Better late than never, our 2015 Top Ten Albums are up. Listen to the playlist over at Spotify.
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Best Track: "Lifted Up (1985)"
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Better late than never, our 2015 Top Ten Albums are up. Listen to the playlist over at Spotify.
Don Clark / 2015 Top Ten Albums
Ryan Clark / 2015 Top Ten Albums
Josh Cross / 2015 Top Ten Albums
Best Track: "Lifted Up (1985)"
Always epic and often controversial, The 2014 IC Top Ten Album Lists are here! Check out our Rdio playlist containing every album except (sadly) T. Swift.
Don Clark / 2014 Top Ten Albums
Ryan Clark / 2014 Top Ten Albums
Ryan Clark / 2014 Top Ten Metal Albums
Zac Schwiet / 2014 Top Ten Albums
Josh Cross / 2014 Top Ten Albums
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Ryan Clark:
Don Clark:
Zac Schwiet:
Ryan's Top Ten Metal:
It's that time of year again. The infamous IC 'Top Ten Albums' of 2011. Get your hate mail ready ...
Ryan:
1. White Lies "Ritual" 2. Young Galaxy "Shapeshifting" 3. Chapel Club "Palace" 4. Jamie Woon "Mirrorwriting" 5. Bon Iver "Bon Iver" 6. Nero "Welcome Reality" 7. Elbow "Build A Rocket Boys!" 8. The Joy Formidable "The Big Roar" 9. My Morning Jacket "Circuital" 10. Graveyard "Hisingen Blues"
Don:
1. Young Galaxy "Shapeshifting" 2. Phantogram "Nightlife EP" 3. Active Child "You Are All I See" 4. Foster The People "Torches" 5. The Joy Formidable "The Big Roar" 6. Austra "Feel It Break" 7. Adele "21" 8. Mat Kearney "Young Love" 9. Jay-Z & Kanye West "Watch The Throne" 10. Mastodon "The Hunter"
Zac:
1. Tycho "Dive" 2. Mat Kearney "Young Love" 3. Nero "Welcome Reality" 4. Young Galaxy "Shapeshifting" 5. Friendly Fires "Pala" 6. Needtobreathe "The Reckoning" 7. White Lies "Rituals" 8. Mirrors "Lights And Offerings" 9. The Joy Formidable "The Big Roar" 10. Phantogram "Nightlife EP"
Love 'em or hate 'em ... our 2009 Top Tens have arrived.
Don:
1. Imogen Heap Ellipse 2. Coalesce OX 3. John Mayer Battle Studies 4. Miike Snow Miike Snow 5. Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 6. Wilco The Album 7. Paper Route Absence 8. Mute Math Armistice 9. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 10. Mindy Smith Stupid Love
Top Ten "Honorable Mention"
1. Throwdown Deathless 2. Mastodon Crack The Skye 3. Switchfoot Hello Hurricane 4. Metric Fantasies 5. U2 No Line On The Horizon 6. The Boxer Rebellion Union 7. Blacklist Midnight Of The Century 8. I Am X Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction 9. Editors In This Light And On This Evening 10. Hot Leg Red Light Fever
Ryan:
1. White Lies To Lose My Life 2. Bat For Lashes Two Suns 3. Alice In Chains Black Gives Way To Blue 4. Metric Fantasies 5. Living Things Habeas Corpus 6. I Am X Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction 7. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 8. Miike Snow Miike Snow 9. Dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion 10. Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe
Top Ten "Honorable Mention"
1. Doves Kingdom Of Rust 2. Paper Route Absence 3. Temper Trap Conditions 4. Blacklist Midnight Of The Century 5. Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions 6. Editors In This Light And On This Evening 7. Imogen Heap Ellipse 8. Grammatics Grammatics 9. Silversun Pickups Swoon 10. Prodigy Invaders Must Die
Ryan's Top Ten Metal:
1. Throwdown Deathless 2. Bury Your Dead It's Nothing Personal 3. Coalesce OX 4. Mastodon Crack The Skye 5. The Ascendicate To Die As Kings 6. Napalm Death Time Waits For No Slave 7. Karnivool Sound Awake 8. Unholy New Life Behind Closed Eyes 9. Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions 10. Devil Driver Pray For Villains
Not a bad year for music! Yeah, yeah, yeah ... we realize there are a few more releases that are coming out before the end of the year. But are any of them good? Exactly. That being said, read 'em and weep. Don:
2008 TOP TEN
1. Portishead "Third" 2. The Night Marchers "See You In Magic" 3. Kings Of Leon "Only By The Night" 4. People In Planes "Beyond The Horizon" 5. The Out_Circuit "Pierce The Empire With A Sound" 6. Carolina Liar "Coming To Terms" 7. Copeland "You Are My Sunshine" 8. Keane "Perfect Symmetry" 9. The Helio Sequence "Keep Your Eyes Ahead" 10. Coldplay "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends"
2008 TOP TEN HONORABLE MENTION
1. Snow Patrol "A Hundred Million Suns" 2. My Morning Jacket "Evil Urges" 3. Oasis "Dig Out Your Soul" 4. Your Vegas "S/T" 5. Secret Machines "S/T" 6. Dead Confederate "Wrecking Ball" 7. Royworld "Man In The Machine" 8. Young Widows "Old Wounds" 9. Starflyer 59 "Dial M" 10. Longwave "Secrets Are Sinister"
2008 TOP TEN METAL
1. Metallica "Death Magnetic" 2. Slipknot "All Hope Is Gone" 3. The Famine "The Raven & The Reaping" 4. Gojira "The Way Of All Flesh" 5. All That Remains "Overcome" 6. Bury Your Dead "S/T" 7. Scar Symmetry "Holographic Universe" 8. Meshuggah "ObZen" 9. Becoming The Archetype "Dichotomy" 10. Opeth "Watershed"
Ryan:
2008 TOP TEN
1. Elbow "The Seldom Seen Kid" 2. Portishead "Third" 3. Kings Of Leon "Only By The Night" 4. People In Planes "Beyond The Horizon" 5. Secret Machines "Secret Machines" 6. The Night Marchers "See You In Magic" 7. The Helio Sequence "Keep Your Eyes Ahead" 8. Copeland "You Are My Sunshine" 9. My Morning Jacket "Evil Urges" 10. The Out_Circuit "Pierce The Empire With A Sound"
2008 TOP TEN HONORABLE MENTION
1. Young Widows "Old Wounds" 2. Haunts "Haunts" 3. Carolina Liar "Coming To Terms" 4. Oasis "Dig Out Your Soul" 5. Bon Iver "For Emma, Forever Ago" 6. Goldfrapp "Seventh Tree" 7. Keane "Perfect Symmetry" 8. Starflyer 59 "Dial M" 9. Stereophonics "Pull The Pin" 10. The Subways "All Or Nothing"
2008 TOP TEN METAL
1. The Famine "The Raven And The Reaping" 2. Scar Symmetry "Holographic Universe" 3. Bury Your Dead "Bury Your Dead" 4. Slipknot "All Hope Is Gone" 5. Becoming The Archetype "Dichotomy" 6. Metallica "Death Magnetic" 7. Gojira "The Way Of All Flesh" 8. Disfear "Live The Storm" 9. Meshuggah "ObZen" 10. Trenches "The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole"
Tim (Feed The Creature):
2008 TOP TEN
1. The Walkmen "You & Me" 2. Fleet Foxes "S/T" 3. The Dodos "Visiter" 4. Coldplay "Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends" 5. Kings of Leon "Only By The Night" 6. Department of Eagles "In Ear Park" 7. Vampire Weekend "Self Titled" 8. Okkervil River "The Stand-Ins" 9. Deerhunter "Microcastle" 10. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals "Cardinology"
2008 TOP TEN HONORABLE MENTION
1. My Morning Jacket "Evil Urges" 2. Oasis "Dig Out Your Soul" 3. Portishead "Third" 4. The Helio Sequence "Keep Your Eyes Ahead" 5. Kanye West "808's And Heartbreaks" 6. Wale "The Mixtape About Nothing" 7. The Raconteurs "Consolers of the Lonely" 8. Beck "Modern Guilt" 9. The Cool Kids "The Bake Sale" 10. The Notwist "The Devil, You + Me"
We realize it's still November. Let's face it, nothing good comes out in December. Read 'em and weep ... Don:
TOP TEN 1) Foo Fighters "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace" 2) The Hours "Narcissus Road" 3) Machine Head "The Blackening" 4) Band Of Horses "Cease To Begin" 5) Jimmy Eat World "Chase This Light" 6) Against Me! "New Wave" 7) Blackfield "II" 8) The National "Boxer" 9) Thrice "The Alchemy Index, Volume 1 & 2" 10) Soilwork "The Great Divide"
TOP TEN (HONORABLE MENTION) 1) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "Baby 81" 2) Relient K "Five Score And Seven Years Ago" 3) Kanye West "Graduation" 4) Travis "The Boy With No Name" 5) Athlete "Beyond The Neighbourhood" 6) Editors "An End Has A Start" 7) Aqualung "Memory Man" 8) The Shins "Wincing The Night Away" 9) Peter Bjorn & John "Writers Block" 10) Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"
TOP TEN (NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN) 1) Porter Wagoner "The Wagonmaster" 2) Maroon 5 "It Won't Be Soon Before Too Long" 3) The Cooper Temple Clause "Make This Your Own" 4) Kings Of Leon "Because Of The Times" 5) Nine Inch Nails "Year Zero" 6) Jose Gonzalez "In Our Nature" 7) Rooney "Calling The World" 8) Maximo Park "Our Earthly Pleasures" 9) Justice "Cross" 10) Linkin Park "Minutes To Midnight"
TOP TEN METAL (New!) 1) Machine Head "The Blackening" 2) Soilwork "The Great Divide" 3) Him "Venus Doom" 4) Devil Driver "The Last Kind Words" 5) Bloodsimple "Red Harvest" 6) The Agony Scene "Get Damned" 7) Throwdown "Venom & Tears" 8) Sevendust "Alpha" 9) Megadeth "United Abominations" 10) Dark Tranquility "Fiction"
Ryan:
TOP TEN 1) The Cooper Temple Clause "Make This Your Own" (import) 2) Blackfield "Blackfield II" 3) The Hours "Narcissus Road" (import) 4) Machine Head "The Blackening" 5) Editors "An End Has A Start" 6) Peter Bjorn & John "Writer's Block" 7) Dave Gahan "Hourglass" 8) Against Me! "New Wave" 9) Band Of Horses "Cease To Begin" 10) Soilwork "Sworn To A Great Divide"
TOP TEN (HONORABLE MENTION) 1) Foo Fighters "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace" 2) The National "Boxer" 3) Kaiser Chiefs "Yours Truly, Angry Mob" 4)Athlete "Beyond The Neighborhood" 5) Hard-Fi "Once Upon A Time In The West" 6) Stereophonics "Pull The Pin" 7) Jimmy Eat World "Chase This Light" 8) Radiohead "In Rainbows" 9) HIM "Venus Doom" 10) Kings Of Leon "Because Of The Times"
TOP TEN (NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN) 1) Kanye West "Graduation" 2) Rooney "Calling The World" 3) Field Music "Tones Of Town" 4) Travis "The Boy With No Name" 5) Neon Horse "Neon Horse" 6) Interpol "Our Love To Admire" 7) Falling Up "Captiva" 8) Biffy Clyro "Puzzle" 9) Maximo Park "Our Earthly Pleasures" 10) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "Baby 81"
TOP TEN METAL (New!) 1) Machine Head "The Blackening" 2) Soilwork "Sworn To A Great Divide" 3) HIM "Venus Doom" 4) Becoming The Archetype "The Physics Of Fire" 5) Devildriver "The Last Kind Words" 6) Amorphis "Silent Waters" 7) Throwdown "Venom & Tears" 8) The Agony Scene "Get Damned" 9) Bloodsimple "Red Harvest" 10) As I Lay Dying "An Ocean Between Us"
Tim (Feed The Creature):
TOP 10 1) Feist "The Reminder" 2) Peter Bjorn & John "Writer's Block" 3) The National "Boxer" 4) Jens Lekman "Night Falls Over Kortadela" 5) Spoon "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" 6) Okkervil River "The Stage Names" 7) Sea Wolf "Leaves In The River" 8) Radiohead "In Rainbows" 9) The Pony's "Turn The Lights Out" 10) Travis "The Boy With No Name"
TOP TEN (HONORABLE MENTION) 1) Wilco "Sky Blue Sky" 2) Handsome Furs "Plague Park" 3) Arcade Fire "Neon Bible" 4) Band of Horses "Cease to Begin" 5) The Shins "Wincing The Night Away" 6) Liars "Liars" 7) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "Baby 81" 8) Elvis Perkins "Ash Wednesday" 9) Kings of Leon "Because Of The Times" 10) Editors "An End Has A Start"
TOP TEN (NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN) 1) Benjy Ferree "Leaving The Nest" 2) Ryan Adams "Easy Tiger" 3) Kanye West "Graduation" 4) The Tough Alliance "A New Chance" 5) Josh Ritter "The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter" 6) Andrew Bird "Armchair Apocrypha" 7) Ferreby Lionheart "Catch The Brass Ring" 8) Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew "Spirit If..." 9) Interpol "Our Love To Admire" 10) Justice "Cross"