Best of 2010

[soft-punker]

So guys/girls, what are your favourite releases of this year? (I'll write down my list a bit later.)

Edit: You can also write down your biggest disappointments.

[Bobbyjames]

fuck, I can't even think what has come out this year! I'll have to have a think and come back. the only album I can think of right now that I have loved is The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang. wasn't overly impressed with JEW's new album, though I don't want to call it a disappointment as there are a few songs on there I like, and I wasn't expecting anything amazing.

[TomiT14]

RESIDENT SKUMFUK

[Bobbyjames]

good albums for me:

Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
Ben Folds & Nick Hornby - Lonely Avenue
Weezer - Death To False Metal
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang

Disappointments:

Linkin Park
Against Me!
Eels
Weezer - Hurley

[Dylan]

Albums I loved:
Gaslight Anthem "American Slang"
Against Me! "White Crosses"
The Damned Things "Ironiclast"

EPs I Loved:
Frank Turner "Rock n Roll"
Rush "Caravan/BU2B"

Albums that were OK, but had the potential to be way better:
Linkin Park "A Thousand Suns"
The Operation MD "Birds + Bee Stings"
Jimmy Eat World "Invented"
Bullet for my Valentine "Fever"
Hail the Villain "Population: Declining"

[Filespit]

Favorite albums/EP's of 2010;

Alexisonfire - Dog's Blood
Cancer Bats - Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones
Sick of it All - Based on a True Story
Against Me! - White Crosses
Airbourne - No Guts, No Glory

Other (good) albums worth mentioning;

Volbeat - Beyond Heaven / Above Hell
My Chemical Romance - Danger Says
Misconduct - One Step Closer
Godsmack - The Oracle

Disappointments;

Good Charlotte - Cardiology
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns

[Jeremy Kill]

Good for me:

The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Frank Turner - Rock & Roll EP
Audio/Rocketry - Eastward + Onward
The Weekend Kids - Of Friends and Foes
Feast or Famine - Edmonton & Company
Eminem - Recovery
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
The Damned Things - Ironiclast
Blacklist Royals - Semper Liberi
Mirrored Theory - Incandescent
Operation MD - Birds + Bee Stings
Hail the Villain - Population: Declining
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Senses Fail - The Fire
Alkaline Trio - This Addiction

Disappointing:

Good Charlotte - Cardiology
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns

I actually managed to find a decent amount of albums that I quite enjoyed for this year! It's more than an album per month, so that's a pretty good ratio.

[Heather]

Heart - Red Velvet Car - its heart, need I say more?
KT Tunstall - Tiger Suit - never ceases to amaze me with her harmonies and melodies
Operation MD - Bees + Bird Stings - really like S&T and MOC
Taylor Swift - Speak Now - nice pop melody record
Crystal Bowersox - good folk/country music..amazing voice

not new, but I got the re-release of the beatles early material

think thats the only releases I got this year. Might be getting more for christmas

[FuckT41182]

years 2008 and 2009 were so much better ...
good ones
From Our Hands-Sinners
The Bridgeheads-Foreigners(my favorite in 2010)
TRJA-The Hell or High Water(EP)
Avenged Sevenfold-Nightmare(Nothing breath taking,but at least they did not turn to pop like many other bands)...
Bad Religion-The Dissent of Man
The Gaslight Anthem-American Slang
Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
Airbourne - No Guts, No Glory
Bullet for my Valentine - Fever
AvA-Love(pretty liked it ...not as much as the ones before,but it is still good)

I have A Day To Remember,Link Park and Operation MD new albums to listen to ...I can't understand how come that I haven't listened to it yet ...I will add those albums either up or down as soon as I will be able to judge :P and I don't really know when I will get to listening to them but it will probably be soon(not Sum 41's soon ! XD)

disappointments
Good Charlotte - Cardiology(I haven't even listened to this album because I threw up while listening to Like It's Her Birthday...an album with such a bad song like LIHB would probably kill me...)
Jimmy Eat World - Invented
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

I would say that Eminem is somewhere in between ...
and the year 2011 will be great ...Rise Against,Sum 41,Blink 182 and more !

[Bobbyjames]

totally forgot to mention the Frank Turner EP, really can't wait for his new album now. I'm sure there's more but I can't think off the top of my head.

[Sum41Ant27]

This wasn't the greatest year for music,

The only albums that I actually bought were

Eminem - Recovery
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
Senses Fail - The Fire
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days

Also Angels & Airwaves - Love wasn't bad, but I expected a little better. I found this year to be pretty crappy because most of my favorite bands didn't release anything, Sum 41, Blink-182, Zebrahead, The Used, Brand New, Hollywood Undead, Green Day...

But hopefully 2011 will have new music from all of those bands!

[FuckT41182]

Love came out in 2010 ??? then I need to edit my first post sooner than I thought

[soft-punker]

Biggest favourites (in no order):
Hills Have Eyes - Black Book (emocore/metalcore, RIYL: new Atreyu)
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise (emo, RIYL: Anthony Green, The Sound of Animals Fighting)
Oceana - Clean Head EP (indie rock)
Deftones - Diamond Eyes (alternative metal, RIYL: good music in general)
Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man (punk rock, RIYL: Pennywise)
Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile (punk/post-hardcore, RIYL: Hot Water Music, Polar Bear Club)
Miles Away - Endless Roads (melodic hardcore, RIYL:
Letlive - Fake History (post-hardcore, RIYL: Glassjaw)
It Prevails - Findings EP (melodic hardcore, RIYL: Counterparts)
Vanna - The Honest Hearts EP (emocore)
Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted (emo revival, RIYL: Castevet, Grown Ups)
Wavves - King of the Beach (beach punk, RIYL: sunshine, happiness, early No Age)
Norma Jean - Meridional (mathcore/metalcore, RIYL: The Chariot)
United Nations - Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures EP (screamo, RIYL: Converge)
Blacklisted - No One Deserves to Be Here More Than Me (hardcore punk/post-hardcore, RIYL: "intelligent" hardcore)
Joie de Vivre - The North End (emo revival, RIYL: Mineral, Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate))
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis (mathcore, RIYL: Botch, Converge, Norma Jean)
Down to Earth - Prisms (indie/post-hardcore, RIYL: Bear vs. Shark)
Ceremony - Rohnert Park (hardcore punk, RIYL: Black Flag, oldschool hardcore)
Comeback Kid - Symptoms + Cures (melodic hardcore, RIYL: Verse, Defeater)
Frontier(s) - There Will Be No Miracles Here (emo/indie/post-hardcore, RIYL: Elliott)
Throats - Self-Titled (hardcore/"noisecore", RIYL: Converge)
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt - (folk, RIYL: Bon Iver)
The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive (screamo/emo, RIYL: Suis La Lune)

Good:
Devil Sold His Soul - Blessed & Cursed (progressive/emocore, RIYL: Holding Onto Hope)
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (pop rock)
Trophy Scars - Darkness, Oh Hell EP (post-hardcore/experimental, RIYL: Fear Before the March of Flames)
Daughters - Self-Titled ("noisecore")
Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World (pop punk/melodic hardcore, RIYL: Set Your Goals)
Everyone Everywhere - Self-Titled (emo revival, RIYL: Grown Ups, Castevet)
Foxy Shazam - Self-Titled (glam rock/rock'n'roll)
The Bled - Heat Fetish (metalcore, RIYL: Every Time I Die)
Chiodos - Illuminaudio (emocore, RIYL: Pierce the Veil, Dance Gavin Dance)
Adeste - In Parables (metalcore/post-hardcore)
From Plan to Progress - Ink Stains & Incidents (melodic punk/melodic hardcore, RIYL: Anchor for Arms)
More Than Life - Love Let Me Go (melodic hardcore)
The Chariot - Long Live (mathcore/metalcore, RIYL: Norma Jean)
Escapado - Montgomery Mundtot (post-hardcore/screamo)
Grown Ups - More Songs (emo revival, RIYL: Snowing, Castevet)
Bars of Gold - Of Gold (indie rock/post-hardcore, RIYL: Bear vs. Shark)
Periphery - Self-Titled (progressive/technical/math metal, "djent")
Pianos Become the Teeth - The Old Pride (screamo/post-rock, RIYL: Sed Non Satiata, Daitro)
Heaven In Her Arms - Paraselene (screamo/post-rock, RIYL: Envy)
Counterparts - Prophets (melodic hardcore/metalcore, RIYL: It Prevails)
Envy - Recitation (screamo/post-rock, RIYL: Heaven In Her Arms)
Sed Non Satiata - Self-Titled (screamo/post-rock, RIYL: Pianos Become the Teeth)
The Felix Culpa - Sever Your Roots (indie/progressive rock, RIYL: The Republic of Wolves)
Terrible Things - Self-Titled (alternative rock)
Tigers Jaw - Two Worlds (emo, RIYL: Balance and Composure)
The Republic of Wolves - Varuna (indie/alternative rock, RIYL: Brand New's Daisy)

Disappointments (wasn't expecting anything good from most of them):
Haste the Day - Attack of the Wolf King
Lostprophets - The Betrayed
Good Charlotte - Cardilogy
36 Crazyfists - Collisions and Castaways
Story of the Year - The Constant
Valencia - Dancing with a Ghost
Senses Fail - The Fire
Serj Tankian - Imperfect Harmonies
Jimmy Eat World - Invented
Underoath - Ø (Disambiguation)
The Get Up Kids - Simple Science EP
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
Look Mexico - To Bed to Battle
A Day to Remember - What Separates Me from You

I've listened to about 200 albums from 2010, so it was a pretty good year for me. Anyway, emo revival = 4th wave emo bands. 2011 looks promising so far.

Edit: If anyone wants a download link, just send me a pm. Oh, and Kyle, I'm still waiting for your list.

[Bobbyjames]

totally forgot the FYS strong album came out this year. I also need to add Blacklist Royals - Semper Liberi to my list. I've also enjoyed the What's Eating Gilbert EPs.

I'm sure I'll think of more and more to add!

[Hentaiman]

Well, that was a very musical year!
Hmm let me think!

Only one that comes to mind right now is THE disappointment of 2010!

A Day to Remember - What Separates Me from You: Well, I just love this album, cuz I really really like ADTR! But in terms of an ADTR album, it's disappointing and sucks! haha, it's weird, I mean, on one hand, there's a lot of songs I enjoy in here, but comparing it to past album, they're not even close to songs from Homesick or FTWHH, plus it's really really short (around 31 minutes, like some EP) and just kinda lacks the energy and originally of the past albums. It could be understandable though, as the album was made in a rush, while the band was touring nonstop and they were basically forced by Victory Records to put another album out, a year after their latest one.

[Sum41Ant27]

Disappointments (wasn't expecting anything good from most of them):
Lostprophets - The Betrayed
Story of the Year - The Constant
Senses Fail - The Fire

What did you find bad about those albums? SOTY and SF usually have the same vibe in each album, what made you not like these? I found them to be pretty good!

[Emil]

Good records:
Alkaline Trio - This Addiction
Bad Religion - The Dissent of MEn
American Hi-Fi - Fight The Frequency
The Black Pacific - S/T
Neverstore - Age of Hysteria

Meh records:
Jimmy Eat World - Invented
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang

Horseshit records:
Angels And Airwaves - Love

[Jeremy Kill]

Horseshit records:
Angels And Airwaves - Love

I had some hope when I heard there was a Letters to God Part II. But... no...

[Name]

Well, that was a very musical year!
Hmm let me think!

Only one that comes to mind right now is THE disappointment of 2010!

A Day to Remember - What Separates Me from You: Well, I just love this album, cuz I really really like ADTR! But in terms of an ADTR album, it's disappointing and sucks! haha, it's weird, I mean, on one hand, there's a lot of songs I enjoy in here, but comparing it to past album, they're not even close to songs from Homesick or FTWHH, plus it's really really short (around 31 minutes, like some EP) and just kinda lacks the energy and originally of the past albums. It could be understandable though, as the album was made in a rush, while the band was touring nonstop and they were basically forced by Victory Records to put another album out, a year after their latest one.

Ehh i think ADTR have been going downhill since after FTWHH, Homesick and WSMFY are okay but its like they forgot what a breakdown is (excluding Mr.Highway's Thinking Abut the End)

[Raku]

Part one of post

Here are the bands that released something I enjoyed
Allister - I am so glad someone here brought them up and I wiki'd them. I enjoyed their new album and even checked out their old records (new fan now)
American Hi-Fi - Alright record, I like their second record better.
Angels and Airwaves - I was surprised by how good this record was, I was expecting it to suck (had some elements of Box Car Racer in some songs)
The Black Pacific - Good album, good band
Good Charlotte - The only song I didn't like was party like it's her birthday (Some AvA elements on this record though)

I guess that was it for me, I hope next year is better and has more in store =(

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Part two of post

Now I don't want to divert this topic, but I am really looking forward to 2011... I have a lot of bands to look forward to...

Some of these might not make the 2011 release date, but here is my list anyway

Spoiler: show

Two new ava songs (I do not like instrumental albums, so this one is going to suck)
blink-182 (if all goes to plan)
Bloodhound Gang
Bowling for soup (their last album was lame, I am hoping this one brings back their magic)
Eve 6
Everclear (?)
Fenix Tx (Not sure if they are releasing anything soon, but they said they would)
Foo Fighters
Gob (When Tom stops touring with Sum 41 =/ (Hopefully it won't take them long))
Lit (if all goes well =))
Pennywise
Pulley
Screeching Weasel (Not the real band without jughead, but I like their music)
Sum 41
Tenacious D
The Ataris
The Living End
The Loved Ones (American Punk Band)
The Offspring
Unwritten Law
Zebrahead