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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2006)

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Alex N.'s list

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  1. None More Black - This is Satire (Fat Wreck Chords)
  2. Loved Ones, The - Keep Your Heart (Fat Wreck Chords)
  3. Dead to Me - Cuban Ballerina (Fat Wreck Chords)
  4. Pink Razors - Waiting to Wash Up (Robotic Empire)
  5. Shook Ones - Facetious Folly Feat (Revelation)
  6. Ignite - Our Darkest Days (Abacus)
  7. Crime in Stereo - The Troubled Stateside (Nitro)
  8. Strike Anywhere - Dead FM (Fat Wreck Chords)
  9. Murder By Death - In Bocca Al Lupo (East West/Tent Show)
  10. Draft, The - In a Million Places (Epitaph)
  11. Rx Bandits - ...And the Battle Begun (MDB)
  12. Set Your Goals - Mutiny! (Eulogy)
  13. Hold Steady, The - Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant)
  14. Bad Astronaut - Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment (Fat Wreck Chords)
  15. Fucked Up - Hidden World (Jade Tree)
  16. Ryan's Hope - Apocalypse in Increments (Punknews)
  17. Falcon, The - Unicornography (Red Scare Industries)
  18. A.F.I. - Decemberunderground (Interscope)
  19. Lillingtons, The - The Too Late Show (Red Scare)
  20. Decemberists, The - The Crane Wife (Capitol)
  21. No Trigger - Canyoneer (Nitro)
  22. Greg Graffin - Cold as the Clay (Anti)
  23. Lawrence Arms, The - Oh! Calcutta! (Fat Wreck Chords)
  24. Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me (Interscope)
  25. Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (Geffen)

Bob's list

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  1. Young Widows - Settle Down City (Jade Tree)
  2. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards (Anti)
  3. Tragedy - Nerve Damage (Tragedy)
  4. Black Heart Procession, The - The Spell (Touch & Go)
  5. Isis - In the Absence of Truth (Ipecac)
  6. Jesu - Silver (Hydra Head)
  7. Isis & Aereogramme - In the Fishtank 14 (Konkurrent)
  8. Sunn 0))) & Boris - Altar (Southern Lord)
  9. Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
  10. Planes Mistaken for Stars - Mercy (Abacus)
  11. Coliseum / Young Widows - Split (Auxillary/Relapse)
  12. Hope Conspiracy, The - Death Knows Your Name (Deathwish Inc.)
  13. Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit (Jade Tree)
  14. Envy - Insomniac Doze (Temporary Residence)
  15. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun (Neurot)
  16. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (Geffen)
  17. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Warner Bros.)
  18. Draft, The - In a Million Places (Epitaph)
  19. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (American)
  20. Versoma - Life During Wartime (Robotic Empire)
  21. Rainer Maria - Catastrophe Keeps Us Together (Grunion)
  22. Rocky Votolato - Makers (Barsuk)
  23. Rise and Fall - Into Oblivion (Deathwish Inc./Reflections)
  24. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Sea (V2)
  25. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway (Earache)

Cory's list

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  1. Defiance, Ohio - The Great Depression (No Idea)
  2. End of a Year - Sincerely (Revelation)
  3. Woods - How to Survive In/In the Woods (Release the Bats)
  4. Ghost Mice - Europe (Plan-It-X)
  5. Ampere / Sinaloa - Split (Ebullition)
  6. Sparrows Swarm and Sing - O Shenandoah, Mighty Death Will Find Me (Magic Bullet)
  7. In First Person - Lost Between Hands Held Tight (Paramnesia)
  8. Thursday - A City By the Light Divided (Island)
  9. I Would Set Myself On Fire For You - Believes in Patterns (Stickfigure)
  10. Matt and Kim - Matt and Kim (Iheartcomix)
  11. Life at These Speeds/The Science of Yabra - Split (Grey Sky)
  12. Murder By Death - In Bocca Al Lupo (East West/Tent Show)
  13. Mass Movement of the Moth - Outerspace (Exotic Fever)
  14. Pyramids - Following The Tracks, Forcing Motion Through Phases (Paramnesia)
  15. Ampere / Das Oath - Split (Clean Plate)
  16. Wrong Day to Quit - Vicissitudes (Exotic Fever)
  17. Cease Upon the Capitol - Cease Upon the Capitol (Forever Escaping Boredom/Sonic Deadline)
  18. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (Def Jam)
  19. Hop Along, Queen Ansleis - Freshman Year (Blue Moose)
  20. Life At These Speeds - To Your Health (Level-Plane)
  21. Hope Conspiracy, The - Hang Your Cross (Deathwish Inc.)
  22. Divider - At Twilight (Shock Value)
  23. Cursive - Happy Hollow (Saddle Creek)
  24. Ultra Dolphins - Why Are You Laugh (Robotic Empire)
  25. Blood Brothers, The - Young Machetes (V2)

Giles's list

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  1. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (Def Jam)
  2. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
  3. Fucked Up - Hidden World (Jade Tree)
  4. The Knife - Silent Shout (Mute)
  5. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti)
  6. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds (Tomlab)
  7. Iron Age - Constant Struggle (Youngblood)
  8. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (XL Recordings)
  9. T.I. - King (Atlantic)
  10. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (Matador)
  11. Betrayed - Substance (Equal Vision)
  12. Roy - Killed John Train (Lujo)
  13. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (Startrak)
  14. These Arms Are Snakes - Easter (Jade Tree)
  15. Sinking Ships - Disconnecting (Revelation)
  16. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
  17. Young Jeezy - Inspiration (Def Jam)
  18. Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors (Sanctuary)
  19. Lion Of Judah - Universal Peace (Youngblood)
  20. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force (5 Rue Christine)
  21. Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You (Anti)
  22. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (Domino)
  23. Dangers - Anger (Independent)
  24. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (Geffen)
  25. Camron - Killa Season (Asylum)

Jason's list

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  1. Crime in Stereo - The Troubled Stateside (Nitro)
  2. The First Step - What We Know (Rivalry)
  3. Lifetime - 2 Songs (Decaydance)
  4. Loved Ones, The - Keep Your Heart (Fat Wreck Chords)
  5. Sinking Ships - Disconnecting (Revelation)
  6. Shook Ones - Facetious Folly Feat (Revelation)
  7. None More Black - This is Satire (Fat Wreck Chords)
  8. Attitude - We All Go Down Together (1917)
  9. Cancer Bats - Birthing the Giant (Abacus)
  10. Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
  11. Panic - Circles (Reflections)
  12. Another Breath - Mill City (Rivalry)
  13. Draft, The - In a Million Places (Epitaph)
  14. End of a Year - Sincerely (Revelation)
  15. Outbreak - Failure (Bridge Nine)
  16. Set Your Goals - Mutiny! (Eulogy)
  17. Ambitions - Questions (Think Fast)
  18. Capital - Signal Corps (Iron Pier)
  19. Dead Hearts - Bitter Verses (Ferret)
  20. Agent - I Wouldn't Trade That for Anything (Iron Pier)
  21. Count the Hours - We Don't Care (Panic)
  22. Take My Chances - Down Here With Us (One Day Savior)
  23. Strike Anywhere - Dead FM (Fat Wreck Chords)
  24. Ceremony - Violence Violence (Malfunction)
  25. Fucked Up - Hidden World (Jade Tree)

Jenny's list

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  1. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Warner Bros.)
  2. Envy - Insomniac Doze (Temporary Residence)
  3. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (Matador)
  4. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti)
  5. Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth (Equal Vision)
  6. Ministry - Rio Grande Blood (13th Planet)
  7. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (Sire)
  8. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
  9. Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy (Downtown)
  10. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (Ipecac)
  11. Send More Paramedics - The Awakening (In at the Deep End)
  12. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (Atlantic)
  13. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun (Neurot)
  14. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (Warner Bros.)
  15. Incubus - Light Grenades (Epic)
  16. Tool - 10,000 Days (Volcano)
  17. The Prize Fighter Inferno - My Brothers Blood Machine (Equal Vision)
  18. Ignite - Our Darkest Days (Abacus)
  19. Mono - You Are There (Temporary Residence)
  20. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (XL Recordings)
  21. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor (Atlantic)
  22. Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
  23. Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage (Sanctuary)
  24. Bomb the Music Industry! - Goodbye Cool World (Quote Unquote)
  25. Velvet Acid Christ - Lust for Blood (Metropolis Records)

Jon's list

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  1. Fucked Up - Hidden World (Jade Tree)
  2. Harvey Milk - Special Wishes (Megablade/Troubleman Unlimited)
  3. Samiam - Whatever's Got You Down (Hopeless)
  4. Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
  5. Jesu - Silver (Hydra Head)
  6. For Science - Revenge for Hire (Don Giovanni)
  7. Death is Not Glamorous - Death is Not Glamorous / Undercurrents (State of Mind / Dead & Gone)
  8. Crime Desire - Id Music to Combat the Superego (Life's A Rape)
  9. Shipwreck - Shipwreck (Rumble)
  10. End of a Year - Sincerely (Revelation)
  11. Format, The - Dog Problems (The Vanity Label)
  12. Ergs, The - Jersey's Best Prancers (Don Giovanni)
  13. Lovely Lads, The - The Best You've Got (Eating Rats)
  14. Fucked Up - Dangerous Fumes (Deranged)
  15. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky (Jnana)
  16. Loved Ones, The - Keep Your Heart (Fat Wreck Chords)
  17. Poison Idea - Latest Will and Testament (Farewell)
  18. Lifetime - 2 Songs (Decaydance)
  19. The Adored - A New Language (V2)
  20. Think I Care - World Asylum (Bridge Nine)
  21. Lillingtons, The - The Too Late Show (Red Scare)
  22. Panic - Circles (Reflections)
  23. Set Your Goals - Mutiny! (Eulogy)
  24. Spanish Bombs - Spanish Bombs (Chunksaah)
  25. Scott Walker - The Drift (4AD)

Josh F.'s list

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  1. Crime in Stereo - The Troubled Stateside (Nitro)
  2. Boy Sets Fire - The Misery Index: Notes from the Plague Years (Equal Vision)
  3. None More Black - This is Satire (Fat Wreck Chords)
  4. Ryan's Hope - Apocalypse in Increments (Punknews)
  5. Loved Ones, The - Keep Your Heart (Fat Wreck Chords)
  6. This Is Hell - Sundowning (Trustkill)
  7. Dead Hearts - Bitter Verses (Ferret)
  8. Ignite - Our Darkest Days (Abacus)
  9. Lawrence Arms, The - Oh! Calcutta! (Fat Wreck Chords)
  10. Bigwig - Reclamation (Fearless)
  11. Shook Ones - Facetious Folly Feat (Revelation)
  12. No Trigger - Canyoneer (Nitro)
  13. A.F.I. - Decemberunderground (Interscope)
  14. Saves the Day - Sound the Alarm (Vagrant)
  15. Bouncing Souls, The - The Gold Record (Epitaph)
  16. Murder By Death - In Bocca Al Lupo (East West/Tent Show)
  17. Head Automatica - Popaganda (Warner Bros.)
  18. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (Reprise)
  19. Set Your Goals - Mutiny! (Eulogy)
  20. Outbreak - Failure (Bridge Nine)
  21. Dead to Me - Cuban Ballerina (Fat Wreck Chords)
  22. Sick of it All - Death to Tyrants (Abacus)
  23. Strike Anywhere - Dead FM (Fat Wreck Chords)
  24. Hope Conspiracy, The - Death Knows Your Name (Deathwish Inc.)
  25. New Mexican Disaster Squad - Don't Believe (Jade Tree)

Kevin's list

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  1. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards (Anti)
  2. Celtic Frost - Monotheist (Century Media)
  3. Kaada - Music for Moviebikers (Ipecac)
  4. Hank III - Straight to Hell (Bruc)
  5. Cross Examination - The Hung Jury (Organized Crime)
  6. Cattle Decapitation - Karma. Bloody. Karma (Metal Blade)
  7. Foo Fighters - Skin and Bones (RCA)
  8. Urgehal - Goatcraft Torment (Southern Lord)
  9. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (American)
  10. Celebrity Murders - Time to Kill Space (Chainsaw Safety)
  11. Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse (Metal Blade)
  12. Angel Eyes - Something to do with Death (Underground Communiqué)
  13. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Warner Bros.)
  14. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (Ipecac)
  15. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Ã?lan Vital (Matador)
  16. Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam (Regain)
  17. New York Dolls - One Day it Will Please Us to Remember Even This (Roadrunner)
  18. Isis - In the Absence of Truth (Ipecac)
  19. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (XL Recordings)
  20. Eyes of Ligeia - A Fever Which Would Cling to Thee Forever (Paragon)
  21. Apiary - Lost In Focus (Ironclad/Metal Blade)
  22. Melvins - A Senile Animal (Ipecac)
  23. Deicide - The Stench of Redemption (Earache)
  24. Slayer - Christ Illusion (American)
  25. Cannibal Corpse - Kill (Metal Blade)

Kristin's list

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  1. A.F.I. - Decemberunderground (Interscope)
  2. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Sea (V2)
  3. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Ã?lan Vital (Matador)
  4. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (Geffen)
  5. Voivod - Katorz (The End)
  6. Hank III - Straight to Hell (Bruc)
  7. Ignite - Our Darkest Days (Abacus)
  8. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
  9. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (XL Recordings)
  10. In Flames - Come Clarity (Ferret)
  11. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Warner Bros.)
  12. Slayer - Christ Illusion (American)
  13. Streetlight Manifesto - Keasbey Nights (Victory)
  14. Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
  15. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (Matador)
  16. Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors (Sanctuary)
  17. New York Dolls - One Day it Will Please Us to Remember Even This (Roadrunner)
  18. Outkast - Idlewild (LaFace)
  19. Refused - Refused are Fucking Dead DVD (Burning Heart)
  20. Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (Geffen)
  21. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
  22. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun (Neurot)
  23. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti)
  24. Slayer - Eternal Pyre (American)
  25. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (Interscope/Polydor)

Marc's list

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  1. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (Atlantic)
  2. Automatic, The - Not Accepted Anywhere (B-Unique)
  3. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (Sire)
  4. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force (5 Rue Christine)
  5. Roddy Woomble - My Secret is My Silence (Pure)
  6. Slayer - Christ Illusion (American)
  7. Guillemots - Through The Window Pane (Polydor)
  8. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun (Neurot)
  9. Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors (Sanctuary)
  10. Future Primitive - Expression Sessions (Independent)
  11. Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/Lovesounds (Jive)
  12. A.F.I. - Decemberunderground (Interscope)
  13. Lily Allen - Alright, Still (Regal/Parlaphone)
  14. Defiance, Ohio - The Great Depression (No Idea)
  15. Blood Brothers, The - Young Machetes (V2)
  16. Lamb of God - Sacrament (Epic)
  17. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (Atlantic)
  18. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
  19. Dresden Dolls, The - Yes, Virginia (Roadrunner)
  20. Planes Mistaken for Stars - Mercy (Abacus)
  21. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Warner Bros.)
  22. Ryan's Hope - Apocalypse in Increments (Punknews)
  23. Send More Paramedics - The Awakening (In at the Deep End)
  24. Up and at Them - Demo (Independent)
  25. In Flames - Come Clarity (Ferret)

Matt's list

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  1. Rocky Votolato - Makers (Barsuk)
  2. Saves the Day - Sound the Alarm (Vagrant)
  3. Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
  4. As Tall as Lions - As Tall as Lions (Triple Crown)
  5. Lawrence Arms, The - Oh! Calcutta! (Fat Wreck Chords)
  6. Omar Rodriguez - Omar Rodriguez (Willie Anderson)
  7. Mars Volta, The - Amputechture (Universal)
  8. Strike Anywhere - Dead FM (Fat Wreck Chords)
  9. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (Matador)
  10. Bomb the Music Industry! - Goodbye Cool World (Quote Unquote)
  11. Fucked Up - Hidden World (Jade Tree)
  12. Falcon, The - Unicornography (Red Scare Industries)
  13. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun (Neurot)
  14. Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (Geffen)
  15. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (American)
  16. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (Atlantic)
  17. NOFX - Wolves in Wolves' Clothing (Fat Wreck Chords)
  18. Greg Graffin - Cold as the Clay (Anti)
  19. Hank III - Straight to Hell (Bruc)
  20. A Wilhelm Scream - Diver (Jumpstart)
  21. Loved Ones, The - Keep Your Heart (Fat Wreck Chords)
  22. Lillingtons, The - The Too Late Show (Red Scare)
  23. Bouncing Souls, The - The Gold Record (Epitaph)
  24. Set Your Goals - Mutiny! (Eulogy)
  25. A.F.I. - Decemberunderground (Interscope)

Michael's list

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  1. These Arms Are Snakes - Easter (Jade Tree)
  2. Rise and Fall - Into Oblivion (Deathwish Inc./Reflections)
  3. Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
  4. Russian Circles - Enter (Flameshovel)
  5. Isis - In the Absence of Truth (Ipecac)
  6. New Found Glory - Coming Home (Geffen)
  7. Know the Score - All Time Low (Eulogy)
  8. Set Your Goals - Mutiny! (Eulogy)
  9. Another Breath - Mill City (Rivalry)
  10. Murder By Death - In Bocca Al Lupo (East West/Tent Show)
  11. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (Ipecac)
  12. Fireworks - We are Everywhere (Run for Cover)
  13. Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy (Downtown)
  14. Force of Change - The Bond We Share (This Blessing, This Curse)
  15. Windmills by the Ocean - Windmills by the Ocean (Robotic Empire)
  16. Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me (Interscope)
  17. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back (Last Gang)
  18. Set it Straight - Live Your Heart and Never Follow (Twelve Gauge)
  19. Palehorse - Amongst the Flock (Bridge Nine)
  20. Cloak/Dagger - Pi�±ata (Grave Mistake)
  21. Junius - Blood is Bright (Radar)
  22. Giant Squid - Metridium Fields (The End)
  23. Jesu - Silver (Hydra Head)
  24. Isis & Aereogramme - In the Fishtank 14 (Konkurrent)
  25. Sinking Ships - Disconnecting (Revelation)

Neil F.'s list

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  1. Phillip Roebuck - Fever Pitch (Manual)
  2. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided (Interscope)
  3. Jawbone - Hauling (Loose)
  4. Decemberists, The - The Crane Wife (Capitol)
  5. Roddy Woomble - My Secret is My Silence (Pure)
  6. Adam Green - Jacket Full of Danger (Rough Trade)
  7. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (American)
  8. Send More Paramedics - The Awakening (In at the Deep End)
  9. Circles - When the Big River Floods (Well Below)
  10. Tool - 10,000 Days (Volcano)
  11. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
  12. Defiance, Ohio - The Great Depression (No Idea)
  13. Baby Teeth - For The Heathers (Lujo)
  14. Puerto Muerto - Songs Of Muerto County Revisited (Fire UK)
  15. Dismantled - Standard Issue (Dependent/Metropolis)
  16. Good Riddance - My Republic (Fat Wreck Chords)
  17. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (Matador)
  18. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Ã?lan Vital (Matador)
  19. Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)
  20. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (Geffen)
  21. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (XL Recordings)
  22. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (XL Recordings)
  23. Up and at Them - Demo (Independent)
  24. Cameran - A Caesarean (Innocent Words)
  25. Living End, The - State of Emergency (EMI)

Peanut's list

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  1. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (Warner Bros.)
  2. Ignite - Our Darkest Days (Abacus)
  3. Blood Brothers, The - Young Machetes (V2)
  4. Lily Allen - Alright, Still (Regal/Parlaphone)
  5. Send More Paramedics - The Awakening (In at the Deep End)
  6. Cursive - Happy Hollow (Saddle Creek)
  7. Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/Lovesounds (Jive)
  8. Gossip, The - Standing in the Way of Control (Kill Rock Stars)
  9. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
  10. Flaming Lips, The - At War With the Mystics (Warner Bros.)
  11. Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors (Sanctuary)
  12. Pipettes, The - We are The Pipettes (Memphis Industries)
  13. Living End, The - State of Emergency (EMI)
  14. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (Atlantic)
  15. Guillemots - Through The Window Pane (Polydor)
  16. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (American)
  17. Outkast - Idlewild (LaFace)
  18. Sick of it All - Death to Tyrants (Abacus)
  19. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (XL Recordings)
  20. A.F.I. - Decemberunderground (Interscope)
  21. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Ã?lan Vital (Matador)
  22. Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)
  23. DJ Shadow - The Outsider (Universal/Motown)
  24. Heavens - Patent Pending (Epitaph)
  25. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Sea (V2)

Scott's list

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  1. Form of Rocket - Men (Sick Room)
  2. Uzeda - Stella (Touch and Go)
  3. Nina Nastasia - On Leaving (Touch and Go)
  4. Resplendent - The Vicarious Choir (Mixx Tape)
  5. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop)
  6. Paper Chase, The - Now You are One of Us (Kill Rock Stars)
  7. Old Haunts - Fuel On Fire (Kill Rock Stars)
  8. Boris - Pink (Southern Lord)
  9. Sweetthieves - View From a Glass Tower (Independent)
  10. Stnnng - Fake Fake (Modern Radio)
  11. Giddy Motors - Do Easy (Fatcat)
  12. Black Helicopter - Invisible Jet (Ecstatic Peace)
  13. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
  14. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards (Anti)
  15. Appleseed Cast, The - Peregrine (The Militia Group)
  16. Refused - Refused are Fucking Dead DVD (Burning Heart)
  17. Jesu - Silver (Hydra Head)
  18. Black Heart Procession, The - The Spell (Touch & Go)
  19. Comets On Fire - Avatar (Sub Pop)
  20. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (Geffen)
  21. Cursive - Happy Hollow (Saddle Creek)
  22. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (Matador)
  23. Supersystem - A Million Microphones (Touch & Go)
  24. Decemberists, The - The Crane Wife (Capitol)
  25. Advantage, The - Elf Titled (5 Rue Christine)

Scottie's list

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  1. Hold Steady, The - Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant)
  2. Lawrence Arms, The - Oh! Calcutta! (Fat Wreck Chords)
  3. None More Black - This is Satire (Fat Wreck Chords)
  4. Flaming Lips, The - At War With the Mystics (Warner Bros.)
  5. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (Def Jam)
  6. Fucked Up - Hidden World (Jade Tree)
  7. Ceremony - Violence Violence (Malfunction)
  8. Falcon, The - Unicornography (Red Scare Industries)
  9. Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes (Stones Throw)
  10. Loved Ones, The - Keep Your Heart (Fat Wreck Chords)
  11. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (XL Recordings)
  12. This Is Hell - Sundowning (Trustkill)
  13. Owen - At Home with Owen (Polyvinyl)
  14. Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me (Interscope)
  15. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (Atlantic)
  16. Have Heart - The Things We Carry (Bridge Nine)
  17. Guns Up! - Outlive (1917)
  18. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (American)
  19. Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)
  20. Slayer - Christ Illusion (American)
  21. Heavens - Patent Pending (Epitaph)
  22. Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)
  23. Some Girls - Heaven's Pregnant Teens (Epitaph)
  24. Saves the Day - Sound the Alarm (Vagrant)
  25. NOFX - Wolves in Wolves' Clothing (Fat Wreck Chords)

Sean L.'s list

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  1. Holy Mountain, The - Enemies (No Idea)
  2. Tragedy - Nerve Damage (Tragedy)
  3. Engineer - Reproach (Hex)
  4. Celebrity Murders - Time to Kill Space (Chainsaw Safety)
  5. Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
  6. Graf Orlock - Destination Time Yesterday (Level Plane)
  7. In First Person - Lost Between Hands Held Tight (Paramnesia)
  8. Ampere / Sinaloa - Split (Ebullition)
  9. Versoma - Life During Wartime (Robotic Empire)
  10. Isis & Aereogramme - In the Fishtank 14 (Konkurrent)
  11. American Heritage - Millenarian (Translation Loss)
  12. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun (Neurot)
  13. Facedowninshit - Nothing Positive, Only Negative (Relapse)
  14. Coliseum / Young Widows - Split (Auxillary/Relapse)
  15. Saviours - Crucifire (Level Plane)
  16. Raise the Red Lantern - Thunderfuck (Witch Trial)
  17. Rise and Fall - Into Oblivion (Deathwish Inc./Reflections)
  18. Landmine Marathon - Wounded (Level Plane)
  19. Akimbo - Forging Steel And Laying Stone (Alternative Tentacles)
  20. Fucked Up - Dangerous Fumes (Deranged)
  21. Mouth of the Architect / Kenoma - Split (Translation Loss)
  22. Gaza - I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die (Black Market Activities)
  23. Some Girls - Heaven's Pregnant Teens (Epitaph)
  24. Sparrows Swarm and Sing - O Shenandoah, Mighty Death Will Find Me (Magic Bullet)
  25. No Idols - Low (Swing the Pyramid Hands) (Hex)

Shane's list

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  1. Benoît Pioulard - Précis (Kranky)
  2. Growing - Color Wheel (Troubleman Unlimited)
  3. Mountains - Sewn (Apestaartje)
  4. Crime in Choir - Trumpery Metier (GSL)
  5. Eluvium - When I Live By The Garden And The Sea (Temporary Residence)
  6. William Basinski - Variations For Piano and Tape (2062)
  7. Girl Talk - Night Ripper (Illegal Art)
  8. Seaworthy - Map in Hand (12K)
  9. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (Matador)
  10. Kaki King - ...Until We Felt Red (Velour Recordings)
  11. Maps and Atlases - Tree, Swallows, Houses (Self Released)
  12. Early Day Miners - Offshore (Secretly Canadian)
  13. Fourcolor - Letter of Sounds (12K)
  14. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet (Kranky)
  15. Taylor Deupree - Northern (12K)
  16. Jason Molina - Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go (Secretly Canadian)
  17. Minamo - A Herdsmans Life (Esquilo)
  18. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
  19. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (Robotic Empire)
  20. Woods - How to Survive In/In the Woods (Release the Bats)
  21. The Velvet Teen - Cum Laude! (Slowdance)
  22. Lullatone - Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous (Audio Dregs)
  23. Gregor Samsa - 55:12 (Kora)
  24. Loscil - Plume (Kranky)
  25. Zombi - Surface to Air (Relapse)

Tohm's list

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  1. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun (Neurot)
  2. Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth (Crucial Blast)
  3. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister (Tooth & Nail)
  4. Junius - Blood is Bright (Radar)
  5. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (Robotic Empire)
  6. Windmills by the Ocean - Windmills by the Ocean (Robotic Empire)
  7. Cursive - Happy Hollow (Saddle Creek)
  8. Jesu - Silver (Hydra Head)
  9. Envy - Insomniac Doze (Temporary Residence)
  10. Daughters - Hell Songs (Hydra Head)
  11. La Quiete - Tenpeun '01-'05 (Perpetual Motion Machine)
  12. Mars Volta, The - Amputechture (Universal)
  13. Isis - In the Absence of Truth (Ipecac)
  14. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (Startrak)
  15. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (Def Jam)
  16. Das Oath - Mini (Dim Mak)
  17. Some Girls - Heaven's Pregnant Teens (Epitaph)
  18. An Albatross - Blessphemy (Feast of the Peace-Giver) (Ace Fu Records)
  19. Sparrows Swarm and Sing - Untitled II (Perpetual Motion Machine)
  20. Method Man - 4:21... The Day After (Def Jam)
  21. Russian Circles - Enter (Flameshovel)
  22. These Arms Are Snakes - Easter (Jade Tree)
  23. Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth (Equal Vision)
  24. Heavy Heavy Low Low - Everythings Watched, Everyones Watching (Ferret)
  25. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (XL Recordings)

Tyler's list

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  1. Russian Circles - Enter (Flameshovel)
  2. Om - Conference Of The Birds (Load)
  3. Daughters - Hell Songs (Hydra Head)
  4. Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
  5. Deathspell Omega - K�©n�´se (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
  6. Jesu - Silver (Hydra Head)
  7. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun (Neurot)
  8. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (Matador)
  9. Nadja - Bodycage (Profound Lore)
  10. Sunn 0))) & Boris - Altar (Southern Lord)
  11. Boris - Pink (Southern Lord)
  12. Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide (Hydra Head)
  13. Fix, The - At the Speed of Twisted Thought (Touch & Go)
  14. Ceremony - Violence Violence (Malfunction)
  15. Some Girls - Heaven's Pregnant Teens (Epitaph)
  16. Disappearer - Disappearer (Trash Art)
  17. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway (Earache)
  18. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister (Tooth & Nail)
  19. These Arms Are Snakes - Easter (Jade Tree)
  20. Cattle Decapitation - Karma. Bloody. Karma (Metal Blade)
  21. Belong - October Language (Carpark)
  22. Terror - Always the Hard Way (Trustkill)
  23. Jonben�©t, The - Ugly/Heartless (Pluto)
  24. Poison Idea - Latest Will and Testament (Farewell)
  25. Zao - The Fear is What Keeps Us Here (Ferret)

Zed's list

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  1. Fucked Up - Hidden World (Jade Tree)
  2. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain (The End)
  3. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (Def Jam)
  4. Envy - Insomniac Doze (Temporary Residence)
  5. Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City)
  6. Asunder - Works Will Come Undone (Profound Love)
  7. The Marked Men - Fix My Brain (Swami)
  8. Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
  9. Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)
  10. Abi Yoyos, The - Mill Valley (Raccoon)
  11. Comets On Fire - Avatar (Sub Pop)
  12. Black Angels, The - Passover (Light in the Attic)
  13. Haram - Haram (Lovitt)
  14. Ceremony - Violence Violence (Malfunction)
  15. Mountains - Sewn (Apestaartje)
  16. Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars (Vendlus)
  17. Please Inform The Captain This Is A Hijack - Defeat Or Humiliate The United States Of America (Clean Plate)
  18. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light (Galaxia)
  19. Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide (Hydra Head)
  20. Das Oath - Mini (Dim Mak)
  21. Om - Conference Of The Birds (Load)
  22. Sabertooth Zombie - Midnight Venom (Twelve Gauge)
  23. Mind Eraser - Glacial Reign (Painkiller)
  24. Witch - Witch (Tee Pee)
  25. Dangers - Anger (Independent)

— words by the SPB team

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