Yeh, this belongs on the Opeth board

[Det Som Engang Var]

Damnation > Still Life > Blackwater Park > My Arms, Your Hearse > Ghost Reveries > Orchid=Morningrise > Deliverance

Watershed would probably be a step above GR for me.

 

[Shpongled]

Morningrise > My Arse Your Face > Ghost Reveries > Orchid > Blackwater Park > Deliverance > Damnation > Still Life

 

[Dead Winter]

All those are better than Still Life?!?!?!?!? Bah...

 

[Altitudes]

Damnation > Still Life > Blackwater Park > My Arms, Your Hearse > Ghost Reveries > Orchid=Morningrise > Deliverance

Watershed would probably be a step above GR for me.

This would be my list, more or less, and most accurate

Morningrise > My Arse Your Face > Ghost Reveries > Orchid > Blackwater Park > Deliverance > Damnation > Still Life

Worst. List. Ever.

just kidding

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Morningrise > Ur mom.

 

[Shpongled]

All those are better than Still Life?!?!?!?!? Bah...

I specifically said in my last post that if I were to list them all out, Still Life would be dead last. That doesn't mean, however, that I don't like that album. In fact I love it. It's just my least favorite Opeth album.

 

[Dead Winter]

You're lying. It's humanly impossible to put Still Life at the end of that list

 

[Swabs]

To me Still Life manages to sum up everything I like about new and old Opeth.

Face of Melinda has everything I could ever want from Opeth.

 

[Shpongled]

To me Still Life manages to sum up everything I like about new and old Opeth.

For me, that album is My Arms, Your Hearse.

 

[Lord Foul]

For me, that album is My Arms, Your Hearse.

Agreed 100%

Still Life is great (Moonlapse Vertigo alone is worth the cost of the album) but it tends to drag a bit towards the end. Also, the production has some majorly annoying flaws.

 

[Brooks]

Still haven't heard the album, but I'll say one thing.


I've never liked any Opeth album the first time I heard em. They've all had to grow on me, and now I love them all.

The album's not even OUT yet, people! Give it time!



PS: I'm a Morningrise bastard, too.

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

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One of the major points of discussion on the Opeth board was that Axe has been in the band for going on 3 years now and he still plays machine-like, almost too machine-like for their tastes. While I certainly agree that he needs to loosen up, I'd rather him be more stiff but play consistently than loosen up and start fluctuating tempos.

I'm pretty sure that's why they ended up dropping songs like "Forest of October" from the setlist when Lopez was still in the band, because he'd fluctuate too much when playing older material and it'd end up fucking things up for the rest of the band. It's really a shame because some of the things he came up with were brilliant.

 

[Swabs]

Agreed 100%

Still Life is great (Moonlapse Vertigo alone is worth the cost of the album) but it tends to drag a bit towards the end. Also, the production has some majorly annoying flaws.

Which have been rectified in the re-release.

Not to mention the video from the Roundhouse gig makes that CD worth it.

 

[Dead Winter]

One of the major points of discussion on the Opeth board was that Axe has been in the band for going on 3 years now and he still plays machine-like, almost too machine-like for their tastes. While I certainly agree that he needs to loosen up, I'd rather him be more stiff but play consistently than loosen up and start fluctuating tempos.

I'm pretty sure that's why they ended up dropping songs like "Forest of October" from the setlist when Lopez was still in the band, because he'd fluctuate too much when playing older material and it'd end up fucking things up for the rest of the band. It's really a shame because some of the things he came up with were brilliant.

Unless you're playing doom, machine-like playing is NEVER too much. If I had my way, my band would be a bunch of cyborgs.