fav 5: '12 albums

1. Baroness - Yellow & Green


2. Crystal Castles - (III)


3. Hot Water Music - Exister


4. Enabler - All Hail The Void


5. Pennywise - All Or Nothing

fav 5: '11 albums

1. Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination

2. Mastodon - The Hunter

3. The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual

4. R/D - Liquid Heart Keeper

5. Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising


... and more favs from 2011:
fav album opening: Amon Amarth - "War Of The Gods"
fav album finale: Mastodon - "The Sparrow"
fav eletronic song: R/D - "Smitten Seeker"
fav metal song: Skeletonwitch - "This Horrifying Force (The Desire To Kill)"
fav punk song: Rise Against - "Broken Mirrors"
fav album art: Mastodon - The Hunter
fav album letdown: Jimmy Eat World - Invented
fav soundtrack: Bastion
fav comeback album: Face To Face - Laugh Now, Laugh Later
fav 2010 album of 2011: Copy - Hard Dream
fav guilty pleasure album: Breathe Carolina - Hell Is What You Make It
fav remix: As I Lay Dying - "Confined (Kelly "Carnage" Cairns Remix)"
fav pop-punk song: The Darlings - "American Dream"
fav song for singin' along: Foo Fighters  - "Arlandria"
fav song I want to see LIVE: Mastodon - "Black Tongue"
fav song for jogging: The Black Dahlia Murder - "A Shrine To Madness"
fav song for a rainy day: Darren Korb - Mother, I'm Here (Zulf's Theme)
fav song for the trampoline: Does It Offend You, Yeah? - "Wrestler"
fav song for purchasing a parakeet: Lights - "Suspension"
fav song for fighting a grizzly bear: Trap Them - "Every Walk A Quarantine"

Hoss

Meet Hoss. He is a thumbnail hidden somewhere in my MP3 folder. This is the view I get when I look at the parent directory of my MP3s. It's obviously a Lagwagon album, but I don't have that album in my collection. It must be mistakenly associated with some folder or MP3. I have no idea, I have never been able to find him or figure it out. He's been with me for at least 7 years and I don't see him going anywhere anytime soon.

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fav 5: '10 albums

1. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis


2. The Glitch Mob - Drink The Sea


3. Coheed and Cambria - Year Of The Black Rainbow


4. Little Boots - Hands


5. Weezer - Hurley

fav 5: '09 albums

1. Mastodon - Crack The Skye


2. Passion Pit - Manners


3. Strung Out - Agents Of The Underground


4. Lazarus AD - The Onslaught


5. AFI - Crash Love

fav 5: '08 albums

1. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles


2. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God


3. The Faint - Fasciinatiion


4. Less Than Jake - GNV FLA


5. No Use For A Name - The Feel Good Record Of The Year

fav 5: '07 albums

1. Blaqk Audio - CexCells


2. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero


3. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction


4. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb


5. As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us

fav 5: '06 albums

1. All Shall Perish - The Price Of Existence


2. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations


3. In Flames - Come Clarity


4. Dissection - Reinkaos


5. Boy Sets Fire - The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague Years

fav 5: '05 albums

1. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV - Vol. 1: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness


2. No Use For A Name - Keep Them Confused


3. Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster - Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster


4. Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil


5. Kane Hodder - Pleasure To Remain So Heartless

fav 5: '04 albums

1. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine


2. The Faint - Wet From Birth


3. Rise Against - Siren Song Of The Counter Culture


4. All That Remains - This Darkened Heart


5. Unearth - The Oncoming Storm

fav 5: '03 albums

1. The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed


2. Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3


3. The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium


4. The Postal Service - Give Up


5. Muse - Absolution