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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: SoundscapeMN on November 18, 2022, 09:44:14 PM
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Ok, so I've thought about it, and instead of waiting and trying to think back and forth how to do this, let's just start doing this fun exercise now.
Like The Retro Albums of the Year Topic (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=56309.0), we're going to start with 1965.
I thought it might be neat to go by decade or just a random year, but that may throw some people off.
So we'll do the normal year-by-year leading up to 2020 (or 2021 or 2022? I think there was a topic started by Litho for 2021 already?)
edit: in a change of plans, we're going to do this RANDOMLY.
-VOTING and to include some kind of cumulative VOTING number for the lists?
I or someone else? (Reaper?) would like to try doing that.
I'm hoping that won't require a large amount of time to do, and won't hurt/delay the flow of updating the next year to post your next year's list.
-How many count?..again, the Voting part to me at least, is secondary, but I guess we can start at say your Top 30 songs/tracks get counted. Any songs/tracks placed lower than 30 won't count towards the Voting results.
-I guess depending on how long some people's lists get, the number of songs to count could change (maybe up to 50?)
But if you don't rank your songs/tracks in a numerical list (you don't have to post them Ranked if you don't want to), than your songs/tracks won't likely go towards the results of the Voting for that year.
-What songs/tracks are eligible? I'm not going to do any extensive amount of research. I'm going to trust the songs/track you list were released in that Calendar Year either on an album, a single, ep, compilation, or on a Soundtrack, etc.
-How Many Songs/Tracks can be included per Artist/Album? the more I think about this, there should be no limit. The point being there are years or even albums that include several songs/tracks from the same artist that you'll feel strongly about (Close to the Edge and And You And I, for example).
-"Songs" vs "Tracks" and Suites, etc: A "Track" is more general and includes instrumental recordings. "Song" implies there is *Singing* which of course many tracks do not, etc. If you want to include a Suite (that includes more than 1 track) or whatever in your list, by all means. It'll be counted as 1 Song/Track in the voting.
-How often will the year be updated? I guess 1-2 times per week depending on time. I recall on the Albums thread, some people would reply with a few lists, many weeks later even. That's fine. However, those lists may not be included in the Voting results since they are submitted after the Voting results are already published (or maybe an update can be made later to the voting results?).
Here's a few resources for anyone needing them (I'll try and link these for each year):
1965
Billboard
Singles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1965
Albums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_200_number-one_albums_of_1965
Rateyourmusic
Singles: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/1965/
Albums: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1965/
RANKING SITE:
https://www.pubmeeple.com/ranking-engine (https://www.pubmeeple.com/ranking-engine).
That all being said.
Here's my list for 1965. I'll totally confess, my 1965 lists looks/feels like a Beatles Best of + others in some ways. 1965, while has many songs I know, not that many that I totally love. Like? yeah, but my #1 and my #22 say..I don't feel incredibly different about. I do enjoy this period from The Beatles, but my favorite era from The Beatles, like many, came in the next couple of years.
1. The Beatles - Day Tripper
2. Nina Simone - Sinnerman
3. The Mama's and the Pappa's - California Dreamin'
4. The Who - The Kids Are Alright
5. The Beatles - Nowhere Man
6. Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
7. The Beatles - We Can Work it Out
8. The Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul
9. The Who - I Can't Explain
10. The Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
11. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
12. The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe in Magic?
13. The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
14. The Beatles - Eight Days a Week
15. The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda
16. The Beatles - Help!
17. The Beatles - In My Life
18. The Beatles - Norwegian Wood
19. The Who - Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
20. The Beatles - Ticket to Ride
21. The Yardbirds - For Your Love
22. The Beach Boys - Barbara Ann
23. The Beatles - Yesterday
24. The Beatles - The Night Before
25. The Beatles - Michelle
26. The Beatles - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
27. The Beach Boys - When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
28. The Moody Blues - Go Now
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I think there was a topic started by Litho for 2021 already?
Yeah, but by the time we get there, 1.5 years or so will have passed since that thread, so it'll be worth reevaluating anyway to see what has had staying power. I know, having glanced at mine again recently, that several songs have rocketed up the list since posting it. And some people probably missed the thread the first time around.
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Leaving off the 50s and early 60s is going to be painful for mine, that leaves out so much classic jazz. I know this is a rock/metal-centric forum, but I wonder if there could be interest in tacking on some earlier years for people who are inclined.
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Given this isn't necessarily confined to a total years thing, yeah I suppose we could include those.
Personally, while I know music from that era (Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Bill Haley, Sinatra, Elvis, etc) I might find it hard to come up with a reasonable list. Sure, early Rock N Roll and Jazz (Brubeck and Miles Davis off the top of my head), I know. But I definitely wonder if making those lists would take me more time, or even ranking the songs might.
And your point about this is a Metal and Prog forum, and the numbers for those years could be pretty thin overall for participation.
I guess maybe it's something others can chime in on. I recall on the Albums Topic, there were at least a few people who struggled with making albums lists from the mid/late 60's, 70's and even 80's to an extent. So, 50's and early 60's?..could be much the same for those people.
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Hard for me to participate this early... I don't have much that goes back before Zeppelin I. And the individual songs that I do have from this era I didn't track the Year Released in the meta data. Guess I'll peruse the Billboard list and see what I come up with.
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Yeah, I’m not gonna have a lot to go off of in the 60s either other than some Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel stuff. The only 1965 album I own is Rubber Soul. I’ll go with:
1. The Beatles - Nowhere Man
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14. The Beatles - Eight Days a Week
That one threw me (I'm even more of a Beatle history buff than Queen :o) as it was released in December '64 from the 'Beatles For Sale' LP. So I made sure I double checked, and sure enough, it was released in the States in February of '65 (#1 of course) and appeared on 'Beatles VI' in July (oh how Capitol releases still confuse me).
I learn something new everyday.
Wow....#2 was an obscure one for me.
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I'll post a list soon, don't much much from 65 but things will start hitting their stride 69 (nice) onward.
For the ranking I'll gladly do it this time but the lists have to be number in "1. Artist - Song" format. One of the biggest challenges when I was trying to put the cumulative album ranking was that people formatted their albums in various formats which it made it hard to organize.
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I'll post a list soon, don't much much from 65 but things will start hitting their stride 69 (nice) onward.
For the ranking I'll gladly do it this time but the lists have to be number in "1. Artist - Song" format. One of the biggest challenges when I was trying to put the cumulative album ranking was that people formatted their albums in various formats which it made it hard to organize.
I agree. It happens with the New Release Calendar frequently. I know everyone likes to format things their own way, but when it comes to contributing to a larger amount of text, it really makes things much easier and less time consuming if the submissions are in 1 standard, uniform, format.
If you can do it, thank you. The only issue being then is if you just want to periodically post the previous year(s) Voting results after I change the subject to vote for the next year.
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Norwegian Wood or Yesterday for me, tough call
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I needed wiki...
Rolling Stones-Get Off Of My Cloud
Rolling Stones-The Last Time
The Byrds-Mr. Tambourine Man
The Byrds-Turn Turn Turn
The Yardbirds-Still I'm Sad
The Yardbirds-Train Kept a Rollin'
The Yardbirds-Heart Full Of Soul
The Animals-Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
The Animals-It's My Life
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Scanning through the singles lists, there are other songs I recognize the titles of and am sure I'd recall them if I heard them, and probably plenty of others I don't even consciously know the names of, but have heard numerous times. But this a fair amount of time anyway to refresh my mind on some of these albums with some skimming, so ignorance will have to remain bliss on a lot of those. I suspect as the years go by I'm going to rely less and less on RYM and Billboard's lists to remind me of songs and just use my own ratings. Which aren't even helpful enough, there's tons of stuff I've heard and just never got around to rating.
Julie London is crazy underrated. She had three good albums that year. I feel very weird putting her above Trane, but so be it. There's a live version of the song that's much more uptempo and changes the feel, but is quite good as well. Ranking jazz compared to pop/rock/Motown is just a headache, so the specifics of the ordering in general are pretty loose and they tend to clump up in tiers by style at times.
1: Julie London - "You'd Be Nice To Come Home To"
2: John Coltrane - "Part I - Acknowledgement"
3: Vince Guaraldi - "Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental)"
4: Stevie Wonder - "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
5: Wayne Shorter - "Mahjong"
6: Grant Green - "Django"
7: Thelonious Monk - "Teo"
8: Horace Silver - "Calcutta Cutie"
9: McCoy Tyner - "Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool"
10: Milt Jackson - "That's In"
11: Lou Christie - "Lightnin' Strikes"
12: The Temptations - "My Girl"
13: Joe Henderson - "Short Story"
14: Dizzy Gillespie - "Trinidad, Hello"
15: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - "The Core"
16: Dexter Gordon - "Darn That Dream"
17: Miles Davis - "Iris"
18: Lionel Hampton - "Pick a Rib"
19: Oscar Peterson - "Goodbye J.D."
20: Hank Mobley - "East of the Village"
21: Jimmy Smith - "Hackensack"
22: The Mamas & The Papas - "California Dreamin'"
23: The Beatles - "Yesterday"
24: Diana Ross & The Supremes - "Stop! in the Name of Love"
25: Ella Fitzgerald - "Something's Gotta Give"
26: Nina Simone - "I Put a Spell On You"
27: Four Tops - "It's the Same Old Song"
28: The Sonics - "Have Love Will Travel"
29: The Beach Boys - "Help Me, Rhonda"
30: Hamza El-Din - "The Gondola"
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I have to wonder if people are just waiting 'til we hit the late 60s/early 70s and the first true prog, hard rock, and metal albums start coming out, or if people are taking time putting together lists. I have an unfair advantage in having heard a truckload of old jazz, but I'd think some of the "elderly" forum members would know a lot more radio hits from this era than me, including stuff that isn't on the top 100 lists.
I'm going to feel embarrassed once we hit the 70s and lots of classic rock radio hits push out iconic prog albums, because I've heard tons of classic prog enough to know I like the album, but not enough to pick individual songs, and tons of those radio staples I've never heard a full album from, or maybe only a compilation. This is a whole different beast from the album one last year.
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I actually was thinking about some of that issue. I happen to enjoy a lot of artists that have like 1 or 2 tunes that charted in the 70's and 80's, that when making a list of favorite songs from each year, I wouldn't think of.
It's a different way to consider ranking a list.
It actually supports the way the YouTube Channel Tastes Like Music (https://www.youtube.com/@TastesLikeMusic) by them making a few lists, 1 of songs that chartered on Billboard, and 1 of songs that did not.
I dunno, i suspect I will want to make a redux of many of my lists down the road. Per I am making Spotify playlists for mine (and likely some YouTube since there are a lot of songs/albums/artists not on Spotify unfortunately).
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Unranked... just the ones from the Billboard list:
Four Tops - "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"
The Rolling Stones - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
The Righteous Brothers - "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"
The Beatles - "Help!"
The Temptations - "My Girl"
The Righteous Brothers - "Unchained Melody"
The Byrds - "Mr. Tambourine Man"
The Beatles - "Ticket to Ride"
The Supremes - "Back in My Arms Again"
Barbara Lewis - "Baby I'm Yours"
The Yardbirds - "For Your Love"
The Beach Boys - "California Girls"
The Beatles - "Eight Days a Week"
The Kinks - "All Day and All of the Night"
Martha and the Vandellas - "Nowhere to Run"
The Yardbirds - "Heart Full of Soul"
The Searchers - "Love Potion No. 9"
Four Tops - "It's the Same Old Song"
The Animals - "We Gotta Get out of This Place"
The Lovin' Spoonful - "Do You Believe in Magic"
Little Anthony and the Imperials - "Take Me Back"
Marvin Gaye - "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"
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I'm just waiting for 1974. :)
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So, I've decided instead of going through Year-by-Year chronologically from 1965, instead in the interest of participation, to pick years RANDOMLY.
So I'm doing that with a Random Number Generator (from 1965-2021)
I did that the other day, and the Year 2000 came up.
My favorite songs/tracks from the Year 2000 is largely filled with a handful of my favorite albums of that year/of all-time in some ways. Kevin Gilbert, Pain of Salvation and Fates Warning albums have a large number of songs I really love, thus I couldn't see not including them.
Also it seems between Transatlantic, Fates Warning, Spock's Beard and The Flower Kings, there were several very notable prog Epics in the Year 2000, which it seems started a pattern, that wasnt as present in the previous decade. Why? unsure, but maybe the Prog/Prog Metal scene started to desire to write long pieces again?..even say Godspeed You Black Emperor of course released the Lift Your Skinny Fists album that had 4 of them, 1 that is on my list "Storm."
2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_200_number-one_albums_of_2000
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/2000/
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2000/
1 Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
2 Fates Warning - Still Remains
3 Pain of Salvation - In the Flesh
4 Kevin Gilbert - Water Under the Bridge
5 Kevin Gilbert - Imagemaker
6 Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing
7 Pain of Salvation - Her Voices
8 Transatlantic - All of the Above
9 Kevin Gilbert - The Way Back Home
10 Kevin Gilbert - Best Laid Plans
11 Fates Warning - Something from Nothing
12 Enchant - What to Say
13 Porcupine Tree - Shesmovedon
14 Pain of Salvation - Reconciliation
15 Mew - King Christian
16 Kevin Gilbert - A Long Day's Life
17 sElf - Ordinaire
18 Transatlantic - My New World
19 Transatlantic - We All Need Some Light
20 Doves - Break Me Gently
21 King's X - Charlie Sheen
22 Kevin Gilbert - The City of the Sun
23 The Flower Kings - I am the Sun Pt. 1
24 Fates Warning - Pieces of Me
25 Porcupine Tree - The Rest Will Flow
26 Doves - Rise
27 Pain of Salvation - Used
28 Kevin Gilbert - Staring into Nothing
29 Fates Warning - One
30 Porcupine Tree - Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It's Recycled
31 sElf - Trunk Fulla Amps
32 Enchant - Rough Draft
33 Steve Stevens - Flamenco A Go GO
34 Pain of Salvation - King of Loss
35 Fates Warning - So
36 White Willow - Paper Moon
37 Kevin Gilbert - Suite Fugue (Dance of the A&R Men)
38 U2 - New York
39 Klimt 1918 - Swallow's Supremacy
40 King's X - Smudge
41 Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
42 Cloud Cult - Where it Starts
43 Spiral Architect - Insect
44 Mew - Am I Wry? No
45 King's X - Marshmellow Field
46 Kevin Gilbert - Parade
47 King's X - Move Me (Part 2)
48 Spock's Beard - At the End of the Day
49 Mew - 156
50 I Can't Believe It's Not Rock - Staging a Traffic Jam
51 VAST - Free
52 sElf - What a Fool Believes
53 The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
54 Looking-Glass-Self - Stigmata
55 Pain of Salvation - Idioglossia
56 Porcupine Tree - How Is Your Life Today?
57 Oceansize - Amputee
58 Lehto & Wright - Jerry's Beaver/The Eavesdropper/Con Casey's Jig
59 Platypus - The Tower
60 The Flower Kings - Chicken Farmer Song
61 Spock's Beard - Thoughts, Part II
62 Galactic Cowboys - Life And Times
63 Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Storm
64 Under the Sun - This Golden Voyage
65 Oceansize - Saturday Morning Breakfast Show
66 Chroma Key - Another Permanent Address
67 Mew - Saliva
68 Galactic Cowboys - A Different Way
69 ON - Shifting Skin
70 At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissor
71 Oceansize - Ebb
72 Sculptured - Washing My Hands Of It
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Oh man, 2000 is a loaded year. Gonna take some time to properly rank some of these.
So, do instrumental tracks count as “songs”?
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Yeah, generating the years randomly does seem like a good idea, it appears like a bunch of people were probably just waiting to bypass these early years. Also keeps everyone on their toes and unable to plan ahead, which is a little vexing, but keeps things exciting.
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Just want to bump this back up. I imagine people are realizing like I am, that it's a bit of work, but I've been enjoying curating my own list.
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Figured ranking was kind of pointless if we’re not getting more participation. Here are my favorites in no particular order (but you can kind of tell by the order too):
Transatlantic - My New World
Transatlantic - We All Need Some Light
Transatlantic - All Of The Above
Kip Winger - Cross
Kip Winger - Landslide
Kip Winger - Broken Open
Kip Winger - Resurrection
Spock’s Beard - The Great Nothing
Spock’s Beard - At The End Of The Day
Mike Keneally and Beer for Dolphins - Kedgeree
Chroma Key - Another Permanent Address
Enchant - Paint the Picture
The Flower Kings - Chicken Farmer Song
King’s X - Charlie Sheen
Pearl Jam - Light Years
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Geddy Lee - Grace To Grace
Peter Gabriel - Downside-Up
U2 - Kite
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Mr. Big - Superfantastic
Nickel Creek - Out of the Woods
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I’ll revisit this on the weekend, but I may not actually rank things, just rhyme off some of my favourite 5* tunes.
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I follow why ranking songs could take some time..even requiring you to revisit some.
Maybe the whole voting thing shouldn't be a priority?..unsure.
I can say, I have already begun the next year, and am finding it may not require as much time as the year 2000 for me, maybe partially due to the era.
I did make playlists for my Songs/Tracks on YouTube and Spotify. Although especially on YouTube, it is odd how if you play it on Shuffle/Random, it will play some multiple times, while others never get played, lol.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1xsoG3yPd5yuBnVgFvR9Bj
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFNc6ga_mjMvA8-rIRDrHJiPdMrDimdQi
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I follow why ranking songs could take some time..even requiring you to revisit some.
Yeah, I'm finding at least four categories of songs as I assemble it. a: Singles that I've never even heard the albums they're from. b: Songs that instantly come to mind and are obvious choices as list candidates. c: Albums where I like several songs, but am unsure which I want representing them. d: Albums I know I like, but can't necessarily think of any standouts without listening to the whole thing again. Relistening to various selections in category C is the stage I'm currently in and what's been taking the longest. And there are obviously a lot of albums in C & D I'm not just going to be able to even consider due to time limitations. Oh well. My list is getting pretty close now though.
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What a monster year. Classic song after song on here, and with a decent number I could easily put half the album on here, but for the sake of variety I'm going to continue to enforce my usual one song per artist rule. I imagine most years in this decade will be this way, it was pretty formative for my tastes. I tried not to think too hard about the order, because I'd be here until '23 if I did.
1: Ayreon - "2084"
2: Lacuna Coil - "Stars"
3: Nightingale - "I Return"
4: Hans Zimmer - "Honor Him"
5: Nevermore - "The River Dragon Has Come"
6: Sonata Arctica - "San Sebastian"
7: Sade - "Somebody Already Broke My Heart"
8: Aghora - "Immortal Bliss"
9: Deftones - "Change (in the House of Flies)"
10: Chicane - "Saltwater"
11: Niacin - "Things Ain't Like They Used To Be"
12: Sara Evans - "Every Little Kiss"
13: Smashing Pumpkins - "The Everlasting Gaze"
14: Thalarion - "A Herald of Sorrow & Wretchedness"
15: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - "March (Vagif Month)"
16: In Flames - "Another Day in Quicksand"
17: Gambale/Hamm/Smith - "Katahdin"
18: Symphony X - "Evolution (The Grand Design)"
19: Sentenced - "Killing Me, Killing You"
20: Nickel Creek - "Ode To a Butterfly"
21: Armageddon - "Embrace the Mystery"
22: Pain of Salvation - "In the Flesh"
23: The Gathering - "Rollercoaster"
24: Galactic Cowboys - "Life and Times"
25: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Sleep"
26: raison d'etre - "The Hidden Hallows"
27: AP2 - "My Sympathies"
28: Iron Maiden - "Brave New World"
29: Halford - "Silent Screams"
30: Slash's Snakepit - "Life's Sweet Drug"
31: Stuck Mojo - "The Ward Is My Shepherd"
32: Linkin Park - "Runaway"
33: Spiritual Beggars - "Left Brain Ambassadors"
34: Michelle Branch - "Goodbye To You"
35: Alan Silvestri - "Castaway Main Title"
36: Matchbox Twenty - "Bent"
37: Impellitteri - "Fear No Evil"
38: Gardenian - "Selfproclaimed Messiah"
39: Planet X - "Clonus"
40: Flowing Tears - "The One I Drowned"
41: King Crimson - "The ConstruKction of Light"
42: Radiohead - "Everything In Its Right Place"
43: Racer X - "Snakebite"
44: Transatlantic - "We All Need Some Light Now"
45: Enya - "Only Time"
46: A Perfect Circle - "Judith"
47: Covenant - "Like Tears in Rain"
48: Icon of Coil - "You Just Died"
49: Ulver - "The Future Sound of Music"
50: Apoptygma Berserk - "Eclipse"
51: Aynsley Lister - "Angel O' Mine"
52: Playpus - "Oh God"
53: Stacie Orrico - "Don't Look At Me"
54: Iris - "The Picture"
55: Paul Gilbert - "Rosalinda Told Me"
56: Nichole Nordeman - "Tremble"
57: The Echoing Green - "Defender"
58: Ram-Zet - "The Fall"
59: Stratovarius - "A Million Light Years Away"
59: Mudvayne - "Death Blooms"
60: Jedi Mind Tricks - "Muerte"
61: OutKast - "So Fresh, So Clean"
62: King's X - "Fish Bowl Man"
63: Morbid Angel - "Opening of the Gates"
64: Quo Vadis - "On the Shores of Ithika"
65: White Willow - "The Reach"
66: Immolation - "Father, You're Not a Father"
67: Behemoth - "Christians To the Lions"
68: 3 Doors Down - "Duck and Run"
69: Eric Johnson - "The Boogie King"
70: Don Johnson Big Band - "Milano"
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Ok, just for the fun of it...not a proper ranking, and I self-imposed a one song-per-artist rule too. Kind of an interesting year, I enjoyed a few more modern-sounding (for the time, at least) metal bands too.
Fates Warning - Still Remains
Nevermore - Inside Four Walls
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Dark Tranquillity - At Loss for Words
Spiritual Beggars - Sedated
Deftones - Change (In the House of Flies)
Iron Maiden - Ghost of the Navigator
Porcupine Tree - The Rest Will Flow
Angel Dust - Still I'm Bleeding
Everon - Fantasma suite (cheating a bit, since it's separate tracks)
Enchant - What To Say
Symphony X - Communion and the Oracle
The Gathering - Saturnine
Novembre - Onirica East
Misery Loves Co. - Your Vision Was Never Mine to Share
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Smashing Pumpkins - I of the Mourning
Geddy Lee - Grace to Grace
Theatre of Tragedy - Image
HIM - Right Here In My Arms
Keith Caputo - Selfish
Zeromancer - Something for the Pain
Apoptygma Berzerk - Starsign
Disturbed - Voices
earthtone9 - Yellow Fever
Fuel - Hemorrhage
Lifehouse - Hanging By a Moment
Coldplay - Shiver
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Dark Tranquillity - At Loss for Words
Angel Dust - Still I'm Bleeding
Novembre - Onirica East
Theatre of Tragedy - Image
Zeromancer - Something for the Pain
Kind of wanted something from these albums on the list, but nothing was salient enough on the tracklists to make it without putting them on again.
Fuel - Hemorrhage
Lifehouse - Hanging By a Moment
Coldplay - Shiver
Disturbed - Voices
Thought about these, they're some of the better mainstream singles of that year, but just not enough juice to get onto my list.
Apoptygma Berzerk - Starsign
This was an album where it was either that or "Eclipse". I listened to both again and "Eclipse" just edged it out. And then we have eight other of the same albums, just also different tracks. I need to make a note to schedule my next roulette at a time when you're not busy. :lol
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Dark Tranquillity - At Loss for Words
Angel Dust - Still I'm Bleeding
Novembre - Onirica East
Theatre of Tragedy - Image
Zeromancer - Something for the Pain
Kind of wanted something from these albums on the list, but nothing was salient enough on the tracklists to make it without putting them on again.
Would love to hear your thoughts on the albums....Dark Tranquillity's Haven is a big favorite of mine. I had enjoyed how they'd mixed up their sound with Projector, and I liked this one even better. A little more commercial, perhaps, especially with the keyboard sounds. I find the quality of the songs quite consistent, and it wasn't super-easy to find a standout. I picked the closer as I love the mood it creates. The Angel Dust's record is fantastic too. Again, I could've picked a bunch of songs. I love the almost-gothic-metal sounding "I Need you" from it, too...As for Novembre, always had a soft spot for them. This song is such a interesting combo of black, death, dark, and whatever else ;) Zeromancer I discovered a couple of years after I witnessed a live performance of the previous incarnation of (at least some members of) the band, Seigmen. They were a supporting band. Such a cool show, even if very short. I couldn't really find their albums, though. Zeromancer's debut, Clone Your Lover, had a bit more of a NIN/Commercial Industrial vibe along with the gothic. This particular song shares some similarity with the sound Paradise Lost were going for around that time too.
Fuel - Hemorrhage
Lifehouse - Hanging By a Moment
Coldplay - Shiver
Disturbed - Voices
Thought about these, they're some of the better mainstream singles of that year, but just not enough juice to get onto my list.
Yep, lots of good mainstream stuff that year. Speaking of which, I see you have Matchbox Twenty in your list. Many good memories of Mad Season...I should have included something from it. Shiver is literally the first Coldplay song I've heard. Saw the music video on TV when (clearly) they were pretty much unknown. My local record store was selling the Parachutes CD at a special "new artist launch" price, so I went for it. It was kind of fun to see the record explode when Yellow was released. I still like it a fair bit.
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Helloween-The Dark Ride
Helloween-We Damn The Night
Iron Maiden-The Thin Line Between Love And Hate
Michael Schenker- At The End Of The Day
Alice Cooper-Sanctuary
UFO-Fool's Gold
UFO-Midnight Train
Fates Warning-Something From Nothing
Fates Warning-Still Remains
Hammerfall-Keep The Flame Burning
Dio-Losing My Insanity
Armored Saint-Upon My Departure
King Diamond-Peace Of Mind (aka Andy Laroque's tribute to Michael Schenker)
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Would love to hear your thoughts on the albums....
Haven is pretty much the album that created the modern sound they've been milking since then. I like the addition of synths, and the whole album is cool, but it's just more homogeneous than their 90s albums. The songs start to get more individual personality by their mid-late 00s releases again. I just haven't listened to that Angel Dust album as much as the others of theirs in that era, so I'm less familiar with it. Most of the power metal I've favored in the past couple decades has been on the heavier, darker side, and they certainly fit into that. Novembre is a band that I kind of like, just not quite as much as a lot of their peer bands. What bugs me most is their guitar tone, I've heard pretty much all their albums, and it's just consistently too thin and brittle for me. I tend to like a lot of the industrial and electronic experimentation bands were trying in the 90s and early 00s. Just not enough time with that ToT album to recall favorites. The one that stands out from that era most is "Motion" on the next album, where I like both it and the Funker Vogt remix. Zeromancer is another case of just not having heard that album as much as the next couple from them.
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I'll add mine in a couple days when I'm home. How many songs are we supposed to be listing? I thought it was top 20... ?
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I think the top 30 count towards a compiled rank list, but then you can add as many others as you want, they just won't be tallied. Although if we don't get enough participation it might be moot anyway if there's not much overlap.
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Man, there just isn't a lot in my library for 2000 - only 25 or so studio albums - most of them in the good-but-far-from-great category. Here's what I got (in no particular order). Vanden Plas / Rainmaker was the SOTY for me though. That much I know.
Ayreon / Chaos
Ayreon / Dawn Of A Million Souls
Ayreon / Into The Black Hole
Demons & Wizards / Fiddler On The Green
Elegy / Force Majeure
Erik Norlander / Rome is Burning
Ice Age / Musical Cages
Ice Age / The Lhasa Road (No Surrender)
Ice Age / The Blood Of Ages
Ice Age / When You're Ready
Ice Age / To Say Goodbye, Part III: Still Here
Iq / The Wrong Side of Weird
Iron Maiden / The Wicker Man
Iron Maiden / Ghost Of The Navigator
Jørn / The Day The Earth Caught Fire
Jørn / Forever Yours
Magnitude 9 / The End Of Days
Rhapsody / Dawn Of Victory
Rhapsody / Dargor, Shadowlord Of The Black Mountain
Rhapsody / Holy Thunderforce
Spock's Beard / At the End of the Day
Symphony X / Evolution (The Grand Design)
Symphony X / Communion And The Oracle
Symphony X / A Fool`s Paradise
Transatlantic / My New World
Vanden Plas / Rainmaker
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I think the top 30 count towards a compiled rank list, but then you can add as many others as you want, they just won't be tallied. Although if we don't get enough participation it might be moot anyway if there's not much overlap.
Top 50 is my counting but the songs must be formatted in this manner to be counted: 1. Artist - Song
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Vanden Plas / Rainmaker was the SOTY for me though. That much I know.
This is a fantastic song - one of my favorites from Vanden Plas, for sure. But isn't it from 1997 (The God Thing)?
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Vanden Plas / Rainmaker was the SOTY for me though. That much I know.
This is a fantastic song - one of my favorites from Vanden Plas, for sure. But isn't it from 1997 (The God Thing)?
It is. But it's on a live album that was released in 2000. If live versions count, that'll give me some more options for some years for sure.
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Vanden Plas / Rainmaker was the SOTY for me though. That much I know.
This is a fantastic song - one of my favorites from Vanden Plas, for sure. But isn't it from 1997 (The God Thing)?
Well fuck... I guess it snuck in here because of Spirit of Live. Clearly I wasn't paying much attention - I was even thinking "I'm sure Rainmaker was a 90s song" :lolpalm.
Ok, that said, it'd be a tossup between At the End of the Day, and Dawn of A Million Souls as my SOTY
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Ah, forgot about Spirit of Live! I don't think I've ever checked it out, actually...
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Ah, forgot about Spirit of Live! I don't think I've ever checked it out, actually...
Great cover of Kiss of Death.
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I don't have a ton of songs for 2000, 12 made the list:
1. Porcupine Tree - Last Chance To Evacuate The Planet Earth Before It Is Recyce
2. Coldplay - Trouble
3. Limp Bizkit - My Way
4. Sunny Day Real Estate - Fool In The Photograph
5. Limp Bizkit - The One
6. Sunny Day Real Estate - Faces In Disguise
7. Coldplay - We Never Change
8. A Perfect Circle - Orestes
9. Geddy Lee - My Favourite Headache
10. Mark Knopfler - Prairie Wedding
11. Amoeba - Traces
12. Ulver - Nowhere / Catastrophe
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Inspired by our conversation here, I went back to The God Thing, and Rainmaker in particular...first off, Fire Blossom...what a great instrumental intro piece. One of the rare cases where it actually deserves its spot, it really builds up the opening of the album. And Rainmaker, yes, it's definitely one of my favorite prog-metal songs from that mid-to-late 90s wave of bands that followed I&W. That and Soul Survives, from their debut. They really nail that mix of great melodies and exciting instrumental stuff.
12. Ulver - Nowhere / Catastrophe
That's another great one! As is Perdition City in general.
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Ok here's 25 songs. I gave up trying to rank them and went by iTunes plays aside from the top few. There will be years with more bands, but there will probably always be repeat bands.
1. Fates Warning - Still Remains
2. Fates Warning - Something from Nothing
3. Symphony X - Communion and the Oracle
4. Borknagar - Colossus
5. Symphony X - Rediscovery, Part II: The New Mythology
6. Fates Warning - One
7. Madsword - Time in the Ice
8. Symphony X - Fallen
9. Symphony X - Egypt
10. Symphony X - Absence of Light
11. Ayreon - Dawn of a Million Souls
12. Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man
13. Angel Dust - The One You Are
14. Angel Dust - Enjoy
15. Enchant - What to Say
16. Geddy Lee - Grace to Grace
17. Fates Warning - Pieces of Me
18. Fates Warning - So
19. Enchant - Traces
20. Enchant - Juggling Knives
21. Symphony X - Evolution (The Grand Design)
22. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
23. Iron Maiden - Blood Brothers
24. Enchant - Paint the Picture
25. Geddy Lee - My Favorite Headache
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1984
So the random number generator came up with 1984. A year, like, likely many of the years from the 80's I suspect for me, I find I enjoy many American Top 40/Friday Night Videos/Billboard Hot 100 tracks. Still, many "Album Tracks" are on my list, and some songs that came out as singles or b-sides in 1984, but were on albums from 1983 or 1985.
Fun and deep list though
Billboard
Singles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1984
Albums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_200_number-one_albums_of_1984 (only a few on the list, and 1 of them wasn't released in 1984)
Rateyourmusic
Singles: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/1984/
Albums: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1984/
1 Pat Metheny - Yolanda, You Learn
2 Prince - Computer Blue
3 Pat Metheny - First Circle
4 Rush - Between the Wheels
5 Rush - Afterimage
6 U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
7 Marillion - Fugazi
8 Fates Warning - Damnation
9 NRG - Tired Old Man
10 U2 - A Sort of Homecoming
11 Marillion - Cinderella Search
12 Laura Branigan - Self Control
13 Rush - Kid Gloves
14 The Pointer Sisters - Automatic
15 Rush - Distant Early Warning
16 Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good
17 Rush - Red Sector A
18 Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
19 a-ha - Take on Me
20 King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
21 Prince - When Doves Cry
22 Philip Bailey and Phil Collins - Easy Lover
23 Wham! - Everything She Wants
24 Queensryche - Take Hold of the Flame
25 NRG - Masques
26 The Police - King of Pain
27 Kenny Loggins - I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)
28 Scandal - The Warrior
29 Hall and Oates - Out of Touch
30 Marillion - Assassing
31 Duran Duran - The Wild Boys
32 NRG - If Ever Rain Will Fall
33 Wham! - Careless Whisper
34 Bruce Springsteen - Bobby Jean
35 U2 - Bad
36 Nightranger - Sister Christian
37 Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield
38 Tears for Fears - Mothers Talk
39 Huey Lewis and the News - The Heart of Rock and Roll
40 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears in My Eyes
41 Sade - Smooth Operator
42 Prince - Take Me With U
43 Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
44 Rush - The Body Electric
45 Lionel Ritchie - Hello
46 Deniece Williams - Let's Hear it for the Boy
47 Banarama - Cruel Summer
48 Huey Lewis and the News - Heart and Soul
49 The Commodores - Nightshift
50 Bruce Springsteen - Cover Me
51 Prince - I would Die For U
52 NRG - When Strangers Part
53 Huey Lewis and the News - If This Is It
54 The Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
55 NRG - Staring Into Nothing
56 Duran Duran - New Moon on Monday
57 John Lennon - Nobody Told Me
58 Wham! - Last Christmas
59 Depeche Mode - People Are People
60 The Go-Go's - Head Over Heels
61 Teena Marie - Lovergirl
62 Marillion - Punch & Judy
63 Huey Lewis and the News - Walking on a Thin Line
64 Genesis - That's All
65 Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor!
66 John Waite - Missing You
67 Duran Duran - The Reflex
68 Pat Benatar - We Belong
69 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
70 Weird Al Yankovic - Midnight Star
71 Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
72 Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
73 Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
74 Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
75 Bruce Springsteen - I'm on Fire
76 The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang
77 Animotion - Obsession
78 Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record Player)
79 The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
80 Marillion - Incubus
81 Weird Al Yankovic - That Boy Could Dance
82 Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
83 Fates Warning - Night on Brocken
84 Van Halen - Panama
85 Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
86 The Cars - Drive
87 Bon Jovi - Runaway
88 Queensryche - Warning
89 Queensryche - N M 156
90 U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
91 New Edition - Mr Telephone Man
92 NRG - Welcome to Suburbia
93 Queen - I Want to Break Free
94 Elton John - I Guess That's Why they Call it the Blues
95 Yes - Leave It
96 Billy Joel - For the Longest Time
97 Ratt - Round and Round
98 Madonna - Borderline
99 NRG - Suitcase Living
100 Pat Metheny - End of the Game
101 Metallica - Creeping Death
102 Hall & Oates - Adult Education
103 Pat Metheny - Mas Alla (Beyond)
104 Queensryche - En Force
105 Fates Warning - Buried Alive
106 NRG - Morning Light
107 New Edition - Cool It Now
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I had more songs than I thought. :)
1. Rush - The Enemy Within
2. Rush - Between the Wheels
3. Rush - Afterimage
4. Queensryche - No Sanctuary
5. Queensryche - Take Hold of the Flame
6. Queensryche - Roads to Madness
7. Rush - Distant Early Warning
8. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
9. Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
10. Queensryche - Warning
11. Queensryche - NM156
12. Queensryche - En Force
13. Queensryche - Deliverance
14. Queensryche - Child of Fire
15. Queensryche - Before the Storm
16. Yngwie Malmsteen - Icarus Dream Suite
17. Rush - Red Sector A
18. Rush - Kid Gloves
19. Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star
20. Rush - The Body Electric
21. Iron Maiden - Aces High
22. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
23. Dio - Egypt (The Chains Are On)
24. Dio - Last in Line
25. Rush - Red Lenses
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I had more songs than I thought. :)
1. Rush - The Enemy Within
2. Rush - Between the Wheels
3. Rush - Afterimage
4. Queensryche - No Sanctuary
5. Queensryche - Take Hold of the Flame
6. Queensryche - Roads to Madness
7. Rush - Distant Early Warning
8. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
9. Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
10. Queensryche - Warning
11. Queensryche - NM156
12. Queensryche - En Force
13. Queensryche - Deliverance
14. Queensryche - Child of Fire
15. Queensryche - Before the Storm
16. Yngwie Malmsteen - Icarus Dream Suite
17. Rush - Red Sector A
18. Rush - Kid Gloves
19. Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star
20. Rush - The Body Electric
21. Iron Maiden - Aces High
22. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
23. Dio - Egypt (The Chains Are On)
24. Dio - Last in Line
25. Rush - Red Lenses
Even though the Rush is one of my least favorite records, that's a pretty solid list.
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I agree. ;)
Grace Under Pressure is one of my favorite Rush albums though. Not that Rush won't dominate other 80s years. And 70s. Because they totally will. :)
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Nice job Lethean!!!
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I agree. ;)
Grace Under Pressure is one of my favorite Rush albums though. Not that Rush won't dominate other 80s years. And 70s. Because they totally will. :)
You won't see me argue with that ;)
(And yes, Grace Under Pressure is fantastic!)
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I'll try and narrow it down for the thread, but here's a link to my 1984 Spotify playlist I made a few years ago.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1wGYDAki2KymgnMfKceHLU?si=72001a64c62f4c37
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Nice job Lethean!!!
:metal I thought for sure my lack of variety would be mocked.
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Some good stuff in 1984. Gonna artificially limit it to 3 per album:
The Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain
The Blue Nile - Easter Parade
The Blue Nile - Heatwave
The Blue Nile - Regret (a B-side, so four is OK here)
Rush - Distant Early Warning
Rush - Red Sector A
Rush - Between The Wheels
U2 - A Sort of Homecoming
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
U2 - Bad
Phil Collins - Against All Odds
Peter Gabriel - Walk Through The Fire
Talk Talk - Dum Dum Girl
Talk Talk - Such a Shame
Talk Talk - It’s My Life
Marillion - Assassing
Marillion - Jigsaw
Marillion - Cinderella Search
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
King Crimson - Sleepless
King Crimson - Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Pt. III
The Europeans - Burning Inside You
The Europeans - Don’t Give Your Heart to Anybody
The Europeans - Acid Rain
Camel - Pressure Points
Camel - Stationary Traveller
Camel - Long Goodbyes
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Oooo didn't realize a new year came up. I'll have to fill this out when I get home.
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"Owner of a Lonely Heart" -Yes
"Sister Christian" -Night Ranger
"Love Is a Battlefield" - Pat Benatar
"Talking in Your Sleep" - The Romantics
"Runaway" - Bon Jovi
"Radio Gaga" - Queen
"So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" – R.E.M
"Between The Wheel" - Rush
"Take Hold Of The Flame" - Queensryche
"I've Had Enough (Into the Fire)" - KISS
"Alone Again" - Dokken (Into the Fire As as well)
"I Can't Hold Back" - Survivor (Fantastic album)
"The Unforgettable Fire" - U2
"Where the Rose Is Sown" – Big Country
"Perfect Strangers" - Deep Purple
"Time Goes By" – Triumph
"That Was Yesterday" - Foreigner
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"Owner of a Lonely Heart" -Yes
This was from ‘83 I think.
Also, Dokken - Alone Again is a good one that I missed on my list.
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Ok, this time I'm doing more than one per album (max three), so it gets a little deeper. Ranking these loosely at first, based for the most part on favorite band/record. Then alphabetical...
Rush - Between the Wheels
Rush - Afterimage
Rush - Red Sector A
Metallica - Fade to Black
Metallica - Ride the Ligthting
Metallica - Creeping Death
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight
Judas Priest - The Sentinel
Judas Priest - Jawbreaker
Judas Priest - Freewheel Burning
Queensryche - N M 156
Queensryche - Take Hold of the Flame
Queensryche - En Force
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
U2 - Bad
Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star
Yngwie Malmsteen - Evil Eye
Whitesnake - Slow An' Easy
Whitesnake - Love Ain't No Stranger
Marillion - Assassing
Marillion - Incubus
Deep Purple - Knocking At Your Back Door
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Anthrax - Deathrider
Anthrax - Panic
The Cars - Heartbeat City
The Cars - Magic
Armored Saint - March of the Saint
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Bon Jovi - Runaway
Dead Can Dance - In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated
Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumors
Dio - The Last in Line
Europe - Stormwind
Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
Mercyful Fate - A Dangerous Meeting
Pallas - Shock Treatment
Prince - Purple Rain
Ratt - Round and Round
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
Toto - Endless
Triumph - Spellbound
Trouble - The Tempter
Twisted Sister - Burn in Hell
W.A.S.P. - Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)
Y&T - Don't Stop Runnin
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"Owner of a Lonely Heart" -Yes
This was from ‘83 I think.
Also, Dokken - Alone Again is a good one that I missed on my list.
Oops! Yup. The years mix together lol
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"I Can't Hold Back" - Survivor (Fantastic album)
Yes! I missed this one.
1984
So the random number generator came up with 1984. A year, like, likely many of the years from the 80's I suspect for me, I find I enjoy many American Top 40/Friday Night Videos/Billboard Hot 100 tracks. Still, many "Album Tracks" are on my list, and some songs that came out as singles or b-sides in 1984, but were on albums from 1983 or 1985.
26 The Police - King of Pain
Is this one of the singles you are mentioning, being released in 1984? If that counts, I'm definitely including King of Pain too. Fantastic song.
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1984
So the random number generator came up with 1984. A year, like, likely many of the years from the 80's I suspect for me, I find I enjoy many American Top 40/Friday Night Videos/Billboard Hot 100 tracks. Still, many "Album Tracks" are on my list, and some songs that came out as singles or b-sides in 1984, but were on albums from 1983 or 1985.
26 The Police - King of Pain
Is this one of the singles you are mentioning, being released in 1984? If that counts, I'm definitely including King of Pain too. Fantastic song.
Yeah, Synchronicity was 1983, and it looks like it was first a single in the US in 1983 but wasn't released in the UK until 1984. I've been going by album release date, but there will likely be a number of songs released as singles in different years than the album.
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1984
So the random number generator came up with 1984. A year, like, likely many of the years from the 80's I suspect for me, I find I enjoy many American Top 40/Friday Night Videos/Billboard Hot 100 tracks. Still, many "Album Tracks" are on my list, and some songs that came out as singles or b-sides in 1984, but were on albums from 1983 or 1985.
26 The Police - King of Pain
Is this one of the singles you are mentioning, being released in 1984? If that counts, I'm definitely including King of Pain too. Fantastic song.
Yeah, Synchronicity was 1983, and it looks like it was first a single in the US in 1983 but wasn't released in the UK until 1984. I've been going by album release date, but there will likely be a number of songs released as singles in different years than the album.
yeah it's on the rym list #63
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/1984/
but you're correct is it did get released originally i 1983 and of course is on Synchronicity which came out that same year
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/the-police/king-of-pain-tea-in-the-sahara/
Also it didn't end up on my list, but Weird Al of course also had the Parody "King of Suede" on In 3-D the same year, lol.
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Oh wow, I could name a ton of songs from 1984. Scanning through my iTunes, below are the ones I would say are my biggest favorites. And I am going with one per artist, to be a little fair. Many are from my MTV-watching days. :coolio :coolio
The Boys of Summer - Don Henley (one of my 10 favorite songs ever by anyone)
Distant Early Warning - Rush
When Doves Cry - Prince
Bad - U2
Hammer to Fall - Queen
Careless Whisper - Wham!
Night Comes Down - Judas Priest
Panama - Van Halen
It's My Life - Talk Talk
Drive - The Cars
Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy) - Rodger Hodgson
Fade to Black - Metallica
Run Runaway - Slade
Smuggler's Blues - Glenn Frey
Easy Lover - Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
NM 156 - Queensryche
Original Sin - INXS
Powerslave - Iron Maiden
Little Girl World - Tommy Shaw
I Can't Hold Back - Survivor
This World Over - XTC
Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins
Still Loving You - Scorpions
Infatuation - Rod Stewart
Couldn't Stand the Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Don't Answer Me - Alan Parsons Project
Going Down to Liverpool - The Bangles
What's Love Got to Do With It - Tina Turner
Out of Touch - Hall & Oates
Turn to You - The Go-Go's
Do It Again - The Kinks
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Two Sides of Love - Sammy Hagar
Michael Caine - Madness
Killing Time - Triumph
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
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Oh wow, I could name a ton of songs from 1984. Scanning through my iTunes, below are the ones I would say are my biggest favorites. And I am going with one per artist, to be a little fair. Many are from my MTV-watching days. :coolio :coolio
The Boys of Summer - Don Henley (one of my 10 favorite songs ever by anyone)
Night Comes Down - Judas Priest
What's Love Got to Do With It - Tina Turner
I love The Boys of Summer SO much...maybe not "top 10", but it's a fantastic song. Night Comes Down is one I would have included too, but I had quite a few from Defenders of the Faith already. That's a top 3 Priest album for me. Tina Turner is great too...actually, it made me think by association (because she sang it) of a song I forgot to include...John Waite's Missing You, another classic from that year...
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The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
I actually love this song!
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The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
I actually love this song!
Will it melt the internet if I tell you that I do too?
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The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
I actually love this song!
Will it melt the internet if I tell you that I do too?
Why? What is there not to love about that song? :)
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Nick the thing is that HOF and I do not agree on anything. :lol
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I'll try and narrow it down for the thread, but here's a link to my 1984 Spotify playlist I made a few years ago.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1wGYDAki2KymgnMfKceHLU?si=72001a64c62f4c37
Nice! When I've got 9 hours to spare, I know what I'm listening to!
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The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
I actually love this song!
:tup :tup
I love The Boys of Summer SO much...maybe not "top 10", but it's a fantastic song. Night Comes Down is one I would have included too, but I had quite a few from Defenders of the Faith already. That's a top 3 Priest album for me. Tina Turner is great too...actually, it made me think by association (because she sang it) of a song I forgot to include...John Waite's Missing You, another classic from that year...
Missing You is another that I associate with 1984 and watching MTV, but while it's on my master 80s playlist, it's one I almost always skip over when shuffling the playlist, so I didn't list it here. Same goes for Ghostbusters by Ray Parker, Jr.
I should have had Rock Me Tonite by Billy Squier on my list, bad video and all. :lol
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Man alive, I'm seeing so many fantastic tunes up above. As it was happening, 12/13 year old jingle.boy was still a pop/Top-40 radio listening kinda kid. So a lot of my 'faves' would fall in that bucket. I'm not sure I've alway tagged the years in my iTunes library completely/accurately, so I'm bound to miss more than a few. I'll just echo the sentiments of Boys of Summer and I Can't Hold Back being absolutely fantastic. I think during the year 1984, The Reflex (extended mix) was probably my favorite song of the year. Tim... the lack of Slade on your playlist shames you.
I'm gonna start by quoting others, purging out those that don't tickle me, and bold some of my absolute favorites from the year
15 Rush - Distant Early Warning
16 Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good
17 Rush - Red Sector A
18 Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
19 a-ha - Take on Me
21 Prince - When Doves Cry
22 Philip Bailey and Phil Collins - Easy Lover
23 Wham! - Everything She Wants
24 Queensryche - Take Hold of the Flame
28 Scandal - The Warrior
29 Hall and Oates - Out of Touch
31 Duran Duran - The Wild Boys
33 Wham! - Careless Whisper
35 U2 - Bad
36 Nightranger - Sister Christian
37 Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield
39 Huey Lewis and the News - The Heart of Rock and Roll
41 Sade - Smooth Operator
43 Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
45 Lionel Ritchie - Hello
46 Deniece Williams - Let's Hear it for the Boy
48 Huey Lewis and the News - Heart and Soul
53 Huey Lewis and the News - If This Is It
54 The Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
59 Depeche Mode - People Are People
61 Teena Marie - Lovergirl
64 Genesis - That's All
66 John Waite - Missing You
67 Duran Duran - The Reflex
68 Pat Benatar - We Belong
69 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
70 Weird Al Yankovic - Midnight Star
71 Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
72 Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
74 Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
76 The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang
77 Animotion - Obsession
78 Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record Player)
79 The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
80 Marillion - Incubus
82 Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
84 Van Halen - Panama
85 Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
86 The Cars - Drive
87 Bon Jovi - Runaway
88 Queensryche - Warning
89 Queensryche - N M 156
90 U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
93 Queen - I Want to Break Free
94 Elton John - I Guess That's Why they Call it the Blues
95 Yes - Leave It
96 Billy Joel - For the Longest Time
97 Ratt - Round and Round
98 Madonna - Borderline
104 Queensryche - En Force
107 New Edition - Cool It Now
Bad - U2
Hammer to Fall - Queen
Careless Whisper - Wham!
Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy) - Rodger Hodgson :tup
Run Runaway - Slade
Easy Lover - Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
Original Sin - INXS
I Can't Hold Back - Survivor
Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins
Still Loving You - Scorpions
Infatuation - Rod Stewart
Couldn't Stand the Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Don't Answer Me - Alan Parsons Project
What's Love Got to Do With It - Tina Turner
Out of Touch - Hall & Oates
Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight
Whitesnake - Slow An' Easy
Whitesnake - Love Ain't No Stranger
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Dio - The Last in Line
Prince - Purple Rain
Ratt - Round and Round
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
Triumph - Spellbound
And I don't think the below had been mentioned
Prince - Let's Go Crazy (this would be 1b to The Reflex as for my fave song at the time)
Slade - My Oh My (one of the greatest power ballads of all time, imo)
Triumph - Time Goes By
Triumph - Midsummer's Daydream
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
Bryan Adams - One Night Love Affair
Bryan Adams - Run To You
Bryan Adams - Kids Wanna Rock
Helix - Rock You
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero
Mike Reno / Ann Wilson - Almost Paradise
Nena - 99 Red Balloons
Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is
Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
REO Speedwagon - I Can't Fight This Feeling
Glen Frey - The Heat Is On
Pointer Sisters - Neutron Dance (man I loved this tune!)
Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok
Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
No love for Savatage boys?
Crazy that only 5 albums held the top of the Billboard chart for the entire year - and Sports only had it for 1 week!
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Damn, I had the Bryan Adams album Reckless album listed as 1985 incorrectly in my iTunes. :facepalm: :facepalm:
I would need to edit my list for sure, as Run to You is one of my favorite songs of the decade. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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Tim... the lack of Slade on your playlist shames you.
So, Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply is not on Spotify. However, The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome is (The Euro version released in 1983). I should add those songs to the 1984 list now that I think about it. I love KYHOMPS. I had it when it came out.
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I'll try and narrow it down for the thread, but here's a link to my 1984 Spotify playlist I made a few years ago.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1wGYDAki2KymgnMfKceHLU?si=72001a64c62f4c37
Wow, amazing, you’ve got it all covered. Metallica, Maiden, Dio, Queensryche etc. Was Defenders of the Faith in there? What a year to be 17.
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Tim... the lack of Slade on your playlist shames you.
So, Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply is not on Spotify. However, The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome is (The Euro version released in 1983). I should add those songs to the 1984 list now that I think about it. I love KYHOMPS. I had it when it came out.
You're welcome. :lol :lol
Such a solid album. All killer, no filler.
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No love for Savatage boys?
Plenty of love for Savatage from me - I guess The Dungeons Are Calling is 1984, uh? I didn't have that right. Great stuff on that one, I might actually prefer it to Sirens, overall.
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Random Number Generator pulled up the year 2013.
Billboard
Singles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2013
Albums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_200_number-one_albums_of_2013
Rateyourmusic
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/2013/
Albums: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2013/
A weird year, that I find has a lot of great tracks, but not that many sort of every week/month or even year tracks I go to as much compared to other years from their catalogs. Some exceptions of course. It's weird how this year and I suspect most of the last couple of decades especially, I don't think I'll be drawing that much from the Billboard or even Rateyourmusic charts given how little of the music I enjoy found those lists/demographics.
That being said, I really do love many tunes off Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, and it's funny how "Get Lucky" ended up just #14 on the Billboard list there for 2013, and yet I would consider it the best mainstream pop song of the last decade, lol. O well.
1 Dirt Poor Robins - Solemn Dream
2 The Reign of Kindo - I Hate Music
3 The Reign of Kindo - The Hero, the Saint, the Tyrant, & the Terrorist
4 Cloud Cult - 1x1x1
5 Ours - Sing
6 The Dear Hunter - Old Demons
7 Foals - Milk and Black Spiders
8 Miracles of Modern Science - Dear Pressure
9 Pretty & Nice - Q_Q
10 Cloud Cult - Sleepwalker
11 The Dear Hunter - Whisper
12 Revere - I Won't Blame You
13 Daft Punk - Get Lucky
14 Mayer Hawthorne - Designer Drug
15 Mayer Hawthorne - Her Favorite Song
16 The Reign of Kindo - Impossible World
17 Pretty & Nice - Stallion & Mare
18 Capital Cities - Farrah Fawcett Hair
19 Janelle Monae - Dorothy Dandridge Eyes
20 Subterranean Masquerade - Home
21 Capital Cities - Kangaroo Court
22 Janelle Monae - Dance Apocalyptic
23 The Dear Hunter - Bring You Down
24 In Vain - Against the Grain
25 Revere - Keep This Channel Open
26 Miracles of Modern Science - Physics is Our Business
27 Local Natives - Black Balloons
28 Dirt Poor Robins - The Same as I
29 Local Natives - Mt. Washington
30 Ours - Pretty Pain
31 Ours - Fall Into My Hands
32 The Red Paintings - Wasps
33 Sir Video - On and On
34 Subterranean Masquerade - Beyond the Pale
35 The Dear Hunter - Shame
36 Fitz & the Tantrums - Out of My League
37 Typhoon - One Hundred Years
38 Local Natives - Ceilings
39 The Dear Hunter - Dig Your Own Grave
40 RisingSide - A Spell
41 Miracles of Modern Science - The Singularity
42 Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
43 In Vain - Floating on the Murmuring Tide
44 Janelle Monae - The Ghetto Woman
45 Genders - Technicolor Vision
46 Fates Warning - And Yet It Moves
47 Daft Punk - Lose Yourself to Dance
48 Sir Video - Do What You Wanna
49 Debashish Bhattacharya and Friends - A Mystical Morning
50 Persefone - Spiritual Migration
51 RisingSide - The Tentran Beast
52 The Red Paintings - The Revolution is Never Coming
53 Brooke Waggoner - Ink Slinger
54 Renaissance - Grandine Il Vento
55 Ours - Boxer
56 Daft Punk - Giorgio by Moroder
57 Cloud Cult - Complicated Creation
58 K'Sera - Meditations in an Emergency
59 The Dear Hunter - Owls
60 Typhoon - Young Fathers
61 The Red Paintings - The Fall of Rome
62 Revere - These Halcyon Days
63 Dirt Poor Robins - The Bird is in the Birdcage
64 The Reign of Kindo - Sunshine
65 Josh Rouse - A Lot Like Magic
66 Northern Abbey - Portrait
67 Local Natives - Heavy Feet
68 Foals - Late Night
69 K'Sera - Near Misses
70 The Orion Experience - Children of the Stars
71 Local Natives - Breakers
72 Mother Falcon - Dirty Summer
73 Orphaned Land - All Is One
74 Fates Warning - Firefly
75 Janelle Monae - Q.U.E.E.N.
76 Biffy Clyro - Sounds Like Balloons
77 Spock's Beard - Something Very Strange
78 Shelter Red - The Proper Path
79 Fitz & the Tantrums - The Walker
80 Josh Rouse - It's Good to Have You
81 Dream Theater - The Enemy Inside
82 Brooke Waggoner - Swiftshape
83 The Red Paintings - Street Fell Into My Window
84 Protest the Hero - Mist
85 Genders - Secrets
86 Renaissance - Symphony of Light
87 The Age of Rockets - Darling Street (Version 1)
88 Bed of Stars - Nothing Left to Lose
89 Brooke Waggoner - Rumble
90 Josh Rouse - Julie (Come Out of the Rain)
91 Foals - Inhaler
92 Karnivool - Eidolon
93 Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Failed By Machine
94 Eldren - Yankee Stargazer
95 The Royal Veil - Into the Sun
96 For the Imperium - Northern Rampage
97 Biffy Clyro - Black Chandelier
98 Protest the Hero - Clarity
99 Annuals - Omnicide
100 The Winery Dogs - Elevate
101 David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
102 Local Natives - Black Spot
103 Brooke Waggoner - Squint
104 The Red Paintings - Rain
105 Typhoon - Hunger and Thirst
106 Fish - Blind to the Beautiful
107 Everything Everything - Cough Cough
108 Dream Theater - The Enigma Machine
109 Fitz & the Tantrums - Spark
110 The Age of Rockets - Flights (Version 1)
111 Fitz & the Tantrums - Break the Walls
112 Eldren - Best Friends
113 nosound - The Anger Song
114 Josh Rouse - This Movie's Way Too Long
115 Protest the Hero - A Life Embossed
116 Dream Theater - Along for the Ride
117 Falling Up - The Rest Soon Will Follow
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Literally, only 3 bands that we have in common - Fates, Spock's and DT.
The bolded are in ranked order (one song per banad); the rest is just the remainder of the 5* songs in my iTunes library
Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall / Not My Saviour
Epysode / Forgotten Symphony
Vandroya / Why Should We Say Goodbye?
Mindmaze / This Holy War
Subsignal / A Long Way Since The Earth Crashed
Kingcrow / This Ain't Another Love Song
Stratovarius / Unbreakable
Serenity / Legacy Of Tudors
Spock's Beard / Something Very Strange
Maestrick / Lake Of Emotions
Silent Force / Caught In Their Wicked Game
Damnations Day / Invisible, The Dead
Thought Chamber / Light Year Time
Alpha Rev / Lexington
Pretty Maids / The Iceman
DGM / Reason (feat. Russell Allen)
Eden's Curse / Unbreakable
Alpha Rev / Highways
Avantasia / The Watchmakers Dream
Avantasia / The Great Mystery
Constantine / Halo
Damnations Day / Ghost in Me
DGM / Repay
DGM / Overload
DGM / Blame
Dream Theater / The Bigger Picture
Dream Theater / Behind The Veil
Eden's Curse / Break The Silence
Eden's Curse / Fallen From Grace
Epysode / Morning Rose
Epysode / Fantasmagoria
Epysode / Now and Forever
Heavens Fire / Screamin
Heavens Fire / Daydream Believer
Illusion Suite / Orpheus' Quest
Illusion Suite / Nostradamus' First Prophecy
Illusion Suite / Premonition
James Labrie / Holding On
James Labrie / Unraveling (Limited Edition Extra Track)
Karnya / Fallen Angel
Karnya / Ego's End
Kingcrow / The Drowning Line
Lord / Digital Lies
Lord / Final Seconds
Maestrick / Puzzler
Maestrick / Treasures Of The World
Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall / Free Fall
Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall / Stronger
Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall / Last Tribe
Mindmaze / Cosmic Overture
Mindmaze / Destiny Calls
Moon Safari / Diamonds
Now or Never / Reach Out for the Sky
Now or Never / An Angel By My Side
Now or Never / Something's Missing
The Poodles / Misery Loves Company
The Poodles / Going Down
Powerworld / Slave To The Powerworld
Powerworld / World Knows Your Secrets - Virtuality
Powerworld / Cybersteria
Pretty Maids / Mother Of All Lies
Pretty Maids / Why So Serious
Serenity / The Art Of War
Serenity / Age Of Glory
Silent Force / There Ain't No Justice
Spock's Beard / Waiting For Me
Spock's Beard / Down A Burning Road
Stratovarius / Nemesis
Stratovarius / Out Of The Fog
Stratovarius / If The Story Is Over
Subsignal / The Blueprint Of A Winter
Thought Chamber / Kerakryps
Thought Chamber / Behind The Eyes Of Ikk
Thought Chamber / Isle Of Bizen
Thought Chamber / Transcend
Vandroya / The Last Free Land
Vandroya / No Oblivion For Eternity
Vandroya / This World of Yours
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Sticking with one song per band/artists, here are my 2013 favorites:
The Raven That Refused to Sing - Steven Wilson
Somebody - Haken
Supersymmetry - Arcade Fire
Waiting for Me - Spock's Beard
Interstellar Visitations - The Flower Kings
Surrender to Reason - Dream Theater
Year Zero - Ghost
I Should Live in Salt - The National
The Stars (Are Our Tonight) - David Bowie
Axis - Pet Shop Boys
Shooting for the Stars - Anneke van Giersbergen
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2013:
1. Dream Theater - Illumination Theory
2. Riverside - Escalator Shrine
3. Leprous - Chronic
4. Leprous - Coal
5. Riverside - Deprived (Irretrievably Lost Imagination)
6. Leprous - Echo
7. Leprous - Contaminate Me
8. Leprous - Foe
9. Leprous - The Valley
10. Riverside - Feel Like Falling
11. Riverside - Celebrity Touch
12. Riverside - The Depth of Self-Delusion
13. Riverside - We Got Used to Us
14. Leprous - The Cloak
15. Tesseract - Of Mind - Nocturne
16. Tesseract - Of Matter - Resist
17. Wisdom of Crowds - The Centre of Gravity
18. Wisdom of Crowds - The Light
19. Fates Warning - And Yet It Moves
20. Dream Theater - The Looking Glass
21. Wisdom of Crowds - Flows Through You
22. Wisdom of Crowds - Frozen North
23. Wisdom of Crowds - Pleasure
24. Wisdom of Crowds - Radio Star
25. Wisdom of Crowds - Stacked Naked
26. Cynthesis - Release the Deity
27. Fates Warning - O Chloroform
28. Fates Warning - Firefly
29. Dream Theater - Surrender to Reason
30. Cynthesis - Persistence of Vision
31. Jolly - Firewell
32. Almah - Treasure of the Gods
33. Subsignal - Paraiso
34. Subsignal - A Long Way Since the Earth Crashed
35. Ihsahn - Pulse
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2013 is kind of a sparse year, but that will make this a little easier:
- Big Big Train - Make Some Noise
- Big Big Train - Seen Better Days
- Big Big Train - The Lovers
- Moon Safari - Too Young to Say Goodbye
- Moon Safari - Mega Moon
- Moon Safari - Sugar Band
- Sound of Contact - Pale Blue Dot
- Sound of Contact - Not Coming Down
- Sound of Contact - Beyond Illumination
- Spock's Beard - Hiding Out
- Spock's Beard - Submerged
- Spock's Beard - Waiting for Me
- The Winery Dogs - Elevate
- The Winery Dogs - I'm No Angel
- The Winery Dogs - Regret
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1976
1976, the year I was born. A lot of Jazz Fusion and Classic Rock staples from that year. I suspect 2112 by default, would be the Song of the Year for many, and it is hard to argue as it is a masterpiece. But for me, Zeppelin never made a greater track with Achilles Last Stand, and some of the Jazz Fusion and Prog stuff was so great, I split hairs of course between them and 2112.
Billboard
Singles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1976
Albums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_200_number-one_albums_of_1976
Rateyourmusic
Singles: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/1976/
Albums: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1976/
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1 Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
2 Rush - 2112
3 Jon Anderson - Flight of the Moorglade
4 Jon Anderson - QoQuaQ Ën Transic / Naon / Transic Tö
5 Kansas - The Wall
6 Weather Report - Black Market
7 Return to Forever - Medieval Overture
8 Rainbow - Stargazer
9 Al Di Meola - Land of the Midnight Sun
10 Jack Lancaster/Robin Lumley - Arrival
11 Shakti with John McLaughlin - Joy
12 Return to Forever - Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant, Parts I & II
13 Return to Forever - Sorceress
14 Genesis - Ripples
15 Genesis - Dance on a Volcano
16 Billy Cobham / George Duke - Hip Pocket
17 Kansas - Magnum Opus
18 Jack Lancaster/Robin Lumley - Hopper
19 Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)
20 Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
21 David Bowie - Station to Station
22 Genesis - Entangled
23 Rush - Something for Nothing
24 Stevie Wonder - Contusion
25 Kansas - Cheyenne Anthem
26 Billy Cobham / George Duke - Almustafa the Beloved
27 Stevie Wonder - Wish
28 Genesis - Afterglow
29 Rush - A Passage to Bangkok
30 Styx - Mademoiselle
31 Boston - Peace of Mind
32 Jack Lancaster/Robin Lumley - Homelight
33 Stanley Clarke - School Days
34 Jaco Pastorius - Portrait of Tracy
35 Boston - Foreplay / Long Time
36 Jon Anderson - Dance of Ranyart / Olias (To Build the Moorglade)
37 Billy Cobham / George Duke - Ivory Tattoo
38 Heart - Crazy on You
39 Styx - Claire de lune / Ballerina
40 Jack Lancaster/Robin Lumley - Phobos and Deimos
41 Queen - The Millionaire Waltz
42 Rainbow - A Light in the Black
43 Genesis - Squonk
44 Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
45 Genesis - Eleventh Earl of Mar
46 Rush - The Twilight Zone
47 Styx - Jennifer
48 Geneiss - One for the Vine
49 Donna Summer - Try Me, I Know We Can Make It
50 Jon Anderson - Meeting (Garden of Geda) / Sound Out the Galleon
51 Jack Lancaster/Robin Lumley - Take Off
52 Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
53 Styx - Crystal Ball
54 Starcastle - Lady of the Lake
55 Rush - Tears
56 The Alan Parsons Project - A Dream Within a Dream
57 Billy Joel - New York State of Mind
58 The Alan Parsons Project - (The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
59 Jack Lancaster/Robin Lumley - Realisation
60 Chick Corea - Armando's Rhumba
61 George Benson - Breezin'
62 Heart - Magic Man
63 Jaco Pastorius - Donna Lee
64 Stevie Wonder - As
65 Kansas - Miracles Out of Nowhere
66 Chick Corea - Night Streets
67 ELO - Strange Magic
68 Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
69 Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine
70 Led Zeppelin - Hots On for Nowhere
71 Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) the Reaper
72 Heart - Soul of the Sea
73 James Brown - Get Up Offa That Thing / Release That Pressure
74 Pat Metheny - Road Trip / Broad Blues
75 Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour
76 Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
77 Hall & Oates - Rich Girl
78 ELO - Livin' Thing
79 Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By the Light
80 10cc - I'm Mandy Fly Me
81 Chick Corea - Love Castle
82 Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
83 Queen - Somebody to Love
84 Firefall - You Are the Woman
85 Thin Lizzy - Jail Break
86 Henry Gross - Shannon
87 10cc - The Things We Do for Love
88 Hall & Oates - Sara Smile
89 Jean-Luc Ponty - Renaissance
90 Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
91 Donna Summer - Spring Affair
92 Steve Miller Band - Take the Money and Run
93 Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
94 Orleans - Still the One
95 ELO - Rockaria
96 Steve Miller Band - Wild Mountain Honey
97 Aerosmith - Back in the Saddle
98 Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing
99 The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
100 Bob Seger - Night Moves
101 Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
102 Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
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Going with my 3 per album rule (and most likely overlooking some popular songs from this year that I don't own). This was a pretty strong year with a lot of creativity.
Boston - Peace of Mind
Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
Boston - Rock & Roll Band
Camel - Song Within a Song
Camel - Chord Change
Camel - Lunar Sea
Genesis - Entangled
Genesis - Mad Man Moon
Genesis - Los Endos
Genesis - Eleventh Earl of Mar
Genesis - One For The Vine
Genesis - Blood On The Rooftops
Journey - It's All Too Much
Journey - She Makes Me (Feel Alright)
Journey - Look Into The Future
Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son
Kansas - Opus Insert
Kansas - Cheyenne Anthem
Rush - A Passage to Bangkok
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
Thin Lizzy - Fight or Fall
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
TAC will probably fight me on the Thin Lizzy songs (that whole album is good though).
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Well this will be short and sweet.
1. Rush - 2112
2. Rush - Lessons
3. Rush - The Twilight Zone
4. Rush - Tears
5. Rush - Something for Nothing
6. Rush - A Passage to Bangkok
7. Rainbow - Stargazer
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Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
Thin Lizzy - Fight or Fall
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
TAC will probably fight me on the Thin Lizzy songs (that whole album is good though).
Yep, it's hard to go wrong with any of the songs on Jailbreak, really!
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Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
Thin Lizzy - Fight or Fall
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
TAC will probably fight me on the Thin Lizzy songs (that whole album is good though).
Not at all. The Cowboy Song is my favorite Thin Lizzy track, and even though it's a Classic Rock staple, The Boys Are Back In Town is still incredible, and I have never gotten sick of hearing it.
They also released a second album in 1976, Johnny The Fox. It's not as good as Jailbreak, but I still love it.
Best tracks are Don't Believe A Word and Massacre.
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Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
Thin Lizzy - Fight or Fall
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
TAC will probably fight me on the Thin Lizzy songs (that whole album is good though).
Not at all. The Cowboy Song is my favorite Thin Lizzy track, and even though it's a Classic Rock staple, The Boys Are Back In Town is still incredible, and I have never gotten sick of hearing it.
They also released a second album in 1976, Johnny The Fox. It's not as good as Jailbreak, but I still love it.
Best tracks are Don't Believe A Word and Massacre.
:tup The Cowboy Song really is fantastic. I'll have to check out Johnny The Fox.
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Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
Thin Lizzy - Fight or Fall
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
TAC will probably fight me on the Thin Lizzy songs (that whole album is good though).
Not at all. The Cowboy Song is my favorite Thin Lizzy track, and even though it's a Classic Rock staple, The Boys Are Back In Town is still incredible, and I have never gotten sick of hearing it.
They also released a second album in 1976, Johnny The Fox. It's not as good as Jailbreak, but I still love it.
Best tracks are Don't Believe A Word and Massacre.
Massacre is fantastic!
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IIRC, this is Kev's most favorite year in music. Hope he doesn't break the forum with a post in here :lol
Boston - the whole damned album
2112 - title track, naturally; I've also been partial to Something For Nothing as well
Triumph - Blinding Light Show / Moonchild
Styx - Crystal Ball
Styx - Mademoiselle
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds
AC/DC - Rocker
AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
AC/DC - TNT
Aerosmith - Back in the Saddle
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane
The Eagles - Wasted Time
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Kansas - Magnum Opus
Kiss - Detroit Rock City
Kiss - Shout it out Loud
Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
Queen - Somebody to Love
Rainbow - Stargazer
Rainbow - Tarot Woman
Bob Seger - Night Moves
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Wings - Let 'em in
Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
Steve Miller Band - Take the Money and Run
Heart - Crazy On You
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
There's a bunch from the Billboard top 100 list too.
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" Elton John & Kiki Dee
"Play That Funky Music" Wild Cherry
"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" England Dan & John Ford Coley
"(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" KC and the Sunshine Band
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Keeping this to one song per artist will make it easy to keep my list from being crazy long.
2112 - Rush
Foreplay/Long Time - Boston
Cheyenne Anthem - Kansas
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Crystal Ball - Styx
Air Born - Camel
Dreamer Deceiver - Judas Priest
Hotel California - Eagles
New York State of Mind - Billy Joel
Takin' It to the Streets - The Doobie Brothers
Entangled - Genesis
Magic Man - Heart
Another Star - Stevie Wonder
Tie Your Mother Down - Queen
Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
Burnin' Sky - Bad Company
Keep Pushin' - REO Speedwagon
Breakdown - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
Blue Wind - Jeff Beck
Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
A Light in the Black - Rainbow
Shot Down - April Wine
Knowing Me, Knowing You - ABBA
Station to Station - David Bowie
The Pretender - Jackson Browne
Sara Smile - Daryl Hall and John Oates
Do You Feel Like We Do (live) - Peter Frampton
Black Napkins - Frank Zappa
Last Child - Aerosmith
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Livin' Thing - Electric Light Orchestra
Blinding Light Show/Moonchild - Triumph
Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs
Night Moves - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Big Balls - AC/DC
Don't Touch Me There - The Tubes
Free-for-All - Ted Nugent
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Up to three songs per album..
UFO-I'm A Loser
UFO-Belladonna
UFO-Martian Landscape
Rainbow-Stargazer
Rainbow-A Light In The Black
Thin Lizzy-The Cowboy Song
Thin Lizzy-The Boys Are Back In Town
Thin Lizzy-Emerald
Thin Lizzy-Massacre
Thin Lizzy-Don't Believe A Word
Thin Lizzy-Borderline
Rush-2112
Rush-Something For Nothing
Kiss-Detroit Rock City
Kiss-King Of The Nighttime World
Kiss-I Want You
Kiss-Hard Luck Woman
Kiss-Makin' Love
The Sweet-Action
The Sweet-Yesterday's Rain
Scorpions-Pictured Life
Boston-More Than A Feeling
Boston-Piece Of Mind
Boston- Foreplay/Long Time
Aerosmith-Rats In The Cellar
Aerosmith-Sick As A Dog
Alice Cooper-Go To Hell
Alice Cooper-Didn't We Meet
Alice Cooper-I'm The Coolest
Blue Oyster Cult-Don't Fear The Reaper
Judas Priest-Victim Of Changes
Judas Priest-The Ripper
Led Zeppelin-For Your Life
Led Zeppelin-Tea For One
Led Zeppelin-Nobody's Fault But Mine
Queen-Somebody To Love
Blackfoot-Flyin' High
AC/DC-High Voltage
Slade-In For A Penny
Black Sabbath-Dirty Women
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Up to three songs per album..
UFO-I'm A Loser
UFO-Belladonna
UFO-Martian Landscape
Rainbow-Stargazer
Rainbow-A Light In The Black
Thin Lizzy-The Cowboy Song
Thin Lizzy-The Boys Are Back In Town
Thin Lizzy-Emerald
Thin Lizzy-Massacre
Thin Lizzy-Don't Believe A Word
Thin Lizzy-Borderline
Rush-2112
Rush-Something For Nothing
Kiss-Detroit Rock City
Kiss-King Of The Nighttime World
Kiss-I Want You
Kiss-Hard Luck Woman
Kiss-Makin' Love
The Sweet-Action
The Sweet-Yesterday's Rain
Scorpions-Pictured Life
Boston-More Than A Feeling
Boston-Piece Of Mind
Boston- Foreplay/Long Time
Aerosmith-Rats In The Cellar
Aerosmith-Sick As A Dog
Alice Cooper-Go To Hell
Alice Cooper-Didn't We Meet
Alice Cooper-I'm The Coolest
Blue Oyster Cult-Don't Fear The Reaper
Judas Priest-Victim Of Changes
Judas Priest-The Ripper
Led Zeppelin-For Your Life
Led Zeppelin-Tea For One
Led Zeppelin-Nobody's Fault But Mine
Queen-Somebody To Love
Blackfoot-Flyin' High
AC/DC-High Voltage
Slade-In For A Penny
Black Sabbath-Dirty Women
Dude.... there are more fogeys at this forum than not. I need my cheaters most of the time anyway - why you gotta use a smaller font??
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2005
Rateyourmusic Charts:
Songs: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/2005/
Albums: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2005/
Billboard:
Singles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2005
Albums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_200_number-one_albums_of_2005
2005 was a fantastic year for music, especially for Modern Progressive Art Rock. Several bands/artists released albums that were very ambitious, at times Concept albums. But with those, many of them included a plethora of songs that I highly enjoy and love going back to.
That is why 2005 not only is 1 of my favorite years in the 2000's for music, but overall. I find it includes many releases that I enjoy most in the artist's catalog.
This is a list of my favorite songs, splitting hairs/vaguely ranked. Although having spent a good portion of time over the last 2 weeks thinking about it, revisiting many of these, it's something I keep adding new tracks to the 2005 Songs of the Year Playlist on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jRODq8oedEvPUXTSJvra1), that's it's more of a WORK IN PROGRESS, rather than fully definitive of course,
And many of these songs give me a ton of NOSTALGIA; per I sometimes feel like I'm back in 2005, or just long to when hearing them.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fn2kZOuXgAM2zBd?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
1 Coheed and Cambria - The Willing Well
2 Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
3 Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy
4 The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini
5 Oceansize - Ornament/The Last Wrongs
6 The Mars Volta - Cygnus...Vismud Cygnus
7 Shadow Gallery - Floydian Memories
8 Imogen Heap - The Moment I Said It
9 Neverending White Lights - Our Final Hymn
10 Dream Theater - Octavarium
11 The Receiving End of Sirens - This Armistice
12 Neverending White Lights - The Grace
13 Oceansize - The Charm Offensive
14 Between the Buried and Me - Selkies
15 Mew - Apocalypso
16 Opeth - The Grand Conjuration
15 Karnivool - C.O.T.E.
16 Pure Reason Revolution - Arrival/The Intention Craft
17 Subterranean Masquerade - Six Strings to Cover Fear
18 dredg - Hungover on a Tuesday
19 The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez
20 dredg - Bug Eyes
21 Karnivool - Themata
22 Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
23 Oceansize - Heaven Alive
24 Porcupine Tree - Lazarus
25 Klimt 1918 - They Were Wed By the Sea
26 sElf - Summersound
27 dredg - Jamais Vu
28 Bend Sinister - Truth or Truth
29 dredg - Uplifting News
30 Porcupine Tree - The Start of Something Beautiful
31 dredg - Ode to the Sun
32 Time of Orchids - All We Ever Wish
33 System of a Down - Old School Hollywood
34 Mew - Louise Louisa
35 Kaddisfly - Horses Galloping on Sail Boats
36 Klimt 1918 - Lomo
37 Paulson - I Knew You When
38 Imogen Heap - Headlock
39 Mew - Why Are You Looking Grave?
40 Oceansize - Music for a Nurse
40 Porcupine Tree - Mellotron Scratch
41 Coheed and Cambria - Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)
42 The Receiving End of Sirens - Venona
43 dredg - Sang Real
44 The Receiving End of Sirens - Epilogue
45 dredg - Not That Simple
46 Between the Buried and Me - Backwards Marathon
47 Bend Sinister - Hell or Shelter
48 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
49 Bend Sinister - Through the Broken City
50 Pure Reason Revolution - The Bright Ambassadors of Morning
51 Greg Herriges - Thirteen/It Plays Me
52 Shaman - Reason
53 Time of Orchids - Swarm of Hope
54 God is an Astronaut - When Everything Dies
55 Sufjan Stevens - They Are Night Zombies!!
56 The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno
57 Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up: Opening & Part One
58 The Receiving End of Sirens - The Evidence
59 Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - Skeleton Key
60 Porcupine Tree - Halo
61 Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
62 Imogen Heap - Clear the Area
63 Mew - Saviours of Jazz Ballet
64 Josh Rouse - Winter in the Hamptons
65 God is an Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright
66 The Decemberists - The Infanta
67 Opeth - The Ghost of Perdition
68 The Receiving End of Sirens - Planning a Prison Break
69 Kaddisfly - Osmosic in C
70 Oceansize - You Can't Keep a Bad Man Down
71 Gojira - Flying Whales
72 Klimt 1918 - Snow of '85
73 Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
74 Opeth - The Baying of the Hounds
75 The Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song
76 Vedera - The Falling Kind
77 King's X - Fly
78 Coheed and Cambria - Mother May I
79 Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
80 Oceansize - A Homage to a Shame
81 Porcupine Tree - Open Car
82 Shadow Gallery - Rain
83 Kaddisfly - Crimson Solitude
84 dredg - Catch Without Arms
85 Bloc Party - Helicopter
86 Mew - Chinaberry Tree
87 The Receiving End of Sirens - The Rival Cycle
88 Mew - Special
89 Shadow Gallery - The Andromeda Strain
90 Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
91 Dream Theater - These Walls
92 The Ebb & Flow - Sonorous
93 Subterranean Masquerade - Awake
94 Imogen Heap - Goodnight and Go
95 Bend Sinister - Tough Love
96 Oceansize - New Pin
97 Bloc Party - Banquet
98 Imogen Heap - Have You Got It In You?
99 Sufjan Stevens - The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders
100 Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
101 King's X - Freedom
102 Matisyahu - King Without a Crown
103 dredg - Zebraskin
104 Facing New York - Styrofoam Walls
105 King's X - Honesty
106 Carpark North - Human
107 System of a Down - Question!
108 Oceansize - Meredith
109 sElf - Now
110 Burst - Flight's End
111 People for Audio - To New Beginnings
112 Coheed and Cambria - The Suffering
113 dredg - The Tanbark is Hot Lava
114 The Pineapple Thief - The World I Always Dreamed Of
115 The Decemberists - The Sporting Life
116 The Receiving End of Sirens - ...Then I Defy You, Stars
117 Nicole Atkins - Neptune City
118 Burst - Sever
119 System of a Down - B.Y.O.B.
120 Cloud Cult - Transistor Radio
121 Kiss Kiss - Says My Doctor
122 Editors - Blood
123 Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - A Sea Chanty
124 Gospel - Congratulations...You've Hit Rock Bottom!
125 Imogen Heap - The Walk
126 Neverending White Lights - This Longing
127 King's X - Alone
128 The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
129 Shaman - More
130 Josh Rouse - Street Lights
131 Sufjan Stevens - Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
132 Kiss Kiss - College Film
133 Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
134 Ivy - Thinking About You
135 Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
136 Depeche Mode - Precious
137 Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - Paper Kitten Nightmare
138 Subterranean Masquerade - No Place Like Home
139 The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show
140 Dark Tranquillity - Lost to Apathy
141 People For Audio - And This Will Be Our Homecoming
142 King's X - Mud
143 The Decemberists - The Engine Driver
144 World Leader Pretend - Bang Theory
145 Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
146 Dream Theater - Panic Attack
147 Wolf Parade - Shine a Light
148 Sigur Ros - Hoppípolla
149 Paulson - Calling on You
150 Dark Tranquiillity - The New Build
151 Presto Ballet - Peace Among the Ruins
152 Greg Herriges - Stella
153 Kaddisfly - Calm of Calamity
154 Kaddisfly - New Moon Over Swift Water
155 Imogen Heap - Loose Ends
156 sElf - Brooklyn
157 Editors - Munich
158 Doves - Black & White Town
159 Debashish Bhattacharya - Nata Raaj
160 Kaura - The Falling
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Man, I wanna get back to this at some point. Maybe I can sneak in a year in-between rounds once the Katatonia discography discussion is done in a few weeks.
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Going with one per artist for 2005, here are some favorites:
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Neal Morse - In the Fire
Opeth - Harlequin Forest
Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said
The Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Spock's Beard - She Is Everything
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini
Sigur Rós - Glósóli
dredg - Sang Real
Redemption - Sapphire
Judas Priest - Demonizer
Coldplay - Talk
Madonna - Forbidden Love
Dave Matthews Band - Dreamgirl
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I haven’t gone through my collection yet, but I think I have a negative impression of this year, as several of the bigger releases really disappointed me that year. Octavarium, Deadwing, Octane, Ogre Tones, were all big disappointments at the time, though they all do have some songs I really like. Will have to dig a little further when I get a chance.
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These are the songs I was either into at the time or have enjoyed at some point after. In chronological order-ish. At most 3 per album.
James LaBrie - Lost
Theory of a Deadman - Santa Monica
Theory of a Deadman - No Surprise
The Dan Band - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down
Styx - Can't Find my Way Home
Styx - Summer in the City
Styx - I Don't Need No Doctor
Weezer - Perfect Situation
Weezer - We are All on Drugs
Audioslave - Be Yourself
Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot
Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
Avenged Sevenfold - Seize the Day
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Dream Theater - I Walk Beside You
Dream Theater - Sacrificed Sons
Foo Fighters - No Way Back
Foo Fighters - Best of You
Foo Fighters - Razor
The Offspring - Can't Repeat
The Offspring - Next to You
311 - Don't Tread On Me
311 - Getting Through to Her
311 - Whiskey & Wine
Hinder - Get Stoned
Hinder - Lips of an Angel
Nickelback - Photograph
Nickelback - Animals
Nickelback - Far Away
Shinedown - I Dare You
Shinedown - Save Me
Shinedown - Heroes
Neal Morse - In the Fire
Neal Morse - The Temple of the Living God
Fort Minor - Where'd You Go?
DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames
John Petrucci - Glasgow Kiss