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So, what are your top 10 albums of the year?
#1
I'm curious.

So, go!
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#2
I don't even think I *bought* 10 albums this year.....But......I'll put on a couple.

Muse - The Resistance
Kris Allen - Self-titled
Daughtry - Leave This Town

I'm gonna put on 30 Seconds to Mars even though I dont own it yet because I LOVE the single (I cannot stop listening to it). I'm hoping to get the album for Christmas, I asked for it. Smile

Great topic, Evan! Smile
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#3
nearly finished with my cramming and on Saturday is the deadline for the Sound Opinions albums of the year poll.

My list this year hopefully will include a bunch of podcasts sharing music from all the albums on my list.

i'll have to come over here and link/post it when i finally put it up.
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#4
Muse - Resistance
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Swell Season - Strict Joy
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Beirut - March of the Zapotec
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - Dead Oceans


I would especially recommend Swell Season, Beirut and Bon Iver Smile
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#5
Oh, I really want to participate in this one. Later today, maybe?

Kyle I'm looking forward to your list (if you don't post it here, I'll just get it from mediareviews). I always find one or two new bands that I end up loving from your lists.

Sarah, I can't wait for 30 Seconds either!

ThinkTwice, there are bands on your list that pop up for me now and again that I've never heard, but need to check out: Bon Iver and Grizzly Bear.
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#6
1. Revocation - Existence Is Futile
2. The Swell Season - Strict Joy
3. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
4. Megadeth - Endgame
5. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
6. Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia
7. Swallow The Sun - New Moon
8. Baliset - A Time For Rust
9. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
10. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
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#7
Overall, I thought it was a pretty disappointing year in music for me, but my picks include:

1. Crack the Sky - Mastodon
2. Black Gives Way To Blue - Alice In Chains
3. Blue Record - Baroness
4. Axe to Fall - Converge
5. Walking on a Dream - Empire of the Sun
6. Wavering Radiant - Isis
7. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
8. Hospice - Antlers
9. Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
10. Night Is The New Day - Katatonia

This was a tough list but I think it's pretty accurate.  Like I mentioned earlier, it was mostly a disappointing year for me in new music so I spent just as much time with older releases as I did with new.  Here's to a far superior 2010!
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#8
Sinistas Wrote:1. Revocation - Existence Is Futile
2. The Swell Season - Strict Joy
3. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
4. Megadeth - Endgame
5. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
6. Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia
7. Swallow The Sun - New Moon
8. Baliset - A Time For Rust
9. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
10. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue

And Sinistas, props on the metal! Nice to see a fellow fan of the genre here.

\m/ \m/
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#9
I love how everyone has different tastes of music but we all share a common bond of Jimmy/Ours. Smile I've discovered some new stuff thanks to threads like these, so for that, I thank you all.

Smile <3
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#10
Evan, two of those bands are from Boston (Revocation and Baliset), and worth checking out Wink
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#11
I hope I'm allowed to edit! In no order:

1. Dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
2. Jesu - Opiate Sun
3. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
4. Muse - The Resistance
5. Mew - No More Stories
6. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
7. Russian Circles - Geneva
8. Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin
9. John Fruciante - The Empyrean
10. And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Century of Self

Honorable Mention:

U2 - No Line on the Horizon
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia
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#12
Album of the year = U2 No Line On The Horizon
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#13
I am an idiot for not including U2 on my list.

That is a fabulous album.

DMB's new one is good too, it lived in my CD player in my car for awhile. Smile
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#14
SarahBeth Wrote:I am an idiot for not including U2 on my list.

That is a fabulous album.

DMB's new one is good too, it lived in my CD player in my car for awhile. Smile

You know I adore the new U2 album if I pick that over big whiskey. Whiskey was a great comeback record by a band I've seen 65 times, but no line is a timeless masterpiece.
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#15
Oh! Oh! I've only listened to it once (and I was writing a paper when I was doing it). I remember enjoying it a lot, and that's why I included it in honorable mention.

I need to listen to it again very soon, it seems.
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#16
It has the experimentation of achtung baby and the soul of the joshua tree.
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#17
jlatham Wrote:It has the experimentation of achtung baby and the soul of the joshua tree.

That's an accurate description.....

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#18
I've had this album sitting around for months, and simply forgot about it, then gave it a distracted listen, and then let it collect dust.

And you describe it this way?

I suck.
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#19
I think a lot of that album has to do with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois being much more involved in the songwriting process than usual. I consider those two musical geniuses and that coupled with Steve Lillywhite mixing and co-producing just creates the perfect storm. I didn't mean to interrupt the album of the year thread but this effort will stay with me for decades just like the joshua tree. It's just that good.
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#20
In no particular order...

Isis - Wavering Radiant
Them Crooked Vultures
Grizzly Bear - Veckasimest
Baroness - Blue Album
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Converge - Axe To Fall
As Tall As Lions - You Can't Take It With You
Soulsavers - Broken
The Editors - In This Light And On This Evening
Portugal The Man - The Satanic Satanist
Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
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