Favourite Albums Since 1997

Here's my list:

1997: Signify (Porcupine Tree)
1998: Gordian Knot (Gordian Knot)
1999: Stupid Dream (Porcupine Tree); 2nd: Judgement (Anathema)
2000: Mer De Noms (A Perfect Circle); 2nd: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
2001: Leitmotif (dredg)
2002: In Absentia (Porcupine Tree); 2nd: El Cielo (dredg); 3rd: Yanqui U.X.O. (Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
2003: Thirteenth Step (A Perfect Circle)
2004: Out of Myself (Riverside); 2nd: S.U.S.A.R. (Indukti); 3rd: A Natural Disaster (Anathema)
2005: Second Life Syndrome (Riverside); 2nd: Everyone into Position (Oceanize); 3rd: Sol29 (Nosound)
2006: 10,000 Days (Tool)
2007: Rapid Eye Movement (Riverside); 2nd: Fear of a Blank Planet (Porcupine Tree)

Hopefully all of those years are correct since I went by the years on my iTunes.



Edited by darkmatter - December 31 2007 at 21:18

1997 | Happy Family - Toscco, Ground Zero - Consume Red, Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy

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1997 - Radiiohead - Ok computer (5 stars)
1998 - Opeth - My arms your hearse (3.5 stars)
1999 - Opeth - Still life (4 stars)
2000 - Transatlantic - SMPTe (4 stars)
2001 - Tool - Lateralus (5 stars)
2002 - Pain of Salvation - Remedy lane (4 stars)
2003 - Muse - Absolution (4.5 stars)
2004 - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of natural history (5 stars)
2005 - The Mars Volta - Frances the mute (4 stars)
2006 - Beyond Twilight - For the love of art and the making (4 stars)
2007 - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In glorious times (4 stars)

Not sure if I remember all albums from these years that I have heard and even less sure I could pin the year they were published in on them, but let's give it a try:

2007: VdGG - Real Time. That was an easy one for me; I was at that concert.
2006: Peter Hammill - Singularity. One of the best solo albums of Peter; that should say all.
2005: Psychedelic Monsterjam - Intergalactic Travel Agency. That's real Kraut!
2004: Gong - Acidmotherhood. A must have for all who love the trilogy, yet very modern too.
2003: King Crimson - The Power to Believe. King Crimson finally manage to get back on their feet.
2002: The Red Masque - Victoria and the Haruspex. The best modern band.
2001:
2000: Guru Guru - 2000 Gurus. Mani Neumeier still has something to say.
1999:
1998: Space Explosion - Same. Kraut supergroup with only this album.
1997: Ozric Tentacles - Curious Corn. The Ozrics finally back to form after a few so-so albums.

Have to leave out the other years for the moment; can't decide about them yet. You can clearly see where my interests lie, by the way.


Edited by BaldFriede - March 20 2008 at 09:31

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

1997: Fears - Clepsydra

1999: The Great divide - Ice Age

2000: Not of this world - Pendragon

2001: Skeem - Skeem

2002: Six degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater

2003: A street between sunrise and sunset - Satellite

2004: Ciclotima - Amagrama

2005: Motions of desire - Magic Pie

2006: Christ0 - Vandenplas

2007: Into the night - Satellite

Noticed by the way that 2000 and 2007 were the best years of the 11. Had lots of options in those years. For 1997 and 2004 I had to dig deep to find a great one. Interesting.

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

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").

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.

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.