2009 Grades

Now that I have graduated high school, survived an unfortunate event in my life, and am back to being mentally stable (for the most part), there will be frequent posts here. I know you have no reason to believe me, but it's true this time. To get things started, here is a list of 2009 album grades. Let me know if you want a review of any of these or if you have any questions or opinions on these.

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead- The Century of Self (C+)

1349- Revelations of the Black Flame (B)

311- Uplifter (C)

Absu- Absu (B)

Adagio- Archangels in Black (B+)

Alestorm- Black Sails at Midnight (B)

Alexisonfire- Old Crows/Young Cardinals (B)

Amesoeurs- Amesoeurs (A-)

Amorphis- Skyforger (A-)

Anaal Nathrakh- In the Constellation of the Black Widow (B)

Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion (A)

Art Brut- Art Brut vs. Satan (B+)

Black Dice- Repo (B)

Black Lips- 200 Million Thousand (C+)

Black Moth Super Rainbow- Eating Us (B+)

Bob Dylan- Together Through Life (B-)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy- Beware (B+)

B-Real- Smoke & Mirrors (C)

Bruce Springsteen- Working on a Dream (C+)

Cage- Depart From Me (C+)

Cannibal Corpse- Evisceration Plague (C+)

Cattle Decapitation- The Harvest Floors (B)

Chickenfoot- Chickenfoot (C)

Chimaira- The Infection (C)

Chris Cornell- Scream (F)

Crooked X- Crooked X (C)

Cursive- Mama, I'm Swollen (C)

DÅÅTH- The Concealers (C+)

Dalek- Gutter Tactics (B-)

Depeche Mode- Sounds of the Universe (B)

Destroyer 666- Defiance (B)

Devin Townsend Project- Ki (A)

Dinosaur Jr.- Farm (B)

Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca (A-)

DOOM- Born Into This (C-)

Dream Theater- Black Clouds and Silver Linings (C+)

Dredg- The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion (A-)

Eels- Hombre Lobo (B)

Eluveitie- Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion (B)

Eminem- Relapse (A-)

Franz Ferdinand- Tonight (D+)

Goblin Cock- Come With Me if You Want to Live (B)

God Forbid- Earthsblood (C+)

Graveworm- Diabolical Figures (B)

Green Day- 21st Century Breakdown (B+)

Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest (A)

Hammerfall- No Sacrifice, No Victory (B-)

Heaven and Hell- The Devil You Know (B+)

Hurt- Goodbye to Machine (B-)

If These Trees Could Talk- Above The Earth, Below The Sky (B+)

Isis- Wavering Radiant (B-)

J. Tillman- Vacilando Territory Blues (B)

John Frusciante- The Empyrean (B)

Killswitch Engage- Killswitch Engage (B)

K'nann- Troubadour (B+)

Korpiklaani- Karkelo (B-)

K-Os- Yes! (B)

Kreator- Hordes of Chaos (B)

Lacuna Coil- Shallow Life (D)

Lamb of God- Wrath (C+)

Lazarus A.D.- The Onslaught (B+)

Manic Street Preachers- Journal for Plague Lovers (A-)

Marilyn Manson- The High End of the Low (D+)

Mastodon- Crack the Skye (B)

Meat Puppets- Sewn Together (C+)

Method Man & Redman- Blackout! 2 (B)

Mono- Hymn to the Immortal Wind (B+)

Morrissey- Years of Refusal (C)

Mos Def- The Ecstatic (B+)

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band- Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band (B)

My Dying Bride- For Lies I Sire (B)

Napalm Death- Time Waits for No Slave (B-)

Neko Case- Middle Cyclone (C)

Obituary- Darkest Day (C)

Obscura- Cosmogenesis (B+)

Old Man's Child- Slaves of the World (C+)

P.O.S.- Never Better (A-)

Papa Roach- Metamorphosis (D)

Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (B)

Pure Reason Revolution- Amor Vincit Omnia (B-)

Queensryche- Amerson Soldier (C)

Riverside- Anno Domini High Definition (A-)

Royksopp- Junior (C+)

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder- Living for Death, Destroying the Rest (B)

Sepultura- A-Lex (C)

Sonic Youth- The Eternal (B)

Spinal Tap- Back from the Dead (D)

Stream of Passion- The Flame Within (B)

Street Sweeper Social Club- Street Sweeper Social Club (C+)

Stuck Mojo- The Great Revival (F)

Suffocation- Blood Omen (B)

Sun O)))- Monoliths & Dimensions (B+)

Tech N9ne- Sickology 101 (B)

The Crystal Method- Divided By Night (C-)

The Decemberists- The Hazards of Love (B)

The Gathering- The West Pole (B+)

The Lonely Island- Incredibad (B-)

The Mars Volta- Octahedron (C+)

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (B-)

The Prodigy- Invaders Must Die (B+)

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus- Lonely Road (C-)

U2- No Line on the Horizon (C-)

Wilco (The Album)- Wilco (C+)

Wolves in the Throne Room- Black Crusade (A)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs- It's Blitz! (C)

Zu- Carboniferous (B+)