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Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago

An album you can't really explain since for every listener it will mean something different to them. Justin Vernon has done something amazing with For Emma, Forever Ago, as every listener wishes they had there first listen of the album everytime the pressed play. The depresive tones are quite obvious on For Emma, as the album is full of heartbreak, but that should not deter listeners from this amazing masterpiece.

Miles Davis Kind Of Blue

Kind Of Blue is a remarkable album of awe inspiring beauty and amazing musicianship, thus leading us into one of the most influetial jazz albums of all time. Miles Davis creates an amazing aura with his playing sending goose bumps though you each time you listen.

Miles Davis Bitches Brew

The album that I grew up with. It took many years of listening over and over for this album to settle in my head as one of the most fantastic creations in the music industry. Dabbling into large amounts of experimentation, this Miles Davis goes where no-one else had. Bitches Brew is an effort, but pays off immensely.

Muse Absolution

Muse hit their straps with the perfectly round 'Absolution.' The album doesn't contain one filler track (albeit the Intro/Interlude) and keeps you hooked all the way from the opening to the dying seconds of 'Ruled By Secrecy'. Easily Muses coming of age.

Paul Kelly Songs From The South

Paul Kelly is the epitome of Australian music. He writes tales and fables into his compositions. From the lush hooks, to the sorrowfull ballads that make you feel the pain of the protaginist. Songs From The South is the greatest hits collection and is a splendoured rendition to every cd collectors shelf.

Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness

What can be said? This album grabs you hook, line and sinker from the opening minutes. The tracks run smoothly into each other with all being as catchy and a great listen as the last!

Sigur Ros með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

To me this is Sigur Ros at the uttermost pinnacle. While ( ) is considered by some the best album, the variation and hooks of me� su� � eyrum vi� spilum endalaust make it much more outstanding and different to anything the band has done previously. From the soothing falsetto voice to the magical orchestral arrangements, Sigur Ros have produced one of those albums that are just mesmerizing,unforgettable and will stick with you forever.

Silversun Pickups Swoon

2009 has showed that the Silversun Pickups can top an almost topless record. Swoon is an the sophomore release from the trio, and is an album that encompasses many things; be it the beautiful melodies, shoegaze heavy mid sections of the interesting but perfect voice of Brain Aubert. Swoon contains no filler, and really rockets along with up tempo track highlights like 'Panic Switch' and 'The Royal We', plus the gentle 'Catch & Release'. Somehow the Silversun Pickups have outdone themselves, by topping an extremely impressive debut, and writing the best album of 2009.

Something For Kate The Official Fiction

Ah, the bliss of Something For Kate's The Official Fiction is something to behold. While it may not be the most upbeat album, it certainly gives you a surprise with the sorrowful tones, but is quite heartfelt in it's delivery. An album that I truly adore.

4.5 superb

Art Blakey Moanin'

Art Blakey is one of the big names in Jazz. While Moanin' isn't one of his better releases, it was certainly a landmark in Bop Jazz and no Jazz collection should be with out this album.

Brand New The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

There really isn't much wrong with this record. The soaring melodies, they punchy bridges, the variance in styles or just the pure emotion coming from the band. The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me is one of those records that hit close to home and bring roar emotion from band to listener.

Carus Acoustic At The Norfolk

An essiential for every lover of folk, blues and reggae music. Carus mixes all of these genres together and makes one the most upbeat and saddening albums. For a live album this one of the best.

Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is just one of those masterpieces that only come around so often. The Black Saint... offers so much for the lover of jazz, from mind bending melodic section to the epic time changes and syncapations. One must be ready to expect everything and anything from this record.

Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail

Emery are back, and with them they bring one of the most beautifully written albums of 2009 with ...In Shallow Seas We Sail. The songwritting is immense, the lyrical conviction is perfect, while the vocals soar with amazing harmonies and interplay. This album flows like a river bursting at the banks. One of the best albums of the year.

Frank Ticheli Sanctuary EP

If there ever was a piece of music that moved me, it's this. Sanctuary is a 12 minute journey to the centre of your heart, filling the voids that gape there with large amounts of emotion and testing your view of the way you feel it, be it sorrowful or emotion of immense joy. It is really open for the listener to perceive.

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu Gurrumul

Grizzly Bear Veckatimest

Veckatimest, could almost be the perfect album. Having obvious pop roots, the album varies from slow melodic tracks, with hauntingly beautiful melodies and harmonies to the straight up pop tracks like 'Two Weeks'. Grizzly Bear have easily produced one of the best albums of the year and Veckatimest has definitely lived up to the hype.

Jeff Buckley Grace

Jeff Buckley is a man that people swoon over all around the world, and Grace is an album that I swoon over myself. Buckley's amazing voice is the essential element to Grace as it lifts and soars above any other vocalists. Grace is a landmark album, and it is such a shame that we could not see what this marvelous man could conjure up for his next release.

John Coltrane A Love Supreme

Justin Vernon Hazeltons

Before Justin Vernon founded the fantastic, Bon Iver, he released this gem. Hazeltons is an amazing look into the varying amount of stylist variations Vernon can create, as well as writing some of the most hauntingly beautiful songs I have heard. A definite must for fans of For Emma, Forever Ago

Karnivool Sound Awake

Karnivool's sophomore release Sound Awake is truly an epic. While it doesn't have the hooks that Themata possesed it still drags you in and makes you listen over and over again. It is a much more progressive album, though this doesn't deter the listener as it draws you in after each play.A fabulous album that any prog/rock fan will enjoy.

Karnivool Themata

An Australian band with the mostest. These guys will rock your socks off with the ability to have intricate time signitures, cacthy choruses and amazing riffs. One of the most prominent bands in Australia at the moment and are dominating the prog rock scene along with COG and The Butterfly Effect.

Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything To Nothing

Metallica S&M

Miles Davis In A Silent Way

In A Silent Way is one of those albums that make you think, and appreciate the music that you are hearing. Miles Davis delivers once again with his potent mix of darkness and beauty forming one of the most prominent jazz releases of our time. Davis is only out done by his own work in, Bitches Brew and Kind of Blue.

Miles Davis Sketches of Spain

While not being Davis' most well known releases, it is certainly one of his best. it may not live up to the standards of Kind of Blue, Bitches Brew and In A Silent Way but it definitely puts its best foot forward. Taking well known spanish folk songs, and turning them in to Jazz numbers, Davis has done a brilliant job.

Mumford & Sons Sigh No More

Coming from the large west London folk scene of the moment, Mumford & Sons produce their debut album Sigh No More. A handy debut which they embellish their blues and folk roots with poppy hooks and sing a long choruses making it cool to listen to blues again.

Muse Origin of Symmetry

Paul Dempsey Everything Is True

It's always great when a fabulous front man from a fabulous band decides to go solo. Paul Dempsey has done just that, with his debut solo effort in Everything Is True. A folk/rock tinged album full of wonderful ballads and some slightly rockier tunes, Dempsey has created a wonderful album that will be high up at the end of the year.

Powderfinger Odyssey Number Five

Relient K mmhmm

At the tender age of 14/15, this album was my life, it brought me through those tough discovery moments and difficult times with girls. It was the album that made life fun, and epitomised summer fun so well. Mmhmm is full of poppy and catchy songs that have meaning after meaning attached to it how ever you perrcieve the album, and each listerner can take something different out of it.

Rise Against Siren Song Of The Counter Culture

The change that Rise Against made with large risk has worked wonders for this band. Their first major label release is almost a perfect album. Mixing hardcore roots with some of the best hooks around, this album will be spinning for years to come.

Robert Rumbelow Night: The Holocaust

These three movements could be some of the most haunting and tormenting pieces of music ever recorded by a symphonic band. The three movements based on Elle Weisel's book, Night, delve into the story of the holocaust in three separate parts. The first movement, 'The Evening Air' is very blunt and dark in it's themes, while the second movement 'The Faith of a Child' is about the hope left within Elle, though the third movement 'Darkness Descends' removes all faith, in one of the most darkest destructions of Elle's life with him witnessing the death of his parents. Night is dark in it's themes yet a pleasure to listen to.

Silversun Pickups Carnavas

A mix of Indie and Grunge. Who would have thought? Though Silversun Pickups do the said experiment the perfect justice with Carnavas. An album heavily influenced by shoegaze and indie genres, it hits the spot perfectly.

Something For Kate Beautiful Sharks

The Blues Brothers Music From The Soundtrack

The ultimate soundtrack, hosting the likes of James Brown, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. An amazing movie that changed the face of blues and rock with fantastic collaberation with stars of that moment in time producing never ageing hits.

Underoath Define the Great Line

An album of amazing technicality and songwriting shows why Underoath are the most impressive band in Metalcore today. After the average release of TOCS,to be able to back up with this basically perfect album re-establishes why Underoath are one of the greatest metalcore acts in this decade.

Underoath Lost In The Sound Of Separation

Underoath successfully backup their title as the best band in Metalcore with the amazing Lost In the Sound In Seperation. Although not as fluent and the song writing not as strong, this album still dominates any other bands efforts in this boring genre.

4 excellent

Alexisonfire Watch Out!

Anberlin Cities

Cities was the first Anberlin album I listened to, and I wish I hadn't. Mainly because they will have to write something incomprehendably good to better Cities. Every song is gripping and all build into the beautiful closer, (*fin). A highly recommended album.

August Burns Red Constellations

Constellations may not be as big as a breakthrough as Underoath's Define The Great Line was for the genre of Metalcore, though it strengthens the genres reason for exsistence and gives it hope. Constellations brings out technical brilliance from each member of the band, leaving no-one out as Messengers so annoyingly did.

Birds Of Tokyo Universes

Bluejuice Problems

Bluejuice Head of The Hawk

Bluejuice aren't your usual band. They combine many different genres together and create their own unique kind of music. Head of The Hawk is the bands second release, and what a release it is. Combining all the elements that made their previous album, Problems, so good but dropping the hip hop feel, Head of The Hawk is a more ska/funk tinged album and is worthy of a high placing for album of the year.

Bon Iver Blood Bank

Carus Creature Of Habit

Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um

Closure in Moscow First Temple

This album is infectious! Closure In Moscow pull of one of the best Alternative releases of the year with First Temple . Track after track of hooks, and catchy melodies that make you want more and more. First Temple sets a high standard for anything Closure In Moscow release in the future.

Coldplay Viva La Vida

Dave Holland Conference of the Birds

Dave Matthews Band Crash

Dead Letter Circus Next In Line - EP

For just a 3 track EP, Next In Line gives you a big insight to what talent Dead Letter Circus can showcase, especially with the title track, Next In Line being so catchy. This EP does not have one disapointing moment, except for it's length. One for every Prog/Rock fan.

Duke Ellington Masterpieces By Ellington

Eric Hutchinson Sounds Like This

Eskimo Joe Black Fingernails, Red Wine

Fall Out Boy Take This To Your Grave

Gordon Goodwins Big Phat Band XXL

Gustav Holst The Planets Suite, for orchestra, Op. 32

Jamie T Kings and Queens

While drawing away from his hip hop roots, Jamie T has produced some great indie/folk music that fans from his previous work Panic Prevention will still be able to enjoy. Some hip hop influences still exists, though they are not as strong. Though where Kings and Queens really shines is with its folk based songs, which are quite fantastic.

Japandroids Post-Nothing

Post-Nothing is an album that draws you in from the first listen, yet doesn't seem to wear or get old. Japandroids are a simple two piece garage rock band, who would have thought that this formula could create an album with so many catchy elements and fantastic hooks?

Kidcrash Jokes

Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain OST

Lisa Mitchell Wonder

Wonder sees the dreamy and cute voice of Lisa Mitchell drift through each song in a showing of lovely presented folk/pop. An album that I play on repeat due to it's catchy hooks and tender folk feel.

Metallica Ride the Lightning

Metallica Master of Puppets

mewithoutYou Brother, Sister

Miles Davis Birth Of The Cool

Millencolin Pennybridge Pioneers

Muse Black Holes and Revelations

Original Cast: Billy Elliot the Musical Billy Elliot the Musical

A superb cast and orchestra create an emotional and inspiring story with the music and lyrics being beautiful and hilarious at the same time.

Paul Kelly Stolen Apples

Pete Murray See the Sun

Powderfinger Vulture Street

Protest the Hero Kezia

Kezia is an album of quite amazing musicianship and one that should be listened to thoroughly as it evolves with each listen, with the "concept" or story of the album becoming more clear with each listen. Fantastic guitar work an intricate rhythm section and the intriguing vocals makes this a must listen album.

Radiohead OK Computer

Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine

Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication

Reel Big Fish Cheer Up!

Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down

Robbie Williams Swing When You're Winning

Sigur Ros ( )

Something For Kate Desert Lights

Something For Kate Elsewhere for 8 Minutes

The Cat Empire So Many Nights

The Cat Empire The Cat Empire

The Wiggles Yummy Yummy

There comes a time in everyones life where the Wiggles feature, and this a prominent album. Featuring the hits Toot Toot Chuga Chuga, and Yummy Yummy, you'll be singing for hours with nostalgia. TOOT TOOT CHUGA CHUGA BIG RED CAR!

U2 The Best Of 1980-1990

Xavier Rudd White Moth

3.5 great

August Burns Red Messengers

A bunch of christian dudes playing breakdowns right? Wrong. These guys set themselves apart from the rest of the crowd; with a brilliantly techinical drummer in Matt Greiner, above average guitars, talented bass player and an amazing vocalist August Burns Red are able to capture everyones attention with the release of Messengers

Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen

Billy Talent Billy Talent II

Bloody Beetroots Romborama

An album of fun, yet intriguingly mixed genres. Romborama is a journey to the dance floor, and doesn't disappoint with the heavy beats, though does include a lot of filler.

Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles

Brand New Daisy

Coldplay Prospekt's March EP

Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay LeftRightLeftRightLeft

Dixie Chicks Taking The Long Way

Do Make Say Think Other Truths

Pushing the boundaries of the genre post-rock is quite a hard task, but Do Make Say Think successfully do with Other Truths. Having glimpses of perfection, Do Make Say Think hits the spot with probably the best post-rock album this year.

Emery The Question

Eskimo Joe Inshalla

Eskimo Joe A Song Is A City

Fall Out Boy From Under The Cork Tree

Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying

fun. Aim and Ignite

Hilltop Hoods State of the Art

Jamie T Panic Prevention

Kings of Leon Only By The Night

Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You

Luke Pickett Blood Money EP

Matthew Good Band Vancouver

Metallica Metallica

Metallica ...And Justice for All

MGMT Oracular Spectacular

Michael Jackson Thriller

Michel Camilo One More Once

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6QB6-QfqM Yeah, these guys own.

Midnight Oil Diesel and Dust

Millencolin Home From Home

Millencolin Kingwood

Muse Showbiz

Muse H.A.A.R.P

Muse The Resistance

Yeah, so? I like this album, so go fuck off.

Owen New Leaves

Paramore Riot!

Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile

While they may be border line generic, Parkway Drive gift us with one of the most catchy and enthralling debut albums for a while, in the stale state that we call Metalcore. Killing With A Smile suffers from its monotonous breakdowns and shocking lyrics, though is a fun listen and gives a bit of variation.

Peter Combe Peter Combe's Christmas Album

This is nostalgia at it's peak. I was listening to this at christmas time when I was in nappies. Peter Combe is the master of all Children album's and he has done something special with his Christmas effort.

Powderfinger Golden Rule

Protest the Hero Fortress

Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental)

Red Hot Chili Peppers By The Way

Rise Against Appeal To Reason

While not hitting the nail on the head, like they did with their previous efforts, Appeal To Reason is a quality album featuring some of the greatest songs Rise Against to date, 'Savior' being one of them. Though they will need to change it up for the next album since they have been getting away with the same formula for to long now.

Rise Against Revolutions Per Minute

Sarah Blasko As Day Follows Night

Something For Kate Echolalia

Taking Back Sunday Louder Now

The Butterfly Effect Final Conversation of Kings

The Cat Empire Two Shoes

The Cat Empire are one of those bands that you really cant hate. They seduce with their varying array of salsa, latin and straight out pop rock. Two Shoes, may be full of fun tracks and lovely melodies, but lacks in consistency and trails off towards the end, making the listener lose interest.

The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love

The Living End Roll On

The Living End White Noise

The Presets Apocalypso

The Red Paintings Feed the Wolf [EP]

The Rocket Summer Do You Feel

The Temper Trap Conditions

The Temper Trap, you bastards! The way you write such catchy, hook laden and lovely melodies, with so much ease is just not fair! Conditions is so good with it's wistful harmonies, soaring vocals and guitar delay pedal wankery that it is probably the best sugar coated rock album to be released this year other than fun.'s effort. Conditions is a stellar pop record that gets multiple replays.

Tim Minchin Ready For This? [DVD]

U2 The Joshua Tree

Underoath Survive Kaleidoscope

Yves Klein Blue Ragged and Ecstatic

Yves Klein Blue have put out a contender for indie release of the year. While Ragged and Ecstatic may lack depth, it definitely makes up for it with its catchiness and ripe hooks. Ragged and Ecstatic solidifies that Yves Klein Blue have a bright and promising future in front of them.

3 good

Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion

Armor For Sleep What To Do When You are Dead

August Burns Red Thrill Seeker

Between The Buried And Me Colors

Blessthefall His last walk

Coldplay X&Y

Converge Axe To Fall

David Bazan Curse Your Branches

Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream

Eulogies Here Anonymous

Fall Out Boy Infinity On High

Gyroscope Breed Obsession

Haste the Day Pressure The Hinges

Jet Get Born

Karnivool Persona EP

Kate Miller-Heidke Curiouser

Kidcrash Snacks

Just not as good as Jokes, and they will probably never touch it. But still alright.

mewithoutYou It's all crazy! It's all false! It's all

Misery Signals Controller

Motion City Soundtrack Commit This To Memory

My Chemical Romance The Black Parade

Paramore Brand New Eyes

Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium

Reel Big Fish Monkeys for Nothin' and The Chimps...

Relient K Five Score and Seven Years Ago

Savage Garden Affirmation

Sean Fournier Oh My

Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown

The Used Lies for the Liars

Wolfmother Wolfmother

2.5 average

All Time Low So Wrong, It's Right

Augie March Strange Bird

Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil

Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season

Cynic Traced In Air

Daniel Merriweather Love & War

Memphis May Fire Memphis May Fire

Memphis May Fire, a band connecting the difference between Underoath and Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster create a southern/metalcore sound that disapoints in varying areas. Though shines in many others, giving this band a bright future.

Millencolin Machine 15

Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me

Oh, Sleeper When I Am God

Reel Big Fish Everything Sucks

While it was the sporning of some of Reel Big Fish's greatest songs, the recording is dodgey, giving it a luck lustre sound to other albums. Thankfully RBF re - recorded tracks like 'Beer' and 'Hate You' on later releases.

Switchfoot Nothing is Sound

The Amity Affliction High Hopes - EP

A mediocre EP from the band The Amity Affliction shows that they have room to grow, and have a bright future ahead of them. High Hopes is full of catchy metalcore breakdowns but is let down by generic melodic sections and boring interludes. Though it proves that the Australian metalcore scene has opened right up. The Amity Afflictions next release will most likely be better, and could be something great.

The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below

Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures

The hype of this band has made the output quite disapointing, yes it may be the one of the better super groups to come out of the decade, though the music just does not live up to the standard of the members. Them Crooked Vultures is just, well, Average.

2 poor

Asking Alexandria Stand Up And Scream

Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly

Augie March Moo, You Bloody Choir

Augie March Sunset Studies

Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings

Green Day 21st Century Breakdown

Haste the Day Dreamer

I See Stars 3D

Jet Shine On

Mastodon Crack the Skye

Switchfoot Oh! Gravity.

Switchfoot Hello Hurricane

Texas In July Salt of the Earth EP

A metalcore band that takes it's inspiration from August Burns Red to the extreme, and make a complete cookie cutter representation of them. Not showing quite the musicianship that August Burns Red have, making it quite a boring, repetitive and unexciting listen.

The Devil Wears Prada Plagues

What could be said about Plagues? Well for one thing, it is an improvement on The Devil Wears Prada's debut LP release, which is not really the greatest of achievements. Using the same silly formula of ridiculous song names and breakdown, verse, chorus, verse, breakdown, chorus, outro song structure, this is an album you should avoid like the plague...

The Red Shore Lost Verses

The Word Alive Empire

Another band on the Fearless record label that is mediocre at best. While having a very talented bunch of guitarist's, it doesn't bring anything new to the table to the genre of metalcore/post hardcore. It's just your average breakdown, screams and keyboards.

Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety

Wolfmother Cosmic Egg

1.5 very poor

A Day To Remember Homesick

Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold

Blessthefall Witness

All the songs sound the same and are so repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative repetative...

Evermore Real Life

Evermore are an annoying group of New Zealand wannabe rock stars that produce some of the most irritating music that I have ever head. While they may have the catchy song now and again, it doesn't bring anything different to the table. Real Life is a snooze fest of attempted hooks and awkward melodies. One to stay away from.

Jet Shaka Rock

Jet, my dear what have you done to yourself? From a debut album that was quite successful, Jet have fallen out of the formula that made them catchy and fun to listen to. Shaka Rock is full of obviously poor attempts to hook the listener in, but fails miserably due to it's poor execution.

Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning

When I listened to When I Am God I felt that Oh Sleeper had me fairly engaged, though I still found it a very hashed attempt at a metalcore release. Son Of The Morning, is well... just a woeful try at being different to the usual, and it fails miserably and lacks the punch that When I Am God was able to include with a few of its tracks.

Suicide Silence The Cleansing

The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord

1 awful

Lindsay Lohan A Little More Personal (Raw)

A woeful attempt at creating music. Lindsay Lohan hits the epitome of low with this release. The album is also aptly titled and connects perfectly with her personality...

Lmfao Party Rock

Out of curiosity I gave this a listen. DON'T BE CURIOUS.

Reel Big Fish Greatest Hit... And More

An album created by Reel Big Fish's old record label to try and gain money from them leaving, since they owned rights to a few of their songs. Reel Big Fish themselves put out a press release stating that this record should not be purchased. What also makes this horrible is that JIVE records has tried to re-master the songs involved and in doing so have stuffed up the pitch of the horn section, and made the record a very mish mash sounding work.

Rogue Traders Here Come The Drums

"Here come the drums, here come the drums" More like, die.

Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com

Why did I listen to this? That is all Your soundoff was too short, it has to be at least 50 characters