noodles wrote:
Al@metalreviews wrote:
noodles wrote:
Weird... I generally take albums as a whole and its very rare that I'll pick out high points/songs and low points/songs.
You mean to say you'll hardly ever say 'I really like song x' or 'I'm not too keen on song y' When discussing an album!? Pull the other one mate, you're trying too hard.
Not really, I barely know the songs on The Postman Syndrome's Terraforming by name and it's one of my 5 favourite albums of all time. I almost never skip to a song I really want to hear on an album because I feel like I'm not getting the full experience when I'm doing that. I listen to albums start-to-finish pretty much as often as possible, probably because I'm disillusioned and think bands put far more effort into an albums track list than they actually do :\
OMG get out of my head! I just about remember the track names of Still Life, my only 100/100 album ever, and I've heard it for years now. Listening to a whole album from start to finish is the way to go. Especially with this baby since it's an ongoing story. It never cease to amaze me how majestic the album really is. I know it's not the first time I write it, but the soft guitar at the end of White Cluster sums up a pretty much perfect album in a magical way that only Opeth could pull of.
I see the 100/100 score like the throne seat. There can only be one king, and if there would ever, though unlikely, come a better album than Still Life it would put it down from the throne. That sacred spot.
