Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Well there's only about a month left, so there won't be too many more releases in 2005 (other than a bunch of hits packages).  So which album was the best of 2005?

I only bought 4 or 5 CDs that were released this year... Overall I'd have to give it to: Kanye West - Late Registration -- That's two classic hip hop albums in as many years.  It's got a lot of guest appearances, but none of them overshadow Kanye (except maybe Jay-Z).  Refreshing to hear something different than 50 Cent with mainstream appeal.

My other favourites are Gorillaz & Common... Rock didn't do much for me this year, I'm still mixed on Audioslave's new one.

My favourite has been:

Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
The Thrills - Let's bottle Bohemia (this was released in '04, but I discovered them this year so...)
Bright Eyes - I'm awake it's morning

Nine Inch Nails "With Teeth" is the best album of the year. Trent Reznor can still write angry rock songs as well as beautiful ballads.


Other great ones are Audioslave "Out Of Exile" (full of great songs) and Depeche Mode "Playing The Angel" (noise can be a beautiful thing)

Foo Fighters "In Your Honor" and Queens Of The Stone Age "Lullabies To Paralyze" were also enjoyable.


Best compilation of the year was Screaming Trees "Ocean Of Confusion".





/jarmo

Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

1. The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang - Their best album sense Some Girls.

2. Disturbed - 10,000 fist - Great "melodic" metal album.

Don't Believe The Truth - Oasis
A Bigger Bang - The Rolling Stones
Hot Fuss - The Killers (I think this might have been 2004 actually but I got the re-release which must have been 2005).

CKY - An Answer Can Be Found
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

For me there hasn't been a single album released this year worth the time it took to record....

Disturbed is not a metal band.

My favorites of this year.

Bruce Dickinson- Tyranny of Souls
Destruction- Inventor of Evil
Manilla Road- Gates of Fire
Slough Feg- Atavism
Judas Priest- Angel of Retribution
Shadow Gallery- Room V
Exodus- Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Candlemass- Candlemass
Battlecry- Battlecry  :hihi:

You need to listen to more music, then!  : ok:

Foo Fighters
Cold Play

*checks your list*

I stand by my position more firmly than ever :hihi:

However, Exodus's new album - i have heard good things about them, what style are they, and don't say ambient black metal :peace:

Thrash, of course. If you didn't know that, you need to start out with Bonded by Blood, the greatest thrash album of all time. BANG YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE STAGE!!!!

Oh wait, i remembered one decent album this year produced,

Opeth - Ghost Reveries - melodic death metal, or something like that - its a fine album, helped immensly by leaving cookie monster vocals to a minimum, shows off their superb musical abilities, great arrangements, and some powerhouse riffs, my album of the year, against zero competition.....victory by default :hihi:

How are those guys? I've heard them be compared to Tool :o

Rolling Stones - a Bigger Bang
Izzy Stradlin - Like a Dog
Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys The Legacy
Roger Waters - Ca Ira

Yep, very very much like Tool, the same kind of vocals and that incredible musical depth to everything they do

Do you recommend them? And, if you do, what album?

Opeth's best albums are Deliverance and Blackwater Park. I'm not a huge Opeth fan, but I listen to them sometimes. If you like Opeth, Agalloch and Arcturus are similar, but much better. Opeth has some decent songs I enjoy, but the others create some absolutely beautiful folk/ambient/post-black/whatever music. They're definitely album type bands, where it's the whole thing at once or nothing.

They are certainly worth a go - but i've only got their latest album so can't speak for the rest, if 10 min songs are ur thing then it might be worth a download or two.

Garbage- Bleed Like Me
Tori Amos- The Beekeeper
NIN- With Teeth
Bruce Springsteen- Devils and Dust
Martha Wainwright- s/t

Yes they are!  Maybe not as "metal" as the crap you listen to.

My picks for best this year:

Audioslave - Out Of Exile
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

Totally agree with NIN "With Teeth"

I am very unimpressed however with both Audioslave singles Ive heard. I guess Im just not a big Chris Cornell fan as I never liked Soundgarden either.


So my favorites would be:

Nine Inch Nails "With Teeth" hands down winner

Bon Jovi "Have A Nice Day

Joe Osburn EP

Tommy Lee Tommyland the ride

Yes they are!  Maybe not as "metal" as the crap you listen to.

Pay more attention to the song structures. They reuse the same boring, simple, power chord groove "riff" for the whole song, they have no or lame solos, the songs are stupidly downtuned, the guitars are rhythm driven instead of melody driven, the bass is funky and stands out too much, and they follow the forumulaic verse-chorus-verse pattern all the time. Oh yeah, there are the annoying soft verses and screaming "heavy" choruses too. They're a hard rock mallcore band, not heavy metal.

http://www.entertainment.inuk.com/music/numetalguide.html

I doubt if you've heard bands like Slough Feg, Shadow Gallery, or Manilla Road, since they're nearly universally loved in the metal scene. They're making some of the finest music we have today.

off the top of my head...

The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Buckcherry - 15


And the re-release/re-issue/best boxset (and I would have said this before the movie came out) - Johnny Cash: Legend

White Stripes, forgot all about that. definitely

weezer make believe

Tori Amos: The Beekeeper

Disturbed-10,000 Fists
Bon Jovi-Have A Nice Day
Audioslave-Out Of Exile
The Rolling Stones-A Bigger Bang

1. Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
2. Opeth - Ghost Reveries (and my copy's autographed by the band, w00t!)


Respect for mentioning three of my favorite bands in a sentence! :D So what do you think of the new Arcturus?

And Izzy listening to Opeth? What's the world coming to :hihi:

Plans - Death Cab For Cutie
With Teeth - Nine Inch Nails
Demon Days - Gorillaz
Set Yourself On Fire - Stars
Tyranny of Souls - Bruce Dickinson
Mafia - Black Label Society
Dont Believe the Truth - Oasis
Devils & Dust - Bruce Springsteen
Lullabies To Paralyze - Queens of the Stoneage
Out of Exile - Audioslave
Mighty Rearranger - Robert Plant
A Bigger Bang - The Rolling Stones
Chapter V - Staind
A Different Kind of Pain - Cold
Guero - Beck
In Your Honor - Foo Fighters
Octavarium - Dream Theater
Stand Up - Dave Matthews Band
Tage Mahal - Jon Oliva
Prarie Wind - Neil Young
Angel of Retribution - Judas Priest
Devils Playground - Billy Idol
Karma and Effect - Seether
X&Y - Coldplay
PT=MC2 - Pat Travers
The Future Embrace - Billy Corgan

Worst of the Year that I wasted money on:
Love, Angel, Music, Baby - Gwen Stefani.

This was a very disappointing year in my mind for music. But, I'd have to say With Teeth by Nine Inch Nails as my favorite.

Nine Inch Nails! With Teeth. Love that CD.

The CDs by Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade are awesome.
Both are bands out of Montreal and have a very distinct sound. They make me happy to be alive in this time of music

Wow, could you narrow it down a little?  :P

A lot of people have said "With Teeth", is it really that good?  I've heard 3 songs from it (The Hand That Feeds, Right Where It Belongs & Only)... I thought the first two were great, but I didn't really like the 'talking' deal on Only.  A few friends didn't seem too enthusiastic about the album either.  Is the rest of the album on par with The Hand That Feeds & Right Where It Belongs?... will you still be listening to it in a couple of years?

Its not as layered as past NIN CDs. It's probably about as close to a "full band" type CD that NIN will make. It feels really raw to me, even though it still has plenty of weird sounds throughout.

But I really think it's an amazing CD. It's just not as "big" as The Fragile or The Downward Spiral. Its a CD of seperate songs... No stories through the lyrics or themes in songs. Just a "regular" CD.

I'd really recomend it though!

Ive just listened to complete albums this year, and both are fantasticos... so they are :

Green Day - American Idiot (Never thought I would like this kind of music)

Izzy Stradlin - Like a Dog (Excellent album, really underrated)

Even when the latter is better...

take care have fun dont smoke too much of maria, and juana either...  ;)


@;--,-.-.,--,.-,.-- tpr

'05 did'nt have much for me. I enjoyed With Teeth.. Queens of The Stone Age's album.. but my favorite? Enter The Chicken by Buckethead! wo0o0o.

I havent gotten a hold of the new stradlin album yet though.. I would love it hear it

U2's 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb'. The best release of 2005 IMO.  : ok:

2005 was so slow that these guys are saying albums from 2004 are the best of 2005!  :o

you are all wrong,  every single one of you!

hahah sorry man, by the way Its almost like MTV does, awarding songs from past years ;)

1. L.A. Guns - Tales From the Strip

2. Izzy Stradlin - Like A Dog

3. Buckethead & Friends - Enter The Chicken

4. Buckethead - Kaleidoscalp


/lastroots

Buckets Kaleidoscalp? I thought it was released yesterday, and you say you already listened to it?

Hellacopters - Rock & Roll Is Dead
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites

It took me a while to get used to the new singer, but the rest of the band is as solid as ever. It might grow on me, but currently it's a great album but not quite album of the year material for me.

Yep, I always order albums from www.jpc.de and usually get them on the day of release or one day after at the latest.


/lastroots

Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

Audioslave - Out Of Exile

Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil (3)
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth (2)
Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day
Billy Idol - Devil's Playground
Frameshift - An Absence of Empathy (1)
Hanoi Rocks - Another Hostile Takeover
The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
The Glitterati - The Glitterati

When does The Darkness' album come out?

I'm suprised there hasn't been any "Well I know it's not out yet, but I know that The Darkness will be my favourite of the year"... Is it coming in the next couple of weeks or in 2006?  I'm starting to hear the new single on the radio a bunch.

I got kinda tired of the Foo Fighters album pretty quickly.  :-\

This may be old and outdated, but the Official Website states that the album will be released in the UK in just a few days. Nov 28th. In North America will be released a month later...

http://www.thedarknessrock.com/news/

City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold by far the best album this year, Out of exile by audioslave was pretty good too.  i personally hate disturbed, the guys vocals are exactly the same in everysong, he hits the same notes at the same point in the measure everytime, i hate them sooo much. and bigger bang by the stones was good too.

Oops  :confused:

X&Y - Coldplay
With Teeth - NIN
A Bigger Bang - Rolling Stones
HTDAAB - U2
INXS - Switch

Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyse
N.I.N. - With Teeth
The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell And Back (AMAZING? :love: :love:)
Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth
Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day
Madonna - Confessions On A Dance Floor
The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang

Oasis - Dont Believe The Truth

Any good?

frameshift - an absence of empathy
l.a. guns - tales from the strip
buckethead - enter the chicken

Go on, buy it, you'll probably really like it.  :peace:

They are generally thrash metal and if you like Slayer-type music then you'll probably like this. It's a bit like Slayer but I find it more interesting (not to mention the solos sound better!).

If you do like their new one then don't hesitate to buy 'Tempo of the Damned', their album of 2004. It's a really fun album.

 : ok:

The next time i go on a cd binge i will include one of their albums somewhere :)

If you are on a cd binge, pick up the new CKY album : ok:

www.ckyalliance.com


You can try some small samples on the media player on the left off this webpage. ;)

My album of the year is Fort Minor's new album, pushing Opeth's latest into second place. Really enjoying this album.

QOTSA  - Lullabies
White Stripes - Get behind me...

and even though theyre 2004 albums I only got them in 05:

The Killers - Hot fuss
U2 - How to dismantle...