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[edit] June

Nothing can compare to one of the most notorious heavy metal bands and the San Francisco Symphony joining to create such a thrilling CD. The instrumental sounds of the symphony and the guitar & drum beats bring a new wave of music through your speakers. I've been a Metallica fan since my elementary school days, and I have to say, this is the most played album while I'm driving.
If one wanted to get an overview of the history of Rock, they must take a listen of a great album, which was recorded in 1979: Highway To Hell by AC/DC. This album really has a good variety of sounds: starting with the all-time hymn Highway To Hell which we surely have listened before, and improving our mood with the Rock'n'Roll-esque rhythm of Girls Got Rhythm, the power of Touch Too Much, the great guitars of If You Want Blood (You've Got It), amazing chorus of Shot Down In Flames and the atmospheric-but-full-of-force Night Prowler. Not only every song of this album is a great composition, but also has good lyrics, outstanding instrumentation and a vocals of the legendary singer Bon Scott. Recommended to any good-music lover ;)
This is not only Limp Bizkit's breakthrough album but their best album and quite possibly the best Nu Metal album ever made. It features the singles "Nookie", "Re-Arranged", "N 2 Gether Now"(featuring Method Man) and "Break Stuff". This album features guests such as Korn's Johnathan Davis and Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland on "Nobody Like You," Staind front man Aaron Lewis (in the chorus) of "No Sex," Matt Pinfield on the hidden track "Radio Sucks," and Les Claypool on the hidden track "The Mind of Les." This album was the top five selling album of the year. It sold 634,000 copies in it's first week and debuted number 1 on the Billboard 200 charts. It has gone on to sell 7 million copies worldwide.
The 40th anniversary of the release of this album is coming up. I nominate it to be Album of the Week whatever week includes June 5, 2007, the actual 40th anniversary. This album, perhaps more than any other, turned the music industry from a singles-oriented one to an album-oriented one. This album continues to be popular today.

[edit] May

This is a very good metal album and it has some very musically interesting pieces to it. They combine harmonized guitar with a keyboard which makes for a very interesting combo. Also they make several video game noises such as the "pac-man" noise in Through the Fire and Flames. Over all a very good album and worth a nomination to LyricWiki.
It's been a long time since a decent musical has come out. Avenue Q is the perfect blend of musical talent, puppet arts and adult humor. The songs go from funny to sad to funny and sad again. It knows just when to be serious and when to have fun. It's most famous for The Internet is for Porn which makes pokes fun at this popular yet disgusting obsession. Avenue Q covers all bases of life; love, sex and money which makes it easy for everyone to relate to. You'll laugh, you'll cry and laugh some more.

[edit] April

Its been 10 years since this album was created, and yet, nothing even compares. This is at the peak of Radiohead's songwriting. Mixing in delicate, lush guitars, beautiful piano and an array of amazing effects/textures to create an amazing listen. Thom Yorke sings passionately and affectionately through each of the songs featured on the album. Through an ongoing central theme of machines in the society. The best electronic album that isn't an electronic album. The best 40 something minutes of your day. Take a listen.
This album is absolutely amazing. This small indie band from Boston definitely deserves more airtime, with songs like "Ruby Falls", "Lightning Rod", and "Empire State," after a few listens, just grow on you in amazing ways. I took this album along on a road trip, and by the time I got back my friend and I were jamming to it with the top down. Give it a chance!
This is one of the best rock albums ever made. Tool is not wildly popular mainly because they do not try to be. Their songs are deep, long, spiritual and hence many people do not relate to them. But when analyzing their music, they are true composers, masters of rhythmic structures and odd time signatures, and are one of the few album bands today. It is no wonder they are heavily influenced by another album band that you might have heard of, Pink Floyd. As a whole, this album is hard, in your face, but it also has a message that they leave for the listener to decipher. Their music is not just about sitting and listening, it is about taking it in, interpreting it, thinking about it. They strive to push your appreciation of what they do, not to write the catchy tune that will be played over and over on the radio just to be forgotten about after a month. If you don't like Tool, it is understandable if you don't relate to the emotions within the songs. With that said, at the very least they should be respected as an amazing group of talented musicians, individually, but more important, collectively. Adam Jones was listed on the top 100 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone; Danny Carey is widely considered one of the best drummers in the world; Justin Chancellor is also one of the better bassists in rock today - just listen to find out; Maynard is one of the most widely recognized voices in rock between Tool and A Perfect Circle. Bottom line, everyone should give this album a chance, because it truly is amazing.

[edit] March

Originally Imaginos was meant to be part of a larger, mystical/occult rock opera telling a tale of darkness infecting the earth from the time of Europe's discovery of the New World to the days of WWII, but label pressure meant that this vision was never to be fulfilled. While shortened from what was originally intended, Imaginos is still a fascinating musical look into a tale of powerful beings (Les Invisibles) and the human instrument of their will, Imaginos. Searching for The Magna of Illusion, a magic obsidian mirror in the land of the Mayans, and participating in the Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria, the Imaginos character travels through the songs on this album (and possibly time) in search of power for his hidden masters. Blue Öyster Cult has always been a favorite of suspense writer Stephen King (who voiced the introduction to the Astronomy promo CD single) and this album has much of the King flavor.
Goodbye Cool World! is an album that is amazing from the beginning. It starts with a snort or a giggle at the album name and transforms into a jaw drop and foot tapping when the fresh fast paced beats of Old And Unprofessional and King Of Minneapolis, Pts. I And II pop out of your speakers. It then dissolves into a severe case of Clingyphones (the inability to stop listening to music) when Side Projects Are Never Successful starts up. Goodbye Cool World! is the audio substitute of being with your significant other. The music cuddles you, yells at you and makes you feel good inside, much like a boyfriend or girlfriend. Best of all: This album is free to download.
''Scarecrow was John "Cougar" Mellencamp's huge breakthrough album. His previous albums American Fool and Uh Huh sold well and brought him some measure of fame, but Scarecrow bridged the gap between his reluctant pop rock days to his more mature, heartland rock period. Many of the album's songs, such as R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. or Rumbleseat, still have that boisterous sense of confident fun that comes from a still-young rocker, but the album also has a sad poignancy that comes from a 34-year-old Mellencamp reflecting upon his grandfather's death on December 28, 1983. This reflection is shown in the song from which the album gets its name, Rain On The Scarecrow. Telling the story of what was happening to small family farms in the mid-80's, Rain On The Scarecrow was a more politically-minded song, and a harbinger of where Mellencamp was headed musically.
Recorded from March 20 - April 29, 1985, Scarecrow is (according to the RIAA website) one of the 100 best selling albums of all time.

[edit] February

Although released 27 years ago, the Manchester's quartet's debut release still sounds as fresh as ever. Despite the fact that the group only released two albums in their all-too-short career, the echoes of their work still ring in the music of today. Fronted by sadsack Ian Curtis, Joy Division take the listener on a forty minute ride down a cold world of depression, isolation, and fear. While people may argue forever on whether this or Closer is a better album, this one definitely gets my vote.
It's difficult to say which Maiden album is the definate best, but they have never released an album with the impact Number Of The Beast had. Easily one, if not the best metal album of the 1980's, no true metal fan would be without a copy, since most of the songs still sound great after years of listening.
The album contains many Maiden classics, such as Run To The Hills, Hallowed Be Thy Name, and of course The Number Of The Beast, the song which made everyone think they were satanic (which by the way they're clearly not) and possibly where the whole stereotype of metal being linked to satanism came from. Overall, an excellent album.
One of the greatest albums of the early 90's, and one that stands the test of time. The album transitions seamlessly from one great song to another, going into some very dark places ((Me And A Gun, anyone?)) and containing one of the most beautiful songs ever performed in Winter. Personal favorites from the album include the aforementioned Winter, the incredible Crucify, and Tear In Your Hand, which deserves accolades for a Neil Gaiman mention, to say nothing of it's beauty and lyrical depth.

[edit] January

In my opinion, this is easily the Foo's best album. I never really took to One By One, but this album was a reinvention for Dave Grohl and co. This album is a double album, with the first disk containing some hard rock, and the second disk containing acoustic material.
But the Foos take these two vastly seperate genres and put them together to make one hell of an album. My favourites on the first disk include Best Of You, DOA and Hell, and my favourites on the second disk are What If I Do?, Miracle and Cold Day In The Sun.
When 10 Years released their first single, Wasteland, it was met with apathy. However, the album itself is an amazing collection of powerful rhythm, haunting lyrics and hard-hitting beats.
The album boasts a wide variety of songs, from ballads like Wasteland and Seasons to Cycle, to fast and hard-hitting songs with powerful, crooning vocals like Waking Up, Empires and Through the Iris. All in all, a largely (and unfortunately) missed album, but one definitely worth the time and money.
Ascendancy was easily the best metal album of 2005, and the start of Trivium's style change from metalcore to thrash metal. This is the album that got me and loads of others into Trivium, and there's not a single song on it that I don't like.
Although their meanings are not clear at first, every song has meanings that nearly everyone can relate to, such as depression, domestic violence, suicide and the fact that all humans want bad things to happen just so we can moan about them. Like when wars are reported on TV, you don't want to look at the suffering but you can't stop yourself.
From the machine gun riffs in Rain, to the complex melodies in Declaration, every song on this album is jam packed full of talent, from the immense screaming vocals to the intricate guitar solos. In my opinion this is Trivium's best album they have done, and if they keep this sort of thing up they will be huge.
Origin of Symmetry is no doubt one of the greatest works of musical innovation of the early twenty first century. It is very much a pity that this masterpiece isn't known far beyond the band's loyal fan base, having only recently been released in the USA due to its non commercial nature.
The themes of the album range from seemingly detrimental knowledge, to technology, rape, powerful hatred, the ills of 'mental illness' and megalomania.
From the classic simple riffage of New Born, the haunting perfection of Citizen Erased, the stupendous work of operatic hatred that is Micro Cuts, the intense spite of Futurism through to the baroque organ symphony that is Megalomania, the listener is taken on a mind blowing emotional roller coaster journey through the work of a modern romantic mind as Bellamy and co reflect and deliberate on the present and future of free thought and technology.
A concept album come rock opera in all but the finest irrelevancies, Origin of Symmetry takes a rightful place amongst the greatest and most important albums of all time.
Demon Hunter's "The Triptych" is my favorite Demon Hunter album. It not only includes their usual head-bangingly crazy songs (Not I, Fire To My Soul) and a cover (Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck), but also some more mellow songs such as The Tide Began To Rise and Deteriorate. It includes The Soldier's Song, a tribute to the men and women fighting for our country. It reached the #1 position on the Billboard's Heatseekers chart during its first week of release. Inspired by it's name, the album was released with three different covers. The three covers were then incorporated for the cover of the re-release edition (all four covers can be seen on Wikipedia). I believe this album contains a lot of Demon Hunter's best work.
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