Blasphemy.

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.

Spartak

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

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almostaugust

Beastie Boys- To the five Burroughs.

Jeff

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

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--Charles Bukowski

andrewtayloruk

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?)

zenmaster10665

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

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He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
-Kurt Vonnegut

djflish

The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free

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

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Europes two great narcotics, Alcohol and Christianity.
I know which one I prefer.

blitz.fenix

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

roachboy

james tenney--postal pieces

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

FoolThemAll

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets

Honorable mention: Mason Jennings - Use Your Voice

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I wonder if we're stuck in Rome.

mercury-hg

Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake

or

Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache

JosephSelf

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.

Ramallah

Unearth - The Oncoming Storm

Harry Cox

"Together, We're Heavy" The Polyphonic Spree

maximus

straylight run "straylight run"

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hawkeye

Velvet Revolver::Contraband

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

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You're just a giant ball
of love, covered in anger.

Derwood

I'm with you.

I'd also list:

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

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"You can't shoot a country until it becomes a democracy." - Willravel

k1ng

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

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"Delight in excellence is easily confused with snobbery by the ignorant." -Joseph Epstein

Blasphemy.

Maybe even The Fiery Furnaces in my opinion.

tspikes51

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

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"I'm telling you, we need to get rid of a few people or a million."
-Maddox

cheeterbo

orbital - blue album

wraithhibn

Gotta go with Greenday's "American Idiot".

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scott_p_1

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

mused76

Interpol - Antics

anti fishstick

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

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YaWhateva

Right now Emotive by A Perfect Circle.

In a month, The Nirvana Box Set.

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"This is my United States of Whateva!"

Jadedfox

Impossible to pick one but

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

are all up there along with many others

--jaded

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Kagemusha222

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

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Harry Cox

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

Architeuthis

Tom Waits - Real Gone

By far the best album this year imo

KWSN

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.....

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alansmithee

Madvillian-Madvilliany

Stompy

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.

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I love lamp.

kutulu

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.

Wheat King

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???

zhevek

Kristy Thirsk - Souvenir

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anleja

Well, what DID you like?

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

Ella

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 'Abattoir Blues'

Double CD set with some truly awesome moments of greatness.

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ToiletDuck

Breaking Benjamins "We are not alone"

Ramallah

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.