I simply do not have the brain strength to sit down in putting these in any kind of order, outside of the Top 5. I'll be able to sleep at night; will you?

01. The Raveonettes || In & Out of Control
02. The Almighty Defenders || self titled
03. Brand New || Daisy
04. Crippled Black Phoenix || The Resurrectionists
05. Our Lady Peace || Burn, Burn

the rest (in no particular order)

Paul Miro || B.O.A.T.S.
Them Crooked Vultures || self titled
Arctic Monkeys || Humbug
Crippled Black Phoenix || Night Raider
Mono || Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Georgia's Horse || the Mammoth Sessions
Sophia || There are No Goodbyes
Amesours || self titled
The Films || O' Scorpio
Soulsavers || Broken
Bulletboys || 10cc Billionaire
Chevelle || Sci-Fi Crimes
Dear Hunter || Act III: Life & Death
Alice in Chains || Black Gives Way To Blue
Dead Man's Bones || self titled
King Khan & BBQ Show || Invisible Girl
Project 86 || Picket Fence Cartel
30 Seconds to Mars || This is War
Phoenix || Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Cauldron || Into the Night
Burn Halo || Burn Halo
Dredg || The Pariah, The Parrot, & The Delusion


Best Show of 2009:
Mono with a 26 piece Orchestra

Dammit. I have not heard that Raveonettes.

that new Alice In Chains is surprisingly good

agreed

i buy these

The new lead singer for Alice In Chains is my best friend's new neighbor...his baby cries fucking constantly.

didja know he wrote that hit for Dionne Farris...the one that goes "I know what you're doin, yeah"

project 86?


PROJECT 86?

^heh, yeah, that surprised me as well. Along with Chevelle.

Both bands I flirt with liking from time to time, but never enough that I actually buy (or re-buy) any of their albums.

...except for P86's Drawing The Black Lines. Too important in my high school years. Good to own, simply for nostalgia's sake*.

*plus, it is actually fairly decent.

Chevelle have been making the same record for 5 years now....Not that it is a bad thing. They have a good formula. They're heavy. I love the vocalists voice. They'll probably continually make my year end lists as long as they don't fuck with the formula too much...

Project 86, I have always enjoyed. My friend is a real fan-boy, but this record I found myself going back too more and more...

toured briefly with dredg

they have a solid live show

Actually, as I think of it, I think I still have Point #1, Chevelle's first album, somewhere. I loved the way that album opened up. I'm going to have to dig that out, now that this thread reminded me of it.

There third record, 'This Kind of Thinking Could Do Us In" is my favorite of theirs...

lead single 'The Clincher' is one of my top 10 favorite songs ever!

bulletboys should be more alarming.





dead man's bones
phoenix
&
king khan & bbq show
should make my top 20

Wow, I'm shocked it took this long to get a Bulletboys comment...

I don't expect my explanation to turn any heads at this point, but the band did kind of re-invent themselves over the last 5 years, and put out a pretty solid modern rock sounding record. long gone are the days of being a Van Halen rip-off...

i didn't know they were still even around.

i saw the bulletboys but was not alarmed

this was record #6.

You think Bulletboy talk will bring Kerri back!

i hate the 3 albums i've heard in your top 5 (1-3) and don't like the bands that are #4 and 5

TK - you ever get a chance to check out the latest Damone, or did you just not care for it?

Haha...When I saw that you were the latest poster to the thread, I knew a Damone comment was coming...

I liked Roll The Dice, but after the first few listens, i never really found myself wanting to go back to it....I'll give it another listen...

Hee hee. It's definitely the least of their 3 albums, but there's some good 'uns on there. In a just world, "Conquer Me" woulda been MASSIVE.

The band, sadly, is on "hiatus".

Feel better?

uh oh.

Katatonia's 'Night is the New Day' may shake up my Top 5....I got a week to decide!