| 5.0 classic |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| Death Symbolic |
| Def Leppard Hysteria |
| I remember being uncomfortable to admit my love for this album too, but I soon grew up and recognised that I do indeed have my own taste. Rock, metal, pop, honestly who gives a fuck about genres in 2020? Get out of your mum's basement. Album is fucking fantastic, period. |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| KISS Destroyer |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Master of Puppets was the continuation and perfection of the musical evolution hinted at on Ride the Lightning. Even in their Kill 'Em All days, Metallica weren't your standard fare, meat and potatoes thrash metal affair. They acted the part, sure, and they were inspired by the NWOBHM and punk bands that birthed the genre, but Metallica were something more. Whether it be the Spanish guitar that opens the album, the instrumental Orion, the cool-down Welcome Home (Sanitarium), the haunting Thing That Should Not Be or the iconic title track, Metallica swung for the fences and knocked every ball into the stratosphere, breaking from the binding chains of thrash metal, and becoming their own thing. |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| When all is said and done, Wish You Were Here will go down as one of the greatest albums ever. Wish You Were Here is indispensable bliss. |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Steely Dan Aja |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Van Halen Van Halen |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 4.5 superb |
| 2Pac Me Against the World |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2 |
| American Football American Football |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Cornelius Fantasma |
| Coroner Mental Vortex |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Human |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Defeater Travels |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Deftones best tones. Deftones best tunes. Best Deftones? Probably. 10/10. |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Digable Planets Blowout Comb |
| Dire Straits Love Over Gold |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| El-P Fantastic Damage |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Not only is The Marshall Mathers LP accessible, but it's incredibly diverse tonally. The sugary sample of Thank You by Dido in Stan that gives the track a very distinctive feel compared to a lot of the other cuts here, the brooding Dre beats on The Way I Am and the comedic assault on the music scene at the time, The Real Slim Shady all work together and never seem out of place. The brutally honest Marshall Mathers remains a cut that never got its deserved attention. This is Eminem at his best, and if he didn't "fall off" who knows what he could've come up with? |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight |
| Gang Starr Moment of Truth |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump |
| Heathen Victims of Deception |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jeromes Dream Completed |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| One of the most significant, if not the most significant album of the 10's. |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| Killing Joke Night Time |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| One of their best. The production gets a lot of flack, but little presence of bass aside, this album arguably has less filler than Ride The Lightning. Some of Kirk's best solos, James' best riffs and (dare I praise) Lars' most effective drumming. |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| Morphine Cure for Pain |
| Morphine's instrumental formula has been explained ad nauseam, but there is something truly beautiful about how bass, sax and drums come together in perfect harmony. Mark Sandman was a mad genius with a career which was one consistent prime, but Cure for Pain was the magnum opus; one of the most devastatingly overlooked albums of all time, yet based on pure quality is a near classic. |
| Morphine The Night |
| Motorhead Ace of Spades |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music |
| Nujabes Modal Soul |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| OutKast ATLiens |
| OutKast Aquemini |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Prince Purple Rain |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back |
| Quasimoto The Unseen |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Santana Abraxas |
| Seal Seal II |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Bloodborne (Original Soundtrack) |
| If I'm rating the Bloodborne soundtrack, I am abso-fucking-lutely going to include the DLC. Ludwig, The Holy Blade has, in my humble opinion, the best theme to any boss in the history of video games. Everything else ranges from great to stellar. Very close to a 5. |
| Steely Dan The Royal Scam |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Supertramp Crime of the Century |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The National Boxer |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The Sisters of Mercy First and Last and Always |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Van Halen 1984 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Yes Fragile |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Agnostic Front Victim in Pain |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| American Football American Football (LP3) |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Astronoid Air |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
| Beach House 7 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution |
| Bjork Medulla |
| Bjork Debut |
| Bjork Vulnicura |
| Black Flag My War |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno and David Byrne Everything that Happens Will Happen Today |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Carcass Symphonies of Sickness |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Common Resurrection |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Cornelius Point |
| Crass The Feeding of the 5000 |
| Cro-Mags The Age of Quarrel |
| Crypt Sermon The Ruins of Fading Light |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| Dead Can Dance Anastasis |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Future Development |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Destruction Release from Agony |
| Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) |
| Dir En Grey Gauze |
| Discharge Why |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot |
| Dokken Tooth and Nail |
| Dokken Under Lock and Key |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid |
| Ellis Born Again |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| EPMD Strictly Business |
| Eric B and Rakim Follow the Leader |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Fishmans Long Season |
| FKA Twigs Magdalene |
| Floating Points Crush |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain |
| Genesis Duke |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Guru Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues |
| Justice † |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
| "I CANT BELIEVE THAT ANTHONY FANTANO WOULD GIVE THIS A 10 AND BLURRYFACE A 4 THIS IS JUST AS BAD AS ALL THE "CLOUD RAP" THAT HE TRASHES ON, YOU SHOULD SUBSCRIBE TO A REAL MUSIC CRITIC LIKE ARTV". Needed a chuckle today, thank you! |
| Killing Joke Killing Joke |
| KRS-One Return Of The Boom Bap |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze |
| LL Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out |
| Madball Set It Off |
| Madlib Shades of Blue |
| Madness One Step Beyond |
| Madness Absolutely |
| Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle Perils from the Sea |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Massive Attack Protection |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica S&M |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
| Mind Eraser Glacial Reign |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood |
| Morcheeba Big Calm |
| Morphine Yes |
| Morphine Good |
| Motorhead Orgasmatron |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism |
| Napalm Death have been pretty consistent over the last decade, but Throes in the Jaws of Defeatism doesn't have any reason to be as good as it is. Potential 4.5. |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Nausea (USA-NY) Extinction |
| Negative Approach Tied Down |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nujabes Spiritual State |
| Off Minor Innominate |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Orchid Chaos is Me |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz |
| Pallbearer Heartless |
| Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| Primus Pork Soda |
| Prince Controversy |
| Prince 1999 |
| Prince Parade |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Rakim The 18th Letter |
| Redman Whut? Thee Album |
| Redman Muddy Waters |
| Ride Nowhere |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy |
| Roxy Music For Your Pleasure |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| The best work of Killer Mike and EL-P, not only in RTJ, but as respective artists. |
| Run-D.M.C. King Of Rock |
| Rush 2112 |
| Savage Garden Savage Garden |
| Seal Seal |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick |
| Slick Rick The Art Of Storytelling |
| Slowdive Pygmalion |
| Snapcase Progression Through Unlearning |
| Soen Lykaia |
| Stateless Matilda |
| Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy |
| Stetsasonic In Full Gear |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| Tallah Matriphagy |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| The Beat I Just Can't Stop It |
| The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers |
| The Birthday Massacre Pins and Needles |
| The Chemical Brothers Surrender |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Further Out |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Doobie Brothers The Captain and Me |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation |
| The Roots Do You Want More?!!!??! |
| The Roots Illadelph Halflife |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Sisters of Mercy Floodland |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Specials Specials |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Trapped Under Ice Secrets of the World |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
| Two People First Body |
| United Nations United Nations |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Voivod The Wake |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| 3.0 good |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant |
| Acceptance Black Lines to Battlefields |
| AFI Decemberunderground |
| American Football American Football (LP2) |
| Anthrax State of Euphoria |
| Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars |
| Big Boi BOOMIVERSE |
| Bjork Volta |
| Blacklisted When People Grow, People Go |
| Blue All Rise |
| Bon Iver i,i |
| Brian Eno Drums Between The Bells |
| Carcass Reek of Putrefaction |
| Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cry |
| Cocteau Twins Milk and Kisses |
| Code Orange Underneath |
| Common Can I Borrow a Dollar? |
| Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography |
| Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness |
| David Bowie Let's Dance |
| Dead Kennedys Bedtime for Democracy |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Undoubtedly influential on the genre, Scream Bloody Gore was the blueprint for the future of death metal. However, despite being enjoyable in places, most tracks blend into each other, feeling like one continuous track rather than a collection of songs. Scream Bloody Gore was an immature Death, with future releases rendering this album as hardly essential. |
| Death Grips Government Plates |
| Deftones Gore |
| Device Device |
| Somewhat run-of-the-mill, certainly not groundbreaking; but in all honesty, that doesn't detract from Device being a solid effort. |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| DJ Shadow The Mountain Will Fall |
| Dokken Breaking the Chains |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Drowning Pool Sinner |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Faith No More Introduce Yourself |
| Flying Lotus Flamagra |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied |
| Frightened Rabbit Sing The Greys |
| Gang Starr No More Mr. Nice Guy |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers |
| Gojira Magma |
| Hatebreed The Divinity of Purpose |
| Ice Cube Laugh Now, Cry Later |
| Ihsahn Telemark |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented |
| Kanye West ye |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Kayo Dot Blasphemy |
| Killer Mike I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind |
| King Crimson Beat |
| Korn See You on the Other Side |
| Leftover Crack Constructs of the State |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Los Lonely Boys Sacred |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt.1 |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Michael Jackson Xscape |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| Morcheeba Blood Like Lemonade |
| Muse Drones |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Napalm Death Inside the Torn Apart |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| Band began with Harmony Corruption. Napalm Death without Barney just isn't Napalm Death. |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Kicking Against The Pricks |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Nigga Please |
| Opeth Heritage |
| OutKast Idlewild |
| Pharoahe Monch W.A.R. |
| Primus The Brown Album |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Rise Against Endgame |
| Rush Test for Echo |
| Rush Presto |
| Saves the Day Under the Boards |
| Shaquille O'Neal You Can't Stop the Reign |
| Slick Rick Behind Bars |
| Slint Tweez |
| Steely Dan Two Against Nature |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing |
| Suicidal Tendencies Get Your Fight On! |
| Swans Greed |
| Sylosis Cycle of Suffering |
| Talk Talk It's My Life |
| Talking Heads Naked |
| Testament Titans of Creation |
| The Academic Tales From The Backseat |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Birthday Massacre Under Your Spell |
| The Chemical Brothers Push the Button |
| The Chemical Brothers We Are the Night |
| The Knife The Knife |
| The National The National |
| The Prodigy The Day Is My Enemy |
| The Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned |
| The Roots ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin |
| The Sisters of Mercy Vision Thing |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy |
| Theo Katzman Heartbreak Hits |
| Thursday Waiting |
| Trivium In Waves |
| Van Halen OU812 |
| Voivod Voivod |
| Wax Continue... |
| Weezer The Red Album (Deluxe Edition) |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams |
| Yes Time and a Word |
| Yes Yes |
