Once again, we see a record filled to the brim with the best of the past year's music - with a few random ones thrown in for good measure too...I'm sure Green Day's American Idiot and HIM's Wing's Of A Butterfly are more than a year old... hum.

Anyway, the CD opens with Kid Rock's feeble rip-off of Sweet home Alabama which, for a name like Kerrang to open their modern day saviour[s] of rock album, does put the fear of God into me as to what else has managed to make it onto the album.

The album itself caters to a variety of alternative music tastes, if this is actually possible, as we have everything from the metal noise of Cancer Bats, The Gaslight Anthem and Killswitch Engage.

Then we cater for the Emo kids with Funeral For A Friend, Bullet For My Valentine, Linkin Park and Avenged Sevenfold. Whilst this modern rush of dance/screamo music fusion creeps in thanks to the likes of Enter Shakari and Pendulum.

Then there are those stuck in between; people like Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and Good Charlotte who wouldn't look out of place and the cover of a teenage girls magazine and can't seem to decide whether they're pop or rock!

Then there are the quality sounds that act as a light in the darkness thanks to those sexy Scots in Biffy Clyro; who have been the champions of the music industry over the past 12 months; and of course, the smash hit from Billy Talent (despite being so old it's in Hush Puppies) and - as much as you may disagree - the incredible voice of Serj Tankian with his solo project.

Despite the miss-match of tastes and sounds which can be found on the album, it is still a winner, even if it is just due to the fact that it caters to every single lover of anything 'alternative' as it really does have something for everyone.

Fair enough they seem to be heading away from their one faithful audience of 'dirty moshers' in the hope of cashing in on the beautiful and virginal Emo kids which is something we can debate forever and a day... are they moving with the times or are they selling out?

Who's to say...Make your own mind up - but if you really want my advice, I'd say it's a great CD to crank up and drive down the motorway to.. I know we're all Emo kids at heart!

FemaleFirst - Ruth Harrison

CD1

Kid Rock - All Summer Long

Nickelback - Rock Star

Weezer - Pork And Beans

Biffy Clyro - Saturday Superhouse

Good Charlotte - Keep Your Hands Off My Girl

Pendulum - Propane Nightmares

Slipknot - PsychoSocial

Enter Shikari - Sorry, You're Not A Winner

Linkin Park - Given Up

Serj Tankian - Empty Walls

Airbourne - Runnin' Wild

Black Tide - Warriors Of Time

Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver

Dillinger Escape Plan - Black Bubblegum

Scars On Broadway - They Say

Bullet For My Valentine - Waking The Demon

Slaves To Gravity - Mr Regulator

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Nightmarchers - I Wanna Deadbeat You

Coheed And Cambria - Feathers

30 Seconds To Mars - The Kill

CD2

Green Day - American Idiot

My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade

Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race

Elliot Minor - Parallel Worlds

Simple Plan - When I'm Gone

Panic At The Disco - Nine In The Afternoon

Alkaline Trio - Love Love Kiss Kiss

The Blackout - Spread Legs, Not Lies

Funeral For A Friend - Waterfront Danceclub

Madina Lake - House Of Cards

You Me At Six - If I Were In Your Shoes

Billy Talent - Red Flag

Fighting With Wire - Everyone Needs A Nemesis

HIM - Wings Of A Butterfly

Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife

Machine Head - Aesthetics Of Hate

Atreyu - Falling Down

Kids In Glass Houses - Give Me What I Want

Kill Hannah - Lips Like Morphine

Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer

Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves