My top 10 album of 2008... what's your list.

Damn. I know most people on OT love death metal, but all of these lists seem to be confined to that genre. Are there really that many incredible death metal albums released each year that they eclipse all other noteworthy releases in other genres?Cherokee_Jack

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]Damn. I know most people on OT love death metal, but all of these lists seem to be confined to that genre. Are there really that many incredible death metal albums released each year that they eclipse all other noteworthy releases in other genres?Rikardur

[QUOTE="Rikardur"][QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]Damn. I know most people on OT love death metal, but all of these lists seem to be confined to that genre. Are there really that many incredible death metal albums released each year that they eclipse all other noteworthy releases in other genres?Cherokee_Jack

Check out Green Carnation, and Sylvan for some good non death or black metal. 

[QUOTE="Rikardur"][QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]Damn. I know most people on OT love death metal, but all of these lists seem to be confined to that genre. Are there really that many incredible death metal albums released each year that they eclipse all other noteworthy releases in other genres?Cherokee_Jack

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"][QUOTE="Rikardur"] Look at my list? I'm one of those metalheads who hate death metal :P So I'm not sure if I would still be considered a metalhead...Rikardur

[QUOTE="Rikardur"][QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"] Yeah, but those all seem to be black metal. Aren't there any plain old heavy metal groups around?Cherokee_Jack

Def Leppard is still around , they made an album this year if that interests you:P Also, Prog Metal is the best.

[QUOTE="vitriolboy"]Get ready for a thread full of metal bands with stupid names and album covers done by moody 13 year old art studentsDevour2Survive

I find it sort of odd to put these in order, so really only my number one is where I'm certain it belongs. 1. Nas - Untitled 2. N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds 3. T.I. - Paper Trail 4. Kanye West - 808's & Heartbreak [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/808nheartbreakcover.jpg/200px-808nheartbreakcover.jpg[/im 5. Ludacris - Theater of the Mind 6. The Roots - Rising Down 7. AZ - Undeniable 8. Cold Play - Viva la Vida 9. Ice Cube - Raw Footage 10. Bun B - II Trill I'll mention John Legend's "Evolver" and Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" though. I enjoyed those albums... And I'm sure Common's "Universal Mind Control" will make my top 10 before the year's out.tbone29

If you liked those albums you would really like the album Alopecia by Why?

If you liked those albums you would really like the album Alopecia by Why?

Film-Guy

Def Leppard is still around , they made an album this year if that interests you:P Film-Guy

I don't think I have ten... but here are some top ones.

In no order:

36 Crazyfists - The Tide and It's Takers

Arsis - We Are The Nightmare

Beck - Modern Guilt

The Faceless- Planetary Duality

Genghis Tron - Board Up The House

Nine Inch Nails - The Slip

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts

Sole - Desert Eagle

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

If you liked those albums you would really like the album Alopecia by Why?

tbone29

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fLGXJ0k1I34&feature=related

This is a song from the album.

there wasn't even ten good albums this year :(maccer101

 There were no good albums this year....or in the last 5 years

1) Lateralus-Tool

2) Ten- Pearl Jam

3) Dirt- Alice in Chains

4) Welcome to Sky Valley- Kyuss

5) Badmotorfinger- Soundgarden

6) Blues for the Red Sun- Kyuss

7) Songs for the Deaf- Queens of the Stone Age

8) Core- Stone Temple Pilots

9)  Nevermind- Nirvana

10) 1992- Rage Against the Machine 

 There were no good albums this year....or in the last 5 years

1) Lateralus-Tool

2) Ten- Pearl Jam

3) Dirt- Alice in Chains

4) Welcome to Sky Valley- Kyuss

5) Badmotorfinger- Soundgarden

6) Blues for the Red Sun- Kyuss

7) Songs for the Deaf- Queens of the Stone Age

8) Core- Stone Temple Pilots

9)  Nevermind- Nirvana

10) 1992- Rage Against the Machine 

 There were no good albums this year....or in the last 5 years

1) Lateralus-Tool

2) Ten- Pearl Jam

3) Dirt- Alice in Chains

4) Welcome to Sky Valley- Kyuss

5) Badmotorfinger- Soundgarden

6) Blues for the Red Sun- Kyuss

7) Songs for the Deaf- Queens of the Stone Age

8) Core- Stone Temple Pilots

9)  Nevermind- Nirvana

10) 1992- Rage Against the Machine 

 There were no good albums this year....or in the last 5 years

 

1) Lateralus-Tool

2) Ten- Pearl Jam

3) Dirt- Alice in Chains

4) Welcome to Sky Valley- Kyuss

5) Badmotorfinger- Soundgarden

6) Blues for the Red Sun- Kyuss

7) Songs for the Deaf- Queens of the Stone Age

8) Core- Stone Temple Pilots

9)  Nevermind- Nirvana

10) 1992- Rage Against the Machine 

lilburtonboy748

[QUOTE="NearTheEnd"][QUOTE="lilburtonboy748"]

 There were no good albums this year....or in the last 5 years

 

1) Lateralus-Tool

2) Ten- Pearl Jam

3) Dirt- Alice in Chains

4) Welcome to Sky Valley- Kyuss

5) Badmotorfinger- Soundgarden

6) Blues for the Red Sun- Kyuss

7) Songs for the Deaf- Queens of the Stone Age

8) Core- Stone Temple Pilots

9)  Nevermind- Nirvana

10) 1992- Rage Against the Machine 

lilburtonboy748

There are still some amazing bands, you just dont look hard enough for them. 

sorry, but if you're like me and actually have good taste in music....then you would agree that there have been no good albums in a long time because current music sucks.lilburtonboy748

The only people who think modern music sucks are the people who aren't looking hard enough for the good stuff.

These aren't in order, but some albums that came out this year that I really loved are:
Stay Positive by The Hold Steady
Heretic Pride by The Mountain Goats
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust by Sigur Ros
This Will Destroy You by This Will Destroy You
The Hawk is Howling by Mogwai
The New Year by The New Year
13 Blues for Thirteen Moon by A Silver Mt. Zion

That's not 10, but whatever.

[QUOTE="lilburtonboy748"]

 There were no good albums this year....or in the last 5 years

 

1) Lateralus-Tool

2) Ten- Pearl Jam

3) Dirt- Alice in Chains

4) Welcome to Sky Valley- Kyuss

5) Badmotorfinger- Soundgarden

6) Blues for the Red Sun- Kyuss

7) Songs for the Deaf- Queens of the Stone Age

8) Core- Stone Temple Pilots

9)  Nevermind- Nirvana

10) 1992- Rage Against the Machine 

Lockedge

[QUOTE="lilburtonboy748"][QUOTE="NearTheEnd"] Worst post of the thread? Probably.Film-Guy

There are still some amazing bands, you just dont look hard enough for them. 

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"][QUOTE="lilburtonboy748"] sorry, but if you're like me and actually have good taste in music....then you would agree that there have been no good albums in a long time because current music sucks.lilburtonboy748

There are still some amazing bands, you just dont look hard enough for them. 

Well you like Tool, so I recommend Porcupine Tree, Spocks beard, and The Dear Hunter. See what you think of them. 

2008 seriously ruled hard. Great stuff from everywhere.

Record of the year:

One of the coolest bands around today. Dudes are awesome, don't miss themin your city, responsible for one of the best weekends in my life. Pretty much the definitive record for the new american underground scene. Dig it.

Deerhunter-Microcastle

Deerhunter get much less weird but stay awesome with their latest release. Anthems about being buried alive for pleasure.

Aerosols-3rd EP

Aerosols are one of the most pissed bands existing in hardcore today. No tuff guy breakdowns, no scene jocking. Straight ahead f-ed up pissed hardcore.

Cult Ritual-2nd EP

Cult Ritual is another seriously pissed hardcore band, another youth attack band too. Youth Attack had an awesome year. Need to check out that failures LP, but it's totally sold out. If you can hook me up: hook me up.

Kind of a weird full length because it's way less noisey than a lot of their other stuff but still way worth checking out. Good songs, solid dudes. Played a weirdo tour with Diplo this year. Weird and awesome. Kinda like this band. Get down on it.

Emeralds and Aaron Dilloway-Under Pressure

This cassette never fails to weird me way out. Drone dudes Emeralds and ex-wolf eyes tape lord Aaron Dilloway conspire to send you to planets that don't exist unless you're in some sort of extreme drug induced haze. I can't tell you what this tape sounds like but it always ends with me going "WTF just happened?" Awesome.

Lots more records and tapes I need to write up. Such a good year. Still have a ton to get to too. I'll be digging 2k8 well into 2k9000.

I haven't bought many albums from this year so this isn't an official list but Becoming The Archetype, Meshuggah, The Faceless, Origin, Psychocriptic, After the Burial, Testament, Arsis, The Acacia Strain, and Unearth all put out good albums this year. Sorry for lack of album names.

 There were no good albums this year....or in the last 5 years

1) Lateralus-Tool

2) Ten- Pearl Jam

3) Dirt- Alice in Chains

4) Welcome to Sky Valley- Kyuss

5) Badmotorfinger- Soundgarden

6) Blues for the Red Sun- Kyuss

7) Songs for the Deaf- Queens of the Stone Age

8) Core- Stone Temple Pilots

9)  Nevermind- Nirvana

10) 1992- Rage Against the Machine 

No order:

Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God

Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom

Cynic - Traced in Air

The Faceless - Planetary Duality

The Gaslight Anthem - the '59 Sound

Ghostlimb - Bearing and Distance

Innerpartysystem - Innerpartysystem

Portishead - Third

Protest the Hero - Fortress

The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun

No Nick Cave fans here I see:(Film-Guy

Somehow I managed to leave out Protest the Hero.SuperVegeta518

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]No Nick Cave fans here I see:(NearTheEnd

The new Bad Seeds album sounds kinda similar to the Grinderman album, its more guitar based in the way that Grinderman was. I am really looking forward to a new Grinderman album, I loved the last one. I even saw nick cave live this year:D He played an amazing show. 

[QUOTE="SuperVegeta518"]Somehow I managed to leave out Protest the Hero.NearTheEnd

I tried to listen to them recently and I didnt really get their hype, they sound very generic to me. Not the worst metal I have heard, but not the best by far. 

[QUOTE="vitriolboy"]Get ready for a thread full of metal bands with stupid names and album covers done by moody 13 year old art studentsineedanap

In no particular order

Can't Love, Can't Hurt-Augustana

Day and Age-The Killers

Paper Trail-T.I.

To be honest, i got into alot of new artists, got plenty of new albums and songs, but not many from the year 2008.

Somehow I managed to leave out Protest the Hero.SuperVegeta518

Not a big fan, other than of the song Divinity Within.

[QUOTE="lilburtonboy748"][QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

 

There are still some amazing bands, you just dont look hard enough for them. 

Film-Guy

Well you like Tool, so I recommend Porcupine Tree, Spocks beard, and The Dear Hunter. See what you think of them. 

[QUOTE="NearTheEnd"][QUOTE="lilburtonboy748"] sorry, but if you're like me and actually have good taste in music....then you would agree that there have been no good albums in a long time because current music sucks.lilburtonboy748

I never really got into grunge much except for Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and Silverchair. I much prefer the brit pop movement of the 90s. 

the best music ever created comes from drugs. lilburtonboy748

I'm going to have to disagree with you here. Music doesn't come from drugs. 99% of muscians who did drugs were just as amazing and creative before they had substance abuse problems.

[QUOTE="lilburtonboy748"]the best music ever created comes from drugs. UnrighteousFury

I'm going to have to disagree with you here. Music doesn't come from drugs. 99% of muscians who did drugs were just as amazing and creative before they had substance abuse problems.

[QUOTE="lilburtonboy748"][QUOTE="NearTheEnd"] Grunge was just a big heroin cartel. The labels that put out albums by pearl jam, nirvana, and alice in chains, etc were all in on it. Tool is a band for ugly people that try hard to feel like they "matter". Seriously, Kurt Cobain killed himself so we wouldn't have to deal with this crap anymore. Get out of MTV in 93. Film-Guy

I never really got into grunge much except for Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and Silverchair. I much prefer the brit pop movement of the 90s. 

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"][QUOTE="lilburtonboy748"] oh..i look. but i have not been able to find a single band that i like. lilburtonboy748

Well you like Tool, so I recommend Porcupine Tree, Spocks beard, and The Dear Hunter. See what you think of them. 

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"][QUOTE="lilburtonboy748"] oh..i look. but i have not been able to find a single band that i like. lilburtonboy748

Well you like Tool, so I recommend Porcupine Tree, Spocks beard, and The Dear Hunter. See what you think of them. 

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

[QUOTE="lilburtonboy748"] no they weren't all on it, some were. pearl jam was never into drugs heavily, and not heroine. and the best music ever created comes from drugs. drugs are a huge part of it, and at least the grunge bands weren't posers, they were completely original. more than you can say about most bands. and no, tool is not a band for ugly people. tool is a band for people who want to listen to some of the most technical drumming, amazing guitar, and mind blowing vocals in music. danny carey alone has more talent than probably any band you listen to...unless you listen to Rush. kurt cobain killed himself because he hated his fans and he couldn't get out of his drug addiction. what crap are you talking about? and i'm not stuck in mtv 93, i was 4 in 93. however, it's the only music i can listen to because it doesn't suck and it's not fake. if something better came along, i would gladly listen to it, but it hasn't and probably never will.lilburtonboy748

I never really got into grunge much except for Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and Silverchair. I much prefer the brit pop movement of the 90s. 

Oasis was the most generic of the groups, but yeah they count. The best though are bands like Blur, Stone Roses, Pulp, Kula Shaker, The La's, Supergrass, bond, embrace, echobelly, cast, silver sun, blackbox recorder, and the verve.