Five Star: A look at albums
that are so good that they impress even the most cynical of critics. Very
few albums are superior enough to obtain a five star rating but occasionally
a band slips through the river of mediocrity that is the modern music industry
and they produce an album that restores our faith in the future of rock!
This series is a look at such albums.
James - Hey Ma (Album of the Year) (5 stars)
Marc Broussard Keeps Fans Coming Back (5 stars)
Portishead - Third
My Ruin - Throat Full of Heart
Duffy - Rockferry
Story of the Year - The Black Swan
Yael
Naim
Partly
Cloudy - Arm Your Weapons
The
Best of the Johnny Cash Show
Ministry
- The Last Sucker
As
Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep
Love
is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
As
I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Fair
to Midland - Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True
Monster
in the Machine - Butterfly Pinned
The
Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
Freeway
Jam To Beck and Back
Frank
Black - Frank Black 93-03
Portugal.
The Man - Church Mouth
Parhelia
- Oceans Apart EP
Rush
- Snakes & Arrows
Jimmy
McIntosh - Orleans to London
Eccodek
- Voices Have Eyes
Shadows
Fall - Threads of Life
Fats
& Friends DVD
Mezzanine
Owls - Slingshot Echoes
Dustin
Kensrue - Please Come Home(Thrice)
Al
Green The Definitive Greatest Hits
River
City High Not Enough Saturday Nights
Ernie
Southern - Prozac Blues (5 stars)
The
Who - Endless Wire
John
Lee Hooker - Hooker (4 CD box set)
Julie
Loyd - All That You Ask For (live)
MuteMath
The
Pogues - Red Roses for Me
John
Fogerty - The Long Road Home In Concert
Lindsey
Buckingham - Under the Skin
Glenn
Danzig - Black Aria II
The
Essential Alice In Chains
Kill
Your Idols by S.A. Crary
Scissor
Sisters - Ta-dah
TV
On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
The
Mars Volta - Amputechture
Muse
- Black Holes and Revelations
Unearth
- III: In The Eyes Of Fire
Rise
Against - The Sufferer and the Witness
The
Replacements - Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? (Best of
)
James
Hunter - People Gonna Talk
Drag
the River - It's Crazy
Zero
7 - The Garden
AFI
- Decemberunderground
Richard
McGraw - Song and Void Volume 1
Pearl
Jam - Pearl Jam
Smoking
Popes - At Metro Live CD/DVD
Pantera
- 3 Vulgar Videos from Hell DVD
Scars
of Tomorrow - The Beginning Of
Domeshots
- Reception
Hotel
Lights (Ben Folds Five)
Yeah
Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
David
Gilmour - On an Island
The
Sword - Age of Winters
Fivespeed
- Morning Over Midnight
Billy
Joel - My Lives (Boxset)
Boy
Sets Fire - The Day The Sun Went Out
Slipknot
- 9.0 Live
Weeds
Soundtrack
Scars
of Tomorrow - Horror Of Realization
Sevendust
- Next
Minus
the Bear - Menos El Oso
Staind
- Chapter V
The
Nomi Song
Bane
- The Note
Bear
Vs Shark - Terrorhawk
Disciple
- Rise Up
Converge
- Petitioning the Empty Sky
Glen
Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer
Gratitude
- Gratitude
KillWhitneyDead
- So Pretty So Plastic
The
Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
M83
- Until The Dawn Heals Us
Assume
the Position Its
Jarvis Humby
Street
Dogs - Back to the World
Stars
Look Down - Stars Look Down
U2
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Daysend
- Severance
Anthrax
The Greater of Two Evils
The
Blood Brothers - Crimes
Meshuggah
I
The
Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
Starwood
- If It Ain't Broke, Break It!
Sparta
Porcelain
Loretta
The Translation
The
Vines Winning Days
Angie
Aparo - For Stars and Moon
HIM
- Razorblade Romance
Knife
in the Water - Plays One Sound and Others
Wellwater
Conspiracy - "Wellwater Conspiracy"
The
Darkness - "Permission To Land"
Blue
October - "History For Sale"
Radiohead
- "Hail To The Thief"
Anthrax
- "We've Come For You All"
The
White Stripes - "Elephant"
PrimeSTH
- "Underneath The Surface"
The
Exies - "Inertia"
Ra
- "From One"
Courtney
Love - America's Sweetheart
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