There was a thread on the Metal Archives recently where the original poster asked the
following:
Pick out one of your favorite bands, famous or not, and create your own “Best Of” out of ten to twelve songs; link it to YouTube and say a little something about why you chose the songs. I think this could be awesome for people who want to get into a band, or who are just curious to what regular fans think of a bands output.
Here was my response:
For me, the band I would pick to do a best-of would be Amorphis. In particular, I picked later-period Amorphis with Tomi Joutsen singing. While I like their early death metal material, their later progressive material is what I find myself coming back to again and again. I would have loved to have Amorphis played at my wedding last year because I believe that a lot of their songs while not explicitly romantic, certainly carry with them a romantic and emotional feel. Many of the songs below capture that perfectly. I chose to start out with "House of Sleep" because that is the song that I believe best captures this feeling. I still find myself listening to Amorphis frequently when I am in a melancholic mood.
1.
"House of Sleep" - Eclipse
2.
"Her Alone" - Silent Waters
3.
"Silver Bride" - Skyforger
4.
"My Sun" - Skyforger
5.
"Course of Fate" - Skyforger
6.
"You I Need" - The Beginning of Times
7.
"Mermaid" - The Beginning of Times
8.
"Reformation" - The Beginning of Times
9.
"Leaves Scar" - Eclipse
10.
"I of Crimson Blood" - Silent Waters
Any thoughts?
This is kind of an interesting idea.
ReplyDeleteAs for your selections, I don't know Amorphis as well as you do. I've never listened to The Beginning of Times or Silent Waters, but I like your picks from Eclipse and Skyforger. I think Silver Bride is my favorite of the tracks you listed.
I would personally like to pick Mercyful Fate . . . but I don't know how I could possibly narrow it down to 10. Purely off the top of my head:
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Egypt
Satan's Fall
Don't Break the Oath
Corspe without a Soul
Black Funeral
Buried Alive
Desecration of Souls
Kutulu
Into the Coven
But, damn, I know I have to stop at 10, so, let's just go with those.
Death would be another good one.
The Philosopher
Evil Dead
Crystal Mountain
Pull the Plug
Scavenger of Human Sorrow
Leprosy
Lack of Comprehension
Flesh and the Power It Holds
Altering the Future
Painkiller
Danzig (this one in chronological order):
Mother
Twist of Cain
Girl
How the Gods Kill
Dirty Black Summer
Little Whip
Sacrifice
Five Finger Crawl
Wicked Pussycat
Night Star Hel
Fun idea.
Also, the Danzig one got me thinking that the idea is most interesting when a band has gone through distinct phases in their sound. Amorphis would be a great one to do that with, as would Enslaved, Bathory, Black Sabbath, or the most obvious, Metallica. And to a lesser extent Baroness and Mastodon.
ReplyDeleteOn Amorphis themselves, I still feel like Elegy is my favorite, although I'm definitely more familiar with the Joutsen material than their earlier stuff.
That would have been the obvious choice . . . but I like "Girl" better. I had to cut it down somewhere, and the similarity between I and II made II get the shaft.
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