rfarby wrote:Jormungandr wrote:Nightshine wrote:Wander wrote:Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound
Mostly Autumn - Glass Shadows
Opeth - Watershed
Cynic - Traced in Air
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (well, the deluxe version is 2008, normal release 09)
No-man - Schoolyard Ghosts
Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky
Ikuinen Kaamos - Closure
Ass - My Get Up and Go Just Got Up and Went
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Ok, that's 10 albums. But in fact some of the albums I was, in my mind, counting to be 08 releases turned out to be 07s, but yeah, I can honestly say that I enjoy 10 or more albums from 2008. Hah!
But yeah, 2009 may be better overall. Big thanks to Dev for it too, but I don't think 08 was really anything much worse than other recent years.
Hm. That's funny...because you just claimed that Watershed, Insurgentes and Schoolyard Ghosts were credible albums.
I'm sticking to my opinion, because you named 3 of the year's atrocities in albums which are "good".
However, I'll give you Traced in Air.
How can you say watershed wasn't "good"? Just curious, that was a great album. Just what made it an atrocity? and if you say "not as much growling" so help me...
Watershed was good by many standards, but not by Opeth standards. It was the weakest album they did in a long time. It had almost no continuity. There were very few songs, or even parts of songs that caught and stuck in my head. Nothing jumped out out and said, "Hey this part is AWESOME!" There were very few good transitions either. There was a lot of jumping back and forth from heavy to mellow and mellow to heavy. Many of the songs, just as I got into them, they dropped dead. I love Opeth, and I feel they could have done more with Watershed.
First step:
(Fire Axe)
