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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicDream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memorydredg LeitmotifKingston Wall Kingston Wall IIThis psych-rock trio inspired by the inventive guitar play of Petri Walli was formed in Helsinki in 1987. By the end of 1994, six months after the release of their third album, it seemed they were on the verge of breaking through when their leader, Walli, committed suicide by jumping off a church tower. Tragic, but at least he left us something to remember him by. Only the best pure progressive rock record, which is actualy very easy to get into, but strangely complex. Their guitarist/singer Petri Walli incorporated Pink Floyd psychadelia, middle-eastern even indian scales in a time nobody had the balls to. The best thing for me in this album is the drumming. The guy is insane! Really rocking and innovative drumming. Just listen to Two Of A Kind. The vocals are mostly unobtrusive and rarely distract from the incredible musicianship over which they are placed. An incredible power trio. Massive Attack MezzanineMuse AbsolutionMy favorite album of all time. Like most people and their favorite albums I can't really describe why I like it so much. Something about this post-apocalyptic netherworld that gets me every time. I wouldn't change a single note of it and I listened to this quite possibly hundreds of times so I know it pretty well. I first started felling deeply about it after hearing Hysteria at Live 8 and now it' s my favorite song of all time dethroning Paranoid Android. Absolution is just their best work, surpassing even the incredible Origin Of Symmetry. I literally get goosebumps every time I hear it. I think it's pretty insane three man can make music of five, six men. Quite possibly these are the limits of what three people can record and still reproduce live. Marriage of pop and prog is a soaring masterpiece of unappreciated proportions. This will never really be dethroned in my book. It's just simply too far ahead for anyone to catch up.Nine Inch Nails The FragileOpeth Blackwater ParkOrphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)Good bands are hard to find these days. They all seem like a carbon copy of one another. Almost everything seems to be geared towards pleasing high-school kids. Enters Orphaned Land. I'm not even going to try to describe this beast of a refreshment. Here I am minding my own business one day, thinking there is nothing more to be done. Wrongly thinking Opeth did everything. Enters Orphaned Land. Like Alexander's marriage of east and west this album strikes you and strikes you hard. Never has the Middle East sounded so engaging, so full of life, so breathakingly beautiful and deliciously headbangable at the same time. Steven Wilson is producing their next album. I have high hopes.Pure Reason Revolution The Dark ThirdWhen I tell people this album had the potential to be an OK Computer of this decade they are quick to disregard it. FOOLS! Sampling a song is not the same thing as listening to the whole album. And believe me this monster does not need to grow. One listen will be sufficient. Album of the decade has passed you by. Music that sounds like an evolution of Porcupine Tree's sound. And I'm not trying to diss Porcupine Tree. I love them dearly. But this band has me hooked. Shocking, beautiful, brilliant. Four frackin vocalists. You think you know your stuff about vocal harmonies. Believe me this will blow you away. This band pushes the limit to a new level making this (Orphaned Land aside) the second most brilliant debut album I ever heard. Get this by all means possible.Tool LateralusCan tastes really be so different. Can anyone really find this album dare I say boring, uninspiring, cold, calculated. EXCUSES, I SAY! Yes tool fanboys are a bunch low-lives who like to analyze things but surely you are not using that as an excuse for dissing a masterpiece. That is simply an absurdity. Given proper time, this album can't be disliked, unless you really try hard to be biased on disliking it consciously. It all really fits together and you can really tell this is a work of a band, not a single person trying to play every instrument. It touched grounds no music touched before. It inspired many to look into philosophy, eastern cultures, alternate history, magic... Many people thought this album was crafted by means of sorcery. Many people still believe you can use an alternate track order, find a hidden meaning by using a fibonnaci sequence, create a holy gift. Books can?t do that and they are a far superior form of inspiration to a non-musician.4.5 superbAl Di Meola Elegant GypsyArchive LondiniumCoheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3Jeff Beck Blow by BlowLovage Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady ByMogwai Happy Songs for Happy PeopleMuse Origin of SymmetryMuse Black Holes & RevelationsNine Inch Nails The Downward SpiralOasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?Opeth Still LifeOpeth MorningriseOpeth DamnationPink Floyd AnimalsPink Floyd Wish You Were HerePorcupine Tree In AbsentiaPorcupine Tree Stupid DreamPorcupine Tree DeadwingPorcupine Tree Lightbulb SunPortishead DummyRadiohead Kid ARadiohead OK ComputerRefused The Shape Of Punk To ComeShpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is LostShpongle Tales of the InexpressibleShpongle Are You Shpongled?Sigur Ros Takk...Sufjan Stevens Seven SwansSystem of a Down MezmerizeThe Dresden Dolls The Dresden DollsThe Mars Volta De-Loused in the ComatoriumThe Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite SadnessThe Smashing Pumpkins Siamese DreamTool Ænima4.0 excellentA Perfect Circle Thirteenth StepA Perfect Circle Mer de NomsAghora AghoraAlice in Chains Jar of FliesChroma Key Dead Air For RadiosCoheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine BladeCoheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of MadnessDido No Angeldredg Catch Without ArmsIncubus (USA-CA) Make YourselfIncubus (USA-CA) Morning ViewIncubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.Jeff Buckley GraceKyuss Blues for the Red SunMansun SixNine Inch Nails Pretty Hate MachineNine Inch Nails StillOpeth OrchidPelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the MoonPink Floyd The WallQueens of the Stone Age Songs for the DeafQueens of the Stone Age Rated RRadiohead The BendsRadiohead Hail to the ThiefSystem of a Down ToxicitySystem of a Down HypnotizeThirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To MarsMassive Attack meets futuristic Deftones. This is the album I thought I would listen to in high school year 2100. Trutfully this album's first half owns the second half with the best of the bunch (Capricorn, Edge Of The Earth, Buddha For Mary). Catchy melodies, spacey music, Chino Moreno esque vocals, futuristic distortion. These are the things this album did excellently and way way better than A Beautiful Lie which is IMO a considerably worse release. Jared Leto was on the right track with this one. If only his future releases will expand on the unique sound presented here.Tool 10,000 Days
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