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  • spnkrispnkri Posts: 137
    Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
    Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
    Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia
    TV On The Radio - Dear Science
    Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
    Beck - Modern Guilt
    R.E.M. - Accelerate
  • tonestones Posts: 104
    The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
    Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
    My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
    Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Terminal Romance
    Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
    Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
    The Priddle Concern - The Priddle Concern
    Sloan - Parallel Play
    The Stills - Oceans Will Rise
    "Your light's reflected now,... reflected from afar...
    We were but stones,... your light made us stars"
  • pjl44pjl44 Posts: 9,968
    Album Of The Year is....

    Murder By Death - Red of Tooth and Claw

    also...

    The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
    Metallica - Death Magnetic
    My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
    The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
    The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
    Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

    Edit: ...and I have a feeling we will throw the new Bronx record in there come November...
  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Cat Power
    The Black Crowes
    Oasis
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • fall by the waysidefall by the wayside Jericho, VT Posts: 757
    MMJ- Evil Urges
    Death Cab For Cutie- Narrow Stairs
    Gojira- The Way Of All Flesh
    Metallica- Death Magnetic
    Unearth- The March
    9/13/98, 10/4/00, 4/29/03, 6/29/03, 7/2/03, 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 9/15/05, 9/16/05, 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 10/30/09, 10/31/09, 5/15/10, 9/11/11, 9/12/11, 10/19/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 10/25/13, 10/27/13, 9/26/15, 4/28/16, 4/29/16, 8/5/16, 8/7/16, 8/13/18, 9/2/18, 9/4/18, 9/26/21, 9/1/22, 9/2/22, 9/14/22, 9/18/23, 9/19/23, 9/7/24, 9/9/24, 9/12/24, 9/15/24, 9/17/24
  • mole1985mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    Metallica - Death Magnetic
    Mudhoney - Lucky Ones
    Soulfly - Conquer
    The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
    Flobots - Fight with tools

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyE-0B_zOi0
    Dublin 2006
    Katowice 2007
    London 2007
  • wardenwarden Posts: 99
    I have to add Tom Morello's The Fabled City to the mix. So my three are:

    Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman - The Fabled City
    Metallica - Death Magnetic
    The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Top 10 as of today

    Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
    Brendan Canning - BSS Presents: Something For All Of Us
    Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows
    Final Fantasy - Plays To Please & Spectrum 14th Century
    Islands - Arms Way
    Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
    Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
    TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
    The Walkmen - You & Me
    Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Burial - Untrue
    Cat Power - Jukebox (Aretha, Sing One for Me is my track of 2008)
    Large Professor - Main Source
    Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
    Sun Kil Moon - April
    Birchville Cat Motel - Gunpowder Temple of Heaven
    The Birds are Spies, They Report to the Trees - Singles Series
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Todd76 wrote:
    Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
    Came out in mid-2007.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Came out in mid-2007.



    from Wikipedia:

    "It was self-released in 2007 and received wider release on the Jagjaguwar
    label in February 2008"


    guess we are both kinda right ;)
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Burial - Untrue

    also from Wikipedia:

    "Untrue is the second album by the dubstep producer known as Burial. It was released on 5 November 2007"
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Todd76 wrote:
    also from Wikipedia:

    "Untrue is the second album by the dubstep producer known as Burial. It was released on 5 November 2007"
    Touché :p
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • bladworth116bladworth116 Posts: 344
    R.E.M.-Accelerate
    Sarah Slean-The Baroness
  • analogueaddict72analogueaddict72 Posts: 307
    Portishead: 3rd
    Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely
    Cold War Kids: Loyalty to Loyalty
    Kings of Leon: Only by the Night
  • wash_wash_ Posts: 1,073
    mert wrote:
    (one thing I've learned from Three Fish and Pearl Jam is that Jeff's music doesn't always punch you in the gut, but often will be your favourite stuff later on ;)).

    haha! So so true!

    My favs this year are

    REM
    KOL (not their best, but still a fav)
    Seasick Steve
    2006 ░▒▓ Astoria, Dublin, Leeds, Reading, Lisbon, Paris, Verona, Athens
    2007 ░▒▓ London, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    2009 ░▒▓ Manchester, London
    2010 ░▒▓ Hyde Park

    *§* Music is all the juice i'll need *§*
  • red mosred mos Posts: 4,953
    The Toadies- No deliverance
    MMJ- Evil Urges
    KOL- only by the night (a bit different from their others, but still very catchy and great).
    PJ: 10/14/00 06/09/03 10/4/09 11/15/13 11/16/13 10/08/14
    EV Solo: 7/11/11 11/12/12 11/13/12
  • PearlJamaholicPearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    metallica - death magnetic

    and if you count the paul westerberg tracks he's released online, than those too.
    http://db.etree.org/PearlJamaholic
  • Brain Of EBrain Of E Posts: 499
    Metallica - Death Magnetic
    Toadies - No Deliverance
    Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
    Beck - Modern Guilt
    Scars on Broadway
    Maiden Heaven: A Tribute to Iron Maiden
    Down in the hole, Jesus tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    mert wrote:
    (one thing I've learned from Three Fish and Pearl Jam is that Jeff's music doesn't always punch you in the gut, but often will be your favourite stuff later on ;)).
    Other Side and Low Light punched me in the gut first time.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Gonzo1977Gonzo1977 Posts: 1,696
    DR DOG "FATE"!!!

    If you haven't heard this album yet, you are doing your ears a great dis-service.

    Go see em' live too because they are fucking ace.

    Later
  • clutching_benjaminclutching_benjamin Posts: 95
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
    The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
    The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
    Sun Kil Moon - April
  • UpSideDownUpSideDown Posts: 1,966
    kings of leon
    slipknot - all hope is gone
    opeth - watershed

    top three so far...
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