MMA Collaborator's Top Albums of 2014

I don't want to point out which specfic ones were broken as I don't want to name and shame anyone in particular, but there were several between the 2013 and 2014 lists. Just making a polite request that no one change the images used; they were all carefully selected before the presentations were put together to all use the same resolution (500x500 - which is more than enough considering the max size you'll ever see on MMA without purposefully opening the images is much smaller). 

Article fixed.

Too bad I was late in hearing Sevendust's 2014 acoustic album, then I would have had a metal related recommendation. 

Triceratopsoil wrote: I'll settle this, power metal is butts

Don't get me wrong, I Love me some good power metal, and I've heard tracks from their first album, and tracks from Grime & Grandeur that I really like. But CFAVF just hit me the wrong way. I felt a couple of songs on it were just plain down right silly.

^ Fight! Fight! Fight! <grabs popcorn>

2 bands I was unfamiliar with before this list took me to them, that I've since checked and really impressed by are Hail Spirit Noir and Anubis Gate. 

I'd simply like to curb my higher ratings a bit as I'm finding myself questioning some of them a lot of the time. Take 2014 releases, I gave 14 out of 110 releases 5 stars, yet some of them I've not once felt inclined to listen to again since finishing up my review and that doesn't sound like 5 stars was really justified to me. I've come to realise that I can still really love an album and give it a 4.5 or even 4 and that ratings like 3.5 and 3 are still pretty respectable, positive ratings. I think part of the reason has been that previously I've tried to cram as many promos into my review schedule as possible (labels and promoters sometimes put the pressure on as well), so I probably haven't judged every release as well as I could. Taking things slower this year has allowed me to do that a whole lot better. I expect I'll have a nagging promoter on my back before long but I'm past caring. I'm a happier listener since changing the way I do things. If they decide to remove me from their promo lists then so be it. 

UMUR wrote: bartosso wrote: Heh, well, if I'm to be honest I don't think it was a particularly good year in general as I was not really blown away by anything.    I agree. I didn´t give a single 5 star rating to any 2014 album. Lots of great albums, but not any masterpieces among the albums I listened to.

bartosso wrote: Heh, well, if I'm to be honest I don't think it was a particularly good year in general as I was not really blown away by anything.

Edited by UMUR - 02 Jul 2015 at 5:08am