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The second album from Hoobastank released in 2003. I’d only ever heard “The Reason” from it but decided to give the rest a chance and turns out I think it’s a really good album. It’s kinda like a more indy version of LostProphets I guess. Favourites are “Escape” and “Just One”. Give it a go.

Ok, it’s been over a month since I’ve done an album but there haven’t really been any that I think are amazing. However, Five For Fighting deserve this next recommendation. They’re not very well known but their musics pretty good stuff. This album I probably have the most music from and got some of the best songs on it. Songs worth getting (downloading, buying, whatever): “Superman” (if you watch Smallville you’ll recognise this - it’s on the soundtrack too); “Easy Tonight” is also extremely good.

Another album from Stereophonics that I think deserves recommending. This one came out this year and I think is still as good as Performance And Cocktails if a little slower on more occassions. However, still a good listen - and also British!

The most well known album from then English band, A. Came out just over 2 years ago (iTunes - March 2002). Some of my favourite songs on there include “Starbucks”, “6 O’Clock On A Tube Stop” and “Going Down” but they’re all pretty cool. However, haven’t heard anything from then since - anyone know what happened? Need more great British bands out there!

Well the album’s out now and I’ve finally got myself a copy (£8.99, Play.com incase you wanted to know ) and well, everyone who’s heard it seems to have an opinion on it I think. Personally, I like it. The songs are different from the previous albums and also fairly different to each other. Best tracks of course include “American Idiot” but also I like “Wake Me Up When September Ends” too. They also have 2 ‘tracks’ which have 5 sub-tracks within them which is quite cool. But yeah, definitely recommend this one.

My seventh recommended album then is the most recent release by the LostProphets. I haven’t got all the songs off this album yet but I’ve got the majority of them. The one that everyone probably knows at the moment is “Last Summer” which I’m addicted to lol. But they’ve also had other hits from this album with “Last Train Home” and “Wake Up (Make A Move)”. I think though that “To Hell We Ride” is a great song. Anyway, if you haven’t heard it yet, I definitely recommend it - hence it being this week’s recommended album…duh?!