Blackwater Park Binge

[ViCyniC]

Help me, I can't stop listening to this album.

It's fitting that roughly around this time 3 years ago I came across this album, my first full listen of an Opeth CD. I was relentless in my pursuit to get bored with this album, and it took me like 100 continuous spins until that happen, and only temporarliy. Ever since, I couldn't get excited about listening to that album for a long time, maybe forever. Or so I thought...

Present day, 3 years later, here I am confessing my latest obsession with that very same album that I neglected. Something inside me ticked while listening to it with full attention and concentration after some time. I don't know if I just missed listening to it, or if the other Opeth albums took away some of the feeling that BWP left me with in the past. But now it's back, and I have a new found appreciation for this album. And I can't stop listening to it.

I have come full circle. BWP is a masterpiece, and Opeth is a genius of a band (just in case anyone forgot).

 

[Spawnof84]

I agree BWP is indeed a masterpiece IMO

 

[Hoahmaru]

Dude its Opeth....

 

[Darkhammer]

dude your getting a dell..never get a dell by the way..anyway, i like the song, but not all up for the whole cd. :Spam:

 

[ViCyniC]

the first 4 songs are lame

nah, yo.

 

[Kenneth R.]

I agree BWP is indeed a masterpiece

.

 

[deliverance]

eh, i'm not to fond of BWP as a whole.

the leper affinity - an exception, INCREDIBLE song, definetly in my top 5 fav opeth tunes
bleak - good song
harvest - good, but overrated
drapery - good song, but heard it wayyyy too many times
dirge - good song
funeral - good, but overrated
patterns - decent
bwp - 2nd best track on here

whereas most tracks on the other records are better than 'good.'

 

[deliverance]

lol @ my post being deleted

bwp is average at best

hah, in other words, what'd you say in the post?

 

[deliverance]

wtf...what's the big deal? lololol you can't even have an opinion on this board?
seriously, moonlapse, did u delete that?
it's not like he ripped the band apart, and threatened their families, he simply said he didn't like some of their songs wtf, that's gay.

 

[Pseud0]

Thank you roadrunner!

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[saut]

I've been listening to a shit-ton of Orchid lately. Finally got bored with that after like 2 weeks of non-stop listening and I'm "rediscovering" Blackwater Park as well, starting tonight on the way home. Opeth are the only band who's entire catalogue I love. The Funeral Portrait has got like beastly riff after beastly riff. I feel like it's what an Orchid song might sound like in Opeth's modern songwriting style.

 

[The Dude]

BWP might be my favourite Opeth album.

 

[deliverance]

BWP might be my favourite Opeth album.

p.s. why does mercyful fate kick so much fffffffucking ass?

 

[amaranth]

^ hmm,
anyways, bwp is one of the albums I least listen to, deliverance hardly ever listened too, but bwp has some great songs, including the title song, and leper affinity

 

[bonzer]

I love Leper Affinity and Bleak and the Funeral Portrait, i think its some of their best stuff. I also quite enjoy Harvest and Patterns in the Ivy. Dirge For November has excellent intro/outro sections but i cant stand the middle part. And the other 2 tracks im just not a fan of much at all. To me this album simultaneously represents what is great about Opeth and what is bad about Opeth. I would rate it the worst of the seven, but i think that really says more about the quality of the other 6.

 

[Arnold Layne]

lol @ Brian (the real brian)

Blackwater Park? never heard of it.

 

[B Crouch]

I got addicted to it too, but have controlled my habit now. Still life is the best though.

 

[fhare]

wtf...what's the big deal? lololol you can't even have an opinion on this board?
seriously, moonlapse, did u delete that?
it's not like he ripped the band apart, and threatened their families, he simply said he didn't like some of their songs wtf, that's gay.

also .

 

[fhare]

all you need to know; Opeth == Crack

 

[T-Rat]

BWP is great. Love it. I skip around some tracks since I made myself a non-growlie Opeth mix, but otherwise I love it. Esp. Leper and BWP the song.