My Favorite 40 Metal Albums Ever (+5...)
My Favorite 40 Metal Albums Ever (+5...)
Overhauled as of May 10th, 2012! Top 5 favorite non-metal albums featured at the bottom.
This is a much improved (and more recently accurate) reworking of my previous favorite albums list, with a few albums added and a couple dropped entirely. They are in order of preference, though changes and the possibility of total equals are still in play. I've axed my undescriptive commentary but kept my genre and favorite song catgories.
Anyway, this is just my opinion, so please enjoy!
This is a much improved (and more recently accurate) reworking of my previous favorite albums list, with a few albums added and a couple dropped entirely. They are in order of preference, though changes and the possibility of total equals are still in play. I've axed my undescriptive commentary but kept my genre and favorite song catgories.
Anyway, this is just my opinion, so please enjoy!
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Lost Horizon
- A Flame To The Ground Beneath
2003 (Power/prog. Best track: Lost in the Depths of Me)
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#1: The Smiths
- The Queen is Dead
1986
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#2: Talk Talk
- The Colour of Spring
1986
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#3: Concrete Blonde
- Bloodletting
1990
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#4: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
2002
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#5: Phoenix
- Wolfgang Amadeus Pheonix
2009
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Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Posts: 677 Written by Mountain King on 12.09.2011 at 17:29 Because it's so amazing! No, but seriously, thanks, how the fuck did that happen...
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Posts: 1361 Written by strade on 13.09.2011 at 00:41 No problem. What's the album replacing it?
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Posts: 1361 Written by Mountain King on 13.09.2011 at 00:50 Killers?
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Posts: 677 Written by Mountain King on 13.09.2011 at 00:53 No, that was always in there. Andromeda Unchained moved up the into the top 40 after that departure.
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Yeaaah Nice list man ! totally agree on Killers, Powerslave, Operation Mindcrime, Twisted To Form, Don't Break The Oath, Coma Of Souls, Rust In Piece, Symbolic, Crack The Skye, By Inheritance, Hall Of The Mountain King... uh yeah well I guess I agree with you alot  +1
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Posts: 677 Written by Guib on 13.05.2012 at 03:47 Thank you! I could tell we'd agree on a lot. 
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Posts: 3528 Written by strade on 13.05.2012 at 03:50 eh eh eh I know
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The Colour of Spring, really? That's unexpected. People usually consider Laughing Stock to be their crowning achievement, and I'm very much partial to Spirit of Eden myself. As a rare band that grew progressively more ambitious and "out there" (and less successful, commercially) with each record, I've never considered their older albums to be of much lasting signifigance. Then again, you also rate NitND as the best Katatonia album, over Discouraged Ones, Dance of December Souls etc. So props for originality!
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Posts: 677 Written by IronAngel on 16.05.2012 at 18:20 The first two Talk Talk albums were definitely not historically significant, but I'll never see The Colour of Spring as anything less than an organic, emotional masterpiece. It perfectly bridges the memorable tunes of their early days and the natural experimentation of their later, genre-shaping records. I love Spirit of Eden almost as much (it might make my top 10), but I've never fully gotten into Laughing Stock. As for Katatonia, I have no grand explanation for my beliefs. I just love the atmosphere, mood, and songwriting of that album. But thanks!
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Since when is Operation: Mindcrime a power metal album?
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Posts: 677 Written by Warman on 17.05.2012 at 10:11 Queensryche is (was) a US power metal band. Their only semi-progressive metal album was The Warning with Rage For Order still containing a few experimental parts. I believe that the term 'prog' for Operation: Mindcrime is completely wrong; there's almost nothing progressive about the album at all. And it's not just a time period/proto thing: Fates Warning was doing making much more progressive music years earlier with The Spectre Within and Awaken the Guardian. Aside from Suite Sister Mary and parts of The Mission, the album relies on simple A-B-A-B song structures and simple riffs, not to mention commercially driven songs. Keep in mind we're talking white collar US power metal here, a style which really doesn't exist today. But who cares about labels anyway when it's an awesome album!?
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Nice. Hell, I even agree with your Smiths choice. Big thumbs up! 
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I like your best song choices - they're not the usual ones one would expect, but they're some of my favorites as well (Bombfood, Beyond the Doors of the Dark, The Duellists)And I agree with you. It's hard to choose the best song on Crimson.  
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Nice list 
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