COVID 19 boredom top 20 post

[Random Axe]

I'm still working as banks are never supposed to close since we're considered a necessary business just like gas, grocery, pharmacy and hospitals. We've adjusted our branch hours so we'll see. Sitting in my office pondering how our month is going to end up I decided to rack my brain and come up with a top 20 alltime album list. These are discs that have special meaning to me or ones I can just play all the way through. I don't have a lot of recents, they just haven't quite crept into my soul yet. I left out any greatest hits too cause that would probably be half of my list.

I don't expect anyone to respond with a matching list cause that's a super hard question. I just needed to write it out for my own sanity.

Dream Theater – Images and Words
Dream Theater - Awake
Fates Warning – APSOG
Ascendia – Lion and Jester
Lethal – Programmed
Yngwie Malmsteen – Odyssey
Fates Warning – Parallels
Vox Tempus – Eye of Time
Lillian Axe – Poetic Justice
Lillian Axe – Psychoschizophrenia
Redemption – Fullness of Time
Redemption – Origins of Ruin
Power of Omens – Eye of the Oracle
Tyketto – Don’t Come Easy
Queensryche – Mindcrime
Guardian – Fire and Love
Magnitude 9 – Chaos to Control
Zero Hour – s/t
Speaking to Stones – Elements
Labyrinth – Return to Heaven Denied

[GaetanL]

I'm looking into my music software (AlbumPlayer) and my albums I rated 5 stars out of 5 are (in alphabetical order):

I hope you don't mind, there is 22 albums not 20...

Ayreon - Actual Fantasy
Dream Theater - Images And Words (On your list as well)
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory
Evergrey - In Search Of Truth
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
IQ - The Road Of Bones
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Madsword - The Global Village
Marillion - Brave
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Mystery - Delusion Rain
Power Of Omens - Eyes Of The Oracle (On your list as well)
Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
Queensrÿche - Rage For Order
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime (On your list as well)
Redemption - The Fullness Of Time (On your list as well)
Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Triumph - Thunder Seven
Voïvod - Dimension Hatröss
Wolverine - Communication Lost

[Random Axe]

Great stuff on there^^^^^

I've never owned an Priest or Maiden album so that's why they have never been on any of my lists.

I've tried to like Scenes from a Memory and cannot. Without Kevin, they are just not for me outside of a couple of tunes.

I probably could have included Sym X Divine but I don't know what album it would take the place of.

[GaetanL]

I don't think I have ever heard the hard rock bands Lillian Axe and Tyketto...

I played both on youtube and I like!

[Sir Exar Kun]

Dream Theater – Images and Words
Dream Theater - Awake
Fates Warning – APSOG
Ascendia – Lion and Jester
Lethal – Programmed
Yngwie Malmsteen – Odyssey
Fates Warning – Parallels
Vox Tempus – Eye of Time
Lillian Axe – Poetic Justice
Lillian Axe – Psychoschizophrenia
Redemption – Fullness of Time
Redemption – Origins of Ruin
Power of Omens – Eye of the Oracle
Tyketto – Don’t Come Easy
Queensryche – Mindcrime
Guardian – Fire and Love
Magnitude 9 – Chaos to Control
Zero Hour – s/t
Speaking to Stones – Elements
Labyrinth – Return to Heaven Denied

I love the fact that I have 19 of 20 (missing Guardian) of these albums, and like to love all of them. Without putting any thought into it, I guarantee at least 2 or 3 would make my list (DT Awake, Fullness of Time, possibly Parallels). Love seeing Lillian Axe on here, as they are probably my favorite 80s rock band. Vox Tempus is a definite "deep cut" too. I'll have to revisit that one.

[Sir Exar Kun]

I don't think I have ever heard the hard rock bands Lillian Axe and Tyketto...

I played both on youtube and I like!

If you're enjoying Winger, you will dig both of these bands too! No bad albums at all from Lillian Axe, and Tyketto is SOLID too.

[elendil]

Some of those I've never heard of! Here's a list - hard to keep it at 20, though!

Anathema, WHBWH
Angra, Angels Cry
", Holy Land
Candlemass, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Carcass, Heartwork
Dream Theater, Images & Words
", Awake
In Flames, The Jester Race
Iron Maiden, Killers
Lake of Tears, Forever Autumn
Led Zeppelin, IV
Lumsk, Det Vilde Kor
Novembre, Novembrine Waltz
Opeth, Orchid
", Morningrise
Peccatum, Lost in Reverie
Porcupine Tree, Deadwing
Rush, Moving Pictures
The Gathering, How to Measure a Planet?
Therion, Theli

[BumZen]

Death - Symbolic
Mekong Delta - Dances of Death (and other walking shadows)
Queensryche - Operation : Mindcrime
Artillery - By Inheritance
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Rush - Power Windows
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Beyond Twilight - The Devil's Hall of Fame
Manticora - Hyperion
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
Dream Theater - Images & Words
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Iron Maiden - 7th son of a 7th son
King Diamond - Them
Iced Earth - Dark Saga
Dark Tranquility - Fiction
Candlemass - Nightfall
Leprous - Bilateral
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World

[elendil]

Death - Symbolic
Mekong Delta - Dances of Death (and other walking shadows)
Queensryche - Operation : Mindcrime
Artillery - By Inheritance
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Rush - Power Windows
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Beyond Twilight - The Devil's Hall of Fame
Manticora - Hyperion
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
Dream Theater - Images & Words
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Iron Maiden - 7th son of a 7th son
King Diamond - Them
Iced Earth - Dark Saga
Dark Tranquility - Fiction
Candlemass - Nightfall
Leprous - Bilateral
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World

Good f'ing list, except... Fiction? It's solid, but really a distillation of their earlier sound. I would have gone with _The Gallery_ or _The Mind's I_.

[BumZen]

Good f'ing list, except... Fiction? It's solid, but really a distillation of their earlier sound. I would have gone with _The Gallery_ or _The Mind's I_.

Fiction was everything great about DT when it came out. It still is. I absolutely adore that album. Objectively, however, I certainly see your point, and I do not disagree with it.

[Random Axe]

There are a few amazing albums that could have probably been included in the list so I'll call them 21-25

Magnitude 9 - Chaos to Control
SymX - Divine Wings
Enchant - Bluepeint of the World
Darwin's Radio - Eyes of the World
Mystic Force - Man vs Machine
House of Spirits - Turn of Tide

[David D]

mystic force - ladder or the fall .....is forever etched into my music memory - but i need to hear it again due to your reminder!

[Random Axe]

mystic force - ladder or the fall .....is forever etched into my music memory - but i need to hear it again due to your reminder!

That song has maybe the sickest guitar riff ever recorded. The tone is sheer perfection.