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Whenever "name your favorite albums" or what you consider the best albums of all time most of the people in this thread would be cluttered with albums from the 60s and 70s... fair enough and to be expected...but what about more modern releases? How much love do you have for more modern releases, say those of the last decade... If you know where to look there is a plethora of music released out there that is beyond phenomenal. What are some of yours..

 

 

 

-------In no particular order-----(but feel free to order yours)

 

- Steven Wilson's : Grace for Drowning (2011)

 

Not only is this probably my favorite album of the last decade, but I could very well be on my top 10 of all time list, I love Porcupine Tree, but this album is Wilson's masterpiece.... special nod to the track "Deform to Form a Star" which is one of my favorite songs of the last 10 or so years, easily.

 

- Astra : The Weirding (2009)

 

An album that many on here love, and one that completely came out of the blue with very 70s-esk prog in the vein of King Crimson, ELP, and Yes.... a phenomenal album from start to finish.

 

- Dream Theater: Octavarium (2005)

 

This one I'll know will have a lot of people disagreeing with me, but this is the album I discovered the band with (well not really it was the live album "Score" from this tour, but this was the "current" album when I got into Dream Theater). I love this album, a great mix of ballads, metal, and the ending epic is all a prog metal fan can ask for.

 

- Black Country Communion: Self Titled Debut/2 (2010/2011)

 

I know I am cheating here, but I am going to lump these two records together, not because I feel that they needed to be lumped together to get on my list, but they are both phenomenally amazing classic veined hard rock records both worthy of note. This lineup is more than a Hard rock fan's wet dream... Glenn Huges (one of the Best Vocalists of all time), Joe Bonnamassa, Derek Sherenian, and Jason Bonham (showing he is very capable and stands far outside his father's shadow)... two amazing albums.

 

- Muse: Absolution (2003)

 

Almost ineligible at 9 years old now, but very worthy of this list, just a stellar mix of prog tinged alternative Rock , by three talented musicians.. by far their best album.

 

- Porcupine Tree : Deadwing (2005)

 

I could almost pick "In Absentia" which would be the most obvious answer, and while that album does have more of my favorites by Porcupine Tree, I feel Deadwing from start to finish is much more of a solid album, and the best by Porcupine Tree.... the range of songs and diversity of sound on this record are beyond belief. "Arriving Somewhere" would also be on a short list of best songs of the last decade as well.

 

-Opeth: Ghost Reveries (2005)

 

Another hard one where I could pick another album I feel is almost as worthy, (that being it's follow up "Watershed") but the more and more I think about it... Ghost Reveries is much more a solid and consistant of an album than Watershed... plus GR has a special place in being the album in which introduced me to Opeth.

 

- Todd Snider: East Nashville Skyline (2004)

 

 

We step out of prog metal for a special mention of one of my favorite artists, this singer/songwriter is one of the most talented songwriters in music today, ranging from folk, to rock, and a bit of red dirt alt country (mix Tom Petty, with Dylan, and Robert Earl Keen and you get this guy.) "East Nashville Skyline" is far and away my favorite album by him.. just amazing.

 

- David Gilmour: On and Island (2006)

 

What an amazing, mellow, and atmospheric album... One of the best to play and kick back and relax. David has not lost his playing ability and his way of making his guitar sing... also featuring some of Gilmours best lyrics from him solo and with Floyd.

 

 

 

 

 

---------honorable mentions-------

 

Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)

Riverside - Anno Domini High Definiton (2009)

Rush - Snakes and Arrows (2007)

The Tangent - A Place in the Queue (2006)

Sieges Even - The Art of Navigating by the Stars (2005)

Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic 1&2 (2007/2008)

Heaven & Hell- The Devil You Know (2009)

Karnivool - Sound Awake (2009)

Coheed and Cambria: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003)

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Since I can't narrow it down to 10, I did my top 15 (chronologically):

 

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (2002)

Opeth - Damnation (2003)

Marillion - Marbles (2004)

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (2005)

Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura (2007)

Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin (2007)

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (2008)

Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (2009)

Riverside - ADHD (2009)

Spock's Beard - X (2009)

Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl (2011)

Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)

Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning (2011)

Flying Colors - Flying Colors (2012)

Anathema - Weather Systems (2012)

 

 

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The ones that really stand out to me (in a good way) from the last 10 years:

 

AC/DC - Black Ice

Metallica - Death Magnetic

Rush - Snakes and Arrows, Vapor Trails

Shinedown - Sound of Madness

Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth

Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg

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"The Final Frontier" by Iron Maiden

"Snakes & Arrows" by Rush

"Grace For Drowning" by Steven Wilson

"Fear of a Blank Planet" by Porcupine Tree

"Deadwing" by Porcupine Tree

"Mojo" by Tom Petty

"One Kind Favor" by BB King

"Living Proof" by Buddy Guy

"Blackfield II" by Blackfield

"Wasting Light" (I couldn't think of a tenth so I chose one I recently got that I enjoyed)

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Tool - Lateralus

Radiohead - Kid A

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

Coldplay - X&Y

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Rammstein - Reise, Reise

Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

Orphaned Land - The Neverending Way of Orwarrior

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I limited myself to album by each artist, but some of these artists released a lot of amazing albums in the last decade.

 

Cut Copy - Zonoscope (2011)

The Naked and Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You (2010)

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (2007)

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (2006)

The Mars Volta - Francis The Mute (2005)

Spoon - Gimme Fiction (2005)

Kasabian - Kasabian (2004)

Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)

Radiohead - Hail To The Theif (2003)

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)

 

Honerable mentions..

 

Silversun Pickups - Swoon (2009)

Editors - In This Light And On This Evening (2009)

Fever Ray - Fever Ray (2009)

Foals - Antidotes (2008)

Metric - Live It Out (2006)

Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel (2005)

Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness (2005)

David Bowie - Reality (2003)

Rush - Vapor Trails (2002)

Peter Gabriel - Up (2002)

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I'm still discovering a huge amount of 60s and 70s music, so I've had little time to listen to more recent music. Also, most of my fav. prog sub-genres are dead today.

 

But here are a few I've heard and liked:

 

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

VdGG - A Grounding in Numbers

Yes - Fly From Here

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Limiting myself to one album per band:

 

1. Mastodon - Leviathan

2. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

3. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

4. Bjork - Vespertine

5. Opeth - Blackwater Park

6. Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy

7. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command

8. Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose

9. Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation

10. Ghoul - Splatterthrash

 

Honorable mentions (and albums I've really been digging lately):

Tool - Lateralus

Toxic Holocaust - Conjure and Command

Baroness - Blue Record

Overkill - Ironbound

Between the Buried and Me - Colors

Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid

Ghost - Opus Eponymous

Christian Mistress - Possession

Graveyard - Hisingen Blues

Isis - Oceanic

Accept - Blood of the Nations

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Rush - Vapor Trails (2002)

+44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating (2006)

Black Label Society - Mafia (2005)

Blink-182 - Blink-182 (2003)

Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth (2012)

Angels & Airwaves - We Don't Need To Whisper (2006)

Black Country Communion - Black Country (2010)

Kiss - Sonic Boom (2009)

My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006)

Primus - Green Naugahyde (2011)

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1. Grace for Drowning

2. De-loused in the Comatorium

3. We're Here Because We're Here

4. The Incident

5. 10000 Days

6. Fear of a Blank Planet

7. On Letting Go

8. Heritage

9. Thirteenth Step

10. Deadwing

 

7 special mentions:

1. Juturna

2. Weather Systems (holding out on last two songs so can't be sure)

3. Feathergun

4. Blackwater Park

5. Octahedron

6. Animals, This Town Needs Guns

7. In Absentia

 

3 that simply must be here but aren't because of the year released (though really close):

1. Lateralus

2. The Perfect Element

3. Mer de Noms

 

 

 

I forgot A Grounding in Numbers wacko.gif That's definitely somewhere here.

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Neil Young - Are You Passionate?,Fork In The Road

Weezer - Maladroit

Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way

Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff

Foo Fighters - One By One

Audioslave - self titled

White Stripes - Elephant

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief,In Rainbows

Alicia Keys - Diary of Alicia Keys

Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Muse - Absolution

The Killers - Hot Fuss

Arcade Fire - Funeral,The Suburbs

William Shatner - Has Been

Bruce Springsteen - Magic

U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

Garbage - Bleed Like Me

System of a Down - Mezmerize

Coldplay - X&Y

Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe

Pearl Jam - self titled

Tool - 10K Days

Tom Petty - Highway Companion

Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers

Kings of Leon - Because of the Times

2.gif - Vapor Trails

Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild Soundtrack

Airborne Toxic Event - self titled

Mudcrutch - self titled

Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials

Dawes - North Hills,Nothing Is Wrong

Black Keys - Brothers

Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty

Best Coast - Crazy For You

Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer

The Cars - Move Like This

Cliff Martinez and various artists - Drive Soundtrack

Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth

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Rush - Snakes And Arrows

Rush - Vapor Trails

Mastodon - Crack The Sky

Mastodon - The Hunter

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

Bob Mould - Body Of Song

Chevelle - Wonder What's Next

Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo

Flyleaf - Flyleaf

Helmet - Size Matters

 

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This is hard to come up with. Good Thread yes.gif

 

Rush - Snakes and Arrows

Rush - Live from Cleveland

AC/DC - Black Ice

Discipline - To Shatter All Accord

Slipknot - Subliminal Versus

GWAR - Live from Mt. Fuji

 

Guess I got to start listening to newer music

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Rush - Vapor Trails

Opeth - Watershed

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Protest the Hero - Kezia

Peter Gabriel - Up

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope

Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More

Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders

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Just a few I can think of...this is tough.

 

 

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Rush - Snakes & Arrows

Riverside - ADHD

Tool - 10,000 Days

Opeth - Heritage

Angels & Airwaves - We Don't Need To Whisper

Karnivool - Sound Awake

David Gilmour - On and Island

Dream Theater - Octavarium

Karmakanic - Wheel of Life

Karmakanic - Who's The Boss In The Factory

Frost* = Experiments in Mass Appeal

Frost* - Milliontown

OSI - Self-titled

Indukti - SUSAR

Devin Townsend - Synchestra

Redemption - Snowfall on Judgment Day

 

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QUOTE (Gompers @ Apr 4 2012, 01:55 PM)
Just a few I can think of...this is tough.


Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Rush - Snakes & Arrows
Riverside - ADHD
Tool - 10,000 Days
Opeth - Heritage
Angels & Airwaves - We Don't Need To Whisper
Karnivool - Sound Awake
David Gilmour - On and Island
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Karmakanic - Wheel of Life
Karmakanic - Who's The Boss In The Factory
Frost* = Experiments in Mass Appeal
Frost* - Milliontown
OSI - Self-titled
Indukti - SUSAR
Devin Townsend - Synchestra
Redemption - Snowfall on Judgment Day

Great list 1022.gif

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Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Opeth - Damnation

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

Rush - Snakes and Arrows

Sunn O))) - Oracle

Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse

Blackfield - Blackfield

Bass Communion - Cenotaph

Nightwish - Imaginaerum

Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night

Sonata Arctica - Unia

Dream Theater - Octavarium

Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events

Gorillaz - Self Titled

Katatonia - Night is the New Day

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Puscifer - "Conditions of my Parole"

30 Seconds to Mars - "A Beautiful Lie"

30 Seconds to Mars - "This is War"

Rush - "Snakes and Arrows"

Paramore - "Riot!"

Paramore - "brand new eyes"

Garbage - "Bleed Like Me"

A Perfect Circle - "Mer De Noms"

A Perfect Circle - "Thirteenth Step"

Tori Amos - "Abnormally Attracted to Sin"

Green Day - "21st Century Breakdown"

Madonna - "Music" (That's right, come at me bro trink38.gif )

Tool - "Lateralus"

Tool - "10,000 Days"

 

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Ok, from 2002 in loose order...

 

Exodus--Tempo Of The Damned (2004)

Van Halen--A Different Kind Of Truth (2012)

Slayer---World Painted Blod (2009)

Rush--Vapor Trails (2002)

Black Label Society--1919 Eternal (2002)

Megadeth--Endgame (2009)

Mastodon--Blood Mountain (2006)

Iron Maiden--The Final Frontier (2010)

Metallica--Death Magnetic (2008)

Red Hot Chili Peppers--Stadium Arcadium (2006)

System Of A Down--Mezmerize (2005)

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