly make me happy, not many other records can say that for me. |
| Rilo Kiley Take-Offs and Landings | 2.5 |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things | 4.5 |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) | 3.5 |
| The Clash London Calling | 5.0 |
| Are The Clash the only band that matters? Well when "London Calling" came out that statement was probably true because no one had made an album as good as this for quite some time. The song "London Calling" kicks off the album and the rest is history. "Lost in the Supermarket" is my personal favorite as I can relate perfectly to it. I have always been searching for an identity of my own and have yet to find it. "Lost in the Supermarket" gives me hope that one day I'll wake up and not give a fuck anymore, and I hope that day comes soon. I also recommend "Rudie Can't Fail", "Spanish Bombs", "Clampdown", "The Guns of Brixton", "Wrong 'Em Boyo", and of course the best pop song ever "Train in Vain". |
| Green Day American Idiot | 4.5 |
| I have to thank this album when ever I listen to music. This album turned me on to music. I know it sounds lame, but when I first American Idiot I was in awe. Granted I was 13 at the time, but to this day I still enjoy this album. Especially Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming. |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Easily the best album of all time. I remember going through my Dad's record collection and finding this album. I saw it was Pink Floyd and knew they were good, but when I looked on the back the only song I know was "Money" so for some stupid reason I was hesitant on playing this album. Today I cannot believe how stupid I am because this record remains my favorite. I will always hold this album as the gold standard of music because it simply proved Pink Floyd are the best band of the 70's and they are not be fucked with. Now to the album. Sure it's pretentious at times *cough* "Time" *cough*, but everything works so well. "Speak to Me/Breathe" is an absolute stunner and that's only the start. "Us and Them" is pure awesomeness and well so is the ending song "Brain Damage". People just need to realize that another album like this will never be made, and I for one couldn't be happier. |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
