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I can't really think of anything off the top of my head that was just earth-shatteringly great.

I think it may be Modest Mouse's "Good News For People Who Love Bad News" by default more than anything else...

for me...

Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

Hmm...probably

Head Automatica -Decadance

however My Checmical Romance released ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' which was great

When It Falls - Zero 7

The Empire Strikes First- by Bad Religion

i was SOO disappointed with that MCR album

I love that album!

Really? Why?

I liked it actually

it was like 10 steps down from 'I brought you my bullets...' - i loved that album

Viktor Vaughn - Venomous Villain

only album this year that I haven't pulled off my playlist.

Green Day - American Ideot

i found that AI by Green Day wasn't really a departure from what they've been doing for a decade. i liked it, but it didn't do anything special for me.

and can billy joe do something besides power chords????

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The Cure - The Cure

As far as hip-hop goes I'd go with John Smith - Pinky's Laundromat, MF Doom - MM Food, or Madvillain - Madvillainy.

Illogic's Celestial Clockwork was great, also.

No, that's the point of the genre

And I agree with you--good album, but not any better or worse than their previous ones.

A Perfect Circle- Thirteenth Step
Bad Religion- The Empire Strikes First
Incubus- A Crow Left of the Murder

I'd say the best album this that came out this year that i've heard and bought is probably "Mobb Deeps-Amerikaz Nightmare"

No.

Your entitled to your opinion but here is why I like it. Well first, as a Green Day fan since the 6th grade (8 years) I'm bias. 2nd, they did pull in some new ideas from their old stuff. The songs merge into each other gracefully. They have done this before, but only once with Brain Stew/Jaded. However, they also have 2 songs on the album that are actually 5 songs within one. There is pretty much chapters to the songs. For example: Jesus of Suburbia (1. Jesus of Suburbia/ 2. City of the Damned/ 3. I Don't Care/ 4. Dearly Beloved/ 5. Tales of Another Broken Home). Also, I think the lyrics are done well (despite my opposing views as a Republican). It almost reminds me of a Quentin Tarantino movie the way each song seems to link to one another. Example: St. Jimmy introduces the idea of a soldier who is proud yet ignorant (I disagree with the idea but good song at the same time). Every once in a while throughout the album, they'll mention Jimmy again which really wouldn't make sense without the background info from the song "St. Jimmy". Finally, in the 1st chapter of "Homecoming" there is the idea of losing such a soldier (I. "The Death of St. Jimmy". So in that sense, Green Day has branched out, making it not the same old stuff (which is great as well).

My fave album this year's gotta be Contraband by VR

2nd would be the Kill Bill vol1 OST

Prince-Musicology

Kate xx

I don't know, i think that AI was just overhyped as a "rock opera" when it doesn't compare to such albums as "Tommy"

Yeah well, I love American Idiot by Green Day.

Easily one of the best albums I've bought in a while.

I'm so SICK of buying albums that have the odd hit song and then like 9 tracks of filler.

I don't want anything "new" from Green Day - usually when a band tries new things, it usually sucks (with the exception of U2 and some others).

When I went out to buy American Idiot, I wanted a Green Day album - why the hell would I want anything else?

If you want something different from the last albums - go buy someone elses CD. Green Day are doing what they do best, catchy power-chord ridden anthems that get stuck in your head.

Their album, is actually quite refreshing. I was so worried they'd end up trying something "else" and I'd end up hating it, but what we get is full-on Green Day goodness.

Rock Opera? Whatever. Last time I checked it was just a fun album that I enjoyed listen to over and over again. It's the only album that I make a point of remembering to take with me in my car.

I got to the point where I was getting totally fed up of stuck-up bands thinking they own the place, and idiot journos classing them as God (I'm thinking of the utterly obnoxious Razorlight at this point) - when along come Green Day once again, taking centre stage, with a sense of fun rock and roll charisma, mixed with their typical political whining (i.e. political whining that I actually like).

What Green Day do, isn't broken, so why should they fix it? In the interests of stuck up critics that DEMAND that bands change their sound every five seconds in order to garner respect?

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The Hives - Tyrranosaurus Hives

About Green Day- AI, I have to admit that I liked how the album tells a story. In fact, after listening to it a few times, I do like it better than some of their older stuff...

RS> EB never said he didn't like the album, all he said was that it isn't anything special. Which is true.

both from 03



urm uuuuh er.... Its going to be eMOTIVe

Yeah I totally understand what he meant, and I wasn't directing my post at EB either, more as an "in general" reply.

in a few weeks itll be "Eighties matchbox b-line disaster"

i cant wait!

Maybe the Billy Talent album? Thornley?

I mean, nothing fantastic out right now. Nothing that made me rush out and get it.

i think green day would win just by default but by actual album like you could listen to every song on it for the rest of your life would probably be self-titled-three days grace. alot of people bought it for one song then realized the whole thing is good so therefore, i reccomend it.