5 Star Albums
that are reviewed on this site
This is a list of Albums that appear on this site and receive the highest rating possible. 5 Star “Plus” is of course rare, and a little higher valued than 5 Star, but either one is pretty much perfect and considered a masterpiece. They are listed alphabetical here by Artist, and if multiple entires they are chronological; ordered lists of exact favorites are elsewhere. Go listen to them and get ‘em! These are the albums that will enrich your life.
5 Star “Plus” Albums
(37 so far)
Algiers – Algiers (2015)
Arcade Fire, the – Funeral (2004)
Berry, Chuck – Berry is on Top (1959)
Built to Spill – Perfect From Now On – (1997)
Built to Spill – Keep It Like a Secret (1999)
Can – Future Days (1973)
Case, Neko – Middle Cyclone (2009)
Death Grips – Bottomless Pit (2016)
Germano, Lisa – Happiness (1993)
Germano, Lisa – Geek the Girl (1994)
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Husker Du – Zen Arcade (1984)
Husker Du – Warehouse: Songs and Stories (1987)
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti (1975)
Love – Forever Changes (1967)
Modern Lovers, the – The Modern Lovers (1976)
Morphine – Good (1992)
New Pornographers, the – Electric Version (2003)
Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance (1978)
Pixies – Surfer Rosa (1988)
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
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Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet (1990)
R.E.M. – Life’s Rich Pageant (1986)
Rolling Stones, the – Sticky Fingers (1971)
Rolling Stones, the – Exile on Main Street (1972)
Run the Jewels – s/t (2013)
Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight (1980)
Sonic Youth – Sister (1987)
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (1988)
Spoon – Girls Can Tell (2001)
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978)
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Talking Heads – Remain in Light (1980)
These New Puritans – Hidden (2010)
Tragically Hip, the – Fully Completely (1992)
Velvet Underground, the – The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
Wire – 154 (1979)
XTC – English Settlement (1982)
XTC – Skylarking (1986)
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5 Star Albums
(72 so far)
Algiers – Underside of Power (2017)
Aloha – Home Acres (2010)
Arcade Fire, the – Neon Bible (2007)
Big Star – Radio City (1974)
Books, the – Lemon of Pink (2003)
Brown, Danny – Old (2013)
Calexico – The Black Light (1998)
Calexico – Garden Ruin (2006)
Can – Ege Bamyasi (1972)
Case, Neko – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006)
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Case, Neko – The Worse I Get, The Harder I Try (2013)
Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll (1988)
Coyne, Kevin – Marjory Razorblade (1973)
Cream – Disreali Gears (1967)
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willie and the Poorboys (1969)
Dead Can Dance – Spleen and Ideal (1985)
Dead Can Dance – The Serpent’s Egg (1988)
Death Grips – Ex Military (2011)
Doves – The Last Broadcast (2002)
Floating Points – Elaenia (2015)
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Game Theory – Lolita Nation (1987)
Germano, Lisa – On the Way Down From Moon Palace (1991)
Germano, Lisa – Excerpts from a Love Circus (1996)
Germano, Lisa – Slide (1998)
Hendrix, Jimi – Are You Experienced (1967)
Holter, Julia – Loud City Song (2013)
Hoop, Jesca – Memories are Now (2017)
Interpol – Our Love to Admire (2007)
Jesus and Mary Chain, the – Psychocandy (1985)
Jesus and Mary Chain, the – Honey’s Dead (1992)
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King’s X – Gretchen Goes to Nebraska – (1989)
Led Zeppelin – 4 (1971)
Love – Love (1966)
Love – Da Capo (1966)
Morphine – Cure for Pain (1993)
New Pornographers, the – Mass Romantic (2000)
Nirvana – In Utero (1993)
Pere Ubu – Dub Housing (1978)
Pere Ubu – The Art of Walking (1980)
Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N2 It (2012)
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Pixies – Doolittle (1989)
Pixies – Bossonova (1990)
Pixies – Trompe La Monde (1991)
Police, The – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
Police, The – Syncronicity (1983)
Priests – The Seduction of Kansas (2019)
Public Enemy – Muse Sick N Hour Message (1994)
Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R (2000)
R.E.M. – Murmur (1983)
R.E.M. – Document (1987)
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Robertson, Robbie – Robbie Robertson (1987)
Rolling Stones, the – Between the Buttons (1967)
Rolling Stones, the – Let It Bleed (1969)
Run the Jewels – RTJ2 (2014)
San Fermin – s/t (2013)
Sonic Youth – Confusion Is Sex (1983)
Sonic Youth – Goo (1990)
Sonic Youth – Dirty (1992)
Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves (1998)
Spoon – Kill the Moonlight (2002)
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Talking Heads – Fear of Music (1979)
These New Puritans – Inside the Rose (2019)
Tragically Hip, the – Up to Here (1989)
Tragically Hip, the – Day for Night (1994)
Troller – Graphic (2016)
U.S. Girls – Half Free (2015)
Van Etten, Sharon – Remind Me Tomorrow (2019)
Velvet Underground, the – White Light White Heat (1967)
War On Drugs – Slave Ambient (2011)
Wire – Chairs Missing (1978)
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XTC – Drums and Wires (1979)
XTC – Black Sea (1980)