top 5 non-metal albums of all time

[XSASweet]

the final fantasy VII OST is 4 discs, not one

Svafnir - The Heathen Chapters
Rush - Vapor Trails
Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VII or X Piano Collection
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Joe Hisashi - Spirited Away OST
the Medieval II: Total War soundtrack
Concord Dawn - Uprising
1200 Micrograms - S/T

I couldn't pick just 5 :/

 

[Mort Divine]

Compared to your list, I wouldn't talk.

My list is full of actually relevant bands.

Anyone who is going to laugh at my inclusion of Rilo Kiley, No Doubt, AFI (especially AFI's punk material), and Sunny Day Real Estate has absolutely no reference point to judge "modern" rock music and is stuck in generations past.

Opeth's Damnation is a sad shallow attempt to resurrect the songs of their 70s progressive rock idols, and fails at even that.

Pink Floyd have never been much more than idealists making music that is even less effective than idealism.

Deep Purple, however, is a great band, as is Radiohead so I suppose you're not SO badly out of touch, but I still feel that there is a great need to move beyond the 60s/70s/80s decades as far as a rock music goes and embrace what these past few have given us. If we don't, we simply stagnate.

 

[The Ozzman]

Gaydiohead

 

[SentinelSlain]

Trends aren't some gift from above that cannot be dismissed or whatever, they are started by individuals who draw on their specific favourite works, therefore no one has to make sure they are pretending to love every new thing that comes on the radio.

 

[The Ozzman]

Rush - Grace Under Pressure
The Offspring - Smash
Pink Floyd - The Wall (though Animals is creeping up there)
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Van Halen - 1984

 

[Mort Divine]

Who said anything about trends and new favorites from the radio? I'm simply speaking about the crippling mentality that exists within nowadays rock listeners that if it isn't from a certain time period (usually 60s or 70s) then it isn't worth anything.

The idea that somehow bands were less innovative and less 'musical' in the 90s and beyond is just mindblowingly dumb reasoning for why certain other eras are better, seeing as how it is blatantly wrong on both fronts. Acts like Sonic Youth, Husker Du, and Dinosaur Jr. were as innovative as any 'classic rock' group if not more, and highly musical - though Sonic Youth oft achieved this by being anti-musical.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

1200 Micrograms - S/T

Uh, couldn't you have just substituted any of 100+ trance albums here?

 

[Omni]

Grace Under Pressure isn't Rush's best album or even close. It eschews too much of their classic progressive power trio element and relies way too much on being a much more standard and more keyboard-based rock album.

 

[The Ozzman]

Grace Under Pressure isn't Rush's best album or even close.

Oh okay, I didn't know that threads like these were objective.

How about that?

 

[zabu of nΩd]

The idea that somehow bands were less innovative and less 'musical' in the 90s and beyond is just mindblowingly dumb reasoning for why certain other eras are better, seeing as how it is blatantly wrong on both fronts. Acts like Sonic Youth, Husker Du, and Dinosaur Jr. were as innovative as any 'classic rock' group if not more, and highly musical - though Sonic Youth oft achieved this by being anti-musical.

I think it's more that the ratio of shitty bands to good bands is astronomically higher these days.

 

[Omni]

Oh okay, I didn't know that threads like these were objective.

How about that?

There are posts by you in this thread and the other list thread for metal albums where you disagree with other people's choices, so you're being a hypocrite to question me for doing the same. Shut the fuck up.

 

[Mort Divine]

I think it's more that the ratio of shitty bands to good bands is astronomically higher these days.

That viewpoint only comes from perspective.

We only remember, for the most part, the good bands. We are still living in today when shit bands and great bands are viewed through the same general looking glass.

Give it 30 years and we'll see only the good.

For the record I think there are more quality bands nowadays than there were then anyways.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

'Musical' - as in containing music. In the 90's, everything that was punk, indie, or 'alternative', started to create new, more hollow strains of themselves that slowly strangled everything else in sight. Strains which relied COMPLETELY upon vocal hooks, not unlike hip hop. Thus less instrumentation, thus less music. There surely WAS less of that in ROCK MUSIC in the 70's and that is most definitely a fact. Turn on the 'modern rock' radio station right now and hear the huge glut of bands that carry on that disgusting musical tradition. Listen to the mix even. Can't pick out a lot through the second filter of the FM signal? That's because there's NO MUSIC. It's rock sound. White noise.

 

[The Ozzman]

There are posts by you in this thread and the other list thread for metal albums where you disagree with other people's choices, so you're being a hypocrite to question me for doing the same. Shut the fuck up.

NO U

 

[Omni]

Sounds like you got owned and had to resort to an internet meme. Maybe you should just kill yourself.

 

[The Ozzman]

haha or I'm just bored.

Anyway, if you count the 'gaydiohead' comment, I guess that's the only post where I've actually disagreed with anyone in this thread anyway.

 

[Omni]

There are posts by you in this thread and the other list thread for metal albums where you disagree with other people's choices, so you're being a hypocrite to question me for doing the same. Shut the fuck up.

 

[The Ozzman]

haha or I'm just bored.

Anyway, if you count the 'gaydiohead' comment, I guess that's the only post where I've actually disagreed with anyone in this thread anyway.

 

[Einherjar86]

My list is full of actually relevant bands.

Anyone who is going to laugh at my inclusion of Rilo Kiley, No Doubt, AFI (especially AFI's punk material), and Sunny Day Real Estate has absolutely no reference point to judge "modern" rock music and is stuck in generations past.

Relevant bands? Compared to the monoliths of music history, Rilo Kiley and No Doubt are far from "relevant."

 

[zabu of nΩd]

That viewpoint only comes from perspective.

We only remember, for the most part, the good bands. We are still living in today when shit bands and great bands are viewed through the same general looking glass.

Give it 30 years and we'll see only the good.

For the record I think there are more quality bands nowadays than there were then anyways.

Ever notice how 99% of the mainstream "hits" of today are absolute garbage, whereas the hits of the 60s and 70s were often actually great songs? I think there's a little more to it than just "perspective".

I think it's also safe to say that bands in the 60s and 70s on average cared a lot more about melody.