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Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Speler on November 29, 2007, 03:05:00 pm

Here is a list of 5 albums that I love, and think others will love too:

Animals by Pink Floyd
Animals, to put it simply, is a piece of art.  The lyrics talk about three different kinds of people (dogs, sheep and pigs).  The music is, for the most part, darker then most of the other stuff by Pink Floyd.  Animals contains some of David Gilmour's best solos and although this album contributed to the breaking up of Pink Floyd and created a lot of tension in the band, it is a great one to listen to.

Everything Goes Numb by Streetlight Manifesto
The lone ska album on this list, Everything Goes Numb is genius.  Every song is well put together and the horn lines are incredible.  The lyrics, while they may be spouted out at impossible speeds, are catchy and well thought out.

Tio Bitar by Dungen
A Swedish psychedelic masterpiece, while many (or rather, most) people consider it's predecessor Ta Det Lugnt a superior album, Tio Bitar is one of several masterpieces of an incredible musician.  While it starts out in a borderline-annoying police siren emulating guitar screech, the album goes on to play incredibly catchy melodies and great music.  Pretty much the best 'chill out' album I've ever heard.

UK by UK
The keyboards in this album are breathtaking, the solos are amazing and the music is just plain incredible.  This is a progressive masterpiece, and though it isn't as famous as a lot of other progressive albums of this time it is a simply breathtaking album.

'Til The Medicine Takes by Widespread Panic
The jam band Widespread Panic has grown a large reputation as a great jam band.  This album proves, however, that they are more then just a live band.  The first 4 tracks are by far the best, however that does not mean that the rest of it isn't good.

Hope you find something that fits your taste in this list :).

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: lordofthegeeks on November 29, 2007, 03:23:00 pm

My Version XD
1.Hotel Aquarium by Falling Up
2.Beethoven's Last night By Trans Siberian Orchestra
the whole albumn You just can't split up the songs. Although I do like mestipheles return.
3.Cassie by Flyleaf
4.Love in your Arms By Eleventy seven
5.Breath into Me By RED

now these are some of my favorite songs. And the albums they come off of are pretty good too.
I apoligize if my list ticks you off.

Edit: oops I just read the topic header :oops:
btw if you goto reds website you can hear the song breathe into me.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Zera on November 30, 2007, 12:56:00 am

In no particular order...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dusted_Variations, by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo_Armstrong (in co-operation with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_(musical_project))

This is an orchestrated take on some of Enigma's works, with a very ambient and minimalistic overtone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Ancient_Muse, by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreena_McKennitt

Loreena takes us on a journey across the Eastern sands with themes of adventure, love and betrayal. Seriously, who doesn't like Loreena McKennit? And no, your opinion does not count if all you listen to is contemporary American rock / pop / rap. :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiemus:_Songs_of_Sanctuary, by Karl Jenkins (the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiemus)

"Each Adiemus album is a collection of song-length pieces featuring harmonised vocal melody against an orchestral background. There are no lyrics as such: instead the vocalists sing syllables and 'words' invented by Jenkins." Yup. That about sums it up. Adiemus is aurally very pleasant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takk..., by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigur_R

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: lordofthegeeks on November 30, 2007, 03:46:00 am

@grendel I like the celtic woman Cd my little sis has it :) I went shoping for her wit hmy dad and pointed it out  :angel:

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on November 30, 2007, 01:13:00 pm

all of these songs are not very good
what is better?
Classical Music! :thumbup:

but then I am not really into your types of music :P

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Zera on November 30, 2007, 01:16:00 pm

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QUOTE (MSR5 @ 30 Nov, 2007, 19:13)

all of these songs are not very good what is better? Classical Music! :thumbup: but then I am not really into your types of music :P

 ...

Did you even read my post? :P

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Speler on November 30, 2007, 01:29:00 pm

Classical is good, but I hate when snobs say it's the only real genre of music.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on November 30, 2007, 01:34:00 pm

no I did not your Post :w00t:
and i am NOT a snob  :flame:

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on November 30, 2007, 01:51:00 pm

also it is not the only real genre of music
There is nationalistic MUSIC!
:thumbup:

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MechaTech84 on November 30, 2007, 02:40:00 pm

Classical is like, so old-school.... Techno is the new and improved version, but you don't have to call it Techno... You could call it awesome, incredible, or even awesomely incredible or incredibly awesome! LOL.... Let's stick with Techno.....

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on November 30, 2007, 02:42:00 pm

Techno is horrible it has no soul to it, no life

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MechaTech84 on November 30, 2007, 02:48:00 pm

Classical is the same thing, with different instruments!!!! C'mon!!!! It's not that different. An "UPDATED VERSION" must be similar to the original...

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on November 30, 2007, 02:50:00 pm

but you must agree violin and most clasical instruments sound much better giving clasical music an emotional side to it

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MechaTech84 on November 30, 2007, 02:51:00 pm

depends on what you like, I like both in different moods...

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on November 30, 2007, 02:54:00 pm

so you like the EMO bands
WHAT NOW?!?!?!?!!!!??!!?!?!?!

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: TIfanx1999 on November 30, 2007, 02:56:00 pm

Techno is in no way comprable to classical music........................................................................................................................................................................................................

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MechaTech84 on November 30, 2007, 02:56:00 pm

correction: I like some Techno and some Classical. Scremo/Emo is not my thing...

P.S. wrong number of symbols after the "what now". It makes a difference. Properly it should be like my siggy, except in whatever color and font and size the statement calls for.

Edit: sure it is, neither have words, both are purely instrumental. Just using different instruments and techniques.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on November 30, 2007, 02:59:00 pm

MechaTech84 techno is just horrible
and the what now thing is just getting old

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: TIfanx1999 on November 30, 2007, 03:00:00 pm

Clasical has REAL people playing REAL instruments. Techno is samples.............  

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on November 30, 2007, 03:00:00 pm

clasical shall live forever while techno will die a horrible death

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MechaTech84 on November 30, 2007, 03:01:00 pm

Whatever... It's all just a person's opinion anyway. It's not that big a deal...

Edit: I gotta go. Be back later.. maybe...

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on November 30, 2007, 03:03:00 pm

i see that you ran away
I WIN!!!!!!!!
clasical forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: TIfanx1999 on November 30, 2007, 03:05:00 pm

Techno isn't horrible by any means, some of it is actually pretty good. But to say it is comprable to Classical music is a gross mis-statment. They are made in entireley different ways for different people and reasons That's all I'm saying.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on November 30, 2007, 03:07:00 pm

I agree 100% with you

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: kalan_vod on November 30, 2007, 04:04:00 pm

Guys, do not make this go into the spam section (off topicness and non helpful/contributing posts).

I like 3/5 of the original post ;), but I will add my own at a later date.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2007, 05:19:00 pm

guys, let's not turn this into a spam fest, everyone has the right to like whatever they want, regardless of it it's techno, classical, rap, emo, anything else without getting bashed/flamed. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and tastes and you can say a genre sucks as a fact, you may not like it but others may like it, or vice versa.

That said techno is not in any way derivated from classical, both genres are totally different, regarding the style and the way it is produced. Now to say that techno should die of a horrible death? Wow, this means that all the 5.5 years of hard work I've put into my 50 techno songs is nothing and the entire mp3 folder should be trashed? No sir, other people liked them and like other techno too. I don't like classical very much aside from Canon in D by Pachebel and Chariot of Fire and I like classical power metal

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Speler on November 30, 2007, 06:04:00 pm

If you guys do not stop spamming this topic, I will lock it.  I don't want to do that, because I put a lot of thought into that list.

Music is music whether you like it or not.  DJ Omnimaga puts a lot of effort into his techno music, and he deserves your respect.  Unless you have something productive to say, shut up.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Netham45 on November 30, 2007, 06:16:00 pm

hmm, imo, Techno and Classical music are vaugely comparable. Also, I have not listened to a single album in these lists. o.o I'll have to try some.

For Classic Rock(what I listen to) I'd have to go with(these are songs):

• Beatles -- Let it Be
• Aerosmith -- Dream On
• Supertramp -- The Logical Song
• Styx -- Mr. Roboto
• Dire Straits -- Ride Across the River

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2007, 06:34:00 pm

every once in a while i listen to some styx and beatles. I don't like aerosmith much though

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: JonimusPrime on November 30, 2007, 06:36:00 pm

QuoteBegin-Netham45+1 Dec, 2007, 0:16-->

QUOTE (Netham45 @ 1 Dec, 2007, 0:16)

hmm, imo, Techno and Classical music are vaugely comparable. Also, I have not listened to a single album in these lists. o.o I'll have to try some. For Classic Rock(what I listen to) I'd have to go with(these are songs): Beatles -- Let it Be Aerosmith -- Dream On Supertramp -- The Logical Song Styx -- Mr. Roboto Dire Straits -- Ride Across the River

 I have agree with natham45 here classic rock FTW.  I still need to get a copy of animals by floyd, thanks for reminding me speler.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Speler on November 30, 2007, 06:37:00 pm

Not much into the standard classic rock stuff anymore.  Anything rock I listen to from that era can be classified as prog really.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2007, 06:42:00 pm

On my side I would go with


Best of Bonkers (various artists)
Compilation of best hits from Bonkers 1 (1996) to Bonkers 16 (2006), including some never released on Bonkers before. If you like techno hardcore I suggest this album

Bonkers 17
Just came out recently in UK. One of the best hardcore song selection

'90s Eurodance Party
If you can find this album you're lucky, because it is prbly one of the best selection of eurodance music out there (altough the second last track isn't even eurodance at all)

A twist in myth (Blind Guardian)
One of the lastest Blind Guardian power metal band album, if you're into metal

Inhuman Rampage (DragonForce)
Lastest album by Dragonforce. THeir metal style is friggin fast though so if you're into slower stuff you may not like them

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: JonimusPrime on November 30, 2007, 06:42:00 pm

True but I still feel you can't top the classics Like The Beatles Billy Joel, Zepplin, Flyod, ect.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2007, 06:47:00 pm

sometimes I feel like the marginal person on this website because I have different belief and styles than anyone else o.o

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Harrierfalcon on November 30, 2007, 07:44:00 pm

My personal preference of music is very broad.  For example, my Favorites playlists on my iPod contains:

• Stuff from UT2004
• Stuff from OverClocked Remixes
• Through the Fire and Flames, Operation Ground and Pound
• Carrington Institute, from Perfect Dark
• Du Hast, Ich Will, and Sonne, all by Rammstein
• All 3 loops from Portal: Flash Version
• Rise, by Origa
• Sixteen Military Wives, by the Decemberists (in honor of my girlfriend :))

But my all-time favorite song remains a techno song (at least I think), when I first heard it as a loop in an online game called http://www.addictinggames.com/smash2.html.  Put it this way: my second-most played song (apparently "Ladies and Gentlemen", by Saliva) is played ~500 times.  Smash 2 has been played about 4 times that much.

In the last 6 months.

I love that loop, and when I first heard it the first thing I did was e-mail the author of the game for an mp3 of it.

For me, it really all depends on the song itself, so I don't go by "albums".

If I get the time though, I'll look at those 5.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Netham45 on November 30, 2007, 08:32:00 pm

QuoteBegin-DJ Omnimaga+30 Nov, 2007, 22:47-->

QUOTE (DJ Omnimaga @ 30 Nov, 2007, 22:47)

sometimes I feel like the marginal person on this website because I have different belief and styles than anyone else o.o

 You live in a different part of the world, and have probabally been exposed to different types of music, which would explain why you have different tastes.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2007, 08:51:00 pm

nah, over here 90% of the ppl listen to rap. very few ppl cares about techno over here

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: TIfanx1999 on December 01, 2007, 11:21:00 am

Dj  omnimaga likes dragonforce??? HOLY CRAP!!! While I respect the talent of their insane guitarist and bassist, I don't care for their writing style. By writing i mean all inclusive as in lyrics, bass lines riffs ect. ... the whole package. Some insane talent there though. As far as similar stuff to this if anyone like Dragonforce they shold also check out Dream theatre, Pinkfloyd, Avenged sevenfold, Judas priest and Iron maiden. All great stuff if you're into prgressiv rock or speed metal.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 01, 2007, 11:52:00 am

yeah dragonforce lyrics doesnt really make any sense to me, it almost seems like they wrote them while on drugs x.x, I mostly listen to them for the music style. Stratovarius lyrics are similar, but they make more sense than DragonForce's and rhapsody/blind guardian ones are awesome

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on December 01, 2007, 02:30:00 pm

what in the world is the differnce between prgressiv rock or speed metal?

anyways i played some of your (DJ Omnimaga) music and it is ok
not the best in the world though

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 01, 2007, 03:21:00 pm

progressive rock is much slower than speed metal, i listened to a lot of them on youtube that super speler shown me and they were very slow. Dragonforce is crazy speed.

And you may not like my music much as it is techno oriented (trance, happy hardcore, etc) and you don't like techno

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on December 01, 2007, 03:26:00 pm

i know some people though that will go gaga over your music

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 01, 2007, 03:28:00 pm

what does gaga means? I assume it's a different form of saying "crazy" or "dancing", right? Sorry, I don't speak english as first language so it doesn't help x.x

And since i produce multiple styles there may be songs that some ppl will like but they will not like the rest, or vice versa. Example, some techno lover only listen to happy hardcore and not trance, and some listen to drum and bass and nothing else

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Harrierfalcon on December 01, 2007, 06:16:00 pm

I'm guessing by "gaga" he means they will like it very much.  It's (little used) slang.

Seriously, you guys should check out the main game loop of http://www.addictinggames.com/smash2.html.  I don't know what its genre is, but it's sort of a mix of DnB and Techno with piano.  Excellent stuff.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 01, 2007, 06:22:00 pm

yeah it was kinda cool, altough I'm not into that genre of techno much

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Zera on December 02, 2007, 02:27:00 am

"gaga" - go crazy over.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gaga

I believe it is onomatopoeia for the sound a crazy person might make. :P

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 02, 2007, 04:33:00 am

If we exclude happy hardcore and eurodance this is the kind of techno I listen too (those are my three favourite trance songs in order)

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=mE7Yzr4DoUc&feature=related
or the first song in this video:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=um-GMygsRg4

My third favourite trance song is the second version of 7 Colours by Lost Witness, but i only found the first on Youtube

All the songs are in the 1999-2002 range btw

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: TIfanx1999 on December 02, 2007, 05:21:00 am

@Dj Omnimaga you like Stratovarius too?!? Sweet :) You definitly have to check out Dream Theater then. They are very much like Stratovarius except their music is more varried and they are a bit more talented.
@MSR5; Examples of speed metal are Dragonforce, Iron maiden and Black label society. IE they play fast and lots of hammer ons. Progressive rock is more of like Pinkfloyd, and the bands Yes and Kansas. They may include some fast stuff but tend to have more instrumental stuff and incorparate elements from other genres.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: MSR5 on December 02, 2007, 09:03:00 am

no clue what you are talking about but it sounds good

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 02, 2007, 10:58:00 am

@art: I listened to some dream theater and it only seemed to be ballads and slow songs :(

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Speler on December 02, 2007, 11:01:00 am

DJ Omnimaga, they do a lot of really fast stuff.  I'm not a big fan though...

art_of_camelot, that's a completely false definition of prog.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 02, 2007, 11:14:00 am

maybe most ppl who like dream theater on youtube are more into their slow stuff then x.x

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: TIfanx1999 on December 04, 2007, 06:46:00 am

They have some  really good fast stuff too, like the album "Train of thought" for example. Most of their albums have a mix of fast and slow though. I also highly recomend listening to the album "Awake", it is my favorite one. :) Fun fact; when looking for a new keyboard player after their original one left Jens Johansson (who enventually joind stratovarious) was one of the many who auditioned.
@Super speeler My definiton of progressive rock is wrong? I would say its a bit over simplified, but not wrong.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: Speler on December 04, 2007, 09:42:00 am

No, it's wrong.  Plenty of prog is uber-fast and it doesn't need long instrumental sections to be prog (a lot of prog just tends to have these sections).  The incorporating stuff from other genre's line is only true but irrelevant, all music does.

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 04, 2007, 10:41:00 am

true, there's even techno music incorporating classical elements

Title: 5 Albums You Should Listen To
Post by: TIfanx1999 on December 04, 2007, 12:10:00 pm

I have never heard any progressive rock that is as fast as speed metal, and I was using this more for descriptive purposes than anything to give a general idea of what it sounds like . I said they tend to include more instrumental stuff because usually, they do. I never stated that for something to be labeled progressive rock it had to have large instrumental sections either .