References to other bands

[Defuturo]

I know that Blackwater Park is a reference to the same name, and For Absent Friends is titled after the Genesis song on Nursery Cryme, but does anyone know of any other little references Opeth has to other bands?

 

[Necropeth]

I believe there are a few threads on this same topic, try searching it up.

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Vuashke]

masters apprentices is named after an australian band i think (the masters apprentices)

 

[in_my_time_of_disease]

Deliverance is a reference to Jon Voight and Orchid is a reference to the florist Mike used to work at.

 

[Vivören]

Hours Of Wealth is about when Mike won a million dollars and soon blew it all on a giant nacho hat.

 

[isolation_years]

my arms your hearse is a reference to the song diana by comus, and so is the baying of the hounds, its from the song drip drip, both those comus songs are off the album the herald, which is a great album worth checking out

of course this is also in the mentioned other thread............

 

[in_my_time_of_disease]

A curtain in the studio fell down while they were writing bwp, I guess you know where that nod lies. Weakness is a reference to Wolfmother.

 

[Holocaust on the Moon]

Madrigal is a Rush song of their A Farewell to Kings album.

 

[ToMnEt]

I've made an article about that on my website (in french)
(Faq Generale >1.3 References)

 

[Vivören]

Isolation Years is about when Mike was locked in a basement in Austria and forced to birth incest babies.

True story.

 

[in_my_time_of_disease]

^ I was trying to think of a good one for Isolation years, drapery and weakness were easy stabs.

 

[Vivören]

The Baying Of The Hounds is about the first time Steven Wilson made Mike howl like a bitch.

If you know what I mean. :Smug:

 

[Vivören]

^ Will that one get me banned again?

If so, I'd like the record to show that I claimed Mike howled in a manner similar to that of a female canine, not that he actually is a bitch.

 

[ramses]

Amen Corner, and When are 70's psychedelic bands. Madrigal is also a Yes song from 1978. Nektar is a 70's prog band. And the list goes on and on and on......

 

[Carta's]

Windowpane is about a time when Mike got stuck with is neck between a window, and was screaming for help and nobody came (in my time of need).

True story.

 

[Cognitive Intercourse]

Face of Melinda is about the time Mike once spit in the face of a groupie. Despite the fact that he now adamantly denies this event ever occured (See the Rehearsal Tapes DVD from the special edition of Watershed).

 

[The Wooden Doors]

my arms your hearse is a reference to the song diana by comus, and so is the baying of the hounds, its from the song drip drip, both those comus songs are off the album the herald, which is a great album worth checking out

of course this is also in the mentioned other thread............

I don't even know if this is a troll...

My Arms Your Hearse is actually a lyric from the Comus song "Drip Drip"
and the album is "First Utterance" not "The Herald"

 

[cheechonaleash]

Hours Of Wealth is about when Mike won a million dollars and soon blew it all on a giant nacho hat.

I wish I had a nacho hat.

But, to contribute something useful to the thread: The album title "Watershed", was taken from a previous and rare Opeth album, called "A Holocaust On The Moon". There was a song about a great flood that ruined Peter's shed and swept away many tools for yard maintenance.

 

[Holocaust on the Moon]

It's probably my favorite album too.