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[Wisemon]

2005 is just about done, so, since I bought a lot of major commercial rock albums that came out this year (and even more independent albums that came out in other years), I thought I'd give my final reviews of 2005's major rock albums.


I would say that the best new album to come out this year was Disturbed's "Ten Thousand Fists," their best album yet. Standout tracks include: "Ten Thousand Fists," "Deify," "I'm Alive," and "Pain Redefined."

A close second would be Foo Fighters' "In Your Honor," which came out on my birthday. I say it's second only because of the annoying write protection thing, which makes playing the tracks slower, and adds shit to the CD's I've burned. Fortunately, the singles don't have this problem. Standout tracks include: "Best of You," "DOA," "End Over End," "Friend of a Friend," and "No Way Back." Also, "World (Demo)" on the "Resolve" single is a really cool song.

Audioslave's "Out of Exile" was somewhat disappointing at first, but it's grown on me. The band really does sound like more of a band, even if they don't rock quite as much. Standout tracks include: "Your Time Has Come," "Drown Yourself Away," and "Man or Animal." They look and sound really cool on the "Live in Cuba" DVD.

The Offspring put out their "Greatest Hits" this year. I got the DualDisc version with the acoustic performance of "Dirty Magic." The Offspring rule.

Bush also put out a greatest hits that includes their Woodstock '99 set. I don't like Gavin Rossdale all that much, but they had one hell of a guitar player (Nigel Pulsford).


Now for this year's major disappointments:

Korn's "See You On The Other Side" has one of the best album covers I've ever seen, but the contents just aren't all there. I don't mind that this sounds polished, and I don't mind all of the NIN type synth stuff, but this is missing the Korn anger that I used to know and love. There are a lot of poppy songs about fucking for the sake of fucking, the bag pipes come in at bad times, and what Amazon reviewers say is the best song, "Seen It All," isn't that good.