Your top 5-10 albums of 2008

[Triple A]

I liked these albums

Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night
Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
High Places - High Places
Islands - Arm's Way
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

Honorable mentions that were pretty good or I haven't listened to enough yet:

Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
The Kills - Midnight Boom
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
No Age - Nouns
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
Tilly and the Wall - O
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
The Walkmen - You & Me
Why? - Alopecia

[mitchables]

Portugal. The Man - Censored Colours
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Minus the Bear - Acoustics EP
of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
+/- - Xs on Your Eyes

Yeahhhhh. Okay technically EPs aren't albums but fuck you. Acoustics was a great EP.

[Juan]

All That Remains - Overcome
Avenged Sevenfold - Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough
Bayside - Live At the Bayside Social Club
Bayside - Shudder
Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season
Bullet for My Valentine - Scream, Aim, Fire
A Skylit Drive - Wires... And the Concept of Breathing
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Trivium - Shogun
Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation
36 Crazyfists - The Tide And Its Takers
Walls of Jericho - The American Dream

[The Franchise]

Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season
Bullet for My Valentine - Scream, Aim, Fire
Senses Fail - Life Is Not A Waiting Room
Thursday - Envy
Finch - Finch (EP)

[Penner]

All That Remains - Overcome
Avenged Sevenfold - Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough
Bayside - Live At the Bayside Social Club
Bayside - Shudder
Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season
Bullet for My Valentine - Scream, Aim, Fire
A Skylit Drive - Wires... And the Concept of Breathing
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Trivium - Shogun
Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation
36 Crazyfists - The Tide And Its Takers
Walls of Jericho - The American Dream

YAY!

[Chuck Jones]

The human Abstract -Midheaven
These United States - A picture of the three of us at the gate to the garden of Eden
Flogging Molly - Float
Vampire Weekend - Self titled
The Constantines- Kensington heights
Black Mountain- In The Future
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Helio Sequence- Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Pack A.D.- Funeral Mixtape
School of Language- Sea From Shore

Honorable metions:
Tv on the Radio- Dear Science
War on Drugs- Wagonwheel Blues
Coldplay- Viva la Vida
Horrorpops - Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
Ben Lee - Ripe (mostly for the song "What Would Jay Z Do?")
Mike Bones - The Sky Behind The Sea (although that was released in 2007, I discovered him this year)

[Fabien Barthez]

Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Haa
Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Lightspeed Champion - Falling off Lavender Bridge
Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement
Omar Rodríguez-López - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward
Absence Make The Heart Grow Fungus
Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead
Old Money (all OR-L)

[Penner]

Even though mine pretty much match Juan, here it is:

Avenged Sevenfold - Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough
A Skylit Drive - Wires... And the Concept of Breathing
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Trivium - Shogun
Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation
Metallica - Death Magnetic
New Found Glory - Tip Of The Iceberg
Haste The Day - Dreamer
From First To Last - From First To Last
Emery - While Broken Hearts Prevail
Emarosa - Relativity
Egypt Central - Egypt Central

Some Local Bands to check out
Kingdoms - Atlantis (http://www.myspace.com/kingdoms)
The Fitzpatrick Incident - A Partisan Effort (http://www.myspace.com/thefitzpatrickincident)

[ron the dial]

foals - antidotes
the magnetic fields - distortion
the mars volta - the bedlam in goliath
mates of state - re-arrange us
mötley crüe - saints of los angeles
okkervil river - the stand ins
stars - sad robots ep
thursday/envy split
vampire weekend - vampire weekend
vivian girls - vivian girls

following mitch's example, i included an ep and a split

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The only albums that have come out this year that I have bought are:

Metallica - Death magnetic
The Dresden dolls - No virginnia
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Maple Bee - Home
Punch brothers -Punch

With the exception of the Dresden Dolls cover of "pretty in pink," only Jenny Lewis really did anything for me. The majority of modern acts do nothing for me. Next year is looking better though for new music.

Saying that though, there are number of albums that have come out this year that I do want, but are in my great list of albums to buy:

Amanda palmer - who killed amanda palmer?
Chris thile & Edgar Meyer
The duhks - fast-paced world
The Winterpills - Central chambers
Dan Tyminski's new album

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

okkervil river - the stand ins


I heard their "Black Sheep Boy" album for the first time this week, and it is pretty bad ass. It gives me mad dark thoughts though. Don't know why. But I definitly want more of their albums.

[ron the dial]

that is by far my favorite album that they have done. check out "the stage names" and "down the river of golden dreams."

[The Franchise]

Oh yeah New Surrender is amazing too.

[Requiem]

NIN - The Slip
Electric Six - Flashy
Modwheelmood - Pearls to Pigs vol. 2
Modwheelmood - Pearls to Pigs vol. 3

Honestly, wasn't too much new shit this year from bands I listen to.

[Penner]

Across Five Aprils - Life Underwater
Saosin - Come Close DVD

[Triple A]

I just heard Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night and it is freaking amazing and is def in my Fave 5.

[Indifferent Clox]

okkervil river the stand ins
titus andronicus
tv on the radio
deerhunter
cut copy
fuck buttons
fleet foxes
vampire weekend
why?
the bug
frightened Rabbit
the dodos
hercules andlove affair

[Downunder]

Alice Cooper - Along Came a Spider
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Guns 'n Roses - Chinese Democracy
Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
The Living End - White Noise
Metal Church - This Present Wasteland
AC/DC - Black Ice

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Nunder is a metal thrashing fiend! :cool:

[D Mac]

Death Magnetic

[Downunder]

tbh I have the only decent list in this entire thread.

[Juan]

Says you

[Requiem]

tbh I have the only decent list in this entire thread.

I was going to say that about my own list.

[Downunder]

I'll give you the Six, but thats it Req

[Requiem]

I can see you not going for Modwheelmood. But not NIN? The Slip was a great album, especially for being released free, which just made it even more awesome.

[mitch_h]

Pretty awful year... but here are some things that I liked

Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont
Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams
Portishead - The Third
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Why? - Alopecia
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

[Downunder]

I can see you not going for Modwheelmood. But not NIN? The Slip was a great album, especially for being released free, which just made it even more awesome.

No I never could get into NIN.

[Kapoutman]

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Sam Roberts - Love At The End of the World
The Verve - Forth
Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Eleventh Hour
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Freeman - L'Espoir D'Un (C)rève
The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Weezer - Red Album

[FakeLaser]

The Kills - Midnight Boom
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
No Age - Nouns
Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed!
Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
Weezer - The Red Album
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Flight
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
Islands - Arm's Way
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

[thedamndest]

tbh I have the only decent list in this entire thread.

You have the only list where I have heard of every band, and most lists I have heard of no bands. I am a fuddy duddy.

Actually I am assuming that means the bands suck.

[Requiem]

Honestly, I hate all of the bands in Downunder's list. Like truly would not ever listen to in my lifetime if I could help it.

[ron the dial]

i have to add bon iver - for emma, forever ago to my list. i cannot stop listening to "skinny love."

[Downunder]

You have the only list where I have heard of every band, and most lists I have heard of no bands. I am a fuddy duddy.

Actually I am assuming that means the bands suck.

Yup, if I haven't heard of a band they automatically suck, until proved otherwise.

[Fignuts]

The Roots- Rising Down
Coldplay- Viva la Vida
Mars Volta- Bedlam in Goliath
Scars on Broadway-(forgot the album name)
Rose Hill Drive- The Moon is the New Earth
Neverending White Lights- Act II
Metallica- Death Magnetic

[Dorkchop]

I think I've only bought two albums that were released in 2008:

Dillinger Four - Civil War
Offspring - Rise and Fall Rage and Grace

I bought Death Magnetic for my soon to be wife for Christmas, but it hasn't been opened yet so I can't say if it's good or not.

[RGWhat316]

Mine maybe the closest to Downunders list. But my list goes as follows:
Disturbed - Indestructible
Shinedown - The Sound of Madness
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Rev Theory - Light It Up
Motley Crue - Saints of LA
Hinder - Take It To The Limit
GNR - Chinese Democracy

And whenever the new Dope album is released, which was supposed to be this year, but is still postponed.

[Blitz]

Innerpartysystem-Innerpartysystem
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip-Angles
B. Dolan-The Failure
Butch Walker-Sycamore Meadows
Rise Against-Appeal To Reason
Mother Mother-O My Heart
The Gaslight Anthem-The '59 Sound
The Wooden Sky-When Lost At Sea
Fall Out Boy-Folie A Deux
Coldplay-Viva La Vida

[RP]

Rise Against-Appeal To Reason

I love the song Hairline Fracture now

I think i find a new song i love off that album every month its been out.

[G]

And whenever the new Dope album is released, which was supposed to be this year, but is still postponed.



Have you heard the album yet?

[RGWhat316]

Have you heard the album yet?
Nah, only a couple of songs. "Violence" which was released almost a year ago, and "Nothing For Me Here" which I dunno if it will be on the album or now. Latest update now is March.

[The Destroyer]

I'd pretty much totally tuned out of new releases all year, but the ones I can actually remember loving:

Frank Turner - Love, Ire And Song
Firewater - The Golden Hour
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Bitcrush - Epilogue In Waves
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fungus (although he did release 3 solo albums this year, and they're all pretty good)
Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
5ive - Hesperus
These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
Torche - Meanderthal

[G]

The only ones I've heard were

Chinese Democracy
Saints of Los Angeles
Death Magnetic


So by default they are it.

[MVP]

Anberlin - New Surrender
Ben Folds - Way to Normal
Better Luck Next Time - Start From Skratch
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Less Than Jake - GNV FLA
Matt Pryor - Confidence Man
Punchline - Just Say Yes
Rise Against - Appeal to Reason
Valencia - We All Need a Reason

[The Greater Power]

My #1 and #2 are set, the rest are not in order.

1. Valencia - We All Need a Reason to Believe
2. House of Heroes - The End is Not The End

Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Senses Fail - Life is Not a Waiting Room
Anberlin - New Surrender
Hit The Lights - Skip School, Start Fights
Thrice - The Alchemy Index, Vols. I-IV
The Years Gone By - Forever Comes Too Soon

Houston Calls and Alkaline Trio's two releases were a bit disappointing.

I have yet to hear Gaslight Anthem's new one

Overall this was a weak year for the kind of music I like. But in 2009 we will have Four Year Strong (I haven't had this much hype for a release since Blink 182's TOYPAJ), New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, Wonder Years, Green Day, Strike Anywhere, etc..

[Synopsis]

I got 4 so far

Rise Gainst- Appeal To Reason
Dillinger Four- C I V I L W A R
The Gaslight Anthem- The 59 sound
Polar Bear Club- Sometimes Things Just Disappear

[MVP]

Overall this was a weak year for the kind of music I like. But in 2009 we will have Four Year Strong (I haven't had this much hype for a release since Blink 182's TOYPAJ), New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, Wonder Years, Green Day, Strike Anywhere, etc..

You're the first person on here I've met who has mentioned The Wonder Years. :y:

[RP]

The Slipknot album really grew on me. I downloaded it a while ago, but never really listend to it. Dead Memories and Psychosocial are always played on the radio so those somewhat grew on me. My favorite song is Snuff though. I usually listen to all 30 gigs of my music on random and Snuff came on and i fell in love with that song.