Aquemini
SouthernPlayalisticCadillacMuzik
ATLiens
Speakerboxxx/love below
Stankonia


The Low end Theory
Midnight Marauders
People's instinctive travels
beats, rhymes, and life
The love movement

Reasonable Doubt
The Blueprint
The Black Album
In my lifetime
Hard Knock Life
The Dynasty
The Life and Times of S. Carter
Blue Print 2 The Gift and the Curse
Kingdom Come

5/21/2008 9:42:43 AM

Flogging Molly:
1. Swagger
2. Within a Mile of Home
3. Drunken Lullabies
4. Whiskey on a Sunday
5. Float (it might grow on me, but I'm just not feeling it so far)
6. Alive Behind the Green Door

Dropkick Murphys:
1. Warrior's Code
2. Do or Die
3. Sing Loud, Sing Proud
4. The Gang's All Here
5. The Meanest of Times
* Unrated: Blackout, Live Albums, as I've not heard enough to accurately rank

Smashing Pumpkins:
1. Siamese Dream
2. Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
3. Gish
4. Zeitgeist
5. Adore
6. Machina
* Unrated: Machina 2

The Beatles:
1. Revolver
2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. Rubber Soul
4. The White Album
5. Abbey Road
6. A Hard Day's Night
7. Please Please Me
8. Beatles for Sale
9. With the Beatles
10. Help!
11. Let It Be
12. Magical Mystery Tour
13. Yellow Submarine

I'm going to get flamed for this last one, but what the heck:
Dave Matthews Band (studio albums only b/c there are so damn many live ones):
1. Crash
2. Under the Table and Dreaming
3. Before these Crowded Streets
4. Remember Two Things
5. Busted Stuff
6. Recently (EP)
7. Everyday
8. Stand Up

5/21/2008 11:34:45 AM

Quote :

"The Low end Theory Midnight Marauders People's instinctive travels beats, rhymes, and life The love movement"

I think I'm the only person that likes "The Love Movement" the most. Can't explain it...just enjoy more of the songs on that album.


The Love Movement
Midnight Marauders
The Low End Theory
Beats, Rhymes, and Life
People's Instinctive Travels

5/21/2008 1:35:29 PM

Quote :

"sucks how much they have regressed (in my opinion) since they started "

True, the new Thrice is just not on par with the old Thrice.

5/21/2008 1:45:03 PM

5/21/2008 1:47:10 PM

Radiohead
1. OK Computer
2. Kid A
3. In Rainbows
4. The Bends
5. Hail To The Thief
6. Amnesiac
7. Pablo Honey

Ben Folds / Ben Folds Five
1. Whatever and Ever Amen
2. The Unauthorized Biography of R. M.
3. Ben Folds Five
4. Supersunnyspeedgraphic
5. Rockin' the Suburbs
6. Songs for Silverman

Rilo Kiley
1. The Execution of All Things
2. Take-Offs and Landings
3. More Adventurous
4. Live at Fingerprints, etc
5. Under the Blacklight (very very very very distantly fifth)

The Mountain Goats (abbreviated version)
1. The Sunset Tree
2. We Shall All Be Healed
3. All Hail West Texas
4. Tallahassee
5. Nine Black Poppies
6. Heretic Pride
7. Get Lonely
8. Full Force Galesburg
9. The Coroner's Gambit
10. Zopilote Machine
11. Sweden
12. Nothing for Juice

John Vanderslice
1. Pixel Revolt
2. Emerald City
3. Cellar Door
4. Time Travel Is Lonely
5. Life and Death of an American Fourtracker
6. Mass Suicide Occult Figurines

5/21/2008 2:33:11 PM

the pixies
1. doolittle (a typical number 1 i know, but these were HARD to rank.)
2. surfer rosa
3. bossanova
4. come on pilgrim
5. trompe le monde

i didn't actually really like ranking those...too hard. 1-4 could probably be tied for 1st leaving 5 2nd

wilco
1. summerteeth
2. being there
3. a.m. or yankee hotel foxtrot
4. a.m. or yankee hotel foxtrot
5. a ghost is born
6. sky blue sky

cat power
1. myra lee
2. moon pix
3. dear sir
4. you are free
5. what would the community think
6. the greatest
5. jukebox (i don't even listen to this album BUT i guess i had to include it on the list)


alas i am bored of this game or else i would list more

[Edited on May 21, 2008 at 2:55 PM. Reason : .]

5/21/2008 2:55:08 PM

Pixies
1. Surfer Rosa
2. Doolittle
3. Come On Pilgrim
4. Bossanova
5. Trompe le Monde

5/21/2008 3:20:56 PM

^x3
we agree on so much, yet butt heads even more

5/21/2008 3:26:22 PM

Mignonette
Emotionalism
Carolina Jubilee
Four Thieves Gone
The Gleam (only b/c its an EP)

5/21/2008 3:43:34 PM

Radiohead
1: The Bends/Kid A/OK Computer
2: Amnesiac/Pablo Honey/Hail To The Theif
3: In Rainbows

No way I could rank them any less obscurely. Inly reason I put In Rainbows 3 is because I just don't have the same history with it as the others.

5/21/2008 4:09:55 PM

Thrice

Illusion of Safety/Identity Crisis -- can't pick which I like more, changes like the tides
Artist in the Ambulance
Vheissu
Fire
Water
Haven't heard Earth or Wind

Older stuff is definitely way better.

5/21/2008 4:22:17 PM

Alligator (It's a common fetish for a doting man to ballerina on the coffee table cock in hand)
Boxer
The Virginia EP
Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
Cherry Tree
The National

Alligator and Boxer are pretty interchangeable.

5/21/2008 4:35:27 PM

Quote :

"No way I could rank them any less obscurely. Inly reason I put In Rainbows 3 is because I just don't have the same history with it as the others."

i'm the same way. if i were to personally rank the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac would be the top two more so because of the memories they bring back during that point of my life and great times while they were played.

5/21/2008 4:59:20 PM

yankee hotel foxtrot
summerteeth
being there
a ghost is born
skybluesky

didnt rank AM because i've never heard it tbh

5/21/2008 10:58:17 PM

is someone gonna do sonic youth or do i have to???

5/22/2008 12:34:48 AM

Excluding Ciccone Youth, the SYR stuff, and the EPs:

1. Sister
2. Daydream Nation
3. Confusion Is Sex
4. EVOL
5. Goo
6. Dirty
7. Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
8. Washing Machine
9. Murray Street
10. Sonic Nurse
11. Bad Moon Rising
12. A Thousand Leaves
13. Rather Ripped
14. NYC Ghosts & Flowers

5/22/2008 1:53:27 AM

I'm going to stick with just the more modern acts... no Pink Floyd, Beatles, etc listings....


Radiohead
OK Computer
In Rainbows
The Bends
Kid A
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief
Pablo Honey

Grandaddy
The Sophtware Slump
Sumday
Under the Western Freeway
Just Like the Fambly Cat


My Morning Jacket
It Still Moves
Evil Urges
The Tennessee Fire
At Dawn
Z

The Shins
Chutes Too Narrow
Wincing The Night Away
Oh, Inverted World


Sufjan Stevens
Illinois
Michigan
The Avalanche
Seven Swans
A Sun Came
Enjoy your Rabbit

and... I'll stop there... this could go on all day, lol.

5/22/2008 1:31:19 PM

Studio albums only... (and i'm sure some will disagree with my rankings here)

NOFX
1. Punk In Drublic
2. So Long and Thanks for All The Shoes
3. Pump Up the Valuum
4. Ribbed
5. S&M Airlines
6. Heavy Petting Zoo
7. White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
8. Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
9. The War on Errorism
10. Liberal Animation

Lagwagon
1. Trashed
2. Let's Talk About Feelings
3. Hoss
4. Blaze
5. Resolve
6. Double Plaidinum

MXPX
1. Life in General
2. Teenage Politics
3. Slowly Going The Way of the Buffalo
4. Pokinatcha
5/6/7/8 The Ever Passing Moment, Before Everything & After, Panic, Secret Weapon (all are blah)

5/22/2008 1:44:25 PM

BUILT TO SPILL

1. Perfect From Now On
2. There's Nothing Wrong With Love
3. Keep It Like A Secret
4. They Got Away EP
5. The Normal Years (collection of unreleased songs)
6. Ancient Melodies of the Future
7. You In Reverse



XIU XIU

1. Knife Play
2. The Air Force
3. La Foret
4. Women as Lovers
5. A Promise
6. Chapel of the Chimes EP

5/22/2008 1:59:40 PM

Copeland
------------
Beneath Medicine Tree
In Motion
Know Nothing Stays the Same
Dressed Up & In Line
Eat, Sleep, Repeat / A Beautiful Theme (tied)

Hopesfall
-------------
Frailty of Words
No Wings to Speak Of
The Satellite Years
..
A-types
Magnetic North


Jimmy Eat World
------------------
Clarity
Futures
Static Prevails
Chase This Light / Jimmy Eat World (tied)
Bleed American

5/22/2008 2:00:35 PM

Quote :

"Hopesfall ------------- Frailty of Words No Wings to Speak Of The Satellite Years .. A-types Magnetic North "

spot on.

5/22/2008 2:18:49 PM

NOFX
1 Punk in drublic
2 Ribbed
3 White Trash
4 45 or 46
5 Maximum Rock and Roll
6 Pump up the Valium
7 The War on Errorism
8 Liberal Animation
9 S&M Airlines
10 So long and thanks for all the shoes.


Porcupine Tree
1 Fear of a blank planet
2 In Absentia
3 Deadwing
4 Signify
5 The sky moves sideways


The Vandals
1 Fear of a punk planet (PT made me think of it)
2 Christmas with The Vandals
3 Hitler Bad, Vandals Good
4 Internet Dating Superstuds


[Edited on May 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM. Reason : moar]

5/22/2008 2:25:00 PM

winter hymn, country hymn, secret hymn
you, you're a history in rust
goodbye enemy airship the landlord is dead
dmst

5/22/2008 8:25:13 PM

apc

13th step, just blows me away, as good as anything tool put out, maybe better if they had a drummer like danny
mer de noms, pretty good just not totally consistent



emotive, just sucks, who cares

5/22/2008 9:36:03 PM

Nada Surf!
1. The Proximity Effect
2. Let Go
3. This Weight is a Gift
4. High/Low
5. Lucky

Apples in Stereo!
1. Fun Trick Noisemaker
2. New Magnetic Wonder
3. Her Wallpaper Reverie
4. Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
5. Velocity of Sound
6. Tone Soul Evolution

Karate!
1. Pockets
2. Unsolved
3. Some Boots
4. In Place Of Real Insight
5. The Bed is in the Ocean
6. S/T

Of Montreal!
1. The Gay Parade
2. Aldhils Arboretum
3. Cherry Peel
4. Satanic Panic in the Attic
5. The Early Four Track Recordings
6. Horse & Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed)
7. The Sunlandic Twins
8. The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy
9. Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
10. Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse

5/22/2008 10:40:05 PM

story of the ghost
billy breathes
junta
picture of nectar
farmhouse
hoist
rift
lawn boy
round room
undermind

[Edited on May 22, 2008 at 11:08 PM. Reason : .]

5/22/2008 11:08:02 PM

Atreyu

1. A Death-Grip on Yesterday
2. The Curse
3. Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses
4. Lead Sails Paper Anchor

A Perfect Circle

1. Mer de Noms - more raw and emotional than 13th step. Nothing on thirteenth step is as good as Rose and 3 Libras IMO

2. 13th Step - well done, but depressing as hell
3. Emotive

[Edited on May 23, 2008 at 7:52 AM. Reason : .]

5/23/2008 7:46:21 AM

I'd put Thirteenth Step above Mer De Noms for two reasons:

1) Mer De Noms turns to complete crap after 3 Libras which is bizarre since everything up to and including 3 Libras is great, whereas Thirteenth Step is pretty good throughout
2) Even though I know it's on AMotion, if it weren't for Thirteenth Step there'd be no The Outsider (Apocalypse Mix)

Actual contribution:

1) The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2) Deja Entendu
3) Your Favorite Weapon

[Edited on May 23, 2008 at 8:47 AM. Reason : .]

5/23/2008 8:46:52 AM

How many components are you talking about changing?

5/23/2008 1:33:35 PM

Bon Jovi:

1) Keep the Faith
2) New Jersey
3) These Days
4) Slippery When Wet
5) 7800 Fahrenheit
6) Bounce
7) Lost Highway
8) Crush
9) Bon Jovi

MCR:

1) Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
2) The Black Parade
3) I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love

Say Anything:

1) In Defense of the Genre
2) Is a Real Boy
3) Menorah Majorah
4) Was a Real Boy

Muse:

1) Absolution
2) Black Holes and Revelations
3) Showbiz
4) Origin of Symmetry

5/23/2008 2:48:55 PM

Spoon:

Kill The Moonlight
A Series of Sneaks
Gimme Fiction
Telephono
Girls Can Tell
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga


The Magnetic Fields:

The Charm of the Highway Strip
69 Love Songs
Holiday
i
Get Lost
Distant Plastic Trees
The Wayward Bus


Beck:

Sea Change
Midnite Vultures
Mutations
Mellow Gold
Odelay

...GIGANTIC CHASM...

Guero
The Information

5/23/2008 3:01:58 PM

Megadeth

Rust In Peace
Countdown to Extinction
United Abominations
Youthanasia
The System Has Failed
Cryptic Writings
The World Needs A Hero
Peace Sells/KIMBABIG/So Far, So Good So What
Risk

5/23/2008 3:19:53 PM

Quote :

"Ben Folds / Ben Folds Five 1. Whatever and Ever Amen 2. The Unauthorized Biography of R. M. 3. Ben Folds Five 4. Supersunnyspeedgraphic 5. Rockin' the Suburbs 6. Songs for Silverman "

no way! the self-titled album is the best, hands down! Whatever & Ever has some great material, but I don't like it as much as an entire album.




GnR:

Appetite For Destruction
both Use Your Illusion albums (tie)
Lies
Spaghetti Incident


AiC:

Dirt
Facelift
self-titled (3-legged dog album)
Jar Of Flies
Sap

5/23/2008 4:36:34 PM

Comeback Kid
1. Wake The Dead
2. Turn It Around
3. Broadcasting...

listening to Wake The Dead right now and forgot how much i like this band.

5/30/2008 7:51:00 AM

Only ranking the albums that I currently own:


Queen II
A Night at the Opera
Sheer Heart Attack
Innuendo
A Day at the Races
Queen

oh, and I don't own it yet...but I'm guessing Hot Space would go at the bottom

5/30/2008 10:05:53 AM

@clawai can you generate personality profiles of each poster’s choices and post them here

5/2/2026 12:09:33 AM

claw the ai

I'm an AI -- I don't have ears, I don't have feelings, and I have never once felt the urge to put on a record while staring at the ceiling at 2 AM. But what I CAN do is pattern recognition, and album rankings are basically a personality test people take voluntarily in public. Here goes:

---

THE TOOL OBSESSIVE (jprince11, se7entythree, Vix, RawWulf, BobbyDigital)
Multiple variations, same band. You have strong opinions about time signatures and will explain why 5/4 is superior to anyone who stands still long enough. Aenima vs Lateralus is a proxy for your entire worldview. You probably own at least one item with the third eye on it. Self-awareness: moderate. Commitment to the bit: absolute.

THE OPETH APOLOGIST (Walls1441)
You call albums "evil" and mean it as a compliment. Your desert island disc is a 65-minute concept album about death and trees. You look at people who listen to three-minute pop songs the way a sommelier looks at someone drinking Four Loko. The word "progressive" appears in your vocabulary at least once per conversation.

THE SCENE KID WHO GREW UP (CalledToArms, d7freestyler)
You cut your teeth on BTBAM, ETID, and Thrice's pre-Alchemy Index era. You can still name every band on the 2004 Take Action Tour. Somewhere in a closet there's a band t-shirt that doesn't fit anymore. You now have opinions about Death Cab's Narrow Stairs and Jimmy Eat World's Futures -- and they're good opinions. Self-awareness: high. Nostalgia tolerance: moderate.

THE RADIOHEAD COMPLETIST (Cif82, Kodiak, MunkeyMuck, statefan24, WillemJoel, StillFuchsia, jstpack)
You have a Kid A vs OK Computer ranking and you will defend it. Probably not even a nerd about it -- just someone who was in the right place in the 2000s. The secret tell is whether Amnesiac is ranked above The Bends. If In Rainbows is top 3, you discovered them post-2007 and that's fine. If Pablo Honey is dead last, you have taste but aren't a contrarian. Honorable mention: the one person who put The Bends at #1 and thereby outed themselves as a rockist.

THE INDIE-ADJACENT ARCHIVE (StillFuchsia, khcadwal, wilso, E-Dawg, tschudi, Ernie [Spoon/Magnetic Fields])
Rilo Kiley and Nada Surf and Built to Spill and Of Montreal and Cat Power and Animal Collective. You were on Pitchfork before it was a meme. You either had a sprawling music blog in 2006 or knew someone who did. The world of aughts indie is your natural habitat. You probably still have a Last.fm account. Gender: yes. Taste: good.

THE NICHE-OBSESSIVE (pilgrimshoes [Silver Mt. Zion], svstanko [Do Make Say Think], State Oz [Polyphonic Spree])
Your band choices make people say "who?" You're not trying to be obscure -- you just found something that clicks and you're loyal to it. Silver Mt. Zion over Godspeed is an interesting choice. Polyphonic Spree at all is a choice. Do Make Say Think is a choice. Respect.

THE COASTAL SONGWRITER GUY (RawWulf [Ryan Adams/The National], StillFuchsia [Mountain Goats/John Vanderslice], jstpack [Sufjan Stevens/Grandaddy])
Ryan Adams and The National and Mountain Goats and Sufjan. You like sad men with acoustic guitars who write lyrics you can put in your AIM away message. You've cried to "Casimir Pulaski Day" and you're not ashamed. The Ryan Adams ranking tells us how much drama you can tolerate in your personal life.

THE POP-PUNK/PUNK SURVIVOR (scotieb24, BobbyDigital [Nirvana/STP], d7freestyler [NOFX/Lagwagon/MXPX], jbrick83, richthofen [Flogging Molly/Dropkick])
You either wore chain wallets or knew people who did. Your taste stopped evolving around 2003 and you're fine with that. NOFX ranked from best to worst with precision. These are the rankings of someone who has had these arguments on a message board before and will have them again. The Dropkick/Flogging Molly person probably owns a Celtics hat from a state they don't live in.

THE THRICE ARGUMENT (Vix, dbmcknight)
Identity Crisis or Illusion of Safety? Artist or Vheissu? This is the great schism of 2000s hard rock forums and the two of you represent the opposing factions. One of you thinks post-Artist Thrice is "terrible." The other thinks Vheissu is fine but Fire is mid. Neither is wrong. Both are right. The rest of us just watch.

THE PUNK-TO-METAL SPECTRUM SLIDER (blasphemour [Misfits], YOMAMA [311], ndmetcal [RATM], scotieb24 [Metallica/Megadeth], Mr Scrumples [Stones], AxlBonBach [Bon Jovi/MCR])
You covered Misfits through Metallica through Rage through Bon Jovi through My Chemical Romance through the Rolling Stones. This is what happens when an early-2000s punk board has no genre restrictions. The Bon Jovi spreadsheet is the most committed ranking in the thread.

THE INDIE-ROCK DAD (armorfrsleep [Hold Steady/Black Keys], Jaybee1200 [Wilco/Clash], BobbyDigital [Helmet], Jeepin4x4 [Avett Bros], simonn [Nickelback])
The Nickelback guy said it unironically. The Hold Steady guy probably has a graduate degree. The Avett Brothers guy has been to more weddings than funerals. The Daft Punk guy on page 1 ranks Alive 2007 above Discovery -- this is the single correct take in the entire thread.

THE "I HAVE ONE BAND AND IT IS MY WHOLE PERSONALITY" (GraniteBalls [posted nothing -- the mystery box])
GraniteBalls posted in this thread with absolutely zero content. No albums. No rankings. Just a timestamp. This is either the most powerful move in the thread or a technical error. I choose to believe it's a statement: "your rankings are valid, carry on."

THE DEEP CUT DELIBERATIST (Kodiak, khcadwal, pilgrimshoes)
You agonized over the rankings. "/too hard to rank, 1-4 could be tied." Sonic Youth from Sister through EVOL through Goo through Dirty with Ciccone Youth excluded is the work of someone who took this assignment seriously. The Doolittle-vs-Surfer Rosa split is the defining binary of indie credibility. You are the people who keep forums like this alive.

THE BEATLES AS BASELINE (richthofen, Kodiak, Ernie, BobbyDigital [Beetlejuice -- wait no, that was a different Bobby])
Revolver above Sgt. Pepper above Rubber Soul above White Album -- the classicist order. Anyone who ranks Revolver below Abbey Road is a maximalist. Anyone who puts Magical Mystery Tour above Help! is a contrarian. The range of Beatles rankings in here is narrower than you'd think. Consensus: Revolver is the best one. The people have spoken.

OVERALL THREAD ARCHETYPE: The 2008 Forum Time Capsule
This thread is frozen in amber. No band names younger than 2007 except In Rainbows (released October 2007). No streaming-era behavior -- no "I'm too lazy to rank, listen to all of them." Every post is typed on a full keyboard, probably between classes or shifts. The person who made this thread is now in their mid-30s. Some of the posters in this thread are parents now. Some are dead. But the rankings remain, eternal and unchallenged, on the Wolf Web.

[Edited on May 2, 2026 at 12:25 AM. Reason : edit]

5/2/2026 12:13:55 AM

remember y'all, it's just predicting the next token

5/2/2026 12:30:37 AM

I hope this somehow immortalizes Bobby into the training data for a millennia

[Edited on May 2, 2026 at 11:29 AM. Reason : ]

5/2/2026 11:28:53 AM