I haven't checked out the boards in depth yet, but I've seen repeated complaints about lack of music reviews.

Personally I haven't been bothered by it at all ... I think metacritic's service is really useful regardless. (Sure it can be more useful ... but beggars can't be ...)

Anyway, so what are your top 10 (or 23, or 3, whatever) albums that just plain should be on metacritic (just because):

You can use whatever personal criteria you like. I'm personally going with "It would make me smile just that much more if these albums were on metacrtic". My rigorous examination, data analysis and triangulations produce these results:

1. Prick - The Wreckard
2. Haloblack - Throb
3. Latyrx - The Album
4. Laibach - WAT
5. Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Effortless
6. Perspects - The Third and Final Report
7. Einsturzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile

Hmm, 7 works for me! lol. Of course I am keeping in mind to pick newer (02, 03, 04) albums, so I guess that was one of my qualifiers as well.

What are everyone else's?

1. Bjork- Homogenic
2. Me'shell NdegeOcello- Bitter

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Originally posted by yrito:
7. Einsturzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile

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See, your list is already down to 6, because that one's been up for a while:

http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/einsturzendeneubaten/perpetuummobile/

I've noticed that Slipknot's new album, "Vol. 3 (the subliminal verses)," came out tuesday, managed to debut at #2, and only "Iowa" can be found on metacritic.

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Originally posted by SlaytanicMaggot:
I've noticed that Slipknot's new album, "Vol. 3 (the subliminal verses)," came out tuesday, managed to debut at #2, and only "Iowa" can be found on metacritic.

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Reviews came in slowly for the new Slipknot, but it's up now:

http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/slipknot/vol3thesubliminalverses/

MC Hawking? www.mchawking.com

I know it's not technically real music, but's it been getting some mainstream reviews-and mr. hawkings himself has said he's kind of flattered by it in a way, so there's no trouble with it either...

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Originally posted by SlaytanicMaggot:
MC Hawking? http://www.mchawking.com

I know it's not technically real music, but's it been getting some mainstream reviews-and mr. hawkings himself has said he's kind of flattered by it in a way, so there's no trouble with it either...

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I can't tell you for a fact that any of this is legit, but I checked the site out, and it's so entertaining, I believe it needs to stay at least for awhile, especially since Hawking was in my paper yesterday. There may be a better way to present this, but between the legit and the humorous side, I really think we need to KEEP this. From what I've seen, it's better than almost EVERYTHING comparable.

Craig Taborn - Junk Magic

I've been listening the shit out of this one, so I've been pushing hard to get it metacriticized. There's already quite a few reviews for it, including glowing reviews from Pitchfork and Allmusic.

It's one of the few albums from this year that I've bought. I'm short on cash currently, so I've been pushing back my "buy what I download" schedule.

You've got "band red" on the site, but I think you should really include KaitO's vastly superior debut album, "You've seen us...you must have seen us" which came out in 2001.

God Forbid-Gone Forever

Kittie-Until The End

Hey Linntate, come back me up on Craig Taborn's awesomeness and its deservitude of metacriticiousness.

I also think you should metacriticize Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral.

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Originally posted by Buck "Sweetie" McGuck:
Hey Linntate, come back me up on Craig Taborn's awesomeness and its deservitude of metacriticiousness.

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Sweetie, LT won't be back from Austin until tomorrow night, but hal and I can back you up vis-a-vis Taborn's piece "Mystero", relative its deservedness of metacriticocity.

YES, I'm there.

xoxo, hal

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Originally posted by Buck "Sweetie" McGuck:
Hey Linntate, come back me up on Craig Taborn's awesomeness and its deservitude of metacriticiousness.

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Sorry, Sweetie. I'm only just back from Austin where I struggled through five days and four nights without a CD player.

That being said, I don't feel like I've spent enough time with the Taborn to give it the respect it's due in the thread you started under Jazz, but I agree without reservation that it belongs on Metacritic. The fact that the attention it is deservedly receiving crosses genre lines to such a significant degree is certainly worth noting, though I wonder if that is part of what stands in its way.

Good stuff, though. Folks would do well to follow your lead and check it out.

Now Playing: "Backstage at Juanita's" The Forty Fives High Life, High Volume (Yep Roc) <-- philosopherEric, do you know these guys? They seem like they'd be your bag.

Some suggestions for Metacritic...some of these are recent, so reviews may be trickling, rather than pouring, in:

Ken Stringfellow: Soft Commands
Shrimp Boat: Something Grand (box set)
Velvet Crush: Stereo Blues
Ric Menck: The Ballad of Ric Menck (reissue)
Mutual Admiration Society: s/t
Rubyhorse: Goodbye to all That
Waxwings: Let's Make Our Descent
David Garza: A Strange Mess of Flowers (box set)

Also...any thought on reviews of music-related DVD's, including concerts and/or video collections? The recent Josh Rouse live DVD ("The Smooth Sounds of") comes to mind, as do many others. Or are these on the DVD section? I haven't checked...

The Microphones "The Glow, pt. 2."

Because it's awesome and it received stellar feedback from critics.

It's not even that old...

I would actually like to see the Microphones up too ... I would venture to guess that it's in the works.

Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral

i'd mostly like to see joanna newsom's "milk-eyed mender" on the site, because it's certainly one of the best albums this year so far, and deserves a wider audience. it's been reviewed in neumu, dusted, cokemachineglow, tiny mix tapes, pitchfork, stylus, and allmusic at least, so i'd say that's sufficient to be featured here.

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Albums by artists whose newer stuff is on MC but older material (that's still post-1999) isn't.

It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water (Microphones)
The Glow, pt. 2 (Microphones)
Oh, Inverted World... (Shins)
Deadringer (Rjd2)
Beaches and Canyons (Black Dice; Cold Hands probably doesn't have enough reviews from MC-friendly sources)
Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK (Mum)
Finally We Are No One (Mum)
Thought for Food (The Books)
Cutouts and Castaways (The Decemberists)

edit: these italics are driving me nuts!