The Album Review Depository

It's about time I did this. For your convenience, or probably more precisely, mine, alphabetized by album title (my way) and available via link from the top right of the blog ... please utilize your control-f to find the artists / albums you seek.

N.B.: Reviews marked with *** are mini-reviews that may or may not see their completion in the never-reached future.

DESERT ISLAND DISCS

Appetite for Destruction (Guns n' Roses)
The Beatles [The White Album] (The Beatles)
Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan)
Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
Embryonic (The Flaming Lips)
Exile on Main Street (The Rolling Stones)
Head Hunters (Herbie Hancock)
Live / Dead (The Grateful Dead)
Loaded (The Velvet Underground)

Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins)

Yield (Pearl Jam)

RECOMMENDED

Abbatoir Blues (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds)
The B-52's (The B-52's)
The Black Album (Jay-Z)
Chinese Democracy (Guns n' Roses)
Dear Science (TV on the Radio)
f#a#∞ (Godspeed You Black Emperor)
I'm Going Away (The Fiery Furnaces)
In Rainbows (Radiohead)
Katy Lied (Steely Dan)

L.A. Woman (The Doors)

The La's (The La's)
LCD Soundsystem (LCD Soundsystem)
Live-Evil (Miles Davis)
A Live One (Phish)
Live Up! (Giant Panda Guerrilla Dub Squad) - (and here)
Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Various)

Pain in Full (Eric B. & Rakim)
Quadrophenia (The Who)
Remain in Light (Talking Heads)

Seven Swans (Sufjan Stevens)

Sung Tongs (Animal Collective)

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner (Ben Folds Five)

Vampire Weekend (Vampire Weekend)

Veckatimest (Grizzly Bear)

The Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground)***
Walkin' (Miles Davis)

The Wall (Pink Floyd)***
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Wilco)
Zen Arcade (Hüsker Dü)
#1 Record (Big Star)

RECOMMENDED (solid)

A.M. (Wilco)
Abacab (Genesis)
Absolutely Free (Frank Zappa)

The Academy in Peril (John Cale)
Accelerate (R.E.M.)
Ace Frehley (Kiss)
Acid Tongue (Jenny Lewis)

American Slang (The Gaslight Anthem)

B.P. Empire (Infected Mushroom)***
Back in Memphis (Elvis Presley)
Cafe Tacuba (Cafe Tacuba)

Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers)***
Can't Buy a Thrill (Steely Dan)
D-D-D-Don't Stop the Beat (Junior Senior)
Da Drought 3 (Lil Wayne)
E Luxo So (Labradford)
The Fabulous Sidney Bechet (Sidney Bechet)

The Fame / The Fame Monster (Lady GaGa)
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Spoon)
G'n'R Lies (Guns n' Roses)
The Grey Album (Danger Mouse)
Hail H.I.M. (Burning Spear)
Hail to the Thief (Radiohead)
i (The Magnetic Fields)
I Am a Bird Now (Antony & the Johnsons)
Jacksonville City Nights (Ryan Adams)
Joy (Phish)

Kala (M.I.A.)
Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space (Spiritualized)
Once (Various)
Pacer (The Amps)
Quality Control (Jurassic 5)

Radio City (Big Star)
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Black Sabbath)
Slip Stitch & Pass (Phish)
Take Ecstasy With Me (!!!)
Tales from Topographic Oceans (Yes)

Talkie Walkie (Air)***

Undertow (Tool)***
Wake of the Flood (The Grateful Dead)
White Crosses (Against Me!)
XO (Elliott Smith)
Yellow Submarine (The Beatles)
Zaireeka (The Flaming Lips)

Zenyattà Mondatta (The Police)

100% Fun (Matthew Sweet)

NOT RECOMMENDED

Absolution (Muse)

Backspacer (Pearl Jam)
Earphoria (Smashing Pumpkins)
Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morissette)
Louden Up Now (!!!)

MACHINA / The Machines of God (Smashing Pumpkins)
Naked Baby Photos (Ben Folds Five)
Radiator (Super Furry Animals)

Room Noises (Eisley)
Sailing the Seas of Cheese (Primus)
Undermind (Phish)
Velocity of Sound (The Apples in Stereo)
1 (Simple Kid)