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Last Active 03-15-11 10:55 am
Joined 11-07-07

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Average Rating: 3.52
Rating Variance: 0.37
Objectivity Score: 72%
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5.0 classic
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes

4.5 superb
And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
British rock has spent most of the first decade of the 21st century desperately searching for its own classic album. Hopefully this will be the one that earns the historic crown because it deserves it.
As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep
As Cities Burn Hell or High Water
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Hell Is For Heroes Transmit Disrupt
La Dispute Here, Hear. III
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring
Moneen The Red Tree
Set Your Goals This Will Be the Death of Us
The Antlers Hospice
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse

4.0 excellent
65daysofstatic One Time for All Time
65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway
65daysofstatic The Fall of Math
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide
Bayside The Walking Wounded
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Brand New Daisy
Brigade Lights
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise
Colour of Fire Pearl Necklace
Crime In Stereo The Troubled Stateside
Death Cab for Cutie Plans
Disco Ensemble First aid kit
Do Make Say Think Other Truths
Fightstar Grand Unification
Four Year Strong Enemy Of The World
Hell Is For Heroes The Neon Handshake
Hell Is For Heroes Hell is for Heroes
Hot Cross Risk Revival
Hot Water Music Caution
Idlewild The Remote Part
Idlewild 100 Broken Windows
Idlewild Post Electric Blues
Jetplane Landing Once Like A Spark
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!
Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates
Moving Mountains Foreword
Muse Absolution
Oasis Stop the Clocks
Polar Bear Club Chasing Hamburg
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness
Say Anything In Defense of the Genre
Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release)
Say Anything Say Anything
Small Leaks Sink Ships Until The World Is Happy
So Many Dynamos The Loud Wars
The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
The Republic of Wolves Varuna

3.5 great
65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas
A Verse Unsung Sleeping Tigers
Adebisi Shank This is the Album
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw
Bayside Shudder
Brand New Deja Entendu
Brazil Philosophy of Velocity
Brigade Come Morning We Fight
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Circa Survive Juturna
Cursive Happy Hollow
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
Dropkick Murphys The Meanest of Times
Eisley Combinations
Foals Antidotes
Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song
Gifts From Enola From Fathoms
God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut
I Am the Avalanche I Am the Avalanche
If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
Make Do and Mend Bodies Of Water
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing
mewithoutYou A to B: Life
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
Moving Mountains Pneuma
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
New Found Glory Sticks and Stones
Northstar Pollyanna
Owen At Home With Owen
Polar Bear Club Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now
The Killers Hot Fuss
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Thrice Beggars
Thursday A City By the Light Divided
TTNG Animals
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue

3.0 good
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self
Alkaline Trio Crimson
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Bayside Bayside
Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk
Biffy Clyro Puzzle
Billy Talent Billy Talent II
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City
Circa Survive On Letting Go
Enter Shikari Take to the Skies
Not as original or groundbreaking as the hype machine suggested but it doesn't deserve the inevitable backlash it got designating it as utter crap. While it's not a real meld of genres and the synth plays an extremely basic role it does have a lot of experimentation in various other areas which curiously comes out to something completely average but in an interesting way. The energy of the album powers it through its bad moments but it never really transcends it. Doubt they'll ever be a great band but they'll probably never be a boring one either.
Enter Shikari Common Dreads
Feeder The Singles
Fighting With Wire Man Vs Monster
Fightstar One Day Son This Will All Be Yours
Foals Total Life Forever
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Kinesis Handshakes For Bullets
Kings of Leon Only By The Night
Moneen The World I Want To Leave Behind
Native Wrestling Moves
Saosin Saosin
Sparta Porcelain
The All-American Rejects Move Along
The Out Circuit Pierce The Empire With A Sound
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls
Yellowcard Lights and Sounds

2.5 average
+44 When Your Heart Stops Beating
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper
Bloc Party Intimacy
Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage
Emery The Question
Green Day American Idiot
Lostprophets Liberation Transmission
An album apparently made on auto-pilot. The vast majority of the songs feel like the band has taken a serviceable musical element, be it a decent riff, some gang vocals, maybe a bit of screaming possibly chuck in a memorable chorus line or two and then chucked it into some kind of song machine which then turned out a song. Even the guitar solos are pretty interchangeable. These songs don't have their own atmospheres because they're built with the same elements and structures and though each one makes for a perfectly alright single track an entire album worth gets stale. A couple of songs (Everyday Combat, A Town Called Hypocrisy) benefit from conscious efforts to create a certain sound a little outside the norm but as for the rest, there's not a bad song on here (in fact there's not even a single bad moment, though occasionally the vocals dive into straight out nasal whine) but there's not a great one either. This problem was present on Start Something but to a lesser degree as the songs sounded fresher and heavier. Next time guys, please pay attention to what you're doing.
New Found Glory Catalyst
Northstar Is This Thing Loaded?
Small Brown Bike The River Bed
The Faint Danse Macabre
The Killers Sam's Town
Thursday War All the Time
Yellowcard Paper Walls

2.0 poor
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