| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.5 |
| Four Year Strong Enemy of the World | 4.0 |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.5 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 3.5 |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society Addicted to Bad Ideas | 3.5 |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society Red-Eyed Soul | 4.0 |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society Just the Best Party | 5.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| The Used Lies for the Liars | 3.0 |
| The Used The Used | 2.5 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 2.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.5 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 3.5 |
| Sublime Sublime | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 5.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 4.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.0 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 3.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) | 5.0 |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.0 |
| Rise Against The Unraveling | 3.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.5 |
| Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off | 4.0 |
| The most infectiously catchy album I have ever heard. I had to force myself to stop listening to it because the songs would stay stuck in my head all day and drive me crazy. The vocals are fantastic, the lyrics are sharp, and there's even some variety to the music (the pseudo-metal "Skatanic" sounds nothing like the upbeat ska of "S.R." or the more generic punk rock of "Beer"). |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 5.0 |
| The Pogues If I Should Fall from Grace with God | 4.5 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 3.0 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 4.0 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 5.0 |
| Oingo Boingo Only a Lad | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| New Found Glory Sticks and Stones | 3.0 |
| New Found Glory New Found Glory | 3.0 |
| New Found Glory Catalyst | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 3.5 |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 5.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Question the Answers | 2.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
| Manau Fest Noz de Paname | 4.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.5 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 2.0 |
| K'naan Troubadour | 3.5 |
| K'naan The Dusty Foot Philosopher | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 3.5 |
| I Am Abomination Jaw Dropper | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America | 4.0 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 3.5 |
| Green Day Warning | 3.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 3.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 1.5 |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless | 2.5 |
| Good Charlotte Good Charlotte | 3.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.5 |
| Forgive Durden Wonderland | 3.5 |
| Forgive Durden Razia's Shadow: A Musical | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 2.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 3.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 4.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 5.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 2.5 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.0 |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 2.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer | 3.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 5.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 4.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 5.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 5.0 |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet | 4.5 |
| This album is fun. Really, really fun. Sure, the songs all sound alike -- the production is uniformly massive, the vocal parts are always simple and delivered the same way, the lyrics are always childishly straightforward, and the drums keep the same beat almost all the way through. But somehow this works in the album's favor, and aside from the somewhat annoying "I Love New York City," "I Get Wet" is a very consistent good time. |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 4.0 |
| It's pretty hard to keep track of what Aesop Rock is talking about for more than a few lines at a time; the lyrics are full of obscure references and an extremely advanced vocabulary. If you take the time to really pay attention, though, you'll find he has a lot of interesting stuff to say -- especially on "Save Yourself" (which has a fantastic beat) and "No Regrets." |
