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2000 - 2009 in music

Good Lord! Embed videos much??

:lol:

I'm not going to go through all of that. I'll just say the decade begins and ends with Porcupine Tree.

Lightbulb Sun
In Absentia
Deadwing
Fear of a Blank Planet
The Incident

They are like....what if Pink Floyd and Tool had a baby?

If you're interested in them, you can check them out at

http://www.porcupinetree.com/index.cfm

There are lots of clips and videos there.

1001001, I'm so glad there's another PT champion on this BBS. We need to spread the word! :lol: I think they deserve more exposure and popularity than they have.
 
Good Lord! Embed videos much??

:lol:

I'm not going to go through all of that. I'll just say the decade begins and ends with Porcupine Tree.

Lightbulb Sun
In Absentia
Deadwing
Fear of a Blank Planet
The Incident

They are like....what if Pink Floyd and Tool had a baby?

If you're interested in them, you can check them out at

http://www.porcupinetree.com/index.cfm

There are lots of clips and videos there.

1001001, I'm so glad there's another PT champion on this BBS. We need to spread the word! :lol: I think they deserve more exposure and popularity than they have.

They are awesome, indeed. But Prog Rock is always a tough sell to the masses. Not a lot of radio stations will play 10 minute songs....

:lol:
 
Good Lord! Embed videos much??

:lol:

I'm not going to go through all of that. I'll just say the decade begins and ends with Porcupine Tree.

Lightbulb Sun
In Absentia
Deadwing
Fear of a Blank Planet
The Incident

They are like....what if Pink Floyd and Tool had a baby?

If you're interested in them, you can check them out at

http://www.porcupinetree.com/index.cfm

There are lots of clips and videos there.

1001001, I'm so glad there's another PT champion on this BBS. We need to spread the word! :lol: I think they deserve more exposure and popularity than they have.

They are awesome, indeed. But Prog Rock is always a tough sell to the masses. Not a lot of radio stations will play 10 minute songs....

:lol:

To be perfectly fair, The Incident did begin at #25 on the US album charts, and they've got almost 400,000 listeners on Last.fm, so I don't think they're all that obscure at this point. The fact that they get no radio airplay and extremely little press exposure makes that all the more impressive.
 
To be perfectly fair, The Incident did begin at #25 on the US album charts, and they've got almost 400,000 listeners on Last.fm, so I don't think they're all that obscure at this point. The fact that they get no radio airplay and extremely little press exposure makes that all the more impressive.

Agreed. They're also very international, the United States not withstanding. This tour has gone everywhere.....
 
To be perfectly fair, The Incident did begin at #25 on the US album charts, and they've got almost 400,000 listeners on Last.fm, so I don't think they're all that obscure at this point. The fact that they get no radio airplay and extremely little press exposure makes that all the more impressive.

Agreed. They're also very international, the United States not withstanding. This tour has gone everywhere.....

They certainly have got a bit of boost after signing to a bigger label (Roadrunner). I feel they will probably end up like a band like Rush, excellent, and very respected and obsessed over by their fanbase, but totally ignored by the mainstream media. A shame, because I think they deserve the success of, say, Radiohead or Tool. Popular, without compromising their integrity to producing good music.
 
Some of my favorite songs form the decade:

2000

Radiohead – How to Disappear Completely
Porcupine Tree – Shesmovedon
PJ Harvey – This Mess We’re In

2001

Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong
The White Stripes – Fell in Love With a Girl
The Strokes – Last Nite

2002

Porcupine Tree – Blackest Eyes
Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies
Interpol – NYC
Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
The Notwist – One With the Freaks
The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize???
Sleater-Kinney – Oh!

2003

Radiohead – There There
Dropkick Murphys – The Dirty Glass
The Dresden Dolls – Girl Anachronism
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – Redemption Song
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
Cat Power – Maybe Not
The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army

2004

Social Distortion – Reach for the Sky
Regina Spektor – Us
Franz Ferdinand - Darts of Pleasure
Arcade Fire – Wake Up

2005

Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
Sleater-Kinney – Entertain
Maxïmo Park – Apply Some Pressure
Nine Inch Nails – Right Where it Belongs

2006

Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken
Rise Against – Prayer of the Refugee
The Knife – Silent Shout

2007

Radiohead – Reckoner
Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet
LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
The National – Fake Empire
Blonde Redhead - 23
Arcade Fire - Intervention
The Ravonettes – Dead Sound
PJ Harvey – Silence
Dropkick Murphys – State of Massachusetts

2008

Portishead – The Rip
Steven Wilson – Harmony Korine
The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happend
Amanda Palmer – The Point of It All
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

2009

Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question of Time
Florence + The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)
Metric – Gimme Sympathy
Fever Ray – Keep the Streets Empty For Me
Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
 
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I'll work backwards I think. A rough top 10 of each year:

2009:
The Mars Volta - Teflon
Depeche Mode - In Chains
Massive Attack - Pray for Rain
Fever Ray - Keep the Streets Empty for Me (good shout Tyre)
Porcupine Tree - VI. The Incident
Every Time I Die - For the Record
The Big Pink - Frisk
Poison the Well - D10 D11
Portishead - Chase the Tear
Thrice - In Exile

Best album: Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Worst album: Muse - The Resistance (more for the sheer disappointment than anything else at this stage)

2008:
Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
The Mars Volta - Cavalettas
Girls Aloud - Revolution in the Head
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
TV on the Radio - DLZ
Mínus - Throwaway Angel (Acoustic)
Thrice - The Earth isn't Humming
Guillemots - Clarion
Hot Chip - Out at the Pictures
Nine Inch Nails - The Four of Us are Dying

Best: tie between The Mars Volta and TV on the Radio
Worst: tie between Slipknot, Girls Aloud, In Flames and 36 Crazyfists

2007:
Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage
Serj Tankian - Money
Girls Aloud - What You Crying For
Every Time I Die - Pigs is Pigs
Nine Inch Nails - The Good Soldier
Porcupine Tree - Normal
Hell is for Heroes - Only the Ridiculous Will Survive
Dillinger Escape Plan - Milk Lizard
Bat for Lashes - Trophy
Arctic Monkeys - Do Me a Favour

Best album: Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Worst: Tomahawk - Anonymous (honestly, Patton, WTF?)

2006:
The Knife - Marble House
Deftones - Beware
TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
Incubus - Pendulous Threads
Cult of Luna - Dim
Peeping Tom - Mojo
The Mars Volta - Day of the Baphomets
Dog Fashion Disco - Sweet Insanity
Converge - Lonewolves
Tool - Wings for Marie/10,000 Days

Best album: Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
Worst: Kasabian - Empire

2005:
System of a Down - Sad Statue
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Every Time I Die - Apocalypse Now and Then
Depeche Mode - Newborn
Oceansize - Heaven Alive
Hell is for Heroes - Quiet Riot
Girls Aloud - It's Magic
Nine Inch Nails - Getting Smaller
Korn - Coming Undone
Rammstein - Zerstoren

Best album: tie between Porcupine Tree - Deadwing and System of a Down - Mezmerize/Hypnotize
Worst: Audioslave - Out of Exile

2004:
Cult of Luna - Waiting for You
Arcade Fire - In the Backseat
Rico - Crazier
Girls Aloud - Graffiti My Soul
Kasabian - Cutt Off
In Flames - Evil in a Closet
Muse - Fury
Rammstein - Mein Teil
Incubus - Sick Sad Little World
Ghostride - Fire Shop

Best album: Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder
Worst: Velvet Revolver

2003
SikTh - Wait for Something Wild
Every Time I Die - Ebolorama
Tomahawk - Capt Midnight
Mínus - The Long Face
Deftones - When Girls Telephone Boys
Hell is for Heroes - You Drove Me To It
Muse - Hysteria
Oceansize - Massive Bereavement
Radiohead - Punchup at a Wedding
A Perfect Circle - Pet

Best album: Sikth - The Trees are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild
Worst: Korn - Take a Look in the Mirror

2002:
System of a Down - Mr Jack
Sulpher - One of Us
Porcupine Tree - Strip the Soul
In Extremo - Krummavísur
In Flames - Minus
Clinic - Mr Moonlight
36 Crazyfists - Two Months from a Year
Audioslave - Exploder
Glassjaw - The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
Gravity Kills - Superstarved*

Best album: Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Worst: Soulfly - 3

2001: (this is almost impossible. What a quality year)
Muse - Citizen Erased
Incubus - Under My Umbrella
Rammstein - Zwitter
System of a Down - ATWA
Tool - The Grudge
American Head Charge - Shutdown
Massive Attack - A Prayer for England
Depeche Mode - Dream On
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
At the Drive-In - Enfilade

Best album: System of a Down - Toxicity
Worst: none. Honest.

2000:
Deftones - Elite
Korn - Hey Daddy
In Flames - Clayman
Radiohead - Optimistic
Porcupine Tree - Russia on Ice
Mínus - Pulse
Rage Against the Machine - Maggie's Farm
Gary Numan - Pure
Tony Iommi and Serj Tankian - Patterns
Pantera - Revolution is my Name
System of a Down - Snowblind

Best album: Deftones - White Pony
Worst: Mudvayne - L.D.50
 
^ I think I would agree with that. That song just has... everything you could ever possibly want for a song. Even at 12 minutes it still seems to fly by and leave you in an astounded daze every time you play it.

And that breakdown *swoon*
 
To be perfectly fair, The Incident did begin at #25 on the US album charts, and they've got almost 400,000 listeners on Last.fm, so I don't think they're all that obscure at this point. The fact that they get no radio airplay and extremely little press exposure makes that all the more impressive.

They're not obscure anymore. I don't know how it works in the other countries but here the heavy metal press likes them a lot especially since Deadwings and FOABP. I saw them in 2001 when they were opening for marillion and now they play in a crowded Olympia for prog fans and headbangers :lol:


Some of my favorite songs form the decade:


2005

Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

This gets my vote for song of the decade.

Truly spectacular.

:techman:

In 2005, during the Deadwings tour, I decided to buy the album and a ticket (the last one available :lol: ) only one day before the concert . I discovered the song live and I couldn't stop playing it for days after :lol:
 
Some of my favorite songs form the decade:


2005

Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

This gets my vote for song of the decade.

Truly spectacular.

:techman:

In 2005, during the Deadwings tour, I decided to buy the album and a ticket (the last one available :lol: ) only one day before the concert . I discovered the song live and I couldn't stop playing it for days after :lol:

Have you seen the DVD from that tour? It's called Arriving Somewhere....and it was recorded in Chicago. The version they play that night peels the paint off the walls.

You can (or at least you could previously) download the soundtrack from their website for about $9.00. I listen to that concert in my car all the time.
 
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