DTF Best of 2010 - Round 1

[wolfking]

2.   Ed Kowalczyk – Alive

That was an amazing album.  Very surprising after Live's last piece of crap.

[contest_sanity]

I didn't even know it existed until I randomly saw it in a Christian bookstore.  I was like WTF?  I stopped following Live years ago, but I'm really glad I checked this one out.  Every song is good, with an endless supply of catchy melodies.  He definitely brought back some magic from the 90's.

[robwebster]

That's wonderful. I'm starting to think the posters might be my favourite thing about babbling incoherently.

[jjrock88]

1- Accept "Blood of the Nation"
2- Iron Maiden "TFF"
3- Ratt- "Infestation"
4- Armored Saint "La Raza"
5- Allen/Lande "The Showdown"

[TAC]

1- Accept "Blood of the Nation"
2- Iron Maiden "TFF"
4- Armored Saint "La Raza"

Great picks. All also on my list. the Accept is so Freaking great!

[TheVoxyn]

Listened to a lot of new artists (new for me) this year, but apparantly not too many new albums. Could only think of 8 albums.

1. Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
2. Jónsi - Go
3. Pain of Salvation - Road Salt One
4. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
5. Ólafur Arnalds - ...And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness
6. 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
7. Villagers - Becoming a Jackal
8. Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned

[jjrock88]

TAC

Yeah the Accept cd blew me away.  I am a fan of TT Quick so I knew what Mark was capable of, but the cd surpassed all expectations for sure.  Looking forward to more material and hopefully something live.  Armored Saint is one of the most underated bands; but you know they are realiable for something kick ass each time around

[Nick]

Band - Album   Points
James LaBrie - Static Impulse   98
Pain of Salvation - Road Salt One   91
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here   86
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit   74
Haken - Aquarius   66
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier   64
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs   54
Alter Bridge - ABIII   46
Jonsi - Go   42
Alcest - Écailles de Lune   38
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis   38
Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow   36
Periphery - Periphery   35
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare   34
The River Empires - Epilogue   34
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns   32
Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up   32
The National - High Violet   32
Accept - Blood of the Nations   31
Joe Satriani - Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards   30
Intronaut - Valley of Smoke   27
Spock's Beard - X   27
Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time   26
Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast   22
Vampire Weekend - Contra   22
Pure Reason Revolution - Hammer and Anvil   21
Star One - Victims of the Modern Age   21
Pendulum - Immersion   20
Deftones - Diamond Eyes   19
65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway   17
Cloud Cult - Light Chasers   17
Everything Everything - Man Alive   16
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me   16
Allen/Lande - The Showdown   15
Cloudkicker - Beacons   15
Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante   15
Solution .45 - For Eons Past   15
Tetrafusion - Altered State   15
The Pineapple Thief - Someone Here is Missing   14
Therion - Sitra Ahra   14
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt   13
Armored Saint - La Raza   12
Janell Monáe - The Archandroid   12
Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul II   12
Black Country Communion - Black Country Communion   11
Gregory & the Hawk - Leche   11
Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife   11
Orphaned Land - The Neverending Way of ORwarriOR   11
Blaze Bayley - Promise & Terror   10
Dead Letter Circus - This is the Warning   10
Demians - Mute   10
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach   10
Ihsahn - After   10
MGMT - Congratulations   10
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys   10
Overkill - Ironbound   10
Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology   10
Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony   9
Ed Kowalczyk – Alive   9
Kiske/Somerville - Kiske/Somerville   9
Lehto & Wright - Children's Songs   9
Ólafur Arnalds - ...And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness   9
Slash - Slash   9
Susanne Sundfor: The Brothel   9
The Birthday Massacre - Pins & Needles   9
The Xcerts - Scatterbrain   9
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus   8
Devil Sold His Soul - Blessed & Cursed   8
Envy - Recitation   8
Great Big Sea - Safe Upon the Shore   8
Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned   8
Ratt - Infestation   8
Yeasayer - Odd Blood   8
Darkwater - Where Stories End   7
Gamma Ray - To The Metal   7
Kataklysm - Heaven's Venom   7
Orbs – Asleep Next To Science   7
Röyksopp - Senior   7
Sadnes - Fill My Head   7
Skywatchers - The Skywatchers Handbook   7
The Ocean- Heliocentric   7
B.O.B. - B.O.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray   6
Dark Tranquillity - We Are the Void   6
Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition   6
Firewind - Days of Defiance   6
Kyte - Dead Waves   6
Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives   6
Rotting Christ - Aealo   6
She & Him - Volume Two   6
Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy   6
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz   6
The Cat Empire - Cinema   6
Annihilator - Annihilator   5
Avantasia - Angel of Babylon   5
Ben Folds/Nick Horby- Lonely Avenue   5
Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans   5
Foxy Shazam! - Foxy Shazam   5
Kaki King - Junior   5
Menomena - Mines   5
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky   5
The Classic Crime - Vagabonds   5
Brad Mehldau - Highway Rider   4
Eels - End Times   4
Heart - Red Velvet Car   4
Les Discrets - Septembre et ses derničres Pensées   4
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy   4
Plan B - The Defamation Of Strickland Banks   4
Villagers - Becoming a Jackal   4
A Traitor Like Judas - End Times   3
Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer   3
Disturbed - Asylum   3
Fear Factory - Mechanize   3
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit   3
Sarah McLachlan - Laws of Illusion   3
Vanden Plas - The Seraphic Clockwork   3
Warpaint - The Fool   3
Ace Frehley - Anomaly   2
Alpha Rev – New Morning   2
Foals -Total Life Forever   2
Sodom - In War and Pieces   2
The Sword - Warp Riders   2
Wuthering Heights - Salt   2
Cataract - Killing the Eternal   1
Eluvium - Similes   1
Emancipator - Safe In The Steep Cliffs   1
Emanuel and the Fear - Listen   1
Helloween - 7 Sinners   1
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy   1
Karkwa - Les Chemins de Verre   1
Katie Noonan & The Captains - Emperor's box   1
Tarja - What Lies Beneath   1
The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood   1
Toundra - (II)   1
Vonassi - The Battle of Ego   1

[zxlkho]

LaBrie on top so far?

[Nick]

It's an awesome album...

[ClairvoyantCat]

Nice to see Road Salt so high!  Hopefully at least that will be higher than Static Impulses later on.

[zxlkho]

Well yeah its an awesome album, shouldn't even be in the top 5.

[Dr. DTVT]

It's up there because it's probably the most OWNED album, seeing this is DTF and all.  Probably 4 times as many people own (or downloaded) that album compared to say, Agalloch, which is hight because a few people rated it very high.

Something similar with Intronaut - 2/3rd of the points come from Sigz and I.  It's a hell of an album, but very few people here have checked it out so its going to languish.

It's far from a perfect system, but people are limited to what they are exposed to, and it makes sense that more people own that album since this is DTF.  It's racking up a lot of 6-10 places, and all those little bits add up.

[orcus116]

I'll have to check to see if my friend gave me the new Intronaut, I'll try to aid it with some points. I really dug the new Agalloch on my second listen.

[ariich]

Yeah considering SI is a good album and this is a DT forum, it makes sense that it would do so well!

Great to see Haken managing number 5, not bad for a debut album!

[Perpetual Change]

I can't believe Road Salt is so high.

[ariich]

I can. It's a good album by a band who are popular here.

[wolfking]

LaBrie on top so far?

It deserves to be there, it's fantastic.

Speaking of Intronaut, I just purchased Valley of Smoke yesterday just after seeing the name mentioned around here.  After one listen it's amazing metal which is right up my alley, great stuff.

[shadowfex]

Sorry to be a pain Nick but Dead Letter circus should have 17 points. I gave it ten and Lordzixor ranked it 3rd??

[Perpetual Change]

I still don't think it's a great album, but I had no idea PoS were still one of those bands people here still more or less rally behind.

I liked Intronaut but it didn't really stick with me.

[sonatafanica]

I still don't think it's a great album, but I had no idea PoS were still one of those bands people here still more or less rally behind.

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some people actually like music they hear

[TheVoxyn]

I'm happiest with Anathema being so high. I remember making a thread about them on the last forum and it got 2 replies. Great too see that the new album is doing so well and gathering new fans.

[Zantera]

The only problem with the new Anathema is that it's almost TOO positive on some fronts. (Everything for example)
The only song i don't really like that much would be Dreaming Light.

[skydivingninja]

It's an awesome album...

Aside from the first four tracks and "Coming Home," its really not.

The Suburbs needs more points.

[Nick]

Sorry to be a pain Nick but Dead Letter circus should have 17 points. I gave it ten and Lordzixor ranked it 3rd??

No, all the people bitching about nothing (while still not making a best OST of 2010 poll) are being a pain. This was very helpful and a well spotted mistake! I somehow missed putting Lord's picks in and that is now fixed. And third gets 8 points so it'll have 18 points on the next update.

[skydivingninja]

Excuse us for defending the music in album form we like, even though there's no rule in the original post explicitly banning them.  I'm sorry that those of us who liked an OST enough to be put into consideration for this poll are being such pains and burdens. 

What would be the point of doing an OST of the year poll?  Not many people listen to OSTs.  There'd be almost no participation.  Hell, the only OST I listened to this year was the Scott Pilgrim Game's.  It wouldn't be much fun.  At least we could see where the Inception soundtrack (which a fair number of people seem to love this year) would rank compared to James LaBrie, Anathema, and the like.  I don't see why you're so adamant on resisting change especially when, as I said, nothing in the original post explicitly bans them.

[Nick]

It's something to keep in mind for next year, however I said they would not be allowed this year and so people should have posted lists in accordance with that instead of carrying on about it forever.

And the fact that no one actually made that poll, and that you said you really have no big interest in OSTs in general pretty much proves the point that it's NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL, and so people should not be acting like it's the end of the world.

[kári]

And the fact that no one actually made that poll, and that you said you really have no big interest in OSTs in general pretty much proves the point that it's NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL, and so people should not be acting like it's the end of the world.

Nobody's acting like it's the end of the world... It isn't that big of a deal indeed. But apparently it was that big of a deal to just allow them?

[Nick]

And the fact that no one actually made that poll, and that you said you really have no big interest in OSTs in general pretty much proves the point that it's NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL, and so people should not be acting like it's the end of the world.

Nobody's acting like it's the end of the world... It isn't that big of a deal indeed. But apparently it was that big of a deal to just allow them?

Did you see how upset some people were over this?

And they weren't allowed this year when it started, so end of story there. However as I've stated I will keep it in mind for next year.

[Sigz]

I don't really see what a best OST of 2010 poll has to do with this, the point is to include them with other original releases, not segregate them.

[Nick]

Dude, they are separate but equal.

[Dr. DTVT]

Dude, they are separate but equal.

Oh, hello George Wallace.

[Sigz]

Hans get out of here your water fountain is down the hall.

[Perpetual Change]

I still don't think it's a great album, but I had no idea PoS were still one of those bands people here still more or less rally behind.

Hey


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hey Perpetual Change




hey





hey




guess what





some people actually like music they hear

[sonatafanica]

no u