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What are your three favorite Opeth records?

Orchid
7 (1.1%)
Morningrise
15 (2.3%)
My Arms, Your Hearse
26 (4%)
Still Life
81 (12.3%)
Blackwater Park
161 (24.5%)
Deliverance
43 (6.5%)
Damnation
53 (8.1%)
Ghost Reveries
152 (23.1%)
Watershed
66 (10%)
Heritage
21 (3.2%)
Pale Communion
32 (4.9%)

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #245 on: August 31, 2014, 10:00:28 PM »
Just listened to My Arms, Your Hearse for the very first time today.

Its fantastic  :tup revisited Still Life the day before and it kind of bored me.

Agreed. MAYH is fantastic, easily the best pre-BWP album.
I also find Still Life to be quite overrated.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #246 on: August 31, 2014, 10:03:22 PM »
Yeah, I don't seem to be in love with Still Life the same way many Opeth fans are. It's a great album, no doubt, but doesn't come close to the echelon of Ghost Reveries or BWP for me.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #247 on: August 31, 2014, 10:06:36 PM »
I think I'd like GR a bit more if the first three tracks weren't so samey. They all have their own thing going on but even after owning it for 9 years, the majority of their instrumental sections are hard for me to place whether they're in one song or either of the other two.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #248 on: August 31, 2014, 10:17:05 PM »
Honestly, I think the initial three-song run of GR is the best part of the album.

To me, the album really starts dragging towards the end, after Harlequin Forest.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #249 on: August 31, 2014, 10:22:56 PM »
For me, Harlequin Forest drags a bit, but then Hours of Wealth offers a really different, nice change of pace with the atmosphere it puts on. Such a mellow, beautiful piece. :heart

The Grand Conjuration is a killer track and while Isolation Years isn't the strongest of closers, it wraps up the album quite nicely.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #250 on: September 01, 2014, 12:10:59 AM »
Harlequin Forest is my favorite track  :smiley:

So, is it official that Ghost Reveries is the best Opeth album? It seems to be the most discussed and most highly regarded album by the band amongst us here on DTF.  :P  It also seems to be the go-to example for "classic Opeth sound".

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #251 on: September 01, 2014, 12:17:23 AM »
So, is it official that Ghost Reveries is the best Opeth album?
No. It's a little too samey at points, but it does have some good/great tracks.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #252 on: September 01, 2014, 12:35:54 AM »
After Watershed, where I thought only half the tracks were good, and Heritage, which for me was a huge disappointment, I thought I would pass on this one. But when I saw that PC is up on Spotify, curiosity took over and I listened to it three or four times over the weekend. Pale Communion is so much better than Heritage, at least imo. I really liked what I heard and now I must go out and buy it.

PC is even more relaxed and layed back than Heritage but it is more cohesive. Where Heritage's songs plod along sometimes aimlessly, the songs on PC seem more focused, more to the point. But I need several more listenings to see where it stands for me in the Opeth discography.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #253 on: September 01, 2014, 12:41:55 AM »
It's bottom-tier for me these days, to be honest. I loved it when it first came out and still love a couple songs, but as an album I don't ever spin it. I think it's great at parts, but a bit redundant at points and perhaps the only record where I see Akerfeldt's current view on the whole metal schtick being samey/a bit 'too much'. It's the only album I feel that way about. Then again my opinions hardly ever mesh with the masses, so no surprises here.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #254 on: September 01, 2014, 12:48:15 AM »
I loved Faith In Others, it has a different sound to it while being very familiar to something I've heard a looong time ago.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #255 on: September 01, 2014, 01:58:44 AM »
So, is it official that Ghost Reveries is the best Opeth album?

I don't know if it's "official", but it's my favourite Opeth album anyway.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #256 on: September 01, 2014, 02:12:58 AM »
I think Blackwater Park will always be considered better by their fan base both here and in general. GR is probably the best-regarded album from the metal era in terms of being liked by both the fans and nonfans of the metal era.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #257 on: September 01, 2014, 02:54:46 AM »
My top3 with Opeth is Still Life, Ghost Reveries and Deliverance. My Arms, Your Hearse and Blackwater Park are not too far behind. Those five albums are really in a league of their own though.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #258 on: September 01, 2014, 04:03:18 AM »
For me nothing tops Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries and Damnation are close. Still Life and My Arms Your Hearse are also very good. Orchid is nice. Deliverance and Watershed both have their flaws and Heritage is not my cup of tea.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #259 on: September 01, 2014, 05:11:14 AM »
My personal Holy Trinity of Opeth albums is Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, and Watershed.

But there is no album from them that I dislike.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #260 on: September 01, 2014, 05:36:07 AM »
Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries and Deliverance for me.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #261 on: September 01, 2014, 06:26:32 AM »
Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries and Deliverance for me.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #262 on: September 01, 2014, 06:27:05 AM »
My personal Holy Trinity of Opeth albums is Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, and Watershed.

But there is no album from them that I dislike.
Same here.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #263 on: September 01, 2014, 06:50:28 AM »
Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries and Deliverance for me.
Have to agree on this although I kind of consider Damnation to be a part of Deliverance. So it's basically Deliverance/Damnation and I also wanna add that Watershed is pretty damn close so....I guess it's more like A Perfect Fifth.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #264 on: September 01, 2014, 06:54:59 AM »
My personal Holy Trinity of Opeth albums is Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, and Watershed.

But there is no album from them that I dislike.
Same here.

Couldn't agree more.  Killer albums with some top ten tracks on all.  Watershed takes the cake for me, though.  I think it's a great blend of stuff they were doing in GR, but it feels more organic.  I also happen to love the mix.  When the guitars hit, they hit like a brick wall.

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« Reply #265 on: September 01, 2014, 07:18:29 AM »
So, is it official that Ghost Reveries is the best Opeth album? It seems to be the most discussed and most highly regarded album by the band amongst us here on DTF.  :P  It also seems to be the go-to example for "classic Opeth sound".
No album can be officially "the best", it is all a matter of taste. If you make a pool about that, you'd get many different answers. You are right though about the album being high regarded. I'd say Still Life, Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries are the favorites from most people, but all albums are worth a listen.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #266 on: September 01, 2014, 08:17:15 AM »
Why don't we actually make a poll about the best Opeth album? Was it done before (if so, when)?

I'm quite interested to see the results.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #267 on: September 01, 2014, 08:17:49 AM »
Me holy trinity be:

Ghost Reveries
Blackwater Park
My Arms, Your Mom

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #268 on: September 01, 2014, 08:24:38 AM »
Ghost Reveries
Heritage
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #269 on: September 01, 2014, 08:27:55 AM »
Watershed.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #270 on: September 01, 2014, 08:29:14 AM »
Ghost Reveries
Blackwater Park
Watershed
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #271 on: September 01, 2014, 08:30:37 AM »
Yeah I think Blackwater Park is generally the most liked one. An for a good reason.

It's hard to pick three best of theirs because up until Heritage their catalogue is just amazingly consistent. But right now I'd say

Blackwater Park (a clear favorite, one of my favorite albums of all time)
Still Life (still raw but some very elegant elements already mixed in, love it)
Damnation (I'm so glad Opeth made this album. The atmosphere here is unrivaled, so beautiful yet dark and brooding)

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #272 on: September 01, 2014, 08:33:34 AM »
Poll added, where you can vote for your three favorites (which I think gives a better indication of overall favorites, rather than just voting for one).  My picks:

Still Life
Ghost Reveries
Blackwater Park

Damnation just missed the cut.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #273 on: September 01, 2014, 08:42:53 AM »
Ooh, cool! Still life, Deliverance and Damnation are my choices, although Heritage is extremely close.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #274 on: September 01, 2014, 08:43:32 AM »
Yeah, thanks Kev! Should be interesting.

Mine are Damnation, Heritage and Ghost Reveries, but I've yet to hear Pale Communion, so I'll wait for its arrival.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #275 on: September 01, 2014, 09:06:18 AM »
Far too early to say about Pale Communion. My top 2 are definitely BP and GR (in that order), and at the moment Damnation is just edging out Still Life and Watershed for 3rd place. At the moment it's feeling like PC is another competitor so who knows where it'll end up, but probably somewhere in that range.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #276 on: September 01, 2014, 09:07:13 AM »
Still Life
Blackwater Park
Ghost Reveries

If Watershed was a little more consistent, it would've made the cut.

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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #277 on: September 01, 2014, 09:08:21 AM »
My personal Holy Trinity of Opeth albums is Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, and Watershed.

But there is no album from them that I dislike.
This exactly. Although BWP is my least fav of the 3.
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Re: The official Opeth thread v. Pale Communion
« Reply #278 on: September 01, 2014, 09:31:47 AM »
Ghost Reveries has the most votes so far  :lol

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« Reply #279 on: September 01, 2014, 09:36:38 AM »
Blackwater Park
My Arms, Your Hearse
Ghost Reveries

BWP is easily their best album in my opinion; I consider it one of my favorite albums of all time.