fav 5: 2009 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: 2008 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: 2007 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: 2006 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: 2005 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: 2004 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: 2003 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

fav 5: 2002 albums

1. Thrice - Illusion Of Safety


2. Underoath - The Changing Of Times


3. mewithoutYou - A to B: Life


4. Brandtson - Dial In Sounds


5. Blindside - Silence

fav 5: 2001 albums

1. Unearth - The Stings Of Conscience


2. Thursday - Full Collapse


3. Saves The Day - Stay What You Are


4. Liars Academy - No News Is Good News


5. Sevendust - Animosity

fav 5: 2000 albums

1. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command


2. Darkest Hour - The Mark Of Judas


3. Catch 22 - Alone In The Crowd


4. AFI - The Art Of Drowning


5. Papa Roach - Infest

albums of the aughts (+1)

oooooooh yeah! Has it really been 1 year since my last attempt to bring the blog back?! Oh well... here we are. It happened. I blame twitter. This could be my last hurrah, but I want to have another go at it. Who knows? At the very least, I want make sure my "albums of the decade" posts see the light of day. We'll see what happens.


To kickoff the return, over the next 11 days I'll be listing my top 5 albums for each year of the 2000's, followed by my picks for 2010. This post is so old, it's not even lame anymore. It's Starter jackets. I've thought about this list for nearly 2 years (unfortunately), so at least I feel very comfortable with my picks. I tried to stay true to what my level of appreciation was in each of the corresponding years, while also adjusting for lasting the test of time. This is a list of "my favs", not a "best of". Please share your thoughts.

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