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Topic ClosedMike Oldfield vs. Mikael Åkerfeldt

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2009 at 05:36
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

How one can like growls ? 
They sound good.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2009 at 09:43
Anyone who has listened to Tubular Bells also knows that Oldfield can growl pretty well.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2009 at 09:49

@ Lucas, like i said some parts of opeth songs are written for growls , and it just wouldnt work with clean singing (see my example of the intro to 'the Baying of the Hounds'). Same with death metal. If some1 were to come up to me and just growl then no i probably wouldnt like it, but if its an integral part of a song i love, then of course im going to like it. If some of my fave opeth songs exchanged the small parts of growling to clean then it would change the song and make them worse in my opinion. Too much growling and growling for the sake of it gets on my tits, thats why im not a big fan of bands like Immortal and cradle of filth, because there isnt really much clean singing at all.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2009 at 09:51
im going to go and listen to some Opeth
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2009 at 09:53
side note: as far as growls go, Akerfelt does a bloody good one...if you like that sort of thing
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2009 at 10:13
Things are taking it's right place Wink
 
But still can change.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2009 at 10:25
First, I was serious.
Then, I growled.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2009 at 10:29
My ranking: 1. Oldfield, 2. Jackson, 3. Åkerfeldt. All are good, but Åkerfeldt is the least best.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2009 at 10:30
Originally posted by papaatto papaatto wrote:

Anyone who has listened to Tubular Bells also knows that Oldfield can growl pretty well.

Indeed. He does it in Five Miles Out, too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2009 at 10:37
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:


The people who like Oldfield more is not vnecesarilly Metal haters

Sorry for the triple post, but I want to say: Indeed! Mike is my favourite but I'm actually a metal fan, including extreme metal. Only Opeth aren't among my favourite metal bands.

Quote and BTW: Oldfiekld is not a New Age artist, Tubular bells is a classic album as well as Amarok and Omadawn....Saying Oldfield is a New Age artist is klike saying Wakeman is also.
 
Plus Oldfield is a complete muti-instrumentaluist, to a level few artists can't even dream.

Again, indeed! Mike does have a few new age albums, but that only started in the mid-90s. And by no means everything he did since then has been new age either. Before that, not at all.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2009 at 12:33
SmileAt least someone remember  'bout Jackson and even put him at second place! So, it looks Michael is more proggy than Opeth in some places of the world Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2009 at 16:37

This is a poll? Count me info for Oldfield.


"Oldfield is good at what he does; but what he does is stock material."

No disrespect to Opeth/Akerfeldt, but it's a very bad comparison- Oldfield's composed in more styles than almost anyone labeled 'prog', everything from Incantations to Songs of Distant Earth can hardly be labelled "stock" in any sense. And honestly I don't find everything Oldfield does as memorable or fantastic- but he has far more accolades than any more modern composer / artist.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2009 at 17:09
Originally posted by absolute absolute wrote:


This is a poll? Count me info for Oldfield.


"Oldfield is good at what he does; but what he does is stock material."

No disrespect to Opeth/Akerfeldt, but it's a very bad comparison- Oldfield's composed in more styles than almost anyone labeled 'prog', everything from Incantations to Songs of Distant Earth can hardly be labelled "stock" in any sense. And honestly I don't find everything Oldfield does as memorable or fantastic- but he has far more accolades than any more modern composer / artist.




That's an opinion; not a fact. Opeth mixes Folk, Jazz, Classic Rock and Metal all the time in their music; not to mention the fact that their music is far superior to many in terms of technical prowess and composition.

You say no modern composer or artist can match Oldfeild, I say different. Big time.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2009 at 17:21
Originally posted by p0mt3 p0mt3 wrote:

Originally posted by absolute absolute wrote:


This is a poll? Count me info for Oldfield.


"Oldfield is good at what he does; but what he does is stock material."

No disrespect to Opeth/Akerfeldt, but it's a very bad comparison- Oldfield's composed in more styles than almost anyone labeled 'prog', everything from Incantations to Songs of Distant Earth can hardly be labelled "stock" in any sense. And honestly I don't find everything Oldfield does as memorable or fantastic- but he has far more accolades than any more modern composer / artist.




That's an opinion; not a fact. Opeth mixes Folk, Jazz, Classic Rock and Metal all the time in their music; not to mention the fact that their music is far superior to many in terms of technical prowess and composition.

You say no modern composer or artist can match Oldfeild, I say different. Big time.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2009 at 17:29
Absolute are right in what Oldfield have done, he truly composes in more styles that many prog rock bands, and the fact is in the albums themselves.
 
And  p0mt3  i'm curious to know what other modern artist can do what Oldfield have done? 




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2009 at 02:41
Originally posted by bsms810 bsms810 wrote:

im going to go and listen to some Opeth
Well, the atleast  something good came out of this poll then.
 
But seriously, how can  Oldfield be ahead in this poll? Is the world going mad?Confused
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2009 at 08:40
Originally posted by cronholm cronholm wrote:


But seriously, how can  Oldfield be ahead in this poll? Is the world going mad?Confused

You people who say that really crack me up. Are you even really familiar with Mike's work? Ommadawn? Amarok? Incantations?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2009 at 10:21
Originally posted by splyu splyu wrote:

Originally posted by cronholm cronholm wrote:


But seriously, how can  Oldfield be ahead in this poll? Is the world going mad?Confused

You people who say that really crack me up. Are you even really familiar with Mike's work? Ommadawn? Amarok? Incantations?
 
It pisses me more, because of the arrogance that it implies.
 
I don't care if we are comparing a good with a bad artist according to me, each person is entitled to his/her own taste.
 
Why must we vote for Akerfeld or be mad?
 
Can't each one of us decide who is better?
 
For God's sake, a bit of respect for te taste of each one of us.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2009 at 04:53
I read the above replies, and decide to apologize. My original post was horribly biased   towards Mikael. Actually it was part of my strategy: I intentionally called Oldfield "new age", and said he would lose by 500 votes. That's mean. I did so because I wanna enrage the Oldfield fans and make them vote for Oldfield. That's my endgame. But it wasn't the right thing to do. Sorry.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2009 at 05:56
Originally posted by paganinio paganinio wrote:

I read the above replies, and decide to apologize. My original post was horribly biased   towards Mikael. Actually it was part of my strategy: I intentionally called Oldfield "new age", and said he would lose by 500 votes. That's mean. I did so because I wanna enrage the Oldfield fans and make them vote for Oldfield. That's my endgame. But it wasn't the right thing to do. Sorry.


Well hey, it takes guts to admit something like that.  Thanks!  Smile
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