A Quarter Century In the Books

[Bob411]

Rolling Stone and Billboard both put out an albums of the year list every year...

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[Peen Simmons]

It's almost 2025 and you're apparently still on dialup or something.

It’s more that the forum software seems to get weird loading 900 YouTube vids at once.

Plus no one is going to click and listen to all that. And a text list is just more easily digestible with a quick skim.

 

[Jbird]

Not sure I can think of 10 off the top of my head. This post will probably be edited with updates:

2002: Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
2002: Symphony X - The Odyssey
2005: Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2010: Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
2011: Theocracy - As The World Bleeds
2013: Haken - The Mountain
2016: Vektor - Terminal Redux
2019: Tool - Fear Inoculum

 

[Andrew Sak]

It’s more that the forum software seems to get weird loading 900 YouTube vids at once.

Plus no one is going to click and listen to all that. And a text list is just more easily digestible with a quick skim.

I've been trapped in an overloaded Youtube vid thread before. It felt like someone slipped me an E-Mickey.

 

[Lerxst]

It’s more that the forum software seems to get weird loading 900 YouTube vids at once.

Plus no one is going to click and listen to all that. And a text list is just more easily digestible with a quick skim.

Given there's already more conversation about the forum software & how to embed smilies in posts than anyone else's list content, does it matter if only a few people click on vids?

Fwiw, I like the premise of the thread specifically because these past couple decades span some significant changes in the ways people find & consume music. Albums as an uninterrupted listening experience have become far less a thing for many.

 

[Monson]

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Lengthy old man rant: I don't hunt music like I did in my youth. Most records these days have filler tunes I can't learn to like.
What happened to the Masterpiece album?
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Ultraviolence is a fantastic album. I considered that as well.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Brandi Carlile Band - The Story
Brandi Carlile Band - In These Silent Days
The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field, or Jump Rope Gazers. Can’t decide
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Norah Jones - Come Away with Me.
Nickel Creek - Eponymous
Neil Young - Living With War
Wilco - Wilco (yeah, sue me. It is my favorite of theirs overall)
The Decemberists - The King is Dead
John Mayer - Continuum

 

[baimun]

I may have a harder time picking out 2000-2024 albums as my brain automatically groups so many 1990 - 2010 albums together.... I'm pissed off that I didn't include Jellyfish - Spilt Milk and so many others that were late 90's early 00's.... Even "Smoke This" from Lynch Mob... fooook... okay.... Help me out wikipedia...


2000 - Rage Against the Machine : Renegades (I probably started listening to them in the 90's but this is how we smear that barrier)
2002 - Prince : One Nite Alone... Live! (particularly disc 3, The Aftershow)
2003 - Jamiroquai - Live at Montreax (although I equally listen to Verona from the year before)
2008 - Jason Mraz : We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things (got me back into singing and playing)
2013 - The Winery Dogs : Unleashed in Japan
2014 - Ed Sheeran : X (as with the album above, both I've consumed the live performances moreso than the studio recordings)
2015 - Zac Brown : Jekyll & Hyde (I based much of my live Sandbar Bums trio sound off of this album and Uncaged)
2016 - Chris Cornell : No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol 1 (I feel like a shit for excluding CC and Soundgarden from my Pre 2000 list, and I can't include Audioslave because of my favorite 2000's Prince album in 2002, but the number of times I've listened to Cornell sing "Nothing Compares" from this album alone puts it in a top spot.)
2018 - Scary Pockets : Best of (don't know when I started listening to their compilations, but they've been a huge part of my rotating playlists for at least the past 6 or 8 years)
2020 - Dua Lipa : Future Nostalgia (the soundtrack that got me through Covid)

 

[baimun]

It definitely would have been easier for me to do a top 20 from 1974 - 2024 and slide a few more of my choices into the 80's and 90's.