Green Carnation - The Acoustic Verses (#3105)

Anonymous · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:27 pm

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Green Carnation - The Acoustic Verses
Dark Acoustic Music
Quoted: 94 / 100

Click here to see the review.

oranje · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:11 am **Posts:** 2

I really like green carnation, although i still need to listeמ to the "quite offspring" and of course, the new album.

Alex, i hope that everything is ok in your life/family, it seems that you had gone through some bad times, i hope that only good things lay ahead for you.

Anonymous · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:14 pm

I'm expecting this album tomorrow. I've heard some samples of it, and I'm sure it won't let me down. While Green Carnation is not as personal to me as it is to you, it's one of the few bands which has always been able to touch me, even on The Quiet Offspring.

Anyways, I thought The Acoustic Verses was to be an EP, so I'm overjoyed with this being a full length. I'll give some more comments when I've listened to it.

Goat · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:51 pm

Sounds good. GC are a special band indeed.

Eyesore · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:35 pm

Excellent review. I've not heard a single GC album, but good review. Hehehe.

Lord Jotun · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:54 pm

Man I need to get this one... GC rule!

Radical Cut · **Joined:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:19 am **Posts:** 960

Definitely looking forward to this.

One suggestion for your reviews: Use contractions. I enjoy your reviews but I hate it when people never use contractions, it sounds so stifled and unnatural.

Anonymous · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:53 pm

Radical Cut wrote:

Use contractions. I enjoy your reviews but I hate it when people never use contractions, it sounds so stifled and unnatural.

Could you please kindly explain what you mean by this? Maybe you can use a specific example from the review.

Radical Cut · **Joined:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:19 am **Posts:** 960

Alex@MetalReviews.com wrote:

Radical Cut wrote:

Use contractions. I enjoy your reviews but I hate it when people never use contractions, it sounds so stifled and unnatural.

Could you please kindly explain what you mean by this? Maybe you can use a specific example from the review.

Two right next to eachother just caught my eye at the beginning:

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only he does not know about it. It is amazing

would become

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only he doesn't know about it. It's amazing

Of course, that's just my personal thing. I can't imagine most people talking like that most of the time, so I prefer the less stilted and formal way. Just a suggestion. Keep up the good reviews either way.

Eyesore · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:33 pm

I hate contractions. For instance, you're on a messageboard. You feel like letting people know you're not a flaming homo, so you say:

"I would suck dick for money!"

Only to come back an hour later and realize you forgot the fucking contraction! BAH!

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:34 pm

Eyesore wrote:

I hate contractions. For instance, you're on a messageboard. You feel like letting people know you're not a flaming homo, so you say:

"I would suck dick for money!"

Only to come back an hour later and realize you forgot the fucking contraction! BAH!

So you talk all the time using long words, making the people you are with feel uncomfortable with you? You say " I will get the coffee mother" like a character out of Tom Brown's Schooldays?

Radical Cut · **Joined:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:19 am **Posts:** 960

Zad wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

I hate contractions. For instance, you're on a messageboard. You feel like letting people know you're not a flaming homo, so you say:

"I would suck dick for money!"

Only to come back an hour later and realize you forgot the fucking contraction! BAH!

So you talk all the time using long words, making the people you are with feel uncomfortable with you? You say " I will get the coffee mother" like a character out of Tom Brown's Schooldays?

Misha · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:50 pm

Radical Cut wrote:

Alex@MetalReviews.com wrote:

Radical Cut wrote:

Use contractions. I enjoy your reviews but I hate it when people never use contractions, it sounds so stifled and unnatural.

Could you please kindly explain what you mean by this? Maybe you can use a specific example from the review.

Two right next to eachother just caught my eye at the beginning:

Quote:

only he does not know about it. It is amazing

would become

Quote:

only he doesn't know about it. It's amazing

Of course, that's just my personal thing. I can't imagine most people talking like that most of the time, so I prefer the less stilted and formal way. Just a suggestion. Keep up the good reviews either way.

Writing it is amazing in stead of it's amazing ensures a certain emphasis. I thought the review was amazing and personal, just like the album and the band.

Radical Cut · **Joined:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:19 am **Posts:** 960

Gast1 wrote:

Radical Cut wrote:

Alex@MetalReviews.com wrote:

Radical Cut wrote:

Use contractions. I enjoy your reviews but I hate it when people never use contractions, it sounds so stifled and unnatural.

Could you please kindly explain what you mean by this? Maybe you can use a specific example from the review.

Two right next to eachother just caught my eye at the beginning:

Quote:

only he does not know about it. It is amazing

would become

Quote:

only he doesn't know about it. It's amazing

Of course, that's just my personal thing. I can't imagine most people talking like that most of the time, so I prefer the less stilted and formal way. Just a suggestion. Keep up the good reviews either way.

Writing it is amazing in stead of it's amazing ensures a certain emphasis. I thought the review was amazing and personal, just like the album and the band.

That's perfectly true, and in that case it's not a big deal at all. But in many cases, as with the first one I mentioned, it's rather akward. But like I said, that's my personal stance on the language, just happens to be a thing that bugs me.

Anonymous · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:05 pm

I've listened to it about fifteen times now, and I can safely say that this is a wonderful album. With the Pink Floyd mentions and the scenario of a metal band making an acoustic album I was expecting something à la Opeth's Damnation (one of my favourite albums), but I was proven wrong. While Opeth just made some good acoustic songs that didn't have the feel of their usual acoustic parts in harder songs, Green Carnation have succesfully recreated The Quiet Offspring with acoustic arrangements, exactly the way it should have been done in the first place.

By the way, Alex, didn't you get the regular booklet with your copy of this album? Tchort has 1 1/2 page in it where he writes about the album and how it came into being, the past of Green Carnation, and lastly he wrote some words that made me smile with joy: that he has finished writing the music for another album, which will close the 'Doom' trilogy of Journey and Light of Day, Day of Darkness. I'm sure you're as glad about this as I am

Radical Cut · **Joined:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:19 am **Posts:** 960

Slayer Of Kings wrote:

By the way, Alex, didn't you get the regular booklet with your copy of this album? Tchort has 1 1/2 page in it where he writes about the album and how it came into being, the past of Green Carnation, and lastly he wrote some words that made me smile with joy: that he has finished writing the music for another album, which will close the 'Doom' trilogy of Journey and Light of Day, Day of Darkness. I'm sure you're as glad about this as I am

That is fantastic.

Anonymous · **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:51 am

Slayer Of Kings wrote:

By the way, Alex, didn't you get the regular booklet with your copy of this album? Tchort has 1 1/2 page in it where he writes about the album and how it came into being, the past of Green Carnation, and lastly he wrote some words that made me smile with joy: that he has finished writing the music for another album, which will close the 'Doom' trilogy of Journey and Light of Day, Day of Darkness. I'm sure you're as glad about this as I am

Sure, I have the booklet, so sorry guys I didn't alert you to this fantastic piece of news. I am still giddy, and will remain like that in anticipation.

Stefan · **Posted:** Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:32 pm

after two spins I give this album a 70/100

good but judging on the reactions I expected better... :?

Eyesore · **Posted:** Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:24 am

Wow! I just finished my second listening of this album and it's...I don't know...beautiful? Does that cut it? I think it does. Not sure what else can be said, it's virtually flawless, a stunning piece of art.

I just got this album and The Quiet Offspring today. I listened to The Quiet Offering once and it didn't strike me as anything special, good, but nothing mind-blowing. This album, however, is fucking brilliant! How are their other albums? Recommended?

ganeshaRules · **Posted:** Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:09 am

Eyesore, my opininion is that their best is Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness. Just one song in the record
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The other two, Journey To The End Of The Night and A Blessing In Disguise, are too recommended, in this order.

I found The Quiet Offspring a solid album, but it's the less interesting of their discography of a great band.

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