Tomislav's Top 50 Albums - #1: We'll meet again my friend, someday soon.

[Train of Naught]

SDoiT is brilliant of course, no doubt. I love it start to finish, though this is the one album where my favorite songs really can change about every other month.

That Redemption album I heard 2 songs off. The one you sent Evermind in the preliminary round which I found alright, and Walls, which I really like. So I'll probably check out the album sometime, noted.

[Evermind]

This Redemption album tops my check-out list now. It will be one of the first things I'll buy after I'm done with my roulette.

[Tomislav95]

SDoiT is brilliant of course, no doubt. I love it start to finish, though this is the one album where my favorite songs really can change about every other month.

That Redemption album I heard 2 songs off. The one you sent Evermind in the preliminary round which I found alright, and Walls, which I really like. So I'll probably check out the album sometime, noted.

This Redemption album tops my check-out list now. It will be one of the first things I'll buy after I'm done with my roulette.

I influenced two people to check Redemption - mission complete
I forgot to mention it, James Labrie is singing with Ray on song Another Day Dies.

[ThatOneGuy2112]

Six Degrees is one of DT's best.

Red is amazing. Starless is one of the best songs ever written. Chills every time.

[Sacul]

Red is excellent, and Six Degrees is like 25 spots lower 

I was sent a song from that Redemption record on my previous roulette, and I found it quite boring and generic

[Tomislav95]

Six Degrees is one of DT's best.

Red is amazing. Starless is one of the best songs ever written. Chills every time.

Yes, Starless is one of my favorite songs as well

Red is excellent, and Six Degrees is like 25 spots lower 

I was sent a song from that Redemption record on my previous roulette, and I found it quite boring and generic

You don't know what you're missing out, man

[Evermind]

His tastes in music are quite awful, don't mind him.

[Sacul]

Says he who loves power metal

[Tomislav95]

Power metal is just for real men:

[Evermind]

See? He doesn't even like power metal.

And this picture has "hard rock" in the bottom left corner, so I fail to see how it's related to our debate.

[Tomislav95]

See? He doesn't even like power metal.

And this picture has "hard rock" in the bottom left corner, so I fail to see how it's related to our debate.

It's Manowar, they are The power metal

[Evermind]

They aren't even in my banned list, they suck.

[Tomislav95]

They aren't even in my banned list, they suck.

I wouldn't know

[Train of Naught]

Manowar kick ass. 

[Sacul]

They're trve metal, only kvlt people will get them

[Mladen]

Red. 

[Prog Snob]

Sorry, I joined late. I arrived just in time for one of DT's best, and completing the best back-to-back combo since Images and Awake.

[Tomislav95]

#29: Opeth - Damnation(2003)

Progressive rock

Another dark and beautiful album on my list. I think I got Opeth as recommendation on Last.fm in summer of 2009 after I started listening to Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree and similar bands. Back then I didn't like growls. In fact, I used to avoid them and I remember saying I'll never get used to them, it is not music, it is just yelling But I knew Opeth combined more mellow and heavier music so I started discovering music with clean vocals. And, of course, I started with Damnation. It was like nothing I heard before. There were acoustic guitars, electric guitars, prog, folk and rock elements and one of best clean vocals. I still think Mikael has one of the best voices in music. After these few years I just learned to appreciate Damnation more and fall in love with folky parts of it. I'm glad guys from Opeth decided to do something like this album after their most successful album, this album is something all I need sometimes.
Recommended songs: Windowpane, To Rid to Disease, Hope Leaves

#28: Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy(1997)

Progressive metal

Symphony X is also one of the first progressive bands I was listening to. But Divine Wings wasn't my first album nor album I liked the best back then, it was Paradise Lost. Luckily I came back to listening to this band some time later and I couldn't believe I missed this album. I'm big fan of Russell Allen and I think his performance on this album is my favorite. Sometimes he goes to that gritty, almost harsh vocal style which he used often on their later albums, but it doesn't bother me that much here. His vocals in middle and high register are where he shines. And those vocal melodies are gorgeous(The Accolade, Pharaoh). Some may say this album is cheese fest but I think it's good kind of cheese. Other members have their moments, too. Guitar solo in Sea of Lies is part of this album which I repeated too many times and still I stop doing whatever I do every time I hear it just to hear it again. I know many people love epic title track but I'm not too fond of it. I mean, it's cool and everything but I don't find it that memorable. I still listen to it when listening whole album.
Recommended songs: The Accolade, Candlelight Fantasia, Sea of Lies

#27: Anathema - Weather Systems(2012)

Progressive rock

I don't know about the others but listening to this gives me bittersweet feeling even though objectively it is brighter than their earlier albums. I don't know if it really sounds like that or it brings me back to the time when I used to listen to Weather Systems quite often. I think it was spring in my last year of high scool (so almost three years ago). I was in „dark mood“ all the time then and after school I used to lay on my bed, eyes closed and listen to this album(not every day but quite often). I don't listen to it so much nowdays but I'm thrilled whenever I do. This is Anathema's second album with this, brighter sound but it is still very emotional. Great addition to last three albums is female vocalist Douglas Lee. She is one of the singers I could listen all the time. I especially like her performance on Untouchable part 2. Overall, Weather System is very simple album but there is something that makes me appreciate every moment of it. I would say it is one of the albums with the most chill moments due to it's atmosphere, vocalists' performances and harmonies and occasional orchestral-like moments. I love every song on this album but it works better when listening to the whole album. I recommend it to everyone.
Recommended songs: Untouchable(part 1 and part 2), The Beginning and the End

[Prog Snob]

This is your best update yet, specifically for Weather Systems which is such an amazing album. I know Anathema won prog album of the year in Classic Rock Prog magazine for We're Here Because We're Here, but I think Weather Systems is a better album overall.

[Train of Naught]

Damnation is fantastic, and I'm saying that after having heard it just once, definitely a must-have in the near future.

Not familiar with the other two (yet), but they are both on my list.

[Sacul]

This is your best update yet, specifically for Weather Systems which is such an amazing album. I know Anathema won prog album of the year in Classic Rock Prog magazine for We're Here Because We're Here, but I think Weather Systems is a better album overall.

All of this, Weather Systems is... more than an album, but an experience 

And Damnation is awesome 

[Tomislav95]

Damnation is fantastic, and I'm saying that after having heard it just once, definitely a must-have in the near future.

Not familiar with the other two (yet), but they are both on my list.

I think you need to check Anathema

This is your best update yet, specifically for Weather Systems which is such an amazing album. I know Anathema won prog album of the year in Classic Rock Prog magazine for We're Here Because We're Here, but I think Weather Systems is a better album overall.

All of this, Weather Systems is... more than an album, but an experience 

And Damnation is awesome 

Of course I love all albums on my list but albums from last update to #1 are ones that are really special to me, I could listen to them every day.

[Evermind]

Three fantastic albums.

[Mladen]

Damnation is beautiful, Divine wings is essential progressive metal. 

[Tomislav95]

Damnation is beautiful, Divine wings is essential progressive metal. 

And what about Anathema? You don't like them or...?

[Scorpion]

Damnation is great, Divine Wings is amazing.

Weather Systems, on the other hand, might just be the most overrated album of this decade. I can't for the life of me understand why people love it so much. I mean, it's not bad, but I just find it super bland.

[Mladen]

Damnation is beautiful, Divine wings is essential progressive metal. 

And what about Anathema? You don't like them or...?

I've never checked them out, honestly. Maybe sometime soon.

[Elite]

Damnation is great, Divine Wings is amazing.

Weather Systems, on the other hand, might just be the most overrated album of this decade. I can't for the life of me understand why people love it so much. I mean, it's not bad, but I just find it super bland.

I agree, but mostly because the previous album We're Here Because We're Here was a much more prominent improvement over their previous sound and overall just a lot better. Weather Systems I found to be bland and boring as well, because it just repeated what WHBWH did a lot better. But well, I'm repeating myself every time WS ends up in a list

[ThatOneGuy2112]

Not my favorite Opeth album, but Damnation is great.

[Dr. DTVT]

Weather Systems, on the other hand, might just be the most overrated album of this decade. I can't for the life of me understand why people love it so much. I mean, it's not bad, but I just find it super bland.

I like you.  You can fuck my sister.

[Prog Snob]

Weather Systems, on the other hand, might just be the most overrated album of this decade. I can't for the life of me understand why people love it so much. I mean, it's not bad, but I just find it super bland.

I'm not quite sure you have any clue what you're saying right now so I'll give you a pass.   

[Crow]

weather systems is inferior to we're here but it's still a good album

i don't really get the boner dtf has for anathema though, i like them but i've never loved them

[Prog Snob]

weather systems is inferior to we're here but it's still a good album

i don't really get the boner dtf has for anathema though, i like them but i've never loved them

It's just a matter of taste. It's like me not getting the boner some people here have for monotonous AOR music, but everybody has their own thing that gets them off. What does it for me with Anathema is the passion and intensity behind the mood of their music and the poetic fervency in the lyrics.

[Tomislav95]

#26: Rush - Grace Under Pressure(1984)

Progressive rock

I know this could be odd choice, even for some Rush fans but there is something about this album. I have to admit I neglected their „keyboard“ phase after I heard Signals. I liked some songs there but felt they lost Rush sound with it. However, this is different kind of monster. Different from both older albums and Signals and I like it as such. There are some songs I like less than others (Red Lenses) but nothing is really bad on the album. As I said, this is not typical Rush album: no long instrumental sections, the longest song is under 6 minutes, keyboards are used more than ever. Highs of this album are pretty high I would say, Red Sector A and Afterimage are among my all time favorite Rush songs. Alex Lifeson's work on this album is stunning. I'm not the biggest fan of Alex's solos (I'm in minority here, I know) but some of them on this album are great(Between the Wheels comes to mind). Even though due to keyboards and funky bass this albums can sound happy it is, in fact, very dark(nuclear war, holocaust, death). It took some time to grow on me but now I love this album to death.
Recommended songs: Red Sector A, Afterimage, Between the Wheels

#25: Porcupine Tree - Deadwing(2005)

Progressive rock

Second album by Porcupine Tree on my list and fourth with Steven Wilson. You can see by now I love that man. Porcupine Three is another band recommended to me by Last.fm and Deadwing is the album that got me into Porcupine Tree. Lazarus is still one of my favorite ballads and Arriving Somewhere but not Here was something unlike everything I heard before. I like how this album has some heavier moments(Shallow) as well as mellow ones(Mellotron Scratch). As you know, I like atmospheric music and this album also has plenty of them: intro to Arriving Somewhere..., Glass Arm Shattering, parts of Start of Something Beautiful. For quite some time this wasn't this high on my list because I didn't like Glass Arm Shattering and Shallow but they grew on me and now I can see those are perfect in context of album. I think everyone here knows this one but if you don't check it out, it's good place to start with PT.
Recommended songs: Arriving Somewhere but Not Here, Lazarus, Mellotron Scratch

#24: Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here(2010)

Progressive rock

Another album by Anathema on my list after Weather Systems. I usually have trouble rating those two because I don't know which one I like more but recently I felt something in this one that made me like it even more. Like Weather System, this album also sounds bittersweet to me, like finally experiencing happiness after long dark period or like calm after the storm (shit, I should've used this on Weather Systems ). Also, I feel individual songs on We're Here Because We're Here are bit stronger. If I ever did list of my favorite songs Thin Air and Dreaming Light would be up there. Also, this is Anathema's first album to feature additional singer Lee Douglas. And she adds something special to this album and Anathema's sound overall. I know some people have problem with Get Off, Get Out and I didn't like it but it grew on me I feel it's nice tune, different than any other song on album(reminds me of Porcupine Tree). I like it more than Weather Systems but obviously not so much as some others here.
Recommended songs: Thin Air, Dreaming Light, A Simple Mistake

[Elite]

YESSSSSS