Pretty good album, a nice blend of post-psychedelic, lo-fi, and indie rock, and a good start for Neutral Milk Hotel, despite the fact it doesn't live up to the quality of it's successor.
Hybrid Theory is a fucking fantastic debut album from Linkin Park, as well as just one of their best albums in general. While later albums like Meteora, and Minutes To Midnight are also very good, the novely of Hybird Theory still hasn’t fully worn off 20 years later. Tracks like One Step Closer, With You, A Place For My Head, In The End, Pushing Me Away, everything about Hybrid Theory is fucking fantastic and serves to make it one of the greatest hard rock albums ever made.
BYOB is my favorite System Of A Down song, but everything apart from that is pretty forgettable.
System Of A Down's last album "Hypnotize" released in 2005, is their best yet, and a great way to (mostly) close off their careers. Tracks like the title track, Vicinity Of Obscenity, Lonely Day and others are fucking fantastic and a great reason as to why SOAD are as well known as they are, not just within metal, but music in general.
A great punk album, I personally like to think The Upsides is where The Wonder Years went from pretty good to great, which they would build on with Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing, The Greatest Generation, and No Closer To Heaven.
The fifth album from Slipknot, .5 The Gray Chapter, released in 2014, I think gets a little too much shit. It's not a perfect album, but it gets less recognition than it's worth. It was the first album the band made after the band's bassist Paul Gray died in 2010 (hence the name). Tracks like The Devil In I, Sarcastrophe, and AOV are fantastic, whereas tracks like Killpop, Sketpic, and Override are rather passable. Great album, but it still suffers from a lot of the issues that All Hope Is Gone ... read more
Slipknot's fourth album All Hope Is Gone from 2008, isn't as dark as it is depressing. It's a weird album, because while it has some of their most popular songs like Psychosocial, Sulfer, and the emotionally heavy Snuff, it has some of their most forgettable, and boring tracks like This Cold Black, Vendetta, and Butcher's Hook. Some of them are just flat out mediocre. In conclusion, it has some of their best work, but also a lot of the most forgettable.
With Slipknot's third studio album "Vol 3 The Subliminal Verses" released in 2004, is absolutely phenomenal. It's not on the level of Iowa, but it still exceeds the quality of their self titled album. With Slipknot getting more experimental, and expanding their comfort zone, Vol 3 has some of their best, most well known songs like Duality, Before I Forget, and Pulse Of The Maggots, as well as the quality of some of the lesser talked about tracks like The Nameless, Opium Of The People, ... read more
Imagine Dragons proves with Origins that they make music for people that put hair in their spaghetti.
Thunder is a key factor to me hating 2017. The rest of this album is mediocre at best.
Everyday Life attempts (and succeeds in areas) to return Coldplay to the glory days of their first three albums, but a lot of the tracks feel uninteresting, and tend to drag on too long.