Went with TGCD but the choice was very hard, I almost didn't even vote! On the one hand, VE contains the 3 song swing of Evidence (classic modern Katatonia with an incredible ending), Omerta (a great folk song), and Inside The City Of Glass (A flat out crushing doom classic). All perfect songs and perhaps the most diverse 3 song stretch on any Katatonia album ever, not to mention A Premonition, Wealth, Walking By A Wire, Sleeper, etc. Really a ton of good songs and not much filler, I remember it taking me a while to get the album after first buying it though. With TGCD, there was also an incredible run from Rusted-Increase-July-In The White towards the end of the LP (and I like The Itch and Journey Through Pressure almost as much), and then you have Deliberation, Soil's Song, and My Twin. The 2 albums have quite different sounds/productions, but in terms of the quality of the songs it is so hard to choose. Ask me tomorrow and I might pick VE, but I certainly like both of these LP's a a bit more than NITND.
