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Go Long 6-5-11
Yes - The Revealing Science Of God/Dance Of The Dawn
Wolverine - Leaving Yesterday
The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Anekdoten - Wheel
Frank Zappa - Yo' Mama

The Eleventh Hour 6-5-11
Nightingale - The Fields Of Life
Spastic Ink - Read Me
Kansas - Sparks Of The Tempest
Midnattsol - A Poet's Prayer
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Widening Eye
Camel - Separation
Polkadot Cadaver - Opus Dei/Sea Grave
Opeth - Isolation Years
Tuner - Slow Cabaret
Mr. Bungle - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Starcastle - Red Season
Four Trips Ahead - The Memories
Black Bonzo - Ageless Door

1. Dream Theater
First Heard: Peruvian Skies
Fell In Love With: Caught in a Web (i think, they kinda grew slowly on me)
All-Time Favorite: Octavarium
Current Favorite: II. About to Crash


2. Meshuggah
First Heard: Combustion
Fell In Love With: Bleed
All-Time Favorite: In Death - Is Life
Current Favorite: Rational Gaze


3. Opeth
First Heard: Demon of the Fall
Fell In Love With: The Grand Conjuration
All-Time Favorite: Blackwater Park
Current Favorite: Isolation Years


4. Into Eternity
First Heard: Nothing
Fell In Love With: Nothing
All-Time Favorite: Timeless Winter
Current Favorite: Diagnosis Terminal


5. In Flames
First Heard: Take This Life
Fell In Love With: The Quiet Place
All-Time Favorite: Episode 666
Current Favorite: The New Word


6. Cornerstone
First Heard: Fooled (that one or Reload, not quite sure though)
Fell In Love With: Fooled
All-Time Favorite: Fooled
Current Favorite: Starlight and Mystery


7. Slipknot
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Nun, nach langer langer Zeit endlich meine fertiggestellte Review zum aktuellen Opeth-Album. Sie war eine schwere Geburt und das aus gutem Grund...

Erstmal vorweg in eigener Sache:
Ganz von der subjektiven Seite her gesehen bereitet mir der stetig wachsende Bekanntheitsgrad Opeth's seit einiger Zeit ein wenig Sorgen. Jeder der Underground Musik liebt weiß welch ein schönes Gefühl es ist eine Band zu hören die sonst niemand hört. Klar müsste mich das eigentlich nicht interessieren...
Nicht nur das, ich habe den Eindruck all die dollen „Frickel-Dream-Theater-Kiddies“ (nichts gegen die Band und die Vorurteile die mir in diesem Punkt zu eigen sind gestatte ich mir ganz einfach mal) kommen nun und geben ihre dollen Kommentare ab von wegen: „Früher, da war die Band schlecht, erst seitdem sie so und so produzierte Musik machen sind sie gut....“...blah....
Ich will die Band wieder für mich! Mich nerven all die Idioten die Alben wie Morningrise und Orchid schlecht machen weil sie zu beschränkt dafür sind...
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1. Porcupine Tree
First Heard: Blackest Eyes
Fell In Love With: Collapse the Light Into Earth
All-Time Favorite: Anesthetize
Current Favorite: Cheating the Polygraph


2. Muse
First Heard: The Small Print
Fell In Love With: Sunburn
All-Time Favorite: New Born
Current Favorite: Hoodoo


3. Radiohead
First Heard: Creep
Fell In Love With: Paranoid Android
All-Time Favorite: 2+2=5
Current Favorite: Videotape


4. Oceansize
First Heard: Long Forgotten
Fell In Love With: Music For A Nurse
All-Time Favorite: Unfamiliar
Current Favorite: Saturday Morning Breakfast Show


5. Cafe Tacuba
First Heard: la ingrata
Fell In Love With: Seguir siendo
All-Time Favorite: Seguir siendo
Current Favorite: El Espacio


6. Blackfield
First Heard: Blackfield
Fell In Love With: 1000 People
All-Time Favorite: Hello
Current Favorite: Hello


7. Arctic Monkeys
First Heard: When the Sun Goes Down
Fell In Love With: Brianstorm
All-Time Favorite: When the Sun Goes Down
Current Favorite: Still Take You Home
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Well, Opeth's new album Watershed has been out for a while now, about a week, and with my extensive listening tendencies to new albums I think I can make an informed decision on whether their new album is any good.

First off was I excited about the new album? Well sort of. I wasn't too fussed and just bought it the day it came out because after all it is Opeth, one of my all time favourite bands. I was more excited when Ghost Reveries was released back in 2005 however for a couple of reasons I could not muster the same excitement for Watershed. was it the title? Was I over Opeth? Or was it the extensive line up changes over the past 3 years? The latter was an issue - Peter and Martin were now gone. I was very upset when each of them announced their departure and thought to myself that Opeth will never be the same again, even though at the end of the day Opeth is Mikael Akerfeldt.

Enough time wasting, is the album any good? No, it is brilliant. …

Okay, here's the deal: get your 'top tracks' list, copy them here and make a story out of the names. For variation, you might want to try the rolling 3 or 6 month top tracks :)

Add a few of the top artists here for some extra hits.
A Perfect Circle, Black Label Society, Chevelle, The Clash, Katatonia, Opeth, Static-X

That night, I had a Lovesong to A Stranger stuck in my mind. It was So profound, it seemed almost to foreshadow something. And then I Saw You DrownIn This River. Just in Case you were still alive, I rushed in, The Only one daring enough. Tubular Bells echoed in my mind. The Noose appeared in front of me suddenly, a metaphor of what I was staring in the face of. And I Break. Some say it's a Quiet World, but I think Karma is always out for you. It's like a Welcome Home (Sanitarium), after a long and hard Emotional Drought. After this incident, the doctor prescribed me Vitamin R (Leading Us Along). And that's all I felt, Led along. …

1. Choose a band / artist and answer ONLY in titles of their songs:
Opeth

2. Are you male or female:
Demon of the Fall

3. Describe yourself:
Weakness (Now how emo is that? :D)

4. How do some people feel about you:
A Fair Judgement

5. How do you feel about yourself:
Hope Leaves (eeeeemoooo, the only fittinh answer though :x)

6. Describe a or imaginary boyfriend / girlfriend/ spouse:
Black Rose Immortal

7. Describe where you want to be:
Still Day Beneath the Sun

8. Describe how you live:
Isolation Years (Won't you take me to, funk... emo town!)

9. Describe how you love:
The Night and the Silent Water (Haha :P)

10. What would you ask for if you had just one wish:
Hours of Wealth

11. Share a few words of Wisdom:
The Twilight Is My Robe (That's deep, dude)

12. Now say goodbye:
To Bid You Farewell