so it’s that time of year again where all kind of know-it-alls try to tell you what albums you should’ve listened to over the past 365 days. i’m not going to do that, but i’ll definately share with you my top 10, take it or leave it.

1.
every time i die – the big dirty

2.
poison the well – versions

3.
dillinger escape plan – ire works

4.
will haven – the hierophant

5.
el-p – i’ll sleep when you’re dead

6.
porcupine tree – fear of a black planet

7.
jesu – conqueror

8.
pelican – city of echoes

9.
ken andrews – secrets of the lost satellites

10.
radiohead – in rainbows

honorable mentions:
tomahawk – anonymous
high on fire – death is this communion
wu-tang clan – 8 diagrams
akron/family – love is simple
the ocean – precambrian
silverchair – young modern
battles – mirrored
neurosis – given to the rising

yeah i know, a lot of metal.

so i like metal music. i like lots of music, actually. i’ll listen to just about anything. i read in someone else’s blog once that they don’t like it when people say they “listen to everything.” i find that a rather narrow minded view. i’d rather be exposed to anything and everything i can get my hands on.

i’ve been unable to stop listening to the following bands for the past year: last.fm

what am i getting at here? well, i need more music. i love music. it is one thing that i have a great passion for in my life (and i’m a fairly passionless person, honestly). so, if you ever read this, recommend something to me. send me a band name, record label, genre, whatever so that i can find something else to listen to.

on the subject of music, yearly top 10 lists are fucking gay. whoever can quantify music so minutely that they can pick out 10 albums and rank them in order of how much they liked them seems to be missing out on something. now don’t get me wrong, you will definately have variance of “goodness” to anything you hear, and you can probably rank them from “this fucking sucks” to “omg i just blew a load b/c this rules” but really, 10 in order? please. just listen and enjoy.

ps. don’t be a snob about it either.