| 4.5 superb |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Anohni and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Barracks Ghosts |
| Barracks Lovestay |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap |
| Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Quite possibly the tip top hip hop album I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. |
| Blindspott Blindspott |
| This is the way it should sound! Pioneering nu-metal with a distinct Kiwi flavour. |
| blink-182 The Mark, Tom and Travis Show |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- |
| Boris Akuma no Uta |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Breaks Co-Op The Sound Inside |
| Possibly the best chill-out album of all time. The addition of Lovegrove's vocals is great, helping add catchiness to the mix. |
| Breaks Co-Op Roofers |
| Where it all started... This wonderful debut was instrumental to the formation of the "Kiwi" genre (Dub, roots, electronica, etc, etc.). I'm a big fan of lyric-heavy music, but this album helped me see the light. Fuses genres aplenty into a delectable package of beats. |
| Cake Comfort Eagle |
| Carb On Carb Carb On Carb |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After |
| Damien Rice O |
| Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Dire Straits Brothers in Arms |
| Dire Straits Dire Straits |
| Dire Straits Alchemy: Dire Straits Live |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Eels Beautiful Freak |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Fat Freddy's Drop Based on a True Story |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks |
| Frou Frou Details |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle |
| Jason Isbell Here We Rest |
| Yeah, so this is exponentially better than anything Drive-By Truckers have released sans Isbell. |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures |
| Julien Baker Audiotree Live Session |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Led Zeppelin Mothership |
| Leftfield Leftism |
| letlive. Fake History |
| Liz Phair Exile In Guyville |
| Marina The Family Jewels |
| Marina Froot |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Paul Kelly Songs From The South |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Proper. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Bet |
| Proper. Part-Timer |
| R.E.M. Murmur |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rise Against The Ghost Note Symphonies, Vol. 1 |
| Actually super frothing over this at the minute. Haven't listened to Rise much for years but this is easily one of my favourite acoustified records around. |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell |
| Ryan Adams Gold |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker |
| Seal Seal |
| Shihad The General Electric |
| Sick of It All Just Look Around |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bookends |
| Soundtrack (Film) Garden State |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| Teddy Thompson Separate Ways |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Antlers Burst Apart |
| The Avett Brothers Emotionalism |
| The Beths Future Me Hates Me |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Clash The Clash |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas |
| The Mountain Goats The Coroner's Gambit |
| The National Boxer |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| Criminally underrated, The National's sophomore outing is an absolute must in your collection. Only bettered by Alligator to date. Contains some of their best and mellowest tunes, as well as maintaining plenty of eargasmic rawness throughout, which sets it aside from much of their subsequent material. P.S. Berninger screaming is like the best thing ever. |
| The National Cherry Tree |
| The National High Violet |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Veils The Runaway Found |
| The Veils Total Depravity |
| The Walkmen Heaven |
| The Wallflowers Bringing Down the Horse |
| The Wallflowers Breach |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving |
| Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy |
| Thin Lizzy Jailbreak |
| Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Looks like the post-hardcore legends saved their absolute best for last... As Rickly said of the album, "..this record was the first one where we said, 'You know what? Who cares? Let's say our career is over tomorrow, who fucking cares? Let's make something beautiful." WORD. |
| Tigers on Trains Grandfather |
| Townes Van Zandt Delta Momma Blues |
| Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace |
| Two Gallants The Throes |
| Two Gallants What the Toll Tells |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls |
| Whiskeytown Stranger's Almanac |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wilco Being There |
| Wilco Summerteeth |
| Wilco Kicking Television: Live in Chicago |
| Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
