Album of the Year

mixer007

So, what are your nominations for the album of the year.
If I had to pick 3, I'd go for:

The Divine Comedy - Regeneration
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
The Frames - For the Birds.

J. Dalliance

The Strokes - Is this it?

dccarm

The Strokes for me too, and then the Reindeer Section. If there were three good albums this year I am lost if I can think of the third.

slash99

Tool - Lateralus
System of a Down - Toxicity
Clutch - Pure Rock Fury

GoneShootin

AC/DC --- STIFF UPPER LIP LIVE

Eyeliner__Boy

i just noticed that the strokes album, this is it, has an anagram, 'this is ****'... how ironic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anyways, albums of the year........

Muse- Origin of Symmetry
Manics- Know Your Enemy
My Vitriol- Finelines
King Adora- Vibrate You
Terris- Learning to Let Go
New Order- Get Ready

Beany

Redneck Manifesto - "thirtysixstrings"
Snow Patrol - "When it's all over..."
The Strokes - "Is this it?"
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - "The Blue Trees"


Eyeliner Boy...you've picked some good albums, but Terris!...surely you jest...I thought that album was a disgraceful piece of muck.

I also thought the Reindeer Section album was a bit of a disappointment based on Lightbody's previous output.

...just sayin' like.

mixer007

Dccarm, I found it a bit of a struggle to come up with 3, aswell, well actually I'd add the Strokes, but after that, it's been a bad year for good albums.

o sleep

crap year for albums? i wouldn't say that:

Low - things we lost in the fire
Mogwai - rock action
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - ease down the road
The Strokes - is this it
The Frames - for the birds
Mercury Rev - all is dream
Smog - rain on lens
Tindersticks - can our love

sickle

Tool - Lateralus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - And No More Shall We Part
Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls

the only 3 albums i've bothered buying this year.
yay for morpheus,saves me form buying shíte i don't like.

Mr Crowe

Originally posted by Eyeliner__Boy
i just noticed that the strokes album, this is it, has an anagram, 'this is ****'... how ironic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...you just put the letters SH infront of IT.......

peace&love

rachel

decisions decisions...


would have to let...

the white stripes - white blood cells
&
elbow - asleep in the back...

be my choices for the moment...

although I have probably forgotten a load of albums I liked or else I just haven't heard them yet...

knobbles

Originally posted by Mr Crowe

Originally posted by Eyeliner__Boy
i just noticed that the strokes album, this is it, has an anagram, 'this is ****'... how ironic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...you just put the letters SH infront of IT.......

peace&love

...the anagram eyeliner was lookin for was "it is ****"

...which it isn't of course,
it's ok,
but it's got two of the singles of the year for sure

my albums
GARBAGE
SNOW PATROL
DAVID KITT
AIR
MOGWAI

xmas present of the year must be this weeks
PUMPKINS BEST OF
MADONNA'S best of is pretty groovy too

p-t saviour

I must say The Black Crowes, Lions rocks! But to be honest, The Frames, For the Birds takes the biscuit... I cant argue with genius.

anony

Discovery - daft punk ...... clever bastards, with a knack for writing irresistable tunes.

A Camp - A Camp......effortlessly good songs, Nina's seductive purr....and Mark Linkous's brilliantly understated production

Shea seger - The May Street Project......can out last year but what the hey.......love her lazy way of singing

also

Aphex Twin - Drukqs......a bit of a dissapointment by aphex standards, but still walk's all over the competition

PiE

The 2 best albums of the year haven't been released yet:

Smashing Pumpkins - Rotten Apples

&

Smashing Pumpkins - Judas O.

Busby

rufus wainwright - poses
mogwai - rock action
nitin sawhney - prophesy

others I really liked...
fantomas - the director's cut
spiritualized - let it come down
the divine comedy - regeneration
aphex twin - drukqs
i am kloot - natural history
the strokes - is this it
etienne de crecy - tempovision
ladytron - 606
moth wranglers - never mind the context
tindersticks - can our love...

the_corpo

fugazi - the argument
pinback - blue screen life
bjork - vespertine
rocket from the crypt - group sounds
joan of arse - distant hearts, a little closer
the new year - newness ends

cournioni

Slayer - God Hates Us All, without a doubt
Fear Factory - Digimortal, its good enough
I'll be back to you when I can tthink of more.

seamus

MMMM.....I haven't bought many new albums this year. My vote would go for Staind's Break The Cycle(I can hear your groans so SHUT UP!!!), or certainly for best newcomers, and I've heard Incubus's new one is really really good, but I have yet to hear it. I don't think live albums or collection albums should be included - there's nothing new about them, if they were going to win, they already would've. And PiE - that's a tad presumptious(sic) isn't it? Besides, aren't they collection albums?:)

PiE

aren't they collection albums?:)

Yea...

that's a tad presumptious(sic) isn't it?

...anyone else see the contradictory answer?

Well, actually one of them is a 'Greatest Hits' the other is a collection of rarities.

But to be honest the Pumpkins could fart through a didgeridoo and it would sound better than 99% of the stuff released this year*



*Opinion

seamus

ROFL!! didn't see that meself. pld.:D Though I really meant that in the way that we shouldn't include collection albums(my opinion)

starsilver

3 best albums of this year:

amneisiac: Raidohead
Quiet is the new loud: the kings of convienance
its a wonderful life:sparklehorse (dono why but i love it)

freakofnature

muse-origin of symmetry
system of a down-toxicity
incubus-morning view

francie brady

No More shall we part - Nick Cave
Tip Toe - Ronan Snodaigh
Green Ablum - Weezer

screamager

Therapy? - Shameless
Lost Prophets - Thefakesoundofprogress
Backyard Babies - Making Enemies Is Good

hasnt been the best year for music though, also thought that
SOAD - Toxicity
Incubus new one (havent heard it all)
GRADE new one (only heard a few songs)
Tool - Lateralus
Candiria's new one (only heard a couple of songs aswell and cant find it anywhere. anyone have any suggestions?)
were all good from what i heard.

Karl Hungus

Opeth - Blackwater Park


Complex Progressive Swedish Mellow Melodic Death Metal with acoustic guitars.
Pure ****ing genious.
If you're a Tool fan, these guys are better by far.

o sleep

oh, i heard the smashing pumpkins rarities cd, and to be honest if they had farted through a didgeridoo it would've been an improvement. at least it would've been listenable. i've never heard such self-indulgent ****. most of the best of cd, is of course, great, although it gets a tad irritating at the end. my problem with **** songs isn't that they're **** (no, really, continue reading), bcos if they're done with humour (like System of a Down song about what he does when ... angel's ... die) it's just funny. okay, so system of a down probably isn't supposed to be funny, but the lyrics ... priceless! and the singing ... just hilarious.

PiE

Originally posted by o sleep
oh, i heard the smashing pumpkins rarities cd, and to be honest if they had farted through a didgeridoo it would've been an improvement. at least it would've been listenable. i've never heard such self-indulgent ****

Sorry but you obviously haven't heard it (all). If you did you'd realise that only about 6-7 (of the 16) tracks are from the "Machina" style era. I say this because the I agree that the post Machina releases were over-cooked. The rest of the tracks on that CD (i.e. The Aeroplane Flies High, Set the Ray to Jerry etc) are premium pre-Machina Pumpkinage.

Also, this isn't directed at you o sleep, but the next person that proclaims that they were a huge fan of the Pumpkins before that "****" Machina, is gonna get a slap in the chops. Machina, even if you don't like it, is still better than 90% of the b*llox being released today. *

knobbles

i have to say it sounds like a bit of a "left overs" CD,
stuff that didn't make it as a b-side, and pumpkins
have had great b-sides over the years.
The best songs on it are those that were b-sides,
- aeroplane and believe, track 1 is rockin as well.

lamda

Just a thought....but does the picture of Billy Corgan on the front of the greatest hits look like one of Hanson.....or is that just me?
Anyway albums of the year:
Radiohead- Amnesiac
SFA- RATW
Eels- Souljacker
Ed Harcourt- Here be Monsters
The Strokes-Is This It
Weezer- Green Album