HEVYDEVY FORUMS

As it says, I'd like to hear what are your favorite PoS albums?
Pain of Salvation is a topic I could discuss about for ages and so...
If this has been here before then plese, just... kill me or something.. :p

But anyway!
Which of these great albums is your favorite?

I've only got Remdy Lane...Ill just vote for dat.

Well, I'm still at work so I can't give a lengthy reason as to why...yet, but I chose Remedy Lane too.

Weird, I've always heard "Remedy Lane" being bad mouthed. I like it though, even if it has a few lame songs.

The only other album of theirs I have is "The Perfect Element I," and I like that the best.

Hmmmm.....I just don't know. I have a soft spot for Entropia...so probably that. I don't know why peopel are so anti remedy lane, I think it's a great album.

Be is a friggin masterpiece!
IF you haven't listened to it yet, GO LISTEN!

BE is and overrated piece of shit! I fucking hate that album!

Alright, another classy post! *thumbs up*

All these albums are incredible. That being said, it is a REALLY tight call between TPE and RL...


I went with Remedy Lane.

TPE actually took me the longest to "get" out of any cd in memory, but once it clicked...holy shit!

BlueRaja wrote:Alright, another classy post! *thumbs up*

Is that directed at me?

Yanko wrote:Be is a friggin masterpiece!
IF you haven't listened to it yet, GO LISTEN!

I have to agree...I don't get why so many people have a problem with it. Some beautiful melodies, intelligent concept, great album for me

fragility wrote:

Yanko wrote:Be is a friggin masterpiece!
IF you haven't listened to it yet, GO LISTEN!

I have to agree...I don't get why so many people have a problem with it. Some beautiful melodies, intelligent concept, great album for me

BE really is a masterpiece!
But overall I think Pain of Salvation is quite much a band you either like or then you have to have something very bad to say about it. You can't really be neutral. At least I've noticed it.
To me, luckily, it is the most beautiful and meaningful music I have ever heard.

6Stringer wrote:

fragility wrote:

Yanko wrote:Be is a friggin masterpiece!
IF you haven't listened to it yet, GO LISTEN!

I have to agree...I don't get why so many people have a problem with it. Some beautiful melodies, intelligent concept, great album for me

BE really is a masterpiece!
But overall I think Pain of Salvation is quite much a band you either like or then you have to have something very bad to say about it. You can't really be neutral. At least I've noticed it.
To me, luckily, it is the most beautiful and meaningful music I have ever heard.

That is a good point, there does seem to be a love hate thing going on with them. Took me ages to get my bf to like them. Some days, from time to time if I'm not int he mood for them gildenlow's voice really gets on my nerves, but they really are a very special band

Eyesore wrote:

BlueRaja wrote:Alright, another classy post! *thumbs up*

Is that directed at me?

anyway
be gets the prize cause even if you throw away all of the music, the concept is awesome enough by itself. That's hard to find.

Be is such a pretentious, self-indulgent crapfest. I NEVER give bad reviews, even when I don't like a CD I try and find what good points there, but I could find very few here.

This is my review from a while back, I could barely find words to describe how disappointed I was with the album:

The prog-rock/metal style has never been an easy one to swallow for some people and the reason is all of the over-pretentious, self-indulgent, and overtly demanding yet non-rewarding music within the genre, and unfortunately Pain Of Salvation's latest falls into this category. I wanted to like this CD so bad—and I listened to this album at least 5 times to make it happen—but Daniel Gildenlöw's 9-years-in-the-making project is just too weak to conquer its ultimate goal of connecting the listener to theories on creation, whether it be the human race or the universe itself. This CD is packed full of vocals, but most of them are spoken word vocals instead of singing, which makes it extremely difficult to get into because there is virtually no hook, nothing that sucks you into the song. And, sadly, with the spoken words you forget about the music, it becomes background music and totally inconsequential. Of course, without following along with the CD booklet you're completely lost as to what the spoken bits are supposed to convey, and that's only if you can get past all the ridiculous Latin—which 99% of us will not understand—and contrived "lyrics." The song "Vocari Dei" features real messages to "God" left by fans on the band's own answering machine, this is interesting the first time you hear it, but gets annoying by the second spin because it's not involving you, the listener, it's just a bunch of people from around the world speaking to someone else.

As for the music, well it's not so much heavy and progressive as it is slow, meandering and unmemorable. It just sort of slowly plods on with the occasional bright spot grabbing your attention only to be replaced too soon with more nonsensical spoken rambling. The musicianship, vocals, and CD packaging are excellent, as you'd expect from this band, but it's hard to believe that anyone but the most patient and loyally blind Pain Of Salvation fans—and Daniel Gildenlöw himself—could enjoy this CD. Maybe I just don't get it, but this CD bored me senseless.