i still need to check out Dinosaur Jr, Depesche Mode and Megadeth

bumping as the end of the year approaches

Yep, working on mine as we speak.

HAWTHORN Roddy!? Puh-Lease!

HAWTHORN Roddy!? Puh-Lease!

Oh yes, how could I POSSIBLY barrack for last year's Premiers and the most successful side of the last 50 years? How SILLY of me!

1. Devin Townsend: Addicted
2. Karnivool: Sound Awake
3. Exivious: Exivious
4. Dream Theater: Black Clouds and Silver Linings
5. Devin Townsend: Ki
6. Scar Symmetry: Dark Matter Dimensions
7. Porcupine Tree: The Incident
8. Epica: Design Your Universe
9. Cradle of Filth: Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder
10. Derek Sherinian: Molecular Heinosity

Unfortunately not as many Aussie releases as in previous years. That's a shame.

BTW, who do you follow?

[JuZ]

In no order and with little thought put into it:

DTP - Addicted
DTP - Ki
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Karnivool - Sound Awake
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
Nick Cave - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

I haven't heard Dredg, Depeche Mode or Mew's latest yet and I'm a fan of all three, so they may or may not have made it. I'm sure there are other albums I've enjoyed but they're the ones that stick in my mind.

I'm not going to make any lists, because there's just too many albums to put down. But I really enjoyed KI, and was really impressed with the guitar work and music in general on Megadeth's "Endgame". AND, Slayer's "World Painted Blood" absolutely lived up to my expectations. Slayer haters shoot me if you wish, but its a DAMN GOOD ALBUM. You are a fool if you are going to use the "same riff, same solo" argument just like every other stereotypical Slayer hater. Its an awesome CD.

HAWTHORN Roddy!? Puh-Lease!

Oh yes, how could I POSSIBLY barrack for last year's Premiers and the most successful side of the last 50 years? How SILLY of me!

shit 2009 season though. i mainly enjoyed that deciding match of Hawthon and Essendon

GO THE DONS!!!

It's been a great year for me - tons of class music in all sorts of genres - even in my favourite choices below I've got metal, rock, pop, electronica, avant garde and it's just the tip of a much longer list I've had to edit down.

Ben Frost - By The Throat
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Devin Townsend Project - Ki
The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.2
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
White - White
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Converge - Axe To Fall
Atom TM - Liedgut
Redshape - The Dance Paradox
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Faust - C'est Com...Com...Complique
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Cobalt - Gin
Volcano Choir - Unmap
King Midas Sound - Waiting For
Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
SPC EC0 - 3D
Kap Bambino - Blacklist

HAWTHORN Roddy!? Puh-Lease!

Oh yes, how could I POSSIBLY barrack for last year's Premiers and the most successful side of the last 50 years? How SILLY of me!

shit 2009 season though. i mainly enjoyed that deciding match of Hawthon and Essendon

GO THE DONS!!!

Watch us bounce back with great vengeance and furious anger (and 'unsociable Football') next year...

and enjoy while Matthew Knights fucks up the AFLs most successful club by dismembering their list and playing sub par football . next year for us will be a nightmare. or a KNIGTmare more like it (audience applauds)

Top 10 for me (in alphabetical order):

Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
Baroness - Blue Record
Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
Insomnium - Across The Dark
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Sólstafir - Köld
Spiritus Mortis - The God Behind The God
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade

[EphelDuath666]

ok, I'll try to write up my favorites of the year...in no particular order though. I hate particular orders.

Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
Devin Townsend Project - Ki
Anaal Nathrakh - In the constellation...
Alicia Keys - The Element of Freedom
Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Muse - The Resistance (yes, I like it. Here's a tissue if you want to cry into it....or whatever else you may want to do with the tissue)
Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Clutch - Strange Cousins from the West
Zombi - Spirit Animal
Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone

may have forgotten about one or two

I don't really listen to much metal anymore, but here it goes:

DTP - Addicted
Anneke van Giersbergen and Agua de Annique - In Your Room
Fever Ray - s/t
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Metric - Fantasies
DTP - Ki
Mew - No More Stories....
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin/Mindwinter Graces
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns


I listened to the new Alicia Keys today and it is also quite good. Not had long enough to rank it.

Disappointment:
Chris Cornell - Scream

and enjoy while Matthew Knights fucks up the AFLs most successful club by dismembering their list and playing sub par football . next year for us will be a nightmare. or a KNIGTmare more like it (audience applauds)

Sometimes you gotta go backwards to go forwards. Just ask Alastair Clarkson. Knights is trying to do the same thing.

Maybe we need to resurrect the AFL thread....