DTF Album of the Year 2011: Round 1

[ResultsMayVary]

1. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
2. Scale The Summit - The Collective
3. August Burns Red - Leveler
4. Animals As Leaders - Weightless
5. Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
6. Born of Osiris - The Discovery
7. Adele - 21
8. Intervals - The Space Between
9. Trivium - In Waves

[Dr. DTVT]

No EPs Quagmire, as good as that one is.

[MuumiPeikko]

1. Nightwish - Imaginaerum
2. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
3. Amorphis - The Beginning of Times
4. Powerwolf – Blood of the Saints
5. Redemption – This Mortal Coil
6. Theocracy – As the World Bleeds
7. Love.Might.Kill - Brace For Impact
8. Evergrey - Glorious Collision
9. Iced Earth - Dystopia
10. Royal Hunt – Show Me How to Live

[ElliottTamer]

1. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
2. Haken - Visions
3. Love Story - Original London Cast Recording
4. The Dear Hunter - The Colour Spectrum
5. The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
6. Opeth - Heritage
7. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
8. Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys
9. Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark
10. Adele - 21

Just on a side-note, here are some 2011 albums I still plan on getting but haven't heard yet:
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Pain of Salvation - Road Salt Two
Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
Nightwish - Imaginaerum
Coldplay - Xylo Myloto
Neal Morse - Testimony 2

[Squa7ch2112]

1. Textures - Dualism
2. Protest the Hero - Scurrilous
3. TesseracT - One
4. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
5. The Aristocrats - s/t
6. Threat Signal - s/t
7. Bury Your Dead - Mosh n' Roll
8. Opeth - Heritage
9. Mastodon - The Hunter
10. I'm With You - Red Hot Chili Peppers

[lordxizor]

1. Thrice - Major/Minor
2. The Decemberists - The King is Dead
3. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
4. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
5. Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Roots
6. Eisley - The Valley
7. Fair to Midland - Anchors & Arrows
8. 3 - The Ghost You gave to Me
9. Mute Math - Odd Soul


Didn't like anything else enough to put it in at 10.

[YtseBitsySpider]

how much longer until we get a tally?

[Nekov]

Well, Nick is running this and if we take his roulette as an example I'd say maybe another month or two

[Nick]

Well, Nick is running this and if we take his roulette as an example I'd say maybe another month or two

My roulette had no set time frame for completion and there is no rush.

My hope is to have a tally up either tonight or tomorrow night.

[Jamesman42]

9. Mute Math - Odd Soul

What? Really? *goes to check*

[wkiml]

Well, Nick is running this and if we take his roulette as an example I'd say maybe another month or two

My roulette had no set time frame for completion and there is no rush.

My hope is to have a tally up either tonight or tomorrow night.

Unless of course Nick gets a call from work or is sent out for a job at 5 pm

[Nick]

Thankfully I'm off today.

[Jamesman42]

9. Mute Math - Odd Soul

What? Really? *goes to check*

Good stuff!

[ariich]

Nick, this dating thing has got your mind all messed up...Iconoclast #5?  Number freaking 5??!??!??!??!??!? Ahead of Pendragon, Arch/Matheos, Scale the Summit, Redemption, Myrath, Haken, Fair to Midland, Evergrey, TDH, Amorphis, and The Anabasis?  And that's just stuff I know you should have and like.  Is Allen or Romeo giving you blowjobs on the side?  I just looked, and I have 30 albums that I would say are hands down better than Iconoclast, which gets extremely boring after the title track.  12 of those are albums I wouldn't expect you to like, but that still leaves 15 albums (you have DT, Flaming Row, and PoS ahead of SyX already).

You deserve all of these.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cO0IpLClLOQ/TG3R2nv5aJI/AAAAAAAABw0/Gx4twEFTsao/s1600/Facepalm.jpg

https://hotnerdgirl.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/double-facepalm1.jpg

Hell, you even make Homer Simpson facepalm.

https://animediet.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/633861426363034370-Facepalm.jpg

I expect better from you Nick.  Others, not so much, but as someone who gets as much music a year as I do...

Says the guy who ranked Journey way above Brand New, Manchester Orchestra, The Mars Volta and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum in his roulette.

[Jamesman42]

says the lolbrit

[Gorille85]

Nick, this dating thing has got your mind all messed up...Iconoclast #5?  Number freaking 5??!??!??!??!??!? Ahead of Pendragon, Arch/Matheos, Scale the Summit, Redemption, Myrath, Haken, Fair to Midland, Evergrey, TDH, Amorphis, and The Anabasis?  And that's just stuff I know you should have and like.  Is Allen or Romeo giving you blowjobs on the side?  I just looked, and I have 30 albums that I would say are hands down better than Iconoclast, which gets extremely boring after the title track.  12 of those are albums I wouldn't expect you to like, but that still leaves 15 albums (you have DT, Flaming Row, and PoS ahead of SyX already).

You deserve all of these.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cO0IpLClLOQ/TG3R2nv5aJI/AAAAAAAABw0/Gx4twEFTsao/s1600/Facepalm.jpg

https://hotnerdgirl.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/double-facepalm1.jpg

Hell, you even make Homer Simpson facepalm.

https://animediet.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/633861426363034370-Facepalm.jpg

I expect better from you Nick.  Others, not so much, but as someone who gets as much music a year as I do...

Says the guy who ranked Journey way above Brand New, Manchester Orchestra, The Mars Volta and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum in his roulette.

OH SNAP

[Dr. DTVT]

Because I like it more than all of them.  I wouldn't have known that was Journey unless someone told me.  What really did it for me was a 90 second part toward the end of the song, it was musically probably the most interesting thing I got in the first round.

I haven't heard anything from TMV, Manchester, or Brand New that interests me in the least.  Sleepytime is hit or miss for me.  Unfortunately I compare everything I hear from them to their live performance, which I'm pretty sure can't be topped in studio.

[ariich]

I know, it's cool. I was just making the point that tastes differ. As much as I hate having to stick up for Nick.

[Dr. DTVT]

I know, it's cool. I was just making the point that tastes differ. As much as I hate having to stick up for Nick.

You know you don't have to stick up for him 
I was just shocked by it more than anything.

[bosk1]

I know, it's cool. I was just making the point that tastes differ.

Yes, and many of the tastes expressed in this thread suck.

[yorost]

Because I like it more than all of them.  I wouldn't have known that was Journey unless someone told me.  What really did it for me was a 90 second part toward the end of the song, it was musically probably the most interesting thing I got in the first round.

That solo was recorded twice, both takes are on the record in parallel.

Says the guy who ranked Journey way above Brand New, Manchester Orchestra, The Mars Volta and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum in his roulette.

...and dammit ariich.

[Gorille85]

I know, it's cool. I was just making the point that tastes differ.

Yes, and many of the tastes expressed in this thread suck.

Quite ironic! ; D

[Ultimetalhead]

1. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction

The rest do not matter.

[Dark Castle]

1. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
2. Dark Castle
3. Dark Castle
4. Dark Castle
5. Dark Castle
6. Dark Castle
7. Dark Castle
8. Dark Castle
9. Dark Castle
10. Dark Castle

[antigoon]

What the fuck is dark castle

[Gorille85]

a brand of soda

[Ħ]

1. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
2. Neal Morse - Testimony 2
3. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events

Those were the only albums I really got into that were from 2011.  I spent all my other time discovering older stuff.

[Jamesman42]

I know, it's cool. I was just making the point that tastes differ.

Yes, and many of the tastes expressed in this thread suck.

Starting with your list hahaha

[bosk1]

What the fuck is dark castle

Don't they make little tiny hamburgers in the midwest?

[yorost]

...white castle.

[Dr. DTVT]

What the fuck is dark castle

Don't they make little tiny hamburgers in the midwest?

He meant the midwest of the empire. 

[bosk1]

What the fuck is dark castle

Don't they make little tiny hamburgers in the midwest?

He meant the midwest of the empire. 

[ariich]

[MetalManiac666]

I know, it's cool. I was just making the point that tastes differ.

Yes, and many of the tastes expressed in this thread suck.

uh lol

[Nick]

Not fully up to date quite yet, but close.

Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events   242
The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection   114
Mastodon - The Hunter   71
Devin Townsend Project – Ghost   68
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning   68
Opeth - Heritage   65
Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction   64
Symphony X - Iconoclast   58
Haken – Visions   57
Redemption - This Mortal Coil   53
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Fair to Midland - Arrows and Anchors   50
Thrice - Major/Minor   50
Bon Iver - Bon Iver   45
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light   44
Protest the Hero – Scurrilous   41
Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance   38
Eisley - The Valley   37
Unexpect - Fables of the Sleepless Empire   37
Pain of Salvation – Road Salt Two   33
Neal Morse - Testimony 2   30
Radiohead - The King of Limbs   26
Trivium - In Waves   25
Machine Head - Unto The Locust   24
Bright Eyes - The People's Key   20
Flaming Row - Elinoire   20
Lady Gaga - Born This Way   20
James Blake - James Blake   17
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead   17
Toby Hitchcock - Mercury's Down   17
Hiromi – Voice   16
Adele - 21   15
Anthrax - Worship Music   15
Work of Art - In Progress   14
3 - The Ghost You Gave to Me   13
Pagan's Mind - Heavenly Ecstasy   13
Scar Symmetry - Unseen Empire   13
Ulver - Wars of the Roses   13
Death Cab For Cutie - Codes and Keys   12
Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care   12
Journey - Eclipse   12
Kimbra - Vows   12
Scale the Summit - The Collective   12
Megadeth - Th1rt3en   11
Tori Amos - Night of Hunters   11
Yes - Fly From Here   11
Arena - The Seventh Degree of Separation   10
Cloudkicker - Let Yourself Be Huge   10
Dark Castle - Surrender to All Life Beyond Form   10
Emilie Simon - Franky Knight   10
In Flames - Sounds of a Playground Fading   10
Mike Rood - The Desert & The City   10
Portugal. The Man - In the Mountain in the Cloud   10
The Human Abstract - Digital Veil   10
This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket   10
Evanescence - Evanescence   9
Floex - Zorya   9
Fuck the Facts - Die Miserable   9
Leprous - Bileral   9
Lost In Thought - Opus Arise   9
Russian Circles - Empros   9
They Might Be Giants - Join Us   9
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo OST   9
Amplifier - The Octopus   8
As Blood Runs Black - Instinct   8
Childish Gambino - Camp   8
Eumeria - Rebel Mind   8
Kanye West and Jay-Z - Watch The Throne   8
Karmakanic - In a Perfect World   8
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will   8
Myrath - Tales of the Sands   8
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds   8
Obscura - Omnivium   8
Petter Carlsen – Clocks Don’t Count   8
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Have You Seen This Ghost?   8
Stratovarius - Elysium   8
The Aristocrats - The Aristocrats   8
Black Tusk - Set the Dial   7
Born of Osiris - The Discovery   7
Florence + the Machine - Ceremonials   7
Iced Earth - Dystopia   7
Sarah Fimm - Near Infinite Possibility   7
Saxon - Call to Arms   7
Staind - Staind   7
Tesseract - One   7
The Lonely Island - Turtleneck & Chain   7
The Strokes - Angles   7
Unearth - Darkness In The Light   7
August Burns Red - Leveler   6
Darren Korb - Bastion OST   6
dredg - Chuckles & Mr. Squeezy   6
Drivemouth - Off The Ground   6
Eden's Curse - Trinity   6
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony   6
Fullforce - One   6
Grayceon - All We Destroy   6
Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra   6
Pendragon - Passion   6
The Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two   6
Tony MacAlpine - Tony MacAlpine   6
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving   6
Above & Beyond - Group Therapy   5
Blackfield - Welcome to my DNA   5
Devil Driver - Beast   5
Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones   5
Hillsong United - Aftermath   5
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow   5
Obscura - Omnivium   5
Rise To Remain - City of Vultures   5
The Anabasis - Back From Being Gone   5
The Magnificent - The Magnificent   5
This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket   5
Your Sister's Canary - Good And Alone   5
Amorphis - The Beginning of Time   4
Black Country Communion - 2   4
Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne   4
Kasabian - Velociraptor!   4
Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math   4
Necro Deathmort - Music of Bleak Origin   4
Proto-Kaw - Forth   4
Selah Sue - Selah Sue   4
Steel Panther - Balls Out   4
The Antlers - Burst Apart   4
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light   4
Wolverine – Communication Lost   4
World Under Blood - Tactical   4
Amon Tobin - ISAM   3
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto   3
Long Distance Calling – Long Distance Calling   3
Of Mice & Men - The Flood   3
Polkadot Cadaver - Sex Offender   3
Primus - Green Naugahyde   3
Submotion Orchestra - Finest Hour   3
Vicious Rumors-  Razerback Killers   3
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage   3
Agents of Mercy - The Black Forest   2
Alexandre Desplat - Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2: OST   2
Braids - Native Speaker   2
Discipline – To Shatter All Accord   2
Eumeria - Rebel Mind   2
Fleet Foxes - Helpnessness Blues   2
Johann Johannsson - The Miner's Hymn   2
Noisuf-X - Dead End District   2
Sebastian Bach - Kicking and Screaming   2
So Hideous, My Love... - To Clasp a Fallen Wish with Broken Fingers   2
Bass Communion - Cenotaph   1
Bjork - Biophillia   1
Caligula’s Horse – Moments from Ephemeral City   1
CunninLynguists - Oneirology   1
Elbow - build a rocket boys!   1
Lupe Fiasco - Lasers   1
Nightwish - Imaginaerium   1
Septic Flesh - The Great Mass   1