Kurtis Blow - Kingdom Blow
100

Right, I've giving this 100 because you lot are wrong. This thing is awesome, you've got the Robots in Disguise song, you've got Kurtis singing zip a dee doo dah, what more could you want? It sounds great even if it is pre-Rakim where everyone's still learning how to rap with more than a couple rhymes. Give 'em a break. Fine, go and listen to your precious TPAB instead.

Kool Keith - Mr. Controller
45

It's pretty odd... which would normally be a good thing. But no.

Fat Boys - Fat Boys
85

The human beat box needs to come back and end the pretentious Kendrick era.

Dilated Peoples - Neighborhood Watch
75

I don't get why something gets to be a 'hip-hop classic' but something else doesn't . Below the Heavens by Blu and Exile is a classic but this ain't? Why? I don't get it. This is great.

Ulver - Locusts
65

I don't think I like modern Ulver very much. It feels like I could just listen to Depeche Mode instead.

The Beatles - Revolver
75

Nowhere near as good as Abbey Road or The White Album. Actually boring a lot of the time, but that's ok because Eleanor Rigby is on here and Tomorrow Never Knows is great too.

clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood
80

That Pitchfork review is nutty.

MAVI - shadowbox
60

I'm not sure I like the smooth jazz he's rapping over. It's very low energy. Is this what hip-hop sounds like when the guy is too depressed to get out of bed?

Hermit and the Recluse - Orpheus vs. the Sirens
80

This guy loves MF DOOM, right? It all sounds very DOOMish but lacking the DOOM charisma. It would be unfair to complain about that though, so let's say this has it's own charisma and it's very good.

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
55

Almost everyone loves this, apparently.

The Microphones - Mount Eerie
79

I don't like this as much as The Glow Pt.2. It doesn't have the momentum that had, and I'm just sitting waiting for something to happen, and it doesn't happen. Still good though.... I think.

Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
45

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm is great, Everything else not so much. Plodding and boring and tiresome.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
84

Weird shit. But I kind of like it. Album of the Year usership appear to have settled on the idea that this is Avant Garde Metal, fine, that's as good a genre to put it in as any I suppose. I've seen 'Dadaist Art Rock' elsewhere. Also fine. Sometimes with weird experimental stuff I listen and I think, well it's not that weird. This, for example, has rhythm. And the instruments, whatever they are, and as far as I can tell, are in tune. Two songs went on my Main ... read more

Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code
50

Too lush and too soulful for me.

Massive Attack - 100th Window
60

Why make a less good version of Mezzanine?

Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
72

This was fine. I couldn't figure out why I didn't like it more, actually, so I ended up thinking about it a lot. Trying to figure out, with my impoverished musical knowledge, why it didn't click. Firstly, I decided, it's basically decent thrash metal, but why listen to decent thrash metal when you can listen to Master of Puppets? Well, it isn't just thrash metal, Machine Head throw in a number of little things from other metal sub-genres here and there. The ... read more

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