Best Album of '08

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  1. sarcasm_mister

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    1. The Ractontuers - Consolers of the Lonely
    2. Death Cab for Cutie -Narrow Stairs
    =3 The Presets - Apocolypso
    =3. Coldplay- Viva la Vida And Death and all His Friends
    5. Cog- Sharing Space
    6. Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours
     
  2. ProjektXero

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    Three 6 Mafia - Last 2 Walk
    Shinedown - The Sound of Madness
    Theory of a Deadman - Scars and Souvenirs
    Story of the Year - The Black Swan
    Rev Theory - Light It Up
    Disturbed - Indestructible
    10 Years - Division
    Sevendust - Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow
    Course of Nature - Damaged
    Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
     
  3. Jordan

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    so your from Australia i guess? :p
     
  4. Misfit Jay

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    1.) Indestructible - Disturbed
    2.) Skeletons - Wednesday 13
    3.) Blooddrunk - Children of Bodom
    4.) The Slip - Nine Inch Nails
    5.) A Sense of Purpose - In Flames
    6.) Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails
     
  5. Minus

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    Top 15:
    1. The New Frontiers - Mending
    2. Utada Hikaru - HEART STATION
    3. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
    4. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
    5. Artist Vs Poet - Alive Once Again
    6. Young and Divine - Young and Divine
    7. The Cab - Whisper War
    8. Jason Mraz - We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
    9. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
    10. Shanghai Restoration Project - Story of a City
    11. she - Coloris
    12. E.S. Posthumus - Cartographer
    13. The Roots - Rising Down
    14. We Shot The Moon - Fear and Love
    15. Pendulum - In Silico

    Off:
    # Thrice - The Alchemy Index Volumes III & IV: Earth and Air
    # Story of the Year - The Black Swan
    # Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
    # Jon Foreman - Winter/Spring EP
    # Ivoryline - There Came A Lion
    # PlayRadioPlay! - Texas
    Nada Surf - Lucky
    The White Tie Affair - Walk This Way
    Edison Glass - Time Is Fiction
    10 Years - Division
    The Mile After - Armada EP
    Cinematic Sunrise - A Coloring Storybook and Long-Playing Record
    Ratatat - LP3
    Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
    Gavin Rossdale - WANDERlust
    Portishead - Third
    The Medic Droid - Whats Your Medium
    Usher - Here I Stand

    Judging:
    Jake Mai - Olivine EP
    Lydia - Illuminate

    N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds

    Queued:
    Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!!
    Weezer - Red Album
    Cold Electric - Cold Electric
    Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
    Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
    Ours - Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)
    Mariah Carey - E=MC²
     



  6. released:
    Kalmah - For the revolution
    Tiamat - Amanethes
    Stormlord - Mare nostrum
    Norther - N
    Eluveitie - Slania
    GraVil - Something worth chasing EP

    unreleased:
    Karlahan - Twilight
    Slipknot - All hope is gone
    Dragonforce - Ultra beatdown
    (Wintersun - Time)
    edit:
    Amon Amarth - Twilight of the thunder god
    Motörhead - Motörizer
     
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  7. Tonyshucraft

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    If Matthew Good does get his album out by the end of the year, from the little i have heard of the demos, I think it should be up around there in quality. As for sales, he will do well in his country of Canada but few know of him here.
     
  8. Will

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    01. Story of the Year's The Black Swan
    02. Forever the Sickest Kids' Underdog Alma Mater
    03. Hit the Lights' Skip School, Start Fights
    04. 36 Crazyfists' The Tide and Its Takers
    05. Destroy the Runner's I, Lucifer
    06. The Bright Star Alliance's Oceania
    07. Oceana's The Tide
    08. Gwen Stacy's The Life I Know
    09. Here I Come Falling's Here I Come Falling
    10. Attack Attack's Attack Attack

    Honorable mentions:
    A Skylit Drive's Wires and the Concept of Breathing
    Alesana's Where Myth Fades to Legend
    Cinematic Sunrise's A Coloring Storybook and Long Playing Record
    Panic at the Disco's Pretty. Odd.
    Protest the Hero's Fortress

    Off:
    10 Years' Division
    A Bullet for Pretty Boy's Beauty in the Eyes of the Beholder
    A Cursive Memory's Changes
    A Girl, a Gun, a Ghost's Through the Eyes of Ahab
    A Kiss Could Be Deadly's A Kiss Could Be Deadly
    A Textbook Tragedy's Intimidator
    Across Five Aprils' Life Underwater
    And So I Watch You from Afar's Tonight the City Burns
    And Then There Was You's And Then There Was You
    Another Day Late's News Said It's Raining in New York
    Ashes Divide's Keep Telling Myself It's Alright
    Awake and Dreaming's It's Always Midnight in Sin City
    Bullet for My Valentine's Scream Aim Fire
    Burden of a Day's Blessed Be Our Ever After
    Burning Tree Project's Time and Color
    Bury Your Dead's Bury Your Dead
    Cambridge's How to Walk a Tightrope
    Can You Keep a Secret's The Feeling of Being Alive
    Carry the Torch's Dead Weather
    Children of Bodom's Blooddrunk
    City and Colour's Bring Me Your Love
    Danger Radio's Punch Your Lights Out
    Dead to Fall's Are You Serious?
    Driving East's The Future of the Free World Is Riding on This One
    Easton Legacy's New Nightmares to Challenge Sleep
    Emmure's The Respect Issue
    Every Avenue's Shh. Just Go with It
    Eyes Set to Kill's Reach
    Fireflight's Unbreakable
    Flo Rida's Mail on Sunday
    Flogging Molly's Float
    Forever the Sickest Kids' Hot Party Jams
    Four Letter Lie's What a Terrible Thing to Say
    Greeley Estate's Go West Young Man, Let the Evil Go East
    Holiday Parade's To You. From Us.
    Ill Niño's Enigma
    In Flames' A Sense of Purpose
    In Flames' The Mirror's Truth
    In Flight Radio's The Sound Inside
    Ivoryline's There Came a Lion
    Jon Foreman's Winter
    Lake Shore Drive's Adrift Among Sirens
    Linden's The Future Is...
    Lorene Drive's Out Alive
    Ludo's You're Awful, I Love You
    Lydia's Illuminate
    Machinae Supremacy's Overworld
    Me vs Hero's Me vs Hero
    Mercy Mercedes' Casio Rodeo
    Meshuggah's obZen
    Mourning After Massacre's For Failure of the Spoken Word
    My Children My Bride's Unbreakable
    Of Fate and Chance's An Atlas to Solutions
    Once Nothing's First Came the Law
    Opeth's Watershed
    Our Last Night's The Ghosts Among Us
    P.O.D.'s When Angels & Serpents Dance
    Paige's If You Say So
    Phantom Planet's Raise the Dead
    Pillar's For the Love of the Game
    Poets of the Fall's Revolution Roulette
    Promise of Redemption's When the Flowers Bloom
    Punk Goes Crunk
    R.E.M.'s Accelerate
    Saosin's Come Close
    Scenes and Sirens' The South Will Dance Again
    Search the City's A Fire So Big the Heavens Can See It
    Secondhand Serenade's A Twist in My Story
    Seven Cycles' City by City
    Sevendust's Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow
    Small Towns Burn a Little Slower's Small Towns Burn a Little Slower
    The Apathy Eulogy's Introduction: Walk North When the Winter Hits
    The Audition's Champion
    The Breathing Process' In Waking: Divinity
    The Dreaming's Etched in Blood
    The Getaway Plan's Other Voices, Other Rooms
    The Matches' A Band in Hope
    The Morning Light's The Sounds of Love
    The Morning Of's The World as We Know It
    The Red Death's Godmakers
    The Secret Handshake's One Full Year
    The Used's Shallow Believer
    Their Beauty Fades' Every Exit Is an Entrance
    Theory of a Deadman's Scars & Souvenirs
    This Is Hell's Misfortunes
    Three Years Hiding's We Lost Ourselves and Found Our Way to This
    Thrice's The Alchemy Index, Vols. III & IV
    Underoath's Survive, Kaleidoscope
    Upon Beauty Rests' For the Days We Fear the Air We Breath
    We Are the Arsenal's The Trees
    With Blood Comes Cleansing's Horror
     
  9. Rather Red

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    Best Albums of 2008
    1. Children 18:3- Children 18:3
    2. Alesana- Where Myth Fades to Legend
    3. Flo Rida- Mail on Sunday
    4. The Used- Shallow Believer
    5. A Skylit Drive- Wires and the Concept of Breathing
    6. Does It Offend You, Yeah?- You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into
    7. Flobots- Fight With Tools
    8. Machinae Supremacy- Overworld
    9. Tyga- No Introduction
    10. The Audition- Champion

    Honorable Mentions:
    Panic at the Disco- Pretty. Odd.
    Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III
    Disturbed- Indestructible
    Every Avenue- Shh. Just Go With It.
    Simple Plan- Simple Plan

    Off:
    N.E.R.D.- Seeing Sounds
    Weezer- The Red Album
    Mindless Self Indulgence- If
    The Matches- A Band In Hope
    Akissforjersey- Victims
    Protest the Hero- Fortress
    Bullet For My Valentine- Scream Aim Fire
    Foxy Shazam- Introducing

    Currently Listening/Judging:
    Tickle Me Pink- Madeline
    Take the Crown- Relapse React
    Glamour of the Kill- Glamour of the Kill
    Kidz in the Hall- The In Crowd
    Shinedown- The Sound of Madness
    Forever the Sickest Kids- Underdog Alma Mater
    Coldplay- Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
    Divided by Friday- Maybe In a Memory
    From First to Last- From First to Last
    Story of the Year- The Black Swan
    Katy Perry- One of the Boys
    The Mars Volta- The Bedlam in Goliath
     
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  10. Minus

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    Cool... Will and I started a trend. :lol:

    Top 15:
    1. The New Frontiers - Mending
    2. Utada Hikaru - HEART STATION
    3. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
    4. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
    5. Artist Vs Poet - Alive Once Again
    6. Young and Divine - Young and Divine
    7. The Cab - Whisper War
    8. Jason Mraz - We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
    9. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
    10. Shanghai Restoration Project - Story of a City
    11. she - Coloris
    12. E.S. Posthumus - Cartographer
    13. The Roots - Rising Down
    14. We Shot The Moon - Fear and Love
    15. Pendulum - In Silico

    Off:
    # Thrice - The Alchemy Index Volumes III & IV: Earth and Air
    # Story of the Year - The Black Swan
    # Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
    # Jon Foreman - Winter/Spring EP
    # Ivoryline - There Came A Lion
    # PlayRadioPlay! - Texas
    Nada Surf - Lucky
    The White Tie Affair - Walk This Way
    Edison Glass - Time Is Fiction
    10 Years - Division
    The Mile After - Armada EP
    Cinematic Sunrise - A Coloring Storybook and Long-Playing Record
    Ratatat - LP3
    Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
    Gavin Rossdale - WANDERlust
    Portishead - Third
    The Medic Droid - Whats Your Medium
    Usher - Here I Stand
    Lydia Illuminate
    N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds
    Jake Mai - Olivine EP

    Judging:
    Nas - Untitled
    Destroy The Runner - I, Lucifer
    Oceana - The Tide

    Queued:

    Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!!
    Weezer - Red Album
    Cold Electric - Cold Electric
    Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
    Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
    Ours - Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)
    Mariah Carey - E=MC²

    EDIT: And yes, I am just looking at Will's ridiculously large list for ideas on new albums to listen to. Hush. :lol:
     
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    01: Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vol. III & IV Air & Earth
    02: The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
    03: Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
    04: Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
    05: Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
    06: Opeth - Watershed
    07: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
    08: Cog - Sharing Space
    09: Sleep Parade - Things Can Always Change
    10: 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And It's Takers
    11: Protest The Hero - Fortress
    12: Firewind - The Premonition
    13: Mindless Self Indulgence - If
    14: City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
    15: Disturbed - Indestructible
    16: The Fratellis - Here We Stand
    17: The Getaway Plan - Other Voices, Other Rooms
    18: Less Than Jake - GNV FLA
    19: Sky Eats Airplane - Sky Eats Airplane
    20: sleepmakeswaves - In Today Walks Tomorrow
    21: Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
    22: Children Of Bodom - Blooddrunk
    23: Filter - Anthems For The Damned
    24: In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose
    25: Secret & Whisper - Great White Whale
     
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    This is the list I had going but then I realized theres so many high points in all of these i couldnt really put them in a definite order...
    so heres the order i had but its really not technically in a order because albums at the bottom i believe deserve a higher place but theres just to much good music this year to do that...

    Cinmatic Sunrise - A Coloring Storybook And Long Playing Record EP
    Alesana - Where Myth Fades To Legend
    Artist Vs Poet - Alive Once Again
    The Used - Shallow Believer
    Forever The Sickest Kids - Underdog Alma Mater
    The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
    Story Of The Year - The Black Swan
    Ivoryline - There Came A Lion
    Ashest Divide - Keep Telling Myself Its Alright
    Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
    Cold Play - Viva La Vida
    Sigur Ros - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
    Alkaline Trip - Agony And Irony
     
  13. Paul

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    1. Untitled by Nas.
    2. Rising Down by The Roots
    3. Seeing Sounds by N.E.R.D.
     
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    Kerli - Love Is Dead
     
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    Vampire Weekend-S/T
    Counting Crows-Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings
    Ting Tings-We Started Nothing
    Flobots-Fight with Tools

    Anticipated:
    Hawthorne Heights-Fragile Future
    TBS-Untitled
    CSS-Donkey
    Sound of Animals Fighting-Ocean and the Sun
    U2-Untitled
    Keane-Untitled
    Matisyahu-Untitled
    MCR-Untitled

    ~Jack
     
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    01.Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
    02.Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway
    03. ReinXeed - The Light
    04.Poets Of the Fall - Revolution Roulette
    05.Power Quest - Master Of Illusio
    06.P.O.D. - When Angels & Serpents Dance
    07.Dragonforce - Ultra Beatdown
    08.Rev Theory - Light It Up
    09.Willet - Virus
    10.10 Years - Division
    11.Realign - New Wine
    12.Midnight To Twelve - XII
    13.Random Eyes - Invisible
    14.Somastate - Reversals (EP)
    15.Course Of Nature - Damaged


    Still waiting for :


    Trapt - Only Through the Pain (August 5th)
    Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (August 26th)
    Taproot - Our Long Road Home (September 16th)
    Papa Roach - Metamorphosis (August/September)
    Lostprophets - Untitled (September/October or maybe next year)
    Hoobastank - Untitled (Late this year)
     
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    01: Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vol. III & IV Air & Earth
    02: The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
    03: Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
    04: Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
    05: Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
    06: Opeth - Watershed
    07: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
    08: Sleep Parade - Things Can Always Change
    09: Cog - Sharing Space
    10: 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And It's Takers
    11: Mindless Self Indulgence - If
    12: Protest The Hero - Fortress
    13: Firewind - The Premonition
    14: City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
    15: sleepmakeswaves - In Today Walks Tomorrow
    16: Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway
    17: Disturbed - Indestructible
    18: Sigur Ros - Hmmm
    19: Less Than Jake - GNV FLA
    20: The Getaway Plan - Other Voices, Other Rooms
    21: The Fratellis - Here We Stand
    22: Sky Eats Airplane - Sky Eats Airplane
    23: The Roots - Rising Down
    24: Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
    25: Children Of Bodom - Blooddrunk
    26: Filter - Anthems For The Damned
    27: In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose
    28: Secret & Whisper - Great White Whale
    29: This Is Hell - Misfortunes
    30: Norther - N

    I need to listen to some of the albums more.
     
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    01. God Fires Man: "A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun"
    02. Gavin Rossdale: "Wanderlust"
    03. Filter: "Anthems for the Damned"
    04. Shinedown: "The Sound of Madness"
    05. Trapt: "Only Through the Pain"
    06. Alkaline Trio: "Agony and Irony"
    07. Disturbed: "Indestructible"
    08. 10 Years: "Division"
    09. Ashes Divide: "Keep Telling Myself It's Alright"
    10. 3 Doors Down: "3 Doors Down"
    11. P.O.D.: "When Angels & Serpents Dance"
    12. Sevendust: "Chapter VII: Hope And Sorrow"
    13. Nine Inch Nails: "The Slip"

    (Will edit after I hear Scars on Broadway. I know I'm forgetting some albums I've heard, too.)
     
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    01: Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vol. III & IV Air & Earth
    02: The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
    03: Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
    04: Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
    05: Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
    06: Opeth - Watershed
    07: Sigur Ros - Hmmm
    08: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
    09: Sleep Parade - Things Can Always Change
    10: Cog - Sharing Space
    11: 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And It's Takers
    12: Mindless Self Indulgence - If
    13: Birds Of Tokyo - Universes
    14: sleepmakeswaves - In Today Walks Tomorrow
    15: Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway
    16: City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
    17: Firewind - The Premonition
    18: Protest The Hero - Fortress
    19: Disturbed - Indestructible
    20: Less Than Jake - GNV FLA
    21: The Getaway Plan - Other Voices, Other Rooms
    22: The Fratellis - Here We Stand
    23: Sky Eats Airplane - Sky Eats Airplane
    24: The Roots - Rising Down
    25: Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
    26: Children Of Bodom - Blooddrunk
    27: Filter - Anthems For The Damned
    28: In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose
    29: Secret & Whisper - Great White Whale
    30: This Is Hell - Misfortunes

    I'm loving Sigur Ros's and Birds Of Tokyo's new albums.
     
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    01. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
    02. Shinedown - The Sound of Madness
    03. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
    04. 10 Years - Division
    05. Gavin Rossdale - Wanderlust
    06. Scars on Broadway - Scars on Broadway
    07. Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
    08. City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
    09. Fireflight - Unbreakable
    10. Story of the Year - The Black Swan
     

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