TalonsOfFire
02.23.22 | ICV is an improvement over the previous two, but I can't rate it higher than even Deliverance because it has a few of their worst songs on it as well. |
Eakflanderyof
02.23.22 | Pretty solid ranking overall. A few that I vehemently disagree with but that's bound to happen with 100 songs. I'd put the garroter, karma, weakness, and Hex Omega in the upper 50. Also, probably lotus eater |
Eakflanderyof
02.23.22 | But it looks like my favorite heritage songs are pretty aligned with yours |
Egarran
02.23.22 | Admirable! |
BallsToTheWall
02.23.22 | I’m gonna throw up. |
JohnnyoftheWell
02.23.22 | the same song ranked 100 times ! |
Pheromone
02.23.22 | good ranking i agree! |
Yazz_Flute
02.23.22 | This list would have gotten so many comments in 2008 |
Yazz_Flute
02.23.22 | Woah Garroter at 96 hard disagree there |
TalonsOfFire
02.23.22 | Thanks friends. Heritage is a bit uneven imo, but still excellent and the best songs are really something.
This includes all their bonus tracks. The heavier Sorceress songs would also be higher if they were the Garden of the Titans versions. |
shibole
02.24.22 | Deliverance at 43 is also brutal. That's like a top three track for sure. Lopez is such a beast. |
TalonsOfFire
02.24.22 | The Garroter just doesn’t really work for me, but the intro and outro are good. I love the top 50, and the 25 below that I really like too. It’s just the bottom 8 or so I don’t care for. |
DominionMM1
02.24.22 | lotsa good in the top 10 but damn man you buried sorceress |
conesmoke
02.24.22 | Lol cusp at 95. |
Trifolium
02.24.22 | Some things I super agree with, some make me a little sad.
Your lower ranks are spot on I'd say, apart from Famine and In Most She Was Standing (!) and The Devil's Orchard. Plus to many BWP/SL tunes near the top hihihihi. |
Demon of the Fall
02.24.22 | 70 In Mist She Was Standing
71 Karma
72 Hex Omega
wow this is an abysmal ranking, lol
Good effort though |
Demon of the Fall
02.24.22 | most of the entries below this point are spot-on, but from 72 upwards it looks all over the place to me
I knew that would be the case upon seeing your album ranking. |
Trifolium
02.24.22 | Agreed Demon, that bit hurt like crazy. Three ultra good tracks. Even including Karma 😱 |
TalonsOfFire
02.24.22 | Sorceress is their worst album!
Btw my album ranking is pretty much in line with the rating averages, aside from liking Heritage a lot.
Hex Omega is good but c’mon, hardly top 50 material given how many amazing songs they have. I know Karma is beloved but I’ve never considered it one of the best. I love the middle section though. Also something from Orchid was gonna be in the 60s or 70s. I just prefer the others on that album to Mist, but I still think it’s good of course. |
Demon of the Fall
02.24.22 | Mist is easily a top 10 Opeth song for me, weirded me out seeing it as the lowest ranked Orchid cut
although I love Orchid in general, have it as their 2nd best overall, so that probably changes one's perspective on such things |
TalonsOfFire
02.24.22 | Orchid does have amazing atmosphere. Some of the songwriting is pretty disjoined and meandering though. I'm someone who most loves the three they made after Morningrise, and Ghost Reveries too, when they were more refined and proggy. My taste for extreme metal vocals has also dissipated over the years, so my making this list now might be skewed toward their songs that're jammier and with more instrumental sections. |
Muzz79
02.25.22 | I dig the Garroter too. Fascinating tune |
Egarran
02.25.22 | Awesome news in paleonthology:
"A recently discovered fossil of a 25 million-year-old hangingfly (Mecoptera, Bittacidae) from the late Oligocene was discovered in the Westerwald Basin (SW Germany) and has been named Eremobittacus opeth. Clearly, the palaeontologist is a fan!"
https://tinyurl.com/4mv3e4d8 |
Eakflanderyof
02.25.22 | "Hex Omega is good but c’mon, hardly top 50 material"
Hard disagree. I'd probably put it top 25 or 30 even |
TalonsOfFire
02.25.22 | That's wack, but to each their own. I think Watershed's best are the epics.
I saw them post that yesterday Egarran, was very cool to see. |
Eakflanderyof
02.25.22 | Not wack at all.. Hex Omega is 2nd best on watershed next to heir apparent |
TalonsOfFire
02.25.22 | But Hessian Peel |
Eakflanderyof
02.25.22 | Hessian peel is a close third. It used to be my favorite back when the album first released but it's slipped in my rankings |
TalonsOfFire
02.26.22 | https://loudwire.com/opeth-mikael-akerfeldt-soundtrack-netflix-clark-2
No new album any time soon, but I'm interested to hear this soundtrack. |
TalonsOfFire
03.25.22 | They finally released an English version of Cirkelns Riktning, which translates to Width of a Circle. It's ok but probably doesn't change in my ranking. |
Egarran
03.26.22 | As an almost Swedish person I feel obliged to say that the direct translation is Direction of the Circle. |
Sowing
03.26.22 | Very respectable list. I'm not sure what my favorite is but it could easily be Bleak. Also have huge soft spots for Heir Apparent, The Lotus Eater, Beneath the Mire, and Windowpane. |
TalonsOfFire
03.26.22 | @Egarran: that's actually what i had on here before, cause that's what Google Translate had told me. But Width of a Circle is the official name for some reason..
@Sowing: All good picks Sowing, despite a lack of Still Life and MAYH. |
Egarran
03.26.22 | Ah I can't argue with that. Apparently it's also a famous Bowie song. |
TalonsOfFire
03.27.22 | Yeah funny coincidence both songs have the same name, and the Opeth one not being a cover.
There're two more bonus tracks on ICV I just found out, only on some special edition but they were uploaded to YT and someone posted a link in that album thread. |
Demon of the Fall
03.27.22 | Is that fossil thing real? wow |
TalonsOfFire
04.07.22 | ^Yeah, very cool. |
TalonsOfFire
07.06.22 | Just noticed that I had gotten Dignity and Heart in Hand mixed up, fixed now. |