| 3.5 great |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational |
| At the Drive-In Alfaro Vive, Carajo! |
| Bauhaus Mask |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Black Flag Family Man |
| Black Flag Everything Went Black |
| Black Flag Jealous Again |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Don't Fear The Reaper: The Best Of |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land |
| bygones by- |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Clear Spot |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) |
| Captain Beyond Captain Beyond |
| Caravan Caravan and the New Symphonia |
| Some nice catchy prog with strings. Better than Styx. |
| Charles Manson Lie |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Daniel Johnston Hi, How Are You |
| Daniel Johnston Fear Yourself |
| David Bowie Let's Dance |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Dire Straits Love Over Gold |
| Dire Straits Making Movies |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Double Dagger More |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Electric Light Orchestra Face the Music |
| Electric Light Orchestra On the Third Day |
| Electric Light Orchestra Eldorado |
| Elton John Honky Chateau |
| Elton John Madman Across the Water |
| Elton John Greatest Hits |
| Elvis Costello Goodbye Cruel World |
| Elvis Costello King of America |
| Elvis Costello Mighty Like A Rose |
| Flipper Blow'n Chunks |
| Flying Lotus 1983 |
| Frank Zappa Apostrophe |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Frank Zappa Broadway the Hard Way |
| Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better |
| Fugazi Furniture |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing |
| Fugazi Margin Walker |
| Fugazi Fugazi |
| Gang of Four Another Day / Another Dollar |
| Gary Numan Telekon |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Green Day International Superhits |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II |
| Happy Flowers Lasterday I Was Been Bad |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| Integrity Those Who Fear Tomorrow |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick |
| John Cale Vintage Violence |
| King Crimson Beat |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Crimson's first album is a pretentious piece of self-important art rock that has been hyped to an unbelievable extent. The first song owns, but the rest must grow on you. Epitaph and The Court of the Crimson King did. However, I Talk to the Wind and Moonchild are beyond me. They are just dull, and lacking the sweeping grandure and power of the other tracks. The former is just slow and featureless but the real blunder is Moonchild. Ten minutes of sparse noodling and occasional tinkling noises is never a good idea. Fripp has the ability to write well constructed, driving epics but still insists this meandering be included. So that renders about eighteen minutes of this record quite skippable. 3/5 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
This album was released two years after the last and during time King Crimson went through a radical reinvention. The soft passages and serenity were gone. In their place was hard driving, mean sounding hard rock and great percussion by Jamie Muir. . Every song on here is a winner (except maybe Easy Money). What hampers this album is some unexplained, intolerable screeching noises toward the end of the album and half of The Talking Drum being too damn quiet to hear.
The new style needed some refinement, and some dumb decisions with mixing and sound effects needed to be smoothed out before this new approach would yield the best album of King Crimson's career.
3.5/5 |
| King Crimson Lizard |
Finally Fripp and his band get it together! Nothing here sounds like anything done before by the band or anyone else. This nearly makes up for the last album's complete worthlessness. Only two of the songs here are particularly good, but one is twenty four minutes long and the bad songs are at least interesting and creative so I have a hard time saying much of anything worse of them.
The album is much less symphonic sounding and has a much broader use of Jazz instruments and stylings. The first song, Cirkus, is the best here. Three tracks go by quickly, and the sidelong epic, Lizard, begins. It has several parts, and not every one of them is great but many passages are well performed and soothing.
Overall, this is King Crimson's best record up to this point. 3.5 / 5 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| This record follows a pretty similar formula to the previous one. Outside of Cat Food, each of the main songs has a corresponding similar song on IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING. Pictures of a City is 21st Century Schizoid Man, Cadence and Cascade is I Talk to the Wind, and In the Wake of Poseidon is Epitaph. The final track The Devil's Triangle, a long, noisy, often unnerving piece, is a welcome change to the already flogged to death early Crimson sound but it goes so far as to sample the last record! And there are these cheesy, minute long, hippie bits about peace and water and air and other fluff that dates the embarrassment. The only reason this should be purchased is for Cat Food and the awesome Devil's Triangle. Otherwise this is a retread of something better, dated, formulaic, and otherwise unnecessary. |
| King Crimson THRAK |
| King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light |
| King Crimson The Collectable King Crimson: Volume One |
| Lou Reed Rock 'n' Roll Animal |
| Lou Reed Coney Island Baby |
| Lou Reed Rock and Roll Heart |
| Lou Reed Lou Reed |
| Lou Reed Legendary Hearts |
| Lou Reed New Sensations |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography |
| Minor Threat Out of Step |
| Minutemen Project: Mersh |
| Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood |
| Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches |
| Mission of Burma Vs. |
| Morrissey Viva Hate |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Nas I Am... |
| Negativland Helter Stupid |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Neil Young Old Ways |
| Neil Young Ragged Glory |
| Neil Young Life |
| Neu! Neu! |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Operation Ivy Hectic |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Portishead Roseland NYC Live |
| Prince Purple Rain |
| R.E.M. Out of Time |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Randy Newman 12 Songs |
| Randy Newman Good Old Boys |
| Randy Newman Trouble in Paradise |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Robert Fripp Exposure |
| Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings |
| Roger Waters Amused to Death |
| Rush 2112 |
| Scott Walker Scott 2 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Tinderbox |
| Slint Tweez |
| Slint Slint |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Big Lebowski |
| Steely Dan Pretzel Logic |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom |
| Sublime Robbin' the Hood |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| The B-52s The B-52's |
| The B-52s Wild Planet |
| The Cars The Cars |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Mothers of Invention Over-Nite Sensation |
| The Mothers of Invention Fillmore East – June 1971 |
| The Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat |
| The Mothers of Invention Burnt Weeny Sandwich |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
| The Police Synchronicity |
| The Police Zenyatta Mondatta |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour |
| The Police Ghost in the Machine |
| The Residents Duck Stab |
| The Residents Commercial Album |
| The Residents Mark of the Mole |
| The Residents Eskimo |
| The Smiths Louder Than Bombs |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan |
| The White Stripes De Stijl |
| Tom Waits Alice |
| Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night |
| Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner |
| Tom Waits Foreign Affairs |
| Tom Waits Big Time |
| Tom Waits Glitter and Doom Live |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| U.S. Maple Acre Thrills |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| U2 War |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire |
| U2 October |
| U2 Under A Blood Red Sky |
| Wire A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| XTC Black Sea |
| Yes Fragile |
