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These are not, by any means, the best albums released overall this year. This is a list of my personal favorites that came out in 2008:


1. Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust - Sigur Rós
Best track: Vid spilum endalaust

2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Best track: Blue Ridge Mountains

3. Bring Me Your Love - City and Colour
Best track: Sleeping Sickness

4. The Glass Passenger - Jack's Mannequin
Best track: Caves

5. Not Animal - Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Best track: A Children's Crusade on Acid

6. Mending - The New Frontiers
Best track: The Day You Fell Apart

7. The Sucker Punch Show - Lovedrug
Best track: Blood Like

8. We All Need a Reason To Believe - Valencia
Best track: Listen Up

9. Feed the Animals - Girl Talk
Best track: Still Here

10. Saturdays=Youth - M83
Best track: We Own The Sky

11. Only By the Night - Kings of Leon
Best track: Use Somebody

12. Can't Love, Can't Hurt - Augustana
Best track: Hey Now

13. Champion - The Audition
Best track: Hell To Sell

14. Illuminate - Lydia
Best track: This Is Twice Now

15. The Alchemy Index 3 & 4: Air & Earth - Thrice
Best track: A Song for Milly Michaelson

16. Innerpartysystem - Innerpartysystem
Best track: New Poetry

17. Wake - Brightwood
Best track: Taken

18. Yellow & Elephant EP - Eye Alaska
Best track: I Knew You'd Never Fly

19. Rhythm, Chord & Melody - The Reign Of Kindo
Best track: Let It Go

20. You Are My Sunshine - Copeland
Best track: Should You Return

21. Gossip In the Grain - Ray LaMontagne
Best track: I Still Care for You

22. Razia's Shadow - Forgive Durden
Best track: Toba the Tura (ft. Chris Conley)

23. Avalon - Anthony Green
Best track: Stonehearted Man

24. Konk - The Kooks
Best track: Do You Wanna

25. Whisper War - The Cab
Best track: Risky Business

This is the playlist I put on when I'm trying to relax or fall asleep. It's pretty long, but worth it. If you don't have these songs, you absolutely need to get them.


1. Sleeper 1972 - Manchester Orchestra
2. Close Your Eyes - Young Love
3. Japanese Gum - Her Space Holiday
4. On A Freezing Chicago Street - Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
5. Concrete Boots - Immoor
6. Simple, Starving To Be Safe - Daphne Loves Derby
7. Instead Of Beauty, Branding - After The Sirens
8. Little Child - The Panic Division
9. How Do I Fix My Head - Straylight Run
10. The City Lights - Umbrellas
11. Away to the Heart - Noise Ratchet
12. You Remind Me Of Home - Ben Gibbard
13. Motionless - Hotel Lights
14. Earth And Venus - Andy Davis
15. Holiday in Spain - Number One Fan
16. Once More With Feeling - Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
17. Picture - Mute Math
18. City Dreamer - The Go Find
19. Paper Bag - Dear and the Headlights
20. Someone Else's Life - Joshua Radin
21. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
22. Acoustic #3 - Goo Goo Dolls
23. Echo - Incubus
24. Lover's Lie (Acoustic) - Vedera
25. Dust Went Flying - Cassino
26. Underwear - Sugarcult
27. Cavanaugh Park - Something Corporate
28. The Circumstances - ...Of Sinking Ships
29. Lovesick - Celebrity
30. The Boy Who Stopped the World - Aaron Sprinkle
31. I'd Rather Be Wine Drunk - The City on Film
34. Stay Away - The Honorary Title
35. Half - Ben Forrest Davis
36. no you drop it - Inkwell
37. The Ocean - Mae
38. couches in alleys - Styrofoam
39. In The Deep - Bird York
40. Easy Like A Sunday Morning - Transit Studio
41. Hands Running Down and In Your Clothes - De Lotus Repèré
42. Writings On The Wall - The Album Leaf
43. The Night They Blew Up The Moon - Hot Rod Circuit
44. Starálfur - Sigur Rós
45. A Hole In The World (Acoustic) - Thursday
46. A Thousand Years - Brandtson
47. She Was Only in It for the Rain - Rocky Votolato
48. What Do You Go Home To? - Explosions in the Sky
49. Play Crack the Sky - Brand New
50. The Grace - Neverending White Lights
51. Most Nights - Owen
52. Something Isn't Right Here - The Juliana Theory
53. Fever Dream - Iron & Wine
54. Casey's Song - City and Colour
55. Two Zero Two - Northstar
56. No Good At Saying Sorry (One More Chance) - The Early November
57. Loneliest Girl in the World - Cary Brothers
58. Pachuca Sunrise (Alias Remix) - Minus the Bear
59. Kickin' Myself - As Tall as Lions
60. Sleep - Copeland
61. A Message (Acoustic) - Park
62. Inevitable - Anberlin
63. Spiders (Acoustic) - Lovedrug
64. Second Chances - Paper Route
65. There is None - The Working Title

(even though the date of the entry never changes, this is always being updated)


3OH!3 (6)

A Change of Pace (4)
A Cursive Memory (3)
A Day to Remember
A Loss For Words
A Static Lullaby
A Thorn for Every Heart (2)
A Weekend Flight
Abe Vigoda
The Academy Is...
Acceptance
Act As If
Aimee Allen (2)
The All-American Rejects
All Time Low (9)
Allister (3)
The Almost
Amber Pacific
Anarbor (4)
Anathallo (2)
Anberlin (6)
Andrew McMahon
Armor for Sleep
Army of Freshmen
As Cities Burn
As Tall as Lions (5)
The Ataris (2)
Atreyu
The Audition
August Burns Red
Aushua (3)
Autopilot Off
Avenged Sevenfold

Bayside (2)
Beat Union
Best Interest (10)
Between the Trees
Blaqk Audio
The Bled
blink-182
Bowling for Soup
Boys Like Girls (7)
Boys Night Out (3)
Brand New (7)
Brandtson
Breathe Carolina (2)
Brian Bonz
The Bridges
Brighten
Broadway Calls
The Brobecks (2)

The Cab
Cartel (4)
Cary Brothers
The Chase
Chasing Victory
The Cinematics
Circa Survive (5)
City and Colour
The City Drive (4)
The Classic Crime (2)
Club of the Sons
Cobra Starship
Coheed and Cambria
Copeland (4)
Cordova
Coretta Scott
Curt Phillips
Cute Is What We Aim For (3)

Damone
Danger Radio
The Dangerous Summer
Daphne Loves Derby (3)
Dashboard Confessional
Days Away (3)
Dear and the Headlights (2)
Denver Harbor
Discover America
Don't Look Down (2)
Down for the Count (3)
Down to Earth Approach (2)
The Drive
Dropping Daylight (2)
The Duke Spirit

E>K>U>K
The Early November (5)
Edison Glass
Eisley (3)
Emanuel (3)
Emery (2)
Energy
Envy on the Coast (2)
Eric Hutchinson (2)
Evaline (2)
Every Avenue (2)
Every Time I Die (2)
Everybody Else (3)
Eye Alaska (2)

The Faint
Fall Out Boy (4)
Family Force 5
Far-Less
Fiasco!
Fight Fair
Finch (2)
Firescape
Fletch
The Fold
Forgive Durden
The Format (5)
Foxy Shazam
The Fray (3)
From First to Last (2)
Full Switch Coma
Further Seems Forever

Gatsby's American Dream (4)
Get Back Loretta
Ghostland Observatory (2)
Girl in a Coma
Gomez
Goodbyetomorrow
Grace Gale
The Graduate (5)
Greeley Estates (2)
Gym Class Heroes

Haste the Day
Hellogoodbye (6)
Hey Mercedes
Hidden in Plain View (2)
The Higher (5)
Hit the Lights
Home Grown (3)
The Honorary Title (3)
Hot Rod Circuit (2)
Houston Calls (5)
The Human Abstract
The Hush Sound

I Am the Avalanche
Idiot Pilot
Innaway
Innerpartysystem (2)

Jack's Mannequin (3)
The Jakes
JamisonParker (4)
Jenoah
Jesse Lacey
Jimmy Eat World (2)
John Ralston
The Jonas Brothers
The Juliana Theory (2)
The Junior Varsity
Just Off Turner
Just Surrender (3)

Keating
Kevin Devine (4)

Liam and Me
Limbeck (3)
Locksley
Love you long time (2)
Lovedrug (3)
Lydia
The Lyndsay Diaries

M83
Madcap (2)
Mae (7)
The Maine
Manchester Orchestra (3)
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Maritime
Mat Kearney
Matchbook Romance (4)
The Matches (3)
Mates of State
Mayday Parade
Meg & Dia (2)
Mêlée (5)
Meriwether
Mest
mewithoutYou
Michael Johns
Moneen (2)
Monsters of Folk
Monty Are I
Morning Call
Motion City Soundtrack (6)
The Movielife
Mute Math (6)
My American Heart (7)

Name Taken
The New Amsterdams
New Atlantic
New Found Glory (4)
Nightmare of You (3)
Normal Like You
Nothing Ever Stays
Number One Fan
Nural (4)

O.A.R.
The Outline (3)
Over It (2)
Owen

The Panic Division (2)
Panic at the Disco (2)
Paper Rival (2)
Paramore
Pelican
Permanent Me
The Pink Spiders
Plain White T's (6)
PlayRadioPlay! (4)
Portugal. The Man (2)
Powerspace

Quietdrive

Rainer Maria
The Receiving End of Sirens (2)
The Redwalls
Renfue
Reubens Accomplice
River City Rebels
The Rocket Summer (7)
Rocky Votolato
Ronnie Day
Rookie Of The Year (4)
Rooney (2)
Roses Are Red (2)
Rufio (3)
Rx Bandits (2)

S.T.U.N. (2)
Satisfaction
Saves the Day (4)
Say Anything (3)
Secondhand Serenade (2)
Secret Lives of the Freemasons
Self Against City (4)
Senses Fail (5)
Sherwood
Sigur Rós
The Sleeping
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Something Corporate (2)
Something For Rockets
The Spill Canvas (5)
Spitalfield (2)
The Starting Line (7)
The Status
Steel Train
Story of the Year (3)
Straylight Run
Street to Nowhere
Sugar Ray
Sugarcult (4)
Sullivan

Taking Back Sunday (2)
Tegan and Sara
Terminal
Them Terribles
Thrice (3)
Thursday (2)
Ticker Tape Parade
Transit Studio (2)
The Transit War
Treaty of Paris (2)

Underoath
Understated (3)
The Used

Valencia (4)
Vast Atlantic
Vedera (2)
Vogue In The Movement

Waking Ashland (4)
Watashi Wa
We Are Lions (4)
We Shot The Moon (4)
We The Kings (3)
Weatherbox
Weezer
What Laura Says Thinks And Feels
William Tell (2)
The Wonder Years
The Working Title

Yeasayer
Yellowcard (3)
You, Me, and Everyone We Know
Young Love (3)

If you don't agree with my opinions... well, that's unfortunate. Opinions are a personal thing, but if you'd like to comment on any of these, feel free.



Top 20 Best Albums of 2006:
(In no particular order, since I couldn't pick my favorite)

1. Dead Poetic - Vices
[Favorite track: Paralytic]

2. The Format - Dog Problems
[Favorite track: Oceans]

3. Boys Like Girls - Boys Like Girls
[Favorite track: Five Minutes to Midnight]

4. A Change of Pace - Prepare the Masses
[Favorite track: War In Your Bedroom]

5. Brandtson - Hello Control
[Favorite track: Earthquakes & Sharks]

6. Portugal. The Man - Waiter: "You Vultures!"
[Favorite track: Chicago]

7. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
[Favorite track: Jesus Christ]

8. As Tall as Lions - As Tall As Lions
[Favorite track: Love Love Love (Love Love)]

9. Sugarcult - Lights Out
[Favorite track: Shaking]

10. Mute Math - Mute Math
[Favorite track: You Are Mine]

11. The Working Title - About Face
[Favorite track: Glorious]

12. Park - Building a Better
[Favorite track: La Amoureux]

13. Inkwell - These Stars Are Monsters
[Favorite track: No You Drop It]

14. The Classic Crime - Albatross
[Favorite track: Who Needs Air]

15. Monty Are I - Wall of People
[Favorite track: Dublin Waltz]

16. Evaline - Postpartum Modesty. A Portrait of Skin EP
[Favorite Track: La De Da]

17. Showbread - Age of Reptiles
[Favorite track: Oh! Emetophobia!]

18. Umbrellas - Illuminare
[Favorite track: Angel or Demon]

19. Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat
[Favorite track: Love Affair]

20. Envy on the Coast - Envy on the Coast EP
[Favorite track: You Won't Hear This]



Others worth mentioning:

1. Hit the Lights - This Is a Stick Up...Don't Make It A Murder
[Favorite track: Speakers Blown]

2. Run Kid Run - This Is Who We Are
[Favorite track: We've Only Just Begun]

3. Fair - The Best-Worst Case Scenario
[Favorite track: Monday]

4. The City Drive - Always Moving Never Stopping
[Favorite track: West Coast Wind]

5. Dropping Daylight - Brace Yourself
[Favorite track: Apologies]

6. Margot & The Nuclear So & So's - The Dust of Retreat
[Favorite track: Quiet As a Mouse]

7. Saosin - Saosin
[Favorite track: You're Not Alone]

8. The Early November - The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path
[Favorite track: No Good At Saying Sorry (One More Chance)]

9. Cute Is What We Aim For - The Same Old Blood Rush With a New Touch
[Favorite track: The Curse of Curves]

10. Heavens - Patent Pending
[Favorite track: Another Night]

11. John Ralston - Needle Bed
[Favorite track: When We Are Cats]

12. Men Women & Children - Men Women & Children
[Favorite track: Vowels]



Disappointments:

1. Cobra Starship - While The City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets
Don't get me wrong, I love Gabe. I was always a big Midtown fan, and I loved the first few songs of this album. But towards the middle it just gets... boring. The music is still upbeat & such, but it just doesn't do it for me. The first half is great, but the other half was pretty lame.

2. He Is Legend - Suck Out the Poison
I had heard they had made a huge change, and I admit, it's not entirely horrible. I'm trying to keep an open mind, or maybe I'm just trying to be hopeful that it'll GET good, but it's just not working out for me so far. It's not the same He Is Legend to me. Though I admit the first track is good.

3. Spitalfield - Better Than Knowing Where You Are
The more I listen to it, it's just starting to grow on me, but baaaarely. It doesn't even touch Remember Right Now. This doesn't, and Stop Doing Bad Things didn't. End of story.

4. Forgive Durden - Wonderland
I don't know, it's alright... I just happen to like their older stuff better. Just a personal preference. I was never the biggest fan of his voice anyway.

5. Gatsby's American Dream - Gatsby's American Dream
It's not bad, at all. I love Gatsby's. I think they deserve more credit than they get... but I fucking loved Volcano, so I figured that would be hard to come close to for me. This album just didn't blow me away like the others did.



Shouldn't have even bothered:

1. From First to Last
Pure shit.

2. Four Letter Lie
Hm, did Underoath change their name? I tried to make myself like this album. Continually. I even listened to it all the way through three or four times. My friends had told me good things about them, so I did my best to keep an open mind, but I couldn't hold out much longer.

3. Over It
Every one of their songs sounds.. exactly.. the fucking.. same. I don't know why I still give them a chance.

4. Hellogoodbye
Okay, don't get me wrong, their EP was disgustingly addicting, I was seeing their local shows every month or two in 04, but this... what the fuck was this? I saw them last July on one of their first headlining tours, and a portion of the set was great, they got everybody dancing. But at the end, they came out in these stupid costumes & just made complete asses out of themselves. I'm all for having fun, but I'm just wondering when they're going to grow up.

5. Aiden
Hahahahaha. I could go on for hours about how shitty this band is, I just had to put them here for my own entertainment. Honestly, the biggest joke ever.

A
First: A Change of Pace
Favorite: A Change of Pace
Last: Last: Avenged Sevenfold

B
First: Bandcamp
Favorite: Brand New / Brandtson
Last: The Burning Season

C
First: Cartel
Favorite: Copeland
Last: Cute Is What We Aim For

D
First: Damien Rice
Favorite: Dead Poetic
Last: Dustin Kensrue

E
First: The Early November
Favorite: Emery
Last: The Exies

F
First: Facing New York
Favorite: The Format
Last: Further Seems Forever

G
First: Gang of Four
Favorite: Gatsby's American Dream
Last: Gym Class Heroes

H
First: Haste the Day
Favorite: He Is Legend
Last: Howie Day

I
First: I Am the Avalanche
Favorite: Inkwell
Last: Ivory

J
First: Jack's Mannequin
Favorite: JamisonParker
Last: Just Surrender

K
First: Karate High School
Favorite: Keating
Last: Kisschasy

L
First: Last Winter
Favorite: Lovedrug / Lorene Drive
Last: Ludo

M
First: Madcap
Favorite: Mute Math
Last: My Favorite Highway

N
First: Name Taken
Favorite: Nightmare of You
Last: Nural

O
First: Oasis
Favorite: Owen
Last: Owen

P
First: The Panic Division
Favorite: The Panic Division
Last: Punchline

Q
First: Quietdrive
Favorite: Quietdrive
Last: Quietdrive

R
First: The Rasmus
Favorite: The Rocket Summer
Last: Ryan Gillmor

S
First: S.T.U.N.
Favorite: Sugarcult
Last: The Sunstreak

T
First: Taking Back Sunday
Favorite: Thursday
Last: Tyler Read

U
First: Ultimate Fakebook
Favorite: Umbrellas
Last: The Used

V
First: Valencia
Favorite: Vedera
Last: The Verve

W
First: Waiting for Autumn
Favorite: The Working Title
Last: The Working Title

X
--

Y
First: Yellow Second
Favorite: Young Love
Last: Young Love

Z
First: Zella Mayzell
Favorite: Zero 7
Last: Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer

you know the deal.
knock yourselves out.


1. It's biblical how fucked my sleep can be
Miss Delaney

2. You're the reason I cannot forget this season or the letter when you first referred to it
Ape Dos Mil

3. Just because he's a painter and he loves you, it doesn't mean that he has got a clue
Thumbelina

4. It's the glamour that kills
I Am Hollywood

5. Night has found its way here, and all I can hear are memories shrill and clear
Treasures

6. I want to make it feel alright, hold you through the dark tonight
Dark

7. One shot is all that I would need, tonight I'll have you on your knees
She Broke My Heart, So I Broke His Jaw

8. You can't escape now, I've got you locked inside this room
It's Warmer In The Basement

9. I miss the softness of your sound, the taste of you left in my mouth
Mississippi Burning

10. Like alcohol and coffee beans, dance floors and magazines
Dog Problems

11. 20 hours deep; I'm drowning myself in thoughts of you and your company
Hammers and Hearts

12. There's not a drop of your innocence when you shiver... don't go love, stay all night, now you're mine
War in Your Bedroom

13. Make love, hate yourself, but baby I'm all yours
Make Tonight

14. You know that we were always funny in a car crash sort of way
I Got Punched in the Nose for Sticking My Face in Other People's Business

15. I spend hours in front of the mirror making my hair elegantly disheveled
Admit It!!!

16. I need some running frantic notes, some lines of panic and desperation
Again and Again

17. I could worry myself to death about you, hope you get there safely
Safely

18. Everyday I compare your face from sweet beginnings to your bitter end
Hello Houston

19. I've got to write these songs so you remember that you believe in music
Margaritas and Cock

20. It's bravery to stay away from ending life before it's over
Mercy Medical

21. Shooting bullets through my blood, the bullets barely missed my brain
Rigged and Ready

22. We're bringing bodies back to life just like we all were born tonight
Get Ready (Hot Machete)

23. Some rules are made with all intentions to break
Jaws Theme Swimming

24. You were always cute, but goddamn, you got hot
Not Over You Yet

25. Maybe you're mistaken for someone who cares
Act Appalled

26. All these promises won't turn golden until you touch them
Permanent

27. I'm drowning, but I don't care, cause when you got what I got, what I got, you don't need air
Who Needs Air

28. Every time they put her down, she makes a fist and the tears roll down
Saying Goodbye

29. She lured him in with a masochistic kiss and he wished he could be anywhere, be anywhere but here
Planning a Prison Break

30. You live the life you're given with the storms outside
Watch the Sky

1. I was minding my own business when you sought me out to shoot me down

2. I imagine you undressing and I can barely stand
The Hotline

3. She paints on her cute synthetic personality
Make Up

4. Better take off that attitude, but keep on those high heeled shoes

5. Just something that the east coast does to me, makes me forget who I am
Janet

6. Say what you want but I know what you're thinking
Hold Nothing Back

7. Flaws and faults are held so dear
Emergency Room Romantic

8. All I ever do is picture you smiling, and then picture you leaving
Glass In The Trees

9. You change your clothes and your hair, but I can't change your mind
Learning to Fall

10. We'll still need California and maybe someday we'll call it home

11. It's like when I'm without you, things just fall apart
Make My Heart Attack

12. Knowing well that the farthest place from heaven lies just right inside your room

13. These break up songs make sense again, and I really wish they didn't
Summer Wind Was Always Our Song

14. Evil has a sweet, sweet scent
Your Only Escape

15. My face has barely any feeling left anymore, I’m shivering hard now
Frost and Front Steps

16. The morning after I will kiss your ghost, and let go
The Greatest Actor Alive...

17. Just as we see some sky I turn my head and then I close my eyes
Ashala Rock

18. One stab to the center of your heart, one cut is all you ever need
Ephemeral Addictions

19. So just drop it and let's make out
Let's Go Home

20. As we kiss hard on the lips and swear this year will be better than the last
Jet Black New Year

21. The apparitions tango to the sound of their heels tapping
...Then I Defy You, Stars

22. I remember the first time I saw you on heroin, a hero in my eyes, a hero in disguise
No Hero

23. Baby, you don't wanna make me cry or I will fill you with the emptiness inside

24. This is my panic, this is my call to arms
Young And Aspiring

25. I have reasons to believe that I'm not the only one you spend this time with
Smile in Your Sleep

26. Just now the curtain's folding, it falls and lies to rest
Posed to Death

27. I'm out and on the parkway, patient and waiting for headlights
Ghost Man on Third

28. Put up or shut up, we're not wasting time again
Break Out! Break Out!

29. Don't leave just yet, quiet on the set

30. Your eyes, seamless and sure
Silhouette





Heavens
Men Women & Children
Northstar
Say Anything
The Fully Down
The Juliana Theory

1. Time is of essence like your kiss
Audrey, Start the Revolution

2. I saw the world spin beneath you and scatter like ice from the spoon
Black Balloon

3. So now it's midnight and she leans against the wind

4. A broken heart don't feel so bad
Let It Go

5. I'll put the fire out, extinguish everything, might even forget your name
Exit, Emergency

6. Last night I saw your life flash before my eyes, why did I laugh so hard baby?
Lipgloss and Letdown

7. My lungs then fill with this new found grace
I Was so Alone

8. The first time I saw a body bend that way, I realized that we're more beautiful dead than alive
A Torrid Love Affair

9. I swear to god if you hurt me I will leap
Self-Conclusion

10. Anymore gutless and you'd be dead
These Backs Are Made for Stabbing

11. Sat around and thought about destiny
The Politics of Life

12. Every now and again sometimes, I get lost on the wind of a dream
Anything

13. Something isn't right in this world called confusion
Something Isn't Right Here

14. Claimed you as my only hope and watched the floor as you retreated
The Good Fight

15. It's not fair to find you there waiting for me
Fluxy

16. Baby girl, twist away
Baby Girl

17. You keep coming back disassembled and I keep losing this fight
Fractions

18. Beneath the rafters the angels sing
The Ground Folds

19. I'll stay awake just to know you're still here

20. Staring out of the stands at a rock n roll band
Little

21. Count the moons and stars but please stop fighting wars with me

22. And it's been so long since I've seen your eyes this cold

23. You lazy hipsters make me sick
Dear Scene, I Wish I Were Deaf

24. Congratulations, go home now
In Fear and Faith

25. Did you know when you move I breathe?




Cartel
Chasing Victory
Eighteen Visions
Roses Are Red
Vedera