What do you think are the top 5 albums that have been released this year?

I'd have to say, in no particular order:

Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
Sage Francis - Healthy Distrust
The Rise - Reclamation Process

Honorable Mention:
Kanye West - Late Registration
Dream Theater - Octavarium (too many weak songs to be in the top 5, but the title track is sublime)
Mudvayne - Lost and Found (their first album was a masterpiece [because they worked on it for over 5 years], and they've gotten progressively worse)
Screams of Erida - Burn the World (only an EP....)
Slipknot - Subliminal Verses
System of a Down - Mezmerize (besides most of Steal This Album, weakest album they've made)
Behold...The Arctopus - Nano-nucleonic Cyborg Summoning (again, only an EP...)

Of course, this is completely disregarding the fact that I haven't yet listened to:
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1
The Plot to Blow Up THe Eiffel Tower - Love in the Fascist Brothel
Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel To Anything
Hella - Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard
Bloodhoung Gang - Hefty Fine

all of which could very well be in the running for top of the year.

Ok, that's my big music post for the year, I'm beat.

1. NIN-with teeth
2. 311-dont tread on me
3. QOTSA-Lullabies to Paralyze
4. Staind-Chapter V
5. 30 seconds to mars-A Beautiful Lie


honorable mention- Common-BE

hard to come up with, i bought a lot of CDs this year that came out quite some time ago.

System of a Down - Hypnotize
Bloodsimple - A Cruel World
Roadrunner United - The All Star Sessions
Dope - American Apathy
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists


Those aren't in any particular order

Clutch - RobotHive/Exodus

I wasn't too happy with the new NIN

Mindless Self Induglence - You'll Rebel to Anything (as long as it's not challenging)

Steal this album was all B-sides from the recordings of toxicity, so you can't complian there.

My top 5:
SOAD: Mesmerize
SOAD: Hypnotize
Gorillaz: Demon Days
AudioSlave: Out of Excile
Seether: Karma and Effect

Is funny. The more sober Mudvayne gets, the less people seem to like their music. Personally, I much prefer Lost and Found to LD50.

i couldnt remember if that came out this or last year, i like it a lot but i couldnt prefer one to the other, its more of a transistion band.

and i cant stand audioslave anymore, the more i hear it, i just want rage and soundgarden back. so it was a good album but it makes me sad

I can't stand Audioslave. His voice is so monotonic

i must admit they are awesome live, morello does some awesome solos

but i cant listen to them and not think how much i miss rage

Lost and Found seems to generic to me. I was a huge fan of The End of All Things to Come, great album when I was more in to heavier music. Also quite unique. L.D. 50 was pretty good, Death Blooms and the various mixes of Dig are pretty cool.

On another not I just torrented the Bloodsimple album, not qutie through it yet but so far I'd say it is awesome....nice to hear some really good heavier music again.

I think I want to have your babies. Or you can have mine, whatever works for you.

or I guess I could just say QFT.

Correct, but they released it as an album, so I CAN complain. Or actually, I'm not complaining, I still love the album, I just don't consider it to be "great."

Well, considering I hardly even listen to any modern music, I'll just put up about the only 5 albums I have gotten this year, in no particular order:

Audioslave - Out of Exile (still wish Rage and Soundgarden were around though)
Alkaline Trio - Crimson
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have it so much Better
The Bravery - The Bravery

And even though its not out yet, it will be in a week and a half and it will most certainly rock:
The Darkness - One Way Ticket to Hell... And Back!

I guess since I'm the only person to listen to jazz, I'll throw in my top 5 jazz albums of the year.

Wayne Shorter - Beyond the Sound Barrier
SFJazz Collective - Inaugural Season Live
Joshua Redman - Momentum
Keith Jarrett - Radiance
Miguel Zenon - Jibaro