[QUOTE=JamJar]Thanks for the songs Dunkelheit, I'd listen to them now but I've been forced onto my computer with about 64mb ram which decides to reset itself if music is played on it =/. [B]And the girls, money etc should be in your mind any time.[/B] [/QUOTE]
Cool! :chug:

Still Life is way more consistent than BWP. BWP is front loaded, then takes a drop in quality and then comes back (with a bang) at the end but Still Life is solid the whole way through.

Besides lyrically I think Still Life is way more interesting. The story is great. BWP just has some loosely connected metaphors running through it.

[QUOTE=TojesDoLan]It has it's moments. Nonetheless, every album has a particular flaw that doesn't make it more special than the others, but every album has a little something that makes it shine above the others.

for instance, I like how Deliverance is very, very heavy and all that jazz.[/QUOTE]

Thats a great way of putting it. Every album has something that their other albums doesn't exactly have. I would agree that Deliverance is their heaviest but it also has alot of soft parts. One of my favorite soft parts is in A Fair Judgement. The part where Michael sings ("Leave it be, it was meant for me") all the way through that acoustic section is just amazing.


NP: Sepultura - Propaganda

Still Life > BWP overall, based mainly on consistency. But who cares, I love both.

I've been digging MAYH recently. Demon Of The Fall, When, April Ethereal and Karma ftw. I love the dark evil atmosphere on it. I can actually stand the fact that in the majority of the songs there's no real motif or reoccuring themes. I would probably appreciate Morningrise more if the production wasn't so horrible.

[QUOTE=JamJar]I've been digging MAYH recently. Demon Of The Fall, When, April Ethereal and Karma ftw. I love the dark evil atmosphere on it. [B]I can actually stand the fact that in the majority of the songs there's no real motif or reoccuring themes.[/B][/QUOTE]
For MAYH? You know it's a concept album, right?

[QUOTE=Jude]Still Life is way more consistent than BWP. BWP is front loaded, then takes a drop in quality and then comes back (with a bang) at the end but Still Life is solid the whole way through.

Besides lyrically I think Still Life is way more interesting. The story is great. BWP just has some loosely connected metaphors running through it.[/QUOTE]

Exactly! That's the best description Ive seen of how BWP is inferior. Still, those first 4 songs and the title track are amazing. and even though it has that stretch of lesser material, most mainstream bands these days be extremely lucky to make an album that good.

No mainstream band could make an album as good as BWP.


Look at my post count!

[QUOTE=Dunkelheit509]For MAYH? You know it's a concept album, right?[/QUOTE]

Yeah. I really did word that wrongly didn't I. I know waht I'm trying to say but I really don't know how to word it.Like in Demon Of The Fall, there are no real recurring themes within the song but more of lots of cool ideas thrown together and I prefer it to Morningrise due to there being better links between the ideas.

The album tells a story, dude.

Damn, now you made me ruin my awesome post count. :angry:

It's better to ruin your post count sooner than later (or something) :rolleyes:

[QUOTE=Dunkelheit509]The album tells a story, dude.

Damn, now you made me ruin my awesome post count. :angry:[/QUOTE]

I know!!!

/gives up trying to get point across.

[QUOTE=JamJar]I've been digging MAYH recently. Demon Of The Fall, When, April Ethereal and Karma ftw. I love the dark evil atmosphere on it. I can actually stand the fact that in the majority of the songs there's no real motif or reoccuring themes.[/QUOTE]


You know the song titles are mentioned in the song before-hand, right? Even the last track, Epilogue, ends with with the opening track, Prologue. Even though Epilogue is an instrumental, it still has lyrics. If you buy the CD, the booklet alone is worth it. My Arms, Your Hearse is the most remarkable concept album I've ever heard.












[I]''There it was. The final destiny. A sunrise that never came, still the nightlamp that never faded away. Farewell was the word, and the afterglow was the brave morning. Rising and telling everyone about the beauty of it's PROLOGUE.''[/I]

That's cuz you've never heard Dream Neon Black.


/fanboy :D

MAYH is one of my favourite albums of all time. It's in my Opeth top three.

[QUOTE=Hope Eternal]MAYH is one of my favourite albums of all time. It's in my Opeth top three.[/QUOTE]


Nice: :thumb: It's my favorite Opeth album at the moment.

I'm an Orchid fanboy!

[QUOTE=ShadowsFallen]I'm an Orchid fanboy![/QUOTE]


I'll drink to that! :chug: Orchid used to hail my #1 spot, I still absolutely love the album though.

I need to listen to MAYH more. I never really gave it a fair chance.

Not to be ignorant or anything... but where is the thread title from? I saw that line on a t-shirt, but don't know where it originated.

The t-shirt.

[QUOTE=Scruples]The t-shirt.[/QUOTE]

... Oh. I thought it was from a song or something. Thanks.

*edit* 100th post! Yaaay.

So today I saw MAYH and Orchid in an HMV...but, I couldnt buy it...

Have anyone of you ever seen MAYH in a store ?

All I've seen is Ghost Reveries and a singular copy of Damnation (which is now gone).

They've got Ghost Reveries at Wal*Mart, of all places.
Damned Roadrunner.

MAYH was the first Opeth album I bought. Strangely enough, it was a lot easier to find a few years back, at least here in Sweden.

lets talk opeth concepts, i have all thier CD's (and adore them all, morningrise ftw though)
all i know is that GR is an occult theme
discuss

Only two albums are concept albums:
MAYH and Still Life. Ghost Reveries started out as one, but was soon abandoned so Mikael could be greedy and eat chocolate.

[QUOTE=Scruples]Only two albums are concept albums:
MAYH and Still Life. Ghost Reveries started out as one, but was soon abandoned so Mikael could be greedy and eat chocolate.[/QUOTE]
Elaborate plzkthx

Anyways... Yes I tried to find connections on GR, but all I could find was a pretty common scene (which by Opeth Standards a forest isn't that much ofa rare find)... and I didn't get the "Rose Mary's letter" bit in "Isolation Years".

Unless of course we're talking abgout Jesus or something on that line...Other than that it all confused me and made me angry and upset. I'll go tune my guitar right now thanks you so very much.

[QUOTE=Stormrider331]So today I saw MAYH and Orchid in an HMV...but, I couldnt buy it...

Have anyone of you ever seen MAYH in a store ?[/QUOTE]


I bought every Opeth album at FYE, except for Morningrise. But they did have it there.

MAYH is about a ghost that, in the beginning witnesses his own funeral. He then continues to find out that everyone around him are empty and broken.

Still Life is about a man who, after being exiled for years, returns to his home. There he finds out that the woman he loves is engaged to another, while still being in love with the protagonist.

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