| 4.0 excellent |
| 108 A New Beat From A Dead Heart |
| 2Pac Greatest Hits |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Band of Horses Cease to Begin |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) |
| Brendan Canning Something For All of Us... |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Conor Oberst Conor Oberst |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home |
| Elvis Costello Armed Forces |
| Foals Antidotes |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Friendly Fires Friendly Fires |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Green Day Warning |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne |
| Jimi Hendrix Experience Hendrix: The Best of Hendrix |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity |
| John Frusciante Curtains |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean |
| I'm listening to this through for the first time atm, but this may be some of the most sincere music I've heard in a while...justa feeling I get |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day |
| grows on you a fair bit, at least half the tracks are top drawer |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter II |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| Million Dead A Song to Ruin |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Morrissey Viva Hate |
First of all, what a title - Morrissey knows how he's stereotyped and isn't afraid to play
with it. In terms of the music, this is an album that could quite comfortably sit alongside
the likes of Meat is Murder and Strangeways... in The Smiths catalouge, with strong singles
such as "Everyday is Like Sunday" and "Suedehead" easily holding their own with the singles
released by his previous band.
Musically, the album doesn't miss Johnny Marr. Although it's true he was of equal importance
to Morrissey in The Smiths, this isn't The Smiths, and like much of his later work, the
emphasis here, even more so than before, is on Morrissey's words, which is of course the
reason he has struck a chord with so many in the past. |
| Nas Street's Disciple |
| New Found Glory New Found Glory |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Operation Ivy Energy |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Public Image Ltd. First Issue |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Ramones Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Rick Ross Teflon Don |
| Rx Bandits The Resignation |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse |
| Sonic Youth Goo |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom |
| The Chemical Brothers Brotherhood |
| The Clash The Essential Clash |
| The Damned Damned Damned Damned |
| The Fall Live At The Witch Trials |
| The Horrors Primary Colours |
| The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Transplants Transplants |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| Van Halen 1984 |
| Zwan Mary Star Of The Sea |
| 2.5 average |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| Blur Leisure |
| Busted A Present For Everyone |
| InMe Overgrown Eden |
| Jane's Addiction Strays |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
Oh man, I gave this an average rating. There's some really good stuff on here, especially songs like "Wet Sand" (which contains one of my favourite guitar solos ever), "Charlie" (a modern take on the Freaky Styley erm style IMO) and Desecration Smile. Seriously, RHCP are one of my favourite bands of all time, and I know it's only one average release, but I can totally see them slipping into mediocrity/bland radio rock, and I don't like it. I know people will say "they did that in 1999 with Californication" but seriously, that's an awesome album which didn't play it safe with shitty songs like Dani California - even the popular songs like Scar Tissue saw RHCP pushing themselves beyond what they'd really done before.
I think I thought "By The Way" was boring as shit when I first heard it as well, but now I think it's actually really good, and can appreciate it. I don't think that will happen here. At least By The Way showed RHCP trying something new - it's not the mellowing out that I don't like, it's the fact that this album is RHCP - by - numbers. RHCP will probably always be one of my favourite bands - Californication, BloodSugarSexMagik, By The Way and One Hot Minute are all favourites of mine, whilst Freaky Styley and Uplift Mofo Party Plan also hold their own in terms of stuff I listen to. I just hope RHCP don't continue to release stuff like this. |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Weezer Maladroit |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
