My Top 15 Progressive Metal Albums (Now With a Link!)

[Eligos]

I would actually give Alaska a 7.5/10, personally. But Colors and The Great Misdirect are equally top notch, imo.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I simply think that ratings on a point scale are designed to rank albums above or below one another and if you have like a hundred 10 out of 10s, there's pretty much no point to the ratings unless you somehow value each and every album the same.

I fully agree with this. I often browse people's RYM profiles and if they have 1000 ratings and 200 of them are 5/5s, I probably won't be arsed to look through them all or even begin to. But if I find a profile with 1000 ratings and only, say, 1-20 5/5s, then I'll probably be really interested to see which those are.

 

[Xorv]

I think it's time for me to check out this so called below the buried whats their name again?

oh ya and I'm also very selective what albums I give 10/10 or 5/5 but to tell ye the truth I do like to give my favorite albums 5/5 on RYM just to bring them up a level even though in reality I view the album as a 4 or 4.5/5 (like most of agalloch's discography for instance) The only album so far I view as a 4.9 or even possibly 5/5 material is the cure's disintegration.

edit - two and a half men blows.

 

[Krow]

Between the Buried and Me

And yea, they're good. I seem to remember in the album, Colors, they go off into country music for a few seconds... and wtf'ing at it.

 

[The Butt]

I would actually give Alaska a 7.5/10, personally. But Colors and The Great Misdirect are equally top notch, imo.

I actually love Alaska quite a bit, it's my favorite BTBAM disc.

 

[Eligos]

I simply think that ratings on a point scale are designed to rank albums above or below one another and if you have like a hundred 10 out of 10s, there's pretty much no point to the ratings unless you somehow value each and every album the same.

I named two albums.

 

[The Butt]

I named two albums.

As did I.

Also I refuse to read posts of anyone who considers Tool in any way good.

 

[Badbird]

^ It's amazing how many people who listen to music live in Dicksuckland.

LOL

 

[Savern]

As did I.

Also I refuse to read posts of anyone who considers Tool in any way good.

Then you won't see me calling you a wanker.

 

[Eligos]

Oy, watch who you're calling a wanker, ya wanker!

 

[Lateralus14]

I named two albums.

So you either only have 2 10/10s and thus think those two BTBAM albums are the greatest albums of all time or...yea you probably have about 50 10/10s?

 

[Eligos]

So you either only have 2 10/10s and thus think those two BTBAM albums are the greatest albums of all time or...yea you probably have about 50 10/10s?

Right now I have about ten. I think that's a pretty good number. Two of them happen to be from BTBAM. But you can keep polarizing if you'd like.

 

[Xorv]

and the other 8 are?

 

[Lateralus14]

Ya srsly, sry for being a dick and I'd like to know too.

 

[Eligos]

Nektar: Teil 2, V: Havitetty, Ashes against the Grain, The Work Which Transforms God, Terria, Nachthymen, Satanic Black Devotion, and The Sense Apparatus.

 

[A Journeys End]

Hey, Two and a Half Men is a great show.

co-signed

 

[harmonic_minor_shred]

That list needs some Zero Hour.

 

[harmonic_minor_shred]

That list needs some Zero Hour.

 

[A Journeys End]

no way, they've only got one good song.

 

[razoredge]

list of 15 and no choices by Symphony X, Savatage, Threshold ? everyones taste is different but geeze there is 15 slots there, thats not being progressive at all.