TOP 5 2014 ALBUMS

[Moor]

Mine are as follows:

5. Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
4. Flying Colors - Second Nature
3. Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
2. Haken - Restoration
1. Opeth - Pale Communion

[devieira73]

In preference order, only studio albums:

1.   Flying Colors – Second Nature
2.   Opeth – Pale Communnion
3.   Enchant – The Great Divide
4.   Winger – Better Days Comin’
5.   KXM (the coolest/killer drums work of the year for me) or Mr Big – Stories We Could Tell. I can’t decide between these two

Haken - Restoration is wonderful, but it really has an "EP feel", different than an "album feel" or a "live album feel". By the way, Tiles - Off the Floor 2 is very very nice (besides DT - Breaking the Forth Wall, of course!)

[Elite]

Why only 5?

1. Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
2. Schizoid Lloyd - The Last Note in God's Magnum Opus
3. Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
4. Pain of Salvation - Falling Home
5. Flaming Row - Mirage: A Portrayal of Figures

[Mladen]

5. Mastodon - Once more 'round the sun
4. Weezer - Everything will be alright in the end
3. Eels - The Cautionary tales of Mark Oliver Everett
2. Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
1. Damon Albarn - Everyday robots

Also really good: Slipknot, Flying colors, The Sixxis, Mac Demarco and Coldplay.

[krands85]

Not 100% sure on the order of the top 3 and I know Restoration is an EP, but the OP listed it, so this is my 5:

1. Transatlantic - 'Kaleidoscope'
2. Vanden Plas - 'Chronicles Of The Immortals - Netherworld'
3. Haken - 'Restoration'
4. Anathema - 'Distant Satellites'
5. Opeth - 'Pale Communion'

[Sacul]

1- Anathema - Distant Satellites
2- Destiny Potato - Lun
3- Solstafir - Otta
4- Jordan Rudess - Explorations
5- Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool

[Nekov]

5- Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool

Never heard of this band before 

[Sacul]

It's Devin Townsend's new ambient/country project. It's quite space-y.

[Bolsters]

Subject to change (very much so given my indecisiveness in this regard), and definitely in no particular order:

Edguy - Space Police
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Flying Colors - Second Nature
MØ - No Mythologies To Follow
Taylor Swift - 1989

[Nekov]

It's Devin Townsend's new ambient/country project. It's quite space-y.

That was meant as a joke but the joke's on me. I thought it was a Devin Townsend album. My bad.

[Zydar]

1. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
2. Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
3. Opeth - Pale Communion
4. Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
5. Threshold - For The Journey

If we can have EPs also I'd like to add Haken - Restoration.

[jingle.boy]

Why only 5?

Yeah, I got 45 or so to rank.  Rather than starting a new thread, I'll post/follow here, and do that sometime in the middle of the month.  Still have a few recent releases to figure out where they will likely fit.

Top 5 is pretty much set though:

1. Vanden Plas: Chronicles Of The Immortals - Netherworld
2. Flying Colors: Second Nature
3. Evergrey: Hymns for the Broken
4. Transatlantic: Kaleidescope
5. Anubis: Hitchhiking To Byzantium

[hefdaddy42]

No particular order

Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
Flying Colors - Second Nature
Opeth - Pale Communion
Haken - Restoration (I don't care that it's only an EP)

[TheGreatPretender]

Most of the music I listen to on any given year is catching up from previous years/decades, so I don't listen to too many new albums, but these are my favorites, in no particular order.

Within Temptation - Hydra
Alestorm - Sunset on the Golden Age
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Kobra and the Lotus - High Priestess
Tech N9ne - Strangeulation

One of these is not like the others. 

[RoeDent]

Handy that I've bought exactly 5 albums from this year.

1. Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
2. Flying Colors - Second Nature
3. IQ - The Road of Bones
4. Enchant - The Great Divide
5. Panic Room - Incarnate

[Evermind]

1. IQ - The Road of Bones
2. Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld
3. Opeth - Pale Communion
4. Evergrey - Hymns for the Broken
5. Unisonic - Light of Dawn

This was tough, heard and bought a lot of albums this year. The Endless River still hasn't arrived, so I'll probably change the list if I like it.

[jingle.boy]

This was tough, heard and bought a lot of albums this year. The Endless River still hasn't arrived, so I'll probably change the list if I like it.

Doubt it.

[Sycsa]

This was a really meh year compared to 2013.

[romdrums]

1. Skyharbor- Guiding Lights
2. The Contortionist- Language
3. Fallujah- The Flesh Prevails
4. Distorted Harmony- Chain Reaction
5. Imogen Heap- Sparks (tie), Stealing Axion- Aeons.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Have yet to complete my list but so far i'm happy:

1. Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken
2.
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4.
5.

[TAC]

1. Unisonic- Light Of Dawn
2. Accept-Blind Rage
3. Thoughts Factory- Lost
4. Riot V- Unleash The Fire
5. Mike Lepond's Silent Assassins

I've only had Harmony's Theatre Of Redemption less than a week, but I am loving it. It may hit the Top 5.

[jingle.boy]

1. Unisonic- Light Of Dawn
2. Accept-Blind Rage
3. Thoughts Factory- Lost
4. Riot V- Unleash The Fire
5. Mipe Lepond's Silent Assassins

Oh yeah, forgot about Mipe.  I wasn't overly impressed with it though.

[bosk1]

If you ask me, the world definitely needs more Mipe.

[TAC]

Long live Mipe!!

[King Postwhore]

I Mipe check it out.

[hefdaddy42]

I Mipe not.

[TAC]

 

[bosk1]

No particular orderPink Floyd - The Endless River

Oh, I missed the release on that!  How is it?

[Nekov]

No particular orderPink Floyd - The Endless River

Oh, I missed the release on that!  How is it?

It's a nice album to have as background music while you're doing something

[Outcrier]

Didn't hear many albums from this year but, anyway, here they are:

1. Run The Jewels - RTJ2
2. Aphex Twin - Syro
3. Freddie Gibbs/Madlib - Piñata

[lonestar]

IQ- The Road of Bones
Flaming Row- Mirage- A Portrayal of Figures
Intervals- A Voice Within
Thoughts Factory- Lost
Destrage- Are You Kidding Me? No.

[BlackInk]

I didn't think I had heard that many albums this year, but when I counted there were more than I expected.

1. Haken - Restoration EP
2. Anathema - Distant Satellites
3. White Moth Black Butterfly - One Thousand Wings
4. Skyharbor - Guiding Lights
5. Kadawatha - The World of Hipocracy

Meshuggah also released a re-mastered or something version of their 'I' EP this year. I don't know if that would count, but that's a really freakin' cool 20 min beast.

I also saw that many of you had Flying Colors new on your list, so I gave it a try, and I didn't like it. It wasn't bad, just very very average.

[Anguyen92]

1. Sevendust's Time Travelers and Bonfires
2. Big Wreck's Ghosts
3. Foo Fighters' Sonic Highways
4. Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators' World on Fire
5. California Breed's California Breed

Great year for me.  I've listened to 28 albums released in 2014.  Some were great (Black Stone Cherry), some were dull (Coldplay), some I found weird (Nickelback), and some I found surprisingly good (Linkin Park).

[BlackInk]

... and some I found surprisingly good (Linkin Park).

I feel the oppisite. The Hunting Party was quite the disappointment, very uninspired music.

[Dark Castle]

Albums eh?
Well my real number 1 is Nobel - The River's Rise EP, but here's my top 5 albums:
1. Job For a Cowboy - Sun Eater
2. Kimbra - The Golden Echo
3. Usnea - Random Cosmic Violence
4. Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
5. Behemoth - The Satanist