Best Opeth Album!!
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Topic: Best Opeth Album!!
Posted By: DeadGhost
Subject: Best Opeth Album!!
Date Posted: October 22 2005 at 21:00
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Make your choice!!! i voted for "still life", it's absolutely amazing!! |
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: October 22 2005 at 21:02
Blackwater Park ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: ColonelClaypool
Date Posted: October 22 2005 at 21:11
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My Arms, Your Hearse. It's the album that got me into metal for real.  ------------- With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with. |
Posted By: DeadGhost
Date Posted: October 22 2005 at 21:13
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actually, MAYH is my 2nd fav. by them |
ColonelClaypool wrote:Posted By: hegelec
Date Posted: October 22 2005 at 22:01
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Damnation is the only one to get, IMHO. The most prog, and the least in character! ------------- Cheers! |
Posted By: Pafnutij
Date Posted: October 22 2005 at 22:32
Still Life
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 06:34
| I'll go with Blackwater Park, although Mikael's growls sound better on Ghost Reveries. |
Posted By: SomethingGood
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 08:08
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Ghost Reveries, Blackwater Park as a close second.
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 08:26
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Opeth get better and better with each album,I gotta go with Ghost Reveries. -------------  |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 08:33
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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 08:37
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Damnation! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 12:09
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I wanted to vote for Blackwater Park, but Deliverence has not vote i cast in favor of it. Everytime i listen to Deliverence i like it for and more. The album is highly creative with even more hippy sounds and hammond organs. The albums is also the best mix between hard and soft, featuring the darkest playing ever from Opeth. -------------  
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 12:17
Ghost Reveries - no contest  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 12:58
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Blackwater Park, although most of them are great. ------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 13:32
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My favorite is Still Life ... although technically Ghost Reveries is better. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to: 
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Posted By: DeadGhost
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 16:10
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It's so weird nobody voted for Morningrise!!! Most of Opeth fans I know like it the most, and it has GREAT songs !!! (including opeth's longest song - "black rose immortal" and their first balad "to bid you farewell" ) |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 17:18
| Ghost Revries- they all good though- |
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 18:08
If this was a metal site, i'm sure there would be more votes for Morningrise. I was listening to Morningrise a couple days ago, and i have to admit it's an album that is very underrated by Opeth's progressive fans. I don't understand why any progressive fan of Opeth likes My Arms Your Hearse, i consider it to be their weakest album. I'm quite suprised i'm the only one who's voted for Deliverence thus far. I thought it was a very progressive album with an excellent dark atmosphere. Deliverence may be quite underrated as well. -------------
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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 18:17
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After lots of listening - Still Life gets my ------------- 
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Posted By: DeadGhost
Date Posted: October 23 2005 at 18:19
I agree about what you said on Morningrise, i didn't think of that before. but also, i disagree about MAYH, i think it's VERY progressive album (the cocept, the lyrics, the riffs and the songs structure are all progressive) and it has some of Opeth's bests like : Demon of the fall, When (love this track!) , the Amen corner and Epilogue. but after all it's just a matter of taste besides, I think opeth has NO weak album (sorry if my english is not so good) |
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 11:58
I should rephrase weakest to least impressive. I still love My Arms Your Hearse, but i find it to be their least progressive album. The concept is interesting, and the structure is ok, but some of the songwriting is lacking for them. I think it was somewhat of a dissapointment after hearing how great Morningrise was. Again, I'd agree that songs like When, The Amen Corner, Creedence, and the timeless Demon of the Fall are great songs, but if you stack them up against songs like Bleak, The Leper Affnity, White Cluster, A Fair Judgment, and By the Pain I See In Others, these songs have a tough time holding their own. -------------
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Posted By: Henkka
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 12:42
| My Arms, Your Hearse gets my vote. April Ethereal and Karma are my Opeth number 1 favorites, along with with Black Rose Immortal, Leper Affinity, Blackwater Park, Ghost of Perdition and Baying of the Hounds. |
Posted By: weedeatersquid
Date Posted: January 06 2006 at 09:50
| what the hell are you people thinking voting for Ghost Reveries it's just a rushed sloppy album pushed out into the media for some cash. I voted for Deleverance for a reason. It's gorgeous and masterfully made. |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 06 2006 at 10:01
| BLACKWATER PARK |
Posted By: erlenst
Date Posted: January 06 2006 at 10:47
Uuuuh... |
Posted By: viperjr98
Date Posted: January 06 2006 at 11:02
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I had to go with Blackwater Park. My first introduction to Opeth was The Drapery Falls, and that's still their best track to me.
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Posted By: buckethead
Date Posted: January 06 2006 at 11:03
| blackwater park |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: January 06 2006 at 17:26
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precisely! ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: cold103
Date Posted: January 06 2006 at 23:33
| Damnation is good. |
Posted By: Allu
Date Posted: January 07 2006 at 20:44
Same here too. The Drapery Falls is awesome. So BWP got my vote, the second best album is Still Life. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: January 07 2006 at 21:24
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How can you call Ghost Reveries rushed? There was 2 years between Damnation and GR. And how you can call the album "sloppy" is beyond me. ------------- |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: January 07 2006 at 21:35
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Of the Opeth albums I own, this is how I rank them: Deliverance ------------- 
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Posted By: Thufir Hawat
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 05:10
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Reveries and Still Life. ------------- "I can't see through my eye lids" |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 05:18
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Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 06:39
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Ghost Reveries for today
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Posted By: Xymphony
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 12:09
| Morningrise is one of the best metal albums i've ever listened. Amazing atmosphere... |
Posted By: Marc Baum
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 12:28
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If this was a poll for best album by Opeth, no contest - Ghost Reveries. While it's the favourite album to vote I go with Still Life - my first Opeth album and the perfect connection between the older and the newer Opeth. A masterpiece indeed! "Godhead's Lament" is my favourite song on it - amazing piece! That album is only slightly beaten by "Blackwater Park" and even "Ghost Reveries". I think the most underrated Opeth album is "Morningrise", their most progressive one if you ask me. The album has one great dreamy atmosphere, and their longest song with over 20 minutes is also on it. It has not the perfect songwriting yet but it's near on flawless and reminds as a unique album in their catalogue, seems also very overlooked by many. ------------- "All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT |
Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 12:33
 I would have said the same thing, but
switched the albums around. I've been an Opeth fan since before I even
knew what prog was and I have to say, I disagree completely. As for my favourite, it's tough to choose, but Still Life and Ghost Reveries are currently at the top. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Ty1020/"> 
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Posted By: J.La
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 13:14
| Still Life is good, and so are Blackwater Park and Deliverance, but Ghost Reveries gets my vote. Simply outstanding, and one of the best albums in my collection. |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 13:18
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I only own 2 albums by them (blackwater park and damnation) and from
those 2 i pick blackwater park over damnation. as the same story of
everyone, i too didn't like the growling in music until i got
blackwater park. All this raving about ghost reveries is making more and more anxious to buy the album  ------------- 
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 02:15
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I've had Orchid for years, and today was my first listen. I automatically set it aside becuase of the growls/screaming, but I was really surprised with what I heard. I suspect to collect more opeth in the future. I recommend Orchid though. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: DT_bast
Date Posted: February 07 2006 at 20:51
| Ghost Reveries, cause all songs (almost) are good. On Deliverance, I like almost only the title-song which is one of the best songs ever done by Opeth. |
Posted By: Tristan Mulders
Date Posted: February 08 2006 at 16:22
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GHOST REVERIES is my favourite lately ------------- Interested in my reviews? You can find them http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=784 - HERE "...He will search until He's found a Way to take the Days..." |