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The 2008 YECA: Attack of the Ambition (Top 10 MVs + ??)
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Decode  I didn't know you like it this much.
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Decode 
I have MMJ's album on my comp. Guess I should give it a listen.
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"Decode" is so damn amazing.
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Crawl, Machine Gun, We Carry On and Decode 
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the one i'm most familiar with is we carry on and it's quite impressive. so, since i don't know anything else, i'll just juve you one thumb up
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Wow, We Carry On is MASSIVE. This ****S MY **** UP RYAN THANKS SO MUCH.
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Attack of the Ambition: Top 80 Songs of 2008 (Songs 15-11)
The one thumb up is much appreciated, Alan. 
Alright, the last set before we get into the top ten! Seriously, there's something for everyone here. Okay, maybe not the pop crowd, though maybe, just maybe, you guys will like something?
 
I didn't have high hopes for All Hope Is Gone. I didn't. I was unimpressed by "All Hope Is Gone", and "Psychosocial", while great, didn't grow on me to the point that it has now. When I first listened to the album, the intro, ".execute." comes on. It's pretty cool, but intros are SUPPOSED to be cool. That's why it came as such a shock when this song came on and completely blew me away. Between Corey Taylor's growling vocals, the awesome drumming of Joey Jordison, and the amazing guitar work(bass and guitar) of Mick Thomson, Jim Root and Paul Gray, "Gematria" is just plain badass, and it's really as simple as that. And that's even without mentioning the solo. Holy. ****.
YouTube Link: "Gematria (The Killing Name)"
Seriously, who doesn't love when Trent takes the safety off of the gun and blasts away? "Letting You" is the most ******* insane song on Trent Reznor's latest masterpiece, The Slip, with a distinctly Broken/Downward Spiral sound that is only boosted by an awesome drum beat and freaking awesome generated sounds that blast through your ear drums before you have a chance to react. Trent also sounds particularly venomous on this song, and, when Trent's angry, that is a GOOD thing for us NIN fans.
YouTube Link: "Letting You"
I bet you weren't expecting to see this song so high, yes? Well, I wasn't expecting it, myself. When I first listened to this song, it definitely clicked with me, because I found myself listening to it about ten minutes after the first time I played it. Slowly, I began to fall in love with the song so deeply that, at one point, it was THE most played song, for yours truly. Even with this in mind, I still couldn't figure out why I loved this song so much. Was it Brian Fallon's gorgeous Springsteen-esque vocals? Was it the beautiful music arrangement? Was it one of the best choruses of 2008? Well, while all of them were of high importance, when it comes down to it, the reason why I adore this song is the lyrics and the message of the song. If you didn't read my album "review" when this was named my #6 album of the year, then you may not have heard that this song is about the protagonist losing someone very close to them to the afterlife. It's an amazingly written tune that features what may be the best lyric in music in 2008. You should know it by now! Sing along with me: "Young boys, young girls, ain't supposed to die on a Saturday night."
YouTube Link: "The '59 Sound"
"Predict the Day" could be the hardest song to get into, to fall in love with, on their kickass album Velocifero. It seems so much more simple than the rest of the album that surrounds it. The beat sounds simpler, the vocals sound simpler, even the chorus sounds simpler. However, that is exactly the reason why I love it so much. Compared to the rest of the album, "Predict the Day" is a break from the standard (if you can really call anything by Ladytron "standard") that Velocifero had set. It kept the same dark and moody tone that the rest of the album has; it just amplifies the moodiness and darkness to about 15 on a scale of 10. It builds up, instead of hitting you straight in the face with the sound that overtakes your eardrums. It almost sounds out of place on an album that goes for the jugular immediately, and that is what makes this song brilliant.
YouTube Link: "Predict the Day"
One of the most haunting openings to any song that I can recall hearing leads us in to a song that can be interpreted any number of ways. My personal interpretation of the song is someone who is in love with a vampire, and that vampire turns them into a vampire, but now, they have been apart for 2000 years, and the protagonist of the song hopes to find their love before the sun takes them both away from the world. This song is most remarkable for its haunted and gorgeous sound, which almost makes the rest of the album seem like a let-down, in comparison to this bombastic and powerful tune. The biggest compliment I can give this song is that I adored it on first listen. I can love songs on first listen, but very few songs have the power to totally captivate me in one listen, and this song did just that.
YouTube Link: "Closer"
The top ten is actually coming! Holy crap. Now, here's the deal with the top ten: I'm, more than likely, going to post 10-8 first, then post the next six songs in sets of two, and, finally, posting the #1 song separately, which, I must warn you, the write-up for is LONG. You can't say that I didn't warn you. 
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I can go on for days to argue that Revelry is a better track than Closer, but that's just me.
Can't wait for your top 10 sir!
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again, haven't commented in 3 years, but i'm here again to say you are killing it. Past few sets have been terrific. Tons of good. good stuff!
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"Letting You" is just beyond awesome.
The other tracks are top notch as well.
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Check that out! Many great things we have here. The Gaslight Anthem get better with every listen.
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Kings of Leon 
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Attack of the Ambition: Top 80 Songs of 2008 (Songs 10-8)
Alright, we are on a crash course for the top ten! First stop: Songs 10-8, which will, more than likely, be the most popular set of the top ten.
It's the most polarizing song of the year for yours truly. The first half sounds like a combination of Metallica's last three albums, complete with overbearing snare drum, if only better sounding than what came before it, since it appears that they took the best of those three relative shitfests they called "Metallica albums" and showed them off in the first half of the song. It's a nice enough song for about the first five minutes, nice enough to probably make the close calls area, for sure, and maybe even the top 80, if only just barely. Then, all of a sudden, the song takes a drastic turn. The tempo immediately fastens to a breakneck speed. The instruments suddenly come alive. Your heart begins to race and your excitedness cannot be contained when you come to the realization that you thought was impossible: "Dear god, Metallica is BACK." With one swift tempo change, Metallica erased all of the bad memories that came with their infamous cutting of the hair. St. Anger, Some Kind of Monster, Re-Load, Jason Newsted leaving Metallica, the Napster incident, all of the things that have come to haunt Metallica over the last 15 years are now nothing more than faded memories. This, god damnit, is Metallica, the REAL Metallica, and the kings have returned to their throne, even if it took a long time for them to regain it.
YouTube Link: "The Day That Never Comes"
STOP. Take some time to think. And then, figure out what's important to you. After that, you have to make a serious decision. Either that, or listen to Against Me!'s absolutely-on-fire tune, "Stop". Not only is "Stop" one of the catchiest songs of the last couple of years, it's also a pretty big "**** you" to the elitists and the labels, and is a little swab at the radio audience, to boot, who accept the newer, more poppy material and shun the music of old. Oh, how I know these people, all too well. I used to be one myself. The chorus will probably go down as one of the catchiest choruses ever made, even if it's just the same words OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Tell me that you don't even feel your foot tap along to the pounding beat and "just begging you to sing along" vocals. I dare you to. You can't hold it in, can you? That's right, you can't, because the song's too damn infectious, and, believe me, once it gets to you, you might as well sink in deep, because you're not getting out once this song decides to grab a hold of you.
YouTube Link: "Stop"
If you ever wanted to understand why the lucky few of us on this forum adore TV on the Radio, look no further than this song, which is told almost as if it's a father who's talking about the stories and fables he tells to his son. Yes, that is a pretty beautiful little message, but, when you couple that with some of the most beautiful melody of the year, then it becomes gorgeous. Tunde Adebimpe's vocals are especially a highlight. Granted, when you listen to TV on the Radio, you come to expect the high falsetto and beautiful tone of his voice, but even he can go above and beyond his normal voice, and that is the case here, and this song benefits greatly from this. TV on the Radio will never break out and become mainstream musicians, because their music simply will not allow them to break out, but I would sacrifice TV on the Radio success if they continue to give us great songs like "Stork and Owl".
YouTube Link: "Stork and Owl"
I post 10-8 now, because I'm unsure when the next post we'll be up. Chances are, it will be up tomorrow, but you never know. The next set does have a pretty popular song. Well, relatively, anyway. Come back for that, stay for the leg room.
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Paramore, NIN and Metallica
Muy Bueno Red
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#15 - #11: 3/5
#10 - #8: 2/3
"Gemetria", "The Day That Never Comes" and "Stop!"
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2/3
''Stop!'' 
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I lost two sets 
Anyway... Decode <333
"Stop" is great, and "The Day That Never Comes", epic.
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