| Pearl Jam Dark Matter | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Space Oddity | 4.0 |
| David Bowie David Bowie | 1.5 |
| Rancid B Sides and C Sides | 3.0 |
| The Vibrators Pure Mania | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Invincible Shield | 3.5 |
| Rudi Big Time / No 1 | 4.0 |
| Brand New Mene | 4.0 |
| Germs (GI) | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds | 3.5 |
| Wow, how does this not have a review yet? It's the Stones man, and it's been near six months since release.r"Bite My Head Off" is the Stones finally understanding punk, and it rules There's some real fire here, like that old primal fire we all fell in love with, but Andrew Watt does his best as producer to ruin everything, including soaking every second of Jagger's vocals in nauseating distortion and reverb where it isn't needed. Still, this is some of the best material the lads have written in decades, and a genuinely great album, defying all odds. |
| Nas King's Disease III | 4.5 |
| Aaliyah Aaliyah | 4.5 |
| Aaliyah One in a Million | 3.5 |
| Aaliyah Age Ain't Nothing but a Number | 3.5 |
| MC Hammer Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em | 3.5 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Question the Answers | 4.0 |
| The Wombats A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation | 3.0 |
| The B-52s Wild Planet | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult The Symbol Remains | 3.5 |
| My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Confessions Of A Knife | 4.0 |
| That Acid and Flowers remix of "Daisy Chain 4 Satan" is absolutely one of the best fucking songs ever for the Halloween season. Or any time really. |
| DeVotchKa How It Ends | 4.0 |
| blink-182 One More Time... | 3.5 |
| Madonna Madonna | 4.5 |
| Drain (USA-CA) Good Good Things | 3.5 |
| Drain (USA-CA) California Cursed | 3.5 |
| Spice 1 AmeriKKKa's Nightmare | 4.0 |
| Spice 1 187 He Wrote | 4.0 |
| Spice 1 Spice 1 | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Invincible | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I | 3.5 |
| Good Riddance A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion | 4.5 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 5.0 |
| Sepultura Arise | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love | 3.0 |
| Deftones Black Stallion | 3.5 |
| Green Day 39/Smooth | 2.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 4.0 |
| Polaris (USA) Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete | 3.5 |
| Pusha T It's Almost Dry | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Friends | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Wild Honey | 4.0 |
| P.O.S Ipecac Neat | 4.0 |
| Scarface The Diary | 5.0 |
| Juvenile 400 Degreez | 4.0 |
| Benny The Butcher Tana Talk 4 | 4.5 |
| Straight fire, Alchemist kills it with the production and Benny is at the top of his game. Definitely gonna be a contender for hip hop album of the year. My man really had the audacity to do a sequel to Ten Crack Commandments and pulls it off, complete with Diddy guest spot. |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 3.0 |
| ZillaKami DOG BOY | 3.5 |
Great production, fuses trap metal/emo rap elements with a grungy tone (note the Smells Like Teen
Spirit-esque "Hello? Hello? Hello? How low?" chorus of "Hello"). Highlight for me is "Bleach",
featuring Denzel Curry. Would recommend this album to someone who isn't necessarily a hip hop fan,
has riffs for days. |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 3.0 |
| Hardcore Superstar Split Your Lip | 3.5 |
| "Last Call for Alcohol" is a neo-glam metal fist pumping classic. |
| Melissa Auf Der Maur Auf der Maur | 5.0 |
| Where has this thing been hiding? This should be at the top of every riot grrl's playlist |
| The Weeknd Dawn FM | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd After Hours | 5.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 4.0 |
| Probot Probot | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 4.0 |
| Nas Magic | 4.0 |
| Nas King’s Disease | 3.5 |
| Oingo Boingo Oingo Boingo | 3.5 |
| Lil Nas X Montero | 4.0 |
| Seduce Seduce | 3.0 |
| Master P Ice Cream Man | 4.0 |
| Eminem Music to Be Murdered By: Side B | 3.0 |
Tone deaf indeed. "Alfred's Theme", "Book of Rhymes" and "Gnat" are worth a listen
but the
rest is just generic Eminem album #1112. And that is neither a condemnation nor
recommendation, You should know what to expect by now at this point in Em's career.
A few slivers of quality stuff, some crossover pop shit for the radio, some features
that sporadically outshine Em, and a metric fuck ton of angry resentment at the
critics. The world's most insecure emcee is back at it again. |
| Childish Gambino Kauai | 3.5 |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine | 5.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Believeyoume | 3.0 |
| Paul McCartney McCartney III | 3.5 |
| Paul McCartney Ram | 5.0 |
| Mac Miller K.I.D.S. | 3.5 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon III: The Chosen | 4.0 |
| The Amboy Dukes Tooth fang & claw | 4.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk | 5.0 |
| AC/DC Power Up | 3.0 |
| Deftones Ohms | 4.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.0 |
| Fenix TX Fenix TX | 2.0 |
| Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways | 4.0 |
| Alice Cooper Killer | 4.0 |
| The Killers Imploding the Mirage | 3.0 |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic | 4.0 |
| Blind Melon Soup | 4.5 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen | 4.5 |
| Seether Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum | 3.5 |
| Everclear Songs From An American Movie, Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Everclear World Of Noise | 3.5 |
| 45 Grave Sleep In Safety | 4.0 |
| Essential goth death-rock with surf rock influences and punk rock ethos, hugely influential to the psychobilly scene, but still rooted in gothic horror punk. Fantastic album for partying in the Halloween season (DO YOU WANT TO PARTY? IT'S PARTYTIME!) |
| Paula Abdul Forever Your Girl | 3.0 |
| Above The Law Livin' Like Hustlers | 4.0 |
| 2Pac Resurrection | 3.5 |
| Count Five Psychotic Reaction | 4.0 |
| The Amboy Dukes Journey to the center of the mind | 3.5 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 3.5 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 4.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem | 4.5 |
| Jack Harlow Sweet Action | 3.0 |
| Sheck Wes Mudboy | 3.5 |
| John Maus We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves | 4.0 |
| Kittie Spit | 3.5 |
| Talib Kweli & Styles P The Seven | 5.0 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 5.0 |
| Killer Mike is quickly solidifying his legendary resume to lay claim as one of the greatest emcees to ever pick up a microphone. His artistry is essential in these times, it is the message and music of the people by the people for the people man. They've done it again, those motherfuckers. They are pushing the boundaries of hip hop production and forging a fiercely political legacy that will stand the test of time in history. |
| Danzig Danzig III: How The Gods Kill | 4.5 |
| Mobb Deep Blood Money | 3.0 |
I have no idea why this album is so unpopular on this site. Sure it's not at all
Infamous
or Hell on Earth era Mobb, this isn't gritty East Coast shit, it's a total slick G-
Unit
album that came out right at the height of that group's fame, and it showed Mobb
Deep in a
more lightweight, freewheeling, party rap mood and that they could still hang with
the new
young cats coming up in the mainstream at that time. Havoc's production remains
rooted in
the East Coast tradition but it incorporates the swagger of the G-Unit sound of the
era
really well, and there's good stuff from The Alchemist and what I consider Mobb
Deep's best
track of the mid 2000s era, the Dr. Dre produced remix of "Outta Control" which is
has been
a summer time party anthem staple for many years now for me. "Pearly Gates" and
"Capital P,
CApital H" are standouts as well. Underrated. |
| Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge | 4.0 |
| Danzig Danzig | 4.0 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 3.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 3.5 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 3.5 |
| Daughters Canada Songs | 3.0 |
| Knapsack This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now | 4.5 |
| Vertical Horizon Everything You Want | 3.0 |
| Hoobastank Hoobastank | 3.0 |
| Public Image Ltd. This Is PiL | 3.0 |
| Princess Chelsea Lil' Golden Book | 3.0 |
| Stereolab Refried Ectoplasm | 4.5 |
| One of Stereolab's finest records, a collection of singles and rarities that shows the growth of this magnificent group while remaining instantly accessible because of the high quality of the songs, including classic Stereolab songs like "Lo Boob Oscilattor", "John Cage Bubblegum", "French Disko" and "Mountain". A superb record and well worth your time. |
| Marcy Playground Marcy Playground | 3.5 |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 3.5 |
| DOOM Total Doom | 5.0 |
| Grimes Geidi Primes | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Future Present Past | 2.0 |
| The Movielife This Time Next Year | 4.0 |
| Motley Crue Theatre of Pain | 2.5 |
| Ramones Animal Boy | 3.0 |
| Ramones Subterranean Jungle | 2.5 |
| The Knack Get the Knack | 4.0 |
| Neil Diamond Hot August Night | 4.0 |
| Neil Diamond Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show | 3.5 |
| Neil Diamond Just For You | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters | 3.0 |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal | 3.5 |
| Washed Out Life of Leisure | 5.0 |
| Collective Soul Collective Soul | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino 03.15.20 | 3.5 |
| Live Throwing Copper | 4.0 |
| Acid Witch Witchtanic Hellucinations | 3.0 |
| Black Uhuru Chill Out | 5.0 |
| Black Uhuru Red | 4.0 |
| Black Uhuru Sinsemilla | 4.0 |
| Black Uhuru Showcase / Guess Who's Coming To Dinner | 4.0 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 4.0 |
| U-Roy Dread In A Babylon | 5.0 |
| Pagan Altar Pagan Altar | 4.5 |
| Pagan Altar Volume 1 | 4.5 |
| Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence | 4.0 |
| Say Anything Baseball | 3.0 |
| Cut Off Your Hands Shaky Hands | 3.0 |
| You Say Party! We Say Die! Hit the Floor! | 3.0 |
| Cut Off Your Hands You and I | 3.0 |
| Death Angel Humanicide | 3.5 |
| Prick Prick | 4.0 |
| Really good NIN-inspired (Reznor produced and distributed this on his label) industrial rock/metal that strangely turns into what I can only imagine a Collective Soul album produced through a tin can sounds like on the second half. Strangely that isn't really an insult, believe it or not. Definitely recommend for fans of the 90s industrial movement. |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 4.0 |
| John Prine John Prine | 4.5 |
| Ivy Apartment Life | 4.0 |
| Acid Bath Paegan Terrorism Tactics | 3.0 |
| Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops | 4.5 |
| Three 6 Mafia Mystic Stylez | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.5 |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking | 4.5 |
| Big Black Heartbeat | 3.0 |
| Big Black Headache | 3.0 |
| Big Black Racer-X | 3.5 |
| Big Black Bulldozer | 3.5 |
| Big Black Lungs | 3.0 |
| Skycamefalling To Forever Embrace The Sun | 4.0 |
| Miss May I Apologies Are for the Weak | 3.0 |
| Lard Power of Lard | 4.0 |
| Bloods and Crips Bangin On Wax | 3.5 |
| Brotha Lynch Hung 24 Deep | 4.0 |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet | 3.0 |
| Showbiz and A.G. Runaway Slave | 5.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man | 3.0 |
| Queen Latifah All Hail The Queen | 4.0 |
| MC Lyte Lyte As A Rock | 3.5 |
| Stetsasonic In Full Gear | 4.0 |
| Stetsasonic On Fire | 3.0 |
| The Who Who | 3.0 |
| Bob Seger Ramblin' Gamblin' Man | 4.0 |
| The Crazy World of Arthur Brown The Crazy World of Arthur Brown | 3.5 |
| Arthur Lee Vindicator | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex | 2.5 |
| Death (USA-MI) ...For the Whole World to See | 4.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Love Movement | 3.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Beats, Rhymes And Life | 3.5 |
| Prince Paul A Prince Among Thieves | 5.0 |
| Anti-Flag 20/20 Vision | 2.5 |
| Jackson C. Frank Jackson C. Frank | 5.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The W | 4.0 |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Nigga Please | 3.5 |
| RZA Ooh I Love You Rakeem | 2.0 |
| Eminem Music to Be Murdered By | 2.5 |
| Imperial Teen What Is Not to Love | 3.5 |
| Imperial Teen Now We Are Timeless | 3.5 |
| I Think That's Everything is amazing, best song they've ever written. This whole album is actually pretty damn fine, had no idea these guys were stilll making good music, funky dark electro-pop with indie leanings. |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 3.0 |
| Sodom Persecution Mania | 4.5 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.5 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.5 |
| Jane Wiedlin Jane Wiedlin | 3.5 |
| Veruca Salt American Thighs | 3.5 |
| The Go-Go's Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's | 4.0 |
| The Go-Go's Talk Show | 3.5 |
| The Go-Go's Vacation | 3.5 |
| Prong Age Of Defiance | 3.5 |
| Ramones Pleasant Dreams | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 4.0 |
| Skid Row Slave to the Grind | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 4.0 |
| Swans Filth | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March | 3.5 |
| Coldplay The Blue Room | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Brothers & Sisters | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Everyday Life | 2.5 |
| Fabulous Disaster Put Out or Get Out | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 | 3.0 |
| Moonsorrow Suden uni | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Number Five | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Number Four | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Number Three | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Number Two | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Number One | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 4.0 |
| The Get Up Kids Problems | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Nine | 2.5 |
| Samhain Initium | 4.0 |
| Ritchie Valens The Very Best Of | 4.5 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 3.5 |
| L7 Scatter The Rats | 3.5 |
| The Distillers Sing, Sing Death House | 4.0 |
| Tim Buckley Goodbye and Hello | 4.5 |
| Antisect The Rising Of The Lights | 3.0 |
| Amebix Arise! | 4.0 |
| Witch Hunt This Is Only The Beginning... | 4.0 |
| Cro-Mags The Age of Quarrel | 4.5 |
| Spitboy True Self Revealed | 4.0 |
| Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos | 4.0 |
| Prong Cleansing | 4.0 |
| Tree Downsizing the American Dream | 3.5 |
| Wow, thanks Spotify, this is awesome. If you dig that early 90s hardcore/metal/hip-hop mash-up vibe that bands like Biohazard or Snot innovated (y'know before mixing hip hop and hardcore/metal became the worst thing on the planet in the early 2000s), this is for you. Very fun and politically motivated Biohazard-lite. |
| Melvins Houdini | 4.0 |
| Logic Young Sinatra IV | 3.5 |
| A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Hoodie Szn | 3.0 |
| Swervin' is a certified fuckin' banger, regardless of how shitty of a person 6ix9ine is. |
| Grimes Visions | 4.0 |
| Soooo I'm quite late to the party but this one just burrowed into my soul a squeenchy little bit, "Oblivion" and "Genesis" are electro dream pop bliss turned up to eleven and are so good they're nearly transcendental for fuck's sake. I've clearly got a lot o catching up to do on Grimes. |
| After the Burial Evergreen | 3.5 |
| Some thicc ass proggy metalcore riffs and grooves to be found here my dudes and dudettes |
| Kevin Abstract ARIZONA BABY | 4.0 |
| Type O Negative Slow, Deep, and Hard | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Black Album | 2.5 |
| Girlschool Demolition | 3.5 |
| Exciter Heavy Metal Maniac | 3.5 |
| Pestilence Malleus Maleficarum | 4.5 |
| The Cat Empire Stolen Diamonds | 3.5 |
| L7 Smell the Magic | 4.0 |
| L7 L7 | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.5 |
| Bonnie Tyler Faster Than The Speed Of Night | 3.0 |
| The The Soul Mining | 5.0 |
| T.I. Urban Legend | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Remixed & Remastered) | 4.0 |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans | 3.0 |
| Weezer The Teal Album | 2.0 |
| Superchunk No Pocky For Kitty | 4.5 |
| From the opening chords of "Skip Steps 1 & 3" to the closing, crashing drums and crunchy guitars at the end of "Throwing Things", you're hooked. It's just one incredibly catchy riff after another with punk rock fury, indie rock originality, and this driving force that just keeps you listening and tapping your toes along to the music. And clearly it's underrated on Sputnik, doesn't even have a full review yet! Such a pity for a cornerstone of indie rock as we know it. |
| The Kinks Face to Face | 4.0 |
| Sweet Desolation Boulevard | 4.5 |
| Superchunk Superchunk | 3.5 |
| Supertramp Crisis? What Crisis? | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Stained Class | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 4.5 |
| Pale Saints The Comforts of Madness | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Monster | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Chronic Town | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Green | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant | 4.5 |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion | 4.0 |
| Sugar Ray 14:59 | 3.0 |
| Sugar Ray Floored | 3.5 |
| Bloodhound Gang Use Your Fingers | 2.0 |
| Guttermouth Covered With Ants | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction | 3.5 |
| John Carpenter Prince of Darkness | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny | 5.0 |
| The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East | 5.0 |
| Santana Abraxas | 5.0 |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 5.0 |
| Supertramp Crime of the Century | 5.0 |
| Humble Pie Smokin' | 4.0 |
| Definitely a highlight in the often times generic and badly aged boogie rock genre, some killer blues guitar and the somehow still underrated and still incredble vocals of original Faces singer Steve Marriott. 30 Days in the Hole sounds like if the Faces had decided to cover John Mayall tunes. |
| Cactus Cactus | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains | 4.5 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 3.0 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 4.0 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 3.0 |
| Down NOLA | 4.0 |
| XTC Fossil Fuel: the XTC Singles Collection 1977-1992 | 4.5 |
| XTC Skylarking | 4.5 |
| XTC Black Sea | 3.5 |
| Too $hort Life is... Too Short | 4.0 |
| Monster Magnet Dopes to Infinity | 4.0 |
| Motley Crue Too Fast for Love | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 4.5 |
| Rainbow Straight Between the Eyes | 3.0 |
| Rainbow Difficult to Cure | 3.0 |
| Rainbow Down To Earth | 3.0 |
| Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll | 4.0 |
| Vanilla Fudge Vanilla Fudge | 3.5 |
| Rainbow Rising | 5.0 |
| Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Elf Elf | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Born Again | 2.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon | 3.5 |
| Deeds of Flesh Trading Pieces | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 5.0 |
| Scorpions Lonesome Crow | 3.5 |
| Buzzcocks A Different Kind of Tension | 4.0 |
| Buzzcocks Love Bites | 4.0 |
| Buzzcocks Another Music in a Different Kitchen | 4.5 |
| Quarterflash Quarterflash | 3.0 |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus | 3.5 |
| Prince Lovesexy | 4.0 |
| Queen Made in Heaven | 3.0 |
| Queen Innuendo | 4.0 |
| Queen The Miracle | 3.0 |
| Faith No More Album of the Year | 4.0 |
| Queen A Kind of Magic | 2.5 |
| The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Black and Blue | 3.0 |
| Keith Richards Talk Is Cheap | 3.5 |
| Queen The Works | 3.0 |
| Queen Hot Space | 3.0 |
| Queen Flash Gordon | 2.5 |
| Yes Time and a Word | 3.0 |
| Yes Yes | 3.5 |
| XXXTENTACION Skins | 2.0 |
| Ray Charles What'd I Say | 5.0 |
| Ray Charles The Genius of Ray Charles | 5.0 |
| D.I. Team Goon | 3.5 |
| Pantera Power Metal | 3.0 |
| Pantera I Am the Night | 2.0 |
| Pantera Projects in the Jungle | 2.0 |
| Pantera Metal Magic | 1.5 |
| Queen A Day at the Races | 5.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came | 3.0 |
| 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged | 4.0 |
| Jungle Rot Jungle Rot | 3.5 |
| Seax Speed Metal Mania | 3.5 |
| D.R.I. Crossover | 4.5 |
| D.R.I. Dealing with It! | 3.5 |
| D.R.I. Dirty Rotten | 4.0 |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | 4.0 |
| Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch | 4.0 |
| UFO Force It | 4.0 |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules | 3.5 |
| Faith No More Introduce Yourself | 3.5 |
| Faith No More We Care a Lot | 3.0 |
| Queen Queen II | 4.5 |
| Queen Queen | 3.5 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 5.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.0 |
| Earth Crisis Gomorrah's Season Ends | 3.0 |
| Earth Crisis Destroy the Machines | 4.5 |
| Earth Crisis Firestorm | 4.0 |
| Earth Crisis All Out War | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.5 |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh | 4.5 |
| AFI The Missing Man | 3.0 |
| Korn Untouchables | 2.5 |
| Trust Company The Lonely Position of Neutral | 3.0 |
| Ekulu Ekulu | 4.0 |
| Excellent crossover thrash/New York hardcore, the final track "S.O.D. (Sanctuary of Depression)" is an old school jam that would fit well on either a thrash or hardcore album circa 1986, hard to pin it down. Metal or hardcore, it's a fucking ripper. |
| Dead or Alive Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know | 3.5 |
| MC Breed The New Breed | 3.5 |
| Flipper Album – Generic Flipper | 4.5 |
| Ja Rule Venni Vetti Vecci | 3.0 |
| Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down | 4.0 |
| Seduce Too Much Ain't Enough | 3.5 |
Crash Landing is pretty fuckin' rad. Best known for their appearance in Decline of
Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. EDIT 2021: Hey they finally
remastered and re-released this band's discography on Spotify, it's a good day for
headbangers |
| Angel Witch Angel Witch | 4.0 |
| UFO UFO 2: Flying | 2.5 |
| UFO Phenomenon | 4.0 |
| UFO UFO 1 | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Persistence of Time | 3.5 |
| W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P. | 4.5 |
| House of Pain House of Pain | 4.0 |
| Basement Beside Myself | 3.5 |
| Cursive Vitriola | 4.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights Hurt | 3.0 |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids After Dark | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail From the Depths of Dreams | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room | 3.5 |
| The Chambers Brothers The Time Has Come | 4.0 |
| Basement Promise Everything | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Shape Shift With Me | 4.0 |
| The Suicide Machines Battle Hymns | 3.5 |
| The Seeds The Seeds (I) | 4.5 |
| Stormtroopers of Death Speak English or Die | 4.0 |
| Cryptic Slaughter Convicted | 4.0 |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 3.5 |
| Blitzkrieg A Time Of Changes | 4.0 |
| Forbidden Forbidden Evil | 4.0 |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.0 |
| Killer Mike Bang X3 | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Let's Dance | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Young Americans | 3.5 |
| Michael Penn March | 3.5 |
| Damn Sputnik only one rating? "No Myth" was a moderate radio hit that those of us listening to the radio in the early 90s will remember fondly, but the whole album is remarkably assured and consistent for a debut record. Highly recommended for fans of the singer-songwriter "genre" and that late 80s/very early 90s period of alternative pop rock before Nirvana made anything that wasn't grunge passe. |
| The Internet Hive Mind | 3.5 |
| It should be certifiably illegal to be as chilled out and funky as "Roll (Burbank Funk)" |
| Prince 1999 | 4.5 |
| Prince Controversy | 4.0 |
| Prince Dirty Mind | 4.0 |
| The Pharcyde Labcabincalifornia | 4.0 |
| Eminem Kamikaze | 3.0 |
| Prince Prince | 3.5 |
| Prince For You | 3.5 |
| Less Than Jake Anthem | 4.5 |
| Prince Sign o' the Times | 5.0 |
| Prince Batman | 4.0 |
| Prince Purple Rain | 5.0 |
| Parliament Mothership Connection | 5.0 |
| Parliament Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome | 5.0 |
| Tha Alkaholiks Likwidation | 3.5 |
| Mack 10 Mack 10 | 3.5 |
| Nice and Smooth Ain't a Damn Thing Changed | 4.0 |
| "Sometimes I Rhyme Slow" and "Hip Hop Junkies" are straight up hip hop classics, and these guys are cool people as well. |
| John Denver Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| Nick Lowe Jesus of Cool | 4.5 |
| John Denver Poems, Prayers & Promises | 4.5 |
| If Country Roads doesn't spark a tear in your eye you're a god damned heathen. |
| Warren G Regulate...G Funk Era | 3.5 |
| Snoop Dogg Tha Doggfather | 3.0 |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See | 4.0 |
| Mazzy Star Among My Swan | 4.0 |
| 2Pac Live at the House of Blues | 3.5 |
| Shaggy Hot Shot | 3.5 |
| XXXTENTACION ? | 3.0 |
| Westside Connection Bow Down | 4.0 |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill | 4.5 |
| Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman The Last of the Mohicans | 5.0 |
| Utterly fucking majestic in every sense of the word. |
| Deadeye Dick A Different Story | 3.0 |
| New Age Girl is fucking majestic, the kind of wonderful 90s Merseybeat pop rock throwbacks we saw from the Lemonheads and The La's, and it's a shame the album isn't nearly as good as that song. But god damn, what a single, well worth hitting up your Spotify or YouTube. |
| Edie Brickell and New Bohemians Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars | 4.0 |
"What I Am" is a shot of brilliance, sarcastic, funky, and indie at a time where that kind
of combination was actually a huge breath of fresh air. Top notch late 80s alternative
singer-songwriter type stuff.
Bonus points for me when I realized A) My mom used to play this album quite a bit when I
was a wee youngin and B) What I Am is the main sample that Brand Nubian used for their
classic "Slow Down". |
| Ride Ride | 4.5 |
| Drive Blind is a likely candidate for the group's best song, a shimmering, dark, mesmerizing piece of shoegaze and 80s British indie angst, an utterly remarkable song. |
| Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons | 5.0 |
| Damian Marley Welcome To Jamrock | 3.5 |
| The Stone Roses Second Coming | 3.0 |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same | 3.0 |
| Akon Trouble | 3.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 4.5 |
| Body Count Body Count | 4.0 |
| Matches Ice It's lyricism and social consciousness with great thrash/hardcore punk worship. For you youngins who only know T from Law and Order the man was legitimately one of the best rappers in the game when this came out and his lyrics propel the album beyond good thrash punk into really fucking good thrash punk with a hip hop flow |
| Billy Idol Billy Idol | 3.5 |
| Billy Idol Rebel Yell | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.0 |
| The Smiths The Peel Sessions | 4.0 |
| Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive! | 4.0 |
| Steel Pulse Handsworth Revolution | 4.0 |
| Editors The Back Room | 3.5 |
| The Psychedelic Furs Mirror Moves | 3.5 |
| Patti Smith Easter | 4.5 |
| Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Woodstock | 3.0 |
| Imagine Dragons ƎVOLVE | 1.5 |
| Bastille Bad Blood | 3.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra ELO 2 | 4.0 |
| Hellwitch Syzygial Miscreancy | 3.5 |
| Corey Feldman Angelic 2 The Core | 1.0 |
| The Electric Flag A Long Time Comin' | 3.5 |
| Christian Death Only Theatre of Pain | 4.0 |
| Bobby Brown Don't Be Cruel | 3.0 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 3.5 |
| U2 Songs of Experience | 2.0 |
| Savage Garden Savage Garden | 3.0 |
| Knapsack Day Three Of My New Life | 4.5 |
| should be on every single "best of 90s emo" list along side Sunny Day Real Estate, Jimmy Eat World, Texas is the Reason, etc |
| D.O.A. Something Better Change | 3.5 |
| S.O.A. No Policy | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 5.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 1.5 |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic EP | 3.5 |
| Knapsack Silver Sweepstakes | 3.5 |
| Excellent mid-90s emocore, highly recommended for fans of groups like The Get Up Kids, Texas is the Reason, Braid, etc. |
| CIV Set Your Goals | 3.0 |
| Days of the New Days of the New | 3.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 3.5 |
| David Duchovny Hell Or Highwater | 3.5 |
Q: Is there anything this beautiful man can't do?
A: Fuck outta here, of course not. |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | 4.5 |
| Tom Petty Wildflowers | 4.0 |
| Tom Petty Full Moon Fever | 4.0 |
| The Cranberries Uncertain | 3.0 |
| The Cranberries Nothing Left at All | 3.0 |
| The Cranberries Water Circle | 3.5 |
| The Cranberries Anything | 2.5 |
| The Cranberries Bury the Hatchet | 3.0 |
| Skip Spence Oar | 4.0 |
| Witchfinder General Friends Of Hell | 3.5 |
| Witchfinder General Soviet Invasion | 3.5 |
| Witchfinder General Death Penalty | 5.0 |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa | 5.0 |
| Mercyful Fate Mercyful Fate | 4.0 |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You | 3.0 |
| AC/DC T.N.T. | 3.5 |
| AC/DC High Voltage (Australia) | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Who Made Who | 3.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity No Cross No Crown | 4.0 |
Music to smoke a lot of fuckin' dope to; but what might be most impressive besides the
heaviness are the somber and downright gorgeous interludes of soft melodies in between
bashing your face in with riffs. |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 4.0 |
| Fastway Trick or Treat | 4.0 |
| Young Fathers DEAD | 3.5 |
| HIM Razorblade Romance | 3.0 |
| Pilgrim Forsaken Man (Demo) | 3.5 |
| Pilgrim Misery Wizard | 4.0 |
| Chris Isaak Forever Blue | 5.0 |
Why the fuck didn't anyone tell me Chris Isaak is actually fucking amazing and the living
embodiment of a David Lynch film filtered through Roy Orbison and Jeff Buckley?
WHY WASN'T I INFORMED OF THIS MAN'S SUPREMELY UNDERRATED TALENT AND GENIUS HOLY SHIT BRO
every shitty black metal album ever has 500+ ratings but we can't even get 50 for this one?
Come on! |
| YoungbloodZ Evry'body Know Me | 3.0 |
| Presidential remix is a fuckin' classic, you could not walk down the street in the mid 2000s without hearing some ghetto dude's shitty ass system bumping the fuck out of that song. |
| X Japan Art of Life | 5.0 |
| Neil Young This Note's for You | 3.5 |
| Title track is an all time classic anti-commercialism anthem. |
| Neil Young The Visitor | 3.0 |
| This is such a jumbled mess. Half laughable, half brilliant, all Neil Young. |
| Inspectah Deck Uncontrolled Substance | 3.0 |
| GZA Beneath the Surface | 3.5 |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version | 5.0 |
| Hieroglyphics 3rd Eye Vision | 4.5 |
| Lords of the Underground Here Come the Lords | 4.0 |
| D.I.T.C. D.I.T.C. | 3.5 |
| Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle | 2.5 |
| Busta Rhymes The Big Bang | 3.0 |
| Busta Rhymes Extinction Level Event | 3.5 |
| Busta Rhymes When Disaster Strikes... | 3.5 |
| Busta Rhymes The Coming | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 3.0 |
| Boy Hits Car Boy Hits Car | 3.0 |
| Lil Pump Lil Pump | 2.0 |
| Lil Peep Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1 | 3.0 |
| Sia Colour the Small One | 3.5 |
| XXXTENTACION 17 | 3.0 |
| XXXTENTACION Revenge | 3.0 |
| Sepultura Schizophrenia | 4.0 |
| Eminem Revival | 2.0 |
| Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Bad Reputation | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.0 |
| Down By Law Last of the Sharpshooters | 3.5 |
| Plasmatics New Hope for the Wretched | 3.5 |
| Billy Squier Don't Say No | 3.5 |
| Styx Paradise Theatre | 3.0 |
| Styx The Grand Illusion | 3.0 |
| Styx Styx II | 3.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World | 4.0 |
| The Cure Staring at the Sea | 4.5 |
| The Cure Galore | 4.0 |
| Blood Cultures Happy Birthday | 4.0 |
| 88 Fingers Louie Thank You For Being A Friend | 3.0 |
| Living Colour Vivid | 4.0 |
| Eve 6 Eve 6 | 3.0 |
| Tales of Terror Tales of Terror | 4.0 |
| Anti-Flag American Spring | 3.0 |
| Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire | 3.5 |
| Anti-Flag The Terror State | 3.0 |
| Tesla Mechanical Resonance | 3.5 |
| The Shirelles 25 All-Time Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
Everyone boo Cyclotron. Joking, joking (Not really).
Easily the best slice of this wonderful era of girl groups and female doo wop/soul/R&B ever
outside of The Ronettes' "By My Baby" single. Songs like "Soldier Boy" and "Will You Still
Love Me Tomorrow?" are without hyperbole two of the greatest pop songs ever written in any
era. The Beatles and Rolling Stones worshipped these gals and there's good god damn reason
why. |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
| Ratt Infestation | 3.0 |
| Ratt Detonator | 2.5 |
| Ratt Reach for the Sky | 2.5 |
| Ratt Dancing Undercover | 3.0 |
| Ratt Invasion of Your Privacy | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots High Rise | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.0 |
| Jose Gonzalez Vestiges and Claws | 3.5 |
| Hole Celebrity Skin | 3.0 |
| Steve Miller Band Fly Like an Eagle | 3.5 |
| Steve Miller Band The Joker | 3.0 |
| Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 1974-1978 | 3.5 |
| David Lee Roth Eat 'em And Smile | 3.0 |
| Van Halen 1984 | 4.0 |
| Van Halen Fair Warning | 3.5 |
| Van Halen Women and Children First | 3.5 |
| Van Halen Van Halen II | 3.5 |
| Van Halen A Different Kind of Truth | 3.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Jailbreak | 5.0 |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath | 4.0 |
| Laura Branigan Branigan | 3.5 |
| Thanks for getting Gloria stuck in my head the entire summer GLOW. |
| Hootie and The Blowfish Cracked Rear View | 1.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience BBC Sessions | 5.0 |
| Old 97s Too Far to Care | 3.5 |
| Dilated Peoples Expansion Team | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.5 |
| Kevin Abstract American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story | 3.5 |
| Adventures Supersonic Home | 3.5 |
| Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice | 3.5 |
| Wild Nothing Gemini | 3.5 |
| Helmet Meantime | 4.5 |
| Helmet Strap It On | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream | 2.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The Saga Continues | 3.5 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.0 |
| Styx Pieces of Eight | 3.5 |
| Kansas Leftoverture | 3.5 |
| Robert Palmer Clues | 4.0 |
| Huey Lewis and the News Sports | 3.5 |
| Spooky Tooth Spooky Two | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest British Steel | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Rocka Rolla | 3.0 |
| The B-52s The B-52's | 5.0 |
| Alice Cooper Constrictor | 3.0 |
| Warren Zevon Excitable Boy | 4.5 |
| Warren Zevon Warren Zevon | 4.0 |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 4.5 |
| Todd Rundgren The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect | 3.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Car | 4.0 |
| Foghat Fool for the City | 3.0 |
| Foghat Foghat | 3.0 |
| Yes Fragile | 4.5 |
| Yes The Yes Album | 4.5 |
| Yes 90125 | 3.0 |
| Foreigner 4 | 3.0 |
| Foreigner Double Vision | 3.0 |
| Foreigner Foreigner | 3.0 |
| Chicago Chicago II | 4.0 |
| Starship Knee Deep In The Hoopla | 1.5 |
| Jefferson Starship Red Octopus | 3.5 |
| Heart Dreamboat Annie | 4.5 |
| Lord Finesse Return Of The Funky Man | 3.5 |
| KRS-One Return Of The Boom Bap | 4.0 |
| Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party 12" Promo | 5.0 |
| if you don't like this song we can't be friends |
| Oingo Boingo Only a Lad | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.5 |
| Tool Salival | 3.0 |
| Tool 72826 | 3.5 |
| Therapy? Troublegum | 4.0 |
| Matisyahu Live At Stubb's | 4.0 |
| Matisyahu Shake Off the Dust...Arise | 3.5 |
| Rick James Come Get It! | 3.5 |
| Rick James Street Songs | 4.0 |
| The Vandals Live Fast Diarrhea | 3.5 |
| Chuck Berry One Dozen Berrys | 4.5 |
| Chuck Berry After School Session | 4.5 |
| The Animals The Best of the Animals | 4.5 |
| The Animals Eric Burdon & The Animals | 3.5 |
| The Animals Winds of Change | 4.0 |
| The Animals Animalization | 3.5 |
| The Animals Animal Tracks | 4.0 |
| The Animals The Animals (US) | 3.0 |
| Inspiral Carpets Life | 4.0 |
| James Laid | 4.0 |
| The Bar-Kays Nightcruising | 3.5 |
| Commodores Machine Gun | 4.0 |
| James Seven | 3.5 |
| Stealers Wheel Stealers Wheel | 3.5 |
| War (USA) Eric Burdon Declares "War" | 3.5 |
| Melanie Gather me | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre Compton | 3.5 |
| Marvin Gaye Midnight Love | 3.5 |
| James Brown Please Please Please | 4.0 |
| James Brown Out Of Sight | 3.5 |
| James Brown Hot Pants | 4.0 |
| Curtis Mayfield Roots | 5.0 |
| Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 | 5.0 |
| Sam Cooke Night Beat | 4.5 |
| Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On | 4.5 |
| Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 | 5.0 |
| Without hyperbole, the single greatest soul album of all time. This album changed my life when I was fifteen. |
| Warrior Kids Les Enfantes De L'Espoir | 4.0 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.5 |
| Queen The Game | 3.5 |
| Queen Jazz | 4.5 |
| Queen News of the World | 5.0 |
| Queen A Night at the Opera | 5.0 |
| Queen Sheer Heart Attack | 4.5 |
| Giorgio Moroder Chase | 5.0 |
| Foster the People Torches | 3.0 |
| fun. Some Nights | 2.0 |
| V-Sect Nature's Casket | 3.5 |
| V-Sect Nature's Only Promise Is Death | 3.0 |
| The Chainsmokers Memories...Do Not Open | 1.0 |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two | 3.0 |
| Madonna Like a Prayer | 3.5 |
| Status Quo Picturesque Matchstickable Messages | 4.0 |
| Madonna Ray of Light | 3.0 |
| Madonna Like a Virgin | 3.0 |
| Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant | 5.0 |
I don't want a pickle
I just want to ride my motor-sickle |
| Arlo Guthrie Running Down the Road | 3.5 |
| "Coming into Los Angeles" is abso-posi-tively one of the best folk songs of the 60s, and anyone whose ever seen the Woodstock film already knows that. |
| KISS Music from The Elder | 1.5 |
| Mariah Carey Butterfly | 3.0 |
Two indisputable facts about Mariah Carey:
1) She was on a whole other level of hotness in the 90s
2) "Fantasy" is the motherfucking jam. |
| Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again | 2.0 |
| Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time | 2.5 |
| NSYNC No Strings Attached | 2.5 |
| NSYNC NSYNC | 2.0 |
| Spice Girls Spiceworld | 2.0 |
| Spice Girls Spice | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet's Back | 3.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys | 2.0 |
| Chickenfoot Chickenfoot | 1.5 |
| Motley Crue Girls, Girls, Girls | 2.5 |
| NSYNC Home for Christmas | 1.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| Public Enemy He Got Game | 3.0 |
| Pixies Complete B-Sides | 3.5 |
| Sex Pistols Flogging A Dead Horse | 4.5 |
| X-Ray Spex Germfree Adolescents | 4.5 |
| The Temptations The Definitive Collection | 5.0 |
| Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Best of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles | 4.5 |
| Del Shannon Runaway With DeL Shannon | 4.0 |
| No one has ever or will ever be able to hit a falsetto note like Del Shannon could. When he hits that falsetto in the chorus of the essential "Runaway", it's one of those perfect musical moments that sends a chill up your spine. |
| Dion Runaround Sue | 4.5 |
| One of the preeminent figures during the peak of the doo-wop/early rock and roll era, Dion puts almost every other frontman of his era to shame. "The Wanderer" and "Runaround Sue" are timeless classics that every rock and roll fan needs to hear. |
| Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children | 2.5 |
| Blind Melon Blind Melon | 4.0 |
| Spacehog Resident Alien | 3.0 |
| Lit A Place In The Sun | 3.0 |
| Toadies Rubberneck | 4.0 |
| Tripping Daisy I Am an Elastic Firecracker | 3.0 |
| Spacemen 3 Taking Drugs (To Make Music To Take Drugs To) | 4.0 |
| Nada Surf High/Low | 3.0 |
| GWAR Hell-O | 4.0 |
| Wheatus Wheatus | 3.0 |
| The Gun Club Miami | 4.0 |
| Infest No Man's Slave | 4.5 |
| Autopsy Severed Survival | 5.0 |
| Dropdead 2nd LP | 3.0 |
| Dropdead 1st LP | 3.5 |
| Dropdead Dropdead | 4.0 |
| Dropdead Discography | 4.0 |
| Positive K The Skills Dat Pay da Bills | 3.5 |
| "I Got a Man" is one of those unsung early 90s pre-gangsta-takeover hip hop classics that's been unfairly forgotten in the wake of everything post Dre/2Pac/Biggie. Fun, catchy, and underrated. |
| The Roots Game Theory | 3.5 |
| 3rd Bass Derelicts of Dialect | 3.5 |
| 3rd Bass The Cactus Album | 4.0 |
| Jungle Brothers Done By The Forces Of Nature | 4.0 |
| The Equals Baby, Come Back | 4.0 |
| Violent Soho Violent Soho | 3.5 |
| Negative Approach Negative Approach | 4.0 |
| Necros Necros | 4.0 |
| Scapegoat (Boston) Scapegoat | 3.0 |
| Siege Drop Dead | 4.0 |
| V-Sect Ivy | 3.5 |
| Pentagram First Daze Here Too | 3.5 |
| Witchcraft Witchcraft | 4.0 |
| Fu Manchu The Action is Go | 3.5 |
| Nebula To The Center | 4.0 |
Excellent heavy stoner psych with folk influences, in the vein of Sleep and Fu Manchu.
"Fields of Psilocybin" is stunning, a kind of folk psychedelic freak out with shimmering
guitars that mesmerize you. |
| Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror | 4.0 |
| Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower | 3.5 |
| Windhand Soma | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.5 |
| Windhand Windhand | 4.0 |
| Classics of Love Classics of Love | 4.0 |
| JESSE MICHAELS IS MAKING STRAIGHT UP PUNK MUSIC AGAIN I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MY HANDS WHAT DO I DO WITH MY HANDS |
| Atmosphere Overcast! | 3.5 |
| Bon Jovi Crush | 1.0 |
| Bon Jovi Bon Jovi | 2.0 |
| Twisted Sister Stay Hungry | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 4.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman | 4.0 |
| KISS Unmasked | 2.5 |
| Warrant Cherry Pie | 2.0 |
| Slayer Hell Awaits | 4.0 |
| Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells | 5.0 |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Fatboy Slim Palookaville | 3.0 |
| Basement Jaxx Rooty | 4.0 |
| Basement Jaxx Remedy | 4.0 |
| Basement Jaxx The Singles | 3.5 |
| Tito and Tarantula Tarantism | 4.0 |
| Catchy and passionate Chicano stoner blues-punk from the ex-leadman of the great LA punk band The Plugz. Best known as being the kick-ass vampiric human-corpse-guitar totin' badass band in the film From Dusk Till Dawn. |
| Gregg Allman I'm No Angel | 3.0 |
| The Allman Brothers Band Idlewild South | 4.0 |
| Eric Clapton Unplugged | 3.5 |
| Clapton may be a racist, rapist, woman-beating, wife-stealing piece of human shit but you cannot deny his musical talent. The recent loss of his young child provides an entirely different aspect to his performance here, instead of just covering blues and reggae standards the man really puts his (shitty) heart and soul into things here. His rendition of "Tears in Heaven" is absolutely god damn heart breaking. |
| The Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band | 4.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul | 4.0 |
| The Romantics The Romantics | 3.0 |
| The Smithereens Green Thoughts | 3.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| The Rapture Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks | 3.5 |
| Pretty much what hipnotoad said. But man, the title track is really, really, really, really, REALLY amazing. Really. |
| The Psychedelic Furs Forever Now | 4.5 |
| The Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk | 5.0 |
| The Psychedelic Furs The Psychedelic Furs | 4.5 |
| INXS Kick | 4.5 |
| The Raincoats The Raincoats | 4.5 |
| The Slits Cut | 4.5 |
| Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club | 3.5 |
| The Fixx Reach the Beach | 3.5 |
| The Doors An American Prayer | 4.0 |
| Joe Jackson I'm The Man | 4.0 |
| Elvis Costello Armed Forces | 4.0 |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model | 4.5 |
| Elvis Costello My Aim Is True | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Tattoo You | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Some Girls | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones It's Only Rock 'n' Roll | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup | 3.5 |
| Skrewdriver Hail Victory | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver Warlord | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver After The Fire | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver Boots and Braces/Voice of Britain | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver Skrewdriver | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver Blood And Honour | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver Hail The New Dawn | 1.0 |
| Skrewdriver All Skrewed Up | 1.0 |
| Kid Rock Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp | 3.0 |
| Kid Rock Born Free | 1.5 |
| Everlast Whitey Ford Sings The Blues | 3.5 |
| Everlast Songs of the Ungrateful Living | 3.0 |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels | 4.0 |
| Citizen Cope Citzen Cope | 3.0 |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 4.0 |
| ZZ Top Eliminator | 4.0 |
| ZZ Top Fandango! | 4.5 |
| Primal Scream Give Out But Don't Give Up | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Just Push Play | 2.0 |
| Aerosmith Get a Grip | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Pump | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Permanent Vacation | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Rocks | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Toys in the Attic | 4.5 |
| Aerosmith Get Your Wings | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Aerosmith | 4.0 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors | 3.5 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Nuthin' Fancy | 3.5 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping | 4.0 |
| The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach | 5.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue | 4.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra | 4.0 |
| John Lennon Walls and Bridges | 3.5 |
| John Lennon Mind Games | 4.0 |
| John Lennon Some Time in New York City | 3.0 |
| John Lennon Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins | 1.5 |
| Paul Simon There Goes Rhymin' Simon | 3.5 |
| Paul Simon Still Crazy After All These Years | 4.0 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 3.0 |
| Nashville Pussy High as Hell | 3.5 |
| These guys and Reverend Horton Heat were my first "real" concert/show, and I'll always cherish that memory. Played a lot of stuff off of this album and it was a rip-roaring good time of beer, Southern rock and psychobilly. |
| Midnight Satanic Royalty | 4.0 |
| Freddie King Getting Ready | 4.0 |
| "Going Down" is one of the greatest electric blues jams ever conceived. |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.0 |
| PWR BTTM Pageant | 4.0 |
| Improved songwriting, a new sense of maturity, the same catchy-as-fuck empowering queer punk ranthems you expect, fantastic lyrics. This is the most vital band working today for anyone rin the LGBT community. But they transcend that label completely. A bit more mellow than rtheir previous work with some somber, 90s alt-rock inspired tunes providing some of the best rsongs on the album.rI'm probably biased because this band has stolen my heart this past year rin a way that a band hasn't in a long time, but this was everything I was hoping for and rmore, so much more. There's a noticeable progression in their sound here, and it works like rfucking gangbusters.rThe only (minor) complaint is that there is simply not enough Liv vocals. Though, really, rcan there ever be? |
| Minutemen Bean-Spill | 4.0 |
| Dicks Hate the Police | 4.0 |
| Minutemen The Punch Line | 4.0 |
| Minutemen Joy | 3.0 |
| Minutemen Paranoid Time | 3.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Benefits of Thinking Out Loud | 3.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 3.5 |
| Strike Anywhere Change Is a Sound | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Recipe for Hate | 3.5 |
| MxPx Let It Happen | 3.0 |
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE MORE PUNK ROCK THAN CHRISTIAN POP PUNK?! NOTHING THAT'S WHAT!
No but "Creation" is actually an awesome song (in spite of it's "Ernest Denies Science!"
lyrical content) and there's some fun bratty skate punk stuff on here. About as hardcore as
a Wiggles concert though. |
| Smash Mouth Smash Mouth | 2.0 |
| The Verve Pipe Villains | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.5 |
| Counting Crows This Desert Life | 3.0 |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After | 3.0 |
| Train Drops of Jupiter | 1.0 |
The worst kind of middle class white girl AOR pop "rock" imaginable. Imagine if Maroon 5
were somehow five times more shit than they already are and you have an idea of the quality
of this album. |
| The Wallflowers Bringing Down the Horse | 3.5 |
| Men Without Hats Rhythm of Youth | 3.0 |
| Pete Shelley Homosapien | 4.0 |
| Title track is the best thing Shelley ever did post-Buzzcocks, but the rest of the album is really fun, consistent new wave with synth-pop and punk influences. |
| Flux of Pink Indians Neu Smell | 3.5 |
| Toxic Narcotic We're All Doomed | 4.0 |
| Brenton Wood Brenton Wood's 18 Best | 4.5 |
| Though I was already familiar with "Oogum Boogum" through it's use in several films and television shows, discovering the rest of Brenton Wood's work has been one of my favorite musical discoveries this year. This is a must-have album for fans of the classic soul of the 60s and 70s, and an artist and album I was more than happy to add to Sputnik's database.rIf only his absolutely stellar cover of The Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction" were included, this might be perfect. |
| Aus-Rotten Fuck Nazi Sympathy | 4.0 |
| Conflict The House That Man Built | 4.0 |
| Discharge Grave New World | 1.0 |
| Discharge Decontrol | 3.5 |
| Discharge Fight Back | 4.0 |
| Discharge State Violence State Control | 4.0 |
| Rancid Let the Dominoes Fall | 2.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 4.5 |
| The Moldy Peaches The Moldy Peaches | 3.5 |
| Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) | 4.0 |
| Erasure The Innocents | 4.0 |
| Erasure Wonderland | 4.0 |
| 3OH!3 3OH!3 | 1.0 |
| The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! | 4.5 |
| I KNOCKED 'EM DEAD IN DALLASrAND I DIDN'T PAY MY DUESrYEAH I KNOCKED 'EM DEAD IN DALLASrTHEY DIDN'T KNOW WE WERE JEWS |
| Budgie Budgie | 4.5 |
| The Yardbirds Yardbirds (Roger the Engineer) | 4.0 |
| The Yardbirds Having a Rave Up | 5.0 |
| The Yardbirds For Your Love | 4.0 |
| The Yardbirds BBC Sessions | 5.0 |
| I maintain the version of "Smokestack Lightning" recorded on this album is hands down the greatest version of the song ever recorded, including the original. |
| The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money | 5.0 |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! | 4.5 |
| Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies | 4.5 |
| Alice Cooper School's Out | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper Love It To Death | 4.5 |
| Dead Boys Young Loud and Snotty | 5.0 |
| New York Dolls New York Dolls | 5.0 |
| T. Rex The Slider | 4.5 |
| T. Rex Electric Warrior | 5.0 |
| The Sounds Dying to Say This to You | 4.0 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 5.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.5 |
| Various Artists Woodstock: Music From the Original Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Daniel Johnston Don't Be Scared | 4.0 |
| Daniel Johnston 1990 | 4.0 |
| The Runaways Waitin' for the Night | 3.5 |
| The Runaways Queens of Noise | 3.5 |
| The Runaways The Runaways | 4.0 |
| Patti Smith Horses | 5.0 |
| Lead Belly The Best of Leadbelly | 5.0 |
| B.B. King Singin' The Blues | 4.5 |
| B.B. King The Ultimate Collection | 5.0 |
| Muddy Waters Hoochie Coochie Man | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Halloween III - Season of the Witch | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Repo Man | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pretty in Pink | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Manhunter | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Singles (Original Soundtrack) | 4.5 |
| John Carpenter Halloween | 5.0 |
| John Carpenter The Fog | 4.5 |
| John Carpenter Assault on Precinct 13 | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Donnie Darko | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Dazed and Confused | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Dumb and Dumber | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Kids OST | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) SLC Punk | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Big Lebowski | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Detroit Rock City | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) South Park (Original Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) High Fidelity | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Death Proof | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Black Snake Moan | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Garden State | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Hustle & Flow | 3.5 |
| Various Artists Deep Six | 4.0 |
| The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed | 5.0 |
| The Byrds The Byrds' Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| The Turtles Happy Together | 4.0 |
| The Turtles It Ain't Me Babe | 3.0 |
| The Monkees Head | 4.5 |
| The Monkees More of the Monkees | 4.0 |
| The Monkees The Monkees | 3.5 |
| The Kinks The Ultimate Collection | 5.0 |
| The Kinks Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround | 5.0 |
| The Kinks The Kink Kontroversy | 3.5 |
| The Kinks Kinda Kinks | 3.5 |
| The Kinks Kinks | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.0 |
| Mott The Hoople All the Young Dudes | 4.5 |
| The Lovin' Spoonful Daydream | 4.5 |
| The Lovin' Spoonful Do You Believe in Magic | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Hangover | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Perks of Being a Wallflower | 3.5 |
| Some great stuff on here but when the book your film is based on literally references and even lists songs and bands as, like, major plot points and you don't include a bunch of them, well that's just not cool man (yes I realize the author also directed the film adaptation). |
| Curtis Mayfield Curtis | 5.0 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Fresh | 4.0 |
| Sly and The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On | 5.0 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Stand! | 5.0 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Dance To The Music | 4.5 |
| Various Artists Punk Goes Pop 4 | 1.0 |
| Various Artists Nuggets: Original Artyfacts | 5.0 |
| You know how the word "influential" gets thrown around alot? Well this is more than influential, it's fucking essential. The seeds of punk rock can be found in the psychedelic garage rock of groups like the 13th Floor Elevators and The Seeds who are only two of the many great artists that contribute a track to this compilation. File this under bloody rock and roll perfection. |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain | 5.0 |
| Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land | 5.0 |
| Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads | 4.5 |
| The Cowsills The Cowsills | 3.0 |
| Joan Baez Joan Baez | 4.5 |
| Neil Young Decade | 4.5 |
| Neil Young Live Rust | 4.5 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan In Step | 4.5 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather | 4.5 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood | 5.0 |
| Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Boulevard | 3.0 |
| Eric Clapton Slowhand | 3.5 |
| Howlin Wolf The Real Folk Blues | 4.5 |
| Howlin Wolf Howlin' Wolf | 4.5 |
| Howlin Wolf Moanin' in the Moonlight | 4.5 |
| Howlin Wolf Smokestack Lightning – Complete Chess Masters 1951 | 5.0 |
| Buddy Guy Stone Crazy! | 5.0 |
| Chubby Checker Twist With Chubby Checker | 3.0 |
| Little Richard Little Richard | 4.5 |
| Elvis Presley Elvis | 4.0 |
| Carl Perkins Dance Album of Carl Perkins | 5.0 |
| Jerry Lee Lewis Live at the Star Club, Hamburg | 5.0 |
| Ray Charles Very Best of Ray Charles | 5.0 |
| Ray Charles Ray Charles | 5.0 |
| Sam and Dave Soul Men | 4.5 |
| Booker T. and The MGs Green Onions | 4.5 |
| James Brown 20 All Time Greatest Hits! | 5.0 |
| James Brown Say It Loud, I'm Black And I'm Proud | 4.0 |
| James Brown The Payback | 4.0 |
| James Brown Live At The Apollo | 5.0 |
| Otis Redding The Dock of the Bay | 4.5 |
| Otis Redding Pain in My Heart | 4.5 |
| Solomon Burke The Very Best of Solomon Burke | 4.5 |
| Babes In Toyland Fontanelle | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.0 |
| Not a return to form, but an evolution in the band's sound. They can still be the full-of-piss and vinegar street punks with the bittersweet romantic side ("Under Cover of Darkness" is an immediate and uber-catchy Strokes single in every sense of the word) but they've decided to start experimenting a bit with their trademark sound and the results are both engaging and natural. New wave, reggae, dance-punk and other genres are flirted with and it never sounds forced or out of character. Whenever someone tries to tell me that rock and roll is dead, I simply put them in the direction of The Strokes, who continue to make familiar yet wholly unique music that manages to capture the sounds of hope, frustration, and yearning of this modern generation. It's low-key in comparison to previous albums, and certainly no "This is It", but it's still an excellent album that is rewarding upon multiple listens. |
| Huggy Bear Taking the Rough With the Smooch | 4.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| The National The National | 3.0 |
| Beat Happening You Turn Me On | 4.5 |
| Fear Before Fear Before The March Of Flames | 4.0 |
| Fear Before A Little Less Teeth | 3.0 |
| Cracker Kerosene Hat | 3.5 |
| The Reverend Horton Heat It's Martini Time | 3.5 |
| The Reverend Horton Heat Liquor in the Front | 3.5 |
| The Reverend Horton Heat The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds Of... | 3.5 |
| The Reverend Horton Heat Smoke 'em If You Got 'em | 4.0 |
| Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version | 4.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 5.0 |
| Yeasayer Odd Blood | 4.0 |
| Beat Happening Jamboree | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| The House of Love Real Animal | 4.0 |
| The House of Love Shine On | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Youth | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising | 3.5 |
| The Vaselines The Way Of The Vaselines | 4.5 |
| Cheap Trick Cheap Trick at Budokan | 4.5 |
| Cheap Trick Dream Police | 5.0 |
| Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight | 4.0 |
| Cheap Trick In Color | 4.5 |
| Cheap Trick Cheap Trick | 4.0 |
| Ride Smile | 5.0 |
| Drive Blind melts my fucking brain every single god damn time. |
| Ride Nowhere | 5.0 |
| Joy Division Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979 | 4.5 |
| Joy Division Warsaw | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Preston 28 February 1980 | 3.5 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Kaleidoscope | 4.0 |
| Joy Division An Ideal for Living | 4.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees The Scream | 5.0 |
| A Certain Ratio Do The Du | 3.5 |
| Throwing Muses Throwing Muses | 5.0 |
| Batshit insane post punk freakout jams. These guys went to the same high school as me (years earlier of course). |
| Cynic Focus | 4.0 |
| The Durutti Column Vini Reilly | 4.5 |
| In which Reilly fully comes into his own and creates one of the most beautiful songs ever (Otis). One of the unsung geniuses of the Factory records scene. |
| The Durutti Column The Return of the Durutti Column | 4.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion | 5.0 |
| A Certain Ratio The Graveyard and The Ballroom | 4.0 |
| Pere Ubu The Modern Dance | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 4.0 |
| The Holly Springs Disaster Motion Sickness Love | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine EP | 2.5 |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 4.0 |
| Vanna Curses | 3.5 |
| Vanna The Search Party Never Came | 4.0 |
| Vanna This Will Be Our Little Secret | 4.0 |
| Atreyu Fractures in the Facade of your Porcelain Beauty | 3.0 |
| The xx xx | 4.0 |
| Phantogram Eyelid Movies | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.0 |
| Archers of Loaf White Trash Heroes | 4.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 4.0 |
| Rollins Band The End of Silence | 4.0 |
| Rollins Band Life Time | 4.0 |
| Jackson Browne Jackson Browne | 4.5 |
| Eagles Desperado | 4.0 |
| Eagles Eagles | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd More | 3.0 |
| Ten Years After A Space in Time | 4.0 |
| Country Joe And The Fish I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die | 4.0 |
| What are we fightin' for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet-nam |
| Country Joe And The Fish Electric Music for the Mind and Body | 4.0 |
| Traffic Mr. Fantasy | 4.0 |
Dear Mr. Fantasy is absolutely one of the best songs of the '60s. The rest of the album
doesn't quite reach that high again, but it's still excellent stuff and it's easy to see why
Steve Winwood was such a force in music in the late 60s and early 70s (though we still
haven't forgiven you for your 80s solo work Mr. Winwood, even if Dennis Reynolds loves it.
Okay, fuck it, "Higher Love" is a catchy 80s slice of guilty pleasure tripe, but really,
what the fuck were you thinking?). |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 4.0 |
| Saccharine Trust Paganicons | 3.5 |
| Circle Jerks Golden Shower of Hits | 3.5 |
| Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs | 5.0 |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex | 1.0 |
| The Band The Band | 5.0 |
| The Band Music from Big Pink | 4.5 |
| Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense and Peppermints | 3.5 |
| Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida | 4.0 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Family Man | 3.0 |
| Dio The Last in Line | 3.5 |
| Ramones Too Tough to Die | 3.0 |
| Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc. | 3.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 4.5 |
| Ministry Psalm 69 | 4.0 |
| Ministry The Land of Rape and Honey | 5.0 |
| Two Voyeurs | 3.0 |
| OFF! First Four EPs | 4.0 |
| Public Image Ltd. Album | 3.0 |
| Public Image Ltd. This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get | 3.5 |
| Public Image Ltd. Metal Box | 3.5 |
| Public Image Ltd. First Issue | 4.0 |
| Aimee Mann Magnolia [OST] | 4.0 |
| Iris DeMent Infamous Angel | 4.0 |
| Iron Reagan Crossover Ministry | 3.5 |
| Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| The Beatles 1 | 5.0 |
| The judgments of "Yeah it's amazing but it leaves out SOOO MUCH" is bullshit, judge an album on it's merits, you realize if we were to make a true "Best of the Beatles" album it would be roughly 173 songs long over about 10 discs right? And even that would still piss some people off. rIt's 27 of literally the greatest songs ever written, with the added benefit of containing some of their very best early singles that were never included on their albums (like the classics "Love Me Do" and "She Loves You"). How anyone could give this anything but a 5 with a straight face is beyond me. |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine | 3.5 |
| The Beatles 1967 – 1970 | 5.0 |
| The Beatles 1962 - 1966 | 5.0 |
| Nico The Marble Index | 3.5 |
| Nausea (USA-NY) Extinction | 4.5 |
| Nico Chelsea Girl | 5.0 |
| blink-182 California | 2.0 |
| CZARFACE A Fistful of Peril | 4.0 |
| CZARFACE Every Hero Needs a Villain | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 3.5 |
| Remo Drive Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| No doubt the influence of 90s emo is all over this band and they absolutely do throw a good deal of that style of music and lyricism into the album, but I'd hate for someone to think this is like a Sunny Day Real Estate tribute or something because this is absolutely a dance-punk record first and foremost before it's an emo record. The lyrics are emotional and biting (and occasionally simplistically brilliant in their familiarity) and there are definitely somber moments and influences through out, but there are also a bunch of REALLY catchy songs full of just the right amount of angst that will make you want to dance and shout the lyrics along.rOne of the best new groups in 2017 I've discovered, thanks Sputnik. |
| CZARFACE CZARFACE | 4.0 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 4.5 |
| Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Steve Lacy's Demo | 4.0 |
| PWR BTTM Ugly Cherries | 3.0 |
| Heavy Temple Chassit | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Municipal Waste The Art of Partying | 4.0 |
| Iron Reagan The Tyranny Of Will | 3.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 5.0 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 5.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Weezer The White Album | 3.5 |
| Pulp Different Class | 4.5 |
| Pulp His 'n' Hers | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground | 4.0 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 3.0 |
| Bloodhound Gang One Fierce Beer Coaster | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots No. 4 | 3.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop | 3.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core | 4.0 |
| The Flys Holiday Man | 3.5 |
| Got You Where I Want You is one of the best songs of the 90s. Grabs you the minute you hear that strumming in the opening and doesn't let you go.rRest of the album is fun too. |
| Wingnut DishwashersUnion Burn the Earth, Leave it Behind | 4.5 |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Architecture & Morality | 4.5 |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Organisation | 4.0 |
| Enola Gay is one of the best synthpop songs ever and really utterly beautiful. That's all. |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats The Coroner's Gambit | 4.0 |
| United Nations The Next Four Years | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Nothing for Juice | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Sweden | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Zopilote Machine | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Nine Black Poppies | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 5.0 |
| Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 5.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) | 1.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 1.5 |
| Cassidy I'm a Hustla | 3.0 |
| Shyne Shyne | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 4.0 |
| The Cure Bloodflowers | 3.0 |
| Oingo Boingo Nothing to Fear | 4.5 |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End | 3.5 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Animosity | 4.0 |
| Roxy Music Avalon | 4.5 |
| Roxy Music Siren | 4.0 |
| Roxy Music Country Life | 4.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 4.5 |
| Anthrax State of Euphoria | 3.5 |
| Anthrax I'm the Man | 2.5 |
| Anthrax Armed and Dangerous | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 5.0 |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease | 4.5 |
| Anthrax Fistful of Metal | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 3.5 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.0 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 2.5 |
| Death Angel The Ultra-Violence | 4.0 |
| Luniz Operation Stackola | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring | 4.0 |
| Havok Time Is Up | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Morbid Visions | 3.0 |
| Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul | 5.0 |
| TAD Inhaler | 4.5 |
| TAD 8-Way Santa | 3.0 |
| Smash Mouth Astro Lounge | 3.0 |
| Smash Mouth Fush Yu Mang | 4.0 |
| Minor Threat Salad Days | 5.0 |
| The Subways Young For Eternity | 4.0 |
| The Von Bondies Love Hate And Then There's You | 4.0 |
It's great to see after nearly 5 years and several lineup changes that The Von Bondies still have something great to offer the public, and that's extremely hooky Detroit-based garage rock with more than a touch of punk, although this album definitely scales that influence down a bit. A much more polished affair than it's predecessors and certainly more pop-oriented, the album only excels because of these facts and the group deliver a batch of some of their finest songs to date, including the sublime trio of "Pale Bride", "I Don't Wanna", and "Earthquake". They may never top "C'mon C'mon", but this is the group's most consistent and focused release to date.
Highly recommended. |
| The Von Bondies Pawn Shoppe Heart | 4.0 |
| Excellent sophomore effort from the Detroit garage-punk outfit, headlined by the spectacular, blazing single "C'mon C'mon", which may be best remembered as the theme song of the television series Rescue Me. There are many other high points to the album however, the neo-glam sheen of "No Regrets", the Gun Club-esque punk-blues of "Poison Ivy" and the swampy-stomp of "The Fever" help carry this album to memorable status. Definitely worth checking out for any self-respecting fan of indie and rock music. |
| The Von Bondies Lack Of Communication | 3.5 |
| An extremely fun throwback to the Detroit punk garage rock blues of the past (ala The Gun Club, MC5, etc). Although this isn't their strongest album, it's still an engrossing and fun listen. Highly recommended for fans of psychobilly and the like. |
| P.M. Dawn Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross | 4.5 |
| One of the great albums of hip hop that sadly has been almost forgotten over the years because of legal and royalty issues, much like De La Soul's classic albums (until recently) this has never been available on any streaming service, which is just a shame because this was a hugely important and influential album for hip hop at a time when it was still considered a minor, fringe genre. Set Adrift on Memory Bliss hit number one, a big thing at the time for hip hop, and you could see how this influenced the entire alternative and conscious hip hop movement in a world where gangsta rap was quickly becoming the only acceptable mainstream version of the genre. rSet Adrift on Memory Bliss is a total triumph, one of the dreamiest and most soulful examples of the genre at the time, and Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine is another absolute banger and classic that was all over the radio. But the whole album is killer stuff, hopefully this comes to streaming someday so newer generations can understand and appreciate how great of an album this is. The production is just insane. |
| The Blasters Hard Line | 4.0 |
| If there's a better song on the planet than "Dark Night", I haven't found it yet. |
| John Lennon Live Peace In Toronto 1969 | 4.0 |
| Incredible concert, the version of Give Peace a Chance here is the best ever. Lennon's random improvisational lyrics really make it. |
| Blues Traveler Four | 3.5 |
| Jewel Pieces of You | 4.0 |
| The Smoking Popes Destination Failure | 3.5 |
| The Smoking Popes Born to quit | 4.0 |
| Everclear So Much For The Afterglow | 4.0 |
| Everclear Sparkle And Fade | 4.5 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Don't Know How to Party | 3.5 |
| Better Than Ezra Deluxe | 3.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Blue | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.0 |
| Spin Doctors Pocket Full of Kryptonite | 3.0 |
| "Two Princes" is one of those songs that is so unabashedly catchy and melodic and poppy that it blew up, was played 12,000 times per day on every radio station on the planet for a few years, and then became a bit of a pop culture joke, one of those songs that everyone has heard so many times that we've all come to an unspoken agreement to never, ever listen to it again. Kind of like "Stairway to Heaven", or "Smells Like Teen Spirit". rBut if I hear it on the radio, I still stop every time and sing along. It's just one of those songs, y'know? Try as hard as you want to hate it, it's never going to work. Just surrender to the cheesy doo-wop pop bliss and go about your day. |
| Bo Diddley Bo Diddley | 5.0 |
| Oh, hey, what's up, just Bo Diddley here basically inventing rock and roll. |
| Steppenwolf The Second | 4.0 |
| Steppenwolf Steppenwolf | 4.0 |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service | 4.0 |
| Buckcherry Buckcherry | 2.5 |
| Average late 90s/early 00's post grunge/radio rock, but "Lit Up" is a real ass-kicker and fist-pumper (and also basically just a love song to cocaine). |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet | 3.0 |
| Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations | 5.0 |
| The Smithereens Especially For You | 4.0 |
A sorely forgotten gem and noted influence on Kurt Cobain's writing of the album Nevermind, this is the debut and ultimately best release of the forgotten 80s alternative/college rock group The Smithereens. This is alternative rock with huge hooks and serious nods back to the groups of the British Invasion, and songs like "Blood and Roses", "Behind the Wall of Sleep", and "Time and Time Again" are so catchy and irresistible it's remarkable they weren't major hits.
Do yourself a favor and give this a listen, highly recommended for fans of alternative rock. |
| Skycamefalling 10.21 | 4.5 |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged | 4.5 |
As good as it sounds in theory. The version of "State of Love and Trust" on here is mind
blowing. |
| The Homeless Gospel Choir You Work So Hard Just to Be Like Everyone Else | 4.0 |
| Melvins Gluey Porch Treatments | 4.0 |
| The Halo Benders God Don't Make No Junk | 4.5 |
| Willfully weird in a wonderful way. You'll laugh, you'll dance, you'll wonder why the hell Calvin Johnson and Doug Martsch didn't get together sooner. Just try not to love "Don't Touch My Bikini". Go ahead, try. |
| My Bloody Valentine Ecstasy | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Sunny Sundae Smile | 2.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine This Is Your Bloody Valentine | 2.5 |
| Heatmiser Cop and Speeder | 3.5 |
| Heatmiser Dead Air | 3.5 |
| Much more grunge, metal, and punk tinged than their later stuff, and definitely more dominated by Neil Gust's songwriting, but that's actually a good thing. Elliott shows up from time to time but you can tell this was Neil's band at this point, and it works honestly. They could be labeled queercore for some of the songs where Neil is open about his sexuality, but really, that label doesn't fit because this is hardly Pansy Division or The Queers. More aggressive than anything else they released, and full of melodic, punky riffage. |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill Ultimate Alternative Wavers | 3.5 |
| Subhumans The Day the Country Died | 5.0 |
| Subhumans Religious Wars | 3.5 |
| Subhumans Reason for Existence | 3.5 |
| Scratch Acid The Greatest Gift | 5.0 |
| Experimental post-hardcore/noise rock that is a must for anyone who enjoys flat out weird music or the above genres. Or Big Black. Or you enjoy the eclectic musical taste of Kurt Cobain. Man, just fucking listen to it. |
| Love Battery Dayglo | 4.0 |
| Hole Pretty On The Inside | 3.5 |
| Hole Live Through This | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan New Morning | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Psychedelic Pill | 4.0 |
| Reflection Eternal Train of Thought | 4.5 |
| Reflection Eternal Revolutions Per Minute | 3.5 |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic | 4.0 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart | 4.5 |
| The Roots Phrenology | 4.0 |
| The Roots ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin | 3.5 |
| Gruntruck Push | 4.0 |
| The Gits Kings and Queens | 4.0 |
| The Gits Frenching the Bully | 4.5 |
| Absolutely incredible grunge/punk from the Washington area late 80s/early 90s, a magical scene and time, one of the most underrated groups of that era, a huge influence on the burgeoning riot grrl movement not to mention the female grunge bands of the time like 7 Year Bitch, L7, babes in Toyland, etc. Mia Zapata's tragic and senseless murder is one of rock and roll's lesser known tragedies, and it's a shame, because she and the Gits were amazing. Cut My Skin, It Makes Me Human is stellar. Really the whole album is. Rest in Peace Mia. |
| Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II | 5.0 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 5.0 |
| Poison the Well Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder | 4.5 |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red | 4.0 |
| The Walkmen Heaven | 4.0 |
| Leatherface Mush | 4.0 |
| Malfunkshun Return to Olympus | 3.5 |
| You like Mother Love Bone? You'll definitely love this. Andy Wood kicking ass with a band that wasn't quite sure what it was, but we can at least say it was definitely awesome. Grunge? 80s metal? Whatever. |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog | 4.0 |
| The Lumineers The Lumineers | 4.0 |
| Anti-Nowhere League We Are... The League | 3.0 |
| Anti-Nowhere League Streets Of London | 3.0 |
| Flux of Pink Indians Strive to Survive Causing Least Suffering Possible | 3.5 |
| Defiance (USA-OR) No Future No Hope | 3.0 |
| Ranger Where Evil Dwells | 3.5 |
| TAD God's Balls | 3.0 |
| Slayer God Hates Us All | 3.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 5.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park | 4.0 |
| While some might see Ceremony's shift from violent modern hardcore to the more melodic hardcore of the early 1980s as a regression, it winds up being Ceremony's best record to date as they progress as songwriters by leaps and bounds. This is without a doubt the best punk record of 2010, and an album that would feel right at home on your shelf next to copies of classic Black Flag and Circle Jerks records. |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Violence Violence | 4.0 |
| Saves the Day Can't Slow Down | 4.0 |
| Saves the Day Through Being Cool | 4.5 |
| Saves the Day I'm Sorry I'm Leaving | 5.0 |
| Ben Folds Five Whatever and Ever, Amen | 4.0 |
| Billy Bragg Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy | 4.5 |
| Spacemen 3 The Perfect Prescription | 4.0 |
| Spacemen 3 Playing With Fire | 4.0 |
| New Model Army Vengeance | 4.0 |
| Bittersweet is one of the best songs of the early post-punk movement, hands down. |
| Wipers Is This Real? | 4.0 |
| Morrissey Viva Hate | 4.0 |
| Morrissey Ringleader of the Tormentors | 3.5 |
| Morrissey You Are the Quarry | 3.5 |
| The Smiths Rank | 4.0 |
| The Smiths The World Won't Listen | 4.5 |
| The Smiths Singles | 5.0 |
| Will forever remember the two albums I bought while visiting Disney World when I was thirteen (maybe fourteen?), a best of Bob Dylan compilation, and The Smith's Singles. Walking around with my headphones on or on shuttles between parks this incredible music streamed into my ears unlike anything I had ever heard before. The guitar, my god, THE GUITAR...I never knew something could be so fucking catchy and melodic, yet sad and desperate. Morrissey's lyrics enchanted me and by the end of the trip I had discovered a new favorite band. There are better albums, sure, but this one is the most nostalgic for me. |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 4.5 |
| Alcest Shelter | 3.5 |
| Turnstile Nonstop Feeling | 3.5 |
| Stonebride Heavy Envelope | 3.5 |
| Chris Isaak Heart Shaped World | 3.5 |
| Monks Black Monk Time | 4.5 |
| CKY Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild | 3.5 |
| CKY Volume 1 | 3.5 |
| Arrested Development 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days... | 4.0 |
| Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) | 4.0 |
| 8Ball and MJG Comin' Out Hard | 4.0 |
| Masta Ace Take A Look Around | 4.5 |
| Artifacts Between A Rock and A Hard Place | 4.0 |
| Kool and The Gang Wild and Peaceful | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi A Kid Named Cudi | 3.5 |
| Happy Mondays Bummed | 4.0 |
| Happy Mondays Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party... | 3.5 |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica | 5.0 |
| The Beach Boys Party! | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Today! | 4.5 |
| The Beach Boys The Beach Boys' Christmas Album | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys All Summer Long | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Shut Down Volume 2 | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Surfer Girl | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Surfin' U.S.A. | 3.5 |
| The Beach Boys Surfin' Safari | 3.0 |
| GG Allin Freaks, Faggots, Drunks and Junkies | 3.5 |
| GG Allin Hated In The Nation | 3.5 |
| Amateurish as fuck and the production is atrocious, but it's hardcore punk, so that basically means absolutely nothing. Some of his best, funnest shit is on here. Bite It You Scum is his signature song, and for good reason---it's a hell of an angry and aggressive song, indicative of the whole movement. |
| Smile Empty Soul Smile Empty Soul | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Desire | 5.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 4.5 |
| White Zombie Astro Creep: 2000 | 4.0 |
| White Zombie La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| White Zombie Gods on Voodoo Moon | 3.0 |
| Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge | 3.0 |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe | 4.0 |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt | 3.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.5 |
| Sam and Dave Hold On, I'm Comin' | 4.5 |
| The Isley Brothers 3+3 | 3.5 |
| The Isley Brothers Givin' It Back | 4.0 |
| Sick of seeing one white artist after another take their original songs and make them hits with cover versions, the Isley Brothers decided to return the favor and produce an album of cover songs. Of course, it's fucking incredible and puts many of the originals to complete shame. Their version of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Ohio" in particular is just electric, taking an already incredible song and turning it into a psychedelic funk soul freak out of truly epic proportions. One of the most consistently excellent albums the band produced during this period. |
| The Isley Brothers Shout! | 3.0 |
| Shout is, basically, the best soul song ever written, still able to get an entire floor of white people to dance like they were on Soul Train nearly 50 years later. |
| The Damned Grave Disorder | 3.0 |
| Democracy is easily the best song they came out with since the early 80s. |
| The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette | 5.0 |
| The Temper Trap Conditions | 3.0 |
| Dire Straits Brothers in Arms | 4.5 |
| Dire Straits Making Movies | 4.0 |
| Dire Straits Communiqué | 3.0 |
| Dire Straits Dire Straits | 4.0 |
| Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Savvy Show Stoppers | 3.0 |
Having an Average Weekend (AKA the theme song to Kids In the Hall) is the best instrumental surf
rock since motherfuckin' Link Wray. |
| Trapt Trapt | 2.5 |
| The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions | 1.5 |
| Saint Vitus Born Too Late | 4.5 |
| Pentagram Pentagram | 4.5 |
| Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bachman–Turner Overdrive II | 3.5 |
| AND WORKIN OVERTIME---WORK OUT!!!! r(Homer Simpson dance) |
| Bad Company Bad Company | 4.0 |
| Bachman-Turner Overdrive Not Fragile | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Ignition | 3.5 |
| Journey Escape | 3.0 |
| Boston Don't Look Back | 3.5 |
| Journey Departure | 3.0 |
| Journey Evolution | 3.0 |
| Journey Infinity | 3.0 |
| Boston Boston | 5.0 |
| REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity | 3.5 |
| Def Leppard Hysteria | 4.0 |
| Def Leppard Pyromania | 4.5 |
| Motley Crue Shout at the Devil | 4.0 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.5 |
| Pilgrim II: Void Worship | 4.0 |
Awesome band, even cooler guys. Sludgey doom metal in the vein of St Vitus or later
Pentagram. Shocked
they're on here since I see the guys all the time at shows and parties but I forget they're
on Metal Blade now.
Watch out metal heads cause Rhode Island is producing some of the best young metal bands
around right now.
2017 edit: Rest in Peace Jon. We became close these past few years and it breaks my fucking
heart to know he's gone. It still doesn't even seem real.
We're going to drink the shittiest of cheap vodka and listen to L7 all night in the
afterlife when I get there man. I love you. |
| Dead Prez Let's Get Free | 5.0 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 5.0 |
| The Replacements Hootenanny | 3.0 |
| The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash | 4.5 |
| Sebadoh Harmacy | 3.5 |
| Antisect In Darkness, There Is No Choice | 3.5 |
| Charli XCX Sucker | 1.5 |
| Iggy Azalea The New Classic | 1.0 |
| Iggy Azalea Ignorant Art | 1.0 |
| The Presidents of the United States of America Pure Frosting | 3.5 |
| Dig Dig | 3.0 |
| Ramones End of the Century | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 5.0 |
| The Smoking Popes Get Fired | 4.5 |
| The Box Tops The Letter / Neon Rainbow | 4.0 |
| The Proletariat Voodoo Economics and Other American Tragedies | 4.0 |
| The Freeze Rabid Reaction | 3.5 |
| The Freeze Land Of The Lost | 4.0 |
| The Freeze Token Bones (A Collection Of Recordings 1980-1996) | 4.5 |
| Gang Green Another Wasted Night | 4.0 |
| Definitely a candidate for the best album the 80s Boston hardcore scene produced. Everyone in that scene was trying to be straight edge Minor Threat knockoffs and these dudes were singing about booze, skateboards, and coke and spelling their name out of lines of coke for album covers. Definitely an essential Boston hardcore record. "Skate to Hell" and "Alcohol" are all timers. |
| U.K. Subs Brand New Age | 3.5 |
| U.K. Subs Another Kind of Blues | 5.0 |
| Avengers Avengers | 4.5 |
| Calabrese 13 Halloweens | 3.5 |
| Negative Approach Tied Down | 4.5 |
| One of the best hardcore records of the 80s. Nothing is one of the best songs the movement ever produced. |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 4.5 |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 4.5 |
| Tiger Army Tiger Army | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Blew | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Hormoaning | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Live and Loud | 5.0 |
| Worth any price of admission for the fully electric cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World". As someone who has obsessively listened to this band for 20 years and thought there were no hidden gems left, I was wrong. Dead wrong. The guitar shreds and soars and both Kurt and Pat Smear absolutely kill it in an almost unfathomable way. Throw in Kurt's flawed-yet-utterly-perfect vocal harmonies towards the end and you have one of the band's absolute best live performances ever. Oh, and everything else on here is amazing. The band at their creative peak, kicking ass and taking names like only they could. |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
| Samiam Clumsy | 5.0 |
| Incendiary early 90s emo punk before the genre became a joke. Right on par with the best of Jawbreaker, Sunny Day Real Estate, early Jimmy Eat World, or the Get Up Kids, if not better. More alternative punk than emo in some ways musically but lyrically it hits hard emotionally, which is only heightened in effect by the absolutely stellar vocals and ridiculously melodic songs. Good luck getting half of this album unstuck out of your head immediately after listening. One of the best albums I've discovered recently and clearly I'm late to the party but man this is still so underrated. Capsized, Stepson, and She's a Part of Me all should have been massive radio hits. |
| Sebadoh III | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 4.5 |
| Jawbox Jawbox | 4.0 |
| Jawbox Novelty | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 4.0 |
| Less Than Jake Pezcore | 5.0 |
| Not only LTJ's best work, but also one of the best ska albums ever produced, period. The guitar work is uber catchy, the melodies are fantastic, the horns are great, and almost every single song is a winner. It's also far and away their most overtly punk album. Liquor Store, My Very Own Flag, Growing Up on a Couch, and Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts are some of the strongest material the band ever recorded. A borderline classic for some, a beloved favorite to me. Also outstanding summer music, like a lot of ska. |
| Pierce the Veil A Flair for the Dramatic | 3.5 |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around | 4.5 |
| Johnny Cash Johnny Cash With His Hot And Blue Guitar | 4.5 |
| Johnny Cash At San Quentin | 5.0 |
| Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison | 5.0 |
| Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| Patsy Cline Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| Heartbreaking. Country music at it's absolute finest from the greatest female singer the genre ever saw. Strange is one of the greatest ballads ever composed. |
| L7 Bricks Are Heavy | 5.0 |
| Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers | 4.5 |
| Basement Colourmeinkindness | 4.5 |
| Green River Dry As A Bone/Rehab Doll | 3.5 |
| Seven Mary Three American Standard | 3.0 |
| Babes In Toyland Spanking Machine | 3.5 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 5.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe As Milk | 5.0 |
| Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood | 4.5 |
| Color Me Badd C.M.B. | 1.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne | 1.0 |
| Kesha Warrior | 1.0 |
| Kesha Animal | 1.0 |
| Miley Cyrus Bangerz | 1.5 |
| Katy Perry Prism | 1.0 |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream | 1.0 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 1.0 |
| Poison Poison'd! | 1.0 |
| Poison Flesh & Blood | 1.5 |
| Poison Open Up and Say... Ahh! | 2.0 |
| Winger Winger | 1.0 |
| Poison Look What The Cat Dragged In | 1.5 |
| Ratt Out of the Cellar | 3.5 |
| Buffalo Springfield Retrospective | 5.0 |
| Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Again | 4.5 |
| Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield | 4.0 |
| The Byrds Ballad of Easy Rider | 3.0 |
| The Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo | 4.0 |
| The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers | 4.0 |
| The Byrds Younger Than Yesterday | 4.0 |
| The Byrds Fifth Dimension | 5.0 |
| The Byrds Turn! Turn! Turn! | 4.0 |
| The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man | 4.5 |
| Green Day International Superhits | 4.5 |
| Courtney Barnett The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas | 4.0 |
| An incredible hodge-podge of previously recorded material from one of Australia's most talented new young songwriters. Her lyrics are some of the most witty and immediately gratifying you'll ever hear, and the music is a wonderfully heady mixture of garage psychedelia and indie rock with just a hint of grunge. Keep your eyes on this one. |
| The Casualties Die Hards | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Fallow | 4.0 |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | 4.0 |
| Aqua Aquarium | 2.5 |
| No Doubt Return of Saturn | 3.5 |
| Millencolin Same Old Tunes | 4.0 |
| No Doubt Rock Steady | 2.5 |
| Goldfinger Hang-ups | 3.5 |
| Goldfinger Goldfinger | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK | 4.0 |
| The Blues Brothers Music From The Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum | 4.5 |
| David Guetta One Love | 3.0 |
| Fishbone Fishbone | 3.5 |
| A wonderfully fun and eclectic debut from one of the most versatile bands of it's era, Fishbone's titular EP is more straight-forward ska than the crazy mixture of ska, funk, punk, metal, and rap they'd become known for, but it also contains some of their strongest material. "Party at Ground Zero" is a joyous ska anthem. |
| DMX Grand Champ | 3.0 |
| DMX The Great Depression | 3.0 |
| DMX ...And Then There Was X | 3.5 |
| DMX Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood | 4.0 |
| 50 Cent Power of the Dollar | 3.0 |
| Placebo Covers | 3.5 |
| Placebo Battle for the Sun | 3.0 |
| Placebo Meds | 3.5 |
| Placebo Black Market Music | 4.0 |
| Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake | 4.5 |
| Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells A Story | 4.5 |
| Faces Ooh La la | 4.5 |
| Faces A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...To a Blind Horse | 4.5 |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Batman Forever | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart | 4.5 |
| Harvey Danger Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone? | 4.0 |
| Curtis Mayfield Superfly | 5.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors | 3.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.0 |
| Butthole Surfers Electriclarryland | 3.5 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.5 |
| Primus Tales from the Punchbowl | 3.5 |
| Spirit Caravan Jug Fulla Sun | 3.0 |
| Fun Sabbath worship side-project of St. Vitus' Wino, derivative but enjoyable even if their drummer is a dick. |
| Bloodhound Gang Hooray For Boobies | 4.0 |
| Godsmack Awake | 3.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Wrong Side of Heaven and The Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2 | 1.0 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 3.0 |
| Seether Disclaimer | 2.0 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 2.0 |
| Saliva Every Six Seconds | 2.5 |
| Orgy Candyass | 3.0 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 3.0 |
| Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings | 5.0 |
| Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Singers | 5.0 |
| Various Artists Cazumbi - African 60s Garage Vol. 1 | 4.5 |
| Mind-blowing obscure hand picked gems from the explosion of garage and psychedelic rock that happened in Africa during the 60s. There's more soul and passion here than on a thousand albums combined. Get your hands on this somehow. |
| Muddy Waters At Newport 1960 | 5.0 |
| Porno For Pyros Porno For Pyros | 3.5 |
| I firmly stand by the belief that "Pets" is the best song Perry Farrell ever wrote. |
| Chuck Berry Chuck Berry Is on Top | 5.0 |
| Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll [Soundtrack] | 5.0 |
| Chuck Berry proves to a new generation that not only does he still have it, but rock and roll is still endlessly in debt to him. Of course it helps when you're joined by the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, Etta James and many more at various points. rOne of the best live albums ever, capturing a legendary performance. |
| Little Richard Here's Little Richard | 5.0 |
| Elvis Presley Elvis: 30 #1 Hits | 5.0 |
| Gene Vincent Gene Vincent & The Bluecaps | 4.5 |
| Gene Vincent Bluejean Bop! | 4.5 |
| Bill Haley Rock Around The Clock | 4.5 |
| Orange Juice Rip It Up | 3.5 |
| How great is that title track? Seriously. Just try not to tap your foot or bob your head. Just try. |
| The Clash Cut the Crap | 2.0 |
| The Jam The Gift | 3.5 |
| The Jam Sound Affects | 4.0 |
| The Jam All Mod Cons | 4.5 |
| The Jam This Is The Modern World | 3.5 |
| The Jam In The City | 4.5 |
| The Fall 458489 A-Sides | 4.5 |
| Screeching Weasel My Brain Hurts | 5.0 |
| An essential cornerstone of pop-punk that defined the genre and influenced an entire generation of imitators. Nobody ever got it better though. |
| The Feelies Crazy Rhythms | 4.5 |
| "Raised Eyebrows" is one of the all time greatest guitar songs, ever, of any genre. That's not exaggeration either, seriously, go listen to it right now, simply one of the best songs of the 1980s if not ever. |
| Screeching Weasel Boogadaboogadaboogada! | 4.0 |
| Wire 154 | 4.0 |
| Wire Chairs Missing | 4.5 |
| Gang of Four Solid Gold | 4.0 |
| Dag Nasty Can I Say/Wig Out at Denko's | 5.0 |
| Descendents Everything Sucks | 3.5 |
| Dag Nasty Wig Out At Denko's | 4.5 |
| Every bit as good as their debut, if not quite as essential and influential. Contains some of their best material though in songs like Safe and the title track. Definitely required listening for fans of the post-hardcore emo explosion. |
| Dag Nasty Can I Say (Reissue) | 4.5 |
| Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies | 4.5 |
| NOFX The Decline | 4.5 |
| NOFX Pump Up the Valuum | 4.0 |
| NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes | 3.5 |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic | 4.0 |
| NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean | 3.5 |
| NOFX Liberal Animation | 2.0 |
| NOFX 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough | 4.0 |
| Rancid Rancid (2000) | 3.5 |
| Rancid Life Won't Wait | 4.0 |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves | 4.5 |
| Rancid Let's Go | 4.5 |
| Pennywise Full Circle | 4.0 |
| Pennywise Pennywise | 4.0 |
| The Suicide Machines Destruction By Definition | 4.5 |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre | 4.0 |
| The Offspring The Offspring | 4.5 |
| Generation X Generation X | 4.0 |
| Richard Hell and The Voidoids Blank Generation | 4.5 |
| Billy Idol Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Goblin Tenebre OST | 4.5 |
| Goblin Suspiria | 5.0 |
| Goblin Profondo Rosso | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Inglourious Basterds Motion Picture Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Notable mainly for featuring some amazing Ennio Morricone pieces that have been reused for the film. |
| The Marshall Tucker Band Where We All Belong | 3.5 |
| The Marshall Tucker Band A New Life | 3.0 |
| The Marshall Tucker Band The Marshall Tucker Band | 4.0 |
| Donovan Donovan's Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| A nearly flawless collection of most of Donovan's best material, it's just one classic after another here, not a single weak spot to be found. Essential listening for anyone with an interest in the folk and psychedelic rock scenes of the 60s and early 70s. Absolute magic. |
| Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin | 3.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Spectres | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune | 4.0 |
| Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain Grill | 4.5 |
| Grateful Dead The Closing of Winterland | 4.5 |
| Grateful Dead In the Dark | 3.5 |
| Grateful Dead Shakedown Street | 3.0 |
| Grateful Dead Grateful Dead | 4.0 |
| Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead | 5.0 |
| Grateful Dead Anthem of the Sun | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.0 |
| Dio Holy Diver | 5.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 2.5 |
| KISS Dressed to Kill | 3.5 |
| KISS Rock and Roll Over | 3.5 |
| KISS Dynasty | 2.5 |
| KISS Alive! | 5.0 |
| Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat | 4.5 |
| Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman | 5.0 |
| Cat Stevens Matthew & Son | 3.5 |
| "Here Comes My Baby" is legitimately one of the greatest pop songs ever written. |
| Fats Domino Walking to New York: Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| Peter, Paul and Mary Peter, Paul and Mary | 4.0 |
| The first LP from one of the finest folk acts of the 60s, Peter, Paul, and Mary's self titled debut is an historically important and wonderfully crafted album highlighted by the immortal folk classic "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", as beautiful and somber as folk has ever been with a timely political message. |
| Ricky Nelson Greatest Hits [Capitol 2005] | 4.5 |
| Eddie Cochran Somethin' Else: Fine Lookin' Hits of Eddie Cochran | 4.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Blue | 5.0 |
| Big Star Radio City | 4.5 |
| Big Star #1 Record | 5.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 5.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bookends | 5.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 5.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence | 4.5 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. | 4.0 |
| Macho Man Randy Savage Be A Man | 1.5 |
| Hulk Hogan and The Wrestling Boot Band Hulk Rules | 1.5 |
| John Cena and Tha Trademarc You Can't See Me | 2.0 |
| 7L & Esoteric Moment of Rarities | 3.5 |
| Kevin Federline Playing with Fire | 1.0 |
| Will Smith Big Willie Style | 3.0 |
| Albert King Born Under A Bad Sign | 5.0 |
| Stevie Nicks Bella Donna | 4.0 |
| Ultravox Vienna | 4.5 |
| The title track is one of the most beautiful, haunting, heartbreaking, moving examples of synthpop ever composed. The rest of the album is nearly as good, which means it's utterly brilliant and probably the creative peak of Ultravox. |
| Ultravox Ultravox! | 4.0 |
| Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience | 4.5 |
| Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls | 3.0 |
| Transplants Transplants | 4.0 |
| Snuff Snuff Said | 4.0 |
| Mustard Plug Evildoers Beware! | 4.0 |
| The Selecter Too Much Pressure | 4.5 |
| Some of the best two-tone ska of it's era, not as good as The Specials or English Beat, but not far off either. |
| The Exploited Punks Not Dead | 4.5 |
| Toto Toto IV | 3.5 |
| Really has not stood up as well over the years despite the critical and commercial orgasm the country had for this album when it came out, but it's well worth your time if only for the utter brilliance that is "Africa", which might just contain some of the best vocal harmonizing in rock history this side of the Beach Boys. |
| Roy Orbison Black & White Night | 5.0 |
| Roy Orbison All-Time Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| Roy Orbison In Dreams | 4.5 |
| Roy Orbison Crying | 3.5 |
| Roy Orbison Lonely and Blue | 3.5 |
| The Gap Band Gap Band IV | 4.0 |
| "You Dropped a Bomb On Me" is as good as electrofunk gets. Fuck, it's as good as funk gets. Make sure to check out the incredibly bizarre completely 80s music video.rRest of album is almost as funky. Almost. |
| The National Boxer | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nirvana | 5.0 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 3.5 |
| Steve Earle Copperhead Road | 4.0 |
| Pentagram First Daze Here (The Vintage Collection) | 4.5 |
| The Smoke It's Smoke Time | 3.5 |
| Tomorrow Tomorrow | 4.5 |
| Some of the best under-the-radar British psychedelia of the 1960s, highlighted by such brilliant tracks as "My White Bicycle" and "Revolution". |
| AC/DC Live | 4.5 |
| AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Powerage | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 5.0 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 4.0 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 4.0 |
| Tubeway Army Replicas | 5.0 |
| Trio Trio | 3.0 |
| Da Da Da might be the dumbest, simplest, catchiest song ever. It will work it's way into your brain and stay there for weeks. Nifty German new wave. |
| The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good | 4.5 |
| T.S.O.L. T. S. O. L. | 5.0 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 4.5 |
| Ministry With Sympathy | 3.0 |
| Buffalo Tom Big Red Letter Day | 4.0 |
| Desire (CAN) II | 3.0 |
| Kavinsky Nightcall | 4.0 |
| Cliff Martinez Drive | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Inside Llewyn Davis | 3.5 |
| Manners Pale Blue Light | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 5.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced | 5.0 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 3.5 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 4.5 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 5.0 |
| Blondie Plastic Letters | 3.5 |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedoes | 4.5 |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails | 4.5 |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits | 5.0 |
| Onyx All We Got Iz Us | 4.0 |
| The Breeders Last Splash | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 3.0 |
| The (International) Noise Conspiracy Survival Sickness | 4.0 |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var | 4.0 |
| 3 Doors Down The Better Life | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Dogs Eating Dogs | 3.0 |
| AFI Burials | 3.0 |
| Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle | 5.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 3.5 |
| Sick of It All Blood,Sweat, & No Tears | 4.0 |
| Gang Starr Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr | 5.0 |
| Gang Starr Moment of Truth | 4.0 |
| Gang Starr Hard to Earn | 4.0 |
| Gang Starr Daily Operation | 4.5 |
| Gang Starr Step in the Arena | 4.5 |
| Roxy Music For Your Pleasure | 4.5 |
| Roxy Music Roxy Music | 4.0 |
| Roxy Music Stranded | 4.0 |
| "Mother of Pearl" is quite possibly Roxy Music's finest moment, an absolute stunning epic love song that manages to have not one but two distinct and incredible arrangements amidst the flurry of Ferry's majestic, soaring voice. There are other great moments on this album as well, from the near-punk of "Street Life" to the achingly beautiful ballad "A Song for Europe", this is yet another classic album in the canon of what very well may have been the most important rock band of the 1970s (in terms of pushing the rules and boundaries of the artform). |
| Squirtgun Squirtgun | 3.5 |
| Wavves Afraid of Heights | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 4.0 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist | 3.5 |
| Richie Havens Mixed Bag | 4.5 |
| Soft Cell Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret | 5.0 |
| Various Artists Anthology of American Folk Music | 5.0 |
| The amount of sheer emotion that the artists on this compilation are able to convey in their music is simply astounding. Your heart will break over and over again. |
| Placebo B3 | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Celebration Day | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 3.5 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 2.0 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 5.0 |
| I am appalled by some of the things respected members of this community have said about this album, and how frustratingly wrong they are. This is a classic album in every sense of the word, from the incredibly melodies of "She Bangs the Drums" to the epic magnum opus of rock and roll that is "I Am the Resurrection", this is a classic album in every sense of the word. Don't let the pseudo hipsters who have to go against whatever NME is saying this week try to convince you otherwise, this is a landmark of British rock music and an absolutely STUNNING record from start to finish. |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 4.5 |
| The Killers Battle Born | 2.5 |
| A mostly redundant album with occasional flashes of brilliance. |
| The Killers Day & Age | 3.0 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 3.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Tempest | 4.0 |
| Why the fuck isn't there a staff review for this yet? It's excellent. |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan and The Band The Basement Tapes | 4.5 |
| Fugazi Furniture | 3.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 3.5 |
| Converge Halo in a Haystack | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 5.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| The Vandals Peace Thru Vandalism | 4.5 |
| Balam Balam (demo) | 4.0 |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.5 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 5.0 |
| Swell Maps A Trip to Marineville | 4.0 |
| Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material | 4.5 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded | 1.0 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday | 1.5 |
| OutKast Idlewild | 3.0 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 4.0 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 5.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 5.0 |
| Big Black Atomizer | 5.0 |
| Nu Sensae Sundowning | 4.0 |
| Nas Life Is Good | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 5.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl | 4.5 |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 5.0 |
| Agnostic Front Victim in Pain | 4.0 |
| 7 Seconds New Wind | 3.0 |
| TNGHT TNGHT | 2.5 |
| 12 Stones 12 Stones | 3.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides | 3.5 |
| 7 Year Bitch ¡Viva Zapata! | 4.0 |
| Collective Soul Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid | 3.5 |
| Candlebox Candlebox | 4.0 |
| Suicide Suicide | 4.5 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 4.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.0 |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity | 4.5 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 5.0 |
| IF GOD DOESN'T LIKE UGLY, THEN GOD DOESN'T LIKE ANYBODY, SO FUCK GOD ANYWAYS! GOD IS OBSOLETE! |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 3.5 |
| The Cars Candy-O | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino Royalty | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain | 3.0 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.5 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion | 4.5 |
| Phil Ochs I Ain't Marching Anymore | 4.5 |
| The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers | 4.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Bikini Kill Pussy Whipped | 4.0 |
| Silverchair Diorama | 3.5 |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual | 4.5 |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking | 4.0 |
| Scorpions Love At First Sting | 4.5 |
| Violent Femmes Hallowed Ground | 3.5 |
| Camper Van Beethoven Telephone Free Landslide Victory | 5.0 |
| The weirdest, funnest damn indie record of the 80s, this album is atleast 10 years ahead of it's time. It's astounding that songs as absolutely ridiculous as "The Day Lassie Went to the Moon" or their big hit "Take the Skinheads Bowling" could be so mind-blowingly catchy and listenable. One word best describes this entire record, and it's fun. A landmark indie record of the 80s. |
| Yazoo Upstairs at Eric's | 4.5 |
| Silverchair Neon Ballroom | 4.0 |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing | 5.0 |
| Honestly just trying to explain how much this album means to me on a personal level is likely impossible, so all you really need to know is that this is some of the most beautiful, melodic, haunting, dark, and cathartic music to come out of the last 20 years. Brian Molko is inimitable and "Pure Morning", "Brick Shithouse" and obviously "Every You Every Me" are some of his best songs. |
| Placebo Placebo | 4.5 |
| The Hives Lex Hives | 3.5 |
| In a day and age where every rock band is trying to be experimental and alternative and indie and different it's good to know The Hives are still kicking out straight up, no frills garage rock with some heart to it. There will always be a place for that kind of rock and roll band. |
| The Police Synchronicity | 4.0 |
| The Police Ghost in the Machine | 3.5 |
| The Police Zenyatta Mondatta | 4.0 |
| The Police Reggatta de Blanc | 4.0 |
| Soulfly Soulfly | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.5 |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter | 4.0 |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle | 4.5 |
| George Harrison All Things Must Pass | 5.0 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.5 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.5 |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 2.5 |
| Biohazard Urban Discipline | 4.5 |
| Blue Murder Blue Murder | 2.5 |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour | 5.0 |
| Discharge Never Again | 4.5 |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing | 4.5 |
| Integrity Those Who Fear Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| The Stooges Raw Power | 5.0 |
| The Stooges Fun House | 4.5 |
| The Stooges The Stooges | 4.5 |
| Minor Threat In My Eyes | 5.0 |
| Minor Threat Out of Step | 4.5 |
| Minor Threat Minor Threat | 5.0 |
| Discharge Why | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death Scum | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult | 4.5 |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 2.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers | 3.0 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 5.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5.0 |
| Weezer Death to False Metal | 3.5 |
| Weezer Hurley | 3.0 |
| Weezer Raditude | 2.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 3.0 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.0 |
| Aside from "This is Such a Pity" (which is an excellent throwback to 80s power-pop new wave) and maybe "Perfect Situation", this is without a doubt Weezer's worst work to date. Still worth checking out for those two previously mentioned songs, but don't expect anything else to be anything but mediocre. Still though, even mediocre Weezer is better than your average modern radio-rock group so it's not a complete waste of your time. |
| Weezer Maladroit | 3.5 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 3.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 5.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 5.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
| Hole Nobody's Daughter | 2.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 4.5 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 4.5 |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 2.5 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 3.5 |
| Heatmiser Mic City Sons | 4.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights Hope | 3.0 |
| The Who Endless Wire | 3.0 |
| The Who Who Are You | 3.5 |
| The Who The Who by Numbers | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 2 | 4.5 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 4.0 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Help! | 4.5 |
| Quiet Riot Metal Health | 4.0 |
| Hanson Middle of Nowhere | 3.0 |
| Silverstein Rescue | 3.5 |
| Devo Duty Now for the Future | 4.0 |
| Devo Freedom of Choice | 4.5 |
| Adam and the Ants Prince Charming | 4.0 |
| Adam and the Ants Kings of the Wild Frontier | 4.0 |
| Staind Break The Cycle | 4.5 |
| Scarface Mr. Scarface Is Back | 4.5 |
| Pete Rock and CL Smooth Mecca and the Soul Brother | 4.5 |
| Basement Songs About The Weather | 3.5 |
| The Church Starfish | 5.0 |
| Black Moon Enta Da Stage | 4.0 |
| The Pretenders Pretenders | 5.0 |
| Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood | 4.5 |
| Misfits Walk Among Us | 4.5 |
| Misfits Static Age | 4.5 |
| Misfits Beware | 4.5 |
| Misfits Collection II | 4.5 |
| Misfits Collection I | 4.5 |
| The Smiths Louder Than Bombs | 5.0 |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow | 5.0 |
| Title Fight Shed | 4.0 |
| Santigold Santogold | 4.5 |
| The Adicts Sound of Music | 5.0 |
| The Adicts Songs of Praise | 4.0 |
| GBH City Baby Attacked By Rats | 4.5 |
| Subhumans EP-LP | 5.0 |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love | 5.0 |
| Supergrass I Should Coco | 4.5 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 5.0 |
| Gotye Making Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Richard and Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights | 4.5 |
| Lifetime Hello Bastards | 3.5 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 4.0 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire | 3.5 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 3.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 5.0 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 4.5 |
| Wavves Life Sux | 3.5 |
| Wavves King of the Beach | 4.5 |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of | 4.0 |
| Strung Out Twisted By Design | 4.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Once More With Feeling | 4.5 |
| The Cat Empire The Cat Empire | 4.0 |
| Santana Santana | 5.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 4.0 |
| Anti-Flag The General Strike | 3.0 |
| 7 Seconds Walk Together, Rock Together | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles | 5.0 |
| Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff | 4.0 |
| Common Rider Last Wave Rockers | 4.0 |
| Comeback Kid Wake the Dead | 3.5 |
| Comeback Kid Turn It Around | 4.5 |
| Absolutely amazing album, one of the best hardcore records of the past decade. |
| Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys | 5.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 5.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| Cream Anyone For Tennis | 4.5 |
| Blind Faith Blind Faith | 5.0 |
| Cream Goodbye | 3.5 |
| Cream Wheels of Fire | 4.5 |
| Cream Disraeli Gears | 5.0 |
| Cream Fresh Cream | 4.5 |
| OMC How Bizarre | 3.5 |
| A wonderful record that unfortunately isn't remembered as much as it should be outside of OMC's native New Zealand. Everyone remembers the smash hit "How Bizarre", and it remains one of the best pop songs of the 90s with a carefree summertime feeling to it that permeates every facet of this record, making the entire album a pleasure to listen to. OMC mixes rock, rap, electronica, and even worldbeat and folk while always maintaining a keen and structured pop songwriting sensibility. A nostalgic gem from the 90s that has remained a part of my playlist for many years. |
| O.C. Word...Life | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 4.0 |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 4.0 |
| No Age Everything In Between | 3.0 |
| Nicola Roberts Cinderella's Eyes | 3.5 |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 4.0 |
| Neuroticfish Gelb | 3.5 |
| Neuroticfish No Instruments | 4.0 |
| A superb collection of New Order/Depeche Mode influenced darkwave, really creative stuff that engages you from start to finish with nary a misstep. "Close" and "Skin" would feel right at home on Technique-era New Order, and I mean that in the best possible way because they're amazing songs that make you just want to get up and dance, but almost in a bittersweet manner. Stellar album from an underrated group that carries the torch of the 80s darkwave flame into the 21st century, this is their best release and a forgotten gem. |
| Nas Hip Hop Is Dead | 3.5 |
| Nas God's Son | 4.0 |
| Neil Sedaka Oh Carol! | 3.5 |
| Nas STILLmatic | 4.5 |
| My Morning Jacket The Tennessee Fire | 3.0 |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 3.0 |
| My Morning Jacket It Still Moves | 4.0 |
| My Morning Jacket At Dawn | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Z | 4.5 |
| Motorhead Motörhead | 4.0 |
| Mother Love Bone Mother Love Bone | 4.0 |
| The Morning Benders Big Echo | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 5.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.5 |
| Modern English After the Snow | 4.0 |
| Moby Grape Moby Grape | 5.0 |
| Mission of Burma Vs. | 4.5 |
| Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches | 5.0 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Pay Attention | 3.0 |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It | 4.5 |
| Middle Class Out of Vogue | 4.0 |
| The most important punk record you've probably never heard, this EP by the Middle Class is generally recognized as the first hardcore punk release in the genre's history, and all of the trademarks and building blocks for the scene can be found here: explosive vocals, pulsing guitars and lightning fast drumming. While it isn't particularly the best hardcore record, it's certainly one of the most important and a hidden gem for any fans of punk rock. |
| MGMT Congratulations | 3.5 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 4.0 |
| Men at Work Business as Usual | 4.0 |
| MC5 Kick Out the Jams | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low | 2.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me | 2.5 |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 4.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family | 3.5 |
| Suede Suede | 4.5 |
| Mansun Six | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours | 3.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul | 3.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists | 3.0 |
| The Mamas and The Papas If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears | 5.0 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 3.5 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd | 5.0 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Gimme Back My Bullets | 4.0 |
| Lush Split | 4.5 |
| Dude...Sput...how do you not have a review for this yet?! |
| Lou Reed Transformer | 5.0 |
| Lil Wyte Doubt Me Now | 3.0 |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket | 4.5 |
| Less Than Jake Hello Rockview | 4.0 |
| Less Than Jake Losers, Kings and Other Things We Don't Understand | 3.5 |
| Less Than Jake Losing Streak | 4.0 |
| Lenny Kravitz 5 | 3.5 |
| Lenny Kravitz Are You Gonna Go My Way | 3.5 |
| Lenny Kravitz Let Love Rule | 3.0 |
| Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy | 3.5 |
| The Lemonheads Come On Feel the Lemonheads | 4.0 |
| The Lemonheads It's a Shame About Ray | 5.0 |
| The Lemonheads Lick | 3.5 |
| The Lemonheads Hate Your Friends | 2.5 |
| The title track is a great little bit of snotty punk, but otherwise this is a very inconsistent debut with a couple of flashes of the promise of Evan Dando's songwriting abilities that he'd fully grow into within a few years. |
| Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade | 4.0 |
| Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica | 3.5 |
| The La's The La's | 5.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 2.5 |
| Korn Issues | 3.5 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 4.5 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.5 |
| Korn Korn | 5.0 |
| Kno Death Is Silent | 3.5 |
| Ace Frehley Ace Frehley | 3.5 |
| KISS Love Gun | 4.5 |
| KISS Destroyer | 4.5 |
| KISS Hotter Than Hell | 3.0 |
| KISS KISS | 4.0 |
| The Killing Tree Bury Me at Make-Out Creek | 3.5 |
| Jose Gonzalez In Our Nature | 4.0 |
| Jose Gonzalez Veneer | 5.0 |
| Jon Brion Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind OS | 4.0 |
| It's hard to describe how much Jon Brion's score and the accompanying tracks that make up this soundtrack album mean to me. Just let it be known that the track entitled "Phone Call" is quite possibly the most beautiful 64 seconds of music I've ever heard. |
| John Lennon Double Fantasy | 3.5 |
| John Lennon Shaved Fish | 4.5 |
| John Lennon Rock 'n' Roll | 4.0 |
| John Lennon Imagine | 5.0 |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band | 5.0 |
| John Grant Queen Of Denmark | 4.0 |
| Jeru the Damaja Wrath of the Math | 3.5 |
| Jefferson Airplane After Bathing at Baxter's | 4.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 5.0 |
| Jay Reatard Matador Singles '08 | 3.5 |
| Jay Reatard Singles 06-07 | 3.5 |
| Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall | 3.5 |
| Jay Reatard Blood Visions | 4.5 |
| A modern punk classic, Reatard mixes raw garage rock guitars with aggressive punk vocals and energy and ties it all together with superb moments of power-pop cut into the noisy chaos of it's surroundings. An amazing album from an artist that passed away far too soon. |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 3.0 |
| The Human League Dare! | 4.0 |
| Husker Du Candy Apple Grey | 4.0 |
| Husker Du Flip Your Wig | 4.5 |
| Husker Du New Day Rising | 4.5 |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 5.0 |
| Husker Du Everything Falls Apart | 3.5 |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game | 4.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 3.5 |
| The Hives Black and White Album | 3.0 |
| The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives | 4.5 |
| The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious | 5.0 |
| The Hives Barely Legal | 3.5 |
| Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson | 4.0 |
| The Gun Club Fire of Love | 5.0 |
| Group Home Livin' Proof | 3.5 |
| Groundswell Wave of Popular Feeling | 3.5 |
| Much better than anything Three Days Grace ever went on to do. Catchy post-grunge that doesn't outstay it's welcome. Highlights include the title track, Eddie, Snatch, and Stare. |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.0 |
| Geto Boys We Can't Be Stopped | 4.5 |
| Geto Boys The Geto Boys | 4.0 |
| The Get Up Kids There Are Rules | 3.5 |
| People giving this a low rating for not being like their older stuff is just bullshit. This is quite possibly their most cohesive and engaging album ever, it grabs you right at the start with the frenetic, nervous energy of "Regent's Court" before doing a total 180 and making their most whimsical and synth-laden song ever in "Shatter Your Lungs", which almost reminds me of good chillwave. Be forewarned, this is a very different band from the emo/pop-punk unit they started out as all those years ago with beloved albums like Four Minute Mile and Something to Write Home About. But that's not a bad thing. These guys have matured, they've grown up, and they've expanded their musical vocabulary. You should do the same and give this album a chance, you won't regret it. |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About | 4.0 |
| The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile | 4.5 |
| General Public All the Rage | 5.0 |
| A tour-de-force of 1980's pop with a new wave edge and the almost care-free brilliance of ex-English beat members Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger. Nearly as good as the Beat were at their best, there isn't a moment wasted on this album from the inescapably catchy hit single "Tenderness" to the laid-back cool of tracks like "Never You Done That" or the driving, heart-on-it's-sleeve anthem "Are You Leading Me On?" there really isn't a moment wasted here. Highest recommendation for any fans of new wave, the Beat, fans of 80s music or anyone looking for an achingly catchy pop album. Oh and did I mention that Mick Jones, freshly booted from The Clash, plays lead guitar for half the album (including most of the singles)? |
| Fugees The Score | 4.5 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.5 |
| Fugazi End Hits | 3.5 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 4.0 |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 3.5 |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing | 3.5 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 4.5 |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count | 3.0 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful | 4.5 |
| Freeway Philadelphia Freeway | 4.0 |
| Jawbreaker Dear You | 5.0 |
| Jawbreaker Etc. | 3.5 |
| Jawbreaker Unfun | 3.5 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 5.0 |
| Jawbreaker Bivouac | 3.5 |
| The Queers Love Songs for the Retarded | 4.0 |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 3.5 |
| MDC Millions of Dead Cops | 4.5 |
| Currensy Pilot Talk | 4.0 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy | 4.0 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 3.5 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.5 |
| Flobots Fight with Tools | 3.0 |
| Violent Femmes Freak Magnet | 3.0 |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes | 5.0 |
| Fine Young Cannibals The Raw and the Cooked | 4.0 |
| Fine Young Cannibals Fine Young Cannibals | 3.0 |
| Finch What It Is to Burn | 4.0 |
| Filter Short Bus | 3.0 |
| Joe Jackson Look Sharp! | 4.5 |
| G-Unit Beg For Mercy | 3.0 |
| Fabolous Real Talk | 3.5 |
| Evergreen Terrace Losing All Hope Is Freedom | 3.5 |
| WZRD WZRD | 2.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 3.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.5 |
| Eminem Relapse | 2.5 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 4.0 |
| Eminem Infinite | 3.0 |
| Unwritten Law Elva | 3.5 |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 4.5 |
| Unwound Fake Train | 4.0 |
| Unwound Repetition | 4.5 |
| Donovan Sunshine Superman | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On | 5.0 |
| Hodgy Untitled | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 4.5 |
| Talk Talk It's My Life | 3.0 |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust | 4.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 4.0 |
| Happy Mondays Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Singles | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 3.5 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 3.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 5.0 |
| Say Anything Menorah/Majora | 3.5 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.5 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 4.0 |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart | 4.5 |
| Soen Cognitive | 3.0 |
| Bayside Bayside | 3.0 |
| The Dangerous Summer War Paint | 2.5 |
| Ice-T O.G. Original Gangster | 4.5 |
| Ice-T The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What Yo | 4.5 |
| Ice-T Power | 4.0 |
| Ice-T Rhyme Pays | 3.5 |
| Gangrene Vodka & Ayahuasca | 3.5 |
| Underground stoner rap duo goes on a long, strange Ayahausca trip. Hip hop fans profit. |
| Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live in 1975 | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Together Through Life | 2.5 |
| Bob Dylan Modern Times | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Love and Theft | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 5.0 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle | 5.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record | 5.0 |
| Elastica Elastica | 4.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Songs to Learn and Sing | 4.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain | 4.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine | 4.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Crocodiles | 4.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 4.5 |
| Eagles Hotel California | 5.0 |
| Duran Duran Rio | 4.0 |
| Duran Duran Duran Duran | 4.0 |
| Dramarama Cinema Verite | 5.0 |
| The greatest record of 1985 and possibly the entire decade that no one heard. "Anything, Anything" is a legitimate contender for the single greatest rock song ever written and the rest of the album absolutely blazes with energy, melodicism, and a special kind of punk energy only comparable to similar alternative bands of the time like the Replacements or Husker Du. "Emerald City" will haunt you for weeks on end, as elegant and beautiful a song you will ever hear.rHyperbolic? Perhaps. But this album is really that damned good. |
| Feeder Comfort In Sound | 3.5 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend | 5.0 |
| Feeder Echo Park | 4.0 |
| Feeder Yesterday Went Too Soon | 4.0 |
| Green Day Shenanigans | 3.0 |
| Hot Hot Heat Make Up the Breakdown | 3.5 |
| Godsmack Godsmack | 4.0 |
| Feeder Polythene | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Colors | 4.5 |
| Amazing slice of late 80s hip hop at it's absolute best. The title track by Ice-T is one of the early gangsta rap anthems and still one the very best, and all over this soundtrack are some of the best artists at the time like Big Daddy Kane, Eric B & Rakim, Kool G. Rap, MC Shan, etc. Includes the infamous Coldcut remix of "Paid in Full" that's an amazing slice of late 80s hip hop DJ work at it's finest. The only thing holding this album back is a goofy attempt at dub sung by none other than the star of the film Sean Penn, under the guise of the "Decadent Dub Team". Otherwise, a nearly perfect soundtrack for a great film that accurately represents the true "sounds of the street" at the time. |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! | 5.0 |
| Devo Be Stiff | 5.0 |
| Adam and the Ants Dirk Wears White Sox | 5.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.5 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.5 |
| Brand New The Holiday | 3.0 |
| Brand New/Safety In Numbers Split | 3.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 5.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 4.5 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 5.0 |
| Fatboy Slim Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars | 4.5 |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby | 4.5 |
| Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry | 5.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 5.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur | 4.0 |
| Kid Rock The History of Rock | 3.0 |
| Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause | 3.5 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs | 3.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.5 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 4.5 |
| Maybach Music Group Self Made Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| BITCH IMA BOSS |
| MellowHype BLACKENEDWHITE | 4.0 |
| Main Source Breaking Atoms | 4.5 |
| Young Buck Straight Outta Cashville | 3.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.5 |
| The Game The R.E.D. Album | 3.5 |
| Local H Pack Up the Cats | 3.0 |
| Silverchair Freak Show | 4.0 |
| Silverchair Frogstomp | 4.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 5.0 |
| Morphine Cure for Pain | 5.0 |
| Local H As Good as Dead | 4.5 |
| Mase Harlem World | 3.0 |
| Jungle Brothers Straight Out The Jungle | 4.5 |
| Da Lench Mob Guerillas in tha Mist | 4.0 |
| How can you not love an album featuring the line "I'm glad that Lincoln got bucked in the face, we shoulda been free in the first place"? Over the top mix of early 90s g-funk with a political side, but all very angry and nihilistic. The title track is a classic example of the early 90s West Coast gangsta rap sound. Worth noting that Ice Cube, who produced the album, is featured on several songs along with an appearance by B-Real of Cypress Hill. |
| 50 Cent The Big 10 | 2.5 |
| Currensy and Wiz Khalifa How Fly | 2.5 |
| Nas Nastradamus | 2.5 |
| Nas I Am... | 3.0 |
| Nas It Was Written | 4.5 |
| Childish Gambino Camp | 3.0 |
| Lloyd Banks The Hunger For More | 4.0 |
| The Game The Documentary | 5.0 |
| Pusha T Fear of God II: Let Us Pray | 3.5 |
| Imagine if Kanye West was actually a gangsta rapper and you pretty much have this album here. GOOD Music for sure, in the vein of Kanye and CuDi but a bit more grim. |
| Tha Dogg Pound Dogg Food | 3.5 |
| Lagwagon Duh | 4.0 |
| Das EFX Dead Serious | 4.0 |
| Mantronix Mantronix: The Album | 4.0 |
| Drake Thank Me Later | 3.0 |
| Drake So Far Gone | 3.5 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 4.5 |
| DJ Khaled Listennn... the Album | 3.0 |
| "Grammy Family" is absolutely stellar, a jaw-dropping single with an unbelievably smooth and catchy beat. Rest of the album ranges from average to great, the guest spots are frequently switched up so it never feels stale or repetitive, overall a very good debut for DJ Khaled here. Did I mention how good "Grammy Family" is? |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner | 5.0 |
| Depeche Mode The Singles 81→85 | 4.5 |
| 88 Fingers Louie Back On The Streets | 4.0 |
| 88 Fingers Louie Go Away 7" | 3.5 |
| Debut of one of the very best melodic hardcore punk bands of the 90s, this is 88 Fingers Louie at their fiercest and most reckless. All four songs are great, an exhilarating debut. "There's No Way" and "Intellectual Lover" remain two of my favorite 88 songs to this day. |
| 88 Fingers Louie The Dom Years | 4.0 |
| 88 Fingers Louie Behind Bars | 3.0 |
| Millencolin Pennybridge Pioneers | 4.0 |
| Millencolin Life On A Plate | 4.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.0 |
| Del Shannon Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression | 4.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio Share What Ya Got | 4.0 |
| David Gray White Ladder | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Lodger | 4.0 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Low | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 5.0 |
| Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours | 5.0 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 5.0 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 3.5 |
| Thug Life Thug Life | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 3.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane | 4.5 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory | 5.0 |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World | 4.5 |
| Daniel Johnston Hi, How Are You | 4.0 |
| Daniel Johnston Songs of Pain | 4.0 |
| Dance Hall Crashers The Old Record | 4.5 |
| The Damned Damned Damned Damned | 4.5 |
| The Exploited Troops of Tomorrow | 5.0 |
| A landmark classic of the entire spectrum of punk, this is both The Exploited and punk rock in general at it's finest, combining incredible little melodies with a raw, blistering form of British punk results in some not only the finest Exploited songs, but some of the best punk songs ever (like "Alternative"). rHighly recommended for anyone with ears and an interest in punk. Truly a classic. |
| Daft Punk Homework | 4.5 |
| The D.O.C. No One Can Do It Better | 5.0 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 5.0 |
| Cursive Domestica | 4.5 |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Deja Vu | 5.0 |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Crosby, Stills and Nash | 5.0 |
| Crocodiles Sleep Forever | 3.5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory | 5.0 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy and the Poor Boys | 4.5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River | 5.0 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou Country | 4.0 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival | 3.5 |
| Creed Weathered | 2.5 |
| Creed Human Clay | 3.0 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 3.5 |
| Crazy Town The Gift Of Game | 2.5 |
| Crass Penis Envy | 4.5 |
| Crass Stations of the Crass | 4.0 |
| Crass The Feeding of the 5000 | 3.5 |
| The Cranberries To the Faithful Departed | 4.0 |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue | 5.0 |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? | 4.5 |
| The Coral The Coral | 4.0 |
| Concrete Blonde Bloodletting | 4.0 |
| Common Be | 4.0 |
| The Cult Sonic Temple | 4.0 |
| The Cult Electric | 4.5 |
| The Cult Love | 4.5 |
| The Cult Dreamtime | 4.5 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 4.5 |
| OutKast Aquemini | 5.0 |
| Refused The Demo Compilation | 3.0 |
| Refused The EP Compilation | 4.0 |
| Refused This Just Might Be... The Truth | 3.5 |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent | 4.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| OutKast ATLiens | 4.0 |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik | 4.5 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 2.0 |
| The LOX Money, Power & Respect | 3.5 |
| Black Sheep A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing | 4.5 |
| Army Of The Pharaohs The Five Perfect Exertions/War Ensemble | 5.0 |
| Sublime with Rome Yours Truly | 3.0 |
| Sublime Robbin' the Hood | 4.0 |
| Sublime Second Hand Smoke | 4.0 |
| Sublime Sublime | 5.0 |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 5.0 |
| Slick Rick The Art Of Storytelling | 4.0 |
| Slick Rick's real return to hip-hop after his prison sentence, complete with all star production and guest spots everywhere. Rick's flow is as impeccable as ever, and the production is deeper and richer than his classic first album even if the rhymes aren't always up to the same quality as his old work. You don't go to Rick for lyricism though, you go to him for style, and he's got it in spades here. Underrated album. |
| Rockwell Somebody's Watching Me | 3.0 |
| Fun and all kinds of funky, Rockwell's Somebody's Watching Me is one heck of a fun relic from the 80s, mixing up rock, soul, dance, and R&B under the Motown label to create a well-crafted album of tunes to dance to. It helps when Michael Jackson sings the hook of your single ("Somebody's Watching Me") and it hits number one for five weeks straight on the R&B charts as well. The paranoid single is undoubtedly the highlight, but the whole album is worth a spin if you're feeling nostalgic for the 80s. |
| AWOLNATION Megalithic Symphony | 3.5 |
| Chuck Berry The Great Twenty-Eight | 5.0 |
| Elvis Presley The Sun Sessions | 5.0 |
| Elvis Presley Elvis Presley | 5.0 |
| Madness One Step Beyond | 4.5 |
| The Beat Special Beat Service | 5.0 |
| The Beat Wha'ppen? | 4.5 |
| The Beat I Just Can't Stop It | 5.0 |
| The Specials Specials | 5.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Binaural | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Vs. | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 5.0 |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.5 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 2.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac | 5.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac | 4.0 |
| Damn shame no one remembers the original Fleetwood Mac, the Peter Green fronted version that was probably one of the best damn white blues bands to ever play. Songs like "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "My Heart Beat Like a Hammer" are raw blues-rock at it's absolute finest. Great album that's right up there with any other blues revival rock being produced at the time. Green was such a guitar virtuoso he allegedly even gave BB King the cold sweats upon seeing him live. |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 5.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 5.0 |
| Jeru the Damaja The Sun Rises in the East | 4.5 |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. | 4.5 |
| Das Racist Shut Up, Dude | 2.0 |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown's debut album lives up to the street hype. Tony Yayo's Detroit-based protege sounds confident and assured on every track while he delivers rapid-fire lines musing on everything from Super Nintendo games to drug dealing. The beats are consistently engaging, the production is slick yet still maintains the feeling of an underground release, and there's nary a weak moment to be found. Keep your eyes on Mr. Danny Brown from Detroit ladies and gentlemen, because he has big things in his future and his debut album is a rousing success on almost every front. |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 2.0 |
| Mobb Deep Black Cocaine | 3.0 |
| Mobb Deep Murda Muzik | 3.5 |
| New Boyz Skinny Jeans and a Mic | 1.0 |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty | 4.5 |
| Eazy-E It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa | 3.5 |
| Eazy-E 5150: Home 4 tha Sick | 3.0 |
| Talib Kweli Quality | 4.5 |
| Reflection Eternal The RE:Union Mixtape | 3.5 |
| Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick | 4.0 |
| Boogie Down Productions By All Means Necessary | 5.0 |
| Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded | 5.0 |
| The Diplomats Diplomatic Immunity 2 | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs | 3.0 |
| LL Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out | 4.5 |
| LL Cool J Radio | 4.5 |
| Run-D.M.C. Down With The King | 3.5 |
| Most of the album is average at best, but the title track is the best song Run DMC ever wrote in the 90s, yeah they were kind of out of their element trying the "gangsta rap" phase, but "Down With the King" still hits HARD after all these years and is their last truly great song. |
| Run-D.M.C. Tougher Than Leather | 4.5 |
| Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell | 5.0 |
| Run-D.M.C. King Of Rock | 4.5 |
| Run-D.M.C. Run DMC | 5.0 |
| De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead | 4.5 |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising | 5.0 |
| Eric B and Rakim Follow the Leader | 4.5 |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full | 5.0 |
| Master P Ghetto D | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Hammersmith Odeon London '75 | 4.0 |
| The Roots undun | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen The River | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. | 4.0 |
| Neil Young Freedom | 3.5 |
| Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps | 5.0 |
| Neil Young Harvest | 5.0 |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush | 4.5 |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | 5.0 |
| R.E.M. Accelerate | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 5.0 |
| R.E.M. Out of Time | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Document | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Reckoning | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 5.0 |
| R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12) | 1.5 |
| Mouth Sewn Shut Doomed Future Today | 3.5 |
| Toxic Narcotic Toxic Narcotic: 88-99 | 4.5 |
| Literally the sound of the Boston hardcore scene for a few brief but wonderful years, |
| New Found Glory New Found Glory | 3.5 |
| New Found Glory Nothing Gold Can Stay | 4.0 |
| Puff Daddy No Way Out | 4.0 |
| Wall Of Voodoo Call Of The West | 4.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 3.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 3.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights Hate | 3.5 |
| Some of the best music they've ever made, if not the best. The lyrics remain a bit amateurish and sophomoric, but they make up for it in spades with the performances on each song. Perhaps this band can finally win over some of the more ardent post-hardcore/emo fans with this EP. Or maybe not. Either way, it's a great little record and "Hate" might be the best song they've ever made. |
| The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat | 5.0 |
| An absolute classic of new wave and alternative music of the 1980s, there isn't a solitary wasted moment on the entire LP from the catchy singles "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat" to the slow-burning rocker "Lust to Love", this is all gold. I legitimately could count on one hand the number of better songs in the 1980s than "Lust to Love", it's that amazing and brilliant.rTruly a classic album, deserving of the five star rating without a doubt. 80s new wave and pop simply did not get any better than this, and neither did the Go-Go's. |
| Wall Of Voodoo Dark Continent | 5.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 4.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 4.0 |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 4.5 |
| The Who Who's Next | 5.0 |
| The Who Tommy | 4.5 |
| The Who The Who Sell Out | 4.0 |
| The Who A Quick One | 4.0 |
| The Who My Generation | 4.5 |
| The Cure Wild Mood Swings | 2.5 |
| The Cure Wish | 3.5 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 5.0 |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | 4.5 |
| The Cure The Head on the Door | 5.0 |
| The Cure Japanese Whispers | 3.5 |
| The Cure The Top | 3.0 |
| The Cure Pornography | 4.0 |
| The Cure Faith | 3.5 |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds | 3.5 |
| The Cure Boys Don't Cry | 4.5 |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Closer | 5.0 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 5.0 |
| Joy Division Substance | 5.0 |
| New Order Waiting for the Siren's Call | 3.0 |
| New Order Get Ready | 3.5 |
| "Crystal" starts the album off with a bang as it's the best song New Order has recorded in over a decade when it was released in 2001. The rest of the album delivers the goods as well, showing a spirited, reinvigorated group of musicians returning to their roots and producing some of their very best songs in many years in the process. Highly recommended for both New Order fans and newcomers alike. Also worth noting that Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame and Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream fame have guest appearances on the album, Corgan's in particular is excellent. |
| New Order Republic | 3.0 |
| New Order Technique | 4.5 |
| New Order Brotherhood | 4.0 |
| New Order Low-Life | 4.5 |
| New Order Substance | 5.0 |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies | 5.0 |
| New Order Movement | 3.5 |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair | 4.5 |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting | 5.0 |
| Depeche Mode Some Great Reward | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Construction Time Again | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode A Broken Frame | 3.0 |
| Depeche Mode Speak & Spell | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration | 4.5 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 5.0 |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses | 5.0 |
| Ashlee Simpson Autobiography | 1.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 1.0 |
| Justin Bieber Under the Mistletoe | 1.5 |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 4.5 |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 5.0 |
| Grateful Dead American Beauty | 5.0 |
| Love Four Sail | 3.0 |
| Love Love | 4.5 |
| Love Da Capo | 5.0 |
| Love Forever Changes | 5.0 |
| Alter Bridge AB III | 2.0 |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 2.0 |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains | 1.5 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 1.0 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 1.5 |
| Lil Wayne No Ceilings | 3.5 |
| Good Charlotte Cardiology | 1.5 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 2.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless | 2.5 |
| Good Charlotte Good Charlotte | 3.0 |
| Four Year Strong Explains It All | 1.5 |
| Fear The Record | 5.0 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life | 3.5 |
| The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me | 5.0 |
| The Replacements Tim | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 5.0 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 5.0 |
| Reagan Youth Volume One | 5.0 |
| Reagan Youth A Collection of Pop Classics | 5.0 |
| Reagan Youth Volume Two | 3.5 |
| Reagan Youth Youth Anthems for the New Order | 4.5 |
| Angry Samoans Back From Samoa | 5.0 |
| Angry Samoans Inside My Brain | 4.0 |
| Circle Jerks Wild in the Streets | 5.0 |
| Circle Jerks Group Sex | 5.0 |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography | 5.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 5.0 |
| Gorilla Biscuits Start Today | 4.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 5.0 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 5.0 |
| A serious candidate for the best grunge record the 90s ever produced, Soundgarden's third album saw the band break out from their Seattle peers in a way only Nirvana or Pearl Jam could claim similar paths to. Just like Nirvana's "Nevermind" and Pearl Jam' "Ten", "Badmotorfinger" is both a slice of it's time and timeless, truly a masterpiece in the world of alternative rock, highlights include...well almost every single track is a highlight really, but "Room a Thousand Years Wide" may just be Soundgarden and Chris Cornell at their very darkest and best. An amazing album that belongs in everyone's collection. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 5.0 |
| Paul Simon Paul Simon | 4.0 |
Garfunkel who?
Paul Simon's debut is practically a tangible explosion of creative energy and musicianship from one of the great songwriters of the 60s. Gone are the elegant ballads of Bridge Over Troubled Water, as the opening track "Mother and Child Reunion" is an incredible reggae song (and a Top 5 hit in both the US and the UK) that lets you know from the get-go that Simon had far-ranging eclectic interests beyond the folk-rock he had been known for. He mixes a certifiable maelstrom of music mixing reggae, folk, country, blues, psychedelic rock and pop and proved from the beginning that he had so much more to offer the world after the split of Simon & Garfunkel. This is simply an extraordinary record, and one of the few solo records to have succeeded both commercially and critically as well as Paul Simon did. |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Between the Buttons | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Aftermath | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones December's Children (And Everybody's) | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones, Now! | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones 12 x 5 | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones No.2 | 3.5 |
| Their version of Solomon Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" is the greatest version ever in my opinion. Great album all around. |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones | 3.5 |
| Great representation of what The Stones were all about in their early days, which was working-class rhythm and blues. You really won't find a better collection of cover songs from this era or any, raw rock and roll at it's finest. I toyed with a 4.5 and a 5 rating, but then I remembered the absolute brilliance of "Tell Me", one of the Stones very first original songs that plays like The Ronettes were a rock and roll band and I had to go ahead and give this album the full five star treatment. Before the legend of the Rolling Stones, there was this---the dirty, funky rock and roll band. |
| Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won | 5.0 |
| A serious contender for the greatest live album ever. Everything that made Led Zeppelin the most acclaimed and popular rock band of the 70s as well as one of the most heralded live acts ever can be found within this triple album---the unGodly long jams that routinely went 20-30 minutes yet never got boring for a second, Bonham making his case as the greatest rock drummer ever on his definitive track "Moby Dick", Jimmy Page shredding guitars with violin bows and proving himself as one of the preeminent rock guitarists ever, Jones driving bass lines, and Robert Plant's soaring vocals that define 70s rock as a whole, everything there was to love about this band can be found in the depths of this remarkable album. A must-have for anyone with even a passing interest in that "rock and roll" thing. |
| Led Zeppelin Coda | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 5.0 |
| Jefferson Airplane Volunteers | 5.0 |
| Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 5.0 |
| Canned Heat The Very Best Of | 4.0 |
| Canned Heat Boogie With Canned Heat | 4.5 |
| Buddy Holly The Chirping Crickets | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 5.0 |
| Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course | 3.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra | 3.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 1.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 4.0 |
| Paul Simon Graceland | 5.0 |
| Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 [DVD] | 5.0 |
| As someone else once said, if you didn't give this a 5, you didn't watch it. |
| Bad Brains I Against I | 4.5 |
| Bad Brains Rock For Light | 4.5 |
| Bad Brains Black Dots | 4.0 |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains | 5.0 |
| Slayer Show No Mercy | 4.5 |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 3.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.5 |
| Metallica Load | 1.5 |
| The amount of Metallica fanboys on this shoutout page is hilarious. No one is complaining about this album because it's "different" and "not metal". We're calling it shit because it's fucking awful, and sounds like Bob Seger and James Hetfield fucked, conceived a mentally challenged child who spent his entire childhood eating paint chips and watching Chevy commercials, and then told that child to make some rock n roll music. This is the soundtrack to being a 40 year old mechanic who beats his wife. |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 5.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 5.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.5 |
| Operation Ivy Energy | 5.0 |
| Public Enemy Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black | 4.0 |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet | 4.5 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 5.0 |
| Public Enemy Yo! Bum Rush the Show | 4.5 |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde | 4.0 |
| Pixies Bossanova | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 5.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 5.0 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 5.0 |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 5.0 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne | 4.0 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music | 4.0 |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food | 5.0 |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 | 4.5 |
| Guthrie Govan Erotic Cakes | 4.0 |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.5 |
| Syd Barrett Barrett | 3.5 |
| Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs | 4.0 |
| David Gilmour On An Island | 3.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 5.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.5 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.5 |
| T.S.O.L. Dance With Me | 5.0 |
| T.S.O.L. T.S.O.L./Weathered Statues | 5.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise | 5.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Feed Me with Your Kiss | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt | 4.0 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 3.5 |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? | 3.0 |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 3.0 |
| Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple | 3.5 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.5 |
| Goodie Mob Soul Food | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager | 4.5 |
| It's everything we could have hoped for and so much more. Dark, brooding, experimental, effervescent and ultimately brilliant. This is somehow an even more personal record than his first, reflecting the personal troubles that Cudi has experienced since his first album (mainly his cocaine addiction), and you can hear the sadness, desperation, bravado and torment Cudi releases from his very soul on almost every track. I think it's safe to say this is not only Cudi's best work to date, it's one of the finest hip-hop albums to be released in years. |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 4.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 5.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 5.0 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 2.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 5.0 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 3.5 |
| The Cramps Psychedelic Jungle | 3.5 |
| The Cramps Songs the Lord Taught Us | 4.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Stoned & Dethroned | 3.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Honey's Dead | 3.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Automatic | 3.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands | 4.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 5.0 |
| The Cramps Bad Music For Bad People | 5.0 |
| The Horrors Primary Colours | 3.5 |
| The Horrors Skying | 4.0 |
| It's every band from the 80s that you loved, through the drug haze-laced spectacles of the Britpop movement, with a dash or two of classic punk thrown in for good measure. In other words, it's mesmerizing and a contender for album of the year. |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 3.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 3.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 4.5 |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire | 3.0 |
| U2 War | 3.5 |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 5.0 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 4.0 |
| Oasis The Masterplan | 3.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 5.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| This is the Radiohead I love. Experimental, beautiful, haunting, emotional. As great as the group is I've always found them a bit overrated, feeling that their epic ballads were sometimes quite sterile, but this album just clicked with me from start to finish. While some say it's a return to the Kid A sound, it's more than that, it's a progression of that and it's both fresh and unique. There are some amazing songs on here, mainly "Bloom", "Codex", and "Separator", but all of the songs are good really. Maybe it helps that I first listened to it on a rainy Monday afternoon so the downtempo mood was appropriate. rTheir best since Amnesiac. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.5 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 4.0 |
| T.I. King | 4.0 |
| The Roots The Tipping Point | 5.0 |
| Rise Against The Unraveling | 5.0 |
| Their absolute best work, this is Rise Against at their melodic hardcore best. Everything about this album stands out from the instruments to McIlrath's half-screamed half-crooned vocals and absolutely mesmerizing lyrics, there isn't a weak point to this entire album. "My Life Inside Your Heart" may be the best song RA ever wrote, as it refuses anything less than tearing into your heart and psyche. One of the best modern punk records, period. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 5.0 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 3.5 |
| Cloud Cult Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus | 3.0 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 3.0 |
| Glass Bones The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope | 3.5 |
| Ramones Ramones Mania | 5.0 |
| Rites of Spring End on End | 5.0 |
| Choking Victim Squatta's Paradise | 4.0 |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers | 4.5 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 4.0 |
| Children of the Corn Children of the Corn: The Collector's Edition | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.5 |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole | 4.5 |
| The Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust | 4.0 |
| Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf Big Shots | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Ruined | 4.0 |
| Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer | 3.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 4.0 |
| The Cars The Cars | 5.0 |
| Caribou Swim | 3.5 |
| MC Ren Shock of the Hour | 3.5 |
| MC Ren Kizz My Black Azz | 3.5 |
| Proof Searching for Jerry Garcia | 3.0 |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde | 4.0 |
| Can Ege Bamyasi | 4.0 |
| Can Tago Mago | 5.0 |
| Bush Sixteen Stone | 4.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 5.0 |
| Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It | 4.5 |
| EPMD Strictly Business | 5.0 |
| Redman Whut? Thee Album | 5.0 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 3.0 |
| Ice Cube Lethal Injection | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube The Predator | 4.5 |
| Ice Cube Death Certificate | 5.0 |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | 5.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Friday (Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| D12 Devil's Night | 3.5 |
| Method Man Tical | 5.0 |
| Mobb Deep Hell on Earth | 4.5 |
| 2Pac Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. | 4.5 |
| Danger Mouse The Grey Album | 4.5 |
| 2Pac 2Pacalypse Now | 4.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.5 |
| Broken Bells Meyrin Fields | 3.5 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 3.0 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Before and After Science | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets | 4.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| Braid Movie Music, Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| Braid Movie Music Vol. One | 3.0 |
| Braid Frame & Canvas | 4.0 |
| Braid The Age of Octeen | 4.0 |
| Braid Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five | 3.5 |
| Some of Braid's absolute best work can be found on here. Highlights include "Capricorn", "Three Point Turn", and "Zero Frisco". This band wrote some of the best material of the early 90s emo scene. |
| The Boys Next Door Door, Door | 3.5 |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 3.5 |
| Boris Pink | 3.5 |
| Boris Akuma no Uta | 4.5 |
| Boredoms Super Ae | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer | 3.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 5.0 |
| Blur Think Tank | 3.0 |
| Blur 13 | 3.5 |
| Blur Blur | 4.0 |
| Blur The Great Escape | 4.0 |
| Blur Parklife | 5.0 |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish | 3.5 |
| Blur Leisure | 3.0 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.0 |
| Blondie Eat to the Beat | 3.0 |
| Blondie Parallel Lines | 4.5 |
| Blondie Blondie | 4.0 |
| An excellent debut album for the pop-minded new wave outfit Blondie, featuring some of their very best work in the singles "X Offender" and "Rip Her to Shreds". Not their strongest album, but the Blondie formula is introduced here with it's punk aggression, new wave instrumentation and bubblegum pop-minded songwriting. Recommended for fans and newcomers alike. |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.0 |
| Black Uhuru 20 Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Black Star Black Star | 5.0 |
| Black Flag Who's Got the 10 1/2? | 3.5 |
| Black Flag In My Head | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Loose Nut | 3.0 |
| Black Flag Slip It In | 3.5 |
| Black Flag My War | 4.5 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 5.0 |
| Black Flag The First Four Years | 4.5 |
| Black Flag Everything Went Black | 4.0 |
| Black Flag Nervous Breakdown | 5.0 |
| The Black Angels Passover | 4.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.0 |
| The Birthday Party The Birthday Party | 3.5 |
| Big Pun Capital Punishment | 4.5 |
| Big L The Archives 1996-2000 | 3.5 |
| Big L The Big Picture | 4.0 |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous | 5.0 |
| Big Daddy Kane It's A Big Daddy Thing | 4.0 |
| Big Daddy Kane Long Live The Kane | 4.5 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 3.5 |
| Brand Nubian One For All | 4.5 |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday | 5.0 |
| Cypress Hill Cypress Hill | 4.0 |
| Mike G ALI | 3.0 |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep | 4.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever | 4.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 5.0 |
| Childish Gambino Culdesac | 3.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 5.0 |
| Capone-N-Noreaga The War Report | 4.5 |
| Onyx Bacdafucup | 4.5 |
| The Beta Band The Three EPs | 5.0 |
| Berlin Pleasure Victim | 3.5 |
| Berlin's breakthrough LP is harrowing early 80s synthpop at it's most exploitative, but also at it's finest. Songs like "The Metro" and "Sex (I'm a...)" are definitive songs in the realm of synthpop and new wave. Though best remembered for their smash hit "Take My Breath Away" from the Top Gun soundtrack, this is their best work and is a must-have for any fan of synthpop and/or new wave. |
| Ben Harper Fight For Your Mind | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap | 4.0 |
| Beck Modern Guilt | 3.5 |
| Beck The Information | 3.0 |
| Beck Guero | 4.5 |
| Beck Sea Change | 3.5 |
| Beck Midnite Vultures | 3.5 |
| This generation's modern chameleon of rock and roll changes his colors again, this time trying his hand at dirty, sexy, funk music, and as usual he succeeds with flying colors, spinning out another pair of gem singles in the album opener "Sexx Laws" and "Mixed Bizness". The horn section goes wild in an almost Motown fashion, Beck's guitar work has never been catchier and he even manages to impress vocally, showing range he had previously never shown in his singing voice. Yet another home run for one of the greatest artists of the last twenty years. |
| Beck Mutations | 3.5 |
| Beck Odelay | 4.5 |
| Beck Mellow Gold | 4.5 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 5.0 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 5.0 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Smiley Smile | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 5.0 |
| Bauhaus Mask | 4.0 |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field | 5.0 |
| One of the most influential albums in the entire canon of post-punk acts that swept across Britain in the early 1980s, Bauhaus created the blueprint for gothic post-punk on their debut release. Yet still after all these years, nothing has ever sounded anything quite like Bauhaus or this album, and it holds up just as aggressive, emotional, abrasive, and brilliant as ever. The vocals range from soft whispering to Peter Murphy screaming his lungs out while the guitar has a gothic drone effect that cannot be matched. Yet somehow on songs like "St. Vitus Dance", they take all of these things and make it DANCEABLE! Truly a landmark album and one of the best of the initial onslaught of post-punk acts, highlights include the amazing "St. Vitus Dance", "Stigmata Martyr", "In the Flat Field" and "Double Dare". If you have even a passing interest in gothic music and/or post-punk, you need this album immediately. |
| Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead | 5.0 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.0 |
| BATS Cruel Sea Scientist | 3.0 |
| Basement I Wish I Could Stay Here | 4.5 |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms | 4.5 |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion Generator | 4.0 |
| Band of Skulls Baby Darling Doll Face Honey | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain | 4.0 |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 5.0 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion No Control | 5.0 |
| N.W.A. Niggaz4Life | 5.0 |
| N.W.A. 100 Miles and Runnin' | 3.5 |
| N.W.A. N.W.A. and the Posse | 3.0 |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion The Dissent of Man | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion Back to the Known | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Into the Unknown | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? | 4.5 |
| Bad Religion Bad Religion | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 5.0 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 4.5 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 3.5 |
| Bad Meets Evil Hell: The Sequel | 3.5 |
| AZ Pieces of a Man | 4.0 |
| AZ Doe or Die | 5.0 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 3.5 |
| Aus-Rotten The Rotten Agenda | 3.0 |
| Aus-Rotten Not One Single Fucking Hit Discography | 5.0 |
| The most important and influential anarcho-punk record post-80s. |
| Aus-Rotten ...And Now Back To Our Programming | 3.5 |
| Aus-Rotten The System Works...For Them | 4.5 |
| Probably their best and most consistent album, this is anarcho-punk at it's absolute fucking finest, in the spirit of bands like Flux of Pink Indians, Subhumans, Crass and others but with a much more hardcore-influenced style than those particular bands. This album is a classic and a must-have for any fan of punk or hardcore, as is most of this group's discography. Get it. Now. |
| Aus-Rotten Anti-Imperialist | 4.0 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Vaya | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In El Gran Orgo | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Alfaro Vive, Carajo! | 3.5 |
| I'm baffled as to why people don't seem to like this EP more than they do, this is the first example of the true ATDI sound and most of the songs on this EP are awesome, especially "Instigate the Role" which has just an absolutely gnarly riff. Great EP. |
| At the Drive-In Hell Paso | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 4.5 |
| Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll | 4.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Built to Fail | 3.0 |
| The raw, chaotic, but fun early beginnings of The Arrogant Bastards. Not essential but it has it's merits. |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.5 |
| Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats! | 4.0 |
| April March Chick Habit | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.5 |
| Anti-Flag Mobilize | 4.5 |
| Anti-Flag Underground Network | 4.0 |
| Anti-Flag A New Kind of Army | 5.0 |
| Anti-Flag Die For the Government | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 5.0 |
| Amphetamine Discharge I Just Wanna Kiss | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Permutation | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage | 4.5 |
| Superb drum 'n' bass electronica with a heavy dose of jazz, a hypnotic album that you can easily find yourself lost in. Highlights include "Easy Muffin", "Yasawas", "Creatures", "Defocus" and many others. |
| American Football American Football | 4.5 |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Sap | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 4.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 3.0 |
| Akala Doublethink | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 3.0 |
| Candidate for their best record yet, with the added benefit of being bloody danceable of all things. Vibrant, sweeping, epic, triumphant, perhaps even a little bit transcendent. This is music to listen to while soaring over an electric Paris night sky. Even a random cameo appearance by Rihanna of all people works. Proper review on the way when this is released in the US/UK. |
| Beanie Sigel Public Enemy #1 | 3.5 |
| Against Me! White Crosses | 2.5 |
| Against Me! New Wave | 3.0 |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity | 3.5 |
| Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 5.0 |
| Against Me! The Disco Before the Breakdown | 3.0 |
| Against Me! Against Me! | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Crime as Forgiven By | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Vivida Vis! | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus | 3.0 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 5.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 5.0 |
| Thursday Waiting | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 5.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 1.5 |
| Lmfao Party Rock | 1.0 |
| Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking | 1.0 |
| I could go into detail about all of the things that make this group and particularly this album so unfathomably vapid, obnoxious, stupid, and borderline offensive (not morally, but artistically and culturally) but instead I'll just say this...rKill it with fire. |
| X (USA) Wild Gift | 4.5 |
| X (USA) Los Angeles | 5.0 |
| Agent Orange Sonic Snake Session | 3.0 |
| Agent Orange Living in Darkness | 5.0 |
| AFI All Hallow's E.P. | 4.0 |
| AFI Crash Love | 2.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 3.5 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 4.5 |
| AFI The Art of Drowning | 5.0 |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset | 4.5 |
| AFI Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes | 3.0 |
| AFI Very Proud of Ya | 3.5 |
| AFI Answer That and Stay Fashionable | 2.5 |
| Ramones Road to Ruin | 4.0 |
| Ramones Rocket to Russia | 5.0 |
| Ramones Leave Home | 5.0 |
| Ramones Ramones | 5.0 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 5.0 |
| The Clash Super Black Market Clash | 4.0 |
| The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope | 4.0 |
| The Clash Sandinista! | 3.5 |
| The Clash Combat Rock | 4.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 5.0 |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) | 5.0 |
| The Clash The Clash | 5.0 |
| Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady | 5.0 |
| The Adverts Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts | 4.5 |
| Adolescents Adolescents | 4.0 |
| Ace of Base The Sign | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 4.5 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 5.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders | 5.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 5.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm | 4.5 |
| A Static Lullaby ...And Don't Forget to Breathe | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.5 |
| A Flock of Seagulls A Flock of Seagulls | 4.5 |
| A tour-de-force of new romantic new wave, everyone knows the brilliance of "I Ran" but it's a damn shame not as many know the brilliance of tracks like "Space Age Love Song" and "Modern Love is Automatic", which should have been just as big hits as "I Ran" was if the world were a just place. Don't dismiss this group for their silly haircuts and one-hit-wonder status, this is one of the absolute best new wave albums of the 80s. |
| 7L & Esoteric Soul Purpose | 4.0 |
| Quite simply put, the sound of the Boston Underground of hip-hop. Fantastic production in the vein of Deltron 3030 and fantastic rapping from Esoteric make this album practically a modern classic in the world of underground hip-hop. |
| 7 Seconds The Crew | 4.5 |
| 50 Cent The Massacre | 3.0 |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 4.5 |
| 311 From Chaos | 4.0 |
| 311 311 | 4.0 |
| 311 Grassroots | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 5.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death | 5.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 5.0 |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous | 5.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| 2Pac The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory | 4.5 |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me | 5.0 |
| 2Pac Me Against the World | 5.0 |
| Cashis The County Hound EP | 3.0 |
| Don't listen to "TheIllmatics", this is a solid debut EP from a talented young artist. He deals with the same cliched gangster-isms of the hardcore rap genre, true, but he does it with a flair a dark sense of realism that is reminiscent of the work of Notorious B.I.G. in a way, particularly on the spectacular track "Thoughts of Suicide". There are hints of true artistry and complexity through-out this EP, and it gives me great hope for the future of this rapper. Highly recommended to all serious hip-hop fans, especially those who enjoy the works of Eminem, Biggie, Tupac, Dre, and all the other hardcore rap classics. |
| The 13th Floor Elevators Easter Everywhere | 4.0 |
| The 13th Floor Elevators The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators | 4.5 |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.5 |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 5.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 5.0 |
| Dr. Dre Dr. Dre Presents... The Aftermath | 2.5 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 5.0 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 5.0 |
| The Offspring Americana | 5.0 |
| The Offspring Smash | 5.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 4.0 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 4.5 |
| Green Day Warning | 3.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 1.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.0 |
| Green Day Kerplunk | 4.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 5.0 |
| blink-182 The Mark, Tom and Travis Show | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Buddha | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 5.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 5.0 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 5.0 |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 4.0 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 5.0 |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 5.0 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 5.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.5 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.0 |
| Fear Before Art Damage | 4.5 |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake | 5.0 |
| The best post-hardcore record of 2004, this album basically is what got me into the genres of post-hardcore, mathcore and screamo in the first place. Every single song is amazing, no way I could ever give this album anything less than a 5. One of the crowning achievements of the entire last decade of punk and metal music in my humble opinion, a classic in every sense of the word. |
| The Doors Absolutely Live | 4.5 |
| The Doors L.A. Woman | 5.0 |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel | 5.0 |
| The Doors The Soft Parade | 4.0 |
| The Doors Waiting for the Sun | 5.0 |
| The Doors Strange Days | 5.0 |
| The Doors The Doors | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! | 4.5 |
| Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah | 4.5 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 5.0 |
| Nirvana With the Lights Out | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Live at Reading | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Live at the Paramount | 5.0 |
| There are not enough superlatives for me to heap onto this project so that I could adequately pay justice to the quality and power of the music and this film, so I'll just simply say that this is a "classic" in every definitive sense of that word. This is a time capsule into one of the most important eras of of rock music, and it encapsulates everything that there was and is to love about Cobain and Nirvana all at once with a perfectly performed set of some of their greatest songs. This is the type of concert that legends are, and have been, made of. Happy Halloween Kurt. |
| Nirvana In Utero | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 4.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 1.5 |
