LISTS - BEST OF 2004

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what are yours!

<b>Albums:</b>

  1. Interpol - Antics
  2. Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart
  3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
  4. Kill Bill (soundtrack)
  5. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

<b>Movies:</b>

  1. Man on Fire
  2. Spider-Man 2
  3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  4. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
  5. Kill Bill

<b>Comics:</b>

  1. Ultimate Fantastic Four (Doom)
  2. Identity Crisis
  3. Madrox
  4. Powers
  5. The Ultimates

<b>Games (played in '04):</b>

  1. Final Fantasy 7
  2. World of Warcraft
  3. Mario Kart
  4. Half-Life 2
  5. Beirut

<b>TV (watched in '04):</b>

  1. Three’s Company
  2. Cowboy Bebop
  3. Arrested Development
  4. Futurama
  5. 24 season 3

<b>Books:</b>

  1. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
  2. Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
  3. The Plague by Albert Camus
  4. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  5. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

<b>Songs:</b>

  1. Mick Jagger - Old Habits Die Hard
  2. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
  3. Go Team! - Bottle Rocket
  4. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee
  5. Belle and Sebastian - Your Cover’s Blown
    (honorable mention: Europe - The Final Countdown)
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Books:

  1. Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  2. Rudolf Steiner - The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
  3. Goethe - Faust
  4. Owen Barfield - Saving the Appearances
  5. William Wordsworth - The Prelude

Albums:

  1. Kansas - The Best of Kansas
  2. Various - 101 Classics
  3. Nightwish - Century Child
  4. Boston - Boston
  5. X Japan - Art of Life

Songs:

  1. Eric Clapton - Layla
  2. Dir en grey - Cage
  3. Nightwish - Ever Dream
  4. Boston - Peace of Mind
  5. X Japan - Art of Life

Movies:

  1. Troy
  2. Goldfinger
  3. Fight Club
  4. The Last Samurai
  5. The Return of the King

Games:

  1. Super Smash Brothers Melee
  2. Marvel vs. Capcom, Arcade
  3. Halo
  4. Final Fantasy VIII, Disc One
  5. Dance Dance Revolution Extreme, JP (along with the rest)
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Since I only keep in touch with games,only they will be listed:

1.Shadow Hearts Covenant
2.Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne
3.Star Ocean 3
4.Metal Gear Solid 3
5.Ratchet and Clank:Up Your Arsenal

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In no real order…

Albums:
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Alter Bridge - One Day Remains
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
The Used - In Love and Death

Movies:
Spidey 2
Kill Bill
Return of the King
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Books (ones I got off my ass to read):
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Hobbit
To Kill A Mockingbird

Games:
Metal Gear Solid 3
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
GTA: San Adreas
Xenosaga

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Albums:

Collective Soul ‘Youth’
Franz Ferdinand ‘Franz Ferdinand’
Muse ‘Absolution’
Pearl Jam ‘Lost Dogs’
Velvet Revolver ‘Contraband’

Films:

Eat Drink Man Woman by Ang Lee (Chinese)
Matawan by John Sales (American)
Malèna (Italian)
Salaam Bombay (Indian)
The Sea (Icelandic)

Books:

Beowulf (The Seamus Heaney translation)
Emary (a Middle English romance)
The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung
The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

Games:

Crystalis
Dragon Warrior III
Dragon Quest V
Dragon Quest VI
Super Metroid

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A lot of these came out years ago, its just what I’ve played/seen/read/etc.

Games:
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Xenosaga
Metal Gear Solid 3
Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2

Movies:
Spidey 2
Led Zepplin: How the West was Won
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein

Books:
Johnny Got His Gun
Various H.P. Lovecraft short stories

Music:
Megadeth: The System has failed
Alter Bridge: One Day Remains
Jimi Hendrix: The authorized greatest hits one
Black Label Society: The Blessed Hellride (I think I got that in '04)

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Best Movie
Metal Gear Solid 3

Best Music
Metal Gear Solid 3

Best Book
Metal Gear Solid 3 Strategy Guide

Best Game
Metal Gear Solid 3

Just kidding of course, here is the real list.

Best Movies
Kill Bill
Spiderman 2
Shaun of the Dead

Best Music
All my FF OSTs :smiley:
San Andreas OST

Best Book
Haven’t read any this year, really

Best Games
MGS3
Katamari Damacy
Star Ocean 3
Shinobi

Best Animes
Kennran Butoh Sai
School Rumble
Full Metal Alchemist
Battle Programmer Shirase
(all of these are on my HD, if interested, catch me on IRC…if you can :P)

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music-

  1. funeral by the arcade fire
  2. album of the year by the good life
  3. crimes by the blood brothers
  4. antics by interpol

not neccessarily the best (except funeral)… i havent heard everything… but they kept me the most occupied.

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Best Albums:

  1. The Used - In Love and Death
  2. Billy Talent
  3. The Killers
  4. Franz Ferdinand

Best Songs:

  1. The Used - Take it Away, I’m a Fake, Lunacy Fringe
  2. Billy Talent - River Below, Nothing to Lose
  3. The Killers - Mr Brightside, Somebody Told Me
  4. Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
  5. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
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Albums:
5. No Thanks ('70s punk collection)
4. Holy Roman Empire- Cightation
3. Choombawamba- The Three ‘R’s (Revolt, Rebel, Riot)
2. Social Distortion- Sex, Love, and Rock n’ Roll

  1. Bad Religion- The Empire Strikes First

I can’t really think of any games this year I liked…

Movie: Kill Bill

Book: Kinki Lullabye, Isaac Adamson.

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Albums:

  1. AFI’s compilation album
  2. From First to Last - Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count
  3. Hawthorne Heights - Silence in Black and White
  4. Silverstein - When Broken is Easily Fixed
  5. The Used - In Love and Death

Movies:

  1. King Arthur
  2. Alien Versus Predator
  3. The Punisher
  4. Spider-Man 2
  5. Kill-Bill

Games (played in '04):

  1. Halo
  2. The Suffering
  3. Ogre Battle (SNES)
  4. Halo 2
  5. Counter-Strike

Books:

1-5. The Runelord’s Series

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Albums & Music:

  1. EVERYTHING Puffy Amiyumi
  2. Simple & Clean

Games:

  1. Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
  2. Kingdom Hearts: Chain Of Memories
  3. Katamari Damacy
  4. KillZone
  5. Jak 3

Movies:

  1. The Incredibles
  2. Princess Mononoke
  3. Spiderman 2
  4. Shrek 2
  5. Scary Movie 3

TV:

  1. Azumanga Daohi
  2. Magical Play
  3. Nurse Witch Komugi
  4. Ranma 1/2
  5. Kino’s Journey
  6. Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide (Yes, one that’s NOT anime!)

Books:

  1. Love Hina
  2. Pita-Ten
  3. Mink
  4. Di Gi Charat
  5. From The Files Of Madison Finn
  6. Fruits Basket
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None of these are in any order.

Albums
Rammstein - Reise, Reise
Rammstein - Amerika
Van Helsing OST
Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse OST
Green Day - American Idiot

Movies
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Van Helsing
The Italian Job
Meet the Fockers
Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse

Books
1-5 in Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” series

Songs
Rammstein - Moskau
Rammstein - Mein Teil
Rammstein - Stein Um Stein
Van Helsing OST - Burn it Down!
Green Day - Homecoming

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not from 2004

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<b>Albums:</b>

I’ve only really listened to Simple and Clean…

<b>Movies:</b>

  1. AvP
  2. The Incredibles
  3. Ocean’s Twelve
  4. The Butterfly Effect
  5. Return of the King

<b>Games:</b>

  1. Medal of Honour: Rising Sun
  2. Custom Robo
  3. Heroes of Might and Magic III (expansions)
  4. Tales of Symphonia
  5. Starcraft (of course)

<b>TV:</b>

  1. Malcolm in the Middle
  2. Simpsons
  3. CSI
  4. Futurama
  5. Family Guy

<b>Books:</b>

  1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  2. The Stranger/L’Étranger (Also Albert Camus, yay!)
  3. The School for Wives/L’École pour femmes by Molière
  4. The Immortals by Tracy Hickman
  5. The Godfather by Mario Puzo

<b>Songs:</b>

  1. Ma Vlast by Bedrich Smetana
  2. The Erlking/Der Erlkönig by Franz Schubert
  3. La Campanella by Franz Liszt
  4. Minute Waltz by Frederich Chopin
  5. Fantasie Impromptu by Frederich Chopin
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I saw it with live audience for the first time in 2004, though. So nyah.

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Albums:

  1. Lostprophets - Start Something
  2. Lamb of God - The ashes of the wake
  3. Unearth - The oncoming storm
  4. Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
  5. Vader - Litany

and of course Slayer - Reign in Blood but that should be obvious

Songs:

  1. Hypocrisy - Roswell 47
  2. Vader - Litany
  3. Exodus - Piranha
  4. Pantera - Domination
  5. Slayer - Raining Blood
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My lists are EXTREMELY limited, due to my having almost NO money to spend (I lost my only regular job.) From what I saw:

Movies:
1.Incredibles
2. Shrek 2
3. Spider-man 2
4. Hellboy
5. Blade: Trinity

Comic Books:

  1. Justice League vs Avengers (2003 series, but the last issue came out last year.)
  2. Green Lantern: Rebirth
  3. Astonishing X-Men
  4. Justice Society of America
  5. Teen Titans

Games:

  1. FF X2

TV:
1- Yu-gi-oh
2- Yu Yu Hakusho
3- Justice League
4- Teen Titans
5- Danny Phantom

Edit: Yeah, this is WILFREDO, having again forgotten to log in as himself while using Makko’s PC. Bangs head against desk

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good god, billy talent is the worst shitpunk band ever to disgrace the stage.

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My list is in no particular order:

Albums
.hack//sign OST 1
Classical Treasures: 25 Golden Classics

Movies
InuYasha: Affections Touching Across Time
The Incredibles
Ah! My Goddess The Movie
Spiderman 2
Shrek 2

Games
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Tales of Symphonia
Pokemon LeafGreen
Final Fantasy I&II: Dawn of Souls
Halo 2

TV
Fullmetal Alchemist
Pimp My Ride
I Love The 90’s
Gundam SEED

Songs
Daemon’s Court - FF:CC
Rebena Te Ra - FF:CC
fake wings - .hack//sign OST
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
READY STEADY GO! - L’Arc~en~Ciel