Arena best album
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Topic: Arena best album
Posted By: Fernandi
Subject: Arena best album
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 07:07
| which is the best Arena album? |
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Posted By: Rune2000
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 07:23
I haven't heard "Songs From The Lion's Cage" and "Pride" but based on most reviews they're not considered to be among Arenas best albums. I honestly never managed to get into "The Visitor" although I did try playing it 5-6 times.  Here is my opinion: The Visitor < Pepper's Ghost < Immortal? < Contagion 
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Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 07:27
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Contagion is in my top ten albums and gets my vote.
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Posted By: zbida
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 07:33
| A strong pair: The Visitor & Immortal. |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 08:44
| Close thing for me between Immortal, The Visitor and Contagion. I went for Contagion in the end. Hopefully a definitive edition which includes the tracks on the two EPs in their correct places will be with us sometime soon. |
Posted By: Dorsalia
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 09:35
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Contagion is the sum of it all. Well-crafted and inspired, with an attention to detail. Every song is worth listening to, and it all flows together into a perfect concept album with a coherent story. There is no showing off here, no songs that are unnecessarily long. Good melodies and good musicianship abound. This album is an example of progressive rock and should be better known.
Don't get me wrong, I think both Immortal? and The Visitor are excellent and I love them as dearly as one can love an album. But this is it for me, the culmination of everything that Arena was.
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Posted By: terryl
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 10:58
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tough choice between immortal and visitor. I only voted immortal because it is falling far behind, otherwise it's a tie.
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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 11:18
| Conagion, Immortal? and The Visitor are my top three. Contagion is the first progressive album I listened to! |
Posted By: bluegecko
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 11:18
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Togh choice between Visitor, Immortal? and Contagion.
I will go with Immortal because of Moviedrome and Waiting for the Flood... ------------- BlueGecko |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 12:58
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Immortal is well...immortal ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Asphalt
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 13:26
| I feel that musically The Visitor and Contagion are evenly matched, but I just like how the songs flow on Contagion more. So I'll take that one. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 14:52
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Easy Livin wrote:Posted By: Der Ketzer
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 16:45
| the Visitor is a very best Album |
Posted By: dAJaro
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 17:17
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contagion or the visitor since i cant remember anything from contagion right now, i'm going with the visitor. both are pretty much flawless albums in my book. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/dAJaro/?chartstyle=basic10"> 
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 23:04
For me it's between "Immortal?" and "Pepper's Ghost" chose the latter because it's just getting no respect here. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 23:14
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All are awesome. Voting is silly.
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Posted By: raindance
Date Posted: December 08 2009 at 10:36
CONTAGIAN
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 08 2009 at 10:54
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Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: December 08 2009 at 11:08
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I always like very much the Pride cd. Looks like i am the only one! ------------- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran |
Posted By: raindance
Date Posted: December 08 2009 at 11:29
I like 'Sirens' but not much else from Pride. I think it suffers from poor production.
The two best albums are IMMORTAL & CONTAGIUN by a country mile and are classics. THE VISITOR is too neo prog sounding for me and lacks aggression. PEPPER'S GHOST sounds like a band who have run out of ideas. I hope they return with some quality after a long hiatus!
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Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: December 09 2009 at 09:22
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It was a close call between The Visitor and Contagion, which are both 5 star albums IMO. I voted for Contagion, but another day I might have voted for The Visitor. Contagion is perhaps more original (not implying that The Visitor is not original!)
Immortal? is an excellent album too (4 stars), but I definitely perfer Songs From The Lion's Cage over that one. It is a near masterpiece for me (4,5 stars)! Solomon has become one of my all time favourite songs and Jericho and Crying For Help IV are sublime. The only track I don't like very much on that album is the New Age-like Crying For Help III but overall those instrumental tracks give great variation to the album.
Pride and Pepper's Ghost are also very good albums (3,5 stars).
Great, great band!
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Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: December 09 2009 at 09:25
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...with such a great discography so far, this gives great expectaions for the band's upcoming album The Tinder Box!
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Posted By: rod65
Date Posted: May 06 2010 at 17:30
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Tough to decide between The Visitor and Contagion. My vote for the former was largely emotional: it was the album through which I discovered Arena, and I have a special attachment to it. As I type this, I've got Immortal? on my headphones.
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Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: May 06 2010 at 19:28
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It really could be any of them. But I'll give my vote to Songs From The Lions Cage, which is a personal favourite. Tracks like Out Of The Wilderness, Jericho or Solomon deserve some more recognition, hence, my vote to this amazing debut. |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: May 07 2010 at 05:20
| Always had a soft spot for Immortal? so that gets my vote. Must admit to not having heard their debut though. |
Posted By: dennis6876
Date Posted: June 20 2010 at 09:58
agree, the more i listen the better i like it. |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: June 20 2010 at 09:59
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The Visitor followed by Immortal? and Contagion. E ------------- 
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Posted By: Thandrus
Date Posted: September 14 2011 at 12:59
| The Visitor for me. Perfection, pure and simple. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 14 2011 at 16:34
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I only have the first four (seems I stopped one to soon), but of those The Visitor over Pride. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: October 01 2011 at 18:55
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I'll be an outcast and choose Pepper's Ghost. I'm honestly not sure why I enjoy that album more than the others... ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: October 02 2011 at 12:02
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