in the last 6 months ive hardly listened to it, cos i was getting close to listening to it too much, but i still recognize it as my favourite, with symphonies and heartwork very close behind
reek has some great songs but the production is disgraceful ,, instead of swansong, carcass should have re-recorded reek!!! .. swansong is good, it took over 5 years for me to actually get into it and not call it "shit" repeatedly .. its now just making it to "good" but still a disappointing end!
@PaulTangaroa: Yeah, I'd always been going backwards when it came to Carcass....I first heard Heartwork, but the first CD I picked up was Wake Up... (Which, I've always thought, has 5 'leftovers' which are better than anything on Swansong besides Keep on Rotting). Anyways, I worked my way back from there....I guess this rediscovering of Symphonies was the next step (only took 7 years )
I also agree about Reek....pyosisified (still rotten to the gore) sounded fantastic on Wake Up... it's a shame they didn't do more...
wake up and smell the carcass, is most definitely a great introduction to carcass, and also the tools of the trade ep, which is marvellous too, but yeah, the necroticism cd just has everything, full on darkness, grooves, stomping riffs, great mad timings, incredible ideas and composition, catchiness, perfectly constructed solos and thought, its just essential, totally one of the most essential death metal albums ever written!
well, after 22 votes, symphonies has 2, and heartwork and necroticism have 10 each!! thats a surprise actually, i thought it would be more evenly split between the 3 ..
and yeah, winmar, the production does suck, but the songs dont, something i didnt really realize fully until our guitarist learnt most of them and played me some!! well good, just a shame they didnt do them justice to be honest!