| 3.0 good |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill |
| Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Auf Der Maur Auf Der Maur |
| I've wanted to review this for a long time but always put it off thinking that rating a more or less obscure artist with something just above average wouldn't really generate interest. More or less because, let's face it, Melissa Auf Der Maur used to be famous, with bass gigs with both The Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins in her career kitty but this is very close to lame. There are some interesting songs here but the cliches outweigh the positives. Further, well, seems Ms. Auf Der Maur was some sort of sex symbol in the 90s. This record sounds like she's still trying to live those days, with premature lyrics (and ironically mediocre bass). The redeeming factor is the other instrumentation though resulting in some very good alt. rock moments. It's good for a few listens, as music somewhere in the background. Not for serious listening |
| Dashboard Confessional MTV Unplugged |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| I got this album after watching the Progenies video and well.... I was a little disappointed. It's brutal, there's no doubting that and Progenies (minus the second verse) is a pinnacle of sorts as far as metal goes IMO but the overall album is a little more droning. Maybe my opinion here stems from the fact that I don't listen to a lot of extreme metal, but I felt that the production let down the album a lot. I heard very little lower end bass frequencies making distortion just seem like noise instead of heavy and as such all the tracks began to sound alike. But it does have its positives too of which some are the brilliant use of symphony to add to the "brutal"-ity of the songs, Shagrath's vocals and the technical yet melodic (most of the times anyway) instrumentation; this album, in the end, holds the distinction of making me revisit a set of genres I had shunned as meaningless noise. |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Godsmack Faceless |
| Hoobastank The Reason |
| Korn Follow the Leader |
| Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress |
| Metallica Reload |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| This is definitely a solid album but fails to stand out in terms of musicianship with the sound coming off as many other pop punk bands today in the first half. Where they really show their uniqueness is in the second half. There's no denying that this is catchy stuff and the lyrics are much more offbeat than what most bands of the genre deal with, making them a little less creative American version of the Arctic Monkeys |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
