CD Reviews: Alternative Archive
Couldn't find the album you were looking for in our list of current CD reviews? Well, scroll through the Bull's CD review archives for those albums no longer sitting on the New Releases rack at the music store. We've got some essentials, a few obscure releases and then some older albums you just may have missed. And as a service to our loyal readers, we won't ever insult you by reviewing a Backstreet Boys or Britney Spears CD because, at Bullz-Eye.com, we know the kind of music you want to hear!
If there's an album we've missed that you think belongs in our CD review guide, feel free to drop us an e-mail at staff@bullz-eye.com.
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PJ Harvey & John Parish A Woman a Man Walked By |
Cursive Mama, I’m Swollen |
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Alternative
- 3 DOORS DOWN
Away From the Sun -- 2003
Seventeen Days -- 2005
The Better Life -- 1999 - ACTION ACTION
An Army of Shapes Between Wars -- 2006 - AIMEE MANN
Lost in Space -- 2002
The Forgotten Arm -- 2005 - ALANIS MORISSETTE
The Collection -- 2005 - ALIEN ANT FARM
ANThology -- 2001 - AMANDA PALMER
Who Killed Amanda Palmer? -- 2008 - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Merriweather Post Pavilion -- 2009 - APOCALYPTICA
Worlds Collide -- 2008 - ARCTIC MONKEYS
Favourite Worst Nightmare -- 2007 - ASOBI SEKSU
Hush -- 2009 - AVRIL LAVIGNE
Under My Skin -- 2004 - BAD BRAINS/DUB TRIO
Build a Nation/Out and Coexist/Essential Dub -- 2007 - BADLY DRAWN BOY
About a Boy Soundtrack -- 2002 - BARRY ADAMSON
Stranger on the Sofa -- 2006 - BASTARD SONS OF JOHNNY CASH
Distance Between -- 2002 - BECK
Modern Guilt -- 2008 - BELL X1
Blue Lights on the Runway -- 2009 - BEN FOLDS
Ben Folds Live -- 2002
Rockin' the Suburbs -- 2001
Songs for Silverman -- 2005 - BEN FOLDS FIVE
Ben Folds Five -- 1994 - BETTER THAN EZRA
Closer -- 2001
Live at the House of Blues: New Orleans -- 2004 - BILLY IDOL
Devil's Playground -- 2005
VH-1 Storytellers -- 2002 - BLACKMORE’ NIGHT/RAINBOW
The Village Lanterne/Live In Munich 1977 -- 2006 - BLOC PARTY
A Weekend in the City -- 2007
Silent Alarm -- 2005 - BLONDIE
Eat to the Beat -- 2007
Greatest Hit: Sound Vision -- 2006 - BLUE OCTOBER
Approaching Normal -- 2009 - BLUE OYSTER CULT
Some Enchanted Evening -- 2007 - BLUR
Parklife -- 1994
Think Tank -- 2003 - BOB MOULD
Body of Song -- 2005 - BRIAN VANDER ARK
Resuurection -- 2004 - BUZZCOCKS
Flat-Pack Philosophy -- 2006 - CAITLIN CARY
I'm Staying Out -- 2003 - CHAD VANGAALEN
Skelliconnection -- 2006 - CHRIS CORNELL
Scream -- 2009 - CHRIS ROBLEY
The Drunken Dance of Modern Man in Love -- 2007 - CHRIS ROBLEY & THE FEAR OF HEIGHTS
Movie Theatre Haiku -- 2009 - CIRCUS DEVILS
Gringo -- 2009 - COBRA STARSHIP
While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets -- 2006 - COLLECTIVE SOUL
Home (Live) -- 2006
Youth -- 2005 - COUNTING CROWS
August and Everything After -- 1993
Films about ghosts (The best of) -- 2003
Hard Candy -- 2002
New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Musical Hall Feb. 6, 2003 -- 2006 - CRACKER
Countrysides -- 2003
Forever -- 2002
Get on With It: The Best of Cracker -- 2006 - CRAZY TOWN
The Gift of Game -- 1999 - CURSIVE
Mama, I’m Swollen -- 2009 - DANBERT NOBACON & THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS
The Library Book of the World -- 2007 - DANIEL POWTER
Daniel Powter -- 2006 - DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
Stand Up -- 2005 - DAVID BOWIE
Heathen -- 2002 - DAVID GRAY
A New Day at Midnight -- 2002
Life in Slow Motion -- 2005 - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
Narrow Stairs -- 2008 - DECCATREE
Battle of Life -- 2004 - DEZERAY'S HAMMER
The Past That Decorates Me -- 2005 - DINOSAUR JR
Farm -- 2009 - DISTURBED
Ten Thousand Fists -- 2005 - DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH?
You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into -- 2008 - DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS
Please Describe Yourself -- 2004 - DOLORES O’RIORDAN
Are You Listening? -- 2007 - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Siberia -- 2005 - EDWIN MCCAIN
Lost in America -- 2006
The Austin Session -- 2003 - ELECTRAFIXION
Burned -- 2007 - ELTON JOHN
Remixed -- 2003 - ERASURE
Light at the End of the World -- 2007 - EVE 6
Horrorscope -- 2000
It's All in Your Head -- 2003 - FEEDER
Comfort in Sound -- 2003 - FILTER
Anthems for the Damned -- 2008
The Amalgamut -- 2002 - FIONA APPLE
Extraordinary Machine -- 2005
Extraordinary Machine -- 2005 - FIVE FOR FIGHTING
American Town -- 2000 - FOO FIGHTERS
In Your Honor -- 2005
One By One -- 2002
There is Nothing Left to Lose -- 1999 - FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE
Traffic & Weather -- 2007 - FRANK BLACK
Fast Man Raider Man -- 2006 - FRANZ FERDINAND
Franz Ferdinand -- 2004
You Could Have It So Much -- 2005 - FREEHEAT
Back on the Water -- 2006 - FRICKIN' A
Big EgosNo Ideas -- 2004 - FUEL
Something Like Human -- 2000 - GARBAGE
beautifulgarbage -- 2001
Bleed Like Me -- 2005 - GARY REYNOLDS AND THE BRIDES OF OBSCURITY
Santiago’s Vest -- 2008 - GIRL IN A COMA
Trio B.C. -- 2009 - GLEN PHILLIPS
Mr. Lemons -- 2006 - GOLDFRAPP
Supernature -- 2006 - GOO GOO DOLLS
Gutterflower -- 2002 - GUSTER
Keep it Together -- 2003 - GZA/GENIUS
Pro Tools -- 2008 - HARD-FI
Stars of CCTV -- 2006 - HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH
Looking For Lucky -- 2005 - IAN MCCULLOCH
Candleland & Mysterio -- 2007 - IAN MCGLYNN
Tomorrow's Taken -- 2004 - ICECREAM HANDS
Sweeter Than the Radio -- 1999 - IDLEWILD
Make Another World -- 2007 - IGGY POP
A Million In Prizes -- 2005
Beat 'Em Up -- 2001 - IMA ROBOT
Monument to the Masses -- 2006 - INXS
Switch -- 2005 - JAMES BLUNT
Black to Bedlam -- 2005 - JEFF BUCKLEY
So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley -- 2007 - JEREMIAH FREED
Jeremiah Freed -- 2002
Slow Burn -- 2003 - JEREMY ENIGK
World Waits -- 2006 - JOHN MAYER
Any Given Thursday -- 2003
Heavier Things -- 2003
Room for Squares -- 2001 - JOSEPH ARTHUR
Vagabond Skies -- 2008 - JOSH JOPLIN
Jaywalker -- 2005 - JOSH RITTER
The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter -- 2007 - JOSH ROUSE
Nashville -- 2005 - JULIAN COPE
Saint Julian -- 1987 - KAISER CHIEFS
Employment -- 2005 - KENNA
Make Sure They See My Face -- 2007 - KILLING JOKE
Brighter than a Thousand Suns -- 1986/2008 - KINGS OF LEON
Because of the Times -- 2007 - KINGS OF LEON
Only by the Night -- 2008 - KMFDM
Blitz -- 2009 - KMFDM/MINISTRY
Tohuvabohu/The Last Sucker -- 2007 - LA ROCCA
The Truth -- 2007 - LEMURIA
Get Better -- 2008 - LENNY KRAVITZ
Lenny -- 2001 - LES CLAYPOOL
Fancy -- 2007 - LINKIN PARK
Hybrid Theory -- 2001 - LISA LOBE
Cake and Pie -- 2002 - LIVE
Birds of Pray -- 2003
VH-1 Storytellers -- 2001 - LIZ PHAIR
Liz Phair -- 2003
Somebody’s Miracle -- 2006
Somebody's Miracle -- 2006 - LOCAL H
Twelve Angry Months -- 2008 - LUCE
Luce -- 2002
Never Ending -- 2005 - M83
Saturdays=Youth -- 2008 - MANDO DIAO
bring'em in -- 2003 - MARC BROUSSARD
Carenco -- 2004
Momentary Setback -- 2003 - MAROON 5
Songs About Jane -- 2003 - MARYKATE O'NEIL
1-800-BANKRUPT -- 2006 - MATCHBOX 20
Mad Season -- 2000
More Than You Think You Are -- 2002 - MATERIAL ISSUE
The Best of Material Issue: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection -- 2006 - MATTHEW GOOD BAND
Beautiful Midnight -- 2001 - MERCURY REV
The Secret Migration -- 2005 - MESSER CHUPS
Hyena Safari -- 2007 - MICHELLE BRANCH
The Spirit Room -- 2001 - MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE
If -- 2008 - MINISTRY
Cover Up -- 2008 - MISSION 19
Five Days From Home -- 2003 - MORNINGWOOD
Morningwood -- 2006 - MORRISSEY
Ringleader of the Tormentors -- 2006
Years of Refusal -- 2009 - MUDHONEY
Under A Billion Stars -- 2006 - MY MORNING JACKET
Evil Urges -- 2008 - NADA SURF
The Weight is A Gift -- 2005 - NAKED EYES/PETE BYRNE
Fumbling with the Covers/The Real Illusion -- 2007 - NEW ORDER
Get Ready -- 2001
Waiting For The Sirens' Call -- 2005 - NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
Challengers -- 2007 - NEW YORK DOLLS
‘Cause I Sez So -- 2009
One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This -- 2006 - NICK CAVE
From Her to Eternity/Kicking Against the Pricks -- 2009
The Firstborn Is Dead/Your Funeral…My Trial -- 2009 - NICKELBACK
Silver Side Up -- 2001 - NINE INCH NAILS
And All That Could Have Been (Live) -- 2002
Ghosts I-IV -- 2008
The Slip -- 2008
With Teeth -- 2005
Year Zero -- 2007 - NIRVANA
Nirvana -- 2002 - OK GO
Oh No -- 2005
Ok Go -- 2002 - OLD 97'S
Alive & Wired -- 2005
Hit by a Train: The Best of the Old 97's -- 2006 - OUR LADY PEACE
Gravity -- 2002
Healthy In Paranoid Times -- 2005
Spiritual Machines -- 2000 - OURS
Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy) -- 2008 - PATTI SMITH
Twelve -- 2007 - PAUL WELLER
As Is Now -- 2005 - PEARL JAM
Binaural -- 2000
Pearl Jam -- 2006
Riot Act -- 2002
Ten -- 1991
Vitalogy -- 1994
Vs. -- 1993
Yield -- 1998 - PEOPLE IN PLANES
As Far As the Eye Can See³ -- 2006 - PERNICE BROTHERS
Discover A Lovelier You -- 2005 - PETE YORN
Back and Fourth -- 2009
Day I Forgot -- 2003 - PJ HARVEY
White Chalk -- 2007 - PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH
A Woman a Man Walked By -- 2009 - POLYPHONIC SPREE
The Fragile Army -- 2007 - PUDDLE OF MUDD
Come Clean -- 2001 - R.E.M.
And I Feel Fine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years, 1982-1987 -- 2006 - RACHEL TAYLOR BROWN
Susan Storm’s Ugly Sister and Other Saints and Superheroes -- 2009 - RADIOHEAD
OK Computer Special Collector’s Edition -- 2009
Pablo Honey: 2-CD Collector’s Edition -- 1993/2009
The Bends Special Collector’s Edition -- 2009
The Best Of -- 2008 - RAFTER
Ten Songs -- 2006 - RAZORLIGHT
Razorlight -- 2006 - RED WANTING BLUE
Pride: The Cold Lover -- 2004 - RHETT MILLER
The Believer -- 2006 - RICHARD BUCKNER
Meadow -- 2006 - ROB THOMAS
Something to be -- 2005 - ROB ZOMBIE
Sinister Urge -- 2001 - ROBYN HITCHCOCK
Storefront Hitchcock -- 2007 - ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3
Goodnight Oslo -- 2009 - ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3
OlŽ! Tarantula -- 2006 - ROGUE WAVE
Descended Like Vultures -- 2005 - SABROSA PURR
Music from the Violet Room -- 2005
Music From The Violent Room -- 2005 - SARAH MCLACHLAN
Afterglow -- 2003 - SEAN LENNON
Friendly Fire -- 2006 - SENSE FIELD
Tonight and Forever -- 2001 - SEVEN MARY THREE
Day&Nightdriving -- 2008
The Economy of Sound -- 2001 - SEVENDUST
Seasons -- 2003 - SHE WANTS REVENGE
She Wants Revenge -- 2006 - SHERYL CROW
C'mon, C'mon -- 2002
Wildflower -- 2005 - SIGUR ROS
Takk... -- 2005 - SILVER SUN
DadÕs Weird Dream -- 2007 - SILVERSUN PICKUPS
Swoon -- 2009 - SINOMATIC
Sinomatic -- 2001 - SOMETHING CORPORATE
North -- 2003 - SOURCE TAGS & CODES
...And You Will Know Us by theTrail of Dead -- 2002 - SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS
Double Wide and Live -- 2006 - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
Real Emotional Trash -- 2008 - STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
Purple -- 1994
Shangri-La Dee Da -- 2001 - STROKE 9
All In -- 2004 - SUFJAN STEVENS
The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from Illinoise Album -- 2006 - SUGARPLUM FAIRIES
Country International Records -- 2006 - SUPERGRASS
Life on Other Planets -- 2003
Road to Rouen -- 2005 - SWIRL 360
California Blur -- 2005 - SWITCHED
Subject to Change -- 2002 - TALLY HALL
Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum -- 2006 - TANTRIC
Tantric -- 2001 - TARA JANE O’NEIL
In Circles -- 2006 - TAYLOR HAWKINS & THE COATTAIL RIDERS
The Coattail Riders -- 2006 - TAYLOR HOLLINGSWORTH
Tragic City -- 2006 - TEARS FOR FEARS
Chronicles: The Hurting/ Songs From The Big Chair/ The Seeds of Love -- 2005
Everybody Loves A Happy Ending -- 2004 - TEENAGE FANCLUB
Man-Made -- 2005 - TEST YOUR REFLEX
The Burning Hour -- 2007 - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY
Armed Love -- 2005 - THE ACADEMY IS...
Santi -- 2007 - THE ALBUM LEAF
Into the Blue Again -- 2006 - THE ALTERNATIVE ROUTES
Good and Reckless and True -- 2005 - THE ARGUMENT
Your New Favorite Band -- 2000 - THE BLUETONES
The Bluetones -- 2006 - THE BRAVERY
The Bravery -- 2005
The Sun and the Moon -- 2007 - THE CALLING
Camino Palmero -- 2001 - THE CHARLATANS UK
Simpatico -- 2006 - THE CLASH
Live at Shea Stadium -- 2008 - THE COMFIES
Close to Me EP -- 2006 - THE CORRS
Live in Dublin -- 2002 - THE CURE
4:13 Dream -- 2008
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me -- 1990
The Head on the Door -- 1990 - THE EASTERN STARS
July 5th 1961 -- 2006
July 5th, 1961 -- 2006 - THE ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE
No Need to Be Down-Hearted -- 2007 - THE EXIES
Inertia -- 2003 - THE FEVER
In the City of Sleep -- 2006 - THE FIXX
The 25th Anniversary Anthology -- 2006 - THE FRAY
How to Save A Life -- 2005 - THE GET UP KIDS
On a Wire -- 2002 - THE GLOVE
Blue Sunshine -- 1983 - THE GOO GOO DOLLS
Let Love In -- 2006 - THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE QUEEN
The Good, the Bad, & the Queen -- 2007 - THE HOLLOWAYS
So This Is Great Britain? -- 2007 - THE JULIANA THEORY
Emotion is Dead -- 2000 - THE KILLERS
Day and Age -- 2008 - THE LONG WINTERS
Putting The Days To Bed -- 2006 - THE MAGIC NUMBERS
The Magic Numbers -- 2005
Those the Brokes -- 2007 - THE MEAT PUPPETS
Sewn Together -- 2009 - THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES
Medium Rare -- 2008 - THE MISSION UK
God Is a Bullet -- 2007 - THE PIERCES
Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge -- 2007 - THE PUSH STARS
Opening Time -- 2001 - THE REPLACEMENTS
Hootenanny -- 1983/2008
Let It Be -- 1984/2008
Pleased to Meet Me (Deluxe Edition) -- 2008
Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash -- 1981/2008
Stink -- 1982/2008 - THE ROSENBERGS
Mission:You -- 2001 - THE STROKES
First Impressions of Earth -- 2006
Is This It -- 2001
Room On Fire -- 2003 - THE THORNS
The Thorns -- 2003 - THE TRAGICALLY HIP
We Are the Same -- 2009 - THE WALLFLOWERS
Rebel, Sweetheart -- 2005
Red Letter Days -- 2002 - THE WHIGS
Mission Control -- 2008 - THE WHITE STRIPES
Icky Thump -- 2007 - THE WILD SWANS
Magnitude: The Sire Years -- 2007 - THE ZUTONS
Tired of Hanging Around -- 2006 - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
The Else -- 2007 - THIRD EYE BLIND
Out of the Vein -- 2003
Third Eye Blind -- 1997 - THOMAS DOLBY
The Sole Inhabitant -- 2006 - TINA DICO
In The Red -- 2006 - TOAD THE WET SPROCKET
Dulcinea -- 1994 - TOADIES
No Deliverance -- 2008 - TOD RUNDGREN
Liars -- 2004 - TODD RUNDGREN
The Best of Todd Rundgren Live -- 2005 - TOMMY LEE
Tommyland: The Ried -- 2005 - TRAIN
Drops of Jupiter -- 2001
For Me, It's You -- 2006
My Private Nation -- 2003 - U2
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb -- 2004 - UNKLE
End Titles...Stories for Film -- 2008 - VARIOUS ARTISTS
A Life Less Lived: The Goth Box -- 2006
Athfest 10 -- 2006
Easy to Be Free: The Songs of Rick Nelson -- 2006 - VERTICAL HORIZON
Go -- 2003 - VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCE
Do it Yourself -- 2008 - VINNI BLUE
More Than Anything -- 2003 - VIV
Flawed -- 2004 - VIVA VOCE
Get Yr Blood Sucked Out -- 2006 - WAYNE
Music on Plastic -- 2002 - WEATHERBOX
American Art -- 2007 - WEEN
La Cucaracha -- 2007 - WEEZER
Weezer (The Red Album) -- 2008 - WILCO
Sky Blue Sky -- 2007 - YAZBEK
Tape Recorder -- 2005 - YELLOWCARD
Lights and Sound -- 2006 - ZOOKEEPER
Zookeeper -- 2006