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lmaorofllollmao 
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 Topic: Top 5 Devin Townsend albums?Posted: September 29 2012 at 23:23 |
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Well, basically after buying terria, i thought to myself, "Sweet mother of god, this guys a freaking genius!", and therefor looked into collecting most of the albums essential to his discography, so what do my fellow proggers say?
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Alitare
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Posted: September 30 2012 at 00:04 |
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My preferences in order from most favorite to least:
1 - Terria 2 - Accelerated Evolution 3 - Ki 4 - Ocean Machine: Biomech 5 - Synchestra 6 - Ziltoid 7 - Physicist 8 - Infinity 9 - Ghost 10-Addicted 11-The Hummer 12-Devlab 13-Deconstruction (Yeah, really didn't like that one, but popular opinion seems to shift rampantly in the opposite direction) I haven't heard the one he just released this month, but I have no clue how I'll feel about it. Here lately he's been consistently disappointing me. Ki was the last album of his I openly loved at first listen.
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lmaorofllollmao
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Posted: September 30 2012 at 00:07 |
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Thanks man, i'll look into em'.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: September 30 2012 at 00:54 |
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I like Deconstruction best of the ones I've heard
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Posted: September 30 2012 at 01:01 |
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Alitare
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Posted: September 30 2012 at 01:07 |
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I think that, lately, Devin suffers from severe lack of quality control (and heavy doses of over-productivity). He's putting too much out and it seems like he isn't putting as much into each song. At least that's my impression. If he took the best ten minutes off Addiicted, Ghost, and Deconstruction, he'd have one of the coolest, most diverse, most successfully concise records in a long while - instead he filters that good half hour with hundreds of minutes of stuff I don't like at all.
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sagichim
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Posted: September 30 2012 at 01:22 |
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Terria was the first album I got and I was pretty blown away, next was Synchestra which I believe to be his best album. But few more albums I got like Ziltoid, Ocean Machine and Addicted were ok but didn't really clicked with me. I stopped getting Townsend's albums for now.
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King Manuel
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Posted: October 04 2012 at 13:25 |
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Donīt have and know all his albums, but those I know I would rank into the following order
1 - Terria
2 - Addicted
3 - Synchestra
4 - Ocean Machine: Biomech
5 - Ziltoid
6 - Physicist
7 - Ki
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: October 05 2012 at 18:10 |
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I absolutely adore Devy. He influences me not only as a musician, but as a person. I mean, the guy has like the goofiest sense of humor, it's prevalent through his music, and he's such a smart dude as well. He's made some of my favourite albums of all time, certainly of the past decade - each progressing and branching in a positive direction. He makes me proud to be Canadian.
 1. Terria 2. Ghost - Beautiful, beautiful album. If you haven't glimpsed that one yet, please do so! 3. Ziltoid 4. Addicted 5. Ki |
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ProgDrummerTony
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Posted: October 08 2012 at 14:21 |
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Devin is simply awesome! I haven't known about him for too long but I've already put him up there with Neal Morse and Steven Wilson as a huge musical influence. The thing about Devin's music is that most of it takes some time to sink in (especially something as dense as Terria or Deconstruction), and once it does sink in, it just feels totally rewarding to hear over and over again. He has become quite an inspiration to me.
In terms of his albums, I would probably rank them like this for now:
1. Terria
2. Ocean Machine: Biomech
3. Ziltoid the Omniscient
4. Deconstruction
5. Accelerated Evolution
6. Ki
7. Addicted
8. Synchestra
9. Ghost
10. Infinity
11. Epicloud
12. Physicist
13. The Hummer
14. Devlab
I don't think the top three albums will ever change on my list, but everything below that is tentative as far as I know. The more I listen to each album, the more I'll want to put it higher on the list, and that's just going to be a frustrating process
 ...Long live Devy!! |
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mrbean667
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 23:18 |
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Top 5?
Something like this... 1: Ki 2: Terria 3: Ocean Machine 4: Synchestra 5: Deconstruction |
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progbethyname
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Posted: October 10 2012 at 09:13 |
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I have to admit. I'm never got into Devin Townsend, but i wil definately check out his work. I think I will start with Terria. I've heard really great things. Another band called GALAHAD, which is a Neo prog group that seems to offer quality music like IQ and ARENA. Albums I think I should start with are YEAR ZERO, and EMPIRES ALWAYS FALL.
I open to any suggestions that anyone might have for my lack of exploration with these 2 bands that seem to be quite reveared in the prog den. |
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TheGazzardian
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Posted: October 12 2012 at 11:58 |
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My top Devy albums are:
1. Deconstruction 2. Infinity 3. Terria 4. Addicted! 5. Ocean Machine/Ziltoid (can't pick)
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tamijo
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Posted: October 12 2012 at 12:23 |
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1 Ghost
2 Ki
But not sure this is what you are looking for, these are the quiet once.
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