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YonTroper Since: Aug, 2009
#26: Jan 10th 2012 at 5:57:19 AM

Top 10 progressive metal albums, with arbitrary ranking (though The Perfect Element is number 1):

  1. 1. Pain of Salvation, The Perfect Element
  2. 2. Dream Theater, Awake
  3. 3. Ayreon, The Human Equation
  4. 4. Tiamat, A Deeper Kind of Slumber (if it counts)
  5. 5. King's X, Out of the Silent Planet
  6. 6. Pain of Salvation, Remedy Lane
  7. 7. Queensryche, Rage for Order
  8. 8. Voivod, Angel Rat
  9. 9. Dream Theater, Images and Words
  10. 10. Shadow Gallery, Carved in Stone

EnemyMayan from A van down by the river Since: Jun, 2011
#27: Jan 10th 2012 at 10:21:13 AM

Top 10 favorite songs of all time:

Jesus saves. Gretzky steals, he scores!
AsTheAnointed Since: Jan, 2010
#28: Jan 10th 2012 at 10:54:17 AM

[up][up]Ooh, I'll do likewise! But since my top 5 are all Dream Theater I'll exclude DT, so it'll be my top 10 non-Dream theater prog metal albums:

  1. Kamelot - The Black Halo
  2. Symphony X - The Odyssey
  3. Kamelot - Epica
  4. Wintersun (not always considered prog, but I think they qualify) - Wintersun
  5. Opeth - Deliverance/Damnation
  6. Opeth - Blackwater Park
  7. Kamelot - Ghost Opera
  8. Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
  9. Circus Maximus - The First Chapter
  10. Haken - Visions

Huh, still ended up spamming a couple of bands. Ah well, the last few show that recent prog metallers can hold their own.

edited 10th Jan '12 10:54:46 AM by AsTheAnointed

rumetzen Since: Jan, 2010
#29: Jan 10th 2012 at 11:17:39 AM

Top ten metal songs in no real order *


Nine Inch Nails - The Becoming
Tool - Hooker With a Penis
Mastodon- Naked Burn
Red Fang - Hank Is Dead
Peach - You Lied
Faith No More - Caffeine
Deftones - My Own Summer (Shove it)
White Zombie - The Electric Head Part 1 (The Agony)
Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
In Flames - Lord Hypnos

edited 10th Jan '12 11:18:26 AM by rumetzen

ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
frozen in time
#30: Jan 10th 2012 at 11:28:31 AM

Nine Inch Nails is NOT metal

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Erock Proud Canadian from Toronto Since: Jul, 2009
Proud Canadian
#31: Jan 10th 2012 at 1:43:26 PM

@Mayan: I Talk To The Wind? Really?

edited 10th Jan '12 1:43:38 PM by Erock

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.
MasterInferno It's Like Arguing on the Internet from Tomb of Malevolence Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
It's Like Arguing on the Internet
#32: Jan 10th 2012 at 2:47:44 PM

NIN have some songs that are metal and some that aren't. That's all I'ma say on that one.

Somehow you know that the time is right.
DocStrange Sorcerer Supreme from Rhode Island Since: Jan, 2001
Sorcerer Supreme
#33: Jan 10th 2012 at 3:09:16 PM

My top 10 favorite guitarists

  1. David Gilmour (Pink Floyd, solo)
  2. Trey Anastasio (Phish, Oysterhead, solo)
  3. Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention, Richard & Linda Thompson, solo)
  4. Graham Coxon (Blur, solo)
  5. Frank Zappa (The Mothers of Invention, solo)
  6. Johnny Marr (The Smiths, The The, Electronic, Modest Mouse, The Cribs, Johnny Marr + The Healers)
  7. Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine)
  8. Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead)
  9. Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth, solo)
  10. John Squire (The Stone Roses, The Seahorses)

edited 10th Jan '12 3:10:27 PM by DocStrange

Stomping on your fingers as you're clinging on to the abyss
inane242 Anwalt der Verdammten from A B-Movie Bildungsroman Since: Nov, 2010
Anwalt der Verdammten
#34: Jan 10th 2012 at 4:06:55 PM

NIN is pop music with circutbending, distortion and heavy sampling.

I only really like The Slip.

The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.
NEO from Qrrbrbirlbel Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
#35: Jan 10th 2012 at 4:51:26 PM

Top Ten unique artists/works in metal and/or alternative metal (OBS: I know... There IS more unique stuff out there, This list goes by my experience. That also means I may be wrong about something being unique when, in fact, it isn't).

Unique, in this interpretation, stands basically for any artist/work that sounds like no other that came before or after, be it in a clear genre or not.

  • 10 - Sons of the System by Mnemic

They apparently decided to make a new album that sounded as much "Mnemic" as the previous ones, but less typical. I think they got it right, because I can't quite define this; "melodic death metal", "math" or "metalcore" doesn't fit well...

  • 9 - Deftones (White Pony onwards)

They are normally classified as "nu metal", but every member has their own trademarked style.

  • 8 - Axenstar

They sound like any power metal band Except the vocals. And that makes a BIG difference, since seemingly all power metal vocalists try sounding all neoclassical or Dickinson-ish. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing but I'm sick of it.

  • 7 - Princess Ghibli by Imaginary Flying Machines

When melodic death metal bands try to play japanese music, this happens; it's a blend that worked surprisingly well.

  • 6 - Devin Townsend Project (Ki, Addicted, Deconstruction, Ghost, maybe Ghost 2 and a bunch of awesome demos too)

Devin Townsend himself tends to invent the hell out of anything he touches, but I guess he really did it here. While not ALL DTP material sounds legitmately unique, it has this, this and oh man, this. And that's not even getting into the demo stuff.

  • 5 - Between The Buried And Me

I don't even need to say anything, do I?

  • 4 - System of a Down

Nobody ever had the balls to try and copy them. I guess the closest I've ever heard was this finnish band called Stam1na, and even so THEY are also pretty unique (and awesome too).

  • 3 - Meshuggah

There's a whole genre (or pseudo-genre depending on who you ask) dedicated mostly to sounding like Meshuggah, but they never managed to do it right, to be honest.

  • 2 - Skindred

Alternative metal had lots of genre fusing, but nobody before every attepted to fuse alternative metal with... raggamuffin. Skindred did that, and it's made of victory.

  • 1 - Yeah! Yeah! Die! Die! Death Metal Symphony In Deep C by Waltari (thanks a lot TV Tropes, found about it in a trope page!)

Symphonic metal isn't anything new, but the way it was done here was just... holy. Unique doesn't even describe it. Basically, what most symphonic metal bands do is to get orchestral soundfonts or maybe a real orchestra to help them with their metal, but in Yeah! Yeah! Die! Die! the orchestra helps the metal and the metal helps the orchestra, in a perfect equilibrium. The vocal part is shared by a weird/funny singer (the actual singer of Waltari, in fact), a death growler and a soprano. ALSO, it's a concept album, and while the lyrics are somewhat lame, the tale itself is interesting, and the music itself accompanies well the "chapter" it represents (for example, there's a song about a computer suffering from a fatal*

error, and it's all chaos. And if that wasn't enough, there are also hints of rap and electronica towards the end.

Okay, that wasn't a great description, but what should describe it?

edited 10th Jan '12 5:27:26 PM by NEO

No regret shall pass over the threshold!
Erock Proud Canadian from Toronto Since: Jul, 2009
Proud Canadian
#36: Jan 10th 2012 at 5:46:26 PM

[up][up]Pop industrial, maybe? RYM calls them a whole bunch of things.

edited 10th Jan '12 5:47:22 PM by Erock

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.
GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job
#37: Jan 10th 2012 at 7:39:12 PM

Top 10 Metallica Songs (Including songs from Garage Inc.)

10) Wherever I May Roam

9) Enter Sandman

8) King Nothing

7) Whiskey In The Jar

6) Ride The Lighting

5) The Memory Remains

4) Fade To Black

3) Nothing Else Matters

2) Master Of Puppets

1) Sad But True

edited 10th Jan '12 7:39:36 PM by GearLeader

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkI1sTDoEg
ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
frozen in time
#38: Jan 10th 2012 at 7:49:12 PM

Top 10 Metallica songs (including whatever)

  1. Master of Puppets
  2. One
  3. Creeping Death
  4. The Four Horsemen
  5. Ride the Lightning
  6. Orion
  7. Fade to Black
  8. Blackened
  9. Battery
  10. Seek and Destroy

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YonTroper Since: Aug, 2009
#39: Jan 10th 2012 at 8:08:10 PM

Top 10 songs by Dream Theater, getting into the fanboy stakes before Anointed jumps on it:

  1. 1. "Learning to Live"
  2. 2. "Octavarium"
  3. 3. "A Change of Seasons"
  4. 4. "The Spirit Carries On"
  5. 5. "The Mirror"
  6. 6. "The Ministry of Lost Souls"
  7. 7. "Breaking All Illusions"
  8. 8. "The Glass Prison"
  9. 9. "Under A Glass Moon"
  10. 10. "Hollow Years" (Live at Budokan, different from the album version and very cool)

ShadowSpark Unknown from Unknown Since: Nov, 2011
Unknown
#40: Jan 10th 2012 at 8:19:01 PM

Top ten albums of all time (in not a whole lot of order):

Who's Next by The Who (greatest classic rock album ever, hands down)

The Joshua Tree by U2 (second greatest; the singles are good, but the rest of the album is where the real punch is- Bullet the Blue Sky and Exit are masterful, dread-filled takes)

Stadium Arcadium by The Red Hot Chili Peppers (last album by a freakishly talented squad)

Achtung Baby by U2 (90s alternative rock is defined by grunge, but I'd take the sexy darkness and brutal honesty of Achtung over teenage grind of Nevermind any day)

ABIII by Alter Bridge (Creed gets a singer/songwriter who's worth something- 'nuff said)

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (tighter album than Dark Side)

Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (up and down, but its high points erase any doubts about the rest dragging it down too far)

No Line on the Horizon by U2 (surprisingly good album that underperformed due to bad singles choices; Moment of Surrender is one of the greatest songs ever recorded)

Greatest Hits by the Foo Fighters (compilations, anyone? This is the king of them all, with a couple of great new tracks thrown in for good measure. They'll need to update this eventually, though)

Somewhere in the Stratosphere by Shinedown (acoustic live album. You'd not think Sound of Madness would be a great acoustic song, but it sure as heck is. Lacking Diamond Eyes, but that's my only gripe)

edited 10th Jan '12 8:22:08 PM by ShadowSpark

The more you see, the less you know.
TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#41: Jan 11th 2012 at 2:51:36 AM

Favourite live albums at this moment:

  • 10. Five Live Yardbirds (The Yardbirds)
  • 9. Cheap Trick At Budokan (Cheap Trick)
  • 8. Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album (Reel Big Fish)
  • 7. Live Killers (Queen)
  • 6. At Fillmore East (Allman Brothers Band)
  • 5. Monterey International Pop Festival (Otis Redding / Jimi Hendrix)
  • 4. Frampton Comes Alive! (Peter Frampton)
  • 3. Live At the Apollo (James Brown)
  • 2. Live and Dangerous (Thin Lizzy)
  • 1. Live At Leeds (The Who)

edited 11th Jan '12 2:59:45 AM by TheGloomer

Litis from Israel Since: Jul, 2009
#42: Jan 11th 2012 at 4:35:56 AM

NIN is pop music with circutbending, distortion and heavy sampling.

I only really like The Slip.

Sigh.

Pop music, ladies and gentlemen.

BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#43: Jan 11th 2012 at 9:55:30 PM

NIN is pop music with circutbending, distortion and heavy sampling.

Inane

I get that you don't like Nine Inch Nails because they're not "real" Industrial or whatever.

But they are not pop music in any sense other than "they/he were/was popular at one point".

Justin Bieber is pop music.

Nine Inch Nails is not.

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
rumetzen Since: Jan, 2010
#44: Jan 11th 2012 at 10:42:01 PM

I'd post the video for Happiness in Slavery, but I'd probably get banned.

Top Ten most listened artists on Last.fm (in order)

1) Nirvana
2) Aesop Rock
3) Ween
4) Madlib
5) Nine Inch Nails
6) KMFDM
7) Franz Ferdinand
8) White Stripes
9) Korn (I was young and stupid. Please don't hurt me)
10) Kanye West

EnemyMayan from A van down by the river Since: Jun, 2011
#45: Jan 12th 2012 at 3:48:10 PM

@Mayan: I Talk To The Wind? Really?

Yes. I love flute, and there's some epic flute on that song.

Jesus saves. Gretzky steals, he scores!
JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Apparition in the Woods
#46: Jan 13th 2012 at 9:18:51 AM

[up][up][up] "Pop" is a pretty nebulous thing. Justin Bieber is pop, but so are The Associates, Sufjan Stevens and, yes, early Nine Inch Nails.

[up][up][up][up] Not that album, though.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
rumetzen Since: Jan, 2010
#47: Jan 13th 2012 at 9:56:28 AM

Early Nine Inch Nails is synthpop at best.

Jonny0110 Since: May, 2011
#48: Jan 13th 2012 at 10:41:14 AM

Pretty Hate Machine is synthpop... and it's DARN GOOD!

I'm not afraid of labels.

MidnightRambler Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan! from Germania Inferior Since: Mar, 2011
Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan!
#49: Jan 13th 2012 at 12:28:48 PM

@Mayan: I Talk To The Wind? Really?

Hey, I love "I Talk To The Wind", too. Especially those lyrics. 'You don't impress me / Don't possess me / Just upset my mind / Can't instruct me / Or conduct me / Just use up my time...'

Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
frozen in time
#50: Jan 13th 2012 at 12:49:09 PM

Top ten Yes songs.

  1. Close to the Edge
  2. Heart of the Sunrise
  3. Awaken
  4. The Gates of Delirium
  5. And You And I
  6. Starship Trooper
  7. Going For the One
  8. South Side of the Sky
  9. Yours Is No Disgrace
  10. Siberian Khatru

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