The best albums of 2002

[starwire]

Oops, forgot to put Light & Magic by Ladytron on my list. #30 or so. Fun synth pop.

[Brad]

my pick for best album of 2002, easily goes to Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head. *sigh*.. I could seriously listen to that album forever[/b]

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id also like to add to my previous list at number 2
They Might Be Giants - No

[boogiepop_lauren]

AHH!I CAN NEVER SEEM TO FIND THINGS!!!hello, has anyone ever watched boogiepop phantom on the dvd set and herd the background song on the options page?I need to dowload thats song, please help me.

[Jace Tsunami]

why.. THE FUCK, did you post that here?

Sure n00bs do a lot of stupid things and post in the wrong FORUMS every once in a while, but reviving a dieing thread, about albums, to ask a half assed make no sense anime music question has got to be the dumbest and most out of place I have EVER seen. What in your right mind persuaded you to post that here?

Maybe it would help us if you told us which DVD, since obviously you can't just look up the credits on your own like you're going to make one of us do.

[Flint the Dwarf]

Well since plenty of the albums I'd put here are already... here, I'll post my favorite metal ones. The two I think should be listed...

Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera

I must list this because there's only... two or three people here I know of that like them. Well, the album is simply amazing. It's so heavily orchestrated and the lyrics are rooted in literature and filled with allusions. And the songs kick ass. Every single one. The bonus track is great, too - "Harvest of Sorrow" in English, but my version is Spanish... "Mies Del Dolor" or "Moisson de Peine" in the French recording. I think they also recorded it in Italian. First time I'd heard him sing in a different language and he sings it perfectly. Album name attributed to Queen's A Night at the Opera, not the semi-famous Marx brothers film. Not quite as heavy as Imaginations From the Other Side but even more musically inclined than their Silmarillion tribute to Tolkien, Nightfall in Middle Earth. Highlight songs: "Sadly Sings Destiny," "The Age of False Innocence," and the amazing 14 minute tribute to Homer's The Iliad, "And Then There Was Silence." It seems Hansi (the singer) pays tribute to the scops of old. And the drums are more amazing than any drums I've ever heard... but I still like Tool's. Anyway, this is my favorite album of all time, very possibly.

Symphony X - The Odyssey

First album of theirs that I'd heard, took a few listenings-to in order to get used to it. At first, they reminded me too much of Pantera with their guitar arrangements until I realized they are much more complex and not nearly as Neanderthalic as Pantera's. Beautiful album in all, ending it with a 24 minute tribute to Odysseus's journey in Homer's The Odyssey. But then, there is a slightly disappointing bonus track that really should have been placed elsewhere on the CD. Preferably at the beginning. The juxtaposition makes sense, but the album would be better ending with "The Odyssey." Other highlight: "Accolade II."

[starwire]

Symphony X - The Odyssey

I'm not what you'd call a "metal fan," but when I heard about this album I was like, "Whoa, are you kidding me!?" I mean, could you possibly try to make a more epic album than this? Well, maybe if you did an album based on the Bible or something, but anyway...

Hey, you're from Aurora! By any chance did you get out to the Metro in Chicago to see the Blind Guardian/Symphony X show this past December?

[Innotech]

my pick for best album of 2002, easily goes to Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head. *sigh*.. I could seriously listen to that album forever[/b]

Oh yes that album is another killer too

[nailz]

Man, you guys listen to some seriously shitty music. =p

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To the point.