Vote for the Best Album of the Decade (from rateyourmusic.com top 50)

the metal albums i like in this list are :
Tool Lateralus (2001)
Agalloch The Mantle (2002)
Isis Panopticon (2004)
Electric Wizard Dopethrone (2000)
Converge Jane Doe (2001)(i know its not exactly metal but half of its fans are metalheads)
Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets (2001)
Boris Boris at Last -Feedbacker- (2003)
Isis Oceanic (2002)
Ulver Perdition City (2000)
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm (2004)
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain (2006)
Mastodon - Leviathan

and if they count ATD-I, Qotsa.

Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

I have not seen one person ever rep for this anywhere.

the music when Frodo and co are going down the river and passing those giant statues of the kings is fiyah

I have not seen one person ever rep for this anywhere.

There are a lot of soundtrack fans out there. They realize their taste is not very "hip" and they usually aren't too profilic about it, but they do like those albums. If they didn't exist, then soundtrack albums consisting of actual score music wouldn't have existed either, as there wouldn't have been a marked for it.

you don't like Opeth, Siegbran?

last guy to spread the rumor that Siegbran liked Opeth still missing btw

:(

i needed to take a six months break from opeth because it was all getting a tad too much. the latest album never quite clicked with me despite repeat listens and they just seemed to be showing signs of hitting the wall creatively - apart from the occasional flourish here and there like the circusy synth breakdown in 'lotus eater'. but... i reckon i'm ready to brace it all again. might try and ease myself back into it via my arms, your hearse. now that's an album.

some great albums on this list by the way.

but it just seems to be getting progressively pointless to put my weight behind the same old albums in these polls. i could stick up for YHF for the billionth time, but i get the idea people know where i stand.

silly to poll it, but as it's there i voted 'a sun that never sets', for which i do not get the hate

^^^yeah, that is one awesome record!

when that alarm-call bit kicks in about 4mins into 'from the hill' it actually becomes unreasonable to dislike the album

less intense or flat-out sublime than TSIB (which is my favourite record of the 90's authored by someone other than cardiacs or mansun) but retains a really menacing, thrilling, tragic sensibility all the way through.

there's hate for a sun that never sets? from whom? burn them!

Just revisted The Ape Of Naples a few times again and that's easily my favourite on this list.

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YHF

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This proves it for once and for all. Madlib and Boards of Canada have the best albums of the decade.

I voted Madlib.

for once brian is happy.

geogaddi is ok but best of the decade? apparently it has been even lousier than i thought.

That's ILM for you

Didn't realise anyone had actually listened to that album more than a couple of times.

5 votes for Agalloch, cool.

I'd probably have voted for 'Relationship of Command' on this list, but the list doesn't contain any of my favourite albums of the decade.

Got down to no.695: The Knife 'Silent Shout' to find anything which might have a chance of getting into a top 10 I might make (not that I'm going to.)

5 votes for Agalloch, cool.

8 actually in total.

geogaddi is ok but best of the decade? apparently it has been even lousier than i thought.

― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:27 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

I think it's just that the top 50 RYM albums suck.

(Coil, Unwound, Ligeti excepted)