1.Fightstar – Be Human 2.Eyes Set To Kill – The World Outside 3.Grinspoon - Six to Midnight 4.Hoobastank – For(N)ever 5.Sick Puppies – Tri-Polar 6.Thrice - Beggars (has moved up after recent listening spree) 7.Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony 8.Smile Empty Soul - Consciousness 9.Chevelle-Sci-Fi Crimes 10.Three Days Grace-Life Starts Now Papa Roach – Metamorphosis has dropped out of the top ten with the addition of breaking benjamin. Still to come: 30 Seconds To Mars - The War Dead By Sunrise - Out of Ashes Flyleaf – Memento Mori
1. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown 2. Muse - The Resistance 3. KISS - Sonic Boom 4. The Lonely Island - Incredibad 5. Ace Frehley - Anomaly 6. Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know 7. Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot 8. Julien-K - Death to Analog 9. John Frusciante - The Empyrean 10. AFI - Crash Love Dropped out: Asher Roth - Asleep in the Bread Aisle Chris Cornell - Scream Still to come: Dead By Sunrise - Out of Ashes Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Night Castle Apathy - Wanna Snuggle? (Apparently it's leaked, I just haven't looked yet) Get Busy Committee - Uzi Does It
My list: Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes Thrice - Beggars Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now Julien-K - Death To Analog Taking Back Sunday - New Again Chris Cornell - Scream Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Sick Puppies – Tri-Polar The Used - Artwork Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist/The Majestic Majesty KISS - Sonic Boom Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
In no particular order... Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes Julien-K - Death to Analog Chris Cornell - Scream Dead By Sunrise - Out of Ashes U2 - No Line On the Horizon Placebo - Battle For the Sun Jet - Shaka Rock Collectivle Soul - Collective Soul Our Lady Peace - Burn, Burn Evans Blue - Evans Blue Jay-Z - The Blueprint III Muse - The Resistance Pearl Jam - Backspacer Brand New - Daisy Breaking Benjamin - Dead Agony AFI - Crash Love
Top 10 : 01.Papa Roach - Metamorphosis 02.InMe - Herald Moth 03.Megadeth - Endgame 04.ReinXeed - Higher 05.Hoobastank - For(n)ever 06.Kiko Loureiro - Fullblast 07.Stratovarius - Polaris 08.Cain's Offering - Gather the Faithful 09.Default - Comes And Goes [surprisingly, a very good record] 10.Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony Looking forward to : Dead By Sunrise - Out Of Ashes Limp Bizkit - Untitled Heavenly - Carpe Diem Derdian - New Era Part III : The Apocalypse Alter Bridge - Live In Amsterdam Serj Tankian and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra - Elect the Dead Symphony
Best albums of '09: Chris Cornell - Scream Joe Budden - Escape Route Joe Budden - Padded Room Slaughterhouse - Slaughterhouse Mute Math - Armistice J. Cole - The Warm Up Dead By Sunrise - Out of Ashes Apathy - Wanna Snuggle? Saigon - All In A Day's Work Dropped out: Jay-Z - The Blueprint³ Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony Brother Ali - Us Royce Da 5'9" - Street Hop Looking forward to: Man Bites Dog Records - The Swashbuckler Vol. 1 Copywrite - Ultrasound: The Rebirth Copywrite & KingDom - The Misadventures of Dom & Pete Lupe Fiasco - Lasers Joe Budden - The Great Escape Vakill - The Armor Of God Damian Marley and Nas - Distant Relatives Army of the Pharaohs - Unholy Terror Get Busy Committee - Uzi Does It Eminem - Relapse 2 Adam Lambert's debut album
1. The Mars Volta - Octahedron 2. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Xenophanes 3. Air - Love 2 4. Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low 5. Placebo - Battle for the Sun So far those have been some of the big highlights for me. Highly anticipating Dead By Sunrise.
1. Beggars - Thrice 2. Sound Awake - Karnivool 3. The Resistance - Muse 4. Dear Agony - Breaking Benjamin 5. Endgame - Megadeth 6. New Hopes, New Demonstrations - The Ghost of a Thousand 7. Sci-Fi Crimes - Chevelle 8. Battle for the Sun - Placebo 9. Swoon - Silversun Pickups 10. Out of Ashes - Dead By Sunrise
01. Baroness - Blue Record 02. Kylesa - Static Tensions 03. Gallows - Grey Britain 04. Isis - Wavering Radiant 05. Mastodon - Crack the Skye 06. Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot 07. Clutch - Strange Cousins From the West 08. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic 09. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown 10. He Is Legend - It Hates You Converge's new album needs to leak, like, yesterday.
Updated: 1. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown 2. Muse - The Resistance 3. Dead By Sunrise - Out of Ashes 4. KISS - Sonic Boom 5. The Lonely Island - Incredibad 6. Ace Frehley - Anomaly 7. Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know 8. Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot 9. Julien-K - Death to Analog 10. John Frusciante - The Empyrean Dropped out: AFI - Crash Love Still to come: Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Night Castle Get Busy Committee - Uzi Does It
01.Dead By Sunrise - Out Of Ashes 02.Papa Roach - Metamorphosis 03.InMe - Herald Moth 04.Megadeth - Endgame 05.ReinXeed - Higher 06.Hoobastank - For(n)ever 07.Kiko Loureiro - Fullblast 08.Cain's Offering - Gather the Faithful 09.Default - Comes And Goes 10.Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony Still looking forward to : Limp Bizkit - Untitled Heavenly - Carpe Diem Derdian - New Era Part III : The Apocalypse Alter Bridge - Live In Amsterdam
Alright, I've had time to come up with a slightly better list, so here's my upgrade to my top ten albums of this year that I've heard so far. Babali Boon's Top 10 Albums of 2009: 1. The Mars Volta - Octahedron 2. Brand New - Daisy 3. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic 4. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Xenophanes 5. Dead By Sunrise - Out of Ashes 6. Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low 7. Placebo - Battle for the Sun 8. Mew - No More Stories... 9. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us 10. Imogen Heap - Ellipse Other Candidates/Possible Winners: Brother Ali - Us Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy Ozric Tentacles - The Yumyum Tree Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping The Fall of Troy - In The Unlikely Event Air - Love 2 To be updated... I will be using this post to update my candidates list and by the end of the year we will see how my final list looks. 2009 has been amazing!
No particular order: Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin Silversun Pickups - Swoon Taking Back Sunday - New Again Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown Brand New - Daisy Dead by Sunrise - Out of Ashes Muse - Resistance Honorable Mentions: U2 - No Line on the Horizon Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life Julien K - Death to Analog Waiting for: Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces (November)
1. AFI- Crash Love (SOOOO GOOOD!!!) 2. The Prodigy- Invaders Must Die 3. The Used- Artwork 4. Eminem- Relapse 5. Deadmau5- For Lack of a Better Name 6. Kid Cudi- Man on the Moon: The End of Day 7. Falling Up- Fangs! 8. Brand New- Daisy 9. Simian Mobile Disco- Temporary Pleasure 10. MSTRKRFT- Fist of God 11. Jay-Z- The Blueprint 3 12. The Bloody Beetroots- Romborama 13. LMFAO- Party Rock 14. The Audition- Self-Titled Album 15. RED- Innocence and Instinct 16. A Love Like Pi- The Atlas and the Oyster 17. Asher Roth- Asleep in the Bread Aisle 18. Madina Lake- Attics to Eden 19. Papa Roach- Metamorphosis 20. Skillet- Awake Still listening: LoveHateHero- America Underwater Paramore- Brand New Eyes Saosin- In Search of Solid Ground Thousand Foot Krutch- Welcome to the Masquerade Eyes Set to Kill- The World Outside Breaking Benjamin- Dear Agony Three Days Grace- Life Starts Now Boys Like Girls- Love Drunk Smile Empty Soul- Consciousness
1.Fightstar – Be Human 2.Eyes Set To Kill – The World Outside 3.Grinspoon - Six to Midnight 4.Hoobastank – For(N)ever 5.Sick Puppies – Tri-Polar 6.Thrice - Beggars (has moved up after recent listening spree) 7.Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony 8.Smile Empty Soul - Consciousness 9.Dead By Sunrise - Out of Ashes 10.Chevelle-Sci-Fi Crimes Three Days Grace has dropped out of the top ten with the addition of Dead By Sunrise. Still to come: 30 Seconds To Mars - The War Flyleaf – Memento Mori
oh man No particular order Out Of Ashes - Dead By Sunrise Asleep In The Bread Aisle - Asher Roth The Blueprint III - Jay-Z Death To Analog - Julien-K Man On The Moon - Kid Cudi The Resistance - Muse Scream - Chris Cornell Attics To Eden - Madina Lake Brand New Eyes - Paramore Still to listen to Crash Love - AFI Metomorphisis - Papa Roach Life Starts Now - Three Days Grace And some more that i dont feel like listing. lol
In no particular order: 1. Paramore - Brand New Eyes 2. Saosin - In Search of Solid Ground 3. A Day To Remember - Homesick 4. Rx Bandits - Mandala 5. Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage 6. Taking Back Sunday - New Again 7. Owl City - Ocean Eyes 8. The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life & Death 9. Mayday Parade - Anywhere But Here 10. Brand New - Daisy. Still to Come: Circa Survive - 3rd LP (Probably be in 2010 though) Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
1. A Brief History Of Love - The Big Pink 2. In And Out Of Control - The Raveonettes 3. 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day 4. Album - Girls 5. Doll And The Kicks - Doll And The Kicks 6. Swoon - Silversun Pickups 7. It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Gotta listen to the new Paramore record.
1. AFI- Crash Love 2. LoveHateHero- America Underwater 3. Deadmau5- For Lack of a Better Name 4. The Prodigy- Invaders Must Die 5. The Used- Artwork 6. Kid Cudi- Man on the Moon: The End of Day 7. Eminem- Relapse 8. Falling Up- Fangs! 9. Brand New- Daisy 10. Simian Mobile Disco- Temporary Pleasure 11. MSTRKRFT- Fist of God 12. Jay-Z- The Blueprint 3 13. The Bloody Beetroots- Romborama 14. LMFAO- Party Rock 15. The Audition- Self-Titled Album 16. RED- Innocence and Instinct 17. A Love Like Pi- The Atlas and the Oyster 18. Asher Roth- Asleep in the Bread Aisle 19. Madina Lake- Attics to Eden 20. Papa Roach- Metamorphosis Still Listening: Boys Noize- Power Mayday Parade- Anywhere But Here Dead By Sunrise- Out of Ashes Paramore- Brand New Eyes Saosin- In Search of Solid Ground