Pain Of Salvation Survivor 2017 - Scarsick - Round 1

[LordCost]

As I've done for previous albums, I start this round in contemporary with the final round of BE (remember to vote for it!)

My first vote goes to Cribcaged, but I'm fine with America too.

[Destiny Of Chaos]

Love this album. Certainly a drop off of what came before, but still good stuff.


Mrs. Modern Mother Mary

[LordCost]

Love this album. Certainly a drop off of what came before, but still good stuff.

I agree

[Crow]

spitfail

a few songs need to be purged with fire but then the rest are pretty good
this album has nothing in between "pretty good" and "abysmally bad" imo

for the record the three songs with votes atm are the three crap ones

[Evermind]

Spitfall

This album is pretty bad alright, in my opinion. I don't like it at all.

[Elite]

Easily PoS's worst album, and by a lot as well. MMMM is the worst track they ever recorded, period.

[LordCost]

spitfail

a few songs need to be purged with fire but then the rest are pretty good
this album has nothing in between "pretty good" and "abysmally bad" imo

for the record the three songs with votes atm are the three crap ones

I think instead that it's a consistent record, but the quality of the songs is not around 9/10 or 10/10 but some votes lower on average. There's not a bad song for me.

[Crow]

and this is why you sent corporatocracy in my first roulette 

[wolfking]

Mother Mary.

I love this album.

[LordCost]

and this is why you sent corporatocracy in my first roulette 

Yes I remember you didn't like at all the lyrics. Luckily I'm not bothered by the lyrics while I'm listening to those songs. I don't like much only the ones of Cribcaged because I hear a lot of time "people", not for the topic, and I don't feel much emotion during the climax.

[Adami]

America.


Forgot that stupid song even existed until I saw it listed here.

[Serah Farron]

Yay I can finally participate!

Disco Queen by a mile.

[Adami]

You can only participate on their worst album?

Oh child....

[Serah Farron]

Actually this album has a special place in my heart.

Definitely a top 3 if not top 2.

[Adami]

Actually this album has a special place in my heart.

Definitely a top 3 if not top 2.

Out of what? If this is top two, I will assume it's the only album you've heard.


Did that make sense? I have no idea.

[Serah Farron]

Actually this album has a special place in my heart.

Definitely a top 3 if not top 2.

Out of what? If this is top two, I will assume it's the only album you've heard.


Did that make sense? I have no idea.

Yeah it did. I know every album after this well to participate while I know bits and pieces of the albums before it, but not confident enough to vote.

[LordCost]

Actually this album has a special place in my heart.

Definitely a top 3 if not top 2.

Out of what? If this is top two, I will assume it's the only album you've heard.


Did that make sense? I have no idea.

Yeah it did. I know every album after this well to participate while I know bits and pieces of the albums before it, but not confident enough to vote.

You are discovering PoS in this moment or you know little of the albums before Scarsick because you don't like them much?

[Serah Farron]

Actually this album has a special place in my heart.

Definitely a top 3 if not top 2.

Out of what? If this is top two, I will assume it's the only album you've heard.


Did that make sense? I have no idea.

Yeah it did. I know every album after this well to participate while I know bits and pieces of the albums before it, but not confident enough to vote.

You are discovering PoS in this moment or you know little of the albums before Scarsick because you don't like them much?

Well, I started my first PoS album with Scarsick and have been moving forward since. I haven't given the back albums too much spin though.

[Crow]

you're literally missing all their best albums then 

[Serah Farron]

Oh.

I guess I'll give them all a good spin before the consolations then. Hopefully I'll see new light.

[Adami]

Yea, Scarsick is generally considered their worst album, with the Road Salts not too terribly much higher.

Every album before hand is just incredible. Some people really don't like BE, but I think it's their 3rd best with Remedy Lane and Perfect Element as the top two, which most people share as their top two.

[Elite]

And I actually love both Road Salts as well. They're not up to par and hardly comparable with the first five, because of the huge difference in style, but they're very good and clearly Pain of Salvation as well.

Remedy Lane is generally considered their best, like Adami says. I have a soft spot for One Hour by the Concrete Lake and BE. The Perfect Element is amazing and Entropia is one of the best debut albums in progressive metal ever.Pain of Salvation has an amazing discography and I consider this album to be a dud, even though the live renditions of the album tracks on 'On the Two Deaths Of' (their live DVD) are really good too.

Hell, they even redeemed their worst song (MMMM, in my opinion), with the acoustic arrangement on Falling Home. Makes it way better and more open. There's just something about the general vibe on this album that I (and others with me) dislike for some reason, despite it not being especially bad or anything.

[LordCost]

Oh.

I guess I'll give them all a good spin before the consolations then. Hopefully I'll see new light.

There was a short time when Entropia and Scarsick were my favourite PoS albums. I loved at first listen Entropia because it's a style of prog metal I didn't have to get used to, and I liked Scarsick at first listen too because of the modern sound of the album (with respect to the first four albums) and because I don't have difficulty to get into songs close to nu-metal and weird experiments like Disco Queen.

Maybe you can try Entropia as next album too. But keep in mind that TPE and Remedy Lane are generally considered their best, and almost certainly you will like all the albums before Scarsick more than Scarsick. You are missing their best albums!

[Serah Farron]

Thank you so much. I will start now by listening to their debut and work my way up. I'm so excited!!

[Destiny Of Chaos]

Thank you so much. I will start now by listening to their debut and work my way up. I'm so excited!!

Yeah, their first 4 albums are way way way better than what followed.

[Adami]

Thank you so much. I will start now by listening to their debut and work my way up. I'm so excited!!

Yeah, their first 5 albums are way way way better than what followed.

Totally.