King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
97

An amazing prog rock album to start them all. It's short track listing benefits the project as throughout its 67 minute run time it continues to surprise and confound again and again with sublime and near perfectly placed and mixed sounds that fill up your senses.

The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 1
100

Simply put, the greatest audio experience I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. It is almost impossible to give this project anything other than a 100, it is pure art and brings us to an event horizon to discover what we do and don't know about our own fragile minds and it asks us to confront our fleeting mortality, yet it asks us to live on with our lives and to treasure every single memory we have as it could one day leave us in a brutal and destructive void.

Peach Pit - You and Your Friends
80

A perfectly serviceable indie-pop album that, in some ways, goes backwards from the sounds of "Being so Normal" while in other ways far surpassing the sounds of their previous record. It's just a nice listen.

The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
95

An amazing fusion of all the trappings of a Radiohead album with a psychedelic infusion that makes it an instant classic in my mind.

Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
98

Simply my favourite Christmas album and the only one of its kind I can bare listening to all the way through.

Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
100

Though this album is a 100, it achieves this rating for completely different reasons than TPAB. Where TPAB deals with racial tension, hypocrisy, survivor's guilt, and black empowerment; Mr. Morale and & The Big Steppers takes the more intimate parts of Kendrick's personal life alluded to on TPAB and magnifies them to incredible proportions. Kendrick deals with cycles of abuse, the lack of love for thy neighbour, infidelity in his marriage, and problems with masculinity and the failure to ... read more

Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground
80

A massively underrated alt-rock project that gets even better after every listen.

Pink Floyd - The Wall
85

An overhyped rock opera almost entirely written by Roger Waters that brought the band back from the brink of bankruptcy and lead to his departure from the band, this album is the last hoorah from an ailing band and nothing that came after it touched its heights giving future listens of the project a bittersweet feeling afterwards.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
95

A deeply emotional project filled with anger at the music industry in the wake of the breakup of The Beatles, sorrowful longing for the return of Syd Barrett after a near decade of drug abuse and insanity, and a cynical view of the future of business in America and the U.K.

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
98

Pink Floyd's magnum opus is a sprawling masterpiece that tackles everything plaguing modern capitalist society with surprising timeliness and enjoyability. On the surface the project is just an enjoyable listen with complex lyrics however, the depth of the album is really best felt after the 3rd or 4th listen through and a thorough digestion of the themes present.

Tyler, The Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
93

Tyler's second best album, 'Call me if you get Lost' is steeped in a certain atmosphere that Tyler embraces fully. The project has the feel of a Wes Anderson movie and I'm all for it.

The Beatles - Please Please Me
65

A fine pop album with nothing too special to offer.

The Beatles - With The Beatles
65

An okay pop album with nothing too special to offer.

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
75

This album very much feels like the older, more popular, brother of 'The Beatles for Sale' with catchier tunes and a perfectly okay pop sound.

The Beatles - Beatles for Sale
70

A fine pop-rock listen missing lacking the full maturity the band would later exhibit as they aged and released more music. This very much sounds like a young band continuing the formula of being commercial darlings with catchy melodies and upbeat sounds.

The Beatles - Help!
80

'Help' is the best purely pop sounding record from The Beatles pre Rubber Soul. It is the beginning of the experimental pop the group would later perfect while still being firmly a pop record.

The Beatles - Rubber Soul
85

A perfectly fine listen and an interesting era for the band as they begin transitioning away from sappy love songs into more mature songwriting. Many elements of their later projects find their roots here with the only major drawback being that the group hadn't fully moved away from their earlier pop sounds.

The Beatles - Revolver
98

The perfect psych-pop record that encapsulates The Beatles' move to being a studio-only band along with their intrepid experimentation with the boundaries of rock in the mid 1960s. Blending musical elements and themes from the West and the East. There are no duds on this record and every song compliments the song before and after creating a beautifully artistic and fully realised album experience.

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
93

Though an amazing work of art to be studied an emulated throughout the generations, 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' does not live up to the hype, however, it is still an amazing work of art. This project is a triumph of classic rock, psychedelic rock, psychedelic pop, and pop that wasn't replicated by The Beatles in the years after its release. No album that came before this one sounded like and nothing after it used the same blend of elements to this degree. Its greatest achievement, ... read more

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