Top 5 Cd's of the Year

[DreamRyche2112]

This is like the Oscars of Music... Put these in order of which you feel were the best cd's this year... and if it was late 2002 thats ok too.

1) Train of Thought ( Dream theater)
2) The Rush in Rio Cd ( dvd too. ( Rush)
3) Collideoscope ( Living Colour)
4) Seasons ( Sevendust)
5) Enemies of Reality ( Nevermore)

If there were a 6th and 7th

6) Death Cult Armogedeon ( Dimmu Borgir )
7) Animals should not try to Act Like Humans ( Primus)

I edited this a little bit ( because i forgot about the new nevermore cd's i had to tweak a couple of things)

[Edited by DreamRyche2112 on 12-29-2003 at 09:04 PM]

[concrete chaos]

this is like the movies for me

i dont really listen to any new rock stuff...cept tool, if they release another album someday and nin..and then the rest is all electronic stuff..

i think arcturus releases the sham mirrors in recent years so ill go with that one..

speaking of new releases has any heard a perfect circles new one? i really luv mer de noms how does it compare?

audioslave was ok too.

but if i can just post some of my fave top albums [and i can] i will...hehe

ulver - themes from william blake's marriage of heaven and hell.
skinny puppy - bites
nin - the downward spiral
ved buens ende - written in waters
sonic youth - bad moon rising
gong - camembert electrique

i better drag my hands off the keyboard cus ill keep digging...and my mind will loop and ill just babble and babble and...........

[Bodomchild]

Possesed 13-The Crown

Enemies of Reality-Nevermore

The Puppet Master-King Diamond

Dance of Death-Iron Maiden...um, the artwork? *vomits*

Train of Thought-Dream Theater

[Gainer]

Train of Thought-Dream Theater

Lost Dogs-Pearl Jam

Led Zeppelin-How the West was Won

Finger 11-Finger 11

Evanescence-Evanescence
(No specific order)

[Yngtchie Blacksteen]

I've only heard one new album this year, and that's Led Zeppelin's How The West Was Won, and it rocks!

[Digit]

Make em your absolute best choices too.

I won't mention any names cause I don't wanna start a thread war but ......
There was an article in the paper this weekend about the best independant releases in the last year. I spent hours looking around on the net to get one song from each band just so I could learn something from what The Star considers "the best".
I burned 80 minutes of tunes to a CD and every single one of them absolutely stunk. I'm talking totally awful tunes, bad writing, timing problems, Vocals that needed to be redone, production levels that were so bad I couldn't believe some of these guys are mainstreem artists who are selling in the tens of thousands.

To top it off, every one of them had the same characteristics.
Basic chords done on guitar and panned extreme left and right. (no solo's except badly done ones with no imagination)
A drum sound that sounded like it was recorded with a single stereo microphone from 10 feet away instead of being multitracked.
Totally dry vocals and a sound that was so compressed there were no dynamics at all.

[DreamRyche2112]

Originally posted by Digit
Make em your absolute best choices too.

I won't mention any names cause I don't wanna start a thread war but ......
There was an article in the paper this weekend about the best independant releases in the last year. I spent hours looking around on the net to get one song from each band just so I could learn something from what The Star considers "the best".
I burned 80 minutes of tunes to a CD and every single one of them absolutely stunk. I'm talking totally awful tunes, bad writing, timing problems, Vocals that needed to be redone, production levels that were so bad I couldn't believe some of these guys are mainstreem artists who are selling in the tens of thousands.

To top it off, every one of them had the same characteristics.
Basic chords done on guitar and panned extreme left and right. (no solo's except badly done ones with no imagination)
A drum sound that sounded like it was recorded with a single stereo microphone from 10 feet away instead of being multitracked.
Totally dry vocals and a sound that was so compressed there were no dynamics at all.






Sounds like music that Americans would make. :(

Really makes you wonder of what music is going to be like when my " lost generation" ( as you old folks call us )comes into mainstream.... say goodbye to your talented music.

Hopefully one of you guys on this forum will make it into the music world... maybe change things around....

[nsx_swami]

The only complete album I heard that was released this year was Robert Randolph, Unclassified. I highly recommend it if any of you haven't heard it yet. He plays a steel pan lap guitar and will blow you away with his speed.

Who is Train of Thought? I see that quite a few people named them on their lists but I have never heard of them before.

[aiwass]

1. Symphony X - The Odyssey
2. Sun Caged - Sun Caged
3. Dream Theater - Train of Thought
4. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
5. Adagio - Underworld ? (It's in the mail as we speak, and after Sanctus Ignis, my expectations are HIGH)

[aiwass]

Originally posted by nsx_swami
Who is Train of Thought? I see that quite a few people named them on their lists but I have never heard of them before.


Train of Thought is Dream Theater's new album. Surely you've heard of them?

[sambob]

Am I the only one who doesn't like Dream Theater's newest album at all? The music is ok I guess, but the lyrics...christ. Reminds me of a 13 year olds poetry.

My top 5 are probably..
1) Greg Howe - Extraction
2) Buckethead - Bucketheadland 2
3) CAB - CAB 4
4) Razed In Black - Damaged
5) Kamelot - Epica

[aiwass]

Agreeed, the lyrics are beyond horrible. I miss Images and Words. The music isn't bad though, and it gets bonus points for "shred factor". :D

[sambob]

Could you point out some of this fantastic shredding people are telling me about? I've listened to the cd many times over, but I haven't really been very impressed that much (although I have yet to give the entire thing my full attention).

[aiwass]

As I Am - 5:08 until 5:52 (not my favorite moment, but pretty "shreddy").

Endless Sacrifice - 6:58 until 7:23, then 7:35 until 8:03.

This Dying Soul - 10:03 until the end (solo, then an insane unison line throughout the rest of the song).

In the Name of God - 8:36 until 9:15, then 09:37 until 10:01.

[Pantallica1]

Jesus, I haven't heard much of Dream Theater, but damn, 10 minute songs. That's unbeleivable.

I need to grab Images and Words and give it a full listen. To me writing a 10 minute song that still makes you listen all the way to the end is a great song. Also takes some talent to write 10 minute songs I think.

Off to the store to see if I can find it.

[DreamRyche2112]

Lol Dream Theater has a 42 minute song.... and a 20 min song.....

Have any of you guys heard the darkness tho..... geez i thought i was in hell that day I saw them on HEADBANGERS BALL.... cuz man were those guys flamin. ( not knockin gay ppl ). Guitar world says there like the best thing since frikin sliced bread.... ahem.... I think not.

[aiwass]

10 min. is nothing.

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons: 23 min.
Symphony X - The Odyssey: 24 min.
Opeth - Black Rose Immortal: 20 min.
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy: 20 min.
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: 42(!) min.

You get the picture. Average song longth of the stuff I listen to is probably around 8 min.

[aiwass]

My band has a 15 minute song. :D

[Pantallica1]

42 minutes??? JEEZ!!!

How many songs on the CD 4? LOL!!

15 minutes is remarkable as well. But damn, I don't have time to listen to songs that long, maybe in peices.

That's cool though. I'll give them a listen.

[aiwass]

The whole point is to have different movements. Most of these songs consist of a handful of "sub-songs", linked together in one musical continuity. Think of it as "chapters", if you will.

[Pantallica1]

Interesting.

The real question is....Do they play it live? That would be some feat!

[aiwass]

They do. Many bands do. The 42 minute song was never done in its entirity, but Dream Theater have played plenty of other lengthy songs live (for instance A Change of Seasons, in all its 23 min.)

I've seen Symphony X perform the Odyssey live. Now THAT was f*ckin AMAZING! I could have died a happy man when I walked out of that venue...

[iamthe_eggman]

Originally posted by Pantallica1
42 minutes??? JEEZ!!!

How many songs on the CD 4? LOL!!

15 minutes is remarkable as well. But damn, I don't have time to listen to songs that long, maybe in peices.

That's cool though. I'll give them a listen.


Well, including the 1:25 intro and 1:25 outro songs, Animals by Pink Floyd has 5 songs, so I think it's kind of a standard in progressive rock to have epic songs (e.g. 2112 by Rush).

[sambob]

That 42 minute song, I don't really think it could be considered to be one complete song.

Not only is it separate tracks on the cd, but they don't necessarily have anything to do with each other musically. They're about as different as all the songs on Scenes From A Memory, you COULD play them all together (and Dream Theater does, just a short break between each song), but regardless of how you do it... its separate songs, not one really.

[Yngtchie Blacksteen]

Originally posted by aiwass
1. Symphony X - The Odyssey
Sorry, 2002.

[the fool]

top 5 CDs... hmmmmm.... I really can't tell because most of the CDs that I have this year, I burned all from Kazaa.

[metalisbest]

Here are mine:
1)The End of All Things to Come-Mudvayne
2)Cold-Year of the Spider
3)Sevendust-Seasons
4)Korn-Take a Look in the Mirror
5)311-Evolver/A Perfect Circle-13th Step/Adema/Unstable

[acdc527]

all this world needs is a new tool album!!!

[aiwass]

Originally posted by Yngtchie Blacksteen
Originally posted by aiwass
1. Symphony X - The Odyssey
Sorry, 2002.

Well, it beat the sh*t out of all the 2003 albums put together, so I don't really care. Time flies, though.

[metalisbest]

Originally posted by acdc527
all this world needs is a new tool album!!!


You got that right!

[Karma In The South]

I cant remember what was 2003 and what was 2002 but ill have a go

1) Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation (emo-ish but metallish too, beautiful)
2)AFI - Sing The Sorrow (everyone hates them now but I got into them cos of this album)
3) Justin Timberlake - Justified (2002? - but definitely deserves a mention, and yes Im serious)
4) Our Lady Peace - Live (have the DVD too)
5) White Stripes - Elephant