Best of the 00s!
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Topic: Best of the 00s!
Posted By: topofsm
Subject: Best of the 00s!
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2011 at 12:54pm
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This is a list where you state your favorite album of each year in the 00s. Preferably metal, but other things are acceptable as well. I will start. 2000: Gonna have to start out with a non-metal album here (sorry, I'm trying to find the Perfect Element somewhere!). So I'm going for Godspeed you Black Emperor's Lift Your Skinny Fists... which is one of the few albums I would call perfect. Absolutely phenomenal and the atmospheres inspire me. The perfect album to zone out to when I'm tired and worn out. 2001: Tool's Lateralus. While I don't think it's explicitly metal, it is my favorite album. Fery few albums can come close to it's depth. It's atmospheres blend just as easily with some of the shifting times and the intertwining concept. This is an album that I heard for the first time and I absolutely loved it, and loved it even more as it went on. 2002: Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. Easily one of my favorite Dream Theater releases, it starts off with a bang with The Glass Prison and from there explores into a beautiful long-form Rush like track, a slow building alt-metal track, a tool influenced prog metal track, and a touching ballad. Oh, and there's a suite on the other side two which is pretty good. Maybe you've heard of it.  2003: Enslaved's Below the Lights. Starting off with a haunting mellotron-esque synth the band bursts into somber, cold black metal that goes so many angles. This is definitely a highlight of the 00s and it's really a phenomenal release. 2004: Meshuggah's I. The epic is an overused format. Almost every song is a mashup of two verses and two choruses that could stand as its own song without being part of the epic. I kicks that in the balls, chops its nuts off, tears off its limbs and chucks that to the wolves. Starts off with polymetric madness and never lets up from there. The agressive parts are brutal, the quiet parts are eerie, and it covers so much ground. 2005: Strapping Young Lad's Alien. Devin takes everything on this album as far as he can fucking go. It's an over the top smashfest of epic proportions. The first three songs are probably my favorite three in a row that I can think of and the rest of the album is great too. Even the ballad is over the top in cheese. (Honorable mention to Annihilation of the Wicked, which is just as deserving of best of 2005). 2006: Moonsorrow's Havitetty. Two giant epic tracks underscore the giant, doomy folk soundscapes. The melodies are just piercing, and the moods range from somber to aggressive to meditative. Tons of folk melodies juxtaposed with long form doom riffs add up to an incredibly good record. 2007: Between the Buried and Me's Colors. Don't act like you didn't see this coming from me. This album inspires me every time I listen. The musicianship is flawless. Each song goes places and lacks redundancy, because each new riff progresses smoothly from the last. Absolutely tops. In a battle with Lateralus for my favorite album. 2008: The Faceless' Planetary Duality. At first I thought this album was ok, nothing special. Now I can't get enough. There is some bizarre technical wizardry, but in my opinion it never gets in the way of the songs, which are all pretty damn brutal. There are some definite tech-death highlights and all of them kick ass. It's a shame I will miss them when they come to this city in march. 2009: Animals as Leaders' s/t. Tosin Abasi reinvents what a shred guitar can mean. There are spacey sounds alongside weird pickings, shreds, and tappings. Again, this is an album that inspires me. I feel emotion in every track, from the frantic insanity of "Tempting Time", to the quiet cyberpunky "Behaving Badly", to the mournful "On Impulse", to the joyous "Song of Solomon". (runners up Addicted by Devin Townsend, and Black Future by Vektor which I just started listening to). ------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2011 at 6:05am
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Animals as Leaders is 2009? I thought it just came out a while ago. Suddenly in late 2010 everyone started talking about it. I'll get to this in a while, definitely a good idea  I once started a similarish thread on another forum, where I listen my favourite albums from 69 to 2006 the same way.------------- http://iamthreepeople.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow">  <- Click on this!
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Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2011 at 9:45pm
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2000- V: The New Mythology Suite- Symphony X 2001- Lateralus- Tool, though my favorite overall of that year was Bridge Across Forever 2002- The Perfect Element- Pain of Salvation 2003- Damnation- Opeth 2004- The Human Equation- Ayreon 2005- Octavarium- Dream Theater 2006- I don't have one 2007- Scarsick- Pain of Salvation 2008- 01011001- Ayreon 2009- The Great Misdirect- Between the Buried and Me, the Whirlwind is the overall favorite in this year though ------------- 
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2011 at 10:20pm
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Sticking strictly to metal, let's go with... 2000: Beethoven's Last Night - Trans-Siberian Orchestra 2001: Bath/Leaving Your Body Map - Maudlin of the Well (Couldn't choose which. Great year, though, had to pick between 7 or 8 faves. Blackwater Park, A Sun That Never Sets, Jaktens Tid, Of Stone Wind and Pillor...) 2002: The Mantle - Agalloch (runner-up Oceanic) 2003: Choirs of the Eye - Kayo Dot (just beats out Neurosis & Jarboe) 2004: First - Baroness (over Panopticon, L.O.T.M.P., The Eye of Every Storm) 2005: The Unreal Never Lived - Yob (over Ghost Reveries and In The L...L...Library Loft, which I actually prefer but elected not to choose as it's not metal) 2006: OM - Negura Bunget (Dowsing Anemone, Enter, In the Absence of Truth, Blood Mountain, Emissaries, Ashes Against The Grain...) 2007: Ur Jordens Djup - Finntroll (Red Album, Screech Owl) 2008: Station - Russian Circles (Land, Terminus: Rebirth in Eight Parts, Dystopia) 2009: Wavering Radiant - Isis (AAL, Blue Record, Crack the Skye, Carboniferous)
lol, while I have 6. You want to borrow one? |
The Block wrote:Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 9:46am
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< ="utf-8"> All right, let's see how much metal I can get in here. I'll highlight the metal favourites and mention if it's not the overall favourite of the year.
2000 Iron Maiden - Brave New World My first Maiden album, a start of a long love affair. After listening to it for ten years it has only gotten better with age. Perhaps my third or fourth favourite Maiden album after some 80s classics. 2001 Opeth - Blackwater Park An extremely tight race between Toxicity, Lateralus and this one. I really have nothing to back this up with, it just felt like an Opeth moment. Damn near perfect albums all three of them. 2002 The Dillinger Escape Plan with Mike Patton - Irony Is a Dead Scene EP The overall best of the year goes without a doubt to Sigur R�s's ( ), and this one beat every metal full length I've heard that year. Dillinger's twisted hyperactivity is a perfect match for Patton's equally twisted voice, oh how I wish there was more of this. 2003 Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me This was a truly fantastic year. Choirs of the Eye is just as good as this one, but I presume it will get a lot of votes anyway, so I went with Typo. Non-metal stuff of the same value are Liekki's Korppi and TMV's debut De-Loused in the Comatorium. 2004 Mastodon - Leviathan And then a not-so-good year. Leviathan is the third best of four Mastodon albums, a good one but nothing special apart from a couple of killer songs. Overall best of the year will go to Magyar Posse's Kings of Time or Green Day's American Idiot. Yes, you read that one right. 2005 System of a Down - Mezmerize And then we come to perhaps my favourite music year of my lifetime. Several brilliant albums are up to the challenge, but the one album I'd rate six of five stars happened to come out that year. So Ghost Reveries and co. don't really have a chance in the end. 2006 Mokoma - Kuoleman laulukunnaat Another great year, but the metal side of things wasn't that great after all. Two extremely solid albums however do come up, the other one being Celtic Frost's Monotheist. I've never been so excited about the other Mokoma albums I've heard, but this one is such a furious onslaught from beginning to end, that Finnish thrashy metal hasn't seen such since Stone. 2007 Swallow the Sun - Hope Another leaner metal year, the only serious contender for StS is Reverend Bizarre's III: So Long Suckers. In the end Hope might be the least good StS full length so far, but that just means they're all pretty damn great. The National's fantastic Boxer takes the cake overall. 2008 Russian Circles - Station Watershed would take this if it weren't for the lacklustre second half, but Station, my favourite RC album, is better by a hair. Neither of them are really five star material, the best two albums of the year come from the Finnish proggish field, Overhead's And We're Not Here After All and Von Hertzen Brothers's Love Remains the Same. 2009 Priestess - Prior to the Fire Ahh, another fantastic year. Mastodon, Swallow the Sun, S�lstafir, BtBaM, Alice In Chains, Isis and many others put out great stuff, but I want to give the trophy to Priestess, my first true MMA discovery. I wish more people knew of this band. Actually this might be a better year overall than 2005, something I didn't believe would ever happen. Overall the best album might be Part the Second. 2010 Barren Earth - Curse of the Red River There's tons of 2010 stuff I haven't heard yet, but I won't be surprised if Barren Earth keeps their place at the top. The finest "super group" album I've ever heard. Midlake's Courage of Others, John Grant's Queen of Denmark and Lapko's A New Bohemia battle with BE for the top spot overall. ------------- http://iamthreepeople.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow"> <- Click on this!
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Posted By: bonnek
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 4:14am
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2000 Gathering - If Then Else 2001 Opeth - Blackwater Park 2002 Madder Mortem - Deadlands 2003 Katatonia - Viva Emptiness 2004 My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness Words of Light 2005 Opeth - Ghost Reveries 2006 Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain 2007 Division By Zero - Tyranny of Therapy 2008 Intronaut - Prehistoricisms 2009 Riverside - ADHD 2010 Triptycon - Eparistera Daimones |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 4:36am
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I've only included metal releases on my list (and it's not really representative anyway, since I tend to always have a whole bunch of favorite releases every year): 2000: Iron Maiden "Brave New World" 2001: Slayer "God Hates Us All" 2002: Dio "Killing the Dragon" 2003: Iron Maiden "Dance of Death" / King Diamond "The Puppet Master" 2004: Killswitch Engage "The End of Heartache" 2005: Bolt Thrower "Those Once Loyal" 2006: Iron Maiden "A Matter of Life and Death" 2007: Dream Theater: "Systematic Chaos" / Anubis Gate "Andromeda Unchained" / King Diamond "Give Me Your Soul ... Please" 2008: Cynic "Traced in Air" 2009: Obscura "Cosmogenesis" / Artillery "When Death Comes" / Anubis Gate "The Detached" 2010: Atheist "Jupiter" / Death Angel "Relentless Retribution" ------------- 
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 12:59pm
| guys 2010 isn't part of the 00s |
Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 4:12pm
Well I have no idea what any of them are  , but I should probably get around to getting a Matter of Life and Death -------------
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 9:48pm
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I'll try to keep this list mostly metal. 2000: Kevin Gilbert - The Shaming of the True (non-metal) 2001: Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part 1 2002: Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane 2003: Edge of Sanity - Crimson II 2004: Pain of Salvation - Be 2005: Neal Morse - ? 2006: Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death 2007: Pain of Salvation - Scarsick 2008: Opeth - Watershed 2009: Between The Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect Wow, Pain of Salvation featured as the #1 album for each album they released in that decade... I'm a fanboy and proud of it!   ------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: bonnek
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 11:03am
Aha! but for some people the millennium started in 2001 and not 2000, which also means the decade can't have started until '01. So we just included 2010 to be on the safe side |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 1:43pm
It's 2000 which was not part of this certain decade 
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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 2:29pm
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It seems to be a cultural thing... just like in some cultures, the week starts on a Monday while in others it starts on a Sunday.
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 2:32pm
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I don't understand how the decade could start in '01. Would those same people call 1990 part of the '80s?
------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 7:44pm
I hope that was a rhetorical way to put it, as the answer is really simple.
Why would they? The "'80s" are the years that start with 8, '90 wasn't one of them. But '90 is the last year of the ninth decade. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 7:50pm
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^I'm just pointing out how counting from 2001-2010 is a strange way of defining a decade, since that would also mean the 90s would be 1991 to 2000 and the 80s from 1981 to 1990, etc. Which doesn't make sense to me.
------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
Posted By: bonnek
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 11:01am
Yes it doesn't make sense, the confusion all started with the bad mathematics of they early Christians They didn't know the number "0", so when making up the calendar, they went from the year 1 BC immediately to the year 1AC. So the year 0 never existed, which inspired some people to say the new millennium had to start in 2001 as well. I'd say their mathematics still suck, as does their knowledge of the word "millennium" or "decade". Anyway, I just wanted to add my pick for 2010  |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 12:58pm
I don't find it strange at all. Seriously now,  when you want to count 10 apples on your table, do you count them from 0 to 9, or from 1 to 10?Counting decades from 0 to 9 imply there were two decades in history that had only 9 years. It's simple math... |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 1:09pm
Huh? Since when were early Christians poorly educated in maths, this being a source of this issue? The Greeks were brilliant mathematicians and they didn't come up with zero either. European mathematics of the time simply didn't have the concept of zero, which was an Indian concept that permeated into Europe only one millenia later. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 1:28pm
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I'd rather call the first decade from 1 AD to 9 AD than call 1990 part of the 80s
------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 1:34pm
But nobody's asking you to make 1990 a part of the 80s They're just two different ways of counting, the formerly "major" one now being steadily replaced by the one who cares about the prefix. I prefer the latter too, it's only flaw being that it doesn't have proper words for the 00s and the 10s  EDIT: this is the first time I post on MMA and I get a reply before I leave it!   Seems like it's growing after all.... |
Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 3:08pm
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Wow this thread has really gotten off topic But I agree with the people that state that 2010 isn't part of the 00's mostly because the middle numbers are 01 and not 00 like 2000-2009.
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Posted By: Andyman1125
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 7:22pm
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Hmmm... I'm gonna start with '99.... because, you know, I want to. 1999: Scenes From a Memory (Dream Theater) 2000: V (Spock's Beard/Symphony X) Isn't it awesome that I can do that? 2001: Perfect Element (Pain of Salvation) 2002: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Dream Theater) 2003: Choirs of the Eyes (Kayo Dot) 2004: Of Natural History (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) 2005: Octavarium/Second Life Syndrome/Ghost Reveries (Dream Theater/Riverside/Opeth) 2006: Christ 0 (Vanden Plas) 2007: Colors (Between the Buried and Me) 2008: Traced in Air/Diagonal/Delusions (Cynic/Diagonal/To-Mera) 2009: Part the Second/Tall Poppy Syndrome/Animals as Leaders/The Whirlwind/Crack the Skye (maudlin of the Well/Leprous/Animals as Leaders/Transatlantic/Mastodon) Yes, I like prog. And that's really all I could think of. And 2009 was a damn good year! ------------- http://bit.ly/kZR7BC" rel="nofollow">  http://andywebb.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - My Bandcamp
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 9:05am
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You can use the "generational" decade if you want. From this perspective, the 80s started in 1977 and ended in 1992!
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Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 2:58pm
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^Why are we still talking about this?
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 3:08pm
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^So you can have a list of 16 favorite albums instead of only 10!
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2011 at 8:12am
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Tough ask
I will just mention 10 faves up to 2010
2000: V (Spock's Beard)
2002: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Dream Theater)
2005: Octavarium (Dream Theater)
2005: Second Life Syndrome (Riverside)
2009: Crack the Skye (Mastodon)
2010: Aquarius (Haken)
2010: Pan: an Urban Tale (Persephones Dream)
2010: ADHD (Riverside)
2010: Blood of the Earth (Hawkwind)
2010: Victims of the Modern Age (Star One)
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Posted By: martindavey87
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2011 at 9:48am
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2000: Unfortunately, Music went on a temporary hiatus throughout the year 2000.
2001: Dream Theater - Live Scenes from New York
2002: Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
2003: Dream Theater - Train of Thought
2004: Dream Theater - Live at Budokan
2005: Dream Theater - Octavarium
2006: Dream Theater - Score
2007: Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
2008: Dream Theater - Chaos in Motion
2009: Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
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Posted By: Andyman1125
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2011 at 3:53pm
That's what I'm talkin bout  ------------- http://bit.ly/kZR7BC" rel="nofollow"> http://andywebb.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - My Bandcamp
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Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2011 at 4:04pm
Does that mean Dream Theater didn't release anything in 2000? Well I already know that answer... -------------
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Posted By: martindavey87
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2011 at 6:02pm
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Well, without a Dream Theater release, music just ceased to exist for an entire year. Those were dark times, but mankind survived. |
Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 3:08pm
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2000 Fates Warning - Disconnected 2001 Marillion - Anoraknophobia/Threshold - Hypothetical 2002 Enchant - Blink of an Eye 2003 Riverside - Out of Myself 2004 Marillion - Marbles 2005 Sieges Even - The Art of Navigating by the Stars 2006 Europe - Secret Society 2007 Sieges Even - Paramount 2008 Marillion - Happiness Is the Road 2009 Redemption – Snowfall On Judgement Day today I've thought of these, ask me tomorrow, list would be different
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