Your album of the year, up to this point.
 

What is your album of the year up till now?
Make sure that the cd was actually released this year.

Mine is easily Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days.

For me it's a tossup between Interpol's Antics, and Kasabian.

Beastie Boys- To the five Burroughs.

The Drive-by Trucker's latest, The Dirty South.

For me it's got to be Kanye West - College Dropout

Although I've just had delivered a new batch of CDs so perhaps there's something in this list that just tops kanye.

Green Day - American Idiot (Quite possible)
User - Confesssions (Certainly good, but just how good?)
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane (This is a definite possibility)
Robbie Williams - Greatest Hits (Do g. hits compilations count?)

album of the year - of the day ;) = Kasabian - Kasabian

The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free

Not quite as good as his first, Original Pirate Material, but still genius.

Gwar - War Party. Hasn't been released yet but the 3 tracks they have released are superb. Gonna be a great album.

james tenney--postal pieces

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets

Honorable mention: Mason Jennings - Use Your Voice

Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake

or

Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache

Hmmm, nothing much is coming to mind; maybe Finn Brothers EVERYONE IS HERE. I also liked some of Nellie McKay's GET AWAY FROM ME. U2 has a chance to take it when they release their new one.

Unearth - The Oncoming Storm

"Together, We're Heavy" The Polyphonic Spree

straylight run "straylight run"

Velvet Revolver::Contraband

(
second place Nightwish::Once
third place Megadeth::The System Has Failed
)

I'm with you.

I'd also list:

Reverend Horton Heat - "Revival"
Secret Machines - "Now Here is Nowhere"
Beastie Boys - "To the 5 Boroughs"

Nothing really stands out as great, but Id have to vote for the new Rammstein album, 'Reise, Reise'.

Maybe even The Fiery Furnaces in my opinion.

Blindside - "About A Burning Fire"
Project 86 - "Songs To Burn Your Bridges By"
Hazen Street - "Hazen Street"

orbital - blue album

Gotta go with Greenday's "American Idiot".

I had to put up with a couple of dissapointing albums this year, but for me, Alexisonfire - Watch Out!

Interpol - Antics

emotive by a perfect circle. I just got it today and it was released yesterday. Dark, somewhat creepy. Has some pretty grim predictions for the future but this is what the next few years will look like....

Runners up to Sparta: porcelain

Right now Emotive by A Perfect Circle.

In a month, The Nirvana Box Set.

Impossible to pick one but

Orbital - Blue Album
Soulwax - Any minute now
The Haunted - rEVOLVEr

are all up there along with many others ;)

--jaded

k-Os- The Joyful Rebellion
Jean Grae- This Week
Mos Def- The New Danger

How did I forget Velvet Revolver? I'll have to add them to the Spree and call it a tie.

Tom Waits - Real Gone

By far the best album this year imo

So many choices!

Hopesfall - A Types

The Blood Brothers - Crimes

The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free

Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose

The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat

Interpol - Antics

Fear Before the March of Flames - Art Damage

Mastodon - Leviathan

Head Automatica - Decadence

Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere

These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When His Antelopes Go Home

and so so so much more to choose from.....

Madvillian-Madvilliany

Nirvana box set.

The thing isn't even released yet and it's already the album of the year!

Nothing can remotely come close to that.

This was a bad year for music for me. Nothing stands out as amazing. Some good thinks were the new Fear Factory, Clutch, and Tomahawk.

Ummm hello??? Bowling for Soup? Hoobastank? Ashley Simpson???

Because typeface doesn't show how sarcastic I am, I'll have to inform you I HATE all of these... anyone with me???

Kristy Thirsk - Souvenir

Well, what DID you like? ;)

I myself enjoy Muse "Absolution" and Concrete Blonde "Mojave."

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 'Abattoir Blues'

Double CD set with some truly awesome moments of greatness.

Breaking Benjamins "We are not alone"

To me this album is a bit of a disappointment. "It Happens" and "Icarus" are good songs but the rest sounds like a bad Taking Back Sunday ripoff. They've definitely changed since they lost their old singer, and not in a good way.

Interpol - Antics

The Strokes - Room on Fire

Greenday - American Idiot

Pinback - Summer in Abaddon, which is really solid, but even only for "Fortress"
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets

Well, Trent Reznor promises us that the new album, not "Bleedthrough" anymore, now titled "With Teeth", will be out by the end of the year.. But since it isn't out yet....

Modest Mouse - Good news for people who love bad news

By the way, anybody heard the new Cake cd? I need to give it a listen..

There's a couple:

My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety
Northstar - Pollyanna
Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Jimmy Eat World - Futures

There's probably more but these stand out to me. Can't wait for the new Coheed and Cambria Album next year and Claudio's next comic in the Winter.

nightwish-once

Cool, there's two votes!

Absolution was 2003. 'Twas one of my top ten picks for that year.

Oh.

I read that the first video for it debuted in early 2004, leading me to believe that was when the album came out. I have only been familiar with it for a couple months or so.

So it had been out for about a year before I found out about it? Makes me wonder what other awesome music is out there now that I won't hear for a long time...

i really like the arcade fire - funeral

modest mouse was pretty good too. that seemed like a long time ago, wow.

Skinny Puppy's "The Greater Wrong of the Right" was awesome.

And Rammstein's "Reise, reise."

I've said it once and I'll say it again:

Barney Boogie-Barney

Hot Fuss by The Killers

Check out Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. :) www.epitonic.com and www.lookoutrecords.com have free and legal mp3s to sample.

I've been listening to Barney Boogie for quite a while(I pick up a friend's children from school). Mr. Knickerbocker is the best song on the album hands down.

Guerilla Black - Guerilla City

I don't know if they came out this year, but I got em this year:
Chronic Future - Lines in my Face
and
Slipknot - Vol. 3 The Subliminal Verses

Three of 'em on my list...

Pretend You're Alive - by Lovedrug
Demure - by Engine Down
Rejoicing in the Hands - by Devendra Banhart

(I got 'em this year, they may not all be new albums of '04)

The Roots - The Tipping Point

I can't remember the last new album I bought...

From what I've been listening to in the past few days I think I've narrowed my group to a top 6.

1. Mastodon - Leviathan
2. Head Automatica - Decadence
3. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
4. Fear Before the March of Flames - Art Damage
5. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
6. These Arms are Snakes - Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When its Antelopes Go Home

Good call man, I didn't think The Blood Brothers' new one was out yet.