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| Quickitt's top 10 albums!; for all music lovers here! | |
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| Chieftain Quickitt | Mon 03 Dec 2012 16:51:50 Post #1 |
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I am a giant music lover, I spend about 2 hours every day listening music, it's what I love most! I don't know if there are any other giant music enthousiasts as I am, but I am still going to write down my top 10 albums of all time so far for recommendations. First there has to be said something about my tastes: it shall be mostly metal and prog rock. The occasional club hit like gangnam style is funny to listen to, but not really worth it to actually buy the album from (I tend to buy everything I listen...) So without further ado: #10 - Supertramp: Crime of the Century: This is pretty much a classic and, considering the average age of this forum, mention this title to your father and he'll know about it. Not without reason, every track is stellar. The band layout is interesting as well, since there's a saxophone in there, which you don't see too often in a rock band. This also basically indicates saxophone solos, which there are indeed, a special mention goes to the title track, which has one of the best saxophone solos I've heard! These guys make rather elegant and beautiful tracks. Having two lead singers also helps in the variety of the album, it probably won't bore you! Recommended tracks: School, Rudy, Crime of the Century. #9 - Coldplay: X&Y: The only band you'll find here that is considered 'mainstream'. Coldplay made name for itself with 'clocks' and 'Viva La Vida' neither which appear on this album. It is their thrid album and their best in my opinion. It is divided into two parts, X-tracks: mellow atmosphere tracks which are great to fall asleep with and the Y-tracks: which are mostly acoustic guitar parts, or rather, dominated by that. They should have switched the names, because I like the X-part more. I don't know, this album really contradicts with the others on this list, but I just like it... Too bad Coldplay because so commercial afterwards, they had quite some potential... Recommended tracks: Talk, Square One, The Hardest Part. #8 - Ayreon: 01011001: Here we delve into more metal, as the first two albums named here are quite soft and probably indegistable for the real metalheads around here. It is also the only album made by a Dutch musician: Arjen Lucassen, on the list. This guy is brilliant: he composes all the music and then invites a lot of singers from all kinds of bands (Jorn Lande, Steve Lee, Floor Jansen all appear here). It resembles Avantasia quite a bit but...better. The vocal performances are OUTSTANDING here, check it out. Recommended tracks: Ride the Comet, River of Time, The Sixth Extinction (!) #7 - Pink Floyd: The Wall: For any prog lover, it is almost obligatory to include the great Pink Floyd, ancestors of any amazing music and an inspiration to every self-respecting group around right now. The Wall is my to go album, it has 'Comfortable Numb'! It is a concept album and well known by most I think. I have had a hard time listening to the Wall, because I put my iPod usually on shuffle and the tracks on the album aren't that great on their own. It is them combined which makes them so awe-inspiring and emotionally heavy (apart from another brick in the wall part 1 and comfortably numb). That's why I edited all the tracks together in GarageBand and now it's allright. ![]() Recommended tracks: COMFORTABLY NUMB, Another Brick in the Wall part 1, Waiting for the Worms. #6 - Nightwish: Imaginaerum: The second most recent album on this list, it only came out at the start of this year. It's a great fantasy album inspirid by nightmares and deserted amusement parks. I love Nightwish and was pretty shocked that their lead singer had been sacked. I don't know who their are gonna name as her replacement, maybe the aforemented Floor Jansen, but Anette Olzon was really good are her voice suited the music well. This is symphonic metal which Nightwish are so known for: strong rhythmic guitars backed up by orchestra compositions. Anette soars over it with her soprano. Special mention to Marco Hietala, my favourite bassist of all time and an excellent vocalist himself. I hope he appears on the next Ayreon album... Recommended tracks: Ghost River, Scaretale, Song of Myself. #5 - The Flower Kings: Live 2003: With this, we shall enter the top 5 and the real deal. This is also the first live album to appear on the list, because the Flower Kings are just one of those rare bands that exceed their studio level live. Trust me, I've seen them live this year and they never dissapoint. The album itself consists of about all the epics that had appeared on their albums they had brought out before 2003. With an epic, I mean a track that is over 20 minutes long and has that epic feeling. The Flower Kings tend to do that, including at least one epic on every album they create. They play highly complicated and long songs which do not lack in the song element as well. One thing is that they are NOT metal, so any hardcore metalhead will be dissapointed after this, this is mostly feel-good prog that in drenched with hippie ideals and musical compositions: a flashback to the past, while still remaining inventive. Great guys. Recommended tracks: The Garden of Dreams part 1 and 2, The Truth will Set you Free. #4 - Wintersun: Time 1: The reason why this masterpiece isn't rated higher, is because I just have been listening to it for like a month. But it's amazing. Every song has like 200 music tracks in it and it is the most epic of albums I have ever heard. Basically, it has everything. Beautiful japanese style music for the quiet and mysterious parts to the blazing double bass of drummer Kai Hahto for the speed metal parts. No sweeping solos on here as well, and I don't even miss it. This is just insane. Wintersun is a band, but the music is written by a very talented musician in the form of the Finnish Jari Maenpaa (with : on those a's.). He does vocals, guitars and keyboards. He's talented :3 Recommended tracks: Everything. #3 - Dire Straits: Love over Gold: It has Telegraph Road, should I say more? Yes I should. Dire Straits are a really famous band known for their hits Sultans of Swing and Walk of Life, but not many know of this masterpiece that slumbers quietly in their catalog. It had been my favourite album for about two years with Telegraph Road clocking in at the best track ever until the numer 1 on the list came rushing in. Everything is so delicate, so intricate and yet so simple. Mark Knopfler never created anything prog, but suddenly this album comes around and it seems like he had been able to pull that off all the time! This shows that you don't need to go overdrive on every album to get a good album. Recommended tracks: Did I mention Telegraph Road? #2 - Dream Theater: Images and Words. So, we're onto number 2, which shall be Dream Theater's Images and Words. I should tell you about Dream Theater: they are a group consisting of the best musicians on their respective instruments of all time. Every one of their members individually ranks as one of the top 10 best musicians in the world and it shows. Before the departure of drummer Portnoy, my musical hero, they tended to come in the studio with no ideas, just jam around and record everything they thought of immediately into songs. And it worked. Just wow, talent drips of every album. This one is their first succesfull album, it consists of highly complicated songs wth layers and layers of music. Complex time signatures, shredding guitars, bass solo, high operatic voice, this album has it all. It also has their only ever radio hit: Pull me Under, which is, ironically, the worst track on the entire album. As if the world just didn't want to see awesomeness even when it's right under their nose... Special mention to vocalist James LaBrie, who's voice in later years became thin and a bit whining. Here he's in top shape. Not one weak track on the entire album, that's quite a feat. Recommended tracks: Take the Time, Learning to Live, Under a Glass Moon. #1 - Transatlantic: Live Whirld Tour 2010: YAY, we've reached number one! And what an album occupies that spot! I've never been more positive about an album than over this one: it's fukkin flawless! Transatlantic is a so called supergroup, consisting of members from different bands that have this as a side project: The Flower Kings' virtuoso Roine Stolt on guitar and vocals, ex-Spock's Beard's Neal Morse on keyboards and vocals, Marillion's Pete Trewavas on bass and backing vocals and MIKE PORTNOY on drums and backing vocals. This basically combines the best things of all those bands. On this live set, consisting of 3 CDs, they play a giant 3 hour set with most of the musical compositions they ever recorded. 3 tracks of 25 minutes, 2 short tracks and one giant track that is in my opinion the best song in the world: 76-minutes' The Whirlwind! Where they get the energy to actually finish the concert, I don't know, but they do it. This was the best 35 euro spent of my entire life. Recommended tracks: *drools* Soooo, whaddayathink? Edited by Chieftain Quickitt, Mon 03 Dec 2012 16:59:00.
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| Silvermane | Mon 03 Dec 2012 18:35:09 Post #2 |
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Ex-Packlord, Ex-Richest Rat S2, Indiana's father
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I think you're working on commission for sales after that line!
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| Chieftain Quickitt | Mon 03 Dec 2012 18:47:58 Post #3 |
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Dis season rocks
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Still informative enough I hope I'd be honoured if they had me work on their commission for sales xD
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