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Joe DeAndrea
12/21/08, 09:38 AM
Josh Grigsby

Top 20 Records of 2008:
1. Copeland - You Are My Sunshine
2. Coldplay - Viva La Vida (Prospekt's March Edition)
3. Paper Rival - Dialog
4. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
5. Anberlin - New Surrender
6. Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation
7. Number One Gun - The North Pole Project
8. Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt
9. Koufax - Strugglers
10. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
11. Valencia - We All Need a Reason to Believe
12. Secret Lives of the Freemasons - Weekend Warriors
13. You Me at Six - Take off Your Colours
14. Alive in Wild Paint - Ceilings
15. Good Old War - Only Way to Be Alone
16. City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
17. We Shot the Moon - Fear and Love
18. Norma Jean - The Anti-Mother
19. Jonezetta - Cruel to Be Young
20. Hit The Lights - Skip School, Start Fights

Honorable Mentions:
The Academy Is - Fast Times at Barrington High
Innerpartysystem - Self-titled

Top 5 EPs of 2008:
1. The Jealous Sound - Got Friends EP
2. Third Eye Blind - Red Star EP
3. The Summer Set - ...In Color EP
4. Brighten - Early Love EP
5. This Providence - The Bright Lights EP

Top 5 Biggest Disappointments of 2008:
1. The Killers - Day & Age
2. Forgive Durden - Razia's Shadow
3. Kanye West - 808's and Heartbreak
4. Keane - Perfect Symmetry
5. The amount of Breathe Carolina/Brokencyde bands and albums that existed during this year and will exist during 2009.

CDs I didn't get to listen to yet (hence why they didn't make it):
Thrice - The Alchemy Indexes III & IV
The All-American Rejects - When the World Comes Down

Top 3 Records that are lasting from 2007:
1. Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
2. Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
3. Underminded - Eleven:Eleven

Top 10 Most Anticipated Records of 2008 (in no order):
1. The Appleseed Cast
2. New Found Glory
3. Saves The Day
4. Thursday
5. Dredg
6. Paramore
7. Envy on the Coast
8. Every Time I Die
9. Minus the Bear
10. Ace Enders and a Million Different People

Best Movies of 2008:
1. No Country for Old Men
2. Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
...I don't see a lot of movies... haha.

Top 5 Best TV Shows of 2008:
1. Dexter
2. Weeds
3. True Blood
4. The Office
5. Family Guy

nizzlefoshizzle
12/28/08, 11:46 PM
shouldn't that say "most anticipated of 2009"?

ChrisSleeping
12/29/08, 12:20 AM
damn josh. no anticipation?? haha

xtheaudition
12/29/08, 04:53 AM
Ace Enders and a Million Different People, cant wait for that either!

DI Pistola
12/29/08, 06:33 AM
Love for "Red Star," yay.

circatbs
12/29/08, 08:05 AM
lol at biggest disappointments

denissuxx
12/29/08, 01:23 PM
Nice to see You Me At Six on a list

Ive seen them live a few times, but their record SUCKED.

jessi1012
12/30/08, 01:38 PM
I'm curious as to why Razia's Shadow was a disappointment.