What are your favorite CDs you bought this year?
Or are you still waiting on CDs you ordered and they have to be released?
Eden's Way 's CD will be released in two days.
Was 2009 a good year for hard rock/metal?
Or you bought a lot of stuff in other music styles?

Thieves & Liars - "When Dreams Become Reality"
Menchen - "Red Rock"
Letter 7 - "Follow The Light"

Can you stretch that out to a top 5 or 10 list? If you can, we can do a much smaller version of what CMR does. Arttie takes the number 1s and gives them a certain amount of points (25, actually). He lets you make a top 25 list, and each drop in rank on your list gets one less point. (2.=24, 3.=23, etc.) He then adds up all the points and adds them up for an overall board favorites list for the year.

On second thought, that sounds like too much work! Carry on!

A top 5 or a top 10 is a good idea.
I never give the CDs I bought in one year points.
For me it's tough enough to create a top 10.

Let me see if I can allow me to order Eden's Way this week.

So we really have to wait till the end of the year before we know what's in your top list for 2008?
I think I know one of your topped CDs.

If that Eden's Way disc comes soon, I'll be able to listen and re-evaluate what is on my list. My list will be a combination of several metal CDs and several modern rock CDs. I might can even go to a top 15 for this year. But, until I get the last CD that I have really been looking forward to for 2008, I don't think it would be fair to post a list. Eden's Way could make my favorites or fall on their face. I'm not sure it would push my number 1, 2, or 3 out of the way. But, I want to give them the opportunity to!

I am missing too many albums from 2008 to give an accurate account, give me until after Christmas and I will give my favorites.

We alllow that this time Staybrite.

How about we set a Jan. 10 date? If your list is complete before then, go ahead and share. But, we will accept submissions until then.

Good idea, but somehow I don't think X-Sinner will make my top 10 this year.

My top 2 are easy and won't change.

1) Harmony - Chapter II
2) Theocracy - Mirror of Souls

<------ No. 1!!!!


After that, I'll have to consider Harmony, Mission Of One and Theocracy.

FUndy

Staybrite, can you create a top .. from the CDs you ordered this year?

What is the meaning of our top 10 of 2008?
Only new released albums?
Or albums you have bought from albums who are realeased before 2008 count too for the 2008 top 10?

Only releases that came out in 2008 are acceptable. If you were just playing catchup on an older release, it will not count for this year.

I will accept reissues as the new version came out this year. For example, you may have never heard the first two Deliverance CDs that Retroactive put out. That might be your favorite. I'll accept that. Also, without a reissue, His Witness wouldn't even be in our coolections. But, if it wasn't released in 2008, it doesn't need to be on this year's list.

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Just placed on order for the new X-Sinner at CD Baby. So I will be finding out if it is top 10 material in a very short period of time... And BTW, the new Eden's Way is a "wild card"- not certain what to expect. But looking forward to hearing it.

Dynamis, I'm expecting your review on the X-Sinner will be much like my comments or Naz's. I'm betting that they get a spanking! I am also betting that this doesn't make your list for the year.

If you listen to the three songs on the Eden's Way Myspace, there is no way I can call them a wild card. They have that 80's sound that I absotively posilutely love! I think that their last CD made my favorites for 2006. Having met them, they are a great bunch of guys--especially Dave and Jacob--and I respect them for really striving to live godly lives, use their music as a witness for Christ, and not bowing down to pressure to have a more modern sound. These guys are doing it 80's style because that's what they love! OK, I'll quit being their cheerleader....for now....

Hope Eden's Way will release their new album soon so we can give it a place in our top 10 for 2008.
I love the sound of those guys. They sound cool.

Driver - Sons of Thunder (don't know if this qualifies for CHM or not, but the lyrics are Christian)
Letter 7 - Follow The Light
Theocracy - Mirror of Souls