Journal

A

ABBA ─ Gold: Greatest Hits (1992)
Aborym ─ Generator (2006)
AFI ─ Miss Murder (2006)
Amanda Palmer ─ Who Killed Amanda Palmer (2008)
Arch Enemy ─ Doomsday Machine (2006)

B

Bal-Sagoth ─ The Chthonic Chronicles (2006)
The Beach Boys ─ The Platinum Collection (2005)
Beastie Boys ─ Licensed to Ill (1986)
The Beatles ─ Rubber Soul (1965)
The Beatles ─ Revolver (1966)
The Beatles ─ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
The Beatles ─ Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
The Beatles ─ The Beatles (1968)
Bleeding Through ─ The Truth (2006)
Bleeding Through ─ Declaration (2008)
blink-182 ─ Greatest Hits (2005)
Britney Spears ─ Britney (2001)
Britney Spears ─ In the Zone (2003)
Britney Spears ─ Blackout (2007)
Britney Spears ─ Circus (2008)

C

Cannibal Corpse ─ Evisceration Plague (2009)
Catgut Mary ─ Bourbon and Black Porter (2006)
Coldplay ─ Parachutes (2000)
Coldplay ─ X&Y (2005)
Coldplay ─ Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (2008)
Cradle of Filth ─ The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (1994)
Cradle of Filth ─ Vempire or Dark Faerytales In Phallustein (1996)
Cradle of Filth ─ Dusk... and Her Embrace (1997)
Cradle of Filth ─ Cruelty and the Beast (1998)
Cradle of Filth ─ From the Cradle to Enslave (1999)
Cradle of Filth ─ Midian (2000)
Cradle of Filth ─ Bitter Suites to Succubi (2001)
Cradle of Filth ─ Lovecraft & Witch Hearts (2002)
Cradle of Filth ─ Live Bait for the Dead (2002)
Cradle of Filth ─ Damnation and a Day (2003)
Cradle of Filth ─ Nymphetamine (2004)
Cradle of Filth ─ Thornography (2006)
Cradle of Filth ─ Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (2008)
The Cranberries ─ No Need To Argue (1994)
The Cure ─ Greatest Hits (2001)

D

The Dandy Warhols ─ ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997)
The Dandy Warhols ─ Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia (2000)
The Dandy Warhols ─ Welcome To The Monkey House (2003)
The Dandy Warhols ─ ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... (2008)
The Dandy Warhols ─ The Dandy Warhols Are Sound (2009)
David Bowie ─ Space Oddity (1969)
David Bowie ─ The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
David Bowie ─ Hunky Dory (1971)
David Bowie ─ The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972) #1
David Bowie ─ Aladdin Sane (1973)
David Bowie ─ Pin-Ups (1973)
David Bowie ─ Diamond Dogs (1974)
David Bowie ─ Young Americans (1975)
David Bowie ─ Station To Station (1976)
David Bowie ─ Low (1977)
David Bowie ─ Heroes (1977)
David Bowie ─ Scary Monsters (1980)
David Bowie ─ Reality (2003)
Dethklok ─ The Dethalbum (2006)
DevilDriver ─ The Fury of Our Maker's Hand (2005)
Dimmu Borgir ─ Spiritual Black Dimensions (1999)
Dimmu Borgir ─ Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (2001)
Dimmu Borgir ─ Death Cult Armageddon (2003)
Dimmu Borgir ─ In Sorte Diaboli (2007)
The Dresden Dolls ─ The Dresden Dolls (2003)
The Dresden Dolls ─ Yes, Virginia... (2006)
The Dresden Dolls ─ No, Virginia... (2008)

E

Elvis Presley ─ The Essential Elvis Presley (2007)
Emperor ─ In the Nightside Eclipse (1994)
Ennio Morricone ─ Platinum Collection (2007)

F

Faith No More ─ Angel Dust (1992)
Faith No More ─ Album of the Year (1997)
Fatboy Slim ─ You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998)
Finntroll ─ Nattfödd (2004)
Funeral for a Friend ─ Hours (2005)

G

Garbage ─ Absolute Garbage (2007)
Goblin ─ Tenebre (1982)
Gorillaz ─ Gorillaz (2001)
Gorillaz ─ Demon Days (2005)
Green Day ─ Dookie (1994)
Green Day ─ American Idiot (2004)
Gwen Stefani ─ Love.Angel.Music.Baby. (2004)
Gwen Stefani ─ The Sweet Escape (2006)
Gyroscope ─ Fast Girl/Beware Wolf (2005)

I

Immortal ─ Blizzard Beasts (1997)
Immortal ─ At the Heart of Winter (1998)
Immortal ─ Damned in Black (2000)
Immortal ─ Sons of Northern Darkness (2002)

J

Jebediah ─ Slightly Odway (1997)
Jet ─ Get Born (2003)

K

KoЯn ─ Korn (1994)
KoЯn ─ Life Is Peachy (1996)
KoЯn ─ Follow the Leader (1998)
KoЯn ─ Issues (1999)
KoЯn ─ Untouchables (2002)

L

Little Birdy ─ Bigbiglove (2003)

M

Marilyn Manson ─ Lest We Forget (The Best Of) (2004)
Michael Jackson ─ Off the Wall (1979)
Michael Jackson ─ Thriller (1982)
Michael Jackson ─ Dangerous (1991)
Michael Jackson ─ HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995)
Michael Jackson ─ Invincible (2001)
Moby ─ Play (1999)
Moby ─ 18 (2002)
Moby ─ Last Night (2008)
Moon ─ Satan's Wept (1999)
Mr. Bungle ─ Disco Volante (1995)
Mr. Bungle ─ California (1999)
Muse ─ Showbiz (1999)
Muse ─ Origin Of Symmetry (2001)
Muse ─ Absolution (2003)
Muse ─ Black Holes & Revelations (2006)
Muse ─ The Resistance (2009)
My Chemical Romance ─ Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)

N

Nine Inch Nails ─ Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
Nine Inch Nails ─ Broken (1992)
Nine Inch Nails ─ The Fragile (1999)
Nine Inch Nails ─ The Slip (2008)
Nine Inch Nails ─ Ghosts I-IV (2008)

O

The Offspring ─ Ixnay on the Hombre (1997)
The Offspring ─ Americana (1998)

P

Pantera ─ Far Beyond Driven (1996)
Peter Bjorn & John ─ Writer's Block (2006)
Pink Floyd ─ The Wall (1982)
Placebo ─ Placebo (1996)
Placebo ─ Without You I'm Nothing (1998)
Placebo ─ Black Market Music (2000)
Placebo ─ Sleeping With Ghosts (2003)
Placebo ─ Meds (2005)
The Presets ─ Apocalypso (2008)
The Prodigy ─ Fat Of The Land (1997)
The Prodigy ─ Experience: Expanded (2001)
The Prodigy ─ Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005 (2005)
The Prodigy ─ Invaders Must Die (2009)

R

Roadrunner United ─ The All-Star Sessions (2005)

S

Slayer ─ Reign in Blood (1986)
Slipknot ─ Slipknot (10th Anniversary Edition) (1999)
Slipknot ─ Iowa (2001)
Slipknot ─ Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses (2003)
Slipknot ─ 9.0: Live (2005)
Slipknot ─ All Hope Is Gone (2008)
The Smashing Pumpkins ─ Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995)
The Smashing Pumpkins ─ Adore (1998)
System of a Down ─ System of a Down (1998)
System of a Down ─ Toxicity (2001)
System of a Down ─ Steal This Album! (2002)
System of a Down ─ Mezmerize (2005)
System of a Down ─ Hypnotize (2005)

T

Thirsty Merc ─ Thirsty Merc (2004)
Thy Art Is Murder ─ Infinite Death (2006)

U

Unlord ─ Schwarzwald (1997)
Unlord ─ Lord Of Beneath (2002)

V

The Verve ─ Urban Hymns (1997)

W

Wednesday 13 ─ Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead (2006)
Wolfmother ─ Wolfmother (2006)

Soundtracks

The Boat That Rocked (2009)
Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (2004)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Lion King (2003)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 25 Years Of Absolute Pleasure (2000)
Rogue (2007)
Wolf Creek (2005)

Jan 3, 2009 - Jan 3, 2010

TOP20ARTISTS
1) Belanova 1299 plays
2) Bright Eyes 967 plays
3) Zoé 671 plays
4) ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION 606 plays
5) GReeeeN 486 plays
6) The Killers 441 plays
7) Bloc Party 402 plays
8) Patrick Wolf 382 plays
9) AFI 233 plays
10) Stars 211 plays
11) Coldplay 195 plays
12) Lily Allen 194 plays
13) Minus the Bear 184 plays
14) Oasis 175 plays
15) Enanitos Verdes 160 plays
16) Gorillaz 156 plays
17) 宇多田ヒカル 156 plays
18) 浜崎あゆみ 154 plays
19) Death Cab for Cutie 148 plays
20) The Beatles 147 plays

TOP10SONGS
1) Baila Mi Corazón - Belanova 163 plays
2) Paso El Tiempo - Belanova 121 plays
3) キセキ - GReeeeN 104 plays
4) Dulce Fantasía - Belanova 90 plays
5) Barco De Papel - Belanova 85 plays
6) Rosa Pastel - Belanova 79 plays
7) 歩み - GReeeeN 75 plays
8) Por Ti - Belanova 74 plays
9) Tus Ojos - Belanova 73 plays
10) Luna - Zoé and STEP you - 浜崎あゆみ 67 plays (tie)

TOP10ALBUMS
1) Fantasía Pop - Belanova 568 plays
2) Dulce Beat - Belanova 370 plays
3) Cocktail - Belanova 351 plays
4) Reptilectric - Zoé 321 plays
5) あっ、ども。おひさしぶりです。 - GReeeeN 286 plays
6) Memo Rex Commander y el Corazón Atómico de la Vía Láctea - Zoé 258 plays
7) Intimacy Bloc Party 252 plays
8) Digital Ash in a Digital Urn - Bright Eyes 205 plays
9) World World World ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION 195 plays
10) Cassadaga - Bright Eyes 183 plays

1. How did you get into 29? Linkin Park
I don't remember.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Arena
Witch Hunt

3. What's your favorite lyric by 31? Foo Fighters
DOA

4. How did you get into 49? Serenity
Saw them live as a support act for Kamelot

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Ayreon
Five.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Flight of the Conchords
Robots (aka Humans are Dead)

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? The Alan Parsons Project
Old And Wise

8. What is your favorite song by 15? Porcupine Tree
Trains

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Tommy Emmanuel
Lewis & Clark

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? OST
Bella's Lullaby by Carter Burwell from the Twilight Soundtrack.

11. What is the worst song by 40? Amy Macdonald
The Road To Home

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Bruce Dickinson
Jerusalem

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings movies, obviously :)

14. What is your favorite song by 38? Breaking Benjamin
Blow My Away, from the Halo 2 Soundtrack.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Metallica
Die, Die My Darling (I have NO idea why.)

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? Muse
Not really.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? The Kooks
Mr. Maker, I think.

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? Stephen Lynch
Oh, they're all great! But if I have to choose one... Halloween.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? Opeth
Mikael Åkerfeldt

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? Fiction Plane
Two Sisters

21. What is a good memory involving 27? Trans-Siberian Orchestra
When I was cycling to the train station and there were rain/thunder sounds in the song, and I thought it was actually starting to rain :P

22. What is your favorite song by 16? Kamelot
The Mourning After

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
I don't have a 47, only two 46s!

24. What is your favorite album by 18? System of a Down
Toxicity

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Targets
Such A Bore

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? Crowded House
Four Seasons In One Day

27. What is your favorite album by 3? AFI
Sing The Sorrow

28. What is you favorite song by 2? Iron Maiden
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? Coheed and Cambria
Welcome Home

30. What is you favorite song by 8? Tenacious D
Beelzeboss

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Poets of the Fall
Never :(

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? Uriah Heep
Easy Livin'

33. How did you get into 12? Coldplay
This one time I was at a store buying a CD, and the guy asked me if I wanted a free poster. I figured why not, so I accepted it, and it was a poster for Viva La Vida by Coldplay. I had it up on my wall for a while when I decided I should check out if the album was actually any good, and it was :)

34. What is the worst song by 45? Kayak
Undecided

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Flogging Molly
Black Friday Rule

36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48? Demians
The Temple

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? Shadow Gallery
Never. And they don't do live shows :(

38. What is you favorite song by 36? Fleetwood Mac
Rhiannon

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Pendulum
Girl in the Fire

40. What is you favorite album by 7? Snow Patrol
Eyes Open

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Foo Fighters
None in particular.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Nikolo Kotzev
Nostradamus

43. What is your favorite song by 24? Ignite
Live For Better Days

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? The Avett Brothers and Skillet
TAB: The first time I heard of them when watching The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson on Youtube.
Skillet: None.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Lostprophets
Driveakflasejfalskf

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? John Mayer
Belief

47. What is your favorite album by 4? Pearl Jam
Ten

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? Paramore
No one.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
Don't have a 43, just two 42s :P

50. What is your favorite song by 20? Fiction Plane
Cold Water Symmetry

Once again, here are my favorite albums of the year! They are in no particular order:


AFI - Crash Love
i am amazed at the growth of this band since decemberunderground. if i had to number everything, this would be in the top three. every song off of it is a winner, every song has it's own personality.

iRival - Don't Wake Up Extended
a favorite of mine for most of 2008 and all of 2009! make me scream was an amazing single really caught my ear... it looks like it's my most listened to song in last.fm at 96 times. these don't count the bajillions of mix cds i put it on. i hope this ep tides me over until new irival in 2010. :D

Freshman 15 - Throw Up Your Hands for One Night Stands!
super super super catchy pop punk album. lots of GA references so it hits home. best mosh pit of 2009 as well ;)

meg and dia - Here, Here and Here
i'm a sucker for alt/indie pop rock with cheesy lyrics. lyrics with a brave new world reference! are there giants too, in the dance? a random country song mocking similes? oh shit this is AWESOME

Silverstein - A Shipwreck in the Sand
silverstein put out a great piece of art here. it's a concept record with out being too self-involved. lots of angry music to get pumped to here.

Tinted Windows - Tinted Windows
I LOVE TINTED WINDOWS. mindless power pop. superband of some of my favorite 90's groups.

VersaEmerge - VersaEmerge EP
i had a hard time waiting for this ep. nice experimental rock on par with iRival. i was caught by how cool the lyrics are and how well programmed it all was.

Dethklok - Dethalbum II
MURMAIDER MURMAIDER MURMAIDER MURMAIDER MURMAIDER once again this is the greatest death metal band of all time. never fails to get me riled up.

Ninety Four - Naked
the new vocalist is amazing. perfect mix of hard and soft. i never thought a piano would work for these guys but it is simply awesome.

The Almost - Monster Monster
i spent the first half of the year listening to Underoath's lost in the sound of separation and suddenly got this taste of country dipped alt rock thanks to meg and dia. NOW the almost pulls this all off very well. they have real talent in here, some of Beloved and the best drummer of all time, Aaron Gillespie.

this is all! SEE YOU NEXT TIME, SPACE COWBOY.

Well, you should know the rules by now, so without further introduction, this is it:

2/10 and the titles of The Worst Album of the Year and The Biggest Disappointment of the Year:
Queensrÿche – American Soldier

2.5/10:
30 Seconds to Mars – This is War
The Devil Wears Prada – With Roots Above and Branches Below

3/10:
It Prevails – Capture and Embrace
Papa Roach – Metamorphosis

3.5/10:
IXXI – Elect Darkness
The Used – Artwork

4/10:
Portal – Swarth
Rose Funeral – The Resting Sonata
Static-X – Cult of Static
The Agonist – Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
War From a Harlots Mouth – In Shoals

4.5/10:
Despised Icon – Day of Mourning
Evile – Infected Nations
Impending Doom – The Serpent Servant

5/10:
At Vance – Ride the Sky
Born of Osiris – A Higher Place
Iron Fire – To the Grave
Mothra – Dyes
Sanctification – Black Reign

5.5/10:
Beherit – Engram
Municipal Waste – Massive Aggressive
Nightrage – Wearing a Martyr’s Crown
Pestilence – Resurrection Macabre
Scale The Summit – Carving Desert Canyons
Shadows Fall – Retribution
Suffocation – Blood Oath

6/10:
Caliban – Say Hello to Tragedy
Cattle Decapitation – The Harvest Floor
Mumakil – Behold the Failure
Obscura – Cosmogenesis
Peste Noire – Ballade Cuntre lo Anemi Francor
Stream of Passion – The Flame Within
Winds of Plague – The Great Stone War

6.5/10:
Ektomorf – What Doesn’t Kill Me…
HammerFall – No Sacrifice, No Victory
Savage Circus – Of Doom & Death
Teitanblood – Seven Chalices
The Arusha Accord – The Echo Verses
The Boy Will Drown – Fetish
The Mars Volta – Octahedron
Trigger the Bloodshed – The Great Depression
Ulcerate – Everything is Fire
within the ruins – Creature

7/10:
A Plea For Purging – Depravity
Darkest Hour – The Eternal Return
DevilDriver – Pray for Villains
Echoes of Eternity – As Shadows Burn
Hatebreed – For the Lions
Indukti – Idmen
Inhale/Exhale – Bury Me Alive
Kalisia – Cybion
Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
Lamb of God – Wrath
Oceana – Birtheater
Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions
So I Scream – 6Shooter EP
Tardive Dyskinesia – The Sea of See Through Skins
The Contortionist – Apparition

7.5/10:
Abused Majesty - …And Man Created God In His Own Image
AFI – Crash Love
At War – Infidel
Blindead – Impulse EP
Blut aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
Brutal Truth – Evolution Through Revolution
Editors – In this Light and on this Evening
Five Finger Death Punch – War is the Answer
Grave Digger – Ballads of a Hangman
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Here Comes The Kraken – Here Comes the Kraken
Job for a Cowboy – Ruination
Sepultura – A-Lex
Susperia – Attitude
The Red Chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine
Warbringer – Waking Into Nightmares
Whiplash – Unborn Again

8/10:
A Hill To Die Upon – Infinite Titanic Immortal
Absu – Absu
Aegaeon – Exponential Transcendence EP
Amorphis – Skyforger
Armed For Apocalypse – Defeat
Baroness – Blue Record
Burnt by the Sun – Heart of Darkness
Chimaira – The Infection
Divine Heresy – Bringer of Plagues
Drudkh – Microcosmos
Eminem – Relapse
Evergreen Terrace – Almost Home
Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
Fall From Reality – Withdrawal
Fen – The Malediction Fields
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Oracles
Fukpig – Spewings from a Selfish Nation
Gama Bomb – Tales from the Grave in Space
God Dethroned – Passiondale
Graves Of Valor – Salarian Gate
Hail of Bullets – Warsaw Rising EP
Hatesphere – To the Nines
Hell United – HornoKracy
Hunter – Hellwood
Inevitable End – The Severed Inception
Infernal War – Conflagrator EP
Malefice – Dawn of Reprisal
Masachist – Death March Fury
Molotov Solution – The Harbinger
Napalm Death – Time Waits for No Slave
No Consequence – In the Shadow of Gods
Noriega – Desolo EP
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muukalainen Puhuu
Pablopavo & Ludziki – Telehon
Pathosray – Sunless Skies
Raven – Walk Through Fire
Saxon – Into the Labirynth
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
The Chariot – Wars and Rumors of Wars
The Crimson Armada – Guardians
The Dead Weather – Horehound
The Sorrow – Origin of the Storm
This Ending – Dead Harvest
White Lies – To Lose My Life

8.5/10:
Alastor – Spaaazm
Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs
Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Antigama – Warning
Armia – Der Prozess
Asphyx – Death… The Brutal Way
Chainsaw – Evilution
DÅÅTH – The Concealers
Dark Moor – Autumnal
dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Eluveitie – Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
Eternal Tears of Sorrow – Children of the Dark Waters
Funebrarum – The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
Funeral Mist – Maranatha
Gallows – Grey Britain
Hatebreed – Hatebreed
Hey – Miłość! Uwaga! Ratunku! Pomocy!
iwrestledabearonce – It’s All Happening
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Lion’s Share – Dark Hours
Manimal – The Darkest Room
Neaera – Omnicide-Creation Unleashed
O.S.T.R – O.C.B
Porcupine Tree – The Incident
Primal Fear – 16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead)
Rammstein – Liebe ist für Alle da
Redemption – Snowfall on Judgment Day
Saint Deamon – Pandeamonium
Seneca – Reflections
Slough Feg – Ape Uprising
Svarttjern – Misanthropic Path of Madness
The Psyke Project – Dead Storm
Turbo – Strażnik Światła
Vader – Necropolis

9/10, which means awesome:
Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
Arckanum – ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
Behemoth – Evangelion
Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
Black River – Black N’ Roll
Cobalt – Gin
Converge – Axe to Fall
Crescent Shield – The Stars of Never Seen
Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Ensiferum – From Afar
God Forbid – Earthsblood
Hammerforce – Dice
Heaven and Hell – The Devil You Know
Impious – Death Domination
Katatonia – Night is the New Day
Kreator – Hordes of Chaos
Lost Soul – Immerse in Infinity
Marduk – Wormwood
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
My Own Grave – Necrology
Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest
Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn
Slayer – World Painted Blood
Vomitory – Carnage Euphoria
Wolfmother – Cosmic Egg

9.5/10, which means almost perfect:
Architects – Hollow Crown
Artillery – When Death Comes
Mystic Prophecy – Fireangel
Paramore – brand new eyes
Riverside – Anno Domini High Definition
The Eyes Of A Traitor – A Clear Perception

10/10, godlike:
August Burns Red – Constellations
Yeah, it's metalcore album. So what? It's so damn powerful and catchy at the same time that I just can't imagine how metalcore could get any better (although competition this year was surprisingly strong - Architects and The Eyes of a Traitor are not far behind).
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Take a look at my charts and you'll know everything - I just love this band. They always fail to disappoint and to release three 10/10 albums in a row is really something. Probably the most catchy thing since... Well, since their last album!

667/10 and the title of The Album of the Year:
Rootwater – Visionism


Wow. They topped the magnificent "Limbic System" even if it seemed mission almost impossible. They're really original, so I would probably fail at describing their music - just do yourself a favor and listen to this.


I didn't have time to listen to those closely enough to rate them:
Anubis Gate - The Detached
Azarath - Praise the Beast
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Coalesce - Ox
Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
Murder Therapy - Symmetry in Delirium
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm

Good year for music it was (oh well, I would probably find any year as good for music ;)), but why not hope for even better 2010?

Słowem wstępu. W 2009 przesłuchałem 75 płyt, które ocenię, być może przesłuchałem więcej ale wypadły mi z głowy, albo po prostu nie wiem, że są z 2009. Na pewno nie przesłuchałem kilku dobrych płyt, jak choćby Rammstein czy Alice in Chains lub Slayer, przyznaję się bez bicia, że po prostu mi się nie chciało.

A więc zaczynamy!

Słabe 5/10:
Billy Talent - Billy Talent III
Earth Crisis - To The Death
Death Cab for Cutie- The Open Door EP
Chimaira- The Infection
Atreyu- Congregation Of The Damned

Billy Talent jest tu na pewno zasłużenie, bo ta płyta to jakaś pomyłka, powiedziałbym, że to jakieś odrzuty z poprzednich dwóch. Chimaira nie spodobała mi się już od początku, a Atreyu strasznie mnie zawiodło, nie to czego oczekiwałem

Średnie bardziej i mniej 6/10:
Zebrahead - Panty Raid
Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now
The Used- Artwork
The Blackout - The Best In Town
The Autumn Offering- Requiem
The Antlers - Hospice
Taking Back Sunday - New Again
Riverdales - Invasion USA
Rancid- Let The Dominoes Fall
Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot
Peter Doherty- Grace Wastelands
MxPx- Punk Rawk Christmas
Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next
Marilyn Manson - The High End Of Low
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
Jet - Shaka Rock
It Dies Today- Lividity
Funeral for afriend- Your History Is Mine
Fightstar - Be Human
Drop Dead Gorgeous - The Hot N' Heavy
Dead by Sunrise - Out Of Ashes
Darkest Hour- The Eternal Return
Catherine - Inside Out
Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk
Biffy Clyro- Only Revoltions
Attack Attack! - Someday Come Suddenly
Andrew Bird- Noble Beast
Alexisonfire- Old Crows, Young cardinals

Funeral znalazł się tu tylko dlatego, że na tej podsumowującej ich działalność płycie jest piosenka Wrench, która bardzo mi się spodobała, poza tym płyty nie ma co oceniać, bo wszystko już znane i oklepane. Lady Gaga może i wybiła się i jej piosenki sa niezłe, ale płyta jako całość już nie. Reszta chyba nie potrzebuje specjalnych tłumaczeń.

Nieco powyżej średniej 6,5/10:
The Fray- The Fray
NOFX- Coaster
Dead by April - Dead By April
Cool Kids of Death - Ytrapretfa 2
Bloc Party- Intimacy Remixed
Barcelona- Absolutes

Dobre 7/10:
Until June- Sound Of Defeat
Thursday- Common Existance
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
The Eyes Of Traitor - A Clear Perception
dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
August Burns Red - Constalations
A Skylit Drive- Adelphia
Green Day- 21st Century Breakdown
Emery - ... In Shallow Seas We Sail
Calvin Harris- Ready For The Weekend
Burden of a Day - OneOneThousand
Blue October - Approaching Norma
Arctic Monkeys - Humburg
All Time Low- Nothing Personal
Anti-Flag - The People Or The Gun

ABR może i muzycznie zasługują na więcej niż 7, ale wokal mnie męczy i u mnie więcej niż 7 nie będzie. Green Day w tym roku słaby strasznie, ale ludzie się zachwycają, nie jestem w stanie tego zrozumieć. Arctic Monkeys mają kilka bardzo fajnych piosenek, ale płyta ledwo powyżej średniej.

Dobre plus 7,5/10:
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Papa Roach- Metamorphosis
Mutemath - Armistice
Mastodon- Crack The Skye
happysad - Mów mi dobrze
Franz Ferdinand- Tonight
Enter Shikari - Common Dreads

Parmore spodziewałem się troszkę lepszego, bardziej przebojowego, podobnego do poprzedniej płyty. Mastodon mnie miło zdziwił, co prawda męcza mnie niekiedy 10 minutowe piosenki, ale jest nieźle. Happysad nagrali piosenki, które od dobrych kilku lat grywali juz na koncertach, więc szału nie ma. Enter Shikari za dużo średnich piosenek, żeby ocenić lepiej..

Bardzo dobre 8/10:
The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above And Branches Below
Memphis May Fire - Sleepwalking
Maximo Park - Quicken The Heart
Editors - In This Light And On This Evening
Muse- The Resistance
Architects - Hollow Crown
30 Seconds to Mars - This Is War

DWP świetne po kilku przesłuchaniach, choć początkowo wydawało się męczące i nudnawe. Editors calkiem przyjemne, Muse chyba mnie troszkę zawiodło, ale mimo wszystko w prównaniu do poprzednich płyt to ta chyba jako całość jest najlepsza. 30STM ma wkurzające chórki w każdej piosence i zaciągane ooooOOhh przez Jareda, co znacznie wpływa na końcową ocenę, na minus oczywiście.

Jeszcze lepsze 8,5/10:
Silverstein - A Shipwreck in The Sand
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
Fall Out Boy - Folie A Doux

Killswitch mógłby być troszkę lepszy, ale kilka kawałków po prostu wgniata w ziemię, a Starting Over ze swoim mocarnym początkiem to moim zdaniem piosenka roku.

Świetne 9/10:
A Day to Remember - Homesick
Aiden - Knives
AFI - Crash Love

Aiden potrzebował u mnie sporo czasu, żeby w końcu zasłużyć na ta 9, AFI z miejsca zasłużyło, może faktycznie końcówka płyty robi się nudnawa, ale ciężko było mi znaleść coś lepszego w tym roku. ADTR po prostu zmiotło mnie z powierzchni ziemi, nie znałem tego zespołu wcześniej, a tu taka miła niespodzianka ;).

I na koniec album roku. Jakiś wybrać musiałem, czy słusznie czy nie to już nie mi oceniać.
[Fanfary]

Albumem roku zostaje...

Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Seasons Cut Up

Cięzko było wybrać cokolwiek co zasługiwało na tytuł albumu roku i ostatecznie padło na remixy BMTH.

So as the year comes to an end it's that time where everyone picks what they think are the top 10/20/whatever albums of the year. I though think that's too easy and a bit of a cop-out. Picking a top 10 is easy most of the time, determining how every new release you listen to stacks up against one another though is a bit more difficult of a challenge. So like last year, I present my complete list of albums released over the past year organized from worst to first (minus EP's, compilations, live albums, etc. because if I did, the complete 'Neverender' boxset by Coheed and Cambria would take #1 by itself because of it's total and complete amazingness). Unlike last year though where I had the relatively low number of 112 albums to compare, this year had almost double the number albums to sort through, so either click back or brace yourself cause this might take a while to get through (and as always agree/complain/whine/whatever down in the comments. Useless trolling though will get you nowhere).

204. Burden of a Day – OneOneThousand
203. Neaera – Omnicide: Creation Unleashed
202. Emmure – Felony
201. Suicide Silence – No Time to Bleed
200. Apoptygma Berzerk – Rocket Science
199. Red – Innocence & Instinct
198. Carbon Leaf – Nothing Rhymes With Woman
197. Nightmare of You - Infomaniac
196. Crooked X – Crooked X
195. Eyes Set to Kill – The World Outside
194. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
193. 311 – Uplifter
192. American Me – Siberian Nightmare Machine
191. Blue October – Approaching Normal
190. Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
189. Hide The Knives – Savior For Sale
188. The Used – Artwork
187. Static-X – Cult of Static
186. The Autumn Offering – Requiem
185. Weezer – Raditude
184. Burn Halo – Burn Halo
183. Kill Hannah – Wake Up the Sleepers
182. We Came As Romans – To Plant a Seed
181. Marilyn Manson – The High End of Low
180. Oceana – Birth Eater
179. Papa Roach – Metamorphosis
178. Our Lady Peace – Burn, Burn
177. The Almost – Monster Monster
176. Blackened – This Means War
175. The Devil Wears Prada – With Roots Above and Branches Below
174. HORSE the band – Desperate Living
173. DÅÅTH – The Concealers
172. Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony
171. The Dangerous Summer – Reach For the Sun
170. The Mars Volta – Octahedron
169. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – The Century of Self
168. The Blackout – The Best In Town
167. Burnt by the Sun – Heart of Darkness
166. Chickenfoot – Chickenfoot
165. Hatebreed – Hatebreed
164. Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
163. Leathermouth - XO
162. Drop Dead, Gorgeous – The Hot N’ Heavy
161. A Plea For Purging - Depravity
160. PsyOpus – Odd Senses
159. It Dies Today – Lividity
158. Trophy Scars – Bad Luck
157. Foundation – Hang Your Head
156. Julien-K – Death to Analog
155. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
154. 3 – Revisions
153. Thy Will Be Done – In Ancient of Days
152. Confession – Cancer
151. The Dead Weather – Horehound
150. Job for a Cowboy – Ruination
149. Winds of Plague – The Great Stone War
147. Big Business – Mind the Drift
147. The Red Chord – Fed Through the Teeth Machine
146. Chimaira – The Infection
145. The Black Atlantic – Reverence For Fallen Trees
144. Cursive – Mama, I’m Swollen
143. Five Finger Death Punch – War is the Answer
142. Memphis May Fire – Sleepwalking
141. As Cities Burn – Hell or High Water
140. Say Anything – Say Anything
139. Silverstein – A Shipwreck in the Sand
138. Architects – Hollow Crown
137. within the ruins – Creature
136. Farewell to Freeway – Only Time Will Tell
135. Earth Crisis – To the Death
134. Throwdown – Deathless
133. Showbread – The Fear of God
132. Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life
131. These Green Eyes – Relapse to Recovery
130. Evans Blue – Evans Blue
129. The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
128. Texas in July – I Am
127. Narrows – New Distances
126. Divine Heresy – Bringer of Plagues
125. Puscifer – "C" Is For (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference Here)
124. The Fall of Troy – In the Unlikely Event
123. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
122. Placebo – Battle For the Sun
121. Rancid – Let the Dominoes Fall
120. Salt The Wound - Ares
119. Sick Puppies – Tri-Polar
118. Coalesce – OX
117. Porcupine Tree – The Incident
116. Flyleaf – Memento Mori
115. You Say Party! We Say Die! – XXXX
114. Ace Enders And A Million Different People – When I Hit the Ground
113. Closure In Moscow – First Temple
112. The Sleeping – What it Takes
111. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
110. Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
109. mewithoutYou – It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All a Dream! It’s Alright
108. The Riverboat Gamblers – Underneath the Owl
107. AFI – Crash Love
106. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
105. Sabertooth Zombie – …And Your Fathers Are Dead in the Ground
104. Miss May I – Apologies Are For the Weak
103. The Kris Norris Projekt – Icons of the Illogical
102. DevilDriver – Pray For Villains
101. Metric - Fantasies
100. God Forbid – Earthsblood
99. Mudvayne – Mudvayne
98. The Lonely Island – Incredibad
97. Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11
96. Taking Back Sunday – New Again
95. Moneen – The World I Want to Leave Behind
94. Three Days Grace – Life Starts Now
93. Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
92. Death by Stereo – Death Is My Only Friend
91. Dance Gavin Dance – Happiness
90. The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
89. Dead by Sunrise – Out of Ashes
88. Great Northern – Remind Me Where the Light Is
87. The Sounds – Crossing the Rubicon
86. Mew - No More Stories…
85. Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything to Nothing
84. Stray From the Path – Make Your Own History
83. The Killer and the Star – The Killer and the Star
82. Emery – …In Shallow Seas We Sail
81. Megadeth – Endgame
80. Bury Your Dead – It’s Nothing Personal
79. Death Before Dishonor – Better Ways to Die
78. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
77. Hester Prynne – The Goswell Divorce
76. Therefore I Am – The Sound of Human Lives
75. For the Fallen Dreams – Relentless
Essential Track: Two Twenty Two

74. Paramore – Brand New Eyes
Essential Track: Ignorance

73. Baroness – Blue Record
Essential Track: War Wisdom and Rhyme

72. iwrestledabearonce – It’s All Happening
Essential Track: I’m Cold and There Are Wolves After Me

71. The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Worse Than Alone
Essential Track:…If They Holler Don’t Let Go

70. Tegan and Sara – Sainthood
Essential Track: Red Belt

69. Rammstein – Liebe ist für alle da
Essential Track: Rammlied

68. Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Essential Track: The Shattered Fortress

67. 32 Leaves – Panoramic
Essential Track: Erase All Memory

66. Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
Essential Track: Caligulove

65. Forever In Terror – The End
Essential Track: Overboard

64. ZAO – Awake?
Essential Track: Entropica

63. Sleep Serapis Sleep – The Dark Awakening
Essential Track: Destiny is Met on the Path That Betrays It

62. Raised Fist – Veil of Ignorance
Essential Track: Friends and Traitors

61. Isis – Wavering Radiant
Essential Track: Stone to Wake a Serpent

60. Zeromancer – Sinners International
Essential Track: Doppelgänger I Love You

59. Parabelle – A Summit Borderline/A Drop Oceanic
Essential Track: Are You Alaramed?

58. Propagandhi – Supporting Caste
Essential Track: Potemkin City Limits

57. Heartsounds – Until We Surrender
Essential Track: Highway Robbery

56. Bomb the Music Industry! – Scrambles
Essential Track: 25!

55. Saosin – In Search of Solid Ground
Essential Track: The Alarming Sound of a Still Small Voice

54. NOFX – Coaster
Essential Track: The Quitter Download

53. Take It Back! – Atrocities
Essential Track: Hollow Eyes

52. Gallows – Grey Britain
Essential Track: Queensberry Rules

51. Hurt – Goodbye to the Machine
Essential Track: Fighting Tao

50. Billy Talent – Billy Talent III
Essential Tracks: Rusted From the Rain, The Dead Can’t Testify

49. Poison the Well – The Tropic Rot
Essential Tracks: Celebrate the Pyre, Without You and One Other I Am Nothing

48. Austrian Death Machine – Double Brutal
Essential Tracks: I Need Your Clothes Your Boots and Your Motorcycle, It’s Simple If it Jiggles It’s Fat

47. He Is Legend – It Hates You
Essential Tracks: Party Time!!!, Cult of She

46. Celesty – Vendetta
Essential Tracks: Greed & Vanity, Legacy of Hate Pt. 3

45. Enter Shikari – Common Dreads
Essential Tracks: Step Up, Antwerpen

44. Atreyu – Congregation of the Damned
Essential Tracks: Stop! Before it's Too Late and We've Destroyed it All, Bleeding is a Luxury

43. Endwell – Consequences
Essential Tracks: Avoidant: Ghost Will Haunt, As Low as a Life Can Get: Jumping the Shark

42. Polar Bear Club – Chasing Hamburg
Essential Tracks: Boxes, Light of Local Eyes

41. Alexisonfire – Old Crows/Young Cardinals
Essential Tracks: Midnight Regulations, Emerald Street

40. Dethklok – Dethalbum II
Essential Tracks: The Gears, Burn the Earth

39. Slayer – World Painted Blood
Essential Tracks: Unit 731, Psychopathy Red

38. Mute Math – Armistice
Essential Tracks: Spotlight, Armistice

37. Strike Anywhere – Iron Front
Essential Tracks: South Central Beach Party, First Will and Testament

36. Reign Supreme – Testing the Limits of Infinite
Essential Tracks: Mother Superior, Crushed by the Weight

35. August Burns Red – Constellations
Essential Tracks: Ocean of Apathy, Marianas Trench

34. The Eyes Of A Traitor – A Clear Perception
Essential Tracks: Escape These Walls, Misconceptions

33. Strung Out – Agents of the Underground
Essential Tracks: The Fever and the Sound, Jack Knife

32. Set Your Goals – This Will Be the Death of Us
Essential Tracks: Gaia Bleeds (Make Way For Man): Our Ethos: A Legacy to Pass On

31. Kylesa – Static Tensions
Essential Tracks: Scapegoat, Running Red

30. The Ghost of a Thousand – New Hopes, New Demonstrations
Essential Tracks: Moved as Mountains Dreamt of by the Sea, Running on Empty

29. Catherine – Inside Out
Essential Tracks: Fresh Air, Meaning

28. Arsonists Get All The Girls – Portals
Essential Tracks: The 42nd Ego, Saturnine

27. Shadows Fall – Retribution
Essential Tracks: My Demise, King of Nothing

26. CKY – Carver City
Essential Tracks: Imaginary Threats, Old Carver’s Bones

25. Dead and Divine – The Machines We Are
Essential Tracks: The Sugar Sickness, Chemical Valley, D.R.U.G.S.

24. Lamb of God – Wrath
Essential Tracks: In Your Words, Contractor, Everything to Nothing

23. Born of Osiris – A Higher Place
Essential Tracks: Now Arise, A Descent, Faces of Death

22. Street Sweeper Social Club – Street Sweeper Social Club
Essential Tracks: 100 Little Curses, Clap For the Killers, Promenade

21. Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
Essential Tracks: Check My Brain, Your Decision, Acid Bubble

20. 30 Seconds to Mars – This is War
Essential Tracks: Night of the Hunter, Hurricane, Stranger in a Strange Land

19. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
Essential Tracks: There’s No Secrets This Year, It’s Nice to Know You Work Alone, Panic Switch

18. A Day to Remember – Homesick
Essential Tracks: My Life For Hire, I’m Made of Wax Larry What Are You Made Of?, Holdin’ it Down For the Underground

17. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster – III
Essential Tracks: Settling Scores by Burning Bridges, Step Up (I’m On It), Oh Lonely Grave

16. Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
Essential Tracks: The Marvelous Slut, After One Quarter of a Revolution, Buffalo 666

15. The Chariot – Wars and Rumors of Wars
Essential Tracks: Impress., Never I, Daggers

14. Evergreen Terrace – Almost Home
Essential Tracks: Enemy Sex, Hopelessly Hopeless, I’m a Bulletproof Tiger

13. Thrice – Beggars
Essential Tracks: The Weight, Doublespeak, At the Last

12. Hexes – White Noise/Black Sound
Essential Tracks: Eyes Like Knives, Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan, Lipgloss Ghosts

11. Darkest Hour – The Eternal Return
Essential Tracks: The Tides, Transcendence, Into the Grey

10. Brand New – Daisy
Essential Tracks: Bed, At the Bottom, Sink, Bought a Bride

9. Chevelle – Sci-Fi Crimes
Essential Tracks: Sleep Apnea, Mexican Sun, A New Momentum, This Circus

8. dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Essential Tracks: Gathering Pebbles, Information, I Don’t Know, Quotes

7. Muse – The Resistance
Essential Tracks: Undisclosed Desires, Unnatural Selection, MK Ultra, Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Polination)

6. Thursday – Common Existence
Essential Tracks: Friends in the Armed Forces, Beyond the Visible Spectrum, Love Has Led Us Astray, You Were the Cancer

5. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Essential Tracks: Oblivion, The Czar, Ghost of Karelia, The Last Baron

4. Animals as Leaders – Animals As Leaders
Essential Tracks: Tempting Time, Soraya, CAFO, Inamorata

3. Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
Essential Tracks: Obfuscation, Disease Injury Madness, Desert of Song, Swim to the Moon

2. It Prevails – Capture and Embrace
Essential Tracks: Today is Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Brothers to the Flames, Trial and Tribulation, A Martyr’s Journey

1.Converge – Axe to Fall
Essential Tracks: Dark Horse, Reap What You Sow, Wishing Well, Cutter

1. Green Day
2. Brand New
3. Say Anything
4. Eminem
5. Alkaline Trio
6. Jimmy Eat World
7. AFI
8. Rise Against
9. Silverstein
10. Bayside