Thoughts on this album?
cheesy but not in a good way like blind guardian for example
>>61070573
I'd take Wilson cheese over Blind Guardian cheese any day.
HCE sucked though.
>>61070597
>HCE sucked though.
oh well thats all i know by him
I like that one real long proggy/math rock song though. he should've stuck with that.
>>61070614
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaWPDIDA-cs
>>61070562
Doesn't deserve the hate it gets here
Good album but one of his weaker ones
Mediocre album saved by Guthrie Govan's excellent performance
>>61070681
Pretty much this. I don't get the hate, it's not that bad.
Mediocre everything. Govan sounds good on it though, but that's the best thing I can think of.
>>61070562
Anyone know what that font is? I like it
i like it, happy returns is my comfiest song of the year
>>61071104
>comfiest song of the year
whether or not I think its good, this is kinda hard to argue.
>>61070562
Overhyped and mediocre
>>61070573
This
also worth noting:
>New Blind Guardian album
10/10
>HCE
6/10
can this be a blind guardian thread now
>>61071528
sure
btrm song ranks?
DUDE WILSON SUCKS LMAO
It's pretty good but compare it something like Deadwing and it falls flat
>>61071633
Ancestral is basically his attempt at rewriting Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
>>61071633
Anything Porcupine Tree did after Sky Moves Sideways is trash
>>61072099
Terrible opinion
It has its moments (Happy Returns, Home Invasion/Regret #9, the start of Ancestral... and honestly I really like the title track) but overall it's a disappointment. The long classic prog worship tracks were done MUCH better on Raven. And I'll always wish he went more in the fuzz direction of Insurgentes.
Up the Downstair -> FOABP is one of the best runs in any discog ever tho
>pic related, CAPTCHA knows
AAAAAAAAAYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AYYYOOO
>disses boybands
SO HOL UP HOL UP
>gets barefoot on stage
SO U BE SAYIN
>acts edgy
SO HOL UP U BE SAYIN
>sings about trains
AAAYYYOOO SO U BE SAYIN
>remasters Gentle Giant
U BE SAYIN
>worships Xbox
HOL UP HOL UP
>samples Marshall Applewhite
AYYYOO U BE SAYIN
>sings behind a curtain
SO U BE SAYIN
>calls Coldplay wankers
HOL UP SO U BE SAYIN
>makes another side project nobody cares about
WE GON BE
>smashes iPods
FINNA WE GON BE
>gets depressed
AYYYOO HOL UP WE GON BE
>makes a sad cartoon music video
SO WE GON BE
>stops swimming
SO U SAYIN WE GON BE
>hates his generation
SOM FINNA
>befriends Robert Fripp
SO WE GON BE
>gets dumped again
SOM FINNA
>takes LSD once
AYYYOO SOM FINA
>references shitty arthouse director
HOL UP
>skims through record collection
WE GON BE
>listens to The Bends
SOM FINNA
>draws the line
WE GON BE
>acts autistic
SOM FINNA
>visits Disneyland
HOL UP MUH NIGGUH
>sleeps with Akerfeldt
U SAYING WE GON BE
>insults his label
DROPPIN NEW PT ALBUM?
>doesn't
>>61072333
>insults his label
when did he do this one tho?
>>61072333
I chuckled
Not as good as The Raven that Refused to Sing and Other Stories.
He's trying a little too hard and just ends up coming full circle reusing the same shit over and over.
>>61071537
Prophecies > Holy Grail > The Grand Parade > The Ninth Wave > Twilight of the Gods > At the Edge of Time > Ashes of Eternity > Sacred Mind > Distant Memories > Miracle Machine > Doom
honestly though, every song is fantastic and this might be their best album, if not their most consistent (title of overall best might still belong to ANATO if only because it has ATTWS on there)
>>61070562
Better than TPAB and C&L
Overrated and derivative, just like all his solo work.
>>61072304
>And I'll always wish he went more in the fuzz direction of Insurgentes.
Insurgentes is amazing much better than his later albums
>>61073744
I don't like Miracle Machine much, but if you see it as just an intro to The Grand Parade, it's perfect in that context
