You need to listen to this whole album from start to finish to really understand otherwise is like picking random chapters of a book and trying to follow the plot
Oooh, Opeth. Please also do Opeth - The Drapery Falls. I can truly recommend the live version at Royal Albert Hall. (that entire concert is incredible)
This is a concept album. Melinda is the beloved girl he came back to bring with him. It is an amazing gorgeous concept album. You have to read the full story . Without you can't get it
Its the first track to a concept album where a man had been banished from his city by the clergy. He comes back 15 years later to retrieve Melinda, his lover. The song is about him going through the Moor on the outskirts of the city and the rushing of hatred and disdain for those who branded him a freak.
This song makes perfect sense... I recommend listening to the entire album, Still Life, from beginning to end. The album is very much one big story. Well-worth the listen. I enjoyed your reaction, by the way. Cheers!
You should check out the band Bretwaldas Of Heathen Doom :) They are from the Midlands and sing about battles, ancient burial mounds, England, forests etc and their sound is kind of like old doom band met a crust punk band and fronted by Lemmy of Motorhead. Completely DIY label too King Penda Productions
Completely different from Opeth, but if you enjoyed Hiromi's SonicBloom, Snarky Puppy is a MUST. Lingus,or What About Me are great songs, fantastic musicians as well. Hope you like them Jim.
11:08 Tienes que escuchar todo el álbum para saber quien es Melinda, te lo resumire, Melinda era la amada del tipo del que se centra el álbum, el se fue de ese lugar para así volver por ella
Loving your videos Jim. I'd definitely check out Harlequin Forest and Hessian Peel by Opeth; those are the two masterpieces for me. Easily their top 2 songs in my humble opinion
Jim... bro u need to do whole album reacts with bands like this ... tool and apc included, albums are stories for these artists and we should appreciate them as such you would a movie.
I fuc*ing like your reactions !!! please do some Metallica and Dream Theater.. i want to suggest some masterpieces, where i can suggest songs to you ??
Ha ha ha. I like Opeth but I agree that sometimes is sounds like they used Google translator for their lyrics since English isn't their native language. Someone below explained the concept of the song but we'd never figure it out on our own! :)
I always thought the lyrics to be very poetic, and the choice of words great. "The hands of God, decrepit and thin Cold caress and then nothing I was taken away from my plight A treason bestowed to the crowd Branded a jonah with fevered blood Ungodly freak, defiler" Maybe I'm just impressed because I'll admit, I don't read much lol. This Swedish guy probably has a superior grasp of the English language than me. XD
Poetry is esoteric and isn’t supposed to be on the nose. Song lyrics are supposed to be up to interpretation. The only part you have a point in is that Mikael did use a thesaurus early on to get more impressive/poetic/archaic words in there.
Hrmm ..Jim both you and I are TOO stupid to understand the brilliant lyrics these guys have put together ...! Melinda seems like a reference to Uriah Heep "Come away Melinda.." maybe....lol I don´t know...
I'd listen to it without the shitty growling stuff. the singing parts are nice enough. But they are just way to generic when the growling stuff happens.
This song is from a Concept album. One of most beautiful of history of rock
You need to listen to this whole album from start to finish to really understand otherwise is like picking random chapters of a book and trying to follow the plot
Oooh, Opeth.
Please also do Opeth - The Drapery Falls. I can truly recommend the live version at Royal Albert Hall. (that entire concert is incredible)
Eh his vocals aren't ideal though. Lamentations would be my vote.
Agree!. UP. That one or Reverie/Harlequin Forest
This is a concept album. Melinda is the beloved girl he came back to bring with him. It is an amazing gorgeous concept album. You have to read the full story . Without you can't get it
Pretty much the opposite of random sentences thrown together, lol.
I can totally see how it seems that way though.
Its the first track to a concept album where a man had been banished from his city by the clergy. He comes back 15 years later to retrieve Melinda, his lover. The song is about him going through the Moor on the outskirts of the city and the rushing of hatred and disdain for those who branded him a freak.
Gotta love this album.
"Still Life" xD
That album is so great That it speaks for itself 😁
Really like Opeth....
This is a concept album, Jeff. Google the synopsis 🤘 it'll give you insight of the storyline.
still life is an very underappreciated album
Is it? I don’t hear it spoken about in the same reverential tones as Blackwater Park.
@@JimNewstead thats exactly my point, i dont get why... these albums are on the same level
This song makes perfect sense... I recommend listening to the entire album, Still Life, from beginning to end. The album is very much one big story. Well-worth the listen.
I enjoyed your reaction, by the way. Cheers!
Listen to the whole album!
Opeth - Harlequin Forest ( Live th roundhouse tape)
"Opeth - Burden" please!!!
React to Opeth - Sorceress live at red rocks it’s their current line up and the peak of their singing and still heavy.
Glad you had a good time! See you at the next reaction........... :-)
You should react to Oceansize, One Day All This Could Be Yours or Music For A Nurse, or anything by them really, they were a great UK rock band.
Cool idea with the Google sheets. Not sure about letting everyone edit it though. You'll be overwhelmed, but hopefully with good stuff!!
Xenophon Yeah, my recommendation would be to have them viewable by anyone, but only Jim can edit.
I miss old opeth
Moonlapse Vertigo, Opeth. I promise.
I love a promise 😁
Epic album. Just one of those concept albums you listen front to back to get it
He's been outcast for his lack of faith. ;D
You should check out the band Bretwaldas Of Heathen Doom :) They are from the Midlands and sing about battles, ancient burial mounds, England, forests etc and their sound is kind of like old doom band met a crust punk band and fronted by Lemmy of Motorhead. Completely DIY label too King Penda Productions
Completely different from Opeth, but if you enjoyed Hiromi's SonicBloom, Snarky Puppy is a MUST. Lingus,or What About Me are great songs, fantastic musicians as well. Hope you like them Jim.
11:08 Tienes que escuchar todo el álbum para saber quien es Melinda, te lo resumire, Melinda era la amada del tipo del que se centra el álbum, el se fue de ese lugar para así volver por ella
Great to hear about the document
So british. Nice reaction!
Loving your videos Jim. I'd definitely check out Harlequin Forest and Hessian Peel by Opeth; those are the two masterpieces for me. Easily their top 2 songs in my humble opinion
Jim... bro u need to do whole album reacts with bands like this ... tool and apc included, albums are stories for these artists and we should appreciate them as such you would a movie.
back when Jim couldn't appreciate Opeth... lol
I’ve got a section in my vinyl collection now specifically just for Opeth!!!
Try the pretty reckless sweet things very undervalued band great stuff
saw them live last year ... had low expectations but was pleasantly surprised.
B Well i have high expectations and they equal them
I fuc*ing like your reactions !!! please do some Metallica and Dream Theater.. i want to suggest some masterpieces, where i can suggest songs to you ??
Literality kills the art, don't you think? Please, check out A fair Judgement - no growl but still a masterpiece.
Any relation to the famous Jason of the same sur? Jk.
Sorry to disappoint, but no!
It is better reacting to studio version first
Ha ha ha. I like Opeth but I agree that sometimes is sounds like they used Google translator for their lyrics since English isn't their native language. Someone below explained the concept of the song but we'd never figure it out on our own! :)
I always thought the lyrics to be very poetic, and the choice of words great.
"The hands of God, decrepit and thin
Cold caress and then nothing
I was taken away from my plight
A treason bestowed to the crowd
Branded a jonah with fevered blood
Ungodly freak, defiler"
Maybe I'm just impressed because I'll admit, I don't read much lol. This Swedish guy probably has a superior grasp of the English language than me. XD
jcrosato exactly
Think that is really unfair lol, Mikael (who writes the lyrics) clearly has a good grasp on English
Uh that is the part of the person who wrote the lyrics on screen. Mikael likely speaks more eloquent English than many people commenting.
Poetry is esoteric and isn’t supposed to be on the nose. Song lyrics are supposed to be up to interpretation.
The only part you have a point in is that Mikael did use a thesaurus early on to get more impressive/poetic/archaic words in there.
Hrmm ..Jim both you and I are TOO stupid to understand the brilliant lyrics these guys have put together ...! Melinda seems like a reference to Uriah Heep "Come away Melinda.." maybe....lol I don´t know...
no it's just the protagonist's lover's name.
I'd listen to it without the shitty growling stuff. the singing parts are nice enough. But they are just way to generic when the growling stuff happens.
”Generic”
As if Mikael doesn’t/didn’t have one of the best brutal vocals of all time.
How are growls more generic than clean vocals anyway, lol?
The growling shit takes away from this band significantly. They would be better off without it. IMO.
Maybe try "In My Time Of Need" or some of their newer stuff.