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4.5 superb
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
David Bowie Hunky Dory
I don't give this enough credit. I'm not a great fan of the "softer" tone of Bowie's catalouge; I prefer my Bowie as explosive art-rock or gristling glam rock, not forgetting tyhe Berlin trilogy. Still, Hunky Dory is charming enough, but the tone slips near the end abit, denying it full marks.
Iggy Pop Lust For Life
ISIS Wavering Radiant
KMFDM Angst
Lacuna Coil Karmacode
Lacuna Coil, the heavier (and better) version of Evanescance, have constructed what I can only describe as a layered masterpiece with Karmacode. Layers of dark brutal metal are laced with gorgeous vocals. Mind you, the best songs are the one's with full helpings of female vocals, rather than the normal unisex duet.
Lou Reed Lou Reed
The music on Lou Reed's debut, Lou Reed, isn't the best but it's all about lyrics and when you listen closly enough, his penance for weaving stories with music rivals even that of Bob Dylan.
Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson Holy Wood
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything
Nine Inch Nails Broken
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero
Opeth Still Life
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
Protest the Hero Fortress
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris
Soilwork Stabbing the Drama
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
System of a Down Toxicity
The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life
The Icarus Line Penance Soiree
The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy
The Prodigy The Fat of the Land
The Stooges Fun House
TV on the Radio Dear Science
Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack

4.0 excellent
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
The songs are all perfectly formed, the mixing and production sounds diamond clear and that's not even mentioning Keenan's hoarse voice paving these songs along to greatness.
Amon Amarth Versus the World
Arch Enemy Burning Bridges
Audioslave Revelations
Basement Jaxx Crazy Itch Radio
With Crazy Itch Radio, Basement Jaxx don't explore new grounds they meerly milk their existing styles for everything their worth. They may not have produced their best album but they sure have made a damn good one.
Bjork Homogenic
Brian Eno Another Green World
Cancer Bats Hail Destroyer
Cynic Traced in Air
Daath The Hinderers
Dark Tranquillity Character
Dark Tranquillity Fiction
The first three songs on the album are monumental, but the latter of Fiction lives up to it, blending soft techno and classical piano with fiecre deadly guitar riffs so perfectly, they're on the same level as Opeth.
David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree
For a genre that's never taken seriously, Fall Out Boy do pretty well with blasting out an album of 13 songs that all sound like hit singles. The only problem with this is, that while it brings up the quality of the album, it doesn't showcase anything other than their talent for thinking up catchy basslines and guitar riffs. For something truly amazing to happen, they would have to work a little bit harder than this.
Fall Out Boy Infinity on High
Fear Factory Demanufacture
Garbage Garbage
Glasvegas Glasvegas
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard The Dark Knight
In Flames Reroute to Remain
In Flames A Sense of Purpose
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
Joy Division Closer
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
Kill Hannah Until Theres Nothing Left Of Us
KMFDM Hau Ruck
Lacuna Coil Shallow Life
M.I.A. Arular
M.I.A. Kala
Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque
Meshuggah obZen
obZen is a rare gem. Tastefull and amazing on the first listen, many of the songs are indistinguishable until you take another stab at the album. It's then that it's many layers are revealed, leaving open ended awe.
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails Beside You in Time
The band are great. Trent is great always. Jeordie is dark and brooding. Josh looks, oh so, masterful. Allesandro seems like he's gonna jump up and kill something (that's a good thing). Finally, Aaron can really put on a show. The energy coming from these guys is phenominal. The only drawback is there are too many songs from With Teeth, not enough from The Fragile.
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV
Nirvana Nevermind
Nevermind is nothing more than a great album. It's simple sound is distorted and twisted to get the most grotesque sound out of the tracks. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Come As You Are" are grossly overrated though.
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth Watershed
Opeth's new release, Watershed, has much going for it. Here, Opeth seem to be honing a new sound, much more metalic and raw than before, Watershed seems as the calm before the storm; a prelude to something bigger. But Watershed works on it's own anyway. The album rockets into full with the blistering Heir Apparent and wonderful, weirdfulness of The Lotus Eater. The only problem is for the second half of the album, it slows down, thus dailing down the spectical.
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
I used to like this album but not I can't bear to listen past the intermission bit. The guitar bits are perfectly okay but the album hinges even then. After the intermission, it completly falls apart due to the "burlesque" Beatles-esque horn, trumpets, fanfare etc.
Pearl Jam Ten
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun
Protest the Hero Kezia
Radiohead The Bends
Leauges better than their false magnum opus, OK Computer. Radiohead imbrace their hard rock sound here, lacing it with Thom Yorke's trademark vocals. Wonderous.
Radiohead In Rainbows
Depending on what you think of Radiohead will depend on how you experience In Rainbows. It's alot less toned down than any of their other albums and shines on the moody blight tracks. Those who are fans will be amazed, those who don't will be pushed to admit it's a decent album at least. But it's success boils down to being lean, abrasive and toned-down, all at once.
Rammstein Sehnsucht
Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe
Roisin Murphy Overpowered
Santigold Santogold
Siouxsie and the Banshees Juju
Slipknot Slipknot
Soilwork Steelbath Suicide
Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide
Steven Wilson Insurgentes
The Gathering How to Measure a Planet?
The Horrors Primary Colours
The Kills Midnight Boom
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers
The Raveonettes Lust Lust Lust
The Smiths Singles
Tool Lateralus
White Lies To Lose My Life
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is

3.5 great
4minute Hit Your Heart
4minute 4minutes Left
50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Atmosphere Strictly Leakage
As always Atmosphere do the whole "independent Hip-Hop" thing with mixed results but seeing as it's free of their website and hosts more ups and downs, this mixtape is well worth a listen.
Birds Of Tokyo Universes
Blood Red Shoes Box Of Secrets
Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Angles
The lyrics are on par with Lou Reed's in term of creativity but they don't save the album until halfway through. The first half is disposable with the second part being absolutly brilliant. The music can get annoying sometimes though.
David Bowie Best of Bowie
Best of Bowie does represent David Bowie's biggest songs, but doesn't nessicarilly mean they're his best. In fact, all the good songs are from all his great albums, everything else is just mediocricy. (Review based on 2CD UK version)
Editors The Back Room
Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves
The songs are each, sets of powerful epics. FFAF seem to function better if they have a reason to be playing. A concept album may be they're reason, even if it is just a temporary one.
Garbage Bleed Like Me
Bleed With Me, the latest (or last, whatever) Garbage record. It finds them sitting comfortably in a niche which has been driving them since Day 1; disposable pop/rock. Nothing stands out as good or bad on Bleed Like Me; it's an enjoyable album, but after the first listen it's instanly forgettable, disposable tosh.
Hadouken! Music For An Accelerated Culture
HIM Venus Doom
Ikimonogakari Member's Best Selection
In Flames Come Clarity
ISIS Panopticon
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak
Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak
KMFDM Tohuvabohu
Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun
Lacuna Coil Comalies
Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals
Not as good as Antichrist or Holy Wood, it still showcases Manson's flexability in almost any genre. The album does stall twice but gets back up with flair and goes out with the epic The Last Day On Earth and Coma White.
Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me
This is more Tim Skold's record than Manson's. All the former shock-rocker has done is labeled his signature lyrics and vocals all over Skold's, actually quite good, shredding. With Manson's lyrics also turning to love, rather than the usual hatred, he seems neutered, more than anything else.
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
Ministry The Last Sucker
Modwheelmood Pearls to Pigs, Vol. 1
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
Nine Inch Nails Still
Nine Inch Nails The Slip
Paramore All We Know Is Falling
Paramore Riot!
Pink Floyd Meddle
Rammstein Mutter
Rammstein Reise, Reise
Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge
More or less the same as Hellbilly Deluxe, just more heavy and not as flexable. It comes off more serious than flamboyant fun, which makes it a little hard to enjoy but a good effort all the same.
Saul Williams The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
Soilwork The Chainheart Machine
Soilwork A Predator's Portrait
The Academy Is... Almost Here
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger
The Raveonettes Chain Gang of Love
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!

3.0 good
Ashes Divide Keep Telling Myself It's Alright
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul
Biffy Clyro Puzzle
Even though Biffy seem to have taken a more mainstream approach to Puzzle, it does pay off with their songs now gelling together better. Many will stick in your head long after you have stopped listening to it but the ending lets the album down and sometimes it's a bit repetitive and annoying.
Blur Blur
Boy Kill Boy Civilian
The problem with this album is not that the songs are all bad, but they are all different versions of the bands sound, which is okay for some, but each chapter has the same tone, lyrics, vocals ect. ect.
Bullet For My Valentine The Poison
Chris Cornell Euphoria Morning
Editors An End Has A Start
Enya Watermark
Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Bought this because EVERYONE seems to bum Foo Fighters. Wasn't disappointed, but then again it just seemed all terribly average. Not good, not bad.
Funeral for a Friend Hours
Fun but flawed, they love to screech but it doesn't really amount to any sort of viable climax.
Godhead Shadow Line
They sound okay and there is no real downpoint here, but there isn't anything over-average and this feels instantly forgettable music.
ISIS In the Absence of Truth
James Blunt Back To Bedlam
Okay, his voice is undeniably annoying, but you have to admit that he is a good songwriter on the first three tracks (High, You're Beautiful and Wisemen; also the singles from the album). It's just such a shame that the rest of the album plodds along the same course and everything just feels hopelessly recycled. At least a decent stab at the "acoustic-depression" market dominated by R.E.M..
Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light
KMFDM Nihil
KMFDM Blitz
Lostprophets Liberation Transmission
The album's good for the first half but then decends into unexciting and bland tracks that sound like the first hlaf, just less likable.
Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family
Modwheelmood Pearls to Pigs, Vol. 2
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
When MCR are screaming about death and flouncing around like angry-emo kids, they're great. It's when they start softly whining about stuff and become self-obsessed twats (eg. 2nd half of Black Parade) that they become unbearable. In the end, it levels out.
Nine Inch Nails The Fragile
Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been
Live albums aren't really my thing but a friend told me about this (this was in my early days of NIN mania) so naturally I was overjoyed. It doesn't sound so different from a studio album and is essentially a greatest hits. It does have its good bits (March of the Pigs, Wish) but also kills some songs that should never be played live (The Great Below, The Day The World Went Away). The real gems though are the PHM songs. Hearing them live gives them less of a pop edge and emphicizes more on guitars. Suck is the real star here as it brings out the song and gives it more focus and the raging sound it should have. If anything, this is a step toward their greatest (in my opinion) touring sound on Beside You In Time.
Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D
Pearl Jam rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003)
Those who are looking for the aggressive power of 1992's Ten will be very disappointed with the material here. The first half of the disc is good, peppered with hits such as "State of Love and Trust" and "Even Flow" but the second half and disc two are a big letdown.
Prick Prick
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
Radiohead OK Computer
I am just so dumbfounded about why this came #1 in Channel 4's Greatest Albums of All Time. It's just a little bit a screamingand moaning by some, surprised to hear no-one's called them, emo's. It does have some good moments but on the whole it's not something to be enjoyed, rather, endured.
Rammstein Rosenrot
I recently read the Allmusic Guide's review of Rosenrot and I have to say I agree completly. For the majority of the album there are some very good songs and one of Rammstein's greatest (Te Quiro Puta!) but an excellent album is brought down by some terrible filler, namely the last two songs.
Soilwork Natural Born Chaos
The Clash London Calling
I'm not a fan of punk so I dunno why I bought this, but as always with great discoveries, it was on sale. The only memerable song from here is the title track and I just didn't see a point to the entire album except for the lower-class of 1970's Englishmen having a moan. But then again, that's all punk was.
The Kills No Wow
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones

2.5 average
Amy Winehouse Back to Black
Well, she has the voice definently, but her sophomore effort is a little, how do you put it, musically challenged. The beats and melodies just seem to bump along with no real energy. And might I say it, her voice is sometimes, too powerful.
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
This is the sound of a band trying too hard, to do too much. The album drags along it's first three-quarters bursting out symphonic numbers of confusing orchestra lines, to the worst effect. It's messy, unfocused and unforgiving, but things do look up a bit toward the end.
Black Light Burns Cruel Melody
Everyone knows that Wes Borland (so cool Trent Reznor once wanted him in NIN and he now plays with Marilyn Manson) was the ONLY one in Limp Bizkit with any kind of musical talent, so it's only natural that he's got to hone it first; experiment even. That's what Cruel Melody is. It bubbles with many ideas but never really grows into anything quite amazing. Saying that, it gets very interesting near the darkwave-ambient section at the end.
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Foals Antidotes
HIM Razorblade Romance
Razorblade Romance isn't a bad listen, just a disposable one. The songs are built on the foundation that death and love go hand-in-hand. The base material is also shallow and thin, leading to an unsatisfying finish.
Metronomy Nights Out
A mix-mash of indie and soft electronica, Metronomy's debut is bad it just ignites no spark of musical interest. The songs thermselves aren't really notable, the are all just a collective of the whole album. No standout song, no standout moods, not really notable :/
Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything
Mindless Self Indulgence If
Modwheelmood Pearls to Pigs, Vol. 3
A disappointing end to the Pearls to Pigs EP trilogy. It seems as if they've trying to be more "open-ended" but they've ended up being terribly boring. Filler material.
Opeth Deliverance
Otep Sevas Tra
Pearl Jam Vitalogy
Siouxsie and the Banshees Kaleidoscope
Soundgarden Superunknown
The Killers Hot Fuss
The first three tracks are alright; good even. After All These Things I Have Done, it turns into boring, slow and degressive indie-pop-rock. There are small turnings in some of the later songs such as Midnight Show and Believe Me Natalie, but more than half of the songs are instant throwaways.
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan

2.0 poor
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe
Damon Albarn Monkey: Journey to the West
David Bowie Aladdin Sane
All style and no substance. Each track is confouned upon by meanless lyrics and messy (or spatical, whatever you prefer) piano and guitar work. The Jean Genie may be an anthem, but the album is not.
Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy
The first three tracks (which are also the singles) are definently the best songs on here, and they're actually quite good. The problem with Death by Sexy is that after Cherry Cola, all the elements are recycled and formed into boring, copy songs. By the end, you wish you just stuck to the first three.
Hot Chip Made in the Dark
Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual
KMFDM Symbols
If indusitral-groove music could get any more boring. Symbols marks the beginning of KMFDM's down period, with the boring Adios and Agogo. Please, avoid.
KMFDM WWIII
Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley
Lady Gaga The Fame
Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd.
Ooh, how sad. With AFYCSO, Panic! (I still refuse to drop the !) may not have garned any AMAZING reviews, but they pleased that fans and delivered a new brand of soft emo-metal. Here, they seemed to have sold out to the critics. Essentially, it's like Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band for the modern generation. Now, I HATE the Beatles so I hate this, but it seems such a shame that last summer they had an albums worth of material, then just scraped it and went in a new direction. A new, terribly boring, direction. What a shame.
Portishead Third
These New Puritans Beat Pyramid
Beat Pryamid is a strange, plodding album, that gives no meaning to it's rambling about numbers, patterns and codes. But, crucially, the music is boring.

1.5 very poor
3OH!3 Streets of Gold
Basement Jaxx Kish Kash
Everyone has their embarassing phase's, when they dig a band and then, maybe a few months (or sometimes weeks later), they come to their senses and think "WTF?!". Basement Jaxx are my embarassment and this is one of their worst efforts. Although I am not a fan of house music (in fact I am of the opposite opinion) Kish Kash is definently a bad record. The songs themselves are long and drawn out, with repetitive and boring music and lyrics. This needs to be forgotten... fast.
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
I actually don't understand why everyone loves Coldplay? Someone I know, said they were the equivelant to the colour baige. They are just so middle-of-the-road that it hurts. Even on their supposed "OK Computer" record, Viva La Vida, where they were supposed to push the bounderies of their sound, do they bore to the very core. The worst part is that Brian Eno had to contribute to this piece .
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