5 Star Albums – The Minor Second

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

XTC – Drums and Wires (1979)

XTC – Black Sea (1980)