| Burzum Burzum | 3.5 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.0 |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 5.0 |
| Joy Division Substance | 4.0 |
| Ritual Flame Dust in the Void | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Witmark Demos | 4.0 |
| The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby | 4.5 |
| Grand Funk Railroad Live Album | 4.0 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 5.0 |
| Kurt Vile God is Saying This to You... | 4.5 |
| Placebo Placebo | 4.0 |
| Dopamine Dying Away In The Deep Fall | 4.0 |
| Danger Mouse The Grey Album | 4.5 |
| Dan Fogelberg Nether Lands | 3.0 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 4.0 |
| Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur | 3.0 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 3.5 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 3.0 |
Part of why At the Drive-In is such a ***ing amazing band is the air of mystique that surrounding them. They took bizzare time signatures, lovecraftian, sci-fi tinged lyrics and an uncompromising musical ethos and took it dead seriously. There were no joke songs or funny tour stories; it was all about the music. Leaving people to uncover the meaning behind some very cryptic songwriting. With a furious, salsa dancing, wildman of a singer by the name of Cedric Zavala , Jim Ward, a pop loving, punk rocker rythm guitar player, and Omar Lopez, a genius of a lead guitar player who used the guitar as a veritable orchestra of effect pedals. In 1998 our Texas purveyours of Punk released an album called In/Casino/Out on fearless records. Described by frontman Cedric as "an attempt to capture the live sound of At the Drive-In." In some ways this is true. I was lucky enough to see ATDI in the year 2000 right after the reease of RElationship of Command. I gotta say, this record comes pretty close to capturing that live soun. The record was recorde with the hold band in the same room playing together' giving the record a raw edge. Not quite the same as Cedric Zavala doing a handstand ont he drumkit while holding a microphone in his mouth but it's still very energetic. All of the classic ATDI songwriter tropes are herem the alternate tunings, the frantic vocals, the morse code drumming, and the exceedingly literate lyrics that we all know and love. Highlights incude the beautiful outro to lopsided, The crushing emotion of Napolean solo, the pure songwriting skill of alpha centerai, and Omar's glorious afro. Download this, or buy the Vinyl because Vinyl is good for your soul.
Download: Alpha Centerai, Anpolean Solo, Hourglass, Lopsided, Transatlantic foe. asically the while album except for "for now we toast", I wasn't feeling that. |
| Santana Santana | 5.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 5.0 |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name | 3.0 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.0 |
| Joy Division Closer | 3.5 |
| The Stone Roses Second Coming | 2.5 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 3.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 5.0 |
| John Cale Music For A New Society | 1.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.0 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 3.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 4.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 5.0 |
| Oasis The Masterplan | 4.0 |
| Oasis Dig Out Your Soul | 2.0 |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth | 3.0 |
| Oasis Heathen Chemistry | 2.0 |
| Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants | 1.0 |
| Oasis Be Here Now | 1.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.0 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.0 |
