And oh here's my contribution:
3 really beatiful ones:
Devin Townsend - Sunday Afternoon
Kent - Mannen i den vita hatten (16 år senare)
Helloween - Eagle Fly Free
The most beatiful is impossible to answer but I'd say Björk - All Is Full Of Love (album version)... For now
My definition of beautiful in this case would be songs that manage to make everything around you beautiful no matter what it is. Waiting for the bus with Totalt Jävla Mörker (swedish punk/grind/hardcore with 6 angry young guys singing about politic issues) makes you look at people way different than those songs I just mentioned. Do you get what I'm saying?
3 really beatiful ones:
Devin Townsend - Sunday Afternoon
Kent - Mannen i den vita hatten (16 år senare)
Helloween - Eagle Fly Free
The most beatiful is impossible to answer but I'd say Björk - All Is Full Of Love (album version)... For now
My definition of beautiful in this case would be songs that manage to make everything around you beautiful no matter what it is. Waiting for the bus with Totalt Jävla Mörker (swedish punk/grind/hardcore with 6 angry young guys singing about politic issues) makes you look at people way different than those songs I just mentioned. Do you get what I'm saying?
into the voigtex wrote:Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
...Oh, and also...
Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
...and...
She Wanted To Leave - Ween
...which is so fucking sad I want to rip my heart out with a pen.
Hiya Ro. I still find it difficult to listen to Jeff... still makes me too sad.
Joch wrote:The most beatiful is impossible to answer but I'd say Björk - All Is Full Of Love (album version)... For now
BING!
What a beautiful song that is. And it's also accompanied by my favourite video of all time.
#112165 by mo
Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:02 pm
Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:02 pm
JuZ wrote:into the voigtex wrote:Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
...Oh, and also...
Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
...and...
She Wanted To Leave - Ween
...which is so fucking sad I want to rip my heart out with a pen.
Hiya Ro. I still find it difficult to listen to Jeff... still makes me too sad.
I know what you mean about Jeff. I think for me it was worse with Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinity Sadness. I was a depressed emo fucker for a while and couldn't listen to that album for 2 years.
ITS ALL GOOD NOW!
JuZ wrote:Hiya Ro. I still find it difficult to listen to Jeff... still makes me too sad.
Yeah, makes me sad too but that song is just glorious. I choose to feel uplifted when I listen to the Buckmeister. There are parts of that song that make me feel like I'm standing on the edge of a cliff, leaning into the wind and awaiting the warm updraft which will carry me away to heaven on a cloud.
mo wrote:I know what you mean about Jeff. I think for me it was worse with Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinity Sadness. I was a depressed emo fucker for a while and couldn't listen to that album for 2 years.
Far be it from me to denigrate your suffering, but to the best of my knowledge nobody from the Smashing Pumpkins died under tragic circumstances before releasing their second album.
Billy Corgan just kind of gives me the shits, I guess. Personally, I couldn't listen to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness for 2 years because, as an album, it blows chunks.
And don't even get me started on Zwan. I don't even know what I was thinking when I paid actual money for it. It wasn't even on sale or anything. Stupidstupidstupid.
Siamese Dream is still a classic album though. Jimmy Chamberlain's drumming aside, I think everything Billy Corgan's released after Siamese Dream sort of sucks.
into the voigtex wrote:JuZ wrote:Hiya Ro. I still find it difficult to listen to Jeff... still makes me too sad.
Yeah, makes me sad too but that song is just glorious. I choose to feel uplifted when I listen to the Buckmeister. There are parts of that song that make me feel like I'm standing on the edge of a cliff, leaning into the wind and awaiting the warm updraft which will carry me away to heaven on a cloud.mo wrote:I know what you mean about Jeff. I think for me it was worse with Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinity Sadness. I was a depressed emo fucker for a while and couldn't listen to that album for 2 years.
Far be it from me to denigrate your suffering, but to the best of my knowledge nobody from the Smashing Pumpkins died under tragic circumstances before releasing their second album.
Billy Corgan just kind of gives me the shits, I guess. Personally, I couldn't listen to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness for 2 years because, as an album, it blows chunks.
And don't even get me started on Zwan. I don't even know what I was thinking when I paid actual money for it. It wasn't even on sale or anything. Stupidstupidstupid.
Siamese Dream is still a classic album though. Jimmy Chamberlain's drumming aside, I think everything Billy Corgan's released after Siamese Dream sort of sucks.
Not to get completely
but I agree completely with this aboot Smashing Pumpkins. I can't comment on Jeff Buckley, though. I'm not familiar with his work. Heard the name, but not the music.Looping green and blue, and you will go letting yourself certainly the meal once again through the head. But after the departure, you feel free and happily like after your first orgasm - and you will beg for addition. - German review of SYL's "Alien"
#112287 by mo
Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:53 am
Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:53 am
into the voigtex wrote:JuZ wrote:Hiya Ro. I still find it difficult to listen to Jeff... still makes me too sad.
Yeah, makes me sad too but that song is just glorious. I choose to feel uplifted when I listen to the Buckmeister. There are parts of that song that make me feel like I'm standing on the edge of a cliff, leaning into the wind and awaiting the warm updraft which will carry me away to heaven on a cloud.mo wrote:I know what you mean about Jeff. I think for me it was worse with Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinity Sadness. I was a depressed emo fucker for a while and couldn't listen to that album for 2 years.
Far be it from me to denigrate your suffering, but to the best of my knowledge nobody from the Smashing Pumpkins died under tragic circumstances before releasing their second album.
Billy Corgan just kind of gives me the shits, I guess. Personally, I couldn't listen to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness for 2 years because, as an album, it blows chunks.
And don't even get me started on Zwan. I don't even know what I was thinking when I paid actual money for it. It wasn't even on sale or anything. Stupidstupidstupid.
Siamese Dream is still a classic album though. Jimmy Chamberlain's drumming aside, I think everything Billy Corgan's released after Siamese Dream sort of sucks.
Funny that, I obviously feel the opposite regarding 'mellon collie'. I have to admit though, I don't often look at the individual playing but more so the general dynamic put across by the band, in saying that, the album in my mind was a success because it portrayed the concept very well, the songs seesawed in style, heaviness and softness, beauty and ugliness. Personally I'd probably put it in the 10 ten of my favourite albums of the 90s.
But that's just my opinion.
JuZ wrote:Joch wrote:The most beatiful is impossible to answer but I'd say Björk - All Is Full Of Love (album version)... For now
BING!
such a pretty song!
Biert wrote:Maybe I'll pick Opeth - Benighted...Not a bad choice. Face of Melinda ain't that bad either.There are no bad songs on still life.
Play from your fucking heart.
#112354 by mo
Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:56 pm
Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:56 pm
Kivenkantaja wrote:Biert wrote:Maybe I'll pick Opeth - Benighted...Not a bad choice. Face of Melinda ain't that bad either.There are no bad songs on still life.
Are there any bad opeth songs?
mo wrote:Funny that, I obviously feel the opposite regarding 'mellon collie'. I have to admit though, I don't often look at the individual playing but more so the general dynamic put across by the band, in saying that, the album in my mind was a success because it portrayed the concept very well, the songs seesawed in style, heaviness and softness, beauty and ugliness. Personally I'd probably put it in the 10 ten of my favourite albums of the 90s.
But that's just my opinion.
And fair enough too; each to their own.
As a double album, Mellon Collie would have made a brilliant EP. As it is, it's just so overblown, pompous and self-indulgent that it all kind of blends into one big distorted mush; to listen to the whole thing I find really draining. Billy Corgan may well be a prolific songwriter, but I don't think he's objective enough to filter his own work.
mo wrote:Are there any bad opeth songs?
Musically? No. And at least they know how to properly construct a long song. Unlike some bands I could name... *cough*Metallica*cough*
However, some of the lyrics on Ghost Reveries I find kind of silly. In particular Baying of the Hounds & Reverie/Harlequin Forest. That's not a criticism neccessarily, just an observation. Maybe it's always been like that, I don't know. I just never really noticed it before.
By the way, mo, I love the new avatar - very avant garde.
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