Retro Albums of the Year 2010's: 2020

[HOF]

Some of my favorite albums of all time in 2000 (an even 20!):

1. Kip Winger - Songs from the Ocean Floor
2. Transatlantic - SMPTe
3. Spock's Beard - V
4. King's X - Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous
5. Enchant - Juggling 9 or Dropping 10
6. The Flower Kings - Space Revolver
7. Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins - Dancing
8. Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek
9. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
10. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun (just noticed I forgot Stupid Dream in 1999)
11. Chroma Key - You Go Now
12. Radiohead - Kid A
13. Mr. Big - Get Over It
14. Pearl Jam - Binaural
15. Geddy Lee - My Favorite Headache
16. Platypus - Ice Cycles
17. Peter Gabriel - OVO
18. Bozzio Stevens Levin - Situation Dangerous
19. King Crimson - The ConstruKction of Light
20. Tony Levin - Waters of Eden

[WardySI]

1. IRON MAIDEN Brave New World
2. BLAZE Silicon Messiah
3. POWDERFINGER Odyssey #5
4. NEVERMORE Dead Heart In A Dead World
5. DIO Magica

Great year with so many more (such as Halford and Helloween amongst others)  already mentioned by others so  won't repeat them

ETA actually will mention another few, a couple of which not yet mentioned enough 😉 all very close to my own 2000 Top5...

CHARON Tearstained
SENTENCED Crimson
THE 69 EYES Blessed Be

[hefdaddy42]

2000

No particular order

Transatlantic - SMPT:e
Radiohead - Kid A
Kevin Gilbert - The Shaming of the True
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Outbound
Gov't Mule - Life Before Insanity
Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men of Tain

[Dave_Manchester]

Catching up...

1998:

1. Elliott Smith - XO

2. Genesis Archive 1967-1975
3. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
4. Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast

5. Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel
6. Liquid Tension Experiment 1
7. R.E.M - Up
8. Nightwish - Oceanborn


1999:

1. Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder (*in my top 20 albums of all time)

2. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
3. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada (EP)

4. Liquid Tension Experiment 2
5. Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
6. Opeth - Still Life
7. Children of Bodom - Tokyo Warhearts
8. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
9. Steve Vai - The Ultra Zone

2000:

1. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (*in my ten albums of all time)

2. Mark Knopfler - Sailing To Philadelphia (*in my top 20 albums of all time)
3. Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper (*in my top 20 albums of all time)
4. Cradle of Filth - Midian (*in my top 30 albums of all time)
 
5. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
6. Genesis Archive 1976-1992
7. Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood
8. Steve Vai - The 7th Song
9. Radiohead - Kid A
10. Britney Spears - Oops...I Did It Again

11. Ween - White Pepper
12. Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants (as always with this band, if they'd included the best b-sides and kicked off the shit songs this would be a classic)
13. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
14. Peter Gabriel - Ovo
15. P.J.Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
16. Transatlantic - SMPT:e


 

[nick_z]

1. Kip Winger - Songs from the Ocean Floor

This is a great one - I didn't have it on my list because, for some reason, my archive recorded it as 2001... but yes, the original release is 2000.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

1. Kip Winger - Songs from the Ocean Floor

This is a great one - I didn't have it on my list because, for some reason, my archive recorded it as 2001... but yes, the original release is 2000.

TAC will probably have this on his list too

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Working on my 2000 list now. I have about 300 albums to sift through. Not sure how many will make my list yet.

LET THE FLOODGATES OF MUSIC OPEN!!!!

[nick_z]

1. Kip Winger - Songs from the Ocean Floor

This is a great one - I didn't have it on my list because, for some reason, my archive recorded it as 2001... but yes, the original release is 2000.

TAC will probably have this on his list too

I have no doubt 

[HOF]

1. Kip Winger - Songs from the Ocean Floor

This is a great one - I didn't have it on my list because, for some reason, my archive recorded it as 2001... but yes, the original release is 2000.

It's in my top 3 favorite albums of all time probably.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

1. Kip Winger - Songs from the Ocean Floor

This is a great one - I didn't have it on my list because, for some reason, my archive recorded it as 2001... but yes, the original release is 2000.

It's in my top 3 favorite albums of all time probably.

I'm starting to suspect that HOF is actually Kip Winger   

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

2000:

Antimatter – Saviour

By the way this came out in 2002, unless you picked up a promo copy in 2001 

[nick_z]

2000:

Antimatter – Saviour

By the way this came out in 2002, unless you picked up a promo copy in 2001 

Thank you  If anything, as I said before, this thread is a perfect opportunity to clean up the "data" in the archives...

I don't have easy access to my CD, but I'm seeing on Discogs there are issues from 2001 too (in addition to the promo, that is)..

[nick_z]

20. Klimt 1918 - Secession Makes Modern Music

So neat that you are listing this one - it's their demo, even before their full-length debut!

 

Yeah it's kind of raw, but it works. I'm sure there are some other fans around here, but they seldom get mentioned.

I happen to love that record, and the 2 records that followed it (especially Dopoguerra). Unfortunately the last 2....well when we get to those years, we'll see if they show up or not, lol.

I'm definitely a fan 

Undressed Momento was still in the same vein (kinda), but yes, Dopoguerra is probably my favorite too. Fell in love with it once I heard Snow of '85. Just in Case is still pretty good, although definitely deeper in the indie/shoegaze-y direction they had been taking. I've actually only recently got their double Sentimentale/Jugend, and haven't spent much with it yet...

[HOF]

1. Kip Winger - Songs from the Ocean Floor

This is a great one - I didn't have it on my list because, for some reason, my archive recorded it as 2001... but yes, the original release is 2000.

It's in my top 3 favorite albums of all time probably.

I'm starting to suspect that HOF is actually Kip Winger   

I can neither confirm nor deny.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

1. Kip Winger - Songs from the Ocean Floor

This is a great one - I didn't have it on my list because, for some reason, my archive recorded it as 2001... but yes, the original release is 2000.

It's in my top 3 favorite albums of all time probably.

I'm starting to suspect that HOF is actually Kip Winger   

I can neither confirm nor deny.

Schrödinger's Winger.......You both are and are not Kip Winger 

[SoundscapeMN]

2001

No previous write-up in my blog (which many of the years going forward, that is the case).

In looking at 2001, while it's not as deep as a year for me as other years going forward, there are a handful of favorites of mine near the top. Ours, King's X, Green Carnation, Anathallo, System of a Down, maudlin of the Well, Zero Hour, etc.

My list includes Modern Prog/NeoProg, Prog and Experimental Metal, along with some up-and-coming artsy/proggy indie/alternative/college rock.

It's a top heavy year, but at the same time, I kind of see 2001 (along with 2000, and some other years soon after) as the start of the whole "indie" boom and Music creation boom as-a-whole with bands forming and recording at higher rates given improved technology and reduced cost to make music. Also the creativity that started happening in the 2000's with bands taking influence from the 90's rock along with Classic Rock and 80's, you would see more "indie" bands pop up who were doing more of the artsy/proggy music sort of as a sponge (contrasting with the progressive rock and metal from the recent previous years that almost sounded extensively retro or traditional).

1. Ours - Distorted Lullabies
2. Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
3. maudlin of the Well - Bath/Leaving Your Body Map
4. Zero Hour - The Towers of Avarice
5. King's X - Manic Moonlight
6. Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darknes
7. Marillion - Anoraknaphobia
8. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
9. Anathallo - Luminous Luminescence in the Atlas Position
10. Opeth - Blackwater Park
11. System of a Down - Toxicity
12. Evergrey - In Search of Truth
13. Woven - EPrime
14. Nexus - Metonia
15. Savatage - Poets and Madmen
16. Devin Townsend - Terria
17. The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker
18. The Tea Party - Interzone Mantras
19. Oceansize - A Very Still Movement [EP]
20. Big Wreck - The Pleasure and the Greed
21. Dream Theater - Live Scenes from New York
22. Menomena - Rose [EP]
23. The Decemberists - 5 Songs [EP]
24. Virgo - Virgo
25. The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl: Vol. I-II
26. Daft Punk - Discovery
27. Porcupine Tree - Recordings
28. Jeff Buckley - Live à L'Olympia
29. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 1
30. Various Artists - Ghost World Original Soundtrack
31. Shadow Gallery - Legacy
32. Time of Orchids - Melonwhisper
33. The Apex Theory - The Apex Theory
34. Collective Unconscious - Collective Unconscious
35.. Shun - Michael in Reign
36. Aereogramme - A Story in White
37. Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost
38. South - From Here On In

Concerts
2/23/01 Prog Power USA
Symphony X/Jag Panzer/Reading Zero/Onward/Etheria/ - JJ Kelley's Lansing, IL
2/24/01 Prog Power USA
Pain of Salvation/Evergrey/Ion Vein/Power of Omens/Zero Hour JJ Kelley's Lansing, IL
5/5/01 Savatage/Fates Warning - The Lab St.Paul, MN
5/01 Bill Bruford's Earthworks - The Dakota Jazz Club St.Paul, MN
5/30/01 Yo-Yo Ma - The Ordway Theater St.Paul, MN
6/23/01 North East Art Rock Festival
Porcupine Tree/Deus Ex Machina/White Willow/Under the Sun/Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Zoellner Arts Center Bethlehem, PA
6/24/01 North East Art Rock Festival
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso/After Crying/California Guitar Trio/Djam Karet/The Underground Railroad - Zoellner Arts Center Bethlehem, PA
7/26/01 Spock's Beard/Event - Shank Hall Milwaukee, WI
8/23/01 East Meets Jazz - The Dakota Bar and Grille St.Paul, MN
9/14/01 The Flower Kings/ - Shank Hall Milwaukee, WI
10/26/01 Tim Reynolds/Greg Howard - The Women's Club Theater Minneapolis, MN
11/5/01 King's X/Moke - First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
11/10/01 Prog Power USA
Kamelot/Evergrey/Steel Prophet/Spiral Architect/Superior - Earthlink Live Atlanta, GA
11/21/01 King Crimson/John Paul Jones - Grand Ballroom in River Center St.Paul, MN

[nick_z]

2001

Again, adding a star (*) here for albums that were actually purchased later

My favorite Rammstein and Tool albums were released this year. Amazing stuff. On the prog-related front, Ark's Burn the Sun is one of my favorites in the genre, period. Absolutely loved Katatonia's record - also one of my favorites in their discography. Anathema and Amorphis released good albums - just not quite the same level as what came before.

Top 15 (somewhat fluid)

Rammstein – Mutter
Tool – Lateralus
Ark – Burn the Sun
Paradise Lost – Believe in Nothing
Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Novembre – Novembrine Waltz
System of a Down – Toxicity
Evergrey – In Search of Truth
Opeth – Blackwater Park
Devin Townsend – Terria
Elisa – Then Comes the Sun
Rapture – Futile *
Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American *
Dave Matthews Band – Everyday *
Muse – Origin of Symmetry

The honorable mentions

Amorphis – Am Universum
Anathema – A Fine Day to Exit
Annihilator – Carnival Diablos
Antimatter – Saviour
Anyone – Anyone
Backyard Babies – Making Enemies Is Good
Beautiful Creatures – Beautiful Creatures
Beyond Twilight – The Devil’s Hall of Fame
Black Symphony – Tears of Blood
Breach – Kollapse
Converge – Jane Doe
Creed – Weathered
The Cult – Beyond Good and Evil
Flaw – Through the Eyes
Green Carnation – Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Hollenthon – With Vilest of Worms to Dwell
Jorn – Worldchanger
Journey – Arrival
Lacuna Coil – Unleashed Memories
John Mayer – Room for Squares *
The Mayfield Four – Second Skin *
Moonspell – Darkness and Hope
Ours – Distorted Lullabies
P.O.D. – Satellite
Prime Sth – Underneath the Surface
The Provenance – 25th Hour; Bleeding
Puddle of Mudd – Come Clean
Puya – Union
Rage – Welcome to the Other Side
Soil – Scars
Soilwork – A Predator’s Portrait
Sonic Debris – Velvet Thorns
Stabbing Westward – Stabbing Westward
Threshold – Hypothetical
Within Temptation – Mother Earth

[ReaperKK]

2001:

1. Incubus - Morning View - 5/5 - Top 5 album of all time for me
2. Tool - Lateralus - 5/5 - A top 10 album for me
3. Tenacious D - Tenacious D - 5/5
4. Dave Matthews Band - Everyday - 4/5
5. System Of A Down - Toxicity - 4/5
6. Devin Townsend - Terria - 3.5/5
7. 10 Years - Into The Half Moon - 3/5
8. Andy McKee - Nocturne - 3/5 - Not my favorite album of his but this album has some of my favorite songs from Andy
9. Opeth - Blackwater Park - 3/5
10. Explosions In the Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever - 3/5
11. Sevendust - Animosity - 3/5
12. Ludovico Einaudi - I Gironi - 3/5
13. Creed - Weathered - 2.5/5
14. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells - 2/5
15. Ishq - Orchid - 2/5
16. Staind - Break The Cycle - 1.5/5
17. Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order - 1.5/5
18. Groove Armada - Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) - 1/5
19. Plaid - Double Figure - 0.5/5

[MirrorMask]

2001 had some cool albums...

1. Avantasia - The Metal Opera

The crown goes to the beginning of a wonderful journey, Avantasia's debut!

2. Kamelot - Karma

A masterpiece of the genre, the onward rise of Kamelot was in full swing!

3. Iced Earth - Horror Show

A very solid offering full of great songs, and Matt Barlow's (first) swan song. Amazing album.

Rounding up the list with albums deserving of the podium as well....

4. Sonata Arctica - Silence
5. Therion - Secret of the Runes
6. Beyond Twilight – The Devil’s Hall of Fame
7. Rage – Welcome to the Other Side
8. Savatage - Poets and Madmen
9. Alice Cooper - Dragontown
10. Shadow Gallery - Legacy

Honorable mentions for:
Blackmore's Night - Fires at Midnight
Edguy - Mandrake
Gamma Ray - No World Order
Jag Panzer – Mechanized Warfare
Threshold – Hypothetical
Royal Hunt - The Mission
Angra - Rebirth
Ensiferum - Ensiferum
Judas Priest - Demolition

[jingle.boy]

Not mentioned yet:

Ambeon - Fate of a Dreamer
Consortium Project - II: Continuum in Extremis
DGM - Dreamland
Freedom Call - Crystal Empire
Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio
Ivory Tower - Beyond the Stars
Jorn - Worldchanger
Last Tribe - The Ritual
Nikolo Kotzev's Nostradamus
Rhapsody - Rain of a Thousand Flames
Secret Sphere - A Time Never Come
Silent Force - Infatuator
Ten - Far Beyond the World
Wicked Sensation - Reflected

I bought precisely zero of these in 2001.

[ariich]

Oh man, 2001. Three masterpieces and a whole load of other great albums. I think from this point on I'm going to stick to a top 20 and then group the rest.

Top 20:
1. Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
2. Devin Townsend - Terria
3. Opeth - Blackwater Park
4. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
5. Tool - Lateralus
6. Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - Swingin' for the Fences
7. System of a Down - Toxicity
8. Ark - Burn the Sun
9. Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
10. Threshold - Hypothetical
11. Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
12. Moonsorrow - Suden uni
13. Moonsorrow - Voimasta ja kunniasta
14. Ensiferum - Ensiferum
15. Kings of Convenience - Quiet Is the New Loud
16. Amorphis - Am Universum
17. The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker
18. Sonata Arctica - Silence
19. Angra - Rebirth
20. Wolverine - The Window Purpose

Also great:
Borknagar - Empiricism
Gamma Ray - No World Order
Hardcore Superstar - Thank You (For Letting Us Be Ourselves)
Iced Earth - Horror Show
Kamelot - Karma
Rammstein - Mutter
Shadow Gallery - Legacy
SOiL - Scars
Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough

Also good:
Ambeon - Fate of a Dreamer
Anathema - A Fine Day to Exit
Aphex Twin - drukqs
Balance of Power - Perfect Balance
Dave Brubeck - Live with the LSO
Bumblefoot - 9.11
Daft Punk - Discovery
Depeche Mode - Exciter
Dog Fashion Disco - Anarchists of Good Taste
Evergrey - In Search of Truth
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
Feeder - Echo Park
Floex - Pocustone
Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Jon Hopkins - Opalescent
Infected Mushroom - B.P.Empire
Machine Head - Supercharger
Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
Pendragon - Not of This World
Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
Jordan Rudess - Feeding the Wheel
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing
Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
Solefald - Pills Against the Ageless Ills
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Von Hertzen Brothers - Experience
Weezer - Weezer [Green Album]
Πυξ Λαξ [Pyx Lax] - Τα δοκάρια στο γρασίδι περιμένουν τα παιδιά
Junya Nakano / Masashi Hamauzu / Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy X

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Oh man, 2001. Three masterpieces and a whole load of other great albums.

Are you saying Lateralus isn't a masterpiece? We can't be friends anymore..... 

Anyone who doesn't have Lateralus in their top 5 is objectively wrong 

[TAC]

Oh man, 2001. Three masterpieces and a whole load of other great albums.

Are you saying Lateralus isn't a masterpiece? We can't be friends anymore..... 

Anyone who doesn't have Lateralus in their top 5 is objectively wrong 

I've never even heard it.

[KevShmev]

2001:

01 Devin Townsend - Terria
02 Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
03 Muse - Origin of Symmetry
04 Opeth - Blackwater Park
05 Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
06 Radiohead - Amnesiac
07 Jeff Beck - You Had It Coming
08 Blue Oyster Cult - Curse of the Hidden Mirror
09 The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker
10 Neal Morse - It's Not Too Late

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Apparently I'm behind. Here's my 2000 list

1. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
2. Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
3. Arena - Immortal?
4. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
5. Deftones - White Pony
6. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
7. Enslaved - Mardraum: Beyond the Within
8. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
9. The Smashing Pumpkins - MACHINA / The Machines of God
10. Novembre - Classica
11. Mudvayne - L.D. 50
12. Fates Warning - Disconnected
13. Alchemist - Organasm
14. Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
15. Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
16. Weakling - Dead As Dreams
17. A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms...
18. Quo Vadis - Day Into Night
19. The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
20. Extol - Undeceived
21. Geddy Lee - My Favourite Headache
22. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
23. Paysage d'Hiver - Kristall & Isa
24. Estradasphere - It's Understood
25. Embraced - Within
26. Shapes of Despair - Shades of...
27. Amon Tobin - Supermodified
28. Primordial - Spirit the Earth Aflame
29. IQ - The Seventh House
30. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
31. Tool - Salival
32. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
33. A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
34. Dark Tranquillity - Haven
35. Persuader - The Hunter
36. OutKast - Stankonia
37. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
38. Spock's Beard - V
39. Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
40. Suidakra - The Arcanum
41. Chroma Key - You Go Now
42. Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines
43. Helloween - The Dark Ride
44. Sirius - Aeons of Magick
45. Paradox - Collision Course
46. The Gathering - If_Then_Else
47. Isis - Celestial
48. Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
49. Transatlantic - SMPTe
50. In Flames - Clayman

[HOF]

2001:

1. Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
2. The Jelly Jam - The Jelly Jam
3. The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker
4. Marillion - Anoraknophobia
5. Tool - Lateralus
6. The Pearlfishers - Across the Milky Way
7. The Clientele - Suburban Light
8. Nick D'Virgilio (NDV) - Karma
9. Neal Morse - It's Not Too Late
10. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
11. Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs
12. Dave Matthews Band - Everyday
13. King's X - Manic Moonlight
14. Niacin - Time Crunch
15. Mullmuzzler - 2
16. Travis - The Invisible Band 

[WardySI]

1. THE CULT / Beyond Good & Evil
2. SEVENDUST / Animosity
3. MEGADETH / World Needs A Hero
4. EVERGREY / In Search Of Truth
5. DAYS OF THE NEW / Red 3

CREED / Weathered
ARK / Burn The Sun
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES / BC
TOOL / Lateralus
JORN / Worldchanger
EDGUY Mandrake
PARADISE LOST / Believe In Nothing

[jingle.boy]

Oh man, 2001. Three masterpieces and a whole load of other great albums.

Are you saying Lateralus isn't a masterpiece? We can't be friends anymore..... 

Anyone who doesn't have Lateralus in their top 5 is objectively wrong 

I've never even heard it.

Well, I've heard of it, but Tool isn't everyone's jam.

Objectively speaking.

[RoeDent]

My albums from 2001:

Porcupine Tree - Recordings
Marillion - Anoraknophobia
Pendragon - Not Of This World
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever

[hefdaddy42]

2001

No particular order:

Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Various Artists - O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
Radiohead - Amnesiac
John Hiatt - The Tiki Bar Is Open
Tool - Lateralus
Destiny's Child - Survivor
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)

[KevShmev]

I would have mentioned PT's Recordings, but I listed studio albums only.  Good stuff, though.

[Dave_Manchester]

2001:

1. Dream Theater - Live Scenes from New York

2. Tool - Lateralus
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
4. Asia - Aura

5. A Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward
6. Alizee - Gourmandises
7. REM - Reveal
8. Cradle of Filth - Bitter Suites to Succubi
9. Britney Spears - Britney
10. Opeth - Blackwater Park

11. Radiohead - Amnesiac
12. Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
13. Slipknot - Iowa
14. Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
15. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World

[nick_z]

6. Alizee - Gourmandises

Oh man, talk about distant memories  I remember that summer in Italy you literally could NOT escape the Moi...Lolita video on TV. My memory tells me this was a typical end of 90s/beginning of 00s Europop-sounding song...but your ranking here suggests differently? Should I revisit? 

[Dave_Manchester]

6. Alizee - Gourmandises

Oh man, talk about distant memories  I remember that summer in Italy you literally could NOT escape the Moi...Lolita video on TV. My memory tells me this was a typical end of 90s/beginning of 00s Europop-sounding song...but your ranking here suggests differently? Should I revisit? 

You should indeed. Moi...Lolita was the big hit but the rest of the tunes are great. It's a very good pop album.

[ReaperKK]

I would have mentioned PT's Recordings, but I listed studio albums only.  Good stuff, though.

I completely forgot about this. Recordings is fantastic.