MacMoney wrote:
vulcan plutarchy wrote:
That freaking Doors cover at the end of Tales from the Thousand Lakes. Boy does that spoil the album.
You know why it is at the end? Because it isn't supposed to be there. The original release doesn't have it. As was pointed out though, it's a rather middling album. Black Winter Day is alright - It was a sort of an anthem for young, up and coming metalheads in the late 90s and early 00s. The only early song that they kept in their playlist and the only they did that had growled vocals as done by Koskela. So it is rather nostalgic. But really, Amorphis's high points were Elegy and Privilege of Evil. Or, you know, Vulgar Necrolatry/Abhorrence.
As usual, MacMoney's on the money.
I really like Elegy myself. Tales was just a stepping stone on the way to that one, and yes, it has some inadvisable moments. My friend and I used to laugh at the incredibly gay-sounding spoken part in "To Father's Cabin" ("ooold ooold man.......bring me...a tiny cloud..." or whatever.)
Lugubrum's 'wtf" moments are basically numberless from De Totem onward. Sometimes I think they're going out of their way to annoy people. SOmehow it comes back around to being awesome, and just contributes to me laughign and loving the band more. Everything from the drunken banjo playing, whooping and sucking noises on De Totem, to the slovenly blues jam and shit-taking noises on Brine Truin, the intro/outro of De Vette Cuicken which sounds a complete parody (or maybe rape and murder) of a piano piece by Eric Satie, the thumb pianos and incomprehensible Congalese monologue on Albino de Congo, etc, etc.