Top 50 Albums: The UMH Experience

[black_biff_stadler]

Full List:

1. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
2. Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
3. Strapping Young Lad - City
4. Devin Townsend Project - Ki
5. Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
6. maudlin of the Well - Bath
7. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
8. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
9. Devin Townsend Project - Ghost
10. Opeth - Blackwater Park

You don't like Arch Enemy?

[Dr. DTVT]

waaaaayyyy too much New stuff

FTFY


Full blown halo effect.  There should be a 6 month moratorium between hearing an album and trying to rate it.  If an album still has that new-toy fascination 6 months later...then its a classic.

[Zantera]

I kinda agree.
Sure it might be different for everyone, but I have experienced albums that I loved at first listen, and loved the first week or so, but 2 months later it wasn't nearly as fantastic.
How an album sounds after a certain amount of time from first hearing it is a major part of it all IMO.

[Ultimetalhead]

The thing is, the 2 DTP albums from 2009 changed my life in ways I thought impossible. I'm predicting that Decon and Ghost will have the same effect. The only other recent album was the Alestorm one, and I stand by it as well.

[ClairvoyantCat]

Ah, nevermind, misread. 



Cool list.  Metal list.  List. 

[skydivingninja]

I'm pretty much putting a ban on any music from 2010 or 2011 on my top 50 list.  Can't really judge those albums with the rest of them right now.  Besides, only The Valley has a shot at cracking the top 50.  Maybe Ghost as well.

[SPNKr]

Deconstruction and Ghost were two huge disappointments for me this year.

I understand.

[ariich]

I'm pretty much putting a ban on any music from 2010 or 2011 on my top 50 list.  Can't really judge those albums with the rest of them right now.  Besides, only The Valley has a shot at cracking the top 50.  Maybe Ghost as well.

2010 should be fair game, but yeah 2011 is too recent really.

[skydivingninja]

Deconstruction and Ghost were two huge disappointments for me this year.

I understand.

I don't.

[Sketchy]

I have to say, for most of the list I was thinking it was interesting, but probably not my sort of music, although I did have to agree with the inclusion of the Sabbath albums and I&W, and then it got to DSofM and FOABP.

The list gained instant grains of win. I absolutely adore those albums both. Then I saw Opeth, 6DOIT, Deadwing and SFAM... And man, do I love those albums (answer: yes, yes I do. SFAM would probably be in my top five too, and BWP in my top fifty.) Oh, and The Light. That album is also geniusly fantastic.