Honorable Mentions - Albums

** This list is a work-in-progress. Some of these albums might get UPGRADED, DOWNGRADED, or REMOVED entirely **

6/10s - Albums I liked enough to fully recommend but didnt like enough to call a classic/masterpiece. Calling something a "classic" aka a "masterpiece" to me is a big deal so I try my best to be very picky about that. A few albums on here could arguably deserve a much higher rating... but it boiled down to: 1. me not liking the singer very much (ex: The Tallest Man On Earth, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever...), 2. me thinking the sound was a little too dated (ex: Young MC, The Crickets, Buddy Holly...), or 3. me thinking it did sound like a classic but every song was only a 3/5 so a rating of 6/10 felt like it made sense (ex: the metal/hardcore albums). 

Country:

Margo Price - "Midwest Farmer's Daughter" (2016)

Electronica:

Boards of Canada - "Music Has the Right to Children" (1998)

Wagon Christ - "Throbbing Pouch" (1994)

Film/Video Game Score:

Final Fantasy 7 OST [Disc 2] (1997)

Jazz/Fusion:

Tony Allen - "Rejoice" (2020)

Metal:

Asphyx - "The Rack" (1991)

Converge - "Jane Doe" (2001)

Dissection - "Storm of the Light's Bane" (1996)

Mastodon - "Leviathan" (2004)

Rap:

Boogie Down Productions - "Criminal Minded" (1987)

Gang Starr - "Step in the Arena" (1991)

Young MC - "Stone Cold Rhymin" (1989)

Rock/Folk:

AC/DC - "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (1976)

Angel Olsen - "Half Way Home" (2012)

The Apples in Stereo - "Fun Trick Noisemaker" (1995)

Arctic Monkeys - "Favourite Worst Nightmare" (2007)

Badly Drawn Boy - "The Hour of Bewilderbeast" (2000)

The Beatles - "With the Beatles" (1963)

Beck - "Mellow Gold" (1994)

Blood Orange - "Coastal Grooves" (2011)

BODEGA - “Endless Scroll” (2018)

BODEGA - “Shiny New Model” (2019)

Bryan Adams - “Reckless” (1984)

Built to Spill - "You In Reverse" (2006)

Camera Obscura - "Let's Get Out Of This Country" (2006)

Cate Le Bon - "Mug Museum" (2013)

The Chameleons - "Strange Times" (1986)

The Comsat Angels - "Sleep No More" (1981)

Courtney Barnett - "Tell Me How You Really Feel" (2018)

Cut Copy - "Bright Like Neon Love" (2004)

Cut Copy - "In Ghost Colours" (2008)

Dave Matthews Band - "Under the Table & Dreaming" (1994)

The Decemberists - “Castaways & Cutouts” (2002)

Devin Davis - "Lonely People of the World, Unite!" (2005)

Duran Duran - "Rio" (1982)

Eternal Summers - “The Drop Beneath” (2014)

Eternal Summers - “Every Day It Feels Like I'm Dying” (2018)

The Feelies - "Crazy Rhythms" (1980)

The Feelies - "The Good Earth" (1986)

Foxygen - "We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic" (2013)

Future Islands - "The Far Field" (2017)

The Go-Go's - "Beauty and the Beat" (1981)

Guster - "Lost & Gone Forever" (1999)

Hootie & the Blowfish - "Cracked Rear View" (1994)

Hot Water Music - "Finding the Rhythms" (1995)

Hot Water Music - "Fuel for the Hate Game" (1997)

Jen Cloher - "Jen Cloher" (2017)

Jimmy Dawkins - "Fast Fingers" (1969)

Journey - "Escape" (1981)

The La's - "The La's" (1990)

Lou Reed - "Coney Island Baby" (1976)

Lou Reed - "Transformer" (1972)

Maroon 5 - "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" (2007)

The New Pornographers - “Electric Version” (2003)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "The Boatman's Call" (1997)

The Ocean Blue - "Cerulean" (1991)

The Police - "Outlandos D'Amour" (1978)

Public Image Ltd. - "Second Edition" (1979)

Purple Mountains - “Purple Mountains” (2019)

Queens of the Stone Age - "Songs for the Deaf" (2002)

Real Estate - "Days" (2011)

R.E.M. - "Out of Time" (1991)

Roxy Music - "Avalon" (1982)

Shopping - "The Official Body" (2018)

Ski Lodge - "Big Heart" (2013)

Songs: Ohia - "Magnolia Electric Co." (2003)

Sonic Youth - “The Eternal” (2009)

The Strokes - "Angles" (2011)

Sun Kil Moon - "Ghosts of the Great Highway" (2003)

Superchunk - "No Pocky for Kitty" (1991)

The Tallest Man On Earth - "There's No Leaving Now" (2012) - Controversial Singer

Tame Impala - "Currents" (2015)

Tsunami - "The Heart's Tremolo" (1994)

Ty Segall - "Manipulator" (2014)

Unrest - "Perfect Teeth" (1993)

Wilco - “Sky Blue Sky” (2007)

Wire - "Pink Flag" (1977)