Divaman
07.25.17 | I have yet to go back to their earlier works, but I really liked 5 a lot. |
Masochist
07.26.17 | Whoa, 'Wishmaster' that low? I think overall that's my favorite Nightwish album. I can see it not being everyone's cup of tea, but I think it really codified their sound. |
BallsToTheWall
07.26.17 | Wishmaster is way too damn low, agree with Mas. |
Groundking
07.26.17 | Wishmaster is way too low. For me it's:
1. Once (GLS is otherworldly good)
2. Wishmaster
3. Oceanborn
4. Imaginaerum
5. Century Child
6. Endless Forms most Beautiful
7. Dark Passion Play
8. Angels Fall first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYjIlHWBAVo
With the top 5 all being fairly close to each other and often changing depending on my mood, then decent gaps in how much I rate each album after that. Don't really like Angles Fall First. |
Rik VII
07.26.17 | Oceanborn codified their sound and was their peak at the same time imo. Wishmaster never did much for me, I always found it monotonous and lacking atmosphere compared to its precursor.
Other than that, I remember liking Dark Passion Play a lot. I think people don't give it enough credit for songs like Master Passion Greed, 7 Days to the Wolves, The Islander etc, and I won't even get started with Poet and the Pendulum. It's often regarded as their first "poppy" album which is utter nonsense, considering it was Once before it that bubbled over with simple melodies and wanna-be-Rammstein riffs (Wish I Had an Angel, ughh).
But then again, I haven't listened to DPP for a long time and my memory of it could be better than the actual thing. That actually happened to Imaginaerum, which I kinda liked for some time but then returned to it and found it an unfocused and bloated mess.
I always thought Century Child was kinda overlooked, mostly because Ever Dream is one of my favorite Nightwish songs and the stretch of the first few songs up to it is really good. Then again, it has Forever Yours. :/ |
LepreCon
07.26.17 | 1. Once
2. Endless Forms Most Beautiful (Floor is the best singer they've ever had, sorry Tarja fanbois)
3. Oceanborn
4. Wishmaster
5. Century Child
6. Dark Passion Play
7. Over the Hills and Far Away EP
8. Imaginaerum
9. Angels Fall First |
Rik VII
07.26.17 | "Floor is the best singer they've ever had, sorry Tarja fanbois"
That's a fact actually, she can do everything Tarja could but better and everything Anette could but better, plus she can growl and stuff. It's just a shame they didn't really make use of her abilities. |
Groundking
07.26.17 | Yeah Floor is amazing and needs to be with them for the rest of time, she can do everything, and hopefully Tuomas really lets her rip and use eveything for the next album.
The problem with DPP is that Anette just sucks so badly, and it's the worse album for filler IMO. Imaginaerum is awesome with how varied it is, it still sounds fresh to me when I listen to it, plus Slow Love Slow is gorgeous. |
Rik VII
07.26.17 | The variety of Imaginaerum was what drew me to it when it came out. Every song was different and I liked that a lot, but returning to it I felt that, although every song is different, none of them is really good, except for Last Ride of the Day. A lot of the songs just seem tacked together with little effort taken to give them some flow (Scaretale in particular, that one has jarring transitions). Plus, I think that a lot of it sounds forced, like the cheesy overdone ending of Song of Myself and the children choir in Ghost River (the one in Rest Calm works just fine though). I think it's a nice album as some kind of amusement park (fittingly) with a lot that jumps into your ear, but in the end of the day I don't think it has any lasting impact. |
ClassicJaguar
07.26.17 | Wishmaster to me, felt like a b - side album from oceanborn. I still enjoy the album and is by no means bad |
Ocean of Noise
07.26.17 | 1 is 1 and 2 is 2. Not sure about the rest. |
JDubb
05.22.18 | Dark Passion Play is my favorite. |
hal1ax
05.22.18 | ranking isn't too bad.
for me, 1 is 1 / 2 is 3 / 4 is 2 ... and wishmaster too low [19191] |
hal1ax
05.22.18 | everyone's putting century child too low. it's top 3 for sure |
BallsToTheWall
05.22.18 | 6 is better that most of these. |
ConcubinaryCode
05.22.18 | Roach is right in that wish I had an angel is ugh. Only bad song I can remember on the album. |
