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Alright, as we near the end of this first Y2K decade, it's time to take a look back at all the incredible Albums that have been released up to now.

I'll start off this extensive research with 2000, up until 2009. I'll then go back to 1980, all the way up to 1999, to then wrap things up with the 70s and before.

Seeing the amount of albums I listen(ed) to, I'll be choosing my Top 25 Albums for each year. An ordered Top 10, and ~15 others worth mentioning. I'm also considering the live albums and EPs (~5), but they have their own section since songs on these have usually already been released before.

These are general rankings of how I see them today, and based on my Last.FM songs playcounts (2005-now) put through the formula:

Total Sum of each Album's Song's (running time X playcount)
DIVIDED BY
Album's Total Running Time

Thanks to MediaMonkey and its amazing scripting abilities, that formula gives an Album's REAL playcount, taking into consideration every song's lenght & playcount in relation to the overall album's lenght and # of songs on it.
You'll see the result (# of times I've really listened to an album since 2005) besides each, along with my 10* Rating. (x/x)
Besides each Year, you get the Total of all Albums' Playcounts and the average of all Albums' Ratings. (x / %)

Note that I haven't necessarily discovered and enjoyed all these albums on their released years, some I discovered years later. So these are also based on how important (to me) some of these albums were at the time.

(**) are the complete albums I was into at that time;
(*) are albums that contained only a few song(s) I was into or listened to at that time;
and those without (*) are albums I discovered years later.

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Favorite albums (1970-1979)
Favorite albums (1980-1989)
Favorite albums (1990-1999)
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2000 (139 / 81%)



1) Furnished Souls for Rent (48/10) (**)
2) The Screen Behind The Mirror (9/9) (**)
3) Universe (6/9) (**)
4) Dead Soul Men (6/9)
5) undefined (1/9)
6) A New Day Yesterday (1/9)
7) CAB (4/9)
8) Another Spin Around The Sun (5/8) (*)
9) Origin (9/8)
10) Stiff Upper Lip (1/8)

Live/EP:

-) S&M (-/10)
-) Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live (-/10)
-) Half the World Is Watching Me (-/9)
-) Earth, Sky and Everything in Between (-/9)
-) Spirit of Live (-/8)
-) Not Enough Shouting (-/8)

worth mentioning:

-) Awake (3/8)
-) The Perfect Element, Part I (1/8)
-) SMPTe (3/8) (*)
-) Don't Give Me Names (1/8)
-) if_then_else (2/8)
-) You Go Now (6/8)
-) Rated R (6/8)
-) Outbound (1/8)
-) Brave New World (1/8)
-) Flamenco.A.Go.Go (1/8)
-) The Sickness (4/7)
-) Lightbulb Sun (3/7)
-) Shuttlecock (2/7)
-) Mer De Noms (3/7) (*)
-) My Favorite Headache (2/7)
-) Crush (9/7) (*)
-) Crack a Smile... and More (1994 album w/ Blues Saraceno) (1/7)




2001 (99 / 84%)



1) Leitmotif (23/10)
2) Alive in an Ultra World (8/10) (**)
3) The Pleasure and the Greed (10/10) (**)
4) Amélie (3/10)
5) Huron Street (6/9)
6) Toxicity (3/9)
7) Contact (2/9)
8) Emalgamation (1/9)
9) Days of the New III (4/9)
10) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2/9) (**)

Live:

-) Live Scenes From New York (-/10) (**)
-) One Wild Night (-/10) (*)
-) Half Life (-/9)
-) Live at the Baked Potato (-/9)
-) The Deep End (-/8)
-) Live Frogs (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Lateralus (7/8)
-) Everyday (2/8)
-) Inertia (6/8) (*)
-) Manic Moonlight (1/8)
-) Feeding the Wheel (3/8) (*)
-) Bridge Across Forever (1/8)
-) Origin Of Symmetry (3/8)
-) Tantric (1/8)
-) Almost Heathen (3/8)
-) Invincible (1/8)
-) Unleashed Memories (1/8)
-) 2 (2/8) (*)
-) 10 000 Hz Legend (1/8)
-) The Interzone Mantras (1/7)
-) The Idiot King (2/7)
-) Buck Fever (1/7)
-) Book M (1/7)




2002 (262 / 85%)



1) Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (25/10) (**)
2) Population 1 (36/10) (**)
3) Moon Babies (15/10) (**)
4) Songs For The Deaf (21/9)
5) 67 (28/9) (**)
6) Move (12/9)
7) In Absentia (11/9) (*)
8) Freak Guitar (3/9)
9) Saturate (25/9)
10) El Cielo (13/9)

Live/EP:

-) Live From Oz (-/10) (*)
-) Stolen Babies EP (-/9)
-) And All That Could Have Been (-/9)
-) Not for Your Ears (-/8)
-) Boozed, Broozed & Broken-Boned (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Bounce (4/9) (*)
-) X (13/8) (**)
-) By the Way (2/8) (*)
-) Exit Elvis (11/8) (**)
-) Weight of the World (3/8)
-) Steal This Album! (3/8)
-) So, It's Like That (1/8)
-) Remedy Lane (2/8)
-) Diorama (4/8)
-) Audioslave (6/8) (*)
-) Vapor Trails (7/8) (*)
-) From One (4/8)
-) Dead Soul Tribe (1/8)
-) Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (3/7) (**)
-) Independent (3/7)
-) Believe (4/7)




2003 (236 / 90%)



1) Train of Thought (41/10) (**)
2) The Quicksilver Meat Dream (35/10) (**)
3) Office of Strategic Influence (38/10) (*)
4) Frengers (24/10)
5) The Moon is Falling (3/10)
6) Robot Monster (10/10) (**)
7) Re-Foc (12/9)
8) Summercamp Nightmare (2/9)
9) Good Bye Lenin! (1/9)
10) Absolution (14/9) (*)

Live:

-) Live at the Astoria (-/10) (**)
-) Rush in Rio (-/10) (**)
-) This Left Feels Right (-/8) (*)
-) 10 anos ao vivo (-/8)
-) Spatial/Design (-/8)
-) Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Faceless (4/8)
-) Souvenirs (2/8)
-) Black Utopia (4/8)
-) In Lake 'ch (2/8)
-) Black Like Sunday (1/8)
-) Blues Deluxe (8) (*)
-) Little Worlds (1/8)
-) Jeff (1/8)
-) A Murder of Crows (1/8)
-) Walking on a Thin Line (1/8)
-) A Natural Disaster (2/8)
-) Fallen (21/8) (*)
-) St Anger (7/7) (*)
-) Quadropus (1/7)
-) Emergent (1/7)
-) Voyageur (4/7)
-) Thirteenth Step (2/7)




Coming up next: 2004



Artists List

3, 7 for 4, A Perfect Circle, AC/DC, Air, Anathema, Attention Deficit, Audioslave, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Big Wreck, Black Label Society, Blues Saraceno, Bon Jovi, Breaking Benjamin, CAB, Canvas Solaris, Chroma Key, Cosmosquad, Dave Matthews Band, Days of the New, Deadsoul Tribe, Def Leppard, Derek Sherinian, Disturbed, Don Ross, Dr Sin, Dream Theater, dredg, Edwin, Enigma, Estradasphere, Evanescence, Freak Kitchen, Geddy Lee, Godsmack, Gordian Knot, Gov't Mule, Guano Apes, Harem Scarem, I Mother Earth, Iron Maiden, Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa, Joel Hoekstra, John Williams, Jordan Rudess, Karma to Burn, King's X, Kingdom Come, Lacuna Coil, Lucia Moniz, Mattias IA Eklundh, Metallica, Mew, Michael Jackson, Mourning Widows, MullMuzzler, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Nuno Bettencourt, OSI, Pain of Salvation, Pink Floyd, Planet X, Poison, Porcupine Tree, Primus, Queens of the Stone Age, Ra, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rush, Sam Aliano, Secret Chiefs 3, Silverchair, Steve Stevens, Steve Vai, Stolen Babies, Super TransAtlantic, System of a Down, Tantric, The Gathering, The Les Claypool Frog Brigade, The Mayan Factor, The Tea Party, Tool, Transatlantic, Tribe of Judah, Wolfstone, Yann Tiersen.

I've had a long list of artists I need to listen to or need to listen to more of sometime for some time now and felt I should put it up on Last.fm incase anyone is willing to suggest me tracks or albums for the listed artists. Forgive me if any of the artist have been placed under the wrong genres. Most of these artist are there for me to refer to sometime in the future whenever I'm wanting to listen to more of a certain genre.

black metal

1349
Abaddon Incarnate
Agatus
Bal-Sagoth
Belphegor
Blut aus Nord
Dark Funeral
Darkthrone
Dragonlord
Graveworm
Hellhammer
Immortal
Leviathan
Mercyful Fate
Negurã Bunget
Primordial
Rotting Christ
Summoning
Ulver
Vintersorg

death metal (including melodic death metal)

Atheist
Dark Tranquillity
Gojira
Kalmah
Mael Mordha
Necrophagist
Norther
Obituary
Vader

doom metal

Aarni
Accept Death
Bongzilla
Buried at Sea
Burning Witch
Cathedral
Cirith Ungol
Daylight Dies
Doomsword
Grand Magus
Grief
HeavyLord
High on Fire
Hooded Menace
Iron Monkey
Lazarus Blackstar
Mammatus
My Dying Bride
Neurosis
OM
Pentagram
Place of Skulls
Reverend Bizarre
Rwake
Saint Vitus
Solitude Aeturnus
Spirit Caravan
The Hidden Hand
Trouble
Ufomammut
Umbra Nihil
Void of Silence
Warning
Weedeater
Yearning

folk metal

Alkonost
Bucovina
Cruachan
Equilibrium
Odroerir
Scald
Skyclad
Svartby
Waylander

traditional metal/hard rock/misc.

Angel Witch
Anvil
Armored Saint
Battlelore
Blue Öyster Cult
Brocas Helm
Budgie
Def Leppard
Dokken
Grim Reaper
Hawkwind
Iron Butterfly
King Diamond
Nevermore
Omen
Samson
Scorpions
Satan
Thin Lizzy

industrial metal

KMFDM
Ministry
Mnemic

power metal

3 Inches of Blood
Axenstar
Brainstorm
Circle II Circle
Dark Moor
Dragonland
Dream Evil
Firewind
Freedom Call
Heavenly
Jag Panzer
Kamelot
Machine Men
Magica
Majesty
Pagan's Mind
Power Quest
Primal Fear
Pyramaze
Rage
Skylark
Stormwarrior
X JAPAN

progressive metal

Age of Nemesis
Ayreon
Blotted Science
Communic
Dysrhythmia
Evergrey
Gordian Knot
James LaBrie
John Petrucci
King's X
Pain of Salvation
Planet X
Platypus
Psychotic Waltz
Spastic Ink
Threshold
Vanden Plas
Zero Hour

progressive rock

Genesis
Jethro Tull
Spock's Beard
Tool

speed metal

Animetal
Exciter

symphonic metal

Epica
Haggard
Therion
Trans-Siberian Orchestra

thrash metal

Annihilator
Destruction
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Evile
Exhorder
Testament

All recommendations are appreciated.

Since one of the thing I love the most about music is the chemistry between players in a band, here's my lists of favorite duos.
These reflect not only amazing technical ability but also an amazing mix of styles backed up by great songwriting as well.

Duo Guitar/Bass

1) Alex Lifeson / Geddy Lee (Rush)
2) John Petrucci / John Myung (Dream Theater)
3) Nuno Bettencourt / Pat Badger (Extreme)
4) Jagori Tanna / Bruce Gordon (I Mother Earth)
5) Steve Vai / Billy Sheehan (David Lee Roth & Vai)

Duo Guitar/Drums

1) John Petrucci / Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater)
2) Nuno Bettencourt / Mike Mangini & Jeff Consi (Extreme / Mourning Widows)
3) Steve Vai / Mike Mangini (Vai)
4) Jagori & Christian Tanna (I Mother Earth)
5) Adam Jones / Danny Carey (Tool)

Duo Guitar/Keyboards

1) John Petrucci / Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater / LTE)
2) John Petrucci / Kevin Moore (Dream Theater)
3) John Petrucci / Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater)
4) Jim Matheos / Kevin Moore (OSI / Fates Warning)
5) Nuno Bettencourt / Steve Ferlazzo (DramaGods)

Duo Bass/Drums

1) Les Claypool / Tim Alexander (Primus)
2) Geddy Lee / Neil Peart (Rush)
3) Doug Pinnicks/Jerry Gaskill (King's X)
4) Rufus Philpot / Virgil Donati (Planet X)
5) Justin Chancellor / Danny Carey (Tool)
6) Bruce Gordon / Christian Tanna (I Mother Earth)

Duo Bass/Keyboards

1) Tony Levin / Jordan Rudess (LTE)
2) John Myung / Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater / Platypus)
3) Billy Sheehan / John Novello (Niacin)

Duo Drums/Keyboards

1) Virgil Donati / Derek Sherinian (Planet X)
2) Mike Portnoy / Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater / LTE)
3) Mike Portnoy / Kevin Moore (Dream Theater / OSI)
4) Carl Palmer / Keith Emerson (ELP)
5) Dennis Chambers / John Novello (Niacin)

Duo Guitars

1) Steve Clark / Phil Collen (Def Leppard)
2) James Hetfield / Kirk Hammett (Metallica)
3) Rodrigo y Gabriela
4) Angus & Malcolm Young (AC/DC)
5) Steve Clark / Pete Willis (Def Leppard)
6) Phil Collen / Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard)

Duo Songwriters

1) Gary Cherone / Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme)
2) John Petrucci / Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater / LTE)
3) Virgil Donati / Derek Sherinian (Planet X)

Wishlist

1) Nuno Bettencourt / Mike Portnoy
2) Nuno Bettencourt / Virgil Donati
3) Nuno Bettencourt & Steve Vai / Planet X


Dream Lineups

Prog-Funky: Nuno Bettencourt / Mike Portnoy / Les Claypool / Derek Sherinian
Prog-Crazy: Steve Vai / Mike Mangini / Victor Wooten / Jordan Rudess
Prog-Spacy: Alex Lifeson / Virgil Donati / Geddy Lee / Kevin Moore

Blackfield – “Open Mind (live 2007)”
King's X – “Repeating Myself”
Kansas Featuring The London Symphony Orchestra – “The Wall”
Mastodon – “Ghost of Karelia”
Kamelot – “When The Lights Are Down (Live from Belgrade)”
Gentle Giant /artist] – “Time To Kill”
Airbag – “Speed Of Light”
The Future Kings of England – “Mustard Men”
Man – “All Good Clean Fun”
Guilt Machine – “Over”
Pelican – “Ephemeral”

11-03 Minus the Bear @ Glass House
11-11 Glassjaw @ Mayan
11-12 Glassjaw @ Glass House
11-13 Red Sparowes @ Vacation Vinyl (FREE)
11-14 Russian Circles/Young Widows/Helms Alee @ The Echoplex
11-19 Mastodon/Dethklok/Converge/High on Fire @ Palladium
11-20 Deftones @ Avalon (Benefit for Chi)
12-03 Baroness @ The Troubadour
12-14 Mew @ Henry Fonda Theater
12-16 Melt-Banana/Tera Melos @ The Troubadour
01-04 Open Hand @ Spaceland
01-17 Between the Buried and Me/Cynic/DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND/Scale The Summit @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

Past shows for 2009:
01-03 Babyland @ Spaceland
01-16 North @ Knitting Factory
01-17 Autolux @ Henry Fonda Theatre
01-22 El Ten Eleven @ The Silver Lake Lounge
02-03 Meshuggah/Cynic *1*
02-05 El Ten Eleven/Charlotte Martin @ The Hotel Cafe
02-13 Don Caballero/sBACH @ Spaceland
02-19 Far @ The Velvet Jones
02-21 Grails @ Spaceland
03-14 Clevis/Solar Wimp/Totally Serious/The Littlest Viking @ the Cocaine
03-17 ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead @ Echoplex
03-20 Karin Tatoyan @ Spaceland
03-26 Forbidden @ Key Club
03-27 Pelican @ Troubadour
04-03 Acid Mothers Temple/Kinski @ The Echo
04-04 noodles/The Outline @ Silver Lake Lounge
04-05 Autolux @ Glass House
04-10 Karin Tatoyan @ Echo and El Ten Eleven @ Home [I made it to both shows!!!]
04-12 Silversun Pickups @ Glass House
04-14 Taproot @ Key Club
04-17 Kylesa/Intronaut/Made Out of Babies/Black Elk @ Echoplex
04-24 Emily Wells @ Bardot *1*
04-30 Silversun Pickups @ Echoplex
05-07 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum @ Key Club
05-09 Threadbare reunion show w/Unbroken @ Glass House
05-13 Traindodge/National Sunday Law @ Blue Monkey Bar
05-18 The Life and Times @ Spaceland
05-22 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-23 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-24 Gojira/Car Bomb @ Key Club *1*
06-04 Karin Tatoyan @ The Echo
06-05 King's X @ Key Club *1*
06-20 friday nights @ ???
06-21 Shellac/Arcwelder @ Echoplex
06-24 Isis @ Henry Fonda Theater *1*
07-11 Tortoise @ Troubadour *1*
07-22 Elbow @ Wiltern *1*
07-17 Three Mile Pilot @ Spaceland *1*
07-29 Themselves/[Post-Foetus]/Emily Wells @ Spaceland
08-03 Gomez @ Wiltern
08-05 Torche/Big Business @ Knitting Factory
08-11 Sunn O)))/The Accused/Eagle Twin @ Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock
08-14 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
08-20 friday nights @ the Gap in Studio City
08-28 Intronaut/Cattle Decapitation @ Cobalt Cafe
09-01 Mew @ The Troubadour
09-07 Mew @ the Detroit Bar
09-09 Emily Wells @ Echo
09-15 Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Fox Theater
09-30 Kylesa/Bison/Saviours/Black Math Horsemen @ Knitting Factory *1*
10-08 Coalesce/Cave In @ Knitting Factory
10-10 These Arms Are Snakes @ Knitting Factory
But seeing Far open for Thursday and could care less for Thursday
10-11 Sunny Day Real Estate @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-13 Mono/Maserati @ El Rey
10-15 Jesus Lizard @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-18 Dysrhythmia @ Relax Bar
10-24 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
10-28 Pelican @ The Troubadour
10-30 Professor Calculus @ The Smell

*1* Denotes that I didn't record the show...

1983

First concert ever:
March 12th Ozzy Osbourne- Speak Of The Devil Tour w/ Vandenberg, Pershing Auditorium-Lincoln, Nebraska

October 23rd Iron Maiden-World Piece Tour w/ Coney Hatch, and Axe, same venue<

1984

March 10th Ozzy Osbourne-Bark At The Moon Tour w/Mötley Crüe, Omaha Civic Aud. Omaha, Nebraska

July ? Aerosmith-The Reunion Tour w/Orion The Hunter, same venue

September ? Twisted Sister-Stay Hungry Tour w/Y&T, same venue except this show was in the music hall

December ? KISS-Animalize Tour w/ Queensrÿche Pershing Aud.

1985

January ? Dio- Last In Line Tour w/ Dokken Omaha Civic Aud.

April ? Krokus-Midnight Maniac Tour w/ Accept Omaha Civic MH

June 27th Iron Maiden-World Slavery Tour w/Accept Omaha Civic Aud.

September ? Mötley Crüe- Theater Of Pain Tour w/ Loudness Omaha Civic Aud.

October ? AC/DC-Fly On The Wall Tour w/ Yngwie Malmsteen Omaha Civic Aud.


1986

January ? KISS-?Tour w/W.A.S.P. Omaha Civic Aud.

May ?? Aerosmith w/ Ted Nugent, Omaha Civic Aud.

May ?? The Iowa Jam-Aerosmith w/ Ted Nugent, Dokken, Metallica and Armored Saint-State Fairgrounds, Des Moines Iowa

June? Metallica-Master Of Puppets Tour w/ Armored Saint, The Peony Park Ballroom-Omaha Nebraska

July ? Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin Tour w/BOC Omaha Civic Aud.

September ? Journey-Raised On Radio Tour w/ Honeymoon Suite-Devaney Sports Center, Lincoln Nebraska

1987

March ? Iron Maiden-Somewhere On Tour w/ (I don't friggin remember!) Omaha Civic Aud.

June 20th-The Texxas Jam-Boston w/Aerosmith, Whitesnake, Tesla and Poison-Cotton Bowl Stadium-Dallas Texas

August ? Whitesnake w/ Great White Omaha Civic Aud.

October 26th- Boston-Third Stage Tour w/ (damned if I can remember!) Devaney Sports Center

The following day: U2 The Joshua Tree Tour w/ (yep, you guessed it!) Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri

1988

April ? Rush-Hold Your Fire Tour w/ The Rainmakers Omaha Civic Aud

May ? Pink Floyd-A Momentary Lapse Of Reason Tour- Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri

July ? AC/DC-Blow Up Your Video Tour w/ White Lion Omaha Civic Aud

Somewhere around here was a Robert Plant show!

August
? The Monsters Of Rock Tour- Van Halen w/ The Scorpions, Dokken
Metallica and Kingdom Come-Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City Missouri

1989

June 14th Metallica-Damaged Justice Tour w/ The Cult-Omaha Civic Aud.

September??-The Rolling Stones-Steel Wheels Tour-w/Living Colour-Arrowhead Stadium-Kansas City, Missouri

1990

May ? Nirvana-Duffy's Tavern-Lincoln Nebraska (kiddos, this is my ultimate claim to fame, I walked out on Kurt Cobain and co. half way through their show!) Dave Grohl had not yet joined them

June 20th Rush Presto Tour w/ Mr. Big-Omaha Civic Aud.

November ? Judas Priest Painkiller Tour w/ Megadeth and Testament Omaha Civic Aud.

1991

March ? Queensrÿche-Empire Tour w/ Suicidal Tendencies-Omaha Civic Aud

July ? Clash Of The Titans Tour- Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer-Omaha Civic Aud

November 4th-Rush Roll the Bones Tour w/ Eric Johnson-Omaha Civic Aud.

November 27th Metallica-Omaha Civic Aud.

1992

May 23rd-Rush Roll The Bones Tour w/Mr. Big-Kemper Arena Kansas City Missouri

June 13th Rush Roll The Bones Tour w/ Mr. Big-Starwood Amphitheatre, Nashville, Tennessee

September 11th-U2-Zoo TV Tour w/ Primus and ?-Cyclone Stadium Ames Iowa

September 29th-The Moody Blues-Lied Center-University of Nebraska Lincoln

October 18th-U2 Zoo Tv Tour w/ The Sugarcubes-Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City Missouri

November 2nd-Black Sabbath w/Exodus-Omaha Civic MH

somewhere around here was an Alice in Chains show in Omaha!

1994

March 29th-Rush Counterparts Tour w/ Primus-The Rosemont Horizon Chicago Illinois
March 30th-Rush-Counterparts Tour w/ Primus-The Rosemont Horizon Chicago Illinois

April 5th-Rush Counterparts Tour w/Primus-Kemper Arena Kansas City Missouri

April 22nd-Pantera Far Beyond Driven Tour w/Crowbar-Memorial Hall Kansas City Kansas

October 28th-Eric Clapton-Kemper Arena Kansas City Missouri

1995

February 7th-Pantera w/ Type O Negative-Omaha Civic Aud.

May 3rd-Queensrÿche-Promised Land Tour w/ Type O Negative-Omaha Civic Aud.

May 5th-Page & Plant w/ The Tragically Hip-Kemper Arena Kansas City Missouri

1996

March 23rd-Tesla-The Royal Grove Lincoln, Nebraska

October ? Ozzy Osbourne w/ Danzig-Pershing Aud. Lincoln, Nebraska

October 23rd-KISSReunion Tour-Omaha Civic Aud.

October 28th-Rush T4E Tour-United Center- Chicago, Illinois

October 29th-Rush-T4E -The Target Center -Minneapolis, Minnesota

1997

May 24th-Rush T4E-The Starplex Amphitheatre-Dallas Texas
(this is where The Trees from Different Stages Live was recorded)

June 7th-Rush T4E-Sandstone Amphitheatre-Bonner Springs, Kansas

July 8th-Queensrÿche-Hear in the Now Frontier Tour-Sandstone Amphitheatre-Bonner Springs, Kansas


September 25th Great White Royal Grove Lincoln Nebraska

November 21st-Sammy Hagar-Pershing Aud.Lincoln Nebraska

1998

August 25th-Deep Purple w/ Emerson Lake and Palmer and Dream Theater-Grand Casino Hotel-Hinckley Minnesota

2000

February 8th-Dream Theater-SFAM Tour w/ The Dixie Dregs-Fillmore Aud Denver, Colorado

February 11th-Dream Theater-SFAM Tour w/ The Dixie Dregs-State Theatre-Minneapolis, Minnesota

July 1st-Yes- The Masterworks Tour w/Kansas-Sandstone Amphitheatre-Bonner Springs, Kansas

August 12th-Dream Theater-SFAM Tour-The Quest-Minneapolis Minnesota

2001

May 9th-Tesla Reunion Tour w/ Doubledrive-Sokol Hall-Omaha Nebraska

2002

March 15th-Dream Theater-6DOIT Tour-The Vic Theatre-Chicago Illinois
March 16th-Dream Theater-6DOIT Tour-The Vic Theatre-Chicago Illinois

August 1st-Rush Vapor Trails Tour-Sandstone Amphitheatre-Bonner Springs, Kansas

August 2nd-Rush Vapor Trails Tour-UMB Bank Pavillion-St. Louis Missouri

September 5th-Tool Lateralus Tour w/ Tomahawk-Omaha Civic Aud.

November 1st-Rush Vapor Trails Tour-Hilton Coliseum-Ames Iowa

2003

July 19th-Queensrÿche/Dream Theater w/ Fates Warning-Aragon Ballroom Chicago, Illinois

November 25th-Symphony X-The Odyssey Tour w/ Devin Townsend-The Ranchbowl-Omaha, Nebraska

December 15th-Lacuna Coil-Comalies Tour-The Royal Grove-Lincoln, Nebraska


2004

March 15th-Dream Theater-The Uptown Theater-Kansas City, Missouri

March 19th-Dream Theater-The Riviera Theater-Chicago, Illinois

June 12th-Rush-R30 Tour-UMB Bank Pavillion-Maryland Heights Missouri

June 13th-Rush-R30 Tour-Verizon Wireless Amphitheater-Bonner Springs, Kansas

September 5th-Dream Theater w/Beatallica-Barrymore Theatre-Madison, Wisconsin

2005

April 28-Tesla-Music Hall-Omaha, Nebraska

October 15th-Porcupine Tree-Deadwing Tour w/ Marjorie Faire-Fox Theater-Boulder Colorado

2006

March 17-Dream Theater-Octavarium Tour-State Theatre-Minneapolis, Minnesota

2007

[bMay 12th-Tool-10,000 Days Tour-Mid America Center-Council Bluffs, Iowa

May 15th-Porcupine Tree-FOABP Tour w/3-Fox Theatre-Boulder Colorado

June 29th-Roger Waters-Quest Center-Omaha, Nebraska

August 9th-Rush-S/A Tour-Red Rocks Amphitheatre-Morrison, Colorado

2008

April 29th-Rush-S/A Tour-Journal Pavilion-Albuquerque, New Mexico

June 7th-Rush-S/A Tour-Starlight Theatre-Kansas City, Missouri

2009

May 5th-Opeth-Watershed Tour-Sokol Hall-Omaha Nebraska

September 22nd-Porcupine Tree-The Incident Tour-w/King's X-The Vic Theater-Chicago, Illinois

Due to lapses in memory this list is not complete!

10-08 Coalesce/Cave In @ Knitting Factory
10-10 These Arms Are Snakes @ Knitting Factory
But seeing Far open for Thursday and could care less for Thursday
10-11 Sunny Day Real Estate @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-13 Mono/Maserati @ El Rey
10-15 Jesus Lizard @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-18 Dysrhythmia @ Relax Bar
10-24 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
10-28 Pelican @ The Troubadour
11-03 Minus the Bear @ Glass House
11-11 Fu Manchu @ The Troubadour
11-14 Russian Circles/Young Widows/Helms Alee @ The Echoplex
11-19 Mastodon/Dethklok/Converge/High on Fire @ Palladium
12-03 Baroness @ The Troubadour
12-16 or 12-17 Melt-Banana/Tera Melos @ The Troubadour

Past shows for 2009:
01-03 Babyland @ Spaceland
01-16 North @ Knitting Factory
01-17 Autolux @ Henry Fonda Theatre
01-22 El Ten Eleven @ The Silver Lake Lounge
02-03 Meshuggah w/ Cynic *1*
02-05 El Ten Eleven w/Charlotte Martin @ The Hotel Cafe
02-13 Don Caballero w/sBACH @ Spaceland
02-21 Grails @ Spaceland
03-14 Clevis, Solar Wimp, Totally Serious, The Littlest Viking @ the Cocaine
03-17 ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead @ Echoplex
03-20 Karin Tatoyan @ Spaceland
03-26 Forbidden @ Key Club
03-27 Pelican @ Troubadour
04-03 Acid Mothers Temple w/Kinski @ The Echo
04-04 noodles w/The Outline @ Silver Lake Lounge
04-05 Autolux @ Glass House
04-10 Karin Tatoyan @ Echo and El Ten Eleven @ Home [I made it to both shows!!!]
04-12 Silversun Pickups @ Glass House
04-14 Taproot @ Key Club
04-17 Kylesa/Intronaut/Made Out of Babies/Black Elk @ Echoplex
04-24 Emily Wells @ Bardot *1*
04-30 Silversun Pickups @ Echoplex
05-07 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum @ Key Club
05-09 Threadbare reunion show w/Unbroken @ Glass House
05-13 Traindodge w/National Sunday Law @ Blue Monkey Bar
05-18 The Life and Times @ Spaceland
05-22 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-23 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-24 Gojira/Car Bomb @ Key Club *1*
06-04 Karin Tatoyan @ The Echo
06-05 King's X @ Key Club *1*
06-20 friday nights @ ???
06-21 Shellac/Arcwelder @ Echoplex
06-24 Isis @ Henry Fonda Theater *1*
07-11 Tortoise @ Troubadour *1*
07-22 Elbow @ Wiltern
07-17 Three Mile Pilot @ Spaceland *1*
07-29 Themselves/[Post-Foetus]/Emily Wells @ Spaceland
08-03 Gomez @ Wiltern
08-05 Torche/Big Business @ Knitting Factory
08-11 Sunn O))) @ Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock
08-14 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
08-20 friday nights @ the Gap in Studio City
08-28 Intronaut/Cattle Decapitation @ Cobalt Cafe
09-01 Mew @ The Troubadour
09-07 Mew @ the Detroit Bar
09-09 Emily Wells @ Echo
09-15 Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Fox Theater
09-30 Kylesa/Bison/Saviours/Black Math Horsemen @ Knitting Factory

*1* Denotes that I didn't record the show...

Porcupine Tree and King's X at the Electric Factory, Philly, PA.

Ok, first of all, I'd just like to say, that I wasn't informed until late late Friday night that there was an Oktoberfest celebration at Brauhaus Schmitz. So from about 1pm 'til 7pm, it was all about German beer and wurst and more beer. And drinking. And beer. And awesome beer. And dirndls, and tents. Did I mention beer?

Anyway, terrible Electric Factory sound aside, a pretty great show all over. Glad I finally got to see King's X after missing them earlier this month. (I have seen them before of course.)

King's X setlist:

Alright
What Is This
Lost in Germany
Pray for Me
Dogman
Over My Head
We Were Born to be Loved


Porcupine Tree setlist:

The Incident
~~~intermission~~~
The Start of Something Beautiful
Russia On Ice > Anesthetize
Normal
Strip the Soul
.3
Bonnie the Cat
***encore***
The Sound of Muzak
Trains



Sat 26 Sep – Porcupine Tree