****
Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

***
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

**

*
Limp Bizkit - The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)

Overall Rankings
1.Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
2.Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
3.The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
4.Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
5.Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
6.Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
7.Limp Bizkit - The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)

Awaiting Judgment:
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Cage - Hell's Winter
Think Differently Music - Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture
Johnny Cash - The Legend of Johnny Cash
John Mayer Trio: Try!

Your list is invalid ;)

Hey, I bought it, so I have to rank it. I'm very disappointed on first listen. I really liked Results May Vary (one of the few, I'm sure), but this one is not so good.

The Ones I Like a Lot:

Decemberists: Picaresque
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
British Sea Power: Open Season
Iron & Wine: Woman King EP
Low: The Great Destroyer
Harmonic 33: Music for Television & Film, Vol 1
Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright: s/t
Cousteau: Nova Scotia
Stars: Set Yourself on Fire
Gorillaz: Demon Days
Saint Etienne: Tales from Turnpike House


Not Bad:
Kaiser Chiefs: Employment
The Bravery: s/t
M83: Before the Dawn Heals Us
Brendan Benson: Alternative to Love
Petra Haden: Sings the Who Sell Out


Didn't do ANything for me:
New Order: Waiting for the Siren's Call
Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
Bright Eyes: both the new albums
White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan

Eagerly Awaiting: The Tears

:thumbsup:

1. Decemberists - Picaresque
2. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
3. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
4. British Sea Power - Open Season
5. Coldplay - X&Y
6. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
7. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
8. The Kills - No Wow
9. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
10. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll
11. They Might Be Giants - Here Come the ABCs

:thmbsdwn:

1. Weezer: Make Believe
2. The Bravery - The Bravery
3. System of a Down - Mezmerize

All I want to know is this.

How are.......

Better Than Ezra & The Eel's new cds?

Great:
Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
The Academy Is... - Almost Here
The Receiving End Of Sirens - Between The Heart And The Synapse
The Suicide Machines - War Profiteering Is Killing Us All
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Good:
Reel Big Fish - We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy
Eluvium - Talk Amongst The Trees
Steel Train - Twilight Tales From The Prairies of the Sun
Gatsby's American Dream - Volcano
Acceptance - Phantoms
Matisyahu - Live At Stubb's
Nightmare of You - Self-Titled
System of a Down - Mesmerize
Thrice - Vheissu
Against Me! - Searching For A Former Clarity

Not-So-Good:
Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman
Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
The Sound Of Animals Fighting - The Tiger And The Duke
Eisley - Room Noises
The Spill Canvas - One Fell Swoop

Crap:
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
The Decemberists - Picaresque
MxPx - Panic
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory
The Aquabats - Charge!!
Finch - Say Hello To Sunshine

Unsure:

Eagerly Awaiting: Rx Bandits, Thrice, Against Me!, Brand New, System of a Down.

The new Eels CD is awesome. My favorite release of 2005 so far.

1. Patrick Wolf, Wind In the Wires
2. Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy
3. The Books, Lost & Safe
4. Andrew Bird, The Mysterious Production of Eggs
5. 13 & God, S/T
6. Bloc Party, Silent Alarm
7. Run the Road (compilation)
8. LCD Soundsystem, S/T
9. A Gun Called Tension, S/T
10. Bright Eyes, Digital Ash In a Digital Urn

Other '05 purchases beyond the top ten:

MIA, Arular (bumped from the top 10)
Big Business, Head for the Shallow
Caribou, The Milk of Human Kindness
Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Low, The Great Destroyer
M83, Before the Dawn Heals Us
Mogwai, Government Commissions
Okkervil River, Sleep & Wake-Up Songs EP
Trail of Dead, Worlds Apart
Kaiser Chiefs, Employment
The Kills, No Wow
Alaska, Rescue Through Tomahawk
Autechre, Untilted
The Locust, Safety Second, Body Last
Brendan Benson, Alternative To Love
Petra Haden, Sings the Who Sell Out
Super Furry Animals, Songbook, Vol. 1
Decemberists, Picaresque

The only two albums I genuinely dislike are the Locust and Decemberists discs. The Locust "album" (if you can even call it that) just infuriated me because I paid full price for a 10-minute joke; the Decemeberists isn't necessarily bad, I've just reached the point where Colin Meloy's voice drives me to commit violent acts. A shame, really, as I loved their other two albums.

Updated overall rankings and added "Bargain Bin" rankings.

Updated, even though this thread is completely unpopular with you all. :)

yeah I agree with youThe Bus aint it rather pathetic. I have a several albums I am going to update tomorrow, but on the whole I am rather unimpressed with ya'all.

Damn I forgot about this thread. I'm not sure I can remember what I've heard lately, but I'll update/reorganize mine to the best of my memory:

Very Good
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
British Sea Power - Open Season
Coldplay - X&Y
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Frank Black - Honeycomb

Good
MIA - Arular
Fiery Furnaces - EP
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Robbers on High Street - Tree City
Weezer - Make Believe
Louis XIV - Best Little Secrets are Kept
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
The Redwalls - De Nova
Ponys - Celebration Castle
NIN - With Teeth
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Brendan Benson - Alternative to Love
Beck - Guero
HHH - Elevator
The Doves - Some Cities
Blue Van - Art of Rolling
Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
[b]The Tears - Here Come the Tears

Decent
The Moaners - Dark Snack
Ben Lee - Awake is the New Sleep
Audioslave - Out of Exile
The Boy Least Likely To - Best Party Ever
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
The Bravery - ST
22-20s - ST
LCD Soundsystem - ST
Kasabian - ST
Kelly Osbourne - Sleeping in the Nothing
The National - Alligator
Aqueduct - I Sold Gold
The Perceptionists - Black Dialogue
The Raveonettes - Pretty in Black
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake....

Not Good
Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
Pitty Sing - ST
Brazilian Girls - ST
The Kills - No Wow
QOTSA - Lullabiles...
Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak of It Again
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
System Of A Down - Hypnotize
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead World's Apart
Eisley Room Noises
Electric Six Senor Smoke
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree

The "Not Good" list would be a lot longer, but I tend to dump/delete stuff I don't like, so I'd have to search the memory banks to come up with more.

I'll try to rank these the best I can.

1. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2. Doves - Some Cities
3. MIA - Arular
4. British Sea Power - Open Season
5. New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call
6. Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust
7. Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
8. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
9. Ryan Adams - Cold Roses

Maybe not in that order, except for the top two.

The bad:

1. Coldplay - X&Y

Updated (6/29):

Very Good
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
British Sea Power - Open Season
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Coldplay - X&Y
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - ST
MIA - Arular
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Frank Black - Honeycomb
Louis XIV - Best Little Secrets are Kept
Robbers on High Street - Tree City
Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
The Redwalls - De Nova

Good
Fiery Furnaces - EP
Weezer - Make Believe
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Ponys - Celebration Castle
NIN - With Teeth
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Brendan Benson - Alternative to Love
Beck - Guero
HHH - Elevator
The Doves - Some Cities
Blue Van - Art of Rolling
Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor "Rock" Disc
Common - Be
Billy Corgan - TheFutureEmbrace

Decent
The Moaners - Dark Snack
Audioslave - Out of Exile
The Boy Least Likely To - Best Party Ever
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
The Bravery - ST
22-20s - ST
LCD Soundsystem - ST
Kasabian - ST
Kelly Osbourne - Sleeping in the Nothing
The National - Alligator
Aqueduct - I Sold Gold
The Perceptionists - Black Dialogue
The Raveonettes - Pretty in Black
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake....
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor "Acoustic" Disc

Not Good
The Magic Numbers - ST
Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House
Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
Pitty Sing - ST
Brazilian Girls - ST
The Kills - No Wow
QOTSA - Lullabiles...
Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak of It Again
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
System Of A Down - Hypnotize
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead World's Apart
Eisley Room Noises
Electric Six Senor Smoke
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human

01. Queens of the Stone Age - "Lullabies to Paralyze"
02. The Mars Volta - "Frances the Mute"
03. Nine Inch Nails - "With Teeth"
04. Fall Out Boy - "From Under the Cork Tree"
05. Coldplay - "X & Y"
06. Nickelback - "All the Right Reasons"
07. Dredg - "Catch Without Arms"
08. Bloodsimple - "A Cruel World"
09. Theory of a Deadman - "Gasoline"
10. Seether - "Karma and Effect"
11. TRUSTcompany - "True Parallels"
12. Foo Fighters - "In Your Honor"
13. Rise Against - "Siren Song of the Counter Culture"
14. Static-X - "Start a War"
15. American Hi-Fi - "Hearts on Parade"

Updated with new purchases and top 10 list shuffled a bit:

1. Patrick Wolf, Wind In the Wires
2. Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy
3. The Books, Lost & Safe
4. Andrew Bird, The Mysterious Production of Eggs
5. Architecture In Helsinki, In Case We Die
6. 13 & God, S/T
7. LCD Soundsystem, S/T
8. Bloc Party, Silent Alarm
9. Run the Road (compilation)
10. A Gun Called Tension, S/T

Other '05 purchases beyond the top ten:

Alaska, Rescue Through Tomahawk
Autechre, Untilted
Brendan Benson, Alternative To Love
Big Business, Head for the Shallow
Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Bright Eyes, Digital Ash In a Digital Urn
Caribou, The Milk of Human Kindness
De Novo Dahl, Cats and Kittens
Decemberists, Picaresque
Four Tet, Everything Ecstatic
Petra Haden, Sings the Who Sell Out
Kaiser Chiefs, Employment
The Kills, No Wow
The Locust, Safety Second, Body Last
Low, The Great Destroyer
M83, Before the Dawn Heals Us
MIA, Arular
Mogwai, Government Commissions
Okkervil River, Sleep & Wake-Up Songs EP
The Robot Ate Me, Carousel Waltz
Judee Sill, Dreams Come True
Super Furry Animals, Songbook, Vol. 1
Trail of Dead, Worlds Apart

Bump for stats updated. Notice Beck has completely dropped off the Top 10. I will be expanding my rules for rankings for the next one, as we are now tracking over 100 albums(!).

Also, please have only one post with your votes. It makes it a lot easier to not have to erase all my rankings and start over again. (I'm looking at you, Meatpants :)).

Updated my list again. I've mostly just been adding new albums as I listen to them and not really re-ordering the rest. At the end of the year, I'm going to have to go through and make some big edits, as I already see albums that, with repeated listens, would now be higher or lower than their initial ranking.

1. The National - Alligator
2. Doves - Some Cities
3. Sufjan Stevens - Come on, feel the Illinoise
4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
5. Flotation Toy Warning - Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck
6. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
7. The Frames - Burn the Maps
8. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
9. My Morning Jacket - Z
10. Kasabian - Kasabian
11. Embrace - Out of Nothing
12. Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
13. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
14. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
15. Engineers - Engineers
16. Ok Go - Oh No
17. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
18. Why - Elephant Eyelash
19. Editors - The Back Room
20. Longwave - There's a Fire
21. The Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
22. Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
23. I Am Kloot - Gods and Monsters
24. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
25. Low - The Great Destroyer
26. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
27. Coldplay - X&Y
28. The Sun - Blame It on the Youth
29. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
30. Hood - Outside Closer
31. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
32. Summer at Shatter Creek - All the Answers
33. Jimmy Eat World - Stay On My Side Tonight EP
34. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
35. Jack's Mannequin - Everything's in Transit
36. Stellastarr* - Harmonies for the Haunted
37. The Tears - Here Come The Tears
38. Aqueduct - I Sold Gold
39. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
40. Trashcan Sinatras - Fez
41. Our Lady Peace - Healthy in Paranoid Times
42. The Clientele - Strange Geometry
43. Athlete - Tourist
44. Josh Rouse - Nashville
45. Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
46. Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights
47. Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful
48. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Origin Vol. 1
49. The Decemberists - Picaresque
50. Brendan Benson - Alternative to Love
51. Ivy - In the Clear
52. Better Than Ezra - Before the Robots
53. El Toro - May & Marielle
54. People in Planes - People in Planes EP
55. Ed Harcourt - Strangers
56. The Books - Lost and Safe
57. The Bravery - The Bravery
58. Sigur Ros - Takk
59. The Russian Futurists - Our Thickness
60. Ash - Meltdown
61. Son Volt - Okemah and the Melody Riot
62. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
63. Jump, Little Children - Between the Glow and the Light EP
64. Blue Merle - Burning in the Sun
65. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
66. Dishwalla - Dishwalla
67. Discover America - Psychology
68. Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made
69. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
70. The Kills - No Wow
71. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
72. M. Ward - Transistor Radio
73. Stereophonics - Language. Sex. Violence. Other.
74. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment

Updated on 10-26

In order of preference:

GREAT • GOOD • FAIR • DISAPPOINTING


Gorillaz - Demon Days
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Beck - Guero
Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Frank Black - Honeycomb
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Mogwai - Government Commissions
Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
NIИ - With_Teeth
Various Artists - A Tribute to Sublime
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
The Eels - Blinking Lights & Other Revelations
Coldplay - X&Y
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor (disc one)
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
Thievery Corporation - The Cosmic Game
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Billy Corgan - The Future Embrace
DMB - Stand Up
Weezer - Make Believe
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Origin 1
Hot Hot Heat - Elevators
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor (disc two)
Moby - Hotel
Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment

Finally ranked most of mine:

1. Nine Inch Nails - "With Teeth"
2. John Davis - "John Davis"
3. Anya Marina - "Miss Halfway"
4. Bright Eyes - "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning"
5. Neil Diamond - "12 Songs"
6. Depeche Mode - "Playing the Angel"
7. System of a Down - "Mesmerize"
8. Jack Johnson - "In Between Dreams"
9. Kanye West - "Late Registration"
10. Korn - "See You On The Other Side"
11. Sigur Ros - "Takk"
12. The Go! Team - "Thunder, Lightning, Strike"
13. Rev Run - "Distortion"
14. System of a Down - "Hypnotize"
15. Hot Hot Heat - "Elevator"
16. LCD Soundsystem - "LCD Soundsystem"
17. Weezer - "Make Believe"
18. Ben Folds - "Songs for Silverman"
19. Ohmega Watts - "The Find"
20. Pigeon John - "Pigeon John Sings the Blues!"
21. Gorillaz - "Demon Days"
22. Bright Eyes - "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn"
23. v/a - "Walk the Line" soundtrack
24. Z-Trip - "Shifting Gears"
25. Moby - "Hotel"
26. M.I.A. - "Arular"

Unranked because they need more listens:
Gym Class Heroes - "The Papercut Chronicles"
Erasure - "Nightbird"

Unranked because of the nature of the recording:
John Davis - "Jesus Gonna Build Me a Home" EP
Dane Cook - "Retaliation"
Patton Oswalt - "222"
Patton Oswalt - "Patton vs. Alcohol vs. Zach vs. Alcohol"
"Family Guy Live in Vegas"
Stephen Lynch - "The Craig Machine
Blondfire - iTunes exclusive Holiday EP
Brian Wilson - "What I Wish For Christmas"
v/a - "Merry Mixmas"
Fountains of Wayne - "Out of State Plates"

Plenty of updates, will update the list this week then.

Another request to make this thread sticky.

edit: I emailed benedict about making this thread sticky. That way, we wouldn't have to keep bumping it and people can just edit their posts.

Looks like we got our sticky... I'll be updating this soon.

1. Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
2. System Of A Down - Mezmerize
3. Audioslave - Out of Exile
4. Bon Jovi - Have a Nice Day
5. Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
6. Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth
7. System of a Down - Hypnotize
8. Garbage - Bleed Like Me
9. Tommy Lee - Tommyland: The Ride

updated 11/22