What's up with everyone liking The Mountain so much? It's by far my least favorite Haken record.
Because people love the Cockroach. I mean it's the worst Haken song ever, but people love it here.
Cockroach King has very little to do with why I love
The Mountain. It's one of my less favorite of the main songs on there—still very, very good, but just not in my list of favorites. The album is just impressive all the way through. Each and every song is fantastic. It's really just one of those that's fantastic top to bottom. I know it has its big fans, but I don't get why you would think that Cockroach King is THE reason people like
The Mountain?
worst haken song is the minds eye tbh which is still a pretty solid song so
The Mind's Eye is pretty cool though. I'd rate it ahead of Insomnia. Which I guess is the worst Haken song? I don't know. Or Streams. Or Darkest Light. Or something from
Affinity, idk. But either way, "worst Haken song" is like "least beautiful Miss Universe contestant."
I don't get the "I regret" stuff. DT12 is not bad. It's average. I Olympic regret terrible albums. It's not at that bad level.
This. Sometimes I get the feeling on this forum that some people actively want to dislike DT. It's bizarre. Every time Haken does something there has to be a discussion on how much better than DT they are. I don't know why it matters.
Because DT12 is bad, not average.
DT12 is, in fact, neither bad nor average. It's actually really good.
Mosh, I get that sense sometimes, too. Then again, I think there's a general trend among music fans to describe a band's early material as better than it is and their later material as worse than it is, and I think that may play into how DT12 and TA get talked about.