Top Five - The Musics For Ever

[Liampie]

Favourite shorter songs:
- Evolution
- Wicked
- Fallen
- Of Sins and Shadows
- Inferno

 

[Marwen]

The Witching Hour
Sonata
Out of the Ashes
The Turning
End of Innocence

Really? I thought V was your favorite. All of these are rather meh to me.

Looks like Ken's list is the closest to mine, except I have Egypt instead of Rediscovery, but both songs are on the same level to me. If I had to add one more song to my list it would be Rediscovery.

 

[RuRoRul]

I also must add that the "progressive" songs on their last two albums (Paradise Lost, The Sacrifice, and WAIL)

I don't think being soft makes something progressive. I don't see why The Sacrifice would be considered one of the "progressive" songs when it's just a simple ballad.

Anyway I disagree as to me every album they've done (minus the debut) contributes at least one progressive or epic song that's among their absolute best.

 

[UnholyCrusada]

As much as I love MJR's songwriting prowess, limiting these songs to (mostly) just one individual writer was their downfall. If you look at the songwriting credits on the ten great songs I listed, you'll see a healthy dose of Pinnella, Miller, LePond, and Rullo. Hopefully they'll keep this in mind for the next album.

Well, here's something LePond said in an interview recently:

We’ll go and do Europe for about 10 days; then in September, we’re going to do a show in Mexico City and then we’re playing ProgPower. Then we’ll be in full writing mode for another record. What we’re shooting for is, hopefully, this summer we’re going to start working on songwriting. I think the next recording will come out in 2014, hopefully. Just putting together the songs takes a lot of time. That’s the thing we feel bad about — we’d like to put out the albums quicker, but we don’t want to put out any filler.

Notice how he claims we're going to start writing in the summer. Maybe an indication that there will be more of a group effort on the next one?

 

[Wander]

Really? I thought V was your favorite. All of these are rather meh to me.

Looks like Ken's list is the closest to mine, except I have Egypt instead of Rediscovery, but both songs are on the same level to me. If I had to add one more song to my list it would be Rediscovery.

Those picks were obviously the worst songs from each previous album minus V.

 

[Marwen]

Well played sir.

 

[Islandstone]

Top 5:

Divine Wings of Tragedy
The Odyssey
Communion and the Oracle
Through the Looking Glass
Paradise Lost (the song which really got me into SX; I had heard Of Sins and Shadows & In the Dragon's Den before, but they didn't really strike me)

5 songs are too little for a top list, though. A top 10 list is more appropiate. The 5 songs following closely behind the top 5 are;

The Accolade
Accolade II
Rediscovery (pt. I & II)
Church of the Machine
Awakenings

Gosh, and still I haven't mentioned songs such as Edge of Forever, Egypt, Candlelight, Orion, Revelation, When All is Lost, and Reign in Madness....

And, just to make it complete; favorite shorter songs;

Frontiers
Evolution
Fallen
A Winter's Dream (I & II)
A Fool's Paradise

 

[Martyr Massacre7]

Odyssey, When all is lost, Children of a faceless God, Eve of seduction, Paradise Lost

 

[Liampie]

Wow you're nuts.

 

[UnholyCrusada]

Odyssey and When all is Lost, I'll agree with. The other three? WTF.

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

The Odyssey is the only one on that list that is in the top 20 for me, but people's opinions are different.

 

[Pamonha]

Prelude, Sonata, Rediscovery (P. I only), Into the Dementia, Bastards of the Machine

 

[Marwen]

^Bastards of the Machine? Stop trolling.

Prelude, Sonata, Rediscovery (P. I only), Into the Dementia, Oculus Ex Inferni

Fixed.

 

[EyeballKid]

The Odyssey
Awakenings
Accolade II
Through the Looking Glass
Communion and the Oracle