The top 3 albums of 2009

[Lysander]

1. Epica, Design Your Universe
This simply redefines what symphonic metal can be. I have no words to express just how fucking amazingly awesome this track is. Listen. NAO.

2. Porcupine Tree, The Incident

Quality isn't terribly great on this video but since the first disc is one giant 50-minute song I thought it best to do the medley video rather than just one track.

And

3. Muse, The Resistance.

Like radiohead? Good, 'cause this band sounds exactly like them. No? Good, they sound nothing like that fucking awful band. Actually, who they sound most like is themselves, so if you like Muse, you like... um, this Muse album.

Honorable Mentions:

Sonata Arctica, the Days Of Grays

and

O.S.I. Blood

Both these albums are fantastic in their own way, however Blood gets minus marks for the guy on quaeleuds who's singing (he's mainly a keyboard player, I forgive him) and the fact that it and the PT album share a drummer. Grays gets dinged because it like... sounds exactly like the Epica album.

Dream Theater also released an album of some note, but they are disqualified because only one of the songs on their album was amazing. Which one it is depends entirely on who you ask, however the fact that there was only one is undisputed. Alice In Chains has new album, which sounds like all of Alice In Chains' other albums except more mainstream. Yay if you like that stuff (which I, shamefacedly, do)

This has been: the top 3 albums of 2009. Thank you and goodnight.

[Flack]

I'm going with The Lonely Island's Incredibad, Alice in Chains' Black Gives Way to Blue, and either Weezer's Ratitude or Slayer's World Painted Blood. I'd throw Adam Lambert's album up there but then I'd have to admit to listening to it.