Album Recommendations

The best way I can sum up my obsessions as a listener is that, if it was played on 120 Minutes, I like it. I like hooky songwriting, strange noises, big fuzzy basses, gnarly drum tones, interesting voices, and bands that know when to end a song. Beyond that, I will occasionally defend butt rock, mom rock, turn of the millennium pop rock, and various other genres considered uncool. I probably also have untapped interest in warped electronica and really lo-fi, crappy hip-hop music. Ask me again in ten years.

The old five-point scale has been retired in favor of just rating stuff 1-10, which allows me a much more nuanced final rating. Still don't take it that seriously. Most of these come from my own collection, so the grades skew rather high. Your results may vary if you send me stuff to review.

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Total number of reviews to date: 165
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My ten most recent reviews:

Year Album Name Artist Score Reviewed
2025 Money metalynx -1 July 21, 2025
1990 Pocketwatch Foo Fighters 9 July 9, 2025
1997 The Colour and the Shape Foo Fighters 9 July 9, 2025
2019 Live From the Artists Den Soundgarden 6 July 7, 2025
2004 Palookaville Fatboy Slim 8 June 23, 2025
1991 Pocket Full of Kryptonite Spin Doctors 8 June 16, 2025
1998 All the Pain Money Can Buy Fastball 8 June 9, 2025
2005 The Back Room Editors 9 June 2, 2025
2003 Antonymic c.layne 9 May 30, 2025
2014 Maps of Us c.layne 9 May 30, 2025

And ten random ones from the archive:

Year Album Name Artist Score Reviewed
2008 Cage the Elephant Cage the Elephant 10 August 11, 2023
2007 The Tender Ass EP Old Oldman 7 August 31, 2018
1996 Harmacy Sebadoh 6 March 18, 2024
2023 Twilight at a Burning Hill Midwestern Dirt 10 August 18, 2023
2012 King Animal Soundgarden 7 January 9, 2021
1995 Yourself or Someone Like You Matchbox Twenty 8 January 6, 2024
1994 Live Through This Hole 5 May 11, 2021
1999 Enema of the State blink-182 7 September 6, 2020
2002 Jinx Quarashi 7 April 6, 2025
2000 The Better Life 3 Doors Down 8 March 16, 2025