Vanishing Life - People Running: Growing on me.

Vandals - The Quickening: I am too old to enjoy too much.

United States of America - United States of America: Weird.

Uniform Choice - Screaming For Change: Youth of Today mixed with Gorilla Biscuits.

Unherd - Unherd: Fugazi influenced, Assfactor 4 related. What is not to like?!

Turnstile - Nonstop Feeling: Really pushing their sound. In a good way.

Turnstile - Step 2 Rhythm: Oddly dance-y.

Turnstile - Pressure To Succeed: Hardcore with vocals you can understand? What sorcery is this?

Tragically Hip - Fully Completely: A continuation of the greatness.

Tragically Hip - Up To Here: More traditional rock that should be bigger.

Tonka - Anthology: Embrace-influenced greatness.

Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood Dream: Intriguing backstory, but mostly forgettable songs.

Thermals - More Parts Per Million: If this was good before, it does not appear to have held up.

Teen Crud Combo - Judgement Night Soundtrack Pt. 2: Thank for the beyond excellent recommendation, Turned Out A Punk.

Teen Crud Combo - Suck It: Good hardcore over too soon.

Szobel, Herman - 1976 - Szobel: This is amazing!

Suffocate for Fuck Sake - Blazing Fires and Helicopters: I wish they would pick the quiet or the loud.

Suffocate for Fuck Sake - Suffocate for Fuck Sake: Try to occupy similar space of City of Caterpillar, but trying too hard.

Phil Collins - The Singles: Not for me.

Subhumans - Cradle to the Grave: Hard to keep going back and finding essential albums I skipped.

Skip Spence - Oar: I get why some might be into it, but it failed to grab me.

Solea - Even Stranger/Finally We Are Nowhere: Not quite Texas is the Reason, but close enough.

Sled - Discography: If you told me this came out in 1994 I would have believed you.

Slaughter Beach, Dog - Dawg: More from this or Modern Baseball please.

Silicon Teens - Music for Parties: This should not work. But it does more than that and excels.

The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World: This is music at is most ethereal. Fans of Wild Man Fischer and Daniel Johnston are probably in the know already.

Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating: Enough here to warrant another listen.

John K Samson - Provincial: I still like his bands better.

Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again: Glad I came back to them. Such captivating tracks.

Q And Not U - Different Damage: Mid-career Piebald without the addiction to puns. So pretty awesome.

Psycho Squatt - Anthology: Gogol Bordello meets Crass meets good ska? And it is glorious.

Pusha T - Darkest Before Dawn: Sounds antiquated because the genre has come so far.

Pulsars - Pulsars: Regiie and the Full Effect if they played it straight.

John Prine - Great Days: The gamut of the singer-songwriter genre has far more good than bad and enough great.

Poison Idea - Feel The Darkness: Absolutely essential hardcore punk.

Pansy Division - Deflowered: Mostly forgettable power pop, leaning pop punk.

OnGuard - This Has Its Price: I would pay more for more.

Angel Olsen - Bur Your Fire For No Witness: Not as good as her most recent, but worth listening to.

NWA - efil4zaggin: As not someone who focuses on lyrics, it was hard to ignore the back half.

NWA - NWA and the Posse: Complete cashgrab that feels like it.

Nothing More - Nothing More: Trying a bit too hard.

Nothing More - Vandura: An improvement, but just not there yet.

Nother More - Shelter: Shows potential.

New Rising Sons - New Rising Sons/Theives and Angels: Interesting, wish there was more.

New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too: More than just a single.

Mother Love Bone - Apple: Grunge is just not for me.

The Monks - Black Monk Time: Pretty skippable until it was put into context.

Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers: Unbelievable proto-punk.

Milemarker - Frigid Forms Sell: Post-hardcore that is worth your time.

The Melvins - Houdini: Not what I was expecting given the praise.

Magnum Force - Collected Crimes: Fantastic modern powerviolence.

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - The Teenagers: Classic and essential.

Life Without Buildings - Any Other City: Out of nowhere, I need to listen to this album on repeat for a week.

The La's - The La's: Come for the big single, stay for the great album.

LaGrecia - On Parallels: I will listen to anything he does.

Kraftwerk - Autobahn: I...did not hate it. Was actually pretty good.

Knife Fight - Isolated: Always worth a listen when they put something out.

Kaytranda - 99.9%: I tried, but could not get into it.

Carly Rae Jelpsen - EMOTION: How did I miss this pop gem?

I Don't Want To Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Things Are Getting Better: Definite improvement over the EP.

I Don't Want To Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Winter: So much great screamo.

Ice Cube - Death Certificate: Consistency from NWA to debut to this is a flawless run.

Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted: So good.

Hopesfall - The Satellite Years: The polarity of the two vocalists is something I always find oft-putting.

Honeywell - Industry: Excellent proto-screamo.

Helmet - Dead To The World: Really solid hard rock album.

The Haunted - The Haunted: Rolling Stones copycats.

Harvest - Transitions: Not as cathartic.

Harvest - Live with a God Complex: Seminal metalcore.

Margo Guryan - Take a Picture: So many singer/songwriters and so little time. Not worth yours.

Green River - Dry As a Bone/Rehab Doll: Mostly forgettable proto-grunge.

Forty Days Rain - Evolution: New remaster sounds great.

Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic: Would love to hear more from these '70s punk revivalists.

Dwarves - Blood, Guts, and Pussy: I think I am too old for his.

De La Soul - 3 Feet and Rising: Without context I would have ignored it.

The Dear Hunter - Act 3: The prelude.

The Dear Hunter - Act 2: A needed jump, but too much too quickly.

The Dear Hunter - Act 1: Skeletal compared to more recent records.

Culture Abuse - Day Dream of Nothing/Spray Paint the Dog: The more I hear, the more I like.

CRU - Da Dirty 30: Completely forgettable rap from the late-'90s.

The Count Five - Psychotic Reaction: Perfectly fine psychadelic '60s songs.

Copper - Drag Queen: 8 tracks of emo that are worth revisting.

Convicts - Convicts: Trying far too hard to be hard.

J. Cole - Cole World, The Sideline Story: Uninteresting at every turn.

Coalesce - Functioning On Impatience: Not bad, but too much fuss.

Circle One - Are You Afraid: Always surreal when you discover essential so late in the game.

Chumbawumba - The Singles '82-'87: So great, and so much more than getting back up again.

Christie Front Drive - Stero: More likely to play this than Anthology.

Christie Front Drive - Anthology: Have to contextualize to what emo was in the early '90s.

The Chills - Kaleidoscope World: Worth at least one listen to see if anything sticks.

Cassie - Cassie: A great R&B/hip-hop album that seems lost to time.

Car Seat Headrest - Non-Teens of Denial Discography: http://uproxx.com/music/car-seat-headrest-bandcamp-albums/

Career Suicide - Anthology 1 and 2: Decent, but not particularly special when taken all at once.

Cannae - Demo: I wish there was more.

Campaign - Enemies: Still not sure why these guys are not bigger.

Buffalo Clover - Test Your Love: A little too much deviation from their winning formula.

Buffalo Clover - Low Down Time: An improvement on a good debut.

Buffalo Clover - Pick Your Poison: I will pick her over him.

Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club: A bit long, but enough to warrant repeat listens.

Jeff Buckley - Grace: So much more, and better, than what is a great cover.