Why all the dislike for GR?

[stole_my_bike]

great post kir. you raise a good point about the feel and mood of it

 

[Deadlift]

For me GR consists of to many weirdo songs. I don`t like the slow boring songs very much and i think TGC isn`t very good. For me it`s their worst album so far.

 

[stole_my_bike]

For me GR consists of to many weirdo songs. I don`t like the slow boring songs very much and i think TGC isn`t very good. For me it`s their worst album so far.

I only really enjoy GoP, Atonement, R/HF and Iso Years

 

[Opethian666]

^What's wrong with Baying Of The Hounds? It has the best Opeth transition they ever made!

 

[Brains for breakfast]

I'm not sure why I don't like GR that much. At first I fell in love with it, but now I havent played it in months =/

But some of the posters above hit the nail right on the head: It isn't epic, it misses drama, flow. The song styles are too fractured too, listening to this album doesn't feel like one big experience like the other albums, moreso like just a mix album.

 

[Metamyr]

so you're saying MAYH was the "emotional" opeth album, while GR is the "technical" opeth album, yet you say you think GR may have been a second MAYH? i dont understand

I think what he was trying to say was that on both MAYH and GR the band was making a new progression in their sound... taking their style in a different direction. He wasn't comparing them at all musically.

Anyways, thanks for all the opinions guys, i got a kick out of reading all of em. I totally agree with most of you that it definitly isn't as emotional of an album. There are times when I do need to listen to hardcore emotional music (that's usually when i break out the Katatonia or BWP), but GR takes me to another place entirely, somewhere really dark and powerful, and I absolutely love it!

 

[An Absent Friend]

^What's wrong with Baying Of The Hounds? It has the best Opeth transition they ever made!

I think its the best Opeth song ever.

 

[Towedwart]

^What's wrong with Baying Of The Hounds? It has the best Opeth transition they ever made!

I dunno... I still get a hard on from the one in Master's Apprentice.

 

[Dement]

Blackwater Park is still my favorite, but I do enjoy Ghost Reveries.

 

[An Absent Friend]

Dement can I use that sign. too? Welcome to our fair forum by the way.

 

[Opethian666]

I wish my exams were already over so I could go smoke a joint and stare at your sig pic for half an hour.

 

[Opethian666]

Btw, something special about Baying Of The Hounds though, it's the only song of Opeth's more recent albums that I wish didn't end when it did, but went on for longer.

 

[Towedwart]

Btw, something special about Baying Of The Hounds though, it's the only song of Opeth's more recent albums that I wish didn't end when it did, but went on for longer.

+1

 

[Manbient]

"emotional" is kind of the wrong word for what i'm talking about. I think GR does have emotion, a good deal of it, but it's a different kind. "emotion" doesn't mean just sad or angry. The kind of emotion i think they had on the first 3 records. The following 2 still have it, but there's something new going on i can't put a finger on... more experimentation, a bit more rock in their sound. D&D i just don't bother talking about because i don't like either very much. When it comes to Ghost Reveries, i feel it's just not the same kind of emotion in their sound... not just a little different, i mean nearly completely revamped. It really depends on the main reasons you listen to Opeth. For me it was the epic, melancholy sound that permeated the first few records and peaked with MAYH (even though aethetically the change was huge) that i really loved. If you're the same as me, it's hard to take Ghost Reveries for what it is and not feel a little dissapointed in not finding your favorite thing about the band present.

 

[NFU]

^ i can understand where youre coming from. and also agree with some of it. i guess these days though, i listen to Opeth for the same reasons i listen to most metal...so it not having quite the same "intimate/personal/raw" feel they once had, doesnt really affect me all that much even though i can hear the lack of it therein. i can take an unbiased step back at GR and appreciate what they were doing musically with it, and the experimentation for them involved, which leaves me accepting it as their most acomplished album musically. but if i do want to listen to Opeth for that all too familiar feeling that youre speaking of...i definitely will go reach for MAYH.

 

[opeth_353]

i think i can safely say that i now think GR is opeths worst album.

 

[Hlfreak]

i think i can safely say that i now think GR is opeths worst album.

ROFL.

 

[SextoyAddiction]

I loved GR. Its my 5th fav CD by them

 

[NFU]

i think i can safely say that i now think GR is opeths worst album.

youre a fuckin superstar.

 

[atropos_project]

A lot of criticality of the disc was due to it being thier first "big" label release, so I'm sure a few people were either prepping for dissapointment, or just overly critical.

Personally I listened to the disc far too much when I got my hands on it, and sort of burnt out on it.

I also found it odd that the most uninteresting tune on it ended up being the video, which itself was dissapointing and atypical genre fodder..... (and edited down in time, which is a blatant act of lameness, regardless of who does it).

What they do next will be viewed by more people with even more of a critical eye and ear....