Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

[TheRuleofThree]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

The cymbals sound okay, but the snare especially sounds like crap. Way too poppy for my taste. The kick also has no balls, either. It was probably as much an engineering issue as it was a gear thing, but it sounds hollow as all shit.

I'm pretty sure the last three albums they've released were all recorded in Basement Studios. Who knows?

[kata rokkar]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

1. Sigur Ros's "Agaetis Byrjun"
2. Radiohead's "Kid A"
3. Sigur Ros's "Takk..."
4. Radiohead's "Amnesiac"
5. Codeseven's "Dancing Echoes/Dead Souls"
6. Glassjaw's "Everything You Ever Wants to Know About Silence"
7. Muse's "Origin of Symmetry"
8. dredg's "Catch Without Arms"
9. Mew's "No More Stories Are Told Today..."
10. Muse's "Absolution"
11. Deftones's "Saturday Night Wrist"
12. A Perfect Circle's "Thirteenth Step"
13. Between the Buried and Me's "Colors"

[euphORIA]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

I did this list for a website, so in case you want to check:

dredg - El Cielo
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Glassjaw - Everything You Wanted To Know About Silence
Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo
Clann Zu - Rua
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mayan Factor - In Lake 'Ch
The Postman Syndrome - Terraforming
Ictus - Imperivm
Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn
Amen - We Have Come For Your Parents
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
Anathallo - Canopy Glow
System Of A Down - Toxicity
Aereogramme - Sleep And Release
Tool - Lateralus
mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
Battles - Mirrored
Mudvayne - L.D. 50
The Grand Silent System - Gift or a Weapon
Standstill - Vivalaguerra
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Declan De Barra - Song of a Thousand Birds
Giant Squid - Metridium Fields
Isis - Oceanic
Converge - Jane Doe
Ephel duath – The painter’s palete
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside You
Youthmovies - Good Nature
A Perfect Circle - Mer de noms
Murder By Death - Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?
Botch - We Are the Romans
Converge - Axe To Fall
Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery
Sigur Ros - ()
dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
IRA - The Body and the Soil
Kiss Kiss - Reality vs. the Optimist
Oso - Kuno Esama
The Pax Cecilia - Blessed Are the Bonds
Wintersleep - Welcome To The Night Sky
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Clann Zu - Black Coats & Bandages
Mutyumu – Il Y A
Two Gallants - What The Story Tells
From Autumn To Ashes - Too Bad You're Beautiful
Tub Ring - Fermi Paradox
Day Without Dawn - Understanding Consequences
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
Thursday - Full Collapse
Polarkreis 18 – Polarkreis 18
Cave In - Jupìter
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Envy - A Dead Sinking Story
Buried Inside - Chronoclast
Fair To Midland - Inter.Funda.Stifle
COG – The new normal
Evergreen Terrace - Burned Alive by Time
Mushroomhead - XIII
Suffocate For Fuck Sake - Blazing Fires And Helicopters...
Vex Red - Start With A Strong And Persistent Desire
Devil Sold His Soul - A Fragile Hope
Ours - Mercy
Klimt 1918 - Dopoguerra
Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Amen - Amen
*Shels - The Sea Of The Dying Down
Misery Signals - Of Malice and the Magnum Heart
The Fall Of Troy - The Fall of Troy
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
Eleventh He Reaches London - Hollow Be My Name
Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
Burst - Lazarus Bird
Isis - Panopticon
Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
Escapado - Hinter den Spiegeln
Agora Fidelio - Altitude Zéro
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Poison The Well - Tear From The Red
mum - Summer Make Good
Daylight Days - Dismantling Devotion
Sinch - Sinch
Thee Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward
Mastodon - Leviathan
Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
Thrice - Vheissu
Cult Of Luna - Salvation
Deftones - White Pony
Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
Yakuza - Samsara
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Minus the bear - Planet Of Ice
Intronaut - Void
Moksha - Supersilver Haze
NIN - Year Zero
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
The Sound Of Animal Fighting - Tiger and the Duke
Battle Of Mice - A Day of Nights
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
Nasum - Shift
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
Corea - Quien encuentra…
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Head Automatica - Decadence
Baroness - Blue Album


Bonus:
Kary - Light
Ojo - Minutia
snic - The Garden Ecstasis
Mod Flanders Conspiracy - ...the tragic urn spill...
Youth Pictures Of Florence Henderson - Unnoticiable in a Tiny Town, ...
Narcissus - Crave And Collapse
Eden Maine - To You The First Star
hopesfall - No Wings to Speak Of
Raised By Swans - Codes and Secret Longing
Ermine - The Murra

[TheRuleofThree]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

Deadline passed! Can't wait to see the results and the next batch.

[Shigeru]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

1. Mew's "No More Stories Are Told Today..."
2. dredg's "Catch Without Arms"
3. Between the Buried and Me's "Colors"
4. A Perfect Circle's "Thirteenth Step"
5. Sigur Ros's "Agaetis Byrjun"
6. Sigur Ros's "Takk..."
7. Muse's "Absolution"
8. Muse's "Origin of Symmetry"
9. Codeseven's "Dancing Echoes/Dead Souls"
10. Radiohead's "Kid A"
11. Radiohead's "Amnesiac"
12. Deftones's "Saturday Night Wrist"
13. Glassjaw's "Everything You Ever Wants to Know About Silence"

[Gnomad]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

I'll try to have it done by tomorrow afternoon.

[cyrinic]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

Long time viewer, infrequent poster.

This is awesome. I've been dying for new music and every time I make a list of bands I want to check out, I lose it. Now it's here! Thank you so much!


Also, people may be tired of this, but I was intrigued by the Incubus discussion.
I like Morning View. I think the album has a nice cohesive identity, but only really in the middle (wish you were here -> echo).

I don't understand how people can discount A Crow Left of the Murder. It doesn't end strong, but I think it contains some of the tightest music they ever made. You can really tell how much the album reinvigorated Mike Einziger's guitar playing in tracks like A Crow Left of the Murder, Pistola and Sick Sad Little World. He achieves complete mastery over his playing style - rock/jazz riffs and chords with the ability to kick out a heavy chorus and absolutely shred a solo while also being able to utilize his pedals better than nearly everyone. He achieves an amazing range of sound and skill that he just did not have in the earlier albums.

Pasillas definitely takes his drumming to another level and Boyd does an incredible job utilizing his maturing voice and comes up with some awesome lyrics. Plus Ben Kenney lends himself very well as a bassist with serious chops- listen to the interlude in the title track and to the solo during Pistola, for example.

I think they took the aggressiveness of SCIENCE and Make Yourself and combined it with their maturing mastery over their respective instruments and creative abilities that they began to explore in Morning View. Every time I listen to it I find something that impresses me - from each member of the band (except DJ Kilmore...)

[Gnomad]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

Moving on. 1-7. Almost finished.

At the Drive-in's "Relationship of Command"
Explosions in the Sky's "The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place"
Oceansize's "Everyone Into Position"
Queens of the Stone Age's "Songs for the Deaf"
Radiohead's "In Rainbows"
The Mars Volta's "Frances the Mute"
Tool's "10,000 Days"

[SoundscapeMN]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

1 Oceansize's "Everyone Into Position"
2 The Mars Volta's "Frances the Mute"
3 At the Drive-in's "Relationship of Command"
4 Tool's "10,000 Days"
5 Explosions in the Sky's "The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place"
6 Queens of the Stone Age's "Songs for the Deaf"
7 Radiohead's "In Rainbows"

[One Second Clubber]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

Explosions in the Sky's "The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place"
The Mars Volta's "Frances the Mute"
Radiohead's "In Rainbows"
Tool's "10,000 Days"
At the Drive-in's "Relationship of Command"
Queens of the Stone Age's "Songs for the Deaf"
Oceansize's "Everyone Into Position"

[Corroded Halo]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. Oceansize - Everyone into Position
3. Tool - 10,000 Days
4. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
5. At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command
6. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
7. QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf

[kata rokkar]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
3. At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command
4. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
5. Tool - 10,000 Days
6. QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf
7. Oceansize - Everyone into Position

[SimpatiK]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

1 Oceansize's "Everyone Into Position"
2 The Mars Volta's "Frances the Mute"
3 Explosions in the Sky's "The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place"
4 Queens of the Stone Age's "Songs for the Deaf"
5 At the Drive-in's "Relationship of Command"
6 Tool's "10,000 Days"
7 Radiohead's "In Rainbows"

Except Oceansize topping and Radiohead at the bottom this was really tough.

[Knifeboy]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

Queens of the Stone Age's "Songs for the Deaf"
Radiohead's "In Rainbows"
At the Drive-in's "Relationship of Command"
Explosions in the Sky's "The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place"
Tool's "10,000 Days"
The Mars Volta's "Frances the Mute"
Oceansize's "Everyone Into Position"

rated after what i've listened to the most. The top 3 are all perfect albums though

[Sins Of Arcadia]

Re: Traversing.nets Top 50 Albums of the Decade Voting Thread

1) Explosions in the Sky's "The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place"
2) Tool's "10,000 Days"
3) Oceansize's "Everyone Into Position"
4) At the Drive-in's "Relationship of Command"
5) Radiohead's "In Rainbows"
6) The Mars Volta's "Frances the Mute"
7) Queens of the Stone Age's "Songs for the Deaf"