OK, how many full albums have you heard this year?

[mvd]

If a lot, estimate. I wonder if anyone has heard more than me. Here's my list, with grades (an A/A+ means I haven't decided which of the two grades yet)

Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way A+
The Corrs - Home A+
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country A+
The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea A+
Nina Gordon - Bleeding Heart Graffiti A+
Damone - Out Here All Night A/A+
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You A/A+
Leigh Nash - Blue On Blue A/A+
Jennifer O'Connor - Over The Mountain A/A+ (must have heard the wrong songs before - it's excellent, raw pop)
The Weepies - Say I Am You A
Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit A
Margot & Nuclear So & So's - Dust of Retreat A
Josh Ritter - Animal Years A
Cat Power - The Greatest A
Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac A
Susan Cagle - The Subway Recordings A
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood A
Some Girls - Crushing Love A
Ingrid Michaelson - Girls & Boys A
Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope A
Pearl Jam - self-titled A-
Holly Brook - Like Blood Like Honey A-
Pink - I'm Not Dead A-
Allison Moorer - Getting Somewhere A-
Gomez - How We Operate A-
Tom Petty - Highway Companion A-
Dirtie Blonde - self-titled A-
Rainer Maria - Catastrophe Keeps Us Together A-
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat A-
Paul Simon - Surprise A-
Ane Brun - A Tempoary Dive A-
Mary Lee's Corvette - Love, Loss & Lunacy B+
Joanna - This Crazy Life B+
Sonya Kitchell - Words Came Back To Me B+
Magneta Lane - Dancing With Daggars B+
Cheyenne Kimball - The Day Has Come B+
Built To Spill - You In Reverse B+
Goldfrapp - Supernature B+
The Sounds - Dying To Say This To You B+
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers B+
KT Tunstall - Eye To The Telescope B+
Rhett Miller - The Believer B+
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped B+
Blue October - Foiled B+
Jewel - Goodbye Alice In Wonderland B+
Morningwood - self-titled B
Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You B
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones B
Teddy Geiger - Underage Thinking B
The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed B
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Stranger Things B
Zero 7 - The Garden B
Goo Goo Dolls - Let Love In B-
Yellowcard - Lights And Sounds B-
Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia B-
Thom Yorke - The Eraser B-
Golden Smog - Another Fine Day B-
McFly - Just My Luck B-
Train - For Me It's You B-
Beth Orton - Comfort Of Strangers B-
Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics B-
Sia - Colour The Small One B-
Christina Aguilera - Back To Basics (disc 1) B-
Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now C+
Alice Peacock - Who I Am C+
Gin Blossoms - Major Lodge Victory C+
Keane - Under The Iron Sea C+
Smoosh - Free To Stay C+
Morissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors C+
Elefant - The Black Magic Show C
The Vines - Vision Valley C
David Gilmour - On An Island C
Jessie Daniels - self-titled C
Hoobastank - Every Man For Himself C
Bananarama - Drama C
Nelly Furtado - Loose C
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am C
Angels And Airwaves - We Don't Need To Whisper C
Christina Milian - So Amazing C-
Daniel Powter - self-titled C-
Hawthorne Heights - If Only You Were Lonely D+
The Subways - Young For Eternity D+
Nick Lachey - What's Left Of Me D+
Kidz Bop Kids - Kidz Bop 9 D+
Placebo - Meds D
Paris Hilton - Paris F


Country
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The Wreckers - Stand Still, Look Pretty A
Julie Roberts - Men And Mascara A-
SHeDAISY - Fortuneteller's Melody B+
Toby Keith - White Trash with Money B-
Danielle Peck - self-titled C+
Shannon Brown - Corn Fed C
Josh Turner - Your Man C
Scooter Jennings - Electric Rodeo C-

[mvd]

1. Wow, that's almost 100 albums

And I might have forgotten a couple. Not kidding when I say music is a huge part of my life.

[MiniMandaRuth]

2. Not many, just a few old Bob Dylan albums.

But for CDs I burn myself, there's an insane amount.

Oh, and Patti Smith's 'Horses'. That's a classic. A+

[mvd]

3. I have a lot of those burned CDs around

I used to do P2P (stopped since, but I spend so much that I don't feel guilty I still have them.) I also have quite a few from my backups of albums I purchased on iTunes.

[mvd]

4. Oh, and there is Neil Young's Living With War

A/A+!

[mvd]

5. I'm still wondering if any have heard more

They say there's always someone with more of something or better at something.

[pitohui]

6. i listened to all of my albums earlier in the year all the way thru

so however many that is, over a hundred or so, i didn't count them

[GirlinContempt]

7. Probably a couple of hundred. 2-3.

I have no sure number. Comes with the job *shrug* Plus I love diggin' somethin' up.

[mvd]

8. I just realized I only included 2006 releases

The list would be bigger than the one above.

[ghostsofgiants]

9. I assume you're only listing albums that came out this year?

[mvd]

10. I had that in mind

But I guess you may give the overall total. I didn't qualify the topic.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. A big-ass obnoxious list... (Blame last.fm for making it easy, haha)

Also definitely incomplete, because I was sloppy with the copy/paste action.

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
A Wilhelm Scream - Ruiner
Abandoned Pools - Humanistic
AFI - Sing the Sorrow
Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
Alexisonfire - Crisis
Alexisonfire - Watch Out!
Alkaline Trio - Crimson
Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Armor for Sleep - What to Do When You Are Dead
Atmosphere - Seven's Travels
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
At the Drive-In - in/CASINO/OUT
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
At the Drive-In - This Station Is Non-Operational
At the Drive-In - Vaya
Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
Beck - Sea Change
Billy Talent - Billy Talent
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blackalicious - NIA
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Circa Survive - Juturna
City and Colour - Sometimes
Closet Monster - We Rebuilt This City
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Controller.Controller - History
Cursive - Domestica
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Devo - Freedom of Choice
dredg - Catch Without Arms
Drive Like Jehu - Drive Like Jehu
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Error - Error
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
Fear - The Record
Finch - What It Is to Burn
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
Fort Minor - The Rising Tied
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Fugazi - Repeater + 3 Songs
Gang of Four - Return the Gift
Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
Head Automatica - Decadence
Head Automatica - Popaganda
Hot Water Music - Caution
Hot Water Music - The New What Next
Hum - You'd Prefer an Astronaut
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Jimmy Eat World - Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World - Static Prevails
Jimmy Eat World - Stay on My Side Tonight
John Frusciante - Inside Of Emptiness
John Frusciante - Shadows Collide With People
Joy Division - Closer
Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basement of Hell
Killing Joke - Night Time
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
Matchbook Romance - Voices
Matthew Good - Avalanche
Matthew Good Band - Underdogs
Mike Ness - Cheating at Solitaire
Misfits - Walk Among Us
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
Moneen - Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now?
Murder by Death - Like The Exorcist, But More Breakdancing
Murder By Death - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left Of Them?
Muse - Absolution
Muse - Black Holes and Revalations
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Muse - Showbiz
My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Nada Surf - High/Low
Naked Raygun - Jettison
New Order - Get Ready
Paulson - All At Once
Phantom Planet - The Guest
Placebo - Meds
Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Fuck With Fire
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Up in Them Guts
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Pretty Girls Make Graves
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock
Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits
Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
Protest the Hero - A Calculated Use of Sound
Protest the Hero - Kezia
Public Image Ltd. - This Is What You Want...This Is What You Get
Q and Not U - Power
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Refused - Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent
Refused - The EP Compilation
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute
Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Rx Bandits - The Resignation
Sad Lovers and Giants - In the Breeze
Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
Sahara Hotnights - Jennie Bomb
Scary Kids Scaring Kids - The City Sleeps in Flames
Seaweed - Spanaway
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Snapcase - End Transmission
Sparta - Porcelain
Sparta - Wiretap Scars
Stylex - Auto Focus
Sum 41 - Chuck
Sweatshop Union - Natural Progression
Sweatshop Union - United We Fall
Swollen Members - Bad Dreams
System of a Down - Hypnotize
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
Tegan and Sara - If It Was You
Tegan and Sara - So Jealous
Tegan and Sara - This Business of Art
Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - A New Morning, Changing Weather
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Armed Love
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Black Maria - A Shared History Of Tragedy
The Black Maria - Lead Us to Reason
The Bled - Found In The Flood
The Bled - Pass the Flask
The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn
The Blood Brothers - Crimes
The Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art of Surfacing
The Bravery - The Bravery
The Bronx - La Muerte Viva
The Bronx - The Bronx
The Clash - Combat Rock
The Clash - London Calling
The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon
The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls
The Evens - The Evens
The Go Find - Miami
The Lost Patrol - Songs In The Key Of Resistance
The Lost Patrol Band - The Lost Patrol Band
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
The Mars Volta - A Missing Chromosome
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
The Offspring - Smash
The Postal Service - Give Up
The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart
The Strokes - Is This It
The Strokes - Room on Fire
The Used - In Love and Death
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
Thrice - Vheissu
Thursday - A City By The Light Divided
Thursday - Full Collapse
Thursday - Waiting
Thursday - War All the Time
Tiger Army - III: Ghost Tigers Rise
Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety
Various Artists - The Decline of Western Civilization
Warsawpack - Gross Domestic Product
Warsawpack - Stocks & Bombs
Wintersleep - Wintersleep
X - Los Angeles
X - Wild Gift
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

[mvd]

15. Wow - cool list

Good to see another really avid listener here.

[ghostsofgiants]

16. Haha...

Whenever my friends drop over, if there is no music playing, the first thing they ask is "Why is there no music?"

I'm constantly listening.

[mvd]

17. Same here

In my free time, there's nothing that comes close to the time I spend listening. I couldn't have done my list without notepad - I update my text file right after I listen to a new CD. If I feel confident of the grade, I'll also add the grade at that time.

See you on the boards later - time for bed.

[mvd]

19. Even with my notepad file

I forgot Guster's Ganging Up On The Sun. It gets an A, while Keep It Together was even better - A+.

[elocs]

11. I must confess that I do not actively listen to any music anymore.

When I was a kid and in my 20s I used to buy and collect and listen to albums. I am 54 and I cannot relate to any of the new music and will listen to oldies music in my car. In the house I will listen to talk radio on NPR. I have songs downloaded onto my computer and will occasionally listen while I am surfing, but I honestly have to say that I just don't care anymore.

[lavenderdiva]

18. I kinda lost touch with current music for awhile too-

and I guess I'm dating myself by sharing this, but... I now listen to VH1's 'Fresh' program and their 'Top 20 Countdown' program, and have discovered a whole lot of current music that I really like. And I'm sorry that there's probably a whole lot more out there that I missed out on too-

[alfredo]

12. I can't remember all, but I did hear the self Titled "Charlie Hunter" CD

Patty Griffin "1,000 Kisses."

John Vanderslice "Cellar Door."

John Adams "Hoodoo Zephyr"

If I can stay up another hour, I might put on Son House "Delta Blues."

Those I listened to today.

[KFC]

13. Killing Joke first album

Best of all time. Rocket to Russia is a close second.

[Initech]

20. Here's my list (and I only listen to full albums):

New stuff:

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not - A+
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium - A+
Tool - 10,000 Days - A+
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain - A+
Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways - A
Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime II - A
Frank Zappa - Imaginary Diseases - A
Neil Young - Living With War - A
Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics - A
Les Claypool - Of Whales And Woe - B+
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom - B+
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere - B
David Gilmour - On An Island - B
Thom Yorke - The Eraser - B
Racontuers - Broken Boy Soldiers - B
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black - B
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam - B
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance - C
Wolfmother - Wolfmother - C
Matisyahu - Youth - C
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra - C
Flogging Molly - Whiskey On A Sunday - C-
OSI - Free - C-

Havent heard any D or F rated albums yet, but that could change.

[mvd]

21. I noticed the Muse album doesn't have a grade

Do you rate it a C? I actually think I'd like it.

[Initech]

22. I'd give it somewhere between a B and a C

It's a damn good album but it doesnt nearly come close to being as good as Absolution is.

[mvd]

23. Knowing my taste, do you think I'd agree?

I was planning on trying Black Holes And Revelations first.

[Initech]

25. I'd say get both if you can find them cheap

The thing about Muse is - (and as much as I hate to use the Radiohead comparison, but I think it's the most fitting) - they're like Radiohead in that all of their albums are DRASTICALLY different from each other - listen to their earlier stuff like Origin Of Symmetry and Showbiz, then try to compare it with the current albums. Black Holes And Revelations is probably their most accessible, but personally, I think Absolution is their best.

[mvd]

26. OK, thanks

I guess I'll try to hear samples on iTunes to help in my decision.

[Richard Steele]

24. Honestly, it might be ONE. Wow.

Lots of single songs (thank you iTunes!), but the
only full album I'm certain of is Polysics: "ENO".

And that was just the other week.

[chenGOD]

27. Do DJ mixes count?

if so, then somewhere about 300+

if not then i have no idea. i don't listen to a lot of stuff where they put out full albums. I'd say about 50 that have been released this year. but if you include stuff from previous years, well, way over 100. I don't skip through albums.

[mvd]

28. A few more additions from this year

Lillix - Inside The Hollow A/A+ (I'm sure it will make my top 20 of the year)
Pete Yorn - Nightcrawler A/A+
Bob Dylan - Modern Times A- (I'll catch flak in places for not giving this one a perfect rating, but I thought Love And Theft had more energy and suited his vocals more. Still, there are many powerful moments.)
Jessica Simpson - A Public Affair C- (The best song, "B.O.Y.," even has a riff that rips off the Cars' "Just What I Needed." There's also a 60s influenced ballad, "Between You And I," that is a nice moment, but the rest is pretty bad.)
The Lost Trailers - self-titled D (Now they really do sound like the stereotype of mainstream country being an Eagles ripoff. I don't agree with the stereotype, but I can see it here.)

I will not be adding to this thread again, but might revisit the thread later in the year.