I haven't listened to "Still Life" in a while, but it's sounding goooooooooooooood.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 March 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
it's immense, and it's clear from the first couple of minutes just what is now in play
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 6 March 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
I used to not like Blackwater but I gave only a few listens back when it came out. I definitely enjoy it a lot more now
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link
Still Life is the only one of their studio albums I don't own a physical CD of. I should rectify that one of these days, but mostly for completism's sake; I don't listen to it very often.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
i remember paying extra cos it was an import at the local record store, only for the shit to get US distribution not long after.
the first one I bought was My Arms, Your Hearse
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 January 2021 05:21 (three years ago) link
Learning that he is a Scott Walker fan (from that video where he goes record shopping) has given me a different perspective on the so-called prog ballads on the recent albums.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 January 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
he is a Scott Walker fan
Always sad to find such chasms of taste in artists you admire.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 22 January 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
Do you dislike Opeth ballads more, after learning that they might be influenced by an artist you dislike?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 January 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
No, not at all. I don't dislike their ballads, for one thing, and I don't hear the influence of Walker at all.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 22 January 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
I have come to love both Ghost Reveries and In Cauda Venenum. I've struggled to get excited about Watershed, Heritage, Pale Communion or Sorceress.
― Duke, Monday, 23 October 2023 22:25 (seven months ago) link
I've heard all those except Sorceress, and nothing earlier; and maybe my retro-prog judgement is impaired, but unlike a lot of listeners I don't hear a big difference in quality. Just a number of good songs on each and a number of less fully-digested compositional ideas.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 03:49 (seven months ago) link
I'm more or less in line with that; there are no Opeth stinkers, afaict, just different vibes, I guess. Definitely worth listening to the band's earlier stuff, especially when the metal started to make way for retro-prog, like on "Still Life," or "Blackwater Park" and "Deliverance"/"Damnation," the albums made with Steven Wilson.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 12:05 (seven months ago) link
THERE IS NO HELL! no, no no. the range of perfect guitar tones is a marvel. elements of "moon above, sun below" are 80s crimson, but with vocals less performatively zany than belew, giving way to serious epic zeppelin prog-blues, before iron maiden math moments that build to bridges of gentle giant harmonies: "voices of despair, a familiar friendship, society in your hair, what's the code of destruction?" dOPETHrone \m/
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 21:36 (seven months ago) link