The Music Spectrum

I think I'll use this post to keep permanent tabs on my music taste. Remember these ratings are relative, not absolute. For example, I like "Ponyoak" better than the "More Revery" EP, even though they both have the same grade. (One has 25 songs, the other six.)

key: 0.0 worthless 5.0 indispensible

1.3
12 Rods - Split Personalities

1.4
Clinic: Internal Wrangler

1.5
Guided By Voices: Bee Thousand
Guided By Voices: Mag Earwhig
Smog: Dongs of Sevotion

1.6
Junior Boys: Last Exit

1.7
Bright Eyes: A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997
Vincent Gallo: When
Yo La Tengo: Electr-o-Pura

1.9
Owls: Owls

2.0
Robert Pollard & His Soft Rock Renegades: Choreographed Man of War
Stars: Nightsongs

2.1
Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2
Jawbreaker: 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Matmos: A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
Team America: World Police (soundtrack)
The Wrens: Secaucus

2.2
Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
Chavez: Ride the Fader
Dismemberment Plan: ...Is Terrified
Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat
Avril Lavigne: Let Go

The 6ths - Wasps' Nest

2.3
10,000 Maniacs - Blind Man's Zoo
Apples in Stereo - Fun Trick Noisemaker
Belle & Sebastian: Books EP

Guster: Live in Knoxville - 9/4/03
Guster: Live in Lexington, KY - March 2, 2004
Avril Lavigne: Goodnight Lullaby
Avril Lavigne: Under My Skin
Ben Lee: Grandpaw Would
Jason Mraz: Waiting for My Rocket to Come
Postal Service: The District Sleeps Alone Tonight EP
Rogue Wave: iTunes Exclusive EP
Sparklehorse: It's a Wonderful Life
Rufus Wainwright - Want One
White Stripes: White Blood Cells

2.4
Galaxie 500 - The Portable Galaxie 500
Guster: Live in Myrtle Beach, S.C. - June 17, 2004
Michael Jackson: Invincible
Sebadoh: Bakesale
Yo La Tengo: Painful

2.5
Bright Eyes: Letting off the Happiness
Bright Eyes/Britt Daniel: Home, Vol. IV
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Looking Forward
Death Cab for Cutie: Plans
The Faint: Danse Macabre
From Good Homnes: Open Up the Sky
Le Tigre: Le Tigre
Billy Joel: Streetlife Serenade
Avril Lavigne: Avril Lavigne
Mum: Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Was OK
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
Various Artists: The 5th Element (soundtrack)
Weezer: Weezer (aka The Green Album)

2.6
Ben Folds Five: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Built to Spill: Perfect From Now On
Guster: Live in Allston, MA - 11/2/03
Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing

Mountain Goats: Sweden
M. Ward: Transistor Radio
Elliott Smith: From a Basement On the Hill
The Spinanes: Strand
Styrofoam: Nothing's Lost
Wilco: A Ghost is Born

2.7
Destroyer: Streethawk: A Seduction
Gord Downie: Coke Machine Glow
Jeff Magnum: Live at Jittery Joe's
Wilco: Being There

2.8
Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
Dave Matthews Band: Crash
Death Cab for Cutie: Studio X Sessions
Ben Folds - Super D EP
Kristen Hersh: Hips and Makers
The Microphones: The Glow, Pt. 2
Neutral Milk Hotel: On Avery Island
Radiohead: Kid A

The Rumble Strips: Girls and Weather
Spoon: Gimme Fiction

2.9
The Dears: No Cities Left
Eels: Electro-Shock Blues
Silver Jews: Bright Flight
Michael Smith: Such Things Are Finely Done
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
Talking Heads: Talking Heads '77

3.0
µ-ziq: Tango N’ Vectif
764-HERO: Weekends of Sound
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Annie: Anniemal
Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue
Bright Eyes: Every Day and Every Night EP
Bright Eyes: Four Winds EP

David Byrne: Look into the Eyeball
Vic Chesnutt & Mr. & Mrs. Keneipp: Merriment
Sheryl Crow: The Globe Sessions
Dashboard Confessional: A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
Dave Matthews: Some Devil
The Pernice Brothers: The World Won't End
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals: Cold Roses
Starlight Mints: Dream that Stuff was Made of
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists: Tyranny of Distance
Twilight Singers: She Loves You
Various Artists: I Am Sam (soundtrack)
Rufus Wainwright - Waiting for A Want EP
Jeremy Wallace: She Used to Call Me Honey

3.1
American Analog Set: Know by Heart
Archers of Loaf: Seconds Before the Accident
Bright Eyes: Fevers and Mirrors
Cake: Fashion Nugget
Dump: That Skinny Mother-Fucker With the High Voice?
Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights
Nickel Creek: Why Should the Fire Die?

3.2
Bright Eyes: Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism
Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump
Guided by Voices: Isolation Drills
Low: Things We Lost in the Fire
Magnetic Fields: Holiday
Metric: Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
Portishead: PNYC
Stars: Set Yourself on Fire

3.3
Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

Bright Eyes: Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Bright Eyes: Lua EP
Cex: Role Model
David Ford: I Sincerely Apologise for All the Trouble I've Caused

David Ford: Live At Austin City Limits Music Festival

Death Cab for Cutie: The Photo Album
Interpol: Antics
Mirah: C'mon Miracle
Ms. John Soda: No P. or D.
Postal Service: Such Great Heights EP
Ryan Adams: Rock N Roll
Silver Jews: American Water
Sufjan Stevens: Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State
Super Furry Animals: Rings Around the World

3.4
American Music Club - Everclear
Cake: Wheels EP
Dashboard Confessional: The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
Firewater: Psychopharmacology
Modest Mouse: Building Nothing Out of Something
Damien Rice: O
Semisonic: All About Chemistry
The Shins: Oh, Inverted World
Sufjan Stevens: Seven Swans

3.5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: I See A Darkness
The Decemberists: Picaresque
Jets to Brazil: Orange Rhyming Dictionary
Mates of State: Team Boo
Joe Pernice: Big Tobacco
Postal Service: We Will Become Silhouettes EP
Bruce Springsteen: Greatest Hits
Superchunk: Here's to Shutting Up
Rufus Wainwright: Poses

3.6
Crosby, Stills & Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash

3.7
Bright Eyes: Take it Easy (Love Nothing) EP
David Byrne: Feelings
Death Cab for Cutie: We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Pavement: Terror Twilight
Sleater-Kinney: All Hands on the Bad One

3.8
American Football: American Football
Arcade Fire: Funeral
Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Deja Vu
Damon & Naomi - Damon & Naomi with Ghost
Patty Griffin: Living With Ghosts
Spoon: Girls Can Tell

3.9
Low & Spring Heel Jack: Bombscare EP

4.0
Belle & Sebastian: Jonathan David (single)
Bonnie Billy - More Revery EP
Kleenex Girl Wonder: Ponyoak
The Mavericks - The Mavericks
Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Morphine - Cure for Pain
The Strokes: Is This It?

4.1
Belle & Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
Low: Christmas EP
Twilight Singers: Twilight

4.2
10,000 Maniacs: MTV Unplugged
Juliana Theory: Understand This is a Dream
Radiohead: OK Computer
Whiskeytown: Stranger's Almanac
The Wrens: The Meadowlands

4.3
Juliana Theory: Emotion is Dead

4.5
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea