Favourite Albums Since 1997

^ didnt expect that list... 

mine looks kinda like this.
'97 -Godspeed You! Black Emperor: F#A# oo    (Radiohead: OK Computer)
'98 -Devin Townsend: Infinity    (Opeth: My arms Your hearse)
'99 -Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada (Mr. Bungle: California)
'00 -Deftones: White Pony (Ulver: Perdition City)
'01 -*** alright this could be my favorite year in music. ever. i have to list them all and they're all #1. sorry.***
          Devin Townsend: Terria  -  Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map / Bath  -  Pain of Salvation: The Perfect Element  -  Tool: Lateralus  -  Opeth: Blackwater Park
'02 -Pain of Salvation: Remedy Lane (ISIS: Oceanic - Porcupine Tree: In Absentia -  GY!BE: Yanqui U.X.O)
'03 -Kayo Dot: Choirs of the Eye (Coheed and Cambria: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth /  MUSE: Absolution  /  Explosions in the Sky: The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place)
'04 -Pain of Salvation: BE  (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Of Natural History)
'05 -Opeth: Ghost Reveries (Gojira: From Mars To Sirius)
'06 -Kayo Dot: Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (ISIS: In the Absence of Truth / 65DaysofStatic: One for All Time)
'07 -The Pax Cecilia: Blessed are the Bonds (*Shels: Sea of the Dying Dhow / Ulver: Shadows of the Sun)
**08 i'm predicting a victory by Kayo Dot and a close runner up by Opeth.

Sweet picks, Oceansizzle!

Audioslave - Audioslave
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Coldplay - X&Y
Coldplay - Rush of Blood...
Audioslave - Revelations
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Blind Melon - Blind Melon
Inxs - Switch
Ac/Dc - Stiff Upper Lip
Yes - Magnification
Yes - The Ladder
Pearl Jam - Ten
others

I did this kind of a list one and a half years ago (all the way from '69), and it looked like this (with slight changes and additions):

'97. Radiohead - OK Computer (runners up: Opeth - Morningrise, Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape, NOFX - So Long, and Thanks for All the Shoes)
'98. System of a Down - System of a Down (runners up: R.E.M. - Up, Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding, Mark Knopfler - Wag the Dog soundtrack)
'99. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun (runners up: Camel - Rajaz, Absoluuttinen Nollapiste - Suljettu, Opeth - Still Life, Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock)
'00. NOFX - Pump Up the Valuum (runners up: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, Iron Maiden - Brave New World, Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia, The Ark - We Are the Ark)
'01. Opeth - Blackwater Park (runners up: System of a Down - Toxicity, Tool - Lateralus, Tenacious D - Tenacious D, R.E.M. - Reveal)
'02. Sigur Rós - ( ) (runners up: Camel - A Nod and a Wink, Uzva - Niittoaika)
'03. Liekki - Korppi (runners up: King Crimson - The Power to Believe, Mew - Frengers, Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute, The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium, Type O Negative - Life is Killing Me)
'04. Green Day - American Idiot (runners up: Magyar Posse - Kings of Time, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah)
'05. System of a Down - Mezmerize/Hypnotize (runners up for this insanely good music year: Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls, Disco Ensemble - First Aid Kit, Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites, Opeth - Ghost Reveries, Overhead - Metaepitome, Sigur Rós - Takk..., Sleater-Kinney - The Woods, Sólstafir - Masterpiece of Bitterness, Swallow the Sun - Ghosts of Loss, The Soviettes - LP III)
'06. Von Hertzen Brothers - Approach (runners up: Premiata Forneria Marconi - Stati di Immaginazione, Uzva - Uoma, Deep Insight - One Minute Too Late, Lapko - Scandal, Mogwai - Mr Beast, Mokoma - Kuoleman laulukunnaat, Tenhi - Maaäet)
'07. Mark Knopfler - Kill to Get Crimson (runners up: Circusfolk - Making Faces, Discordia - Utopia Perfection, Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, Lapko - Young Desire, Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet, Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers, Swallow the Sun - Hope)

Edited by Keppa4v - March 29 2008 at 03:59

fandango wrote: sleeper wrote: Interesting idea Jared.   thanks, Andy....   If you are at all interested, my 2007 list looks a bit like this:   Dream Theater: Systematic Chaos (9/10) Circus Maximus: Isolate (9) Threshold: Dead Reckoning (9) Spheric Universe Experience: Anima (8.5) Symphony X: Paradise Lost (8.5) Darkwater: Calling The Earth To Witness (8.5) Amaran's Plight: Voice In The Light (8.5) Therion: Gothic Kabbalah (8) Redemption: The Origins Of Ruin (8) Anubis Gate: Andromeda Unchained (8) Deadsoul Tribe: A Lullaby For The Devil (8) Riverside: Rapid Eye Movement (7.5) Dreamscape: 5th Season (7.5) Pagan's Mind: God's Equation (7.5) Nightwish: Dark Passion Play (7.5) Dominici: 03 A Trilogy Part 2 (7) Kamelot: Ghost Opera (6.5)   for me personally, the strongest year for Prog Metal yet....   and I've still got the Thought Chamber, Myrath, Pathosray & Mind's Eye (among others) to go....

Interesting idea Jared.

2007: The Pax Cecilia- Blessed are the Bonds, R/U: Epica- The Divine Conspiracy, third place: Grayceon- S/T
2006: Hiromi- Spiral, R/U The Tangent- A Place in the Queue, third place: Mastodon- Blood Mountain
2005: Indukti- SUSAR, R/U: Wobbler- Hinterland, third place: Opeth- Ghost Reveries
2004: White Willow- Storm Season, R/U: Pain of Salvation- 12:5, third place: IQ- Dark Matter
2003: Kayo Dot- Choirs of the Eye, R/U: The Mars Volta- De-Loused in the Comatorium, third place: King Crimson- The Power to Believe
2002: Saens- Escaping from the Hands of God, R/U: Pain of Salvation- Remedy Lane, T/P: Vanden Plas- Beyond Daylight
2001: Opeth- Blackwater Park, R/U: Maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map, T/P: Threshold- Hypothetical
2000: Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element, R/U: Transatlantic- SMPTe, T/P: White WIllow- Sacrement
1999: Dream Theater- Scenes From a Memory, R/U: Liquid Tension Experiment 2, T/P: Opeth- Still Life
1998: Pain of Salvation- One Hour by the Concrete lake, R/U: Symphony X- Twilight in Olympus
1997: Pain of Salvation- Entropia, R/U: Symphony X- The Divine Wings of Tragedy, T/P: Nightwish- Angels Fall First

And so far for 2008 its: The Mars Volta- The Bedlam in Goliath, Dark Suns- Grave Human Genuin, Van der Graaf Generator- Trisector


Edited by sleeper - March 24 2008 at 08:28

That list will probably change the moment I listen to the earlier Porcupine Tree work, but until then, the two LTE albums are placeholder for years 98 and 99, because, simply put, I didn't luisten to many good modern bands in those days.

1997: Paradise Lost - One Second
1998: Anathema - Alternative 4
1999: Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
2000: Coldplay - Parachutes
2001: Tool - Lateralus
2002: Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
2003: Anathema - A Natural Disaster
2004: Blackfield - Blackfield
2005: Coldplay - X&Y
2006: Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
2007: Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

Some of those I may have to update, as I have not listened to a lot of the older cd's in quite some time.

Certif1ed wrote: BaldFriede wrote: Certif1ed, try The Red Masque. You won't be disappointed.   Sorry, Friede - I was a bit disappointed by what I heard on their site.   I can hear they've got something going on there - I didn't hate it at all, but after having spent some time at Garageband, it all sounds rather rough and ready (and that's not just because of the low quality live recordings).   They remind me a lot of some of the underground bands I heard during the 1980s at free festivals - there's a bit of The Magic Mushroom Band and Chocolate Teapot in there.   Sounds like they'd be entertaining live.

Well, I think you can clearly hear the influences they claim to have. And those influences are a list of my favourite artists. And their music is anything but rough and ready. I stumbled across them when an internet prog radio played one of their albums and was immediately hooked. They had everything I miss in modern bands, without the stuff I hate about them ("them" referring to "modern bands").

BaldFriede wrote: Certif1ed, try The Red Masque. You won't be disappointed.