Best Album of '08

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

Honorable Mentions
The Audition- Champion
Panic at the Disco- Pretty. Odd.
Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III
Tyga- No Introduction
Disturbed- Indestructible

Off
Glamour of the Kill- Glamour of the Kill
Forever the Sickest Kids- Underdog Alma Mater
Every Avenue- Shh. Just Go With It.
Simple Plan- Simple Plan
N.E.R.D.- Seeing Sounds
Weezer- The Red Album
Kidz in the Hall- The In Crowd
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
Shinedown- The Sound of Madness
The Classic Crime- The Silver Chord
Mercy Mercedes- 1.21 Gigawatts
Sever Your Ties- Safety in the Sea
Sky Eats Airplane- Sky Eats Airplane
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

 

Argh. Things keep on getting in the way of listening to my list of albums.

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. The Roots - Rising Down
13. We Shot The Moon - Fear and Love
14. Pendulum - In Silico
15. The Dark Knight Soundtrack

Honorable Mentions:
The White Tie Affair - Walk This Way
Cinematic Sunrise - A Coloring Storybook and Long-Playing Record
#E.S. Posthumus - Cartographer
#Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds
Jake Mai - Olivine EP
Nada Surf - Lucky

Off:
# Thrice - The Alchemy Index Volumes III & IV: Earth and Air
# Story of the Year - The Black Swan
# Jon Foreman - Winter/Spring EP
# Ivoryline - There Came A Lion
# PlayRadioPlay! - Texas
Edison Glass - Time Is Fiction
10 Years - Division
The Mile After - Armada EP
Ratatat - LP3
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Gavin Rossdale - WANDERlust
Portishead - Third
The Medic Droid - Whats Your Medium
Usher - Here I Stand
Lydia - Illuminate

Judging/Queued:
One Day As A Lion - Self-Titled EP
Josephine Collective - We Are The Air
Nas - Untitled
Destroy The Runner - I, Lucifer
Oceana - The Tide
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

 

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: Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
05: Opeth - Watershed
06: Sigur Ros - Hmmm
07: Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man
08: Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
09: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
10: Sleep Parade - Things Can Always Change
11: Cog - Sharing Space
12: 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And It's Takers
13: Mindless Self Indulgence - If
14: Birds Of Tokyo - Universes
15: sleepmakeswaves - In Today Walks Tomorrow
16: Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway
17: City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
18: Firewind - The Premonition
19: Protest The Hero - Fortress
20: Disturbed - Indestructible
21: Less Than Jake - GNV FLA
22: The Getaway Plan - Other Voices, Other Rooms
23: The Fratellis - Here We Stand
24: Sky Eats Airplane - Sky Eats Airplane
25: This Is Hell - Misfortunes
26: The Roots - Rising Down
27: Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
28: Children Of Bodom - Blooddrunk
29: Filter - Anthems For The Damned
30: In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose

Iced Earth's new one is pro.

 

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 Illusion
06.P.O.D. - When Angels & Serpents Dance
07.Dragonforce - Ultra Beatdown
08.Trapt - Only Through the Pain...
09.Rev Theory - Light It Up
10.Willet - Virus
11.The Classic Crime - The Silver Cord
12.Years - Division
13.Realign - New Wine
14.Midnight To Twelve - XII
15.Random Eyes - Invisible
16.Somastate - Reversals (EP)
17.Course Of Nature - Damaged


Still waiting for :


Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (August 26th)
Taproot - Our Long Road Home (September 16th)
Papa Roach - Metamorphosis (August/September/October)
Lostprophets - Untitled (September/October or maybe next year)
Hoobastank - Untitled (Late this year)

 

I haven't heard many albums this year, but so far Volume One by She & Him is easily my favorite.

I Zooey Deschanel.

 

01.Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
02.Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway
03.ReinXeed - The Light
04.Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
05.Poets Of the Fall - Revolution Roulette
06.Power Quest - Master Of Illusion
07.P.O.D. - When Angels & Serpents Dance
08.Dragonforce - Ultra Beatdown
09.Trapt - Only Through the Pain...
10.Rev Theory - Light It Up
11.Willet - Virus
12.The Classic Crime - The Silver Cord
13.10 Years - Division
14.Realign - New Wine
15.Midnight To Twelve - XII
16.Random Eyes - Invisible
17.Somastate - Reversals (EP)
18.Course Of Nature - Damaged


Still waiting for :


Taproot - Our Long Road Home (September 16th)
Papa Roach - Metamorphosis (October)
Lostprophets - Untitled (September/October or maybe next year)
Hoobastank - Untitled (Late this year)

 

I haven't updated this in a while.

01).Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
02).Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
03).Meshuggah - obZen
04).Torche - Meanderthal
05).The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
06).Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town
07).Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
08).Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
09).Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV: Air & Earth
10).Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
11).Zozobra - Prey For Eyes
12).Textures - Silhouettes
13).Soulfly - Conquer
14).Weezer - Weezer (The Red Album)
15).Portishead - Third

 

01. Fireflight - Unbreakable
02. Theory of a Deadman - Scars and Souvenirs
03. A Kiss Could Be Deadly- A Kiss Could Be Deadly
04. Anberlin- New Surrender
05- Krystal Meyers- Make Some Noise
06. Course Of Nature - Damaged
07. Ivoryline - There Came A Lion
08. Trapt - Only Through the Pain
09- Staind - The Illusion of Progress
10- The Academy Is - Fast Times At Barrington High

 

I should give that a listen.

EDIT: new albums to add to my list
EDIT 2: Added Mogwai

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: DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown
05: Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
06: Opeth - Watershed
07: Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man
08: Sigur Ros - Something Icelandic
09: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
10: Sleep Parade - Things Can Always Change
11: Cog - Sharing Space
12: Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
13: 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And It's Takers
14: Bigelf - Cheat The Gallows
15: sleepmakeswaves - In Today Walks Tomorrow
16: Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
17: Mindless Self Indulgence - If
18: Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway
19: City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
20: Firewind - The Premonition

Why is no one posting in this thread anymore? I'm going to start downloading Cult Of Luna now.

 

ok i tried again but its just so hard to make a list!

1) The Academy Is... - Fast Times At Barrington High
2) Alesana - Where Myth Fades To Legend
3) Anythony Green - Avalon
4) Artist Vs. Poet - Alive Once Again
5) The Used - Shallow Believer
6) Coldplay - Viva La Vida
7) Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
8) Cinimatic Sunrise - A Cloring Storybook and Long Playing Record
9) Forever The Sickest Kids - Underdog Alma Mater
10) IWASACUBSCOUT - I Want You to Know That There Is Always Hope

11) The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Glory
12) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
13) MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
14) The Friday Night Boys - The Sketch Process
15) Ivoryline - There Came A Lion
16) Shwayze - Shwayze
17) Sigur Ros - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
18) Trapt - Only Through Pain
19) The Cab - Whisper War
20) Swimming With Dolphins - Ambient Blue
21) Story of the Year - Black Swan
22) Ian Walsh - Please Remember
23) Weezer - The Red Album
24) 10 Years - Division
25)

Other Worthy Mentionables
==========================
Lil Wayne - The Carter 3
Panic! At the Disco - Pretty Odd
Theory Of A Deadman - Scars and Souveniers
The White Tie Affair - Walk this Way
Alkaline Trio - Agony And Irony
ASHES dIVIDE - Keep Telling Myself it's Alright
The Audition - Champion
A Change of Pace - Just NO Better Way
Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll
Foxy Shazam - Introducing...
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath

Still Listening To
===================
Anberlin - New Surender
Stained - The Illustions of Progress
Valencia - We All Need A Reason To Believe
Tickle Me Pink - Madeline

 

Thing still haven't changed much.. but it's been forever since I updated.

Argh. Things keep on getting in the way of listening to my list of albums.

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. The Roots - Rising Down
13. We Shot The Moon - Fear and Love
14. Pendulum - In Silico
15. The Dark Knight Soundtrack

Honorable Mentions:
The White Tie Affair - Walk This Way
Cinematic Sunrise - A Coloring Storybook and Long-Playing Record
#E.S. Posthumus - Cartographer
#Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds
Jake Mai - Olivine EP
Nada Surf - Lucky
One Day As A Lion - Self-Titled EP

Off:
# Thrice - The Alchemy Index Volumes III & IV: Earth and Air
# Story of the Year - The Black Swan
# Jon Foreman - Winter/Spring EP
# Ivoryline - There Came A Lion
# PlayRadioPlay! - Texas
Edison Glass - Time Is Fiction
10 Years - Division
The Mile After - Armada EP
Ratatat - LP3
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Gavin Rossdale - WANDERlust
Portishead - Third
The Medic Droid - Whats Your Medium
Usher - Here I Stand
Lydia - Illuminate
Josephine Collective - We Are The Air

Judging/Queued:
Nas - Untitled
Destroy The Runner - I, Lucifer
Oceana - The Tide
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
Artist Vs Poet - Untitled EP

 

1. Chamillionaire - Mixtape Messiah 4
2. Nas - Untitled
3. The Roots - Rising Down
4. The Game - L.A.X.
5. N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds

 

1. Metallica - Death Magnetic





























Everything else.

 

01. 36 Crazyfists - The Tide and its Takers
02. Slipknot - All Hope is Gone
03. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
04. United Nations - United Nations
04. Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation
05. Soulfly - Conquer
06. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
07. Bullet for My Valentine - Scream, Aim, Fire
08. Norma Jean - The Anti Mother
09. Meshuggah - obZen
10. Sevendust - Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow
11. Thrice - The Alchemy Index: Vol: III and IV: Air and Earth
12. Disturbed - Indestructible

Still waiting for:

Metallica - Death Magnetic (September 12)
Trivium - Shogun (September 30)
Rise Against - Appeal to Reason (October 7)
Senses Fail - Life Is Not a Waiting Room (October 7)
Deftones - Eros (TBA)

 

This is basically a provisional top 10 as I haven't posted here for a while but have listened to quite a few new albums. As I may have mentioned recently, if I get the time I might rip off Will and Kayce and try making one of those bumper charts with all the albums I've listened to this year, hah.

01. Alkaline Trio - Agony & Irony
02. Nas - Untitled
03. Frank Turner - Love Ire & Song
04. City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
05. The Roots - Rising Down
06. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
07. Cursed - III
08. The Gaslight Anthem - 59 Sound
09. Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
10. Glasvegas - Glasvegas

 

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: DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown
05: sleepmakeswaves - In Today Walks Tomorrow
06: Opeth - Watershed
07: Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man
08: Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
09: Taproot - Our Long Road Home
10: Sigur Ros - Something Icelandic
11: Sleep Parade - Things Can Always Change
12: Cog - Sharing Space
13: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
14: Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
15: 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And It's Takers
16: Bigelf - Cheat The Gallows
17: Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
18: Bleeding Through - Declaration
19: Mindless Self Indulgence - If
20: Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway


I'll add Overcome another day.

 

I used my past month or two to whittle down that damned Judging/Queued list.

Top 20:
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. The Roots - Rising Down
13. We Shot The Moon - Fear and Love
14. Pendulum - In Silico
15. The Dark Knight Soundtrack
16. Nas - Untitled
17. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
18. InnerPartySystem - InnerPartySystem
19.
20.

Top Album Possibles:
Faster Faster - Hopes and Dreams
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Ours - Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds

Honorable Mentions:
The White Tie Affair - Walk This Way
Cinematic Sunrise - A Coloring Storybook and Long-Playing Record
#E.S. Posthumus - Cartographer
#Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Jake Mai - Olivine EP
Nada Surf - Lucky
One Day As A Lion - Self-Titled EP
Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!!
Weezer - Red Album

Off:
# Thrice - The Alchemy Index Volumes III & IV: Earth and Air
# Story of the Year - The Black Swan
# Jon Foreman - Winter/Spring EP
# Ivoryline - There Came A Lion
# PlayRadioPlay! - Texas
Edison Glass - Time Is Fiction
10 Years - Division
The Mile After - Armada EP
Ratatat - LP3
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Gavin Rossdale - WANDERlust
Portishead - Third
The Medic Droid - Whats Your Medium
Usher - Here I Stand
Lydia - Illuminate
Josephine Collective - We Are The Air
Oceana - The Tide
The Black Mages - Darkness and Starlight
Destroy The Runner - I, Lucifer

Judging/Queued:
Mariah Carey - E=MC²
Hit The Lights - Skip School Start Fights
Artist Vs Poet - Artist Vs Poet
she - Unreleased EP
Jay Chou - 2008 Album
Utada Hikaru - 2008 English Album

 

01..innerpartysystem//innerpartysystem**
02..Pendulum//In Silico
03..N*E*R*D//Seeing Sounds
04..Atmosphere//When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
05..Story of the Year//The Black Swan
06..Panic at the Disco//Pretty. Odd.
07..The Folbots//Fight With Tools
08..Feeder//Silent Cry
09..Gym Class Heros // The Quilt
10..Does It Offend You, Yeah?//You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into

**by far the best of the year

 

01. All That Remains' Overcome
02. Cinematic Sunrise's A Coloring Storybook and Long Playing Record †
03. Story of the Year's The Black Swan
04. Underoath's Lost in the Sound of Separation
05. 36 Crazyfists' The Tide and Its Takers
06. Breathe Carolina's It's Classy, Not Classic
07. Hit the Lights' Skip School, Start Fights
08. Forever the Sickest Kids' Underdog Alma Mater
09. 3OH!3's Want
10. Gwen Stacy's The Life I Know

bold new entry on list
† previously an honorable mention

Honorable mentions —
A Skylit Drive's Wires and the Concept of Breathing
Alesana's Where Myth Fades to Legend
Attack Attack's Attack Attack ‡
Austrian Death Machine's Total Brutal
Bullet for My Valentine's Scream Aim Fire ‡ *
Destroy the Runner's I, Lucifer ‡
Emarosa's Relativity
Here I Come Falling's Here I Come Falling ‡
Metallica's Death Magnetic
Oceana's The Tide ‡
Panic at the Disco's Pretty. Odd.
Protest the Hero's Fortress
The Bright Star Alliance's Oceania ‡

bold new entry on list
‡ previously in top ten
* previously off all lists

Off —
10 Years' Division
3 Doors Down's 3 Doors Down
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' Live 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
Atmosphere's When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
Automatic Loveletter's Recover
Awake and Dreaming's It's Always Midnight in Sin City
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
Cute Is What We Aim For's Rotation
Danger Radio's Punch Your Lights Out
Dead to Fall's Are You Serious?
Disturbed's Indestructible
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 Jamz
Four Letter Lie's What a Terrible Thing to Say
Greeley Estates' Go West Young Man, Let the Devil 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
Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
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
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
Sky Eats Airplane's Sky Eats Airplane
Small Towns Burn a Little Slower's Small Towns Burn a Little Slower
Staind's The Illusion of Progress
Taylor Swift's Beautiful Eyes
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 Medic Droid's What's Your Medium?
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 Breathe
We Are the Arsenal's The Trees
With Blood Comes Cleansing's Horror

bold new entry on list

Compilations/soundtracks —
Punk Goes Crunk
Maiden Heaven: A Tribute to Iron Maiden
The Dark Knight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack