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The 70's killed me! Sorry about that... I really just couldn't choose for a lot of these, sorry...

2009 - Still undecided...

2008 - Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale / Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli in Manet Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon EP

2007 - Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum <- This year was about as good as the 70's but DSO came out on top.

2006 - Negură Bunget - Om / Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain / Enslaved - Ruun

2005 - Opeth - Ghost Reveries / Deathspell Omega - Kenose EP

2004 - Magma - K.A. (Köhntarkösz Anteria) / Enslaved - Isa / Isis - Panopticon / Drudkh - Autumn Aurora

2003 - Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye

2002 - Sigur Rós - ( ) / Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors / Agalloch - The Mantle / Porcupine Tree - In Absentia <- Another great year!

2001 - Opeth - Blackwater Park / maudlin of the Well - Leaving your Bodymap / Bath


2000 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven! / Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

1999 - Opeth - Still Life

1998 - Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

1997 - Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk / Radiohead - OK Computer / Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞

1996 - Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood / Burzum - Filosofem

1995 - Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways / Death - Symbolic

1994 - Ulver - Bergatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler / Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse / Jeff Buckley - Grace / Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

1993 - Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss / Cynic - Focus / Slowdive - Souvlaki

1992 - Alice in Chains - Dirt / Änglagård - Hybris

1991 - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless / Atheist - Unquestionable Presence / Death - Human

1990 - Naked City - Naked City / Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace / Atheist - A Piece of Time / Lustmord - Heresy

1989 - The Cure - Disintegration / Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness / Voivod - Nothingface

1988 - Metallica - ...And Justice for All

1987 - Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun

1986 - Metallica - Master of Puppets

1985 - Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

1984 - Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa / Metallica - Ride the Lightning

1983 - Bacamarte - Depois Do Fim

1982 - King Crimson - Beat / Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast / Rush - Signals <- Pretty freaking bad year.

1981 - King Crimson - Discipline

1980 - Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

1979 - Pink Floyd - The Wall

1978 - Rush - Hemispheres (I can't believe I had to give Rush that year... Shows how mediocre the year was)

1977 - Pink Floyd - Animals

1976 - Rainbow - Rising / Camel - Moonmadness / Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life

1975 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

1974 - King Crimson - Red

1973 - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

1972 - Yes - Close to the Edge

1971 - To hard to choose just 1... see below.

1970 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid / Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

1969 - King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King: An Observation by King Crimson / The Beatles - Abbey Road

1968 - The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle

1967 - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (but also Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, etc.)

1966 - The Beatles - Revolver (special mention to Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa)

1965 - The Beatles - Rubber Soul / John Coltrane - A Love Supreme / Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

1964 - The Beatles - Hard Day's Night (only because it's the only album I've ever heard from this year. It's a pretty mediocre album...)

1963 - Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

1962 - John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane

1961 - Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds

1960 - Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain

1959 - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue


So hard to choose for some of those!!! Look at the amazingness the 70's produced!

1975 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here / Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti / Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks / Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff / Queen - A Night at the Opera / Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All / Camel - The Snow Goose / Black Sabbath - Sabotage / Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte ... And more.

1974 - King Crimson - Red / Yes - Relayer / Camel - Mirage / Magma - Köhntarkösz / Focus - Hamburger Concerto ... and way more!

1973 - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon / King Crimson - Larks' Tongue in Aspic / Genesis - Selling England by the Pound / The Who - Quadrophenia / Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath / Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire / Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh ... and so many more!!!

1972 - Yes - Close to the Edge / Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick / David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars / Nick Drake - Pink Moon / Deep Purple - Machine Head / Genesis - Foxtrot / Wishbone Ash - Argus / Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un Amico / etc ... Ugh, another insanely amazing year!!!

1971 - Led Zeppelin - IV / Pink Floyd - Meddle / Yes - Fragile / Jethro Tull - Aqualung / John Lennon - Imagine / Comus - First Utterance / Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts / The Who - Who's Next / Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink / Yes - The Yes Album / Genesis - Nursery Crime ... AMAZING YEAR!!!

1969 - King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King: An Observation by King Crimson / The Beatles - Abbey Road / Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left / Led Zeppelin - I & II / Frank Zappa - Hot Rats ... etc.

Jake

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renegadesteve2's top albums (overall) 1. The Smiths - The Very Best of the Smiths (153) 2. Deconstruction - Deconstruction (146) 3. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (134) 4. Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun (128) 5. John Frusciante - Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt (114) 6. Morrissey - Bona Drag (114) 7. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (112) 8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk (111) 9. Hole - Live Through This (110) 10. Joy Division - The Best Of Joy Division (109) 11. Wiley - Treddin' on Thin Ice (108) 12. Primus - Pork Soda (106) 13. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (104) 14. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (102) 15. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.... (102) 16. The Smiths - The Smiths (102) 17. Massive Attack - Mezzanine (101) 18. Tool - Ænima (98) 19. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (97) 20. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (97) 21. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (96) 22. Sublime - Sublime (95) 23. The Beatles - Revolver (94) 24. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (93) 25. Nas - Illmatic (90) 26. The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray (88) 27. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (88) 28. Pixies - Doolittle (87) 29. Ol' Dirty Bastard - The Definitive Ol' Dirty Bastard Story (87) 30. Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun (86) 31. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (85) 32. The Breeders - Last Splash (85) 33. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (84) 34. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill (84) 35. The Streets - Original Pirate Material (83) 36. Wiley - Race Against Time (83) 37. MF DOOM - Metalfingers Presents: Special Herbs, The Box Set Vol. 0-9 (80) 38. OutKast - Stankonia (79) 39. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted/Kill At Will [EP] (76) 40. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda (76) 41. Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff (75) 42. Pink Floyd - The Wall [Disc 1] (72) 43. Madvillainy - Madvillainy (71) 44. Tricky - Nearly God (69) 45. Lil Wayne - No Ceilings (69) 46. Portishead - Dummy (68) 47. Tori Amos - Boys for Pele (68) 48. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual (67) 49. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (67) 50. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (66)

Been meaning to do this for years - here's an incomplete list of bands I've seen at least once. Good or absolutely shite, they all make the list. Bold type denotes artists that I've had the pleasure of seeing more than once.

A
Adem
The Airborne Toxic Event
Alabama 3
The Aliens
All About Eve
Lily Allen
Dot Allison
Alpha
Amusement Parks on Fire
Annuals
Arab Strap
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys
Arrested Development
Asian Dub Foundation
B
Badly Drawn Boy
Banco de Gaia
Basement Jaxx
Bat for Lashes
The Bays
The Beat
The Beastie Boys
The Beautiful South
Beck
Beep Beep
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Folds Five
Bent
The Besnard Lakes
Big Country
Black Kids
Blondie
Blur
The Bodines
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The Boy Least Likely To
Billy Bragg
Brainiac
Bright Eyes
The Brilliant Corners
Broken Spindles
Ian Brown
Tim Burgess
Bernard Butler
C
Terry Callier
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Carrie
Carter USM
Martin Carthy
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Cast
Caterwaul
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Charlatans
The Charlottes
Chas N Dave
Cherry Ghost
The Cinematic Orchestra
Ross Clark & the Scarfs Go Missing
The Clerks
Clinic
The Close Lobsters
Coldcut
Coldplay
John Cooper Clarke
The Cooper Temple Clause
The Coral
Elvis Costello
Cousteau
Cranebuilders
Crazyhead
The Creatures
CUD
The Cure
D
The Darling Buds
The Datsuns
Death in Vegas
The Delgados
Delphic
Dodgy
Doves
Dreadzone
Dub Pistols
Dubtribe Sound System
Durutti Column
Bob Dylan
E
Steve Earle
Echo and the Bunnymen
Echoboy
The Eighteenth Day of May
Elbow
Electrafixion
Electric Soft Parade
Electric Sound Of Joy
Embrace
F
Fairport Convention
Th' Faith Healers
Faithless
Faith No More
The Fall
Fields of the Nephilim
Five Thirty
The Flaming Lips
Florence & The Machine
Foo Fighters
Four Tet
The Free Association
Friendly Fires
Frightened Rabbit
Fun Loving Criminals
The Futureheads
G
Ganger
Gaye Bykers on Acid
Ghost Dance
Glasvegas
Global Communication
Godflesh
Goldrush
Gomez
Jose Gonzalez
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci
The Go! Team
Grand Drive
Grass-Show
The Grave Architects
Gravenhurst
Al Green
Green on Red
Groove Armada
Guillemots
Guns N' Roses
H
Nick Harper
Rolf Harris
The Heart-throbs
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid
The Matthew Herbert Big Band
Kristin Hersh
The Hidden Cameras
Micah P. Hinson
Hole
Jools Holland
Holy Fuck
House of Brothers
The House of Love
The Housemartins
Howlin' Rain
The Hunters Club
I
I Am Kloot
Idlewild
Interpol
Iron And Wine
It Bites
J
The Jack Rubies
Matthew Jay
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Jesus Jones
Johnny Domino
Joolz
K
Keane
The Killers
David Kitt
Kula Shaker
L
Lambchop
Leatherface
Leaves
The Levellers
The Libertines
Loop
Low
Lowgold
Lush
M
The Magic Numbers
Magnolia Electric Co.
The Majesticons
Manic Street Preachers
Mansun
Maps
Marillion
Marion
J Mascis
Massive Attack
Mega City Four
The Memory Band
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Mercury Rev
MGMT
Mia Doi Todd
The Mighty Lemon Drops
The Mission
Modest Mouse
Mono
The Montrose Avenue
John Moore And The Expressway
Morrissey
The Motorcycle Boy
Bob Mould
Mudhoney
My Bloody Valentine
Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
Mylo
N
The National
The Necks
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The New Folk Implosion
New Model Army
New Order
Joanna Newsom
Scout Niblett
Nirvana
Now It's Overhead
O
Oasis
Okkervil River
Ooberman
Orbital
Beth Orton
P
The Pale Saints
The Parkinsons
Pavement
Penthouse
Pitman
The Pixies
The Pogues
Emma Pollock
Polytechnic
Pond
Pop Will Eat Itself
Primal Scream
The Primitives
The Prodigy
The Prudes
Public Enemy
Pulp
Q
Finlay Quaye
Queens of the Stone Age
R
Radiohead
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Red Snapper
REM
Reverend and The Makers
Ride
Rival Schools
RJD2
Roots Manuva
Tim Rose
Run DMC
S
Saint Etienne
Saint Joan
Salvation
Samamidon
Ulrich Schnauss
Scott 4
DJ Scotch Egg
Mr Scruff
The Sea and Cake
Seafood
Shack
DJ Shadow
The Shins
Michelle Shocked
The Shortwave Set
Silver Sun
Simian
Six.by Seven
The Sleepy Jackson
Elliott Smith
The Smiths
Snuff
Sonic Youth
Soul II Soul
The Soup Dragons
Space
Spacemen 3
Sparklehorse
Spear of Destiny
Spin Spin The Dogs
Spiritualized
Spring Heel Jack
Starsailor
St. Germain
The Stills
The Stone Roses
The Streets
Joe Strummer
Subkicks
Sugar
The Sugarcubes
Sun Kil Moon
Swans
T
Tapes N Tapes
Teenage Fanclub
The Telescopes
Texas
That Petrol Emotion
Them Crooked Vultures
Richard Thompson
Throwing Muses
Glenn Tilbrook
Tindersticks
The Ting-Tings
Travis
Tricky
Tunng
Turin Brakes
The Twilight Sad
U
Ultrasound
Under Neath What
Underworld
V
The Verve
Voice of the Beehive
W
Martha Wainwright
The Walking Seeds
The Walkmen
The Waterboys
The Wedding Present
We Show Up On Radar
Whistler
White Lies
The White Stripes
Wilco
Robbie Williams
The Wisdom of Harry
Witness
The Wonder Stuff
World Domination Enterprises
The Wurzels
X
X-Press 2
Y
Yam Who
James Yorkston and The Athletes
Z
Zero 7
The Zutons

My Bloody Valentine + Pavement + Xiu Xiu

Well I've been on last.fm for almost 2 years now and my taste has changed dramatically over time. Looking at my top 50 overall I'm really not happy with most of the artist on their. Partly because at first when I discovered a band I loved I would scrobble the shit out of them until they reached a high status on my charts. Nowadays I can't be bothered with how much I scrobble an artist because there's always so much other music I want to check out. So here I am at 2 am listening to Tom Waits wasting the night away writing about what I think about my top 50.
= Looks great on my charts
= I like them but I'm not for 100% in having them high in my charts
= GTFO my charts.

1. Tool
Took me a while for me to love them. Then when they finally grew on me they immediately became one of my favorite bands. All their albums are great even their live album Salival is something worth checking out. And with each album better than the last I can only imagine how amazing their next album will be since 10,000 Days was so perfect.


2. The Cure
Immediately loved them when I first heard Disintegration. There early post-punk stuff is great but I think they hit they're peak with Disintegration. Weak was alright but everything after pretty much sucks. I still haven't checked out everything by them even with over 2000 scrobbles. They have so much material.


3. Opeth
First checked out Still Life. Loved it. Then Damnation. Bored me, except Windowpane. Like Tool it took me awhile before fully appreciating them. Now they've become one of my favorite bands.


4. Pink Floyd
Yeah classic band. Darkside Of The Moon, The Wall, and Animals are all classics to me.


5. A Perfect Circle
I don't really listen to them at all anymore. At first I was just a blind Tool fan loving Maynard's voice and his lyrics, now I think most lyrics are complete bullshit and appreciate artist for their musicianship. These guys are better than your average mainstream rock bands, some nice song writing that sets them apart from simply sounding generic. 3 Libras will always be one of my favorite songs.


6. Katatonia
I'm always an "on again off again" type of relationship with these guys. First heard The Great Cold Distance, loved it at first now I can barely sit through the whole thing. There other albums are the same, except Brave Murder Day which will always be their best. Overall, they have a lot of gems spread out in their albums, the best usually being bonus tracks and CD-singles.


7. Celldweller
I used to listen to this guy all the time. Now I think he is pretty overrated. Being a part of the AMV community is really sickening because everyone considers this guy a genius, pretty much every single song is done to death. Why do people praise this guy for being a one man band? Like there isn't millions of other solo artist who also create great music. He has some great material but I wouldn't call anything he's done a masterpiece. Every song he has released lately has been solid but I really don't think he can create a great album. I'll take a great album over a great song any day.


8. Puscifer
Actually checked him out before APC or Tool. Still love this project. V is for Vagina is a great album but I do think that it is very hit and miss. The stuff he has been putting out lately especially The Humbling River have got to be the best material released on here. I'm liking this new atmospheric direction.


9. Rise Against
My favorite generic nostalgic band. I don't really listen to them at all anymore but I don't mind it when I do.


10. Metallica
Really not sure how they got this high on my charts in the first place. I think they're classic albums for the most part are very overrated. Kill 'em All and ...And Justice for All are pretty good though. When Death Magnetic first released I loved it but since then I've gotten into a lot of other superior metal bands.


11. Eminem
Yeah hes a guilty pleasure. Will always be.


12. Devin Townsend
I completely love this guys work. His insanity is of my liking. Great musicianship. Addicted has also got to be one of my favorite 09 releases.


13. Agalloch
These guys can't release a bad record. Everything they've done is great.


14. King Crimson
Masters of Prog? Yeah In the Court of the Crimson King, Larks Tongue in Aspic and Red. are all essential for every prog lover.


15. Shining
Checked these guys out when I read that fucked up description about their beliefs and live performances, I just had to hear how fucked up this was. I'm glad I did give them a listen. Besides being fucked up V: Halmstad has got to be one of the greatest pieces of music I have ever heard. Every track is mind blowing. I haven't really gave their earlier stuff much of a listen. VI: Klagopsalmer was awful though.


16. Meshuggah
Didn't really want to check them out because how stupid their band pictures look. Chaosphere made me laugh, Jens Kidman sounded like a barking dog and the music just sucked. Catch-33 was a much better experience, their music was kind of annoying but I think that's what inevitably made them great for me....for some reason, don't really know how to describe my feelings toward them. They also became the headliners of the first concert I attended :).


17. Infected Mushroom
First heard the song Artillery which was great. I didn't check out the full album until a long time after which I regret because Vicious Delicious is a damn satisfying album. I don't care about how pop it is compared to how magical their earlier albums are. Infected Popshroom > Infected Mushroom. Not too much of a fan of them, they're live performance was hands down the best I've been too. I also helped advertise for them in their fanmanager street team and won an autographed poster and CD :D.


18. Amon Amarth
Twilight of the Thunder God unleashed my hidden craving for death metal. Now I think it's a pretty boring record. Metal gets old fast man.


19. Jerry Goldsmith
Lol, short lived movie soundtrack craving.


20. Angelspit
Addicting shit. Addicting when I first heard them. Still as addicting now. Even they're new release cleared my disappointment after a few listens. 2nd album has yet to grasp me.


21. My Bloody Valentine
Loveless


22. Beastie Boys
Hell Yeah! Probably a guilty pleasure, isn't it?


23. "Weird Al" Yankovic
Another guilty pleasure, right?


24. Nine Inch Nails
I never really liked them as much as I wanted to. All these scrobbles are a failed attempt for the most part. The Downward Spiral and The Fragile have some good songs but other than that I have never been able to see the magic.


25. Linkin Park
Angry generic emo shit.


26. Joy Division
A truly great band. Ian Curtis wrote some wonderful songs. Lyrics are all fantastic. Simple but hold so much meaning.


27. Ayreon
Gets old after while.


28. Mastodon
They're pretty good. Crack The Skye is such an overrated album it's ridiculous. Leviathan is great.


29. Cynic
Metal Gods!


30. Tom Waits
Absolute genius!


31. maudlin of the Well
Fucking insane band. Toby Driver is a genius.


32. Mindless Self Indulgence
Yeah I considered myself daring for listening to a band like this. They still have a few classics but I don't really listen to them anymore.


33. Modest Mouse
Have some great songs but as albums go they tend to fade with time.


34. John Carpenter
Only around Halloween


35. Scarling.
They are great...I haven't listened to them in a long time now


36. Guns N' Roses
Meh.


37. Shpongle
Should be as high as Infected Mushroom. Great music.


38. Porcupine Tree
I haven't really listened to many albums by them. I love Deadwing and Lightbulb Sun but most of the other stuff I've checked out is pretty boring.


39. Astronautalis
Amazing artist. Barrel Jumping (A Man Of Letters), The Waterfall and The Story of My Life all have got to be some of the greatest songs I've heard.


40. Thousand Foot Krutch
Generic Christian Rock


41. System of a Down
Such a faux pas


42. Vader
They won't be relevant in a couple of months


43. Have a Nice Life
Great album. Great bootleg demo album but recently I'm not feeling what I felt when I first listened months ago.


44. ASHES dIVIDE
Wow something completely shot out of my life.


45. Gojira
Metal that doesn't get boring. Great drumming also.


46. J.Viewz
Local New York band. Chill out album. So great.


47. Unwound
Leaves Turn Inside You is so great but like Have a Nice Life I think I'm growing out of this depressing shit.


48. Dane Cook
Why did I have him to begin with? =(


49. Bill Conti
Short lived Rocky soundtrack addiction. Still great but not something meant for heavy listening.


50. Black Light Burns
I kind of forced myself to like them. They suck. Only New Hunger, Cruel Melody and Lucretia My Reflection are good.



Final Verdict: Only 23 out of 50 artist I am satisfied with =(