Leper or Drapery?
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aestusmaris@hotmail.com
The Devil's armpit
Leper Affinity easily, minus the piano outro. So I'm counting Leper live, from my experience it has been way more enjoyable.
Kenneth R.
Cináed
they'll give you that much set time? wow.If it gets to 50/50 I'll convince everyone to play both
Eh, I just listened to the Lamentation version again, and my opinion still stands. So much of the killer atmosphere in that song comes from the e-bow.
FJChaos
Señor Member
I'd say Leper Affinity live and Drapery Falls original. Drapery was the song that made me listen to opeth in the first place. But its a hard choice, leper is an awesome song!
Yeah apparently our assemblies are getting fuller and fuller so we'd be pushing it, but if we played one and everyone liked it they might let us do another. Who knows.
I'd say that the crowd would probably like Drapery Falls better, as it's not as heavy, but Leper Affinity is very good still. We would do Leper Affinity Live and the Drapery Falls original.
Drapery may start the ignorant crowd on a more accessible note with the initial clean vocals but Leper's solos are the only chance of really getting anyone hooked imo....
It's official everyone. We will be playing The Drapery Falls in front of our school in a couple of months. We're doing a concert at a lunchtime, so we're playing music for about 50 minutes. All getting songs together each and it should be good.
CorpseDeception
Valar Morghulis
I have a strange prejudice against the first track on any album, so I think my vote is inaccurate given that I never listen to TLA.
What sort of school are you at, none of the schools around here would appreciate Opeth being played in an assembly 
Most of the kids who don't completely hate metal are the type that think slipknot is the best band ever playing Opeth here would probably only be appreciated by a handful of people.
Most of the kids who don't completely hate metal are the type that think slipknot is the best band ever playing Opeth here would probably only be appreciated by a handful of people.I think you're making a very bad decision in going with "Drapery".
Firstly, the song relies pretty heavily on ambience, which will be difficult to replicate with a (forgive me for being blunt) green band playing on a school stage.
Second, it's a slow song by most peoples' standards. I'll be surprised if you don't loose 90% of your audience's attention during the first vocal section. Once you loose them, it's hard to get them back.
Thirdly, "Drapery" is something of a difficult song to grasp. It was the last song on the Blackwater Park album that I came around to liking; for a long time my attention would drift elsewhere whenever the track came up, even though I loved the rest of the album.
Last, "Drapery" is a grower. It doesn't actively seek out the ears and scream "LISTEN TO ME!!" It sits patiently, knowing that the listener will come around sooner or later - but that's assuming the listener is going to to hear the song quite a few more times. "The Leper Affinity" is a song that grabs you by the throat and makes you take notice.
All things considered, I have a feeling your school will have things on their minds other than your music, at least during the "Drapery" section of your show.
Firstly, the song relies pretty heavily on ambience, which will be difficult to replicate with a (forgive me for being blunt) green band playing on a school stage.
Second, it's a slow song by most peoples' standards. I'll be surprised if you don't loose 90% of your audience's attention during the first vocal section. Once you loose them, it's hard to get them back.
Thirdly, "Drapery" is something of a difficult song to grasp. It was the last song on the Blackwater Park album that I came around to liking; for a long time my attention would drift elsewhere whenever the track came up, even though I loved the rest of the album.
Last, "Drapery" is a grower. It doesn't actively seek out the ears and scream "LISTEN TO ME!!" It sits patiently, knowing that the listener will come around sooner or later - but that's assuming the listener is going to to hear the song quite a few more times. "The Leper Affinity" is a song that grabs you by the throat and makes you take notice.
All things considered, I have a feeling your school will have things on their minds other than your music, at least during the "Drapery" section of your show.
Nasty-Fire
Discursion
^ The mellow section of the Drapery is, I really believe, the part that most will pay attention. In school shows, people pay less attention to heavy parts and everything, because often the distortion and the sound quality is not good enough, or just because people are not really into metal. The Drapery Falls is a standard song from Opeth, and no matter if you only got into it after a while, it's (one of) the most appreciated song from Opeth. The Leper Affinity is a fast song, mostly distortion, and it would be quite harder to get people into it, since it's harder to play and more complex.
I actually think that poor sound quality on the stage would affect "Drapery" more than "Leper," for the sole reason that "Leper" is a (relatively) fast and heavy song. It doesn't have to sound clean and crisp to sound good... it's !METAL UP YOUR ASS! after all.
"Drapery" on the other hand... I think the dynamics of the song would suffer pretty badly from a school setup. Like I said earlier, the song is all about ambience. I'm not sure what his school stage is like, but I'm not putting money on it being any better than the one at Bellevue West (my high school).
Realistically speaking, this band is going to fuck up here and there no matter which song they choose to play. I just think the fuck ups would be more painful on a softer track like "Drapery."
About the metal not appealing to the crowd... I don't know about that. I don't think so, but I have nothing to really argue the point. But if that is the case, dude shouldn't have his band playing Opeth.
"Drapery" on the other hand... I think the dynamics of the song would suffer pretty badly from a school setup. Like I said earlier, the song is all about ambience. I'm not sure what his school stage is like, but I'm not putting money on it being any better than the one at Bellevue West (my high school).
Realistically speaking, this band is going to fuck up here and there no matter which song they choose to play. I just think the fuck ups would be more painful on a softer track like "Drapery."
About the metal not appealing to the crowd... I don't know about that. I don't think so, but I have nothing to really argue the point. But if that is the case, dude shouldn't have his band playing Opeth.
Nasty-Fire
Discursion
Like you said, at this point they are going to fuck up something anyway, so the ambiance from The Drapery Falls is necesserly lost (just like the momentum in The Leper Affinity), but the song itself would be reproduced in a better way, through it wouldn't have the same feeling. But it's something to consider for both songs. Furthermore, accoustic parts are clearer for the crowd, and the song itself "takes more its time", when listening to it, you have more time to understand the riffs and the sections of the song. And there's a lot of repetition of the riffs. Very good points for a crowd who's the first time listening to a song.
No, they shouldn't if their goal is to please the crowd. But if everyone played music to please others, it would suck. Somehow, if the crowd doesn't like/know about metal, they will find it... well... ok. Nothing impressive in both song for that kind of crowd. No big solos or harmonies. Maybe some in The Leper Affinity, but anyway.
