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Sorry to trick everyone but it still seems to me that no one reads these journals anymore. I won't leave you hanging on the porn though. http://eskimotube.com/ is a good place for free porn. But on to more important things, my 2009 list.

--Top Ten--



Alice in Chains-Black Gives Way To Blue
I was hesitant about this one. The idea of a Chains album without Layne didn't sit to well with me but this album is awesome. William DuVall is no Layne but he's a worthy replacement. He and Jerry Cantrell harmonize and work so well together. AIC is back!




Baroness-Blue Record
The Red Album came really close on making my 2007 top ten list but I felt it was a little raw & unpolished. Not the Blue Record though. From start to finish this album has such and incredible flow to it. Their song writing is so much more focused and fluid. These guys are making quite a name for themselves.




Between the Buried and Me-The Great Misdirect
Just when I thought these guys couldn't get any better after 2007's Colors, they release this behemoth. While I loved Colors, I did think it was a little all over the place. Often being so progressive that they'd not return to any riff twice and songs would seem to just run on. The song writing on this one is more structured and easier to listen to in my opinion. Even the 17 minute Swim To The Moon seems to fly by. These guys are one of the most talented bands around. Every member of this band is at the top of the field at their instrument. Truly amazing record.




Converge-Axe To Fall
Converge is hit and miss with me. I didn't really enjoy them until 2001's Jane Doe. They followed that with 04's You Fail Me which was pretty good too but then disappointed me again with 06's No Heroes. Axe To Fall though is very good. A great mix of hardcore punk, noise, progressive, math elements. This album has it all. Their best effort yet in my book.




dredg-The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
I like Dredg, always have. I was really looking forward to this album but had no clue it was gonna make my top ten. I must of listened to this album for 2 months straight. Not wanting to get to burnt on it, I shelved it for a while then put it back on and realized just how much I enjoy this record. Though some songs are a little bland, the rest of the album shines. Ireland might just be my song of the year. Highly recommended.




HORSE the band-Desperate Living
HORSE has always been high up on my list of entertaining bands. Heavy, quarky, clever, funny, and creative. But it was hard to take them too seriously with the nintendo like keyboards. They're great and fit the music but for some reason to me got to be too much. I know it's what they're all about but Desperate Living shows a darker, more experimental side while still finding a happy balance with the video game-like keys. The title track assaults you with blast beats and harsh vocals before calming down and building up to an incredible breakdown. Shapeshift takes you through a roller coaster of different changes. Overall, Desperate Living is the most well written and put together album they've released.




Isis-Wavering Radiant
You can't really expect Isis to dramatically evolve their sound too much. While I do hear differences from album to album, they've got a pretty distinguished and recognizable sound. Why change it too much anyways? It's proven to be a formula that works pretty well for them. Wavering Radiant is no different. 54 minutes of epic, emotional and atmospheric greatness. Aaron Turner's vocals are so much more clear and powerful. What's not to like about this. Put on some headphones, grab a beer or smoke a doob and sit down and enjoy this beast.




Mastodon-Crack The Skye
Though I love all of Mastodon's work, Crack The Skye shows me they've evolved a lot. From being a thrash metal band impressing me with how fast & hard they can play to a band that's learned how to sit down and really write a well though out, well structured song. Toned down in a lot of ways especially in Brann Dailor's drumming but the songs don't disappoint. There's not one I don't like. More prog than anything they've done before. It may not be my favorite Mastodon album but it deserves to make my top ten for sure.




The Number Twelve Looks Like You-Worse Than Alone
Maybe I being bias cause I'm a drummer and these guys have the best, Jon Karel (that's a youtube link to show you how badass he is). I bet you could record him for an hour and it would make my top ten list. But to boot Worse Than Alone has incredibly technical guitar work and song progressions. As well as much improved vocals that are easier on the ears. I can actually distinguish what he's saying some of the time. But vocals are never what made it for me with these guys anyways. The guitar & drum work for me alone on this album make it worthy of top ten. It's too bad the band decided to break up and call it quits at the end of the year. Hopefully we can expect Karel and guitarist to move onto other great projects.




Silversun Pickups-Swoon
Here's an album I was anticipating for a long time. Carnavas was awesome, so I was hoping they wouldn't fall into a sophomore slump and release a turd. Swoon didn't blow me away upon first listen. It actually grew on me the more I listened it. But for me if an album doesn't get old after playing it 250 times, chances are I'm enjoying the album. Silversun give me a Gish/Siamese Dream early Smashing Pumpkins vibe that I love. Good album by a band I hope can stick around and keep putting out good albums without getting too full of themselves like the pumpkins did.



--Other Great albums I enjoyed (not quite top ten)--





a textbook tragedy-Rain City State Of Mind
Wouldn't be fair to include a 5 song EP in a top ten but I thought about it. White Lightning is incredible, and the drumming on What's Pit Beef? makes me shit myself (not really)





Gifts From Enola-From Fathoms
Far more matured from their debut album. I had a hard time not putting this in the top ten.




Kylesa-Static Tensions
I almost didn't even pick up this album i disliked their earlier stuff so much but a fellow last.fm'er highly recommended it to me. Glad I got it, it's BADASS!




Them Crooked Vultures-Them Crooked Vultures
I was convinced this was gonna make top ten upon first listen but it got a little redundant after a while. It's great to hear John Paul Jones still kicking ass after all these years though.





Russian Circles-Geneva
I love the bass presence Brain Cook (of These Arms Are Snakes fame) brings to this band. I feel the album sometimes drags a little between the great moments though.




...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead-The Century Of Self
Big improvement from their previous So Divided. Really good album that I listened to a lot, but not great.




Coalesce-Ox
It only took them 10 years to release this. Not quite what I expected but overall really good. The Plot Against My Love probably one of my favorite heavy songs of the year.




Every Time I Die-New Junk Aesthetic
Another album I almost didn't get. Not super fond of their previous work. Some good, some so so. This one came highly recommended. Another badass record.




He Is Legend-It Hates You
Huge improvement from the turd Suck Out The Poison was. Some really cool songs on this album. Bummer they are currently on hiatus and could break up.




If These Trees Could Talk-Above The Earth, Below The Sky
I loved their debut ep and I love this one too. A great multi layered, heavy instrumental album.




It's Elephants-Get's Along
The band actually got ahold of me and emailed this album. Didn't really know what to expect but it's awesome. Dirty garage rock in the vein of early Kings of Leon. The 10 song album clocks in at around 20 minutes though which sucks. Should be twice as long in my opinion.




Long Distance Calling-Avoid The Light
Another badass heavy instrumental record. Well structured and put together. Awesome drummer, very tasty and precise .




Maybeshewill-Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony
Fell short of last years Not For Want Of Trying but in all fairness thats a hard act to follow. Still a really good listen.




Poison the Well-The Tropic Rot
Some great moments here and some moments fell a little flat too. Chris Hornbrook's best drumming performance yet.




The Red Chord-Fed Through The Teeth Machine
Heavy as shit, brutally fast, pounding rhythms. This album is tough as fuck!


--Good albums worth mentioning--


And So I Watch You From Afar-And So I Watch You From Afar

The Armed-These Are Lights

Arsonists Get All The Girls-Portals

Ben Harper and Relentless7-White Lies For Dark Times

BlakFish-Champions

Bloodhorse-Horizioner

Built to Spill-There Is No Enemy

Buried Inside-Spoils Of Failure

Burnt by the Sun-Heart Of Darkness

Children of Nova-The Complexity Of Light

CiLiCe-Deranged Headtrip

Collapse Under The Empire-Find A Place To Be Safe

Collapse Under The EmpireSystembreakdown

Crime In Choir-Gift Givers

Doomriders-Darkness Comes Alive

Dysrhythmia-Psychic Maps

eaststrikewest-Wolvves

The Fall of Troy-In The Unlikely Event

Fog in the Shell-Private South

Giant Squid-The Ichthyologist

Goonies never say Die-In A Forest Without Tress

Hand Of Fatima-Obake

Hull-Sole Lord

Irepress-Sol Eye Sea I

Jeremy Enigk-OK Bear

Karnivool-Sound Awake

Keelhaul-Keelhaul's Triumphant Return To Obscurity

King Sigh-Entering

The Mercury Program-Chez Viking

Mutiny on the Bounty-Danger Mouth

Narrows-New Distances

Pearl Jam-Backspacer

Pelican-What We All Come To Need

Pianos Become The Teeth-Old Pride

Portugal. The Man-The Satanic Satanist

Precious Fathers-Alluvial Fan

rooftops-A Forest Of Polarity

Oceans-Nothing Collapses

The Safety Fire-Sections

Scale The Summit-Carving Desert Canyons

Shelter Red-Strike A Mortal Terror

Sleeping In Gethsemane-Burrows

So Many Dynamos-The Loud Wars

Tides From Nebula-Aura

Tides of Man-Empire Theory

Toundra-Toundra

Tristeza-Fate Unfolds

Tubelord-Our First American Friends

Wolf & Cub-Science And Sorcery

YOB-The Great Cessation

You Already Know-Stop Whispering



--The biggest disappointments of the year--


Architects-Hollow Crown

The Arusha Accord-The Echo Verses

Biffy Clyro-Only Revolutions

The Black Dahlia Murder-Deflorate

Bygones-by-

The Chariot-Wars And Rumors Of Wars

Caspian-Tertia

Disappearer-The Clearing

Eleventh He Reaches London-Hollow Be Thy Name

Gaza-He Is Never Coming Back

I Am The Ocean-Escapist Fiction

Into the Moat-The Campaign

Into The Storm-Amist A Sea Of Chaos

Kaospilot-Shadows

The Mars Volta-Octahedron

Maserati-Passages

Minsk-With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone

Mono-Hymn To The Immortal Wind

Muse-The Resistance

Ostrova-Ostrova

pg.lost-In Never Out

Saxon Shore-It Doesn't Matter

Sights & Sounds-Monolith

Trophy Scars-Bad Luck

We Came As Romans-To Plant A Seed

Wolfmother-Cosmic Egg

Yeah Yeah Yeah's-It's Blitz!


That pretty much sums up 2009. Overall a pretty good year. Looking forward to a lot of good stuff to come in 2010.

i figure my tastes have changed a lot since november 2008, so i'm redoing that survey. yeeeep. this list would be more accurate if i had a working hard drive for the whole year. let's hope 2010 is one of those years.


1. How did you get into 29?
The Rural Alberta Advantage. david saw them at sxsw last year and raved about them after he got home.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
The Mae Shi. um, honestly i'm not sure, but they reminded me of teen girl squad and i got hooked.

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
The Dodos. i have Visiter and Time to Die.

4. What is your favorite song by 15?
Bright Eyes. hmmmm. "first day of my life" is a front runner. but a lot of his stuff hits me really hard, so i'm not sure.

5. What is your favorite song by 5?
Forever the Sickest Kids. either "breakdown," "the way she moves," "catastrophe" or "whoa oh." all great jams.

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Animal Collective. several. "peacebone," "brother sport," "summertime clothes," "derek," i could go on and on.

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Frightened Rabbit. "keep yourself warm," :floating in the forth," or "the modern leper."

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Fall Out Boy. oh man. countless car sing-alongs.

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Arcade Fire. "intervention" reminds me of chuck palahniuk's "survivor" and that makes me happy.

10. How many times have you seen 25 live?
We Are Scientists. sadly, never.

11. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Death Cab for Cutie. oh, hell if i know at this point hahaha.

12. What is your favorite album by 11?
Paramore. "riot," definitely.

13. Who is a favorite member of 1?
(still) So Many Dynamos. who picks favorite members? really.

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Panic at the Disco. once. it was awesome.

15. What is a good memory involving 27?
Harlem Shakes. seeing them with Passion Pit in june with david and john was a pretty awesome time.

16. What is your favorite song by 16?
Passion Pit. probably "sleepyhead" and "little secrets."

17. What is your favorite album by 18?
My Favorite Highway. :how to call a bluff."

18. What is your favorite song by 21?
Brand New. oh boy. um. too many to list honestly.

19. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
Wolf Parade. "i'll believe in anything." good choice.

20. What is your favorite album by 2?
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's. "not animal," but "the dust of retreat" is a close second.

21. What is you favorite song by 3?
Bound Stems. "excellent news, colonel," "happens to us all otherwise," or "winston." or probably a lot of others.

22. What is your favorite song by 8?
Los Campesinos! "we are beautiful, we are doomed," "miserabilia," "you! me! dancing!," "the sea is a good place to think of the future," i could go on for hours.

23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Bedlight For Blue Eyes. 5 or 6 times i think.

24. What is the worst song by 12?
The New Pornographers. there's a few songs by them that i'm not fond of, but nothing worth listing. they're so good otherwise.

25. What was the first song you ever heard by 25?
We Are Scientists. no clue. something off "brain thrust mastery" though.

26. What is you favorite album by 7?
Mayday Parade. "a lesson in romantics," for sho.

27. What is your favorite song by 24?
Vampire Weekend. "m79," no contest at all.

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
The Decemberists. "the hazards of love 4," "the crane wife 1 and 2," "annan water," and lots more.

29. What is your favorite album by 4?
Tokyo Police Club. "elephant shell" is my jam.

30. How many albums do you own by 20?
1997. i have "...a better view of the rising moon," and "on the run," but "a better view" is the shit.

Lists + mp3s:

http://whysomanyviolins.blogspot.com/2010/01/2009-in-review.html


includes:
Sunset Rubdown
Pure Reason Revolution
Silversun Pickups
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Phoenix
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Metric
The xx
Bat for Lashes
So Many Dynamos
Brand New
Fever Ray
Other Lives
The Rural Alberta Advantage
Mew
Ramona Falls
Archive
The Weakerthans
Apoptygma Berzerk
VNV Nation

just some songs. great ones to be more precise.
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Afterlives - Ever the Optimist
from A Ticking Clock I Couldn’t Stop
Have A Nice Life related so you know

Japandroids - Wet Hair
from Post-Nothing
could have picked 3 or 4 other songs from this record yeah it's that good

Cave In - Retina Sees Rewind
from Planets of Old
EP is full of awesome shit but this song got the grooves

Castevet - beating high schoolers at arcade games
from Summer Fences
like American Football, but more ballsy

Therapy? - Exiles
from Crooked Timber
some of the best Therapy? material in years

Rome - A Legacy of Unrest
from Flowers From Exile
never thought I'd like something thats called apocalyptic martial folk that much

Metric - Gimme Sympathy
from Fantasies
song is bomb, the album - not so much

Kreng - Kolossus
from L'Autopsie Phe´nome´nale De Dieu
record should be listened as a whole, creepy as hell

Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
from Around the Well
best Iron & Wine song for me

All the Empires of the World - Ghosts of Sargasso/Of The Father
from Blessings
picked the song pretty randomly because all of the stuff this band put out this year is fantastic

Kidcrash - Sleeper Wave
from snacks
quality song from a worthy follow-up to the incredible Jokes

A City Safe From Sea - Well Dressed at the Hospital
from Throw Me Through Walls
song is ridiculously catchy post-hardcore from an album full of ridiculously catchy post-hardcore

Bats - Andrew Wiles
from Red in Tooth & Claw
tied with Gamma Ray Burst: Second Date and Credulous! Credulous! in terms of sheer awesomeness

Do Make Say Think - do
from The Other Truths
years best post rock song (fuck you Mono)

Mono - Everlasting Light
from Hymn To The Immortal Wind
just kidding, Mono is awesome, as is this song.

Daïtro - Part II
from Y
evolves from catchy to epic, what more could you possibly ask for?

The Ascent of Everest - The Journey Forever Long
from The Ascent Of Everest/We All Inherit The Moon Split
super-solid post rock band delivers

Coalesce - Wild OX Moan
from OX
crazy awesome intro, that's for sure.

Cursive - What Have I Done?
from Mama, I'm Swollen
epic closer is epic

Brainworms - Jay's big date
from II - Swear to me
you know Bear vs. Shark? that's cool. this is cool, too

Converge - Dark Horse
from Axe To Fall
god this main riff is so tight

BlakFish - Ringo Starr - 2nd Best Drummer In The Beatles
from Champions
I DON'T LIKE DANCE MUSIC AND I DON'T THINK I EVER WILL!

The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid
from Hazards Of Love
so good that there's a reprise later on that album

Animal Collective - My Girls
from Merriweather Post Pavilion
no, I'm not an indie hipster faggot

Dear Landlord - Rosa
from Dream Homes
some catchy punk rawwwwwk right here

Bat for Lashes - Pearl's Dream
from Two Suns
dude this girl can SING

Closure In Moscow - Vanguard
from First Temple
good 'scene music' how about that? and the singer sounds like that dude from MARS THE F***ING VOLTA

HORSE the band - Science Police
from Desperate Living
sick song. best HORSE album.

The Antlers - Atrophy
from Hospice
so haunting I constantly lose my breath while listening

Elder - Remember These Days
from Reflect
blending post rock and screamo is usually a good idea.

Antony and the Johnsons - Epilepsy Is Dancing
from The Crying Light
this voice is beyond awesome

Gaza - Canine Disposal Unit + The Anthropologist
from He Is Never Coming Back
listen to both songs consecutively and you think you can die already


The Lawrence Arms - The Slowest Drink At The Saddest Bar On The Snowiest Day In The Greatest City
from Buttsweat and Tears
song is pure torture - can't wait for the new full lenght now

The Loved Ones - Distracted
from Distractions
band continues to put out awesome music, song is almost better than the Build & Burn material

Have a Nice Life - Trespassers W
from Voids
best b-side I've heard in a while

Archives - Including the Mezzanine
from Decline
see Elder - Remember These Days

Manchester Orchestra - I Can Feel a Hot One
from Mean Everything To Nothing
incredible sad song with lyrics that are incredible sad

Mariachi El Bronx - Silver Or Lead
from El Bronx
who would have thought that The Bronx come up with music your mother could dance to in the kitchen?

Orbs - A Man Of Science
from Asleep Next to Science
someone intelligent told me this song is soooooo two years ago but I like it.

Poison the Well - Pamplemousse
from The Tropic Rot
never thought I'd like a song that's named Pamplemousse, really

The xx - Heart Skipped a Beat
from xx
lots of good songs on that record, but this is my current fave

Weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
from Raditude
you can't deny this song is catchy as hell, can you?

Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits
from Supporting Caste
saw them live this year, totally ruled

Brother/Ghost - Touch Something and Say Dead
from Black Ice
albums centerpiece but the album as a whole is where its at

Heather Woods Broderick - Wounded Bird
from From The Ground
stuff is almost as good as her brothers.

Pulling Teeth - Bloodwolves
from Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions
just listen to that solo. just ... just listen.

Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
from Swoon
was my song of the year for a long time and maybe is still.

Owen - heads will ache
from The Seaside EP
quality Kinsella song that's everything Owen is about

Paramore - Ignorance
from brand new eyes
most infectious verse ever

So Many Dynamos - Artifacts of Sound
from The Loud Wars
frantic, fuzzy, clashing, danceable = awesome

maudlin of the Well - Rose Quartz Turning to Glass
from Part the Second
love ya Mia

Panopticon - The Death Of Baldr And The Coming War
from Collapse
when you get used to the drumming this is some of the most ballin' black metal shit you'll ever hear

Mount Eerie - Stone's Ode
from Wind's Poem
one of those songs the winter was made for

Red City Radio - If all else fails play dead
from To The Sons & Daughters Of Woody Guthrie EP
favourite punk song of the year

Wilco - You And I
from Wilco (The Album)
Wilco + Feist + acoustic guit..omg I just came

Title Fight - Anaconda Sniper
from The Last Thing You Forget
song is like the charming smile from the cute chucks girl next door

Yo La Tengo - More Stars Than There Are in Heaven
from Popular Songs
if the following two epics were just as epic as this epic song the whole album would be beyond epic

Matthew Good - Empty's Theme Park
from VANCOUVER
Matthew Good + strings + 9 minute closer = as good as you would imagine

Sholi - Contortionist
from Sholi
you like Minus The Bear and Karate and maybe Cursive so you'll love this I'm sure

Built to Spill - Things Fall Apart
from There Is No Enemy
had a feeling this record would rule and this song is the proof

The Red Chord - Hour of Rats
from Fed Through The Teeth Machine
won't compare this to the new BTBAM because it's better

Banner Pilot - Farewell to Iron Bastards
from Collapser
song is one awesome hook as is the whole album

Towers - Hope
from Full Circle
awesome ending of one hell of an album

The Thermals - Now We Can See
from Now We Can See
fun song is fun

P.O.S. - Purexed
from Never Better
song is driving as hell, pure energy

Nothing More - The Few Not Fleeting
from The Few Not Fleeting
sounds like Aussie rock but isn't, really awesome

Regina Spektor - Human of the Year
from Far
when the horns come in it's like the best thing ever

Phoenix - Lisztomania
from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
no I'm not an indie hipster faggot [2]

mewithoutYou - The Fox, The Crow and The Cookie
from it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright
ya I know this stuff is different but it isn't only alright, it's all CRAZY!

The American Dollar - Where We Are
from From The Inland Sea
brilliant teaser for the (hopefully great) new album

Brand New - Sink
from Daisy
the song out of the three best on the album without this lame intro/outro

A Place to Bury Strangers - I Lived My Life to Stand in the Shadow of Your Heart
from Exploding Head
incredible thick bass and chugging and wall of sound and awesomeness

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - Listen Close
from III
my personal song of the summer

Sole and the Skyrider Band - Black
from Plastique
song is as bleak as you can expect from a song titled 'Black'

Trophy Scars - Bad Dreams
from Bad Luck
so happy that this record is nothing like I expected

Andrew Bird - Oh No
from Noble Beast
oh **** yeah

Strike Anywhere - Invisible Colony
from Iron Front
the perfect opener for a surprisingly awesome album

Shpongle - Nothing Is Something Worth Doing
from Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland
totally agree with that song title

Sigh & Explode - This... Is the Breathing Caricature
from These Seem Like Tarantulas
pretty tight screamo/hardcore hybrid worth your interest

Strung Out - Vanity
from Agents Of The Underground
band can do no wrong

Mew - Beach
from No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away
I think Sometimes Life Isn't Easy is the overall best song on that album but whatever, this one is pure sunshine

Say Anything - Eloise
from Say Anything
Max Bemis is the man, there's no other way to describe it

A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Close chorus
from Ashes Grammar
fantastic dream pop folk-gaze

Paint It Black - Sacred
from Surrender EP
I'm such a sucker for clean melodic choruses in otherwise ass-kicking hardocre songs

Thrice - The Weight
from Beggars
Thrice doing post hardcore again *expression of joy*

The Swell Season - The Verb
from Strict Joy
could have picked nearly every other track from that album, these duo knows what I like

This Is a Standoff - Everything We Take
from Be Disappointed
streamlined version of AWS with incredible catchy outbursts

Eleventh He Reaches London - For The Commonwealth And The Queen
from Hollow Be My Name
if you want to get into this album just listen to this song.

Loma Prieta - Ghost Shadow
from Dark Mountain
yeah I know, another screamo song. so what?

The Swellers - Dirt
from Ups and Downsizing
albeit the song is not as good as the best stuff from My Everest, I can't help myself but love it. it's The Swellers you know ...

The Mars Volta - Teflon
from Octahedron
[insert stupid TMV comment here]

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - an idea is a greater monument than a cathedral
from What It Takes To Move Forward
won't namedrop Sunny Day Real Estate or Mineral or Braid because it would be too obvious

Tim Hecker - Where Shadows Make Shadows
from An Imaginary Country
brilliant ambient/drone mixture

John Frusciante - Central
from The Empyrean
song is really long but also really great

Florence + The Machine - Drumming
from Lungs
almost forgot about that, awesome song

Manic Street Preachers - She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
from Journal For Plague Lovers
EMPTY ARMS AND ACHING HEART. god this chorus rules

Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck - Hollow Graves
from Goodbye Debris
almost forgot about that, awesome song [2]

logical_harm's top albums (12 months) 1. The Virgins - The Virgins (146) 2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (133) 3. Royal Bangs - Let It Beep (119) 4. Empire of the Sun - Walking On A Dream (106) 5. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires (102) 6. The Fashion - The Fashion (85) 7. Mystery Jets - Twenty One (81) 8. So Many Dynamos - Flashlights (80) 9. Dear Paris - Demos (74) 10. The Black Ghosts - The Black Ghosts (65) 11. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell (55) 12. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (51) 13. Fischerspooner - Entertainment (50) 14. Passion Pit - Manners (48) 15. Gossip - Music For Men (42) 16. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (42) 17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (41) 18. Peter Bjorn and John - Living Thing (40) 19. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (38) 20. The Thrills - Teenager (38) 21. The Thrills - Let's Bottle Bohemia (37) 22. Razorlight - Slipway Fires (37) 23. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules (37) 24. The Kills - Midnight Boom (35) 25. Kings of Leon - Only by the Night (33)

Top 10 Albums of the Year:

1) Screaming Females – Power Move
2) So Many Dynamos – The Loud Wars
3) The Besties – Home Free
4) Kissy Kamikaze – Knock Knock
5) Wisdom in Chains – Everything You Know
6) Trapped Under Ice – Secrets Of The World
7) BERNAYS PROPAGANDA – Happiness Machines
8) Touché Amoré – ... To The Beat of a Dead Horse
9) Meinhof – Under The Burning Sky Of Future Events
10) Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra – PARADISE BLUE

Top 2 EPs of the Year Except They Were Stretched to LPs:

1)Bomb the Music Industry! – Scrambles
2)Blacklisted – No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me (sic)

Top 5 Actual EPs of the Year:

1) Paint It Black – Amnesia
2) Death First – Demo
3) Bad Credit No Credit – Hey, Rube!
4) A Wilhelm Scream – A Wilhelm Scream
5) Casting Curses – Heartificial

Top 20 Songs of the Year:

1) The Besties – 79 lorimer
2) P.O.S. – Terrorish (featuring Jason Shevchuck)
3) Blacklisted – I Am Extraordinary
4) Bad Credit No Credit – Love Is Blonde
5) Pansy Division – That's So Gay
6) Paint It Black – Salem
7) Bomb the Music Industry! – (Shut) Up The Punx!!!
8) Bomb the Music Industry! – 25!
9) So Many Dynamos – The Novelty of Haunting
10) Flipper – Be Good, Child!
11) Reflections of internal rain – ROIR Barmy Army
12) Hub City Stompers – Ska Train To Dorkville
13) Death First - Tested
14) Yoni Gordon – Fairytale Of New York (Pogues cover, featuring Franz Nicolay and Emilyn Brodsky)
15) Dear Landlord – I Live in Hell
16) Raised Fist – Friends And Traitors
17) So Many Dynamos – New Bones
18) Matt & Kim – Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare
19) Partyline – Bad For The Baby
20) Living With Lions – She's A Hack

Top 5 Albums of the Decade:

1) Sleater Kinney – One Beat (2002)
2) Discount – Singles 2 (2002)
3) Bomb the Music Industry! - Album Minus Band (2005)
4) None More Black – File Under Black (2003)
5) The World/Inferno Friendship Society – Red-Eyed Soul (2006)

Oh, 2009 i wanna make love with you

It seems like everybody decided to make their own top list of 2009, and hey, why not? So here is mine...

There are 7 albums I really like and listen to alot, the last 3 are good

1. Converge Axe To Fall

2. Advent - Naked And Cold

3. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic

4. ZAO - Awake?

5. Stray From the Path - Make Your Own History

6. Behemoth - Evangelion

7. Architects - Hollow Crown

8. Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot

9. The Chariot - Wars and Rumors of Wars

10 So Many Dynamos - The Loud Wars



Below is my top 10 albums listened to for the past year.

kennethboyd's top albums (12 months) 1. Advent - Naked And Cold (354) 2. Radiohead - OK Computer (302) 3. A Life Once Lost - Hunter (286) 4. Me and Him Call It Us - Loss (267) 5. Advent - Remove The Earth (252) 6. Ed Gein - Judas Goats and Dieseleaters (240) 7. Spitfire - Self-Help (234) 8. The Handshake Murders - Usurper (232) 9. Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree (232) 10. Spitfire - Cult Fiction (220)