2010年 Feb 7日 Sunday, 7:05

Quote from here.

I think Dark Passion Play has two not-album-related problems:
Everyone has Tarja's voice and Once's shitty, pseydo-heavy and totally overproduced guitar sound in mind.

I often read "you can't hear the guitar" bla and stuff like that. I tell you, it's bullshit.
And who was that calling the nice guitar riff after Cadence Of Her Last Breath's solo "just noise" - wtf?

When I first heard DPP back in 2007 (wow nearly 3 years passed, Time for a new effort, isn't it?), I couldn't really get into it. Main reason would be that I just heard Oceanborn and Angels fall First by that time and DPP was totally different compared to this two (not to Once but as I said I didn't knew Once back then, not even Nemo). I put it aside an listened to some other stuff like In Flames and other metal bands (I was just getting into metal). Well about a year later I was getting all the missing Nightwish albums and really started to like them.

DPP definitely grew on me very much, I think it's my second favourite with Century Child, first is (STILL) Oceanborn. I find Wishmaster is just a copy of Oceanborn, while DPP is like Once, just better. Overall better production (not that wannabe heavy guitar sound and C-tuning), better orchestral arrangements, better voice - let me explain before you hang me: I'm not a big fan of female vocalists and Anette sounds more pleasent to my ears =)

My favourite songs are Sahara, Master Passion Greed (instrumental, because the lyrics are fuckin' stupid), Cadence Of Her Last Breath, The Poet And The Pendulum and Last of The Wilds. It also has weaker songs, but all Nightwish albums have those, even Oceanborn.
Sahara is just awesome. The atmosphere is OMGWTFZOMG-great, everything fits perfectly: the heavy guitar riffs, the orchestra, the bass (really, really great bass, especially in the parts with guitar breaks!), Anette's voice and the lyrics. The picture of the Desert Of Colours Goab (btw read Michael Ende - The Neverending Story please) popped up in my head :)
The next great thing about the album is the diversity, it was a great idea to incoporate those folk elements with Last Of The Wilds and The Islander. Especially LotW is awesome and really fun to play on guitar (I still have to figure out that insane second solo, damn).
Master Passion Greed is pure aggression, I like it. Cadence Of Her Last Breath features nice vocal lines, also the guitar solo and the riff afterwards rock big time.
I don't think I have to write much about TPATP, it's overlength but awesome. Plus I think the parts flow nicely into each other and I once thought the last part is boring, well that changed^^ "Worse" than Beauty Of The Beast but better than Ghost Love Score and FantasMic (everyone forgets about that one, eh?).
The other songs are pretty ok, Amaranth is pretty good at being a single (haha), but I really don't like Bye Bye Beautiful, that song is nearly as bad as Wish I Had An Angel (that song sucks, imho not worth being a Nightwish song lol).

I don't count Escapist (without "The") as a DPP-track. It's one the best Nightwish songs, though.
Also it's really sad they weren't allowed to release The Heart Asks Pleasure First :(((

Greetings

ps: The one who discoveres the Wintersun joke gets a cookie.