Let's help Indi make a special music gift! v. 2000

[jingle.boy]

Demons and Wizard - Fiddler on the Green
Elegy - Force Majeure
Erik Norlander - Rome is Burning <or> Lines in the Sand.  Keyboard led, so I don't know if it'll make the cut.
Jorn - I second Katt's reccomendation
Magnitude 9 - The End of Days
Nocturnal Rites - Hellennium
Rhapsody - Dawn of Veeektooorrrreeeeeeee (which requires Lux Triumphans as a setup)
Symphony X - Evolution (The Grand Design)... though, you can't go wrong with any of the main tracks from The New Mythology Suite.

Also, not sure if you caught it Alex, but you've got Evergrey twice on the '99 playlist.  Not sure if you're trying for 50 unique bands for each year.  I doubt you'll get 50 unique bands year-over-year, cuz too many will show up on subsequent albums.

[TAC]

Obviously something from Iron Maiden's Brave New World!!

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

We moving to the 2000s hey, oh lard ol mighty have mercie this will be tough!

Ayreon - The New Migrator (Decided to pick not the most popular on that album, however I think it's killer though!)
Devin Townsend - Kingdom
Hammerfall - The Way of the Warrior
In Flames - Bullet Ride
Linkin Park - One Step Closer
Pantera - Revolution Is My Name
Symphony X - Egypt
Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man

[jingle.boy]

No sure how I skipped over Ayreon - must've scrolled right to the "B"s by accident.  Anyway, you definitely want something from The Flight of the Migrator; The Dream Sequencer is all prog and no metal.

My recommendation is either Dawn of a Million Souls (Allen), or Into the Black Hole (Dickinson).  Chaos is a great instrumental too.

I like your thinking MrBoom.  FYI, Alex... Ian Parry is the vocalist on The New Migrator - same guy that was in a band with Arjen in the mid 80s (Vengeance); writer/composer/vocalist of The Consortium Project albums; and vocalist on the Elegy album/track I recommended.

[romdrums]

Nevermore - The River Dragon Has Come, Narcosynthesis
A Perfect Circle - Judith
Deftones - Rx Queen
Smashing Pumpkins - The Everlasting Gaze
Porcupine Tree - Hatesong

[The Walrus]

I'm going to suggest 2000 songs pretty soon. Some of them might even be from the year 2000

Actually I'm just gonna get these out of the way for 2000

Edguy - Frozen Candle
Iron Maiden - Ghost of the Navigator
Fates Warning - Pieces of Me
Jørn Lande - The Day The Earth Caught Fire (it's a cover but rocks) OR Gate of Tears for an original
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Helloween - Mr. Torture OR Deliver Us From Temptation if it's available
Stratovarius - Phoenix

Also +1 to Linkin Park's One Step Closer

[ariich]

Limiting myself to 8 artists again, and again mostly just one song each although I've offered a couple of options for Freak Kitchen:

Children of Bodom - Everytime I Die
Freak Kitchen - Dead Soul Man; Silence!
In Flames - Only For the Weak
Linkin Park - Papercut
Marilyn Manson - The Fight Song
Metallica - I Disappear
The Offspring - Dammit, I Changed Again
Sinergy - The Bitch is Back

[ariich]

(I'm adding the completed playlists in the OP, 'cause I live to serve)

Though you may find your service restricted at some point, as post's do have a character limit. So you may prefer to include links to the post that has the playlist for each year instead, either now or when it gets to a point where it no longer lets you add more!

[TAC]

Dio-Losing My Insanity

[Indiscipline]

Also, not sure if you caught it Alex, but you've got Evergrey twice on the '99 playlist.  Not sure if you're trying for 50 unique bands for each year.  I doubt you'll get 50 unique bands year-over-year, cuz too many will show up on subsequent albums.

Can't happen. Replaced it with Def Leppard. Thank you!

(I'm adding the completed playlists in the OP, 'cause I live to serve)

Though you may find your service restricted at some point, as post's do have a character limit. So you may prefer to include links to the post that has the playlist for each year instead, either now or when it gets to a point where it no longer lets you add more!

Indi vs BBCode: Endgame.

[Anguyen92]

Disturbed - Down with the Sickness or Stupify
Linkin Park - In the End (because it's the well-known song) or Points of Authority
Papa Roach - Last Resort or Between Angels and Insects
Switchfoot - Learning to Breathe (probably will get rejected, I'll keep trying to see one of their songs will stick)
Three Doors Down - Duck and Run or Kryptonite
Matchbox 20 - Bent
Limp Bizkit - My Way (probably will be a get you punched song, but I got to give a shout-out to the Wrestlemania 17 Theme song).
Iron Maiden - The Mercenary

Fun year.

[HOF]

Let’s get weird (they only probably get less heavy from here for me):

Beer for Dolphins - Ankle Bracelet
Enchant - Rough Draft
Geddy Lee - Grace to Grace
King’s X - Smudge
Kip Winger - Cross 
Mr. Big - Static
Platypus - 25

[Lethean]

2000:

Fates Warning - One
Symphony X - Communion and the Oracle
Borknagar - Colossus
Madsword - Time in the Ice

[Anguyen92]

Oh fudge, I forgot about My Favorite Headache.  Good call.

Geddy Lee - Working at Perfekt

[King Postwhore]

Let’s get weird (they only probably get less heavy from here for me):

Beer for Dolphins - Ankle Bracelet
Geddy Lee - Grace to Grace
King’s X - Smudge
Kip Winger - Cross 
Mr. Big - Static
Platypus - 25

Smudge is great as well as When You're Scared. 

[HOF]

As an aside, 2000 was a pretty fantastic year for music (though some of these I didn’t get until a few years later). Some albums from that year, many of which were pretty important for me as far as developing my tastes and interests:

Beer for Dolphins - Dancing
Chroma Key - You Go Now
King’s X - Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous
Kip Winger - Songs from the Ocean Floor
Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Radiohead - Kid A
Spock’s Beard - V
The Flower Kings - Space Revolver
Transatlantic - SMPTe
U2 - All That You Can’t Leave Behind

[HOF]

Let’s get weird (they only probably get less heavy from here for me):

Beer for Dolphins - Ankle Bracelet
Geddy Lee - Grace to Grace
King’s X - Smudge
Kip Winger - Cross 
Mr. Big - Static
Platypus - 25

Smudge is great as well as When You're Scared.

I loved that album. Last really cool thing King’s X did IMO (the next couple albums were solid though).

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

No sure how I skipped over Ayreon - must've scrolled right to the "B"s by accident.  Anyway, you definitely want something from The Flight of the Migrator; The Dream Sequencer is all prog and no metal.

My recommendation is either Dawn of a Million Souls (Allen), or Into the Black Hole (Dickinson).  Chaos is a great instrumental too.

I like your thinking MrBoom.  FYI, Alex... Ian Parry is the vocalist on The New Migrator - same guy that was in a band with Arjen in the mid 80s (Vengeance); writer/composer/vocalist of The Consortium Project albums; and vocalist on the Elegy album/track I recommended.

I was actually thinking on picking Chaos, such a great and explosive opener. +1 for including a drumsolo!

Less known but Keiko Kumagai (Ars Nova) plays a key solo on The New Migrator.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

2000:

Arena - Butterfly Man
At the Drive-in - Arcarsenal
Mudvayne - (K)now F(orever)
Lykathea Aflame - Bringer of Elvenefris Flame
Pain of Salvation - Idioglossia
Enslaved - Storre enn tid - Tyngre enn natt
Ark - Burning Down
Alchemist - Austral Spectrum

[HOF]

Oh fudge, I forgot about My Favorite Headache.  Good call.

Geddy Lee - Working at Perfekt

Another good option with some excellent Geddy Lee bass playing is Moving to Bohemia.

[SoundscapeMN]

Here's my albums release calendar for the year 2000
http://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-year-2000-albums-chronology-and-top.html

I'm not going suggest any songs, but I do think it would be rather sad if nobody recommended something from Kevin Gilbert's
The Shaming of the True.

[The Walrus]

Here's my albums release calendar for the year 2000
http://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-year-2000-albums-chronology-and-top.html

I'm not going suggest any songs, but I do think it would be rather sad if nobody recommended something from Kevin Gilbert's
The Shaming of the True.

You literally hold that power in your hands tho 

[HOF]

Here's my albums release calendar for the year 2000
http://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-year-2000-albums-chronology-and-top.html

I'm not going suggest any songs, but I do think it would be rather sad if nobody recommended something from Kevin Gilbert's
The Shaming of the True.

Forgot Enchant released Juggling that year (laptop has it as 2010 cause it’s a reissue/remaster). None of my Enchant suggestions have gotten any traction, but that’s yet another great album from 2000.

[Indiscipline]

Transatlantic - We All Need Some Light, wild card
Racer X - Let the Spirit Fly, wild card.
Edguy - Frozen Candle. Sure thing.
Iron Maiden -  The Wicker Man (over Ghost of the Navigator), truer to the Maidens we love.
Fates Warning -  One (over Pieces of Me), not sure it makes a lot of difference.
Jørn Lande - Gate of Tears (over The Day The Earth Caught Fire). Rocks harder.
Rhapsody - Lux Triumphans / Dawn of Victory: Makes you wanna burn villages down.
Helloween - Mr. Torture, it doesn't get funnier than fun mode Helloween.
Stratovarius - Phoenix. In. Utterly unoriginal, but in.
Alice Cooper - Sanctuary. I have no recollection of a heavier Alice.
UFO - Fool's Gold. He just has to hear UFO playing a bit in 15/16.
King Diamond - Just A Shadow (over The Trees Have Eyes), King's always a bro welcome.
Hammerfall - Keep The Flame Burning, The Way of the Warrior
Motorhead - Wake The Dead
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper, Everytime I Die
Halford - Resurrection
Lizzy Borden - Hell is For Heroes
Soilwork - Millionflame
Black Label Society - Fake Smiles and Phoney Hellos
Blaze Bayley - Stare At the Sun
Fates Warning - Still Remains
Pantera - Yesterday Don't Mean Shit, Revolution Is My Name
In Flames - Pinball Map, Only For the Weak, Bullet Ride
Angel Dust - Let Me Live
Demons and Wizard - Fiddler on the Green
Elegy - Force Majeure
Erik Norlander - Rome is Burning, Lines in the Sand.
Magnitude 9 - The End of Days
Nocturnal Rites - Hellennium
Symphony X - Evolution (The Grand Design),  Communion and the Oracle, Egypt
Ayreon - Dawn of a Million Souls, Into the Black Hole,  Chaos, The New Migrator
Nevermore - The River Dragon Has Come, Narcosynthesis
A Perfect Circle - Judith
Deftones - Rx Queen
Smashing Pumpkins - The Everlasting Gaze
Porcupine Tree - Hatesong
Freak Kitchen - Dead Soul Man; Silence!
Linkin Park - Papercut, In the End, Points of Authority, One Step Closer
Marilyn Manson - The Fight Song
Metallica - I Disappear
The Offspring - Dammit, I Changed Again
Sinergy - The Bitch is Back
Dio - Losing My Insanity
Disturbed - Down with the Sickness, Stupify
Papa Roach - Last Resort, Between Angels and Insects
Switchfoot - Learning to Breathe
Three Doors Down - Duck and Run, Kryptonite
Matchbox 20 - Bent
Limp Bizkit - My Way
Iron Maiden - The Mercenary
Beer for Dolphins - Ankle Bracelet
Geddy Lee - Grace to Grace
King’s X - Smudge, When You're Scared
Kip Winger - Cross
Mr. Big - Static
Platypus - 25
Borknagar - Colossus
Madsword - Time in the Ice
Geddy Lee - Working at Perfekt, Moving to Bohemia.
Arena - Butterfly Man
At the Drive-in - Arcarsenal
Mudvayne - (K)now F(orever)
Lykathea Aflame - Bringer of Elvenefris Flame
Pain of Salvation - Idioglossia
Enslaved - Storre enn tid, Tyngre enn natt
Ark - Burning Down
Alchemist - Austral Spectrum
Devin Townsend - Kingdom
Nightingale - Scarred For Life
Millennium - Hourglass
Sinergy- Midnight Madness

100 songs for 71 acts

Muchas gracias, amigos!

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

I think you forgot my suggestions?

We moving to the 2000s hey, oh lard ol mighty have mercie this will be tough!

Ayreon - The New Migrator (Decided to pick not the most popular on that album, however I think it's killer though!)
Devin Townsend - Kingdom
Hammerfall - The Way of the Warrior
In Flames - Bullet Ride
Linkin Park - One Step Closer
Pantera - Revolution Is My Name
Symphony X - Egypt
Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man

[HOF]

You posted right after I edited my list, but you may or may not want to include Enchant - Rough Draft (appropriate song for this IMO), but no biggie.

[Indiscipline]

A whole millennium turned, and I'm still absent-minded. Updated. Sorry, guys.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

A whole millennium turned, and I'm still absent-minded. Updated. Sorry, guys.

You are forgiven. 

[wolfking]

Nightingale - Scarred For Life
Millennium - Hourglass
Sinergy- Midnight Madness

[The Walrus]

Nightingale - Scarred For Life
Millennium - Hourglass
Sinergy- Midnight Madness

Fuck yes for Millennium. That's my favorite song on that record. Awesome stuff.

[Buddyhunter1]

Deftones - Digital Bath

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Deftones - Digital Bath

I can't believe I forgot about Deftones. Add Deftones - Knife Party 

[wolfking]

Nightingale - Scarred For Life
Millennium - Hourglass
Sinergy- Midnight Madness

Fuck yes for Millennium. That's my favorite song on that record. Awesome stuff.

Yes, great album.

[The Walrus]

Nightingale - Scarred For Life
Millennium - Hourglass
Sinergy- Midnight Madness

Fuck yes for Millennium. That's my favorite song on that record. Awesome stuff.

Yes, great album.

I'm not sure if I've sent them to Indi in a roulette or not, but I've thought about it many times. Songs like Power To Love and Wheels Are Turning would be interesting to him because to me they're super theatrical... almost like they could be part of a musical, they have that pep to them.

[wolfking]

Nightingale - Scarred For Life
Millennium - Hourglass
Sinergy- Midnight Madness

Fuck yes for Millennium. That's my favorite song on that record. Awesome stuff.

Yes, great album.

I'm not sure if I've sent them to Indi in a roulette or not, but I've thought about it many times. Songs like Power To Love and Wheels Are Turning would be interesting to him because to me they're super theatrical... almost like they could be part of a musical, they have that pep to them.

Don't forget Masquerade.