Lost Highway by Bon Jovi. It's my first time listening to it in a good number of months. The favourite albums of 2007 topic made me decide to have a listen again.

Nice, calming album. I really dig the fusion of country and rock which Bon Jovi pulled off very well. Definitely helps while I am sitting here at work.

I am on a work computer so I cannot be arsed to get an album art picture, but..

Tom Petty - Highway Companion

I love this album. It isn't my favourite (that is probably Full Moon Fever), but I love some of the songs on this album, they're just so moody. Saving Grace, Flirting With Time, Jack, This Old Town.. Really great songs and I love the blues-like twang (that sounds so damn weird) to most of the songs on this album.

Daft Punk's Discovery

A bit of wishful thinking, posting the Japanese cover, but all the regional covers should be like that! Anyway, this is probably my favourite electronic album, but it's currently duking it out with Justice's †. Both are really original, both duos have a really distinctive style, and on both albums the songs are just so bloody good.

I am listening to Four Letter Lie's album What A Terrible Thing To Say.

These guys are an energetic hardcore band from Victory Records, and a definite must listen for people that listen to Underoath, Every Time I Die, etc.

Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding



Not really listening that much but while we were posting cool album covers :/

No actually this album is pretty crazy, it's sort of like Venetian Snares' version of Drukqs with the general feel of the sounds and crap. I actually like the melody part of it and think all the noise crap is kind of worthless, but I kind of like techno stuff for that exact thing, how it blurs the line between 'rhythm' sounds and the ones that form the melody. This guy definitely knows a thing or two about classical music - like basically I associate ambient music with 'thinking' about crap and classical with feeling exactly what the composer intended you to feel - which is why it works in soundtracks and stuff. I say that because Vsnares is literally one of the few techno people I can think of who can literally give you all sorts of queasy feelings with a song. Like not from having disturbing samples or anything, there'll actually be just little 'jumps' in the music that completely come out of left field. Not that Aphex Twin doesn't do that too but it feels like he does it for the sake of being off the wall while Venetian Snares seems to do it so it's like moving at 200 mph an hour musically and then screeching to a halt. I kind of love and hate the album because it's really intense but at the same time it's really pretty, and I kind of think of writing good music as the same thing as directing a film, in that the director intends for you to be looking at something while some musicians know what you'll be listening to at a certain point - he really does a good job of making you feel involved in a song especially when it's such artificial stuff but at the same time it's so LOOK WHAT I CAN DO - I can see why people are so polarized about him aside from that he sounds like an absolutely revolting person - kind of like Marilyn Manson but at the same time I think he's just an attention freak

Edit: Actually I hate the album cover but it's just like so being a techno cover like basically when I think techno compilation it's trying to be like some picture you would feel like a KEWL DUDE having it as your desktop wallpaper and this is like so one of those kind of pictures - it's very postmodern is what I'm saying

Edit: Found some songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbv5J3uA6Q&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_dfy8xHB6c (so short ;_;)

http://leafo.net/hosted/ragnar/01-venetian_snares-huge_chrome_peach-dps.mp3  Couldn't find it on Youtube, I'll take it down if you guys want

I just got Burden of a Day's  new album Blessed Be Our Ever After





These guys are easily one of the most amazing Christian Hardcore bands out there today. They're so energetic, and their music does not sound like everyone else's. Seeing them live is something that will leave you in awe.

example:

Smoothy, I wouldn't really call them Hardcore. I don't think I could even place them in the same category. Then again, I consider the more oldschool stuff hardcore.

Burden of a Day is very much CHRISTIAN HARDCORE, it is a sub-genre of it's own. sorry they aren't Stretch Arm Strong or something.

anyway, I am listening to the new album from Christian Hardcore band Gwen Stacy titled "The Life I Know"




These guys are really great, their new stuff reminds me of Norma Jean so much. They aren't really anything innovative, but their music is definitely fun to listen to.

I'm listening to Ozric Tentacles and I feel like so wrong about it

If you listen to old Burden of a Day there is so much old school hardcore influence with a christian message it's not even funny.

and, I never mentioned TDWP as being a hardcore band, I know the difference between metalcore and hardcore.

Now, you arguing with over all of this is just as silly as me arguing how wrong you are in calling botch metalcore because everybody knows that they are the pioneers of mathcore

Botch is also probably the best band to ever come out of that usually terrible scene, so anyone with any remote interest should check them out. asap.

Emmure - Goodbye To The Gallows



These guys are straight up extreme metalcore, seriously their music is so energetic. This album is not a prime example of how insane they can be, because it is more studio work then anything they have ever done. but, these are definite must for people that like a lot of breakdowns, and uh power.