The Best Album of 2005

Is it so good that it deserves both 3rd and 7th place? [/b][/quote]
Damn. I knew something was wrong with that post.

 

My final order for now. Anything between 1-7 is almost impossible to order, they are all 5 star albums.....a great year for music especially progressive music.

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. Kaipa - Mindrevolutions
3. Dream Theater - Octavarium
4. The Tangent - Pyramids and Stars (Live in Germany)
5. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
6. Ulver - Blood Inside
7. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
8. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
9. System of A Down - Mesmerize
10. John Petrucci - Suspended Animation

Honourable Mention: Pain of Salvation - BE Live (DVD/CD) [/b][/quote]
I lied.

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. The Tangent - Pyramids and Stars (Live in Germany) (Up 2)
3. Dream Theater - Octavarium
4. Kaipa - Mindrevolutions (Down 2)
5. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (up 2)
6. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (down 1)
7. Ulver - Blood Inside (down 1)
8. John Petrucci - Suspended Animation (up 2)
9. Dredg - Catch Without Arms (down 1)
10.System of A Down - Mesmerize (down 1)

 

Opeth's Ghost Reveries has knocked Coldplay's X&Y out of my top spot. Motion City Soundtrack's Commit This To Memory is third.

 

I finally got to listening to all the albums I <s>downloaded</s> purchased.

1. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
2. Gorillaz - Demon Days
3. Billy Corgan - Future Embrace
4. Coldplay - X&Y
5. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
6. System of a Down - Mesmerize
7. 30 Second To Mars - A Beautiful Lie
8. Common - BE
9. Cold - A Different Kind Of Pain
10. Backstreet Boys - Never Gone
11. Kanye West - Late Registration
12. Murs & Slug - Felt 2 (A Tribute To Lisa Bonet)
13. Proof - Searching For Jerry Garcia
14. Audioslave - Out of Exile
15. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
16. Institute - Distort Yourself
17. Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists

 

01.// Trivium - Ascendancy
02.// 30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie
03.// Seether - Karma and Effect
04.// Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
05.// Staind - Chapter V
06.// Taproot - Blue-Sky Research
07.// CKY - An Answer Can Be Found
08.// A Dozen Furies - A Concept From Fire
09.// Cold - A Different Kind of Pain
10.// Trapt - Someone In Control
11.// Audioslave - Out of Exile
12.// Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
13.// The Agony Scene - The Darkest Red
14.// Ill Nino - One Nation Underground
15.// Mudvayne - Lost and Found

 

Top 10:
1. VoKEE: "Pre-Motional Songs"
2. Static-X: "Start A War"
3. Adema: "Planets"
4. 30 Seconds to Mars: "A Beautiful Lie"
5. Institute: "Distort Yourself"
6. Taproot: "Blue-Sky Research"
7. Foo Fighters: "In Your Honor"
8. Trapt: "Someone In Control"
9. Audioslave: "Out Of Exile"
10. Dredg: "Catch Without Arms"

Honorable Mention:
1. Cold: "Different Kind Of Pain"
2. Nine Inch Nails: "With Teeth"
3. CKY: "An Answer Can Be Found"
4. alston: "Voodoo For Fun And Profit"
5. Staind: "Chapter V"
6. Mudvanye: "Lost And Found"
7. 10 Years: "The Autumn Effect"
8. Oasis: "Don't Believe The Truth"

*Dishonorable Mention:
1. TRUSTcompany: "True Parrallels"
2. System Of A Down: "Mesmerize"
3. Ra: "Duality"
4. Disturbed: "10,000 Fists"
5. Dark New Day: "12 Year Silence"
6. Seether: "Karma & Effect"

* = Not bad, but I expected better. May sound odd, but it's in the order that I like them... so Seether is my least favorite.

 

1. Gorillaz - Demon Days
2. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
3. Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
4. Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Bussiness
5. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
6. Coldplay - X&Y
7. System Of Down - Mezmerize
8. Weezer - Make Believe
9. Mudvayne - Lost & Found
10. Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

 

1) Foo Fighters- In Your Honor
2) 30 Seconds to Mars- A beautiful Lie
3) Kanye West- Late Registration
4) Cold- A Different Kind of Pain
5) NIN- With Teeth
6) Staind- Chapter V
7) Taproot- Blue Sky Research
8) Audioslave- Out of Exile
9) Seether- Karma & Effect
10)(tie) Weezer- Make Believe
10)(tie) Common- Be

 

Why do I have to live in a country where pop shit takes precidence over rock and metal....

1. SOAD - Mezmerise
2. Static X - Start a War

Waiting for my order of planets to arrive :angry:

 

Why don't you move, then?

 

I think Roadrunner's united will be a nominee for the best album of 2005 when it comes out in October/November

 

Thought about it....believe me

 

Right now it's gotta be Kanye West-Late Registration

 

01.// Trivium - Ascendancy
02.// 30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie
03.// Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists (up 1)
04.// Seether - Karma and Effect (down 1)
05.// Staind - Chapter V
06.// Sw1tched - Ghosts In The Machine
07.// Taproot - Blue-Sky Research
08.// CKY - An Answer Can Be Found
09.// A Dozen Furies - A Concept From Fire
10.// Cold - A Different Kind of Pain
11.// Trapt - Someone In Control
12.// Audioslave - Out of Exile
13.// Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
14.// The Agony Scene - The Darkest Red
15.// Ill Nino - One Nation Underground

#7-15 (down 1 each)

 

01:// Children of Bodom-Are You Dead Yet?
02:// Strapping Young Lad-Alien
03:// Nile-Annihilaton of the Wicked
04:// Hate Eternal-I, Monarch
05:// As I Lay Dying-Shadows Are Security
06:// Static X-Start a War
07:// Black Label Society-Mafia
08:// DevilDriver-The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
09:// Trivium-Ascendancy
10(tie):// Disturbed-Ten Thousand Fists
10(tie):// Coheed and Cambria-Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV

After buying the new bodom.....it's plain fucking amazing. It's a whole different brand of bodom, but it just blew me away.

 

Um...I think System of a Down: Mezmerise

 

01. "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1" by Coheed & Cambria
02. "Catch Without Arms" by Dredg
03. "Frances The Mute" by The Mars Volta
04. "Ghost Reveries" by Opeth
05. "You'll Rebel To Anything" by Mindless Self Indulgence
06. "Searching For Jerry Garcia" by Proof
07. "Arular" by M.I.A.
08. "Bring It On! by The HorrorPops
09. "With Teeth by Nine Inch Nails
10. "Nu Jerzey Devil & DJ Skee Present: YKWIS Vol. 3" by The Game
11. "Blue-Sky Research" by Taproot
12. "Takk" by Sigur Rós
13. "Duality" by Ra
14. "The Autumn Effect" by 10 Years
15. "Late Registration" by Kanye West
16. "Why Should The Fire Die?" by Nickel Creek