| 4.5 superb |
| Aerosmith Toys in the Attic |
| Anohni and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now |
It's hard not to go too nuts when describing how much I like I Am A Bird Now, but I'm really going to try. "Hope
There's Someone" and "My Lady Story" are both interesting, getting you into the sound of the guy/group, but "For
Today I Am A Boy" is really where things pick up. The emotion of that track is incredible. And "You Are My Sister"
with Boy George and "Fistful of Love" with LOU REED ... how did he get such great guests? Best of all is "Bird Gurhl,"
which is about as sad a song as you'll ever find. It works incredibly well, though, and I've used it to close out more
mix CDs than I can even count. Fans of his should checkout "Forest of Love," a b-side from this album that is on
iTunes. Anyway, this album is great. Antony might have the most love-it-or-hate-it voice since Morrissey himself.
BTW, the tracklisting skips a track.
Oh, and I don't now why this spacing is so off ... |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Beck Odelay |
| Billy Joel The Stranger |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' |
| Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 Live in 1964 |
| Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live in 1975 |
| Bob Dylan Love and Theft |
| Bob Dylan Before the Flood |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors |
| Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Johnny Cash At San Quentin |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Lou Reed Transformer |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Morrissey Viva Hate |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton |
| "Straight Outta Compton" is one of the 4 or 5 best rap songs I've ever heard, "Fuck Tha Police" is one of the 4 or 5 most intense rap songs I've ever heard and NWA's Straight Outta Compton, other than "Express Yourself," is one of the 4 or 5 best rap albums I've ever heard. I love Ice Cube and when E was spitting rhymes Cube wrote for him, those two were unstoppable. Oh, and then there's that Dr. Dre guy ... |
| Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| OutKast Aquemini |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet |
| Quasimoto The Unseen |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Randy Newman Sail Away |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| RJD2 Since We Last Spoke |
| Rufus Wainwright Poses |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life |
| Stevie Wonder is the only artist that can get me interested in songs with titles like "Love's in Need of Love Today" and "Have a Talk with God." I love this album and I have since I first heard it. "Isn't She Lovely" is lame, sure, but just skip it! It'll be the only song you skip. "Sir Duke," "I Wish," "Knocks Me Off My Feet," "As" ... this one is full of highlights. |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells |
| The White Stripes Under Blackpool Lights |
| The Who Who's Next |
| The Who Tommy |
| The Who Live at Leeds |
| Tom Waits Bone Machine |
| Tortoise Standards |
| Various Artists Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars & Sitars |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Aerosmith Aerosmith |
| Aerosmith Rocks |
| Aerosmith Get Your Wings |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Bob Dylan Oh Mercy |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness |
| Boston Boston |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
| Common Be |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After |
| Counting Crows Hard Candy |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Deja Vu |
| Dabrye Two/Three |
| Danger Mouse and Jemini Ghetto Pop Life |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands |
| Devendra Banhart Nino Rojo |
| DJ Shadow Preemptive Strike |
| This. Album. Is Awesome. Rating this a 1 is just silly. "In/Flux" and "Hindsight" are as good as most of the songs on Endtroducing, the mini drum interludes are pretty cool and the extended mix of "Organ Donor" is flat-out incredible. If this was the only thing DJ Shadow had ever released, this album of old singles and b-sides, he would still be considered a beast. |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| Erykah Badu Mama's Gun |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Handsome Boy Modeling School So ... How's Your Girl? |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys |
| John Coltrane Blue Train |
| Johnny Cash American II: Unchained |
| Johnny Cash Unearthed (BOX SET) |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Latyrx The Album |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Local H As Good as Dead |
OK, so like many of the people on this site, I was sort of obsessed with the whole alternative thing when it was happening. But unlike most people on this site, I grew out of it and think most of it is REALLY REALLY GODDAMN LAME now. I mean, most of that music was pretty awful. This album, though, still gets me going. Maybe because the songs aren't all about how much life sucks, I don't know, but this thing rocks. "High Fiving MF," "No Problem" and "Back in the Day" are still some all-time favorite tracks.
Anyway, that is my explaining my rating. These two dudes were awesome. |
| Lyrics Born Same !@#$ Different Day |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy Superwolf |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Mogwai Rock Action |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neil Young American Stars 'n Bars |
| Neil Young Tonight's the Night |
| Neil Young On the Beach |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| New York Dolls New York Dolls |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman |
| Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| RJD2 Magnificent City Instrumentals |
| Ryan Adams Gold |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker |
| Santana Santana III |
| Santana Abraxas |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street |
| Soul Position Things Go Better with RJ & Al |
| Soundtrack (Film) South Park (Original Soundtrack) |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Smiths Louder Than Bombs |
| The Stooges Raw Power |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat |
| The Verve Urban Hymns |
| The White Stripes De Stijl |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan |
| The Who Quadrophenia |
| The Who My Generation |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones |
| Tom Waits Heartattack and Vine |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tortoise TNT |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction |
| Various Artists Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars & Sitars |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| White Zombie Astro Creep: 2000 |
| ZZ Top Tres Hombres |
