What Hits!?
Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Community Score: 7.06

After the Red Hot Chili Peppers left EMI for Warner Bros. and hit the big time with "Under the Bridge," their former label gathered most of the best tracks from the group's first four albums for the compilation What Hits!? Since Blood Sugar Sex Magik, the Peppers' most popular album, was recorded for Warner, none of its songs are present -- with... Read More

Hot Animal Machine/Drive By Shooting - 1999 REISSUE
Artist: Henry Rollins

Hank roared out of the box with this, his first solo release after the demise of Black Flag. Recorded in England with friend and guitarist Chris Haskett, this is a less groove-oriented album than subsequent Rollins Band releases, but it is still one hell of a rock & roll record. The punishing opener "Black and White" and the cover of Suicide's... Read More

The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
Artist: P.O.D.
Community Score: 7.55

With their full-length debut, The Fundamental Elements of Southtown, POD (Payable on Death) shows considerable promise, crafting an album that flows from aggressive rap-metal to trippy, Beastie-styled reggae dub excursions. It may be all over the map, but give the group credit for trying a bunch of styles and pulling most of them off. At times,... Read More

The Murky World of Barry Adamson
Artist: Barry Adamson
Community Score: 10.00
Look Now Look Again
Artist: Rainer Maria
Community Score: 8.00

Rainer Maria's Look Now Look Again could quite possibly be the last great album from the now tired emo rock scene. Using the loud-soft dynamics of emo and the catchy playfulness of indie pop proves to be a delicious combination, and Rainer Maria pull it off with grace and intelligence. Sometimes sentimental, but never too sappy, Look Now Look... Read More

Mutations - AUSTRALIA BONUS CD
Artist: Beck

According to party line, Beck never intended Mutations to be considered as the official followup to Odelay, his Grammy-winning breakthrough. It was more like One Foot in the Grave, designed to be an off-kilter, subdued collection of acoustic-based songs pitched halfway between psychedelic country blues and lo-fi folk. Once Beck became an... Read More

13 - BONUS DISC
Artist: Blur
Community Score: 7.00

Blur's penitence for Britpop continues with the aptly named 13, which deals with star-crossed situations, including personal and professional breakups with Damon Albarn's longtime girlfriend, Justine Frischmann of Elastica, and the group's longtime producer, Stephen Street. Building on the un-pop experiments they began on 1997's Blur, the... Read More

Superjaded
Artist: Liars Inc.

Superjaded announces the emergence of a band unafraid to illuminate life's emotional struggles through intense, urgent rock orchestrations. The 12 songs on this debut contain a kind of dichotomous pathos, much in the same vein of Manchester, England's The Smiths and, more recently, Seattle's Nirvana. As energetic tunes churn away with catchy and... Read More

The Mollusk
Artist: Ween
Community Score: 7.78

On the surface, The Mollusk is a return to the panoramic, multi-genre extravaganza of Chocolate and Cheese, but in its own way, it's as much of a concept album as 12 Golden Country Greats. It just isn't as explicit about its intentions. Nearly every song on The Mollusk has a nautical theme, buoyed by a heavy progressive rock influence. Several... Read More

Sex & Food: The Best Of The Pursuit Of Happiness
Artist: The Pursuit of Happiness

Sex & Food is a pretty satisfactory greatest hits album -- it features the Pursuit of Happiness' best and most successful tracks, but several submissions mar the album. Songs like "She's So Young," "Two Girls in One," "Hard to Laugh," "Cigarette Dangles," and their signature hit, "I'm an Adult Now," comprise about half of the collection. These... Read More