1st 10 Albums You Have NOT Heard from RYM Top 2000s List

http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2000s

This is going to be brutal.

4. Converge- Jane Doe
6. Mitch Hedberg- Mitch All Together (WTF?)
8. Tom Waits- Orphans...
9. Maudlin of the Well- Bath
10. Agolloch- The Mantle
11. Maudlin of the WTF- Leaving Your Body Map
13. Silent Hill 2 Video Game Soundtrack (?!?)
14. The Fountain OST
15. Lenny Valentino- Uwaga!...
16. Disillusion- Back to Times of Splendor

I think we all need to register on this site.

the converge and agalloch albums rule

anyway not heard
6. Mitch Hedberg- Mitch All Together
8. Tom Waits- Orphans
13. Silent Hill 2 Video Game Soundtrack
14. Clint Mansell The Fountain
15. Lenny Valentino Uwaga! Jedzie tramwaj
16. Disillusion- Back to Times of Splendor
21. Gov't Mule The Deepest End: Live in Concert
22. Yann Tiersen Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
23. Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane
24. Arcturus The Sham Mirrors

It gets all the way down to #40 before it hits one I've heard.

(Actually, I've heard about half of Kid A)

Converge is the only one in the top 10 I've heard all the way through.

the back of my copy of silent hill 2 says it came with the soundtrack, but i don't think it did.

It's great, isn't it, Jim?

the inclusion of the Silent Hill soundtrack, my bro used to play that shit loads and I have no recollection of the music.

Yeah, the list is a doozy, I actually like Mitch Hedberg but it seems that maybe having a stand-up comedian at the top of a list on a site called "rate your music" is perhaps a bit wrongheaded.

I have hardly heard any of the metal ones, so this is easy:

2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
4. Converge: Jane Doe
6. Mitch Hedberg: Mitch All Together
7. Tool: Lateralus
8. Tom Waits: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
9. Maudlin Of The Well: Bath
10. Agaloch: The Mantle
11. Maudlin Of The Well: Leaving Your Bodymap
12. Akira Yamaoka: Silent Hill 2: Original Soundtrack
13. Clint Mansell: The Fountain

The 2000s charts are extremely strange because every album that gets some kind of recognition will automatically have 100s of haters who give the album bad reviews just to make a statement. Thus, almost only esoteric albums make the 2000s charts at RYM.

Lateralus by Tool sold 550,000 in its first week. Not quite esoteric.

It's really just a list that is more indicative of the fact that most of the people inclined to make these lists are spoddy young men.

Actually, the lists are usually much more interesting at RYM than the ratings are. And I mean the user lists, not the RYM generated lists.

prog metal seems very popular on RYM

In that context, Mitch Hedberg is obviously the "Christ, calm down!" pick.

2 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
3 Opeth - Blackwater Park
4 Converge - Jane Doe
5 Arcade Fire - Funeral
7 Tool - Lateralus
9 Maudlin Of The Well - Bath
10 Agalloch - The Mantle
11 Maudlin Of The Well - Leaving Your Body Map
13 Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2 soundtrack
14 Clint Mansell - The Fountain

prog metal seems very popular on RYM

All kinds of metal is very popular on RYM.

2, 3, 4, 5, 6. hahahaha!

I think we all need to register on this site.

I think we all need to stop giving a shit about rateyourmusic one way or the other

I could've said the entire top 10 had I not been given #5 last Christmas. As it is #57 is the first one I've heard

Christ what a terrible list. It just screams intense, over serious Ron Paul loving student. I'm out!

In RYM's 2000s chart, the average rating of number 20 in the list is 4,05
In RYM's 1990s chart, the average rating of number 20 in the list is 4,16
Now, go back to RYM's 1970s chart, and the average rating of number 20 in the list is 4,27
As for the 60s, the average of #20 is up at 4,33

This leaves two options:

- RYM members think music were a lot better in the past and recent music largely sucks
- RYM members tend to spend a lot of time giving bad ratings to music they dislike or find overrated. With older albums, they don't care and leave the rating to people who do actually like the music that has become the most well-known from the era.

I guess the latter makes more sense than the former.

Also, I'd better add that, the more back in time you go, the more the list looks like you would expect it to look.

Fuck me that's a horrific list.

3. opeth - blackwater park
5. arcade fire - funeral
6. mitch hedberg - mitch all together
8. tom waits - orphans, bastards and brawlers
11. maudlin of the well - leaving your body map
12. wilco- yankee hotel foxtrot
13. akira yamaoka - silent hill
14. clint mansell - the fountain
15. lenny valentino - uwaga! jedzie tramwaj (never
16. disillusion - back to times of splendour

not sure how a list that features neurosis, converge, kayo dot, masada, electric wizard, magma and bohren can be called 'horrific'.

I like a lot of the bands/albums there but the fact that people use this thing as some sort of barometer of popular opinion blows a hole in my brain

There's a lot of totally awesome stuff in there, and a lot of naggingly tedious, obvious spoddy-boy "alt music" too (wtf Porcupine Tree, I mean I like em loads but cmon now ffs)

But it has "Blood Inside" so I'm content with it. Try finding that album on any other decade top-100 (mine aside, where it'll probably be in the top, er, 1)

3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15

I like a lot of the bands/albums there but the fact that people use this thing as some sort of barometer of popular opinion blows a hole in my brain

Some RYM users actually do, judging from their forum.
Not a lot of people outside that forum do though.

Porcupine Tree is one act that would have deserved to be more popular though. But the rest of the more metal oriented neoproggers there I can do very well without.