Angel Dust is one of those albums that just stops you in its tracks and screams at you "Pay Attention". And boy howdy does this album grab your attention. It's a strange yet accessible album that delves deep into the mind of Mike Patton and Co, with songs about redneck america (RV) and songs about...well, about sucking penis (Be Aggressive). It's funny, catchy and extremely entertaining.

Favorite Jams: A Small Victory, Midlife Crisis, Caffeine

Lest Favorite: RV

Perfection. Listen to it if you have even a vauge interest in hard rock.

EDIT: OK, maybe I should elaborate. It album is dark, ugly, dirty, brutal and disgusting, like a pig playing in mud and relishing everything that is found in the dirt. But while it does house heavy, disgusting and brutal instrumentation, it's true perfection lies in the lyrics. The album is a concept album about someone taking their own life, what lead up to that moment and how it effects the people around the main ... read more

While it screams and beacons that it's an album, this is an EP. An extremely entertaining and dense EP, but it's an EP none the less. Anyway, this "album", along with the other records in this trilogy (Not The Actual Events, Add Violence, Bad Witch) is dense, heavy, and intricate. Switching from heavy industrial stompers to demented jazz pieces to lush instrumentals with ease. A interesting and very dense EP, maybe a bit too dense for its own good (I'm Not From This World is a bit ... read more

Both a gigantic sprawling epic to battle the likes of The Wall or The Black Parade, and a straight high school punk record, in a combination that creates one of the most infectious listens I've heard in a while. The musical equivalent to the film Submarine, its a extremely fun, emotional and all around entertaining rock album.

Favorite Jams: The Ballad of the Costa Concordia, Vincent, Just What I Needed / Not Just What I Needed

Lest Favorite: Joe Goes to School

Not hearing the original album before this, this is one of the most enticing and energetic rock records I've heard in a while. Feeling like it came straight out of a Wes Anderson film, it's one way a punk album as it is one way a prog album, combining soulful and emotional lyrics with neck break guitar riffs to create a interesting and fun listen.

Favorite jams: Bodys, Cute Thing, Beach Life-In-Death

Lest Favorite: Stop Smoking (We Love You)

I don't hate this album because Fall Out Boy aren't rock anymore. Several bands have gone more electronic and prevailed. (The 1975, Tegan And Sara, and most recently Muse) I hate this album because I know they can do better then to make a middle of the road boring and annoying pop record. There are genuine talented people in this band. I just wish they could be used much better then to be stuck creating this.

Favorite jams: Stay Frost Royal Milk Tea on a good day maybe???

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Probably the most heavy, experimental, and emotionally driven Blur album. Damon Albarn's lyrics reflect himself in a very honest and earnest way that we usually don't see from Damon. The instrumentation is top notch, with glitched out grooves engrossing the whole record. Overall, it might not be for everyone, but it's still a treat.

Favorite Jams: Bugman, Trimm Trabb, No Distance Left To Run

Lest Favorite: Optigan 1

It's a odd album for sure. It's strange beyond belief. It gets so strange I often had to pause to catch my breath. But once the fever sinks in, once the urge to listen to this record starts to spread, once the itch begins to beg to be scratched, that's when Mr. Bungle's odd funk-circus-on-fire seems like an absurdist paradise.

Favorite jams: Girls Of Porn, Squeeze My Macaroni, Egg

Lest Favorite: Slowly Growing Deaf

Don't get me wrong: The first half of this record is great. The explosive T-Shirt and Run combo, the catchy Sky Is A Neighborhood and the funk layered Make It Right are all fantastic tracks. But the rest of the album doesn't quite reach the sky-set heights that tracks like Sunday Rain and The Line are clearly going for. The band seems to either create genre pushing arena stompers or neutered alt-rock slosh on this album, and something tells me this could lead to something truly bad.

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This record is like a fine Bourbon: Smooth, intricate, and slightly dangerous. Tyler, The Creator is slowly becoming the poster boy for a new breed of creative, innovative and interesting hip-hop, with Flower Boy being his most personal and accessible album to date. Mixing arena bangers and soulful introspective tracks, Tyler paints a portrait of a more fixed human then he was on previous albums. This is Tyler nearing his peak performance, with a listen that flows by like the wind.

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One of the pioneers of the rock opera, this album is a dense, intricate, brutally honest dissection of Roger Waters lifestyle and past, with each following chapter becoming more depressing and powerful. Between guitar licks and pained vocals are layers of vocal clips, atmosphere and noises that create a terrified and fragile world filled with the dark side of drugs, sex, and rock and roll, all while seeming 100% genuine and 500% terrifying. While replays of this album could seem quite daunting, ... read more