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My 2008 Top 5

Dez 19 2008, 16h38

A tradition of sort among friends. Whatever you liked or listened to in 2008.

ALBUMS

1. Coheed and Cambria: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
ref: rock / prog / metal / rush / the police

2. Avenged Sevenfold: Diamonds in the Rough
ref: hard rock / prog / metal / emo / guns n roses / iron maiden

3. Guns N Roses: Chinese Democracy
ref: hard rock / pop / jazzy / many / guns n roses / bee gees

4. Fiction Plane: Left Side of the Brain
ref: pop / new wave / the police

5. Kamelot: Ghost Opera
ref: prog / metal / queensryche / dream theater

HONORABLE MENTIONS

X. Children of Bodom: Blooddrunk
ref: heavy / metal / iron maiden

X. Muse: Black Holes And Revelations
ref: prog / rush / pink floyd

X. Symphony X: Paradise Lost
ref: prog / heavy / metal / dream theater

DISCOGRAPHY:

1. Muse
ref: prog / rush / pink floyd

2. The Tea Party
ref: prog / rock / led zeppelin / the doors

3. Threshold
ref: prog / rock / metal / dream theater

4.Coheed and Cambria
ref: prog / rock / metal / rush / the police

5. Royal Hunt
ref: prog / pop / metal / dream theater

SERIES

1. Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.0

2. Lost: Season 4

3. Dexter: Season 3

4. Band Of Brothers

5. Desperate Housewives: 5

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The Australian Pink Floyd Show

Dez 17 2008, 19h43

Tue 16 Dec – The Australian Pink Floyd Show

Was unbelievable !!! The sound was perfect. The band was great. Complete Wall set list with the following songs as encore :

Time
The Great Gig In The Sky
Learning To Fly
Wish You Were Here
Brain Damage
One Of These Days

One of the best show I've been to all considered.

Did I say the sound was immaculate ?

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Critical Acclaim

Out 24 2008, 17h00

Critical Acclaim

Welcome to Bat Country, Avenged Sevenfold is currently the band I listen most to, and it's relatively a new band compared to what I usually listen to. Those young guys have everything needed in a band: great attitute, good technics, good songwriting and everything a band needs to succeed ! Great frontman, great guitarist, awesome rhythm guitar, a punk bassman AND a drummer involved in songwriting !

Originally started as a semi-hardcore-emo band, it's now clearly a hard-rock-metal band with a touch of progressive rock thrown in. They range from country to hard rock to metal to vaudeville songs ! Amazing act reminiscent of Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Iron Maiden.

Their latest studio album Avenged Sevenfold features those styles done properly. Some great songs: Almost Easy, Afterlife and the awesome A Little Piece of Heaven

Personal picks: Avenged Sevenfold; City of Evil; Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough

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Forever And One (Neverland)

Ago 21 2008, 3h17

Forever And One (Neverland)

Helloween is one of these bands I can't say I'm a huge fan of, but I like them enough to enjoy most of their releases. Lately, a friend of mine lend me the latest album from Helloween's second singer : Michael Kiske. An album on which he covers, acoustically, some of their early songs when he sang with the band. From then on, I knew I had to listen to their full discography... The last album I heard from them was The Time of the Oath.

Some people say they prefer the Michael Kiske era, I don't have a preference. So I rediscovered a lot of their good songs and enjoyed my favorites ones, once again: Eagle Fly Free, Your Turn, When the Sinner, In The Middle Of A Heartbeat and Forever and One. I was not impressed by their later releases although I must admit to be quite fond of the last one, Gambling With The Devil.

Personal picks: Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II; Chameleon; Master of the Rings.

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Everything Will Never Be OK

Ago 19 2008, 16h57

Everything Will Never Be OK

Two friends of mine suggested that I listened to Fiction Plane, so I did. Being a big fan of The Police, I was at first very skeptical about a band featuring the son of Sting, Joe Sumner. My friends told me that it kind of sounded like The Police and that Joe Sumner had his father's voice... So I listened to them and was surprised. They can't deny their influences, but they can really stand up next to them. Fiction Plane are good musicians with great songs like Two Sisters and Cold Water Symmetry ! I will listen to them again and again...

Personal picks: Left Side Of The Brain; Everything Will Never Be OK

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Welcome Home

Ago 18 2008, 14h13

Welcome Home

I discovered Coheed and Cambria while playing their tracks on Rockband and from the moment I heard them, I knew I had to hear more from these guys ! With a progressive metal sound ranging from Rush meets Metallica meets Pink Floyd, you would guess that their sound would pretty much like Dream Theater, but no ! I don't know why but there's also something quite reggae in the style reminiscent of The Police. Enough to say that they are one of the most original band I've heard in a while.

Not only they do "concept albums" but they are a "concept band" as all their songs are inspired by a storyline and comic book adaptation from guitarist and singer Claudio Sanchez. Welcome Home, Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) and A Favor House Atlantic are great tracks to listen to, but I can't but put on a smile when I see a song title like 2113 knowing that even if they try to deny their Rush influence, they can't really !

Personal picks:
Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness; No World For Tomorrow; In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

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The Swing Of Things

Ago 15 2008, 21h07

The Swing of Things

Never considered myself as a big a-ha fan. But I have always liked their East of the Sun West of the Moon album back when it was released and have listened to it from time to time. I particularly enjoy the warm acoustic tone !

While listening to their complete discography, I was astonished by the maturity and quality of their second release. Especially the title song Scoundrel Days.

Unlike returning artist from the 80's, their last three releases are very good albums especially Minor Earth Major Sky which really stands out as my favorite album from this norwegian band.

Personal picks: Minor Earth Major Sky; East of the Sun West of the Moon; Scoundrel Days

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So Far So Good So What

Ago 5 2008, 14h23

So Far So Good So What

Complete Discographies

I decided earlier this year that, by joining Last.fm, I should start listening to complete discographies of bands I either like or that I've always wanted to hear more stuffs from. I've mainly excluded live albums and compilations to focus only on studio albums.

I've been pretty much serious about this approach and I've been successful not "enforcing" my current listening habbits to my family and fellow co-workers. Even though I've been complaining about "f@ckin' my last.fm stats" or suggesting some stuff to others ;)

So far, here's what I've been listing to, When I have the time, I plan on adding journal entries for each one.

a-ha; Avenged Sevenfold; A Perfect Circle; Bedouin Soundclash; Breaking Benjamin; Brian Setzer Orchestra; Children of Bodom; Coheed and Cambria; Bon Jovi; David Gilmour; Def Leppard; Depeche Mode; Dream Theater; Duran Duran; Fates Warning; Fiction Plane; Guns N Roses; Helloween; Iron Maiden; Joe Satriani; John Mayer; Jon Bon Jovi;Kamelot; KISS; Lacuna Coil; Led Zeppelin; Liquid Tension Experiment; Marillion; Megadeth; Metallica; Muse; Nine Inch Nails; OSI; Pearl Jam; Porcupine Tree;Queen; Queensryche; Red Hot Chili Peppers; Rhapsody of Fire;Richie Sambora; Royal Hunt; Rush; Savatage; Scorpions; Shadow Gallery; Silent Force;Sonata Artica;Soundgarden; Steve Vai; Stratovarius; Stray Cats; Symphony X; Tad Morose; Temple of the Dog; The Cult; The Cure; The Doors; The Gathering; The Police; The Tea Party; The White Stripes; Threshold; Tool; Van Halen;

Currently listening to Sting's discography;

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Welcome To The Machine

Ago 5 2008, 14h23

Welcome to the Machine

Hey, first entry in my Last.fm journal ;) I could tell you how about my life... but my
Facebook profile does that...

So here are some of my favourite bands :

30 Seconds to Mars; AFI; Avenged Sevenfold; Coheed and Cambria; Dream Theater; Fates Warning; Guns N' Roses; Iron Maiden; Megadeth; Metallica; Pink Floyd; The Police; Queensrÿche; Royal Hunt; Rush; Savatage; Shadow Gallery; Symphony X; The Tea Party; Threshold;

See ya...

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