Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019- AND WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!

[hefdaddy42]

I can't possibly do this.

[lonestar]

Well not now... Maybe if you thought about it a month and a half ago when I made the thread Wed be graced with Hefsl's wisdom in the subject.

[hefdaddy42]

Well not now... Maybe if you thought about it a month and a half ago when I made the thread Wed be graced with Hefsl's wisdom in the subject.

Probably not.

I find it hard to rank stuff sometimes.  It's easier for me to group things.  You know, good pile, great pile, lackluster pile, shitty pile.

[Zoom E]

I’ll give this a shot.

Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Headspace - I am Anonymous
Ayreon - Theory of Everything
Avenged Sevefold - Nightmare
Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
Nightwish - Imaginarium
The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional
Threshold - March of Progress
Muse - Drones
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
Myrath - Legacy
Ghost - Prequelle
Black Keys - El Camino

[jammindude]

Is it too late?

1. Haken - The Mountain
2. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase
3. IQ - Road of Bones
4. Odd Logic - Last Watch of the Nightingale
5. Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
6. Haken - Affinity
7. IQ - Resistance
8. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
9. Rush - Clockwork Angels
10 . Odd Logic - If We Were Live

Sorry if it seems a bit one dimensional, but it's fairly honest.   Once I *really* love a band, I tend to go a bit bananas.    Odd Logic in particular is a band that I just wish I could get people to check out.   I'm sure if 1000 people gave their stuff a couple of spins, they would get at least several hundred die hards.    And their new one is absolutely the best one yet.     

[lonestar]

Nah, not too late, we're going by Pacific time, so we got another 6 hours.

I’ll give this a shot.

Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Headspace - I am Anonymous
Ayreon - Theory of Everything
Avenged Sevefold - Nightmare
Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
Nightwish - Imaginarium
The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional
Threshold - March of Progress
Muse - Drones
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
Myrath - Legacy
Ghost - Prequelle
Black Keys - El Camino

I'm assuming DT is #1 and so on?

[Adami]

How can I possibly pick ONE best album when I've made two?

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

How can I possibly pick ONE best album when I've made two?

[IDontNotDoThings]

2 hours left

[Zoom E]

Nah, not too late, we're going by Pacific time, so we got another 6 hours.

I’ll give this a shot.

Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Headspace - I am Anonymous
Ayreon - Theory of Everything
Avenged Sevefold - Nightmare
Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
Nightwish - Imaginarium
The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional
Threshold - March of Progress
Muse - Drones
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
Myrath - Legacy
Ghost - Prequelle
Black Keys - El Camino

I'm assuming DT is #1 and so on?

Correct

[lonestar]

 

2 hours left

 

And I'll be in bed by then, so you get first crack at seeing who the winner is...

[IDontNotDoThings]

Aaand all votes double-checked & archived. Time to count them up.

Lists & edits submitted from this point onward won't be included in the poll, but I guess you can still post your lists in this thread if you want to.

[lonestar]

Ok folks....it's results time!!!

First off, I want to give a massive thank you to IDontNotDoThings for her invaluable help in tallying these results into a fashion way more organized than my feeble chef mind is capable of. Without it, you all would be waiting another week for this   

Secondly, I want to thank the participants...we had 55 DTF users nominate 448 albums for the distinct honor of being our album of the decade. Now it should come as no surprise that our house band dominated the top 15 with all the decades output in there, and a good deal of the rest of the top 15 being fairly predictable, but at least for me, there were some surprises, especially if you eliminate the house band.

So, without further ado....DTF's top 20 albums of the decade...

1- Dream Theater- A Dramatic Turn of Events
2- Haken- The Mountain
3- Anathema- Weather Systems
4- Haken- Affinity
5- Steven Wilson- Hand. Cannot. Erase.
6- The Neal Morse Band- The Similtude of a Dream
7- Dream Theater- The Astonishing
8- Steven Wilson- The Raven that Refused to Sing
9- Dream Theater- Distance over Time
10- Ayreon- The Theory of Everything
11- Between the Buried and Me- Parralax II: Future Sequence
12- Iron Maiden- The Book of Souls
13- Fates Warning- Theories of Flight
14- Dream Theater- Dream Theater
15- Rush- Clockwork Angels
16- Beyond the Bridge- The Old Man and the Spirit
17- IQ- The Road of Bones
18- Leprous- Bilateral
19- TesseracT- Altered States
20- Anathema- Were Here Because Were Here

For all the results, lovingly organized into a simple, readable fashion, here is IDontNotDoThings spreadsheet...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19G2NvDLIyfi4afcqf8foTrsXwKmsP6XZLZy3hDUrYCg/edit#gid=517846519


If we're all still around in 2029, I promise to do this again. Thanks again for all your participation, and happy new decade!!!

[KevShmev]

I've never heard Anathema, but I guess I'll have to check out Weather Systems now.

[King Postwhore]

I've never heard Anathema, but I guess I'll have to check out Weather Systems now.

The Storm Before the Calm is my favorite.  Saw them in 2018.  They sounded amazing live.

[lonestar]

I've never heard Anathema, but I guess I'll have to check out Weather Systems now.

I predict you'll be sold by Lightning Song. It's a spectacular album.

[TAC]

I’ve only heard 8 of those albums. 

[The Walrus]

Zero surprises on that list. 

[KevShmev]

The Storm Before the Calm is my favorite. Saw them in 2018.  They sounded amazing live.

Noted.

I predict you'll be sold by Lightning Song. It's a spectacular album.

Four tracks in, I like tracks 1, 3 and 4 all quite a bit (Lightning Song being track 4), so your prediction appears to be correct. 

[Zoom E]

So here goes. I know the OP said limit to 2 albums but I'm sorry, I just can't in good conscience do it. It just wouldn't be my top 15 albums of the decade otherwise.

Fair enough I guess, but Year Of The Black Rainbow & The Colour Spectrum won't get any points from you because of the 2 albums rule - just fyi.

I guess I've also kinda cheated as I put Coheed's Ascension/Descension as one album.

That's within the rules; the 11 points for the 5th place rank would just be split equally between the two albums (5.5 each).

I'm fine with The Color Spectrum not getting points but technically The Afterman is a double album so it could count as one release? Heretic just put it as one entry on his honourable mentions. I can't be the only one who has it on their list. If that does count as a double album then can I still have Year of the Black Rainbow?

They were not only released separately, but also with a four month gap in between them, so I think they should count as 2 albums & not 1 double album. Unless lonestar is willing to make an exception for albums that have the same title (which I doubt, since he didn't say anything when I pointed out Juggernaut Alpha/Omega being two albums), that's a no from me.

Also believe it or not, yes you are the only one so far who's had Afterman (or any C&C album for that matter) on their list.

Just going back through this thread now that the results have been posted. I definitely would have had one of these Coheed albums on my list but completely forgot about them when making my list.

[Lethean]

Yay for Leprous making an appearance.

[Sacul]

The Storm Before the Calm is my favorite.  Saw them in 2018.  They sounded amazing live.

Same here, and I saw them live in 2017 - it was one of the best gigs I've been to. This song in particular was fucking visceral

[lonestar]

The Storm Before the Calm is my favorite.  Saw them in 2018.  They sounded amazing live.

Same here, and I saw them live in 2017 - it was one of the best gigs I've been to. This song in particular was fucking visceral

Yeah, can't remember the year, but it was off the Weather Systems tour. Their only SF appearance, they played a small 500 person club. I was front row in front of Lee...got to stare into her eyes as they opened with the first four off the album. Talk about falling head over heals man...

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

The Storm Before the Calm is my favorite.  Saw them in 2018.  They sounded amazing live.

Same here, and I saw them live in 2017 - it was one of the best gigs I've been to. This song in particular was fucking visceral

Yeah, can't remember the year, but it was off the Weather Systems tour. Their only SF appearance, they played a small 500 person club. I was front row in front of Lee...got to stare into her eyes as they opened with the first four off the album. Talk about falling head over heals man...

I remember going to one of their shows in 2013 in Oakland. I think the venue was called the Metro Operahouse. I also saw them in 2014 at The Fillmore in SF, but I don't remember them playing the first four off the album at this show. I could be wrong though.

[lonestar]

It was the Metro show they played it at. Can't believe we were at the same show man. You still a Bay local?

[Crow]

ADTOE is not top 200 albums of the decade for me but sure 

[krands85]

Great job  Interesting to see the results! 5 of my picks are in the top 15 and 7 are in the top 20, but I've got lots of new albums to check out 

[Buddyhunter1]

Heard 14/20! Not bad. Happy to see Weather Systems do so well. I find ADTOE and especially The Mountain to be incredibly overrated among these parts but I'm not surprised in the slightest to see them at the top.

EDIT: Wow, To Pimp A Butterfly tied with WHBWH? Talk about an outlier in the top 20

[ThatOneGuy2112]

Yeah, I'm pleasantly surprised to see TPAB rank as high is it did here, but it definitely deserves it and then some. Fantastic record.

[Crow]

1- Dream Theater- A Dramatic Turn of Events
2- Haken- The Mountain
3- Anathema- Weather Systems
4- Haken- Affinity
5- Steven Wilson- Hand. Cannot. Erase.
6- The Neal Morse Band- The Similtude of a Dream
7- Dream Theater- The Astonishing
8- Steven Wilson- The Raven that Refused to Sing
9- Dream Theater- Distance over Time
10- Ayreon- The Theory of Everything
11- Between the Buried and Me- Parralax II: Future Sequence
12- Iron Maiden- The Book of Souls
13- Fates Warning- Theories of Flight
14- Dream Theater- Dream Theater
15- Rush- Clockwork Angels
16- Beyond the Bridge- The Old Man and the Spirit
17- IQ- The Road of Bones
18- Leprous- Bilateral
19- TesseracT- Altered States
20- Anathema- Were Here Because Were Here

all the ones i've heard. i don't know how many of them i'd agree with being here, but 

[Buddyhunter1]

1- Dream Theater- A Dramatic Turn of Events
2- Haken- The Mountain
3- Anathema- Weather Systems
4- Haken- Affinity
5- Steven Wilson- Hand. Cannot. Erase.
6- The Neal Morse Band- The Similtude of a Dream
7- Dream Theater- The Astonishing
8- Steven Wilson- The Raven that Refused to Sing
9- Dream Theater- Distance over Time
10- Ayreon- The Theory of Everything
11- Between the Buried and Me- Parralax II: Future Sequence
12- Iron Maiden- The Book of Souls
13- Fates Warning- Theories of Flight
14- Dream Theater- Dream Theater
15- Rush- Clockwork Angels
16- Beyond the Bridge- The Old Man and the Spirit
17- IQ- The Road of Bones
18- Leprous- Bilateral
19- TesseracT- Altered States
20- Anathema- Were Here Because Were Here

all the ones i've heard. i don't know how many of them i'd agree with being here, but 

This, except I haven't heard the Ayreon or Beyond The Bridge albums

[TAC]

1- Dream Theater- A Dramatic Turn of Events
2- Haken- The Mountain
3- Anathema- Weather Systems
4- Haken- Affinity
5- Steven Wilson- Hand. Cannot. Erase.
6- The Neal Morse Band- The Similtude of a Dream
7- Dream Theater- The Astonishing
8- Steven Wilson- The Raven that Refused to Sing
9- Dream Theater- Distance over Time
10- Ayreon- The Theory of Everything
11- Between the Buried and Me- Parralax II: Future Sequence
12- Iron Maiden- The Book of Souls
13- Fates Warning- Theories of Flight
14- Dream Theater- Dream Theater
15- Rush- Clockwork Angels
16- Beyond the Bridge- The Old Man and the Spirit
17- IQ- The Road of Bones
18- Leprous- Bilateral
19- TesseracT- Altered States
20- Anathema- Were Here Because Were Here

all the ones i've heard. i don't know how many of them i'd agree with being here, but 

You've only heard 4 albums?

[Buddyhunter1]

Pretty sure red = heard

[Crow]

yes red is a good color for highlighting stuff
you should listen to the beyond the bridge album, it's better than it should be

[TAC]

you should listen to the beyond the bridge album, it's better than it should be

I have it. Been ages since I have listened to it.