Here Today... Gone To Hell!

As we are excactly half-way into the year, which of the albums released so far this year do you feel is the best album of 2009?

For me it would have to be one of the following:

Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Eminem - Relapse

All excellent albums 8)

The ones I can remember with right now..

Rock/Metal:
Loaded - Sick
Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low
Dope - No Regrets

HipHop:
Swingfly - God Bless the IRS
Henok Achido - Almaz Charming Child

Swedish Lyrics albums:
Th?str?m - K?rlek ?r f?r dom
Bob Hund - Folkmusik F?r Folk Som Inte Kan Bete Sig Som Folk
Babian - Fullproppad, Listtoppad, Livr?dd & Uppstoppad!

Duff Loaded  "Sick"



I expect the new Killswitch Engage coming out June 30th to be awesome as well.

im really pleased with the new Hardcore Superstar album.

Very strong effort. Thats 3 strong albums in a row, to me, they ARE one of the best hard rock bands of this generation.

Doesn't matter if the year isn't over yet, The Devil You Know by Black Sabbath is THE album of the year. :peace:

so far the ones in the running for me are the new Dylan and Ryan Bingham's Roadhouse Sun.  way too early to really tell though...

Green Day "21st Century Breakdown" wins this hands down..

Both of these are brilliant and a true pleasure to listen to. 8)

Heaven and Hell, no Sabbath without Ozzy  :no:


Ain't seen any albums this year that i've been interested in or have impressed me much. Quite liked 'The Ballad of John Henry' by Joe Bonamassa, but as an overall album it's not that great, just a couple decent tracks

The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum  ;)

Right now

The Aggrolites -- "IV" great album sounds like Toots and The Maytals meets 60's doowhop and soul

Rancid -- "Let The Dominoes Fall" best stuff they've done since "Life Won't Wait" and since Joe Strummer is gone, this is the closest thing we have to the Clash

Mos Def -- "The Ecstatic", good to hear the BKMC back on the wax.

K'naan - Troubadour

Rock hasn't done much for me in the past 6 months.. I listened to 21st Century a couple of times, but I don't see the greatness others are talking about.  I will give it a few more spins.

Loaded - Sick : ok:

That's actually a very good album too.

Ben Folds - Stems and Seeds... great fucking album  :peace:

Rancid - Let The Dominoes Fall
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream

Mastodon Crack the Skye

Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadaeus Phoenix (especially the first 3 songs)

Bob Dylan's new one

I am looking very forward to teh Dead Weather and the new Pearl Jam.

I haven't heard it yet. Is the Green Day album really that different than any of the other ones? I liked American Idiot well enough but didn't think it was drastically different than what they had done in the past. 5 part songs? They took 5 of their short songs and put them together. Suddenly the critics were hailing them as the kings of rock and roll (always helps with the critics when you get political too).

This is all coming from someone who listened to Dookie about 3 times a day when it came out. I hate to be negative but all the recent Green Day hype just leaves me scratching my head. I'll give the album a chance if it's really that good.

It IS really that good. One of the better rock albums of recent times. Enormous quality on the songs, much darker and coherant than American Idiot and with much more substance.

What type of band are they?

i always thought they were screamo, but i have been told they are not?

^they are certainly not screamo mister

well then, considering they are labelled the saviors of metal. ill be checking there new album out

Loaded - Sick

They are kind of a mix of several different styles.  Somw prog, a little old school metal, stoner metal, classic solos.  The singer sounds a bit like Ozzy on the newest cd.  The earlier stuff was a bit in the cookie monster vein.  Deff not screamo in  any shape or form.

hmmm sounds like it has potential!!! ill check it out soon

Hardcore Superstar - Beg For It

Can't think of any other new albums I have enjoyed this year.

So far, I'd guess it'd be between Sonic Youth's The Eternal and Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown. But with Muse, Alice in Chains, and (possibly) Pearl Jam all coming in September, that's probably going to change.