Outstanding Albums of This Decade

[Kenneth R.]

Seth, you are talking about Dream Theater, right? Well I'm agree in that thing of love them or hate them -well- I love them.
I like their versatility, their voices, and his drummer, he's very creative. Conclusion: That's what I like in a band, versatility to create songs.
(probably with these things said, some of you'll throw loads of shit to me, lol)

\m/

Luz.-

actually Luz i love DT

 

[Dreadful]

Train of Thought to me was a very rushed album due to Elektra...I just think of it as an all out metal jam session for Dream Theater. It has a very high potential of being a top metal album...they just needed more time to work on it.

 

[Risquit]

Since 01/01/00

Opeth--Blackwater Park (2001)
Necrophagist--Epithaph (2004)
Radiohead--Hail to the Thief (2003)
Porcupine Tree--In Absentia (2002)
Robert Randolph & The Family Band--Unclassified (2003)
Sinead O' Connor--She Who Dwells...(2003)
Katatonia--Viva Emptiness (2003)
Opeth--Deliverance/Damnation (2002)
Anathema--A Natural Disaster (2004)
Jonas Hellborg and Shawn Lane--Icon (2002)
Lucinda Williams--World Without Tears (2003)
Steve Earle--Trannscendental Blues (2000)
Los Lonely Boys--Los Lonely Boys (2004)

 

[Mind of Winter]

yes, but you dont see something wrong with Converge or Farmakon having the best anything of any genre of any decade? i do.

Thats just your opinion and I think Converge is the best hardcore/metal band in history. Generally I don't like hardcore metal that much because there is so much garbage out there but I think Converge has something more to offer and they are pretty unique if you ask me. There lyrics are good and there sound is really great at least on the albums I have mentioned above.
I don't see why you have to post this comment above because everybody has there opinion and you can't change mine as long as I can't change yours.
So stop acting like you have the ultimate taste in music.

 

[FUBAR]

Yea Converge are great

 

[RjBeals]

Since 01/01/00

Opeth--Blackwater Park (2001)
Necrophagist--Epithaph (2004)
Radiohead--Hail to the Thief (2003)
Porcupine Tree--In Absentia (2002)
Robert Randolph & The Family Band--Unclassified (2003)
Sinead O' Connor--She Who Dwells...(2003)
Katatonia--Viva Emptiness (2003)
Opeth--Deliverance/Damnation (2002)
Anathema--A Natural Disaster (2004)
Jonas Hellborg and Shawn Lane--Icon (2002)
Lucinda Williams--World Without Tears (2003)
Steve Earle--Trannscendental Blues (2000)
Los Lonely Boys--Los Lonely Boys (2004)

Thank you Risquit. Very nice list. Good to see some open-minded music fans. Lucinda Williams & Sinead are great! I tried to get into hail to the theif but never really could. Same with Los Lonely Boys. Good guitar tone, but never really liked the songs.

 

[katatonic_fear]

My list is a little varied, so bear with me.

Theatre of Tragedy-Velvet Darkness They Fear
Katatonia-all (I have no favorites...)
Opeth-all (same as Katatonia)
Bloodbath-Resurrection Through Carnage
Deicide-Once Upon The Cross
Novembers Doom-To Welcome The Fade
Lacrimas Profundere-Burning: A Wish
Immortal-Sons of Northern Darkness
Alice In Chains-whatever was released within the past decade
Chevelle-This Type Of Thinking Could Do Us In
Radiohead-Ok Computer/Hail To The Thief
Hypocrisy-Abducted, and Fourth Dimension if it was within this past decade
Goatwhore-Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun
Skid Row-Slave To The Grind (shut up)
Rotting Christ-all released in this decade
Cradle of Filth-Cruelty and the Beast
Dimmu Borgir-Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Death-Symbolic
Impaled-Mondo Medicale
Lamb of God-Ashes of the Wake
Tristania-Widows Weeds

I think that about covers it...

 

[NFU]

Thats just your opinion and I think Converge is the best hardcore/metal band in history. Generally I don't like hardcore metal that much because there is so much garbage out there but I think Converge has something more to offer and they are pretty unique if you ask me. There lyrics are good and there sound is really great at least on the albums I have mentioned above.
I don't see why you have to post this comment above because everybody has there opinion and you can't change mine as long as I can't change yours.
So stop acting like you have the ultimate taste in music.

woah woah kid, relax. im not trying to insult anyones opinion or change anyones mind. i simply found it odd that those 2 bands did the most for you out of ALL of the releases in the last decade...i just found it intruiging.

i dont have the ultimate taste in music....perhaps beethoven or vivaldi are the only people to ever have that.

 

[spigot]

Since 01/01/00

Opeth--Blackwater Park (2001)
Necrophagist--Epithaph (2004)
Radiohead--Hail to the Thief (2003)
Porcupine Tree--In Absentia (2002)
Robert Randolph & The Family Band--Unclassified (2003)
Sinead O' Connor--She Who Dwells...(2003)
Katatonia--Viva Emptiness (2003)
Opeth--Deliverance/Damnation (2002)
Anathema--A Natural Disaster (2004)
Jonas Hellborg and Shawn Lane--Icon (2002)
Lucinda Williams--World Without Tears (2003)
Steve Earle--Trannscendental Blues (2000)
Los Lonely Boys--Los Lonely Boys (2004)

Surely you can do better than that since '00

 

[Risquit]

Yeah, but I need more time to think about it. I wrote that this morning, bleary-eyed with coffee. Thanks Beals!

 

[OpethNZ]

down nola and down II both great albums...umm what else machine head - the more things change...im too tired to think of more, ill have to check out some of these albums people have bought up

 

[Demoke]

I haven't listened to everything that has been published since 01/01/00 but here's my list, anyway (in alphabetical order):

1) Aeryon - The Human Equation
2) Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage
3) Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn
4) Dream Theatre - Train of Thought
5) Emperor - The Discipline of Fire and Demise
6) Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
7) Opeth - Blackwater Park
8) Orphaned Land - Mabool
9) Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element pt I
10) Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

*Awaiting the flames*

 

[everandasaturday]

Mogwai - Happy Music For Happy People
Isis - Oceanic
Sigur Ros - ()
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Sunn O))) - White 2
Mastodon - Remission
Pelican - Australasia
DJ Shadow -Endtroducing

Well, that's it...
oh yeah, and - fuck it - Blackwater Park

 

[FUBAR]

Oh I missed out Pelican, their debut album is so good

 

[Eemu]

I'd like to add some nice tones:
Gjallarhorn - Ranarop // Modern folk music with incredible soundspheres
Tenhi - Väre // Melancholic acoustic music with ambitious artistic views
Mokoma - Kurimus // Finnish thrash metal, sounds very fresh and enthusiastic
Portishead - s/t // Silky tones, relaxing atmospheres, one of my favourite female vocalists
Nightwish - Angels Fall First // I can't understand why they later abandoned the beautiful acoustics. Very original.

 

[Mind of Winter]

woah woah kid, relax. im not trying to insult anyones opinion or change anyones mind. i simply found it odd that those 2 bands did the most for you out of ALL of the releases in the last decade...i just found it intruiging.

i dont have the ultimate taste in music....perhaps beethoven or vivaldi are the only people to ever have that.

I'm not mad at you or anything, It was just pretty irritating when you said a thing like that. I still can't understand why you find it odd, like I said before everybody has there opinion. I thought you and most people that listened to Opeth where open-minded but maybe I'm wrong. I was just suprised because I thought you where I guy like me that listened to almost all kinds of music but when you post a thing like that you sound like the opposite if you understand what I mean (ofcourse you don't have to listen to Converge to be open-minded but you understand what I mean.) I just don't want to limit myself to any genre and thats why I listen to all styles of music from Aphex twin to Yes to Converge.
And yes, beethoven and vivaldi where very good musicians but why did they have the ultimate taste in music. Thats individual. Sorry if I sounded like a angry imature 12 year old kid in the last post but I was just a little bit upset.

 

[katatonic_fear]

Katatonia-all
Opeth-all
Hypocrisy-The Fourth Dimension/Abducted
Rotting Christ-All in this decade
Lacrimas Profundere-all but Fall, I Will Follow
Deicide-Once Upon The Cross
Dimmu Borgir-Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Radiohead-Ok Computer/Hail To The Thief
Bloodbath-Resurrection Through Carnage
Death-Symbolic
Pantera-Vulgar Display of Power
Goatwhore-Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun
Lamb of God-Ashes of the Wake
Novembers Doom-To Welcome The Fade
Theatre of Tragedy-Velvet Darkness They Fear (was that this decade?)
While Heaven Wept-Of Empires Forlorn
On Thorns I Lay-Egocentric
Immortal-Sons of Northern Darkness
Impaled-Mondo Medicale
Alice In Chains-all in this decade
Cradle of Filth-Cruelty and the Beast
In Flames-all

 

[Khayman666]

Brain's not really working at the moment (must remember to stab it with a q-tip later), but here's the best I can remember off the top of my head since 2000, like it or hate it (though I'm sure most will hate it):

Opeth - BWP, Deliverance, Damnation
Katatonia - LFDGD, Viva Emptiness
Bloodbath - RTC, NMF
Strapping Young Lad - SYL
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Halford -Resurrection
Sentenced - Crimson, The Cold White Light
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution, Terria
Peter Gabriel - Up
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
BB King and Eric Clapton - Riding With The King (yes, I am being serious)
Geddy Lee - My Favourite Headache
Into Eternity - Dead or Dreaming

That's about all I can think of.


Anyone got a q-tip?

 

[spigot]

Fav. albums since about '00...
1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Magyar Posse - We Will Carry You Over the Mountains
3. Converge - Jane Doe
4. The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
5. Dredg - Leitmotif
6. Codeseven - The Rescue
7. Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage
8. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
9. Isis - Oceanic
10. King Crimson - Power to Believe, Porcupine Tree - In Absentia, Enslaved - Below the Lights, Tool - Lateralus, Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette, Kreator - Violent Revolution, Symphony X - Odyssey, Mastodon - Remission, Akercocke - Chronozon, After Forever - Decipher, Katatonia - Viva Emptiness, Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops, The Ocean - Fluxion, Ulver - Perdition City, Arcturus - Sham Mirrors, Disillusion - Back to the Times of Splendour, Calexico - A Feast of Wire, El-P - Fantastic Damage, Astriaal - Renanscent Misanthropy, Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra, Clutch - Blast Tyrant, 16 Horsepower - Folklore, Anathema - A Natural Disaster, Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer, Farmakon - A Warm Glimpse, In Flames - Clayman, Buckethead - Colma, Novembre - Classica, Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By

 

[everandasaturday]

Oh shit...Portishead...that should be on my list...Tool too...and Clutch...it's one of those lists that'll never get finished. I know for a fact I'm gonna keep finding bands I've missed...ah, bollocks to it