This is more for my purposes than yours, but here is where I will list everything I listen to this year to help me sort through things when it comes time to make my year end favorites list. Things I enjoy will be in red, things that suck will be blue, and everything else is middle of the road.
hard rock/metal/hardcore
advent - ‘remove the earth’
once nothing - ‘first came the law’
airbourne - ‘runnin’ wild’
bullet for my valentine - ’scream. aim. fire.’
for the fallen dreams - ‘changes’
stonerider - ‘three legs of trouble’
here i come falling - ‘oh grave, where is thy victory?’
our last night - ‘the ghosts among us’
the red death - ‘godmakers’
this is hell - ‘misfortune’
mychildren mybride - ‘unbreakable’
in flames - ‘a sense of purpose’
a girl a gun a ghost - ‘through the eyes of ahab’
emmure - ‘the respect issue’
testament - ‘the formation of damnation’
upon beauty rests - ‘for the days we fear, the air we breathe’
the ghost inside - ‘fury and the fallen ones’
36 crazyfists - ‘the tide and it’s takers’
destroy the runner - ‘i, lucifer’
blessed by a broken heart - ‘pedal to the metal’
embrace the end - ‘ley lines’
from a second story window - ‘conversations’
the famine - ‘the raven and the reaping’
november 5, 1955 - ‘bears of the sea’
house vs hurricane - ‘forfeiture’
knights of the abyss - ’shades’
misery signals - ‘controller’
alestorm - ‘captain morgan’s revenge’ …lolz.
inhale exhale - ‘i swear…’
austrian death machine - ‘total brutal’
guns n’ roses - ‘chinese democracy’
motley crue - ’saints of los angeles’
tiamat - ‘amanethes’
johnny truant - ‘no tears for the creatures’
belle epoque - ‘our bodies (ep)’
various artists - ‘kerrang maiden heaven’
whitechapel - ‘this is exile’
dragonforce - ‘ultra beatdown’
norma jean - ‘the anti-mother’
the acacia strain - ‘continent’
all shall parish - ‘waken the dreamers’
iced earth - ‘the crucible of man’
agraceful - ‘the great i am’
the acacia strain - ‘continent’
slipknot - ‘all hope is gone’
the haunted - ‘versus’
bleeding through - ‘declaration’
underoath - ‘lost in the sound of separation’
amon amarth - ‘twilight of the thunder god’
united nations - s/t
metallica - ‘death magnetic’
all that remains - ‘overcome’
abigail williams - ‘in the shadow of a thousand suns’
unearth - ‘the march’
warship - ’supply and depend’
trivium - ’shogun’
bring me the horizon - ’suicide season’
cradle of filth - ‘godspeed on the devil’s thunder’
haste the day - ‘dreamer’
ac/dc - ‘black ice’
trenches - ‘the tide will swallow us whole’

post rock/instrumental/ambient/electronica
cheer - ’static traps’
july skies - ‘the weather clock’
quantec - ‘thousands of thoughts’
bitcrush - ‘epilogue in waves’
nine inch nails - ‘ghosts I-IV’
the photographic - ‘pictures of a changing world’
peter broderick - ‘float’
beyond sensory experience - ‘no lights in our eyes’
followed by ghosts - ‘dear monsters, be patient’
olafur arnalds - ‘variataions of static’
james blackshaw - ‘litany of echoes’
colm mac con iomaire - ‘the hare’s corner’
glissando - ‘with our arms wide open we march towards the burning sea’
the caretaker - ‘persistent repetition of phrases’
bersarin quartet - s/t
goldmund - ‘the malady of elegance’
the evpatoria report - ‘maar’
max richter - ‘24 postcards in full color’
lights out asia - ‘eyes like brontide’
near the parenthesis - ‘l’eixample’
matthew robert cooper - ‘miniatures’
mogwai - ‘the hawk is howling’
library tapes - ‘fragment’
johan johannson - ‘fordlandia’

indie-ish/whatever/not too heavy rock
beach house - ‘devotion’
chris walla - ‘field manual’
goldfrapp - ’seventh tree’
grand archives - ‘the grand archives’
the helio sequence - ‘keep your eyes ahead’
jettie - ‘kites for charity’
lykke li - ‘youth novels’
the mountain goats - ‘heretic pride’
nada surf - ‘lucky’
tindersticks - ‘the hungry saw’
devotchka - ‘a mad & faithful telling’
someone still loves you, boris yeltzin - ‘pershing’
a weather - ‘cove’
ours - ‘mercy (dancing for the death of an imaginary enemy)’
fleet foxes - ’sun giant’ (ep)
fleet foxes - ‘ragged wood’
my brightest diamond - ‘a thousand shark’s teeth’
the notwist - ‘the devil, you, & me’
wolftron - ‘flesh & fears’
styrofoam - ‘a thousand words’
thrice - ‘the alchemy index vol 3&4′
augustana - ‘can’t love, can’t hurt’
death cab for cutie - ‘narrow stairs’
tears run rings - ‘always, sometimes, seldom, never’
playradioplay - ‘texas’
coldplay - ‘viva la vida’
noah & the whale - ‘peaceful, the world lays me down’
margot & the nuclear so and so’s - ‘the daytrotter sessions ep’
calexico - ‘carried to dust’
the faint - ‘fasciinatiion’
keith canisius - ‘ferris wheel makeout’
the stills - ‘oceans will rise’
mercy arms - s/t
the rosebuds - ‘life like’
stars - ’sad robots’ (ep)
ra ra riot - ‘the rhumb line’
ryan adams & the cardinals - ‘cardinology’
the decemberists - ‘always the bridesmaid: a singles series’
jospeh arthur & the lonely astronauts - ‘temporary people’
pompeii - ‘nothing happens for a reason’
loquat - ’secrets of the sea’
margot & the nuclear so and so’s - ‘animal’
margot - ‘not animal’

emo /alternativey
the mars volta - ‘the bedlam in goliath’
secret and whisper - ‘great white whale’
search/rescue - ‘the compound’
the afters - ‘never going back to ok’
counting crows - ’saturday nights & sunday mornings’
ashes divide - ‘keep telling myself it’s alright’
v/a - ‘punk goes crunk’
your vegas - ‘a town and two cities’
filter - ‘anthems for the damned’
tokio hotel - ’scream’
nine inch nails - ‘the slip’
the myriad - ‘with arrows, with poise’
paper rival - ‘dialog’
search the city - ‘a fire so big the heavens can see it’
disturbed - ‘indestructible’
family force 5 - ‘dance or die ep’
lower definition - ‘the greatest of all lost arts’
the classic crime - ‘the silver cord’
the medic droid - ‘what’s your medium?’
brightwood - ‘wake’
the sound of animals fighting - ‘the ocean and the sun’
nevertheless - ‘in the making’
family force 5 - ‘dance or die’
anberlin - ‘new surrender’
portugal the man - ‘censored colors’
lovedrug - ‘the sucker punch show’
the verve - ‘forth’
thursday/envy split
keane - perfect symmetry
copeland - ‘you are my sunshine’

acousticy/folky/singer songwriter/etc
andrew bird - ’soldier on’
city & colour -’bring me your love’
jon foreman - ‘fall and winter’
matt costa - ‘unfamiliar faces’
tyler ramsey - ‘a long dream about swimming’
she & him - ‘volume 1′
kaki king - ‘dreaming of revenge’
nels andrews - ‘off track betting’
the battle of land and sea - s/t
josh radin - ‘unclear sky ep’ (itunes exclusive)
cat power - ‘jukebox’
landon pigg - ‘coffee shop’ (ep)
tristan prettyman - ‘hello’
sarah slean - ‘the baroness’
the tallest man on earth - ’shallow graves’
david karsten daniels - ‘fear of flying’
chuck prophet - ‘dreaming waylon’s dreams’
samadion - ‘all is well’
sun kil moon - ‘april’
jack savoretti - ‘between the minds’
timber timbre - medicinals’
sera cahoone - ‘only as the day is long’
okieson - ‘tomorrow’s gone’
the weepies - ‘hideaway’
gemma hayes - ‘the hollow of morning’
scarlett johansson - ‘anywhere i lay my head’
gavin degraw - ’s/t’
jakob dylan - ’seeing things’
bonnie prince billy - ‘lie down in the light’
steve reynolds - ‘the carnival papers’
priscilla ahn - ‘a good day’
jessie baylin - ‘firesight’
brown bird - ‘the bottom of the sea’
matt bauer - ‘the island moves in the storm’
chris brecht - ‘the great ride’
micah p. henson - ‘micah p henson and the red empire orchestra’
jim bianco - ’sing’
matt sheehy - ‘tigerphobia’
beck - ‘modern guilt’
forest city lovers - ‘haunting moon sinking’
conor oberst - s/t
holly throsby - ‘a loud call’
david vandervelde - ‘waiting for the sunrise’
andy yorke - ’simple’
the rosie taylor project - ‘this city draws maps’
neil halstead - ‘oh! mighty engine’
anthony green - ‘avalon’
hotel lights - ‘firecracker people’
lesser gonzalez alvarez - ‘why is bear billowing?’
angela desveaux - ‘the mighty ship’
sonya kitchell - ‘the storm’
mason jennings - ‘in the ever’
lynne hanson - ‘eleven months’
james jackson toth - ‘waiting in vain’
maria taylor w/ andy lemaster - ’savannah drive’
joshua radin - ’simple times’
jenny lewis - ‘acid tongue’
damien jurado - ‘caught in the trees’
melody gardot - ‘worrisome heart’
horse feathers - ‘house with no name’
drew andrews - ‘only mirrors’
peter broderick - ‘home’
peter bradley adams - ‘leavetaking’
william fitzsimmons - ‘the sparrow & the crow’
emmylou harris - ‘all i intended to be’
gregory & the hawk - ‘moenie and kitchi’
aqualung - ‘words and music’
ray lamontagne - ‘gossip in the grain’
jolie holland - ‘the living and the dead’
ingrid michaelson - ‘be ok’
rachael yamagata - ‘elephants…teeth sinking into heart’

etcetcetc
m83 - ’saturdays = youth’
madonna - ‘hard candy’
negative - ‘karma killer’
she wants revenge - ’save your soul (ep)’
lil wayne - the carter 3
lustmord - [other]
flying lotus - ‘los angeles’
3OH!3 - ‘Want’
mirror - ‘mirror’

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J-RAW’S 2008 Album List

3 Comments »

1. 

   Can’t say that I like This Is Hell, James told me to try it, big BBBRRRRNNNNTTTT there.

   Comment by foolofgold — February 19, 2008 @ 9:04 am

2. 

   so is it same to assume you agree with my this is gay review?

   Comment by brandon — February 20, 2008 @ 4:21 pm

3. 

   Uh huh.

   Comment by foolofgold — February 21, 2008 @ 1:09 pm

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