Where to start with Opeth

[General Zaroff]

Much like many Opeth songs, it's gone on for around 3 times as long as it ever should have.

 

[Cythraul]

Much like many Opeth songs, it's gone on for around 3 times as long as it ever should have.

Excellent post. A+

 

[Hypnos]

i highly recommend MAYH, which is by far my avourite Opeth album. SL and Orchid are also great to start with.

 

[Allfader]

I disagree with the underlying presupposition of this thread. To ask 'Where should I start?' is to presuppose that you should start.

Yeah, it's better don't start with them

 

[Uthark]

oh hi guys I'm here to troll since this thread is about opeth. look at how cool and hip I am.

 

[seedofvengeance]

You haven't been here very long, apparently. Start a thread about any band, it WILL get trolled. Hell... don't even make it about a band... just start a thread, it'll get trolled. That's half the fun of this place.

 

[Janga666]

I dont mind my threads getting trolled. I got the answers I wanted 3 days ago anyway...lol

 

[J.]

yes, but was it the correct answer?

 

[Janga666]

Is there an actual correct answer? I think most of Opeth's albums were suggested in this thread...lol.

 

[J.]

yes there is. it just depends who you listened to.

 

[Janga666]

Well, I bought Blackwater Park yesterday because that seemed to be what most people on page 1 were suggesting. I haven't listened to it yet though.

 

[AchrisK]

I disagree with the underlying presupposition of this thread. To ask 'Where should I start?' is to presuppose that you should start.

Wow, it took long enough for this to be said. I was gonna say something along these lines, but Cyth said it better than I would have.

 

[Janga666]

I disagree with the underlying presupposition of this thread. To ask 'Where should I start?' is to presuppose that you should start.

Based on my first listen of Blackwater Park, it may seem that I shouldn't have started...lol.

 

[Belligerent]

Um no, give it a few more spins.

 

[Savern]

Based on my first listen of Blackwater Park, it may seem that I shouldn't have started...lol.

If its not for you, its not for you. I wouldn't give up after one listen myself - but then I'm a big fan.

 

[Janga666]

If its not for you, its not for you. I wouldn't give up after one listen myself - but then I'm a big fan.

Oh I will give it a few more listens, but my first impression was that most of the songs were extremely boring and ran too long.

 

[The Ozzman]

Oh I will give it a few more listens, but my first impression was that most of the songs were extremely boring and ran too long.

I thought that too, then I went back to them a few years later and liked them

 

[Savern]

Oh I will give it a few more listens, but my first impression was that most of the songs were extremely boring and ran too long.

Hmmmmmm. The Opener and ender on Blackwater Park are both incredable - though even I admit the quiet section in the middle of BWP is too long. The Leper Affinity is long but switches around enough between enough awesome riffs that it makes up for it. Personally they might be long but I've never found BWP boring - except Dirge for November but that probably Opeth's worst song. Mike's voice is awesome all over that album

 

[The Ozzman]

Most people should dig Bleak

 

[TheInsane]

I for one have a hard time with early Opeth. I dont know what it is. I put some of their early stuff on and always think "why did I not like this, this is awesome". By the end of the album Im so tired of it that I dont listen to it again for lots and lots of months. I cant put my finger on what it is its just something that bores me.

However from Blackwater Park and onwards I eally like this band and I dont grow tired of it at all. I actually think their latest release "watershed" is the one I like the very best at the moment.