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but do have a nice and pink Crimbo/Easter/whatever-you-celebrate, k?

Mientje Dakdoeve Productions presents: the best of the best in Niener's epic CD collection, including Niener's favorites and albums everyone should hear before they die.

Top 10:
01. Opeth - Blackwater Park [2001]
02. After Forever - Decipher [2001]
03. Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part II: Flight Of The Migrator [2000]
04. Аркона - Vo Slavu Velikim [2005]
05. Skunk Anansie - Paranoid & Sunburnt [1995]
06. Madonna - Ray Of Light [1998]
07. Metallica - ...And Justice For All [1988]
08. Nightwish - Oceanborn [1998]
09. Guano Apes - Proud Like A God [1997]
10. Judas Priest - Painkiller [1990]

The rest of the lot (sorted alphabetically):
- Ace Of Base - The Bridge [1995]
- Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill [1995]
- Beth Hart - Leave The Light On [2003]
- Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom [2006]
- Doro - Classic Diamonds [2004]
- Dream Evil - The Book Of Heavy Metal [2004]
- Finntroll - Nattfödd [2004]
- Frou Frou - Details [2002]
- Heart - Greatest Hits [1997]
- Kosheen - Resist [2001]
- Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals [1998]
- Moloko - Catalogue [2006]
- My Ruin - A Prayer Under Pressure Of Violent Anguish [2000]
- Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka [1998]
- No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom [1995]
- OTEP - Sevas Tra [2002]
- Roísín Murphy - Overpowered [2007]
- Save Ferris - It Means Everything [1997]
- The B-52's - Nude On The Moon: The B-52's Anthology [2002]
- The Vision Bleak - Carpathia: A Dramatic Poem [2005]
- Therion - Secret Of The Runes [2001]
- Trail Of Tears - A New Dimension Of Might [2002]


What are your favorite albums ever?

Last update: August 25



Candidates for the list so far:
* Vreid - Milorg
* HDK - System Overload
* Absu - Absu
* Ivenberg - Leben Heisst Sterben
* God Dethroned - Passiondale
* Gwyllion - The Edge Of All I Know
* Epica - The Classical Conspiracy
* Behemoth - Evangelion
* David Guetta - One Love
* Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day
* Ensiferum - From Afar

Candidates for the #1 position:
* Fejd - Storm
* Finsterforst - ...Zum Tode Hin
* The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
* The Project Hate MCMXCIX - The Lustrate Process
* Oi Va Voi - Travelling The Face Of The Globe

Upcoming releases likely to end up in the list:
* Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi
* Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious
* Epica - Design Your Universe
* Stream of Passion - The Flame Within
* Fjoergyn - Jahreszeiten
* Sigh - Scenes From Hell/Tempore Belli/Vanitas
* Eluveitie - Evocation I & II
* Wintersun - Time
* Carach Angren - Death Came Through A Phantom Ship
* Imogen Heap - Ellipse
* Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
* OTEP - Smash The Control Machine
* Svartby - Riv, Hugg Och Bit
* Dethklok - The Dethalbum II
* Agalloch - TBA
* Rammstein - TBA
* Imperia - TBA


Disappointments:
* Delain - April Rain
* Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life
* Mystic Prophecy - Fireangel

01. Ayreon - 01011001
02. Аркона - от сердца к небу (released globally in 2008)
           Carach Angren - Lammendam
           Flowing Tears - Thy Kingdom Gone
           Equilibrium - Sagas
03. Alphabeat - This Is Alphabeat
          Benedictum - Seasons Of Tragedy

04. Калевала - Кудель Белоснежного Льна
05. Lady GaGa - The Fame
06. Dominici - O3: A Trilogy, Part 3
       The Reasoning - Dark Angel
07. Hail Of Bullets - Of Frost And War
08. Eluveitie - Slania
09. Sabaton - The Art Of War
10. Sinister - The Silent Howling




Disappointments:
Madonna - Hard Candy
Keep Of Kalessin - Kolossus
Firewind - The Premonition
Satyricon - The Age Of Nero

Surprises:
Equilibrium - Sagas
Carach Angren - Lammendam
Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned
Cloudscape - Global Drama
As In RebekkaMaria - Queen Of France
The Reasoning - Dark Angel

because i'm a whore for lists...

1. Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom

1a.Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
    After Forever - After Forever
    Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
    Visions of Atlantis - Trinity
2. Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
    OTEP - the_Ascension
    Beth Hart - 37 Days
    The Absence - Riders of the Plague
3. Imperia - Queen of Light
    Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide
    Dethklok - The Dethalbum
    Allen/Lande - The Revenge
4. Aesma Daeva - Dawn of the New Athens
    Pain - Psalms of Extinction
    Tourettes - Treason Songs
5. Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
    Immolation - Shadows in the Light
    Vesania - Destructive Killusions
    Kingfisher Sky - Hallway of Dreams
6. Astarte - Demonized
    Megadeth - United Abominations
    Behemoth - The Apostasy
7. Daath - The Hinderers
    Nile - Ithyphallic
    Helrunar - Baldr Ok Iss
8. Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto
    David Guetta - Pop Life
    Symphony X - Paradise Lost
9. Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
    Kylie - X
    Аркона - от сердца к небу
10. Ensiferum - Victory Songs
      Infinited Hate - Orchestra of Sickness
11. One Man Army and the Undead Quartet - Error in Evolution
12. Heavenly - Virus
13. Trail of Tears - Existentia
14. Annihilator - Metal
15. Tori Amos - American Doll Posse
16. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
17. Rotting Christ - Theogonia
18. Six Feet Under - Commandment
      The Vision Bleak - The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey
19. Nostradameus - Pathway
20. Korn - Unplugged
      Nightwish - Dark Passion Play


betcha don't know half of them bands and yes, i cheated. that's what pink people do. you can't expect me to just give you 20 titles and then be happy about that..