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Gone Gonzo
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jim_doki:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig Lazerus Dig!

How could I forget that?!?!?! Brilliant album.

Yup, should be album of the year.

Press Junketeer
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Loads.

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul. Rock. Oasis are back and better than ever.
Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends. Indie.
Killers - Day & Age. Rock
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend. Indie. Criminally underated.
The Black Keys - Attack & Release. Rock/Blues.
Pendulum - In Silico. Dance/Rock
Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns. Indie.
Metallica - Death Magnetic. Metal.
Kings of Leon - Only By The Night. Rock.

That should do it.

Pulitzer Laureate
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This year:
-Puzzle, by Biffy Clyro.
-Death Magnetic, by Metallica.
-"Weezer (the red album)", by Weezer.
-Day and Age, by The Killers.

Muckraker
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Watershed by Opeth
The Wacken Carnage (Live) - Bloodbath

Both full of Mikael Akerfeltd goodness

Death Magnetic - Metallica

Gone Gonzo
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Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
TV on the Radio - Dear Science

Gone Gonzo
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Opeth's "Watershed". No other music act can compare to this flawless masterpiece.

Gone Gonzo
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Appeal to Reason by Rise Against
Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

Gone Gonzo
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Against me! - New wave - Alternative/Punk
The Last of the shadow puppets - Age of the understatement - Indie
Kings of Leon - Only by the night - Rock

Gone Gonzo
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Chalk another one up for Metallica's Death Magnetic, and The Offspring's Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace.

Press Junketeer
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There has been a lot of good albums this year, but my favourite is by far Opeth - Watershed.

Press Junketeer
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Hmmm...

The Black Keys - Attack And Release

Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath

Press Junketeer
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In The Future by Black Mountain
Third by Portishead
The Seldom Seen Kid by Elbow
A Mad and Faithful Telling by DeVotchKa
01011001 by Ayreon
Fleet Foxes self titled
Saturdays=Youth by M83
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Insurgentes by Steven Wilson
Old Growth by Dead Meadow

There's still a ton I need to check out.

Press Junketeer
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Foo fighter, ACDC, Coldplay
Off spring was good too.

Gone Gonzo
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Shogun by Trivium. I think it's the best album of the year (Death Magnetic sucked).

Pulitzer Laureate
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Love at the End of the World - Sam Roberts

Great CD. Saw him live in september, and it was the best concert I've ever seen.

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Arsen:
Opeth's "Watershed". No other music act can compare to this flawless masterpiece.

I didn't really care for this album. I guess they're trying to find their groove with the lineup change. It lacked a cohesion in the songs. Most of the songs when they transitioned to their different parts, essentially stopped, and then started. Kinda felt like someone constantly slamming on the brakes in a car as it lurches. Not one of Opeth's best albums IMO, but they are still fantastic.

My favorites have to be:
13 Blues for Thirteen Moons by A Silver Mt. Zion
(post rock/avant-garde)
Embodiment - Sculptured
(Progressive Death Metal/Avant-garde)
The White - Agalloch
(Folk/instrumental)

Gone Gonzo
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Rise And Fall, Rage and Grace by the Offspring is a good rock album this year.

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ZantetsukenQ:
Watershed by Opeth

YES! Right there!+

Paperboy
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The Sound of Madness-by Shinedown was just awesome to me. I love just about every song on that album.
Death Magnetic- Metallica and Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace- The Offspring were great as well.

Gone Gonzo
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ZantetsukenQ:
Watershed by Opeth

Dear me... It took a little too long for someone to mention that. This year hasnt been too bad on the JJJ side of things (thats a radio station =D) but none of that matters when Opeth enter the picture.

Muckraker
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Ahh what a wonderful sight. A congregation of Opeth fans in agreement that Watershed fucking rules. :)

Beat Writer
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I've not been very purchase happy when it comes to music this year. Most of the albums I've bought have been older releases. But there are two released in '08 that stand out to me:

Nine Inch Nails
The Slip
Industrial Rock

and

Rise Against
Appeal to Reason
(Melod Hardcore according to Wikipedia, I'll roll with it)

Press Junketeer
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Joined: 7 Feb 2008

2008 was fucking awesome for metal. Hard to decide on a favourite...
But it's probably Unleashed - Hammer Battalion. (Death Metal)
Or Kataklysm - Prevail. (Death Metal (from Canada!))
OR Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God. (Melodic Death Metal)
Nope, can't pick just one. I could probably name a gazillion more...

Beat Writer
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Joined: 25 Sep 2008

Mercenary's Architect of Lies

Gone Gonzo
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Eat me,Drink me By Marilyn Manson. Very different from his other albums,much slower and more emotional.

Gone Gonzo
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Joined: 21 May 2008

Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis

That's all for this year.
I was looking forward to the new Axl Rose album (It's not Guns 'n Roses anymore!!)
but then I listened to it.

Paperboy
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jim_doki:
This has not been a brilliant year for music, but there have been a few shining gems:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig Lazerus Dig!

QFT

Pulitzer Laureate
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The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked Part 2 by Iced Earth

Muckraker
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Beat Writer
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Only By the Night - Kings of Leon.

Not a song there that i don't like :)

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