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HIM => Discussion => Topic started by: Daedalus on February 16, 2013, 11:43:04 AM
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We need to get some blood flowing in these here parts!
For funsies, let's rank the studio albums from personal favorite to least and if you are so inclined, explain. Show your work.
1. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
2. Razorblade Romance
3. Greatest Lovesongs
4. Venus Doom
5. Love Metal
6. Screamworks
7. Dark Light
616 edit: topic sticked 8)
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1. Tears On Tape
:o
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1. Love Metal
2. Razorblade Romance
3: Venus Doom
4: Screamworks
5. Dark Light
6. GLS
7. Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights
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1.Razorblade Romance
2.DSBH
3.GLS666
4.Love Metal
5.Venus Doom
6.Dark Light
7.Screamworks
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Greatest lovesongs vol 666 - 98% (loved every song on it, it is only too short so it is not 100%)
Razorblade Romance - 95% (loved every song except for heaven tonight
Deep Shadows - 85% - really great album, almost all the song, except for close to the flame, beautiful (album version)
Tears On Tape - i love all the songs except for Unleash the red and Lucivers chorale - really good album! 85%
Dark Light - 80% - for me great album, the most underrated one they did, i love every song except for dark light and the face of god, but the impression is really good because the bonuses are really great, venus in our blood is one of my favourite HIM songs
Love Metal - 79% - totally good album, i really love it but it is just 79/100 ,cant help it
Screamworks - 30 % - better than nothing, better than Venus Doom, but too soft, far from the His Infernal Majesty like hell, badly mixed, demos are better from what i heared to the day, Ode to solitude = the worst HIM chorus ,totally screwed song with it( and it could have been really great song), retarded album title.....
Venus Doom - 10% - i hate that album, their biggest mistake, so boring , songs are long without any reason, filled with "heavy" interludes and outros and it has totally retarded album cover with no HIM logo,name on it... wtf
% are the songs on the album i like compared to all the songs on the album + overal impression of the whole album
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In all seriousness...
1. Dark Light
2. Love Metal
3. Razorblade Romance
4. Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights
5. Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666
6. Venus Doom
7. Screamworks
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- Greatest Lovesongs
- Razorblade Romance
- Dark Light
- Venus Doom
- Love Metal
- Screamworks - D.S.B.H.
I like'em all, love the poetic lyrics in D.L., V.D. & Screamworks
The simplicity of DSBH
The metal riffs and dark vocals of greatestlovesongs
And R.R. for being the very first HIM album I ever heard
Love Metal is the album that I love and/or hate, it depends of my mood. Never like "Soul on fire" & "Buried alive..." ever
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1. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
2. Razorblade Romance
3. Love Metal
4. Venus Doom
5. Dark Light
6. Screamworks
7. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
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I didn't realize so many people put Dsbh so far down on their lists. No love, man.
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I didn't realize so many people put Dsbh so far down on their lists. No love, man.
i know what your saying because it was my favorite at one point but the album is to soft compared to the other albums. it was an experimental album and i remember hearing gas didnt like working on it.
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From what I understand, none of them enjoyed working on that album and it nearly brought them to the point of breaking up. I suppose that's one reason why they don't play DSBH songs live all that much nowadays. It's a shame. To me, it's the quintisential HIM album. You've got your "singles", you've got a straight up rocker, you've got ballads, and you've got atmosphere oozing all over the place. If there is someone out there that has never heard HIM before, you can have them listen to DSBH from start to finish and they will hear a variety of sides of the band.
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Probably changes every day (except for the 1 and 7 spot), but here it is today:
1) Love Metal
2) Screamworks (GASP!)
3) Razorblade Romance
4) Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
5) Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
6) Venus Doom
7) Dark Light
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1. Razorblade Romance
2. Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights
3. Dark Light
4. Love Metal
5. Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666
6. Venus Doom
7. Screamworks
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1.Razorblade Romance
2.Love Metal
3. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
4. GLV 666
5.Venus Doom
6.Scream Works
7. Dark Light ( I will say though I've been growing to appreciate this album much more lately, really growing on me.)
The first 5 I love equally, but more than the last two.
The last two of my list I love the same just not as much as the first five. But honestly I don't think they have a bad album. Considering what other shit there is put these days. I have a feeling #8 might jump to the top of this list very easily. Really good feeling.
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1. Love Metal - absolutely brilliant, 10/10
2. Greatest Lovesongs - 10/10
3. Venus Doom - 9.5/10
4. Razorblade Romance - 9/10
5. Screamworks - 9/10
6. Deep Shadows - 8.5/10
7. Dark Light - 8/10
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1. Venus Doom
2. Love Metal
3. Screamworks
4. Dark Light
5. Razorblade Romance
6. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
7. Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights
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1) Love Metal
2) Venus Doom
3) Screamworks
4) Razorblade Romance
5) Dark Light
6) Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights
7) Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
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1. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
2. Razorblade Romance
3. Love Metal
4. Screamworks
5. Venus Doom
6. Dark Light
7. Greatest Lovesongs Vol 666
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From what I understand, none of them enjoyed working on that album and it nearly brought them to the point of breaking up. I suppose that's one reason why they don't play DSBH songs live all that much nowadays. It's a shame. To me, it's the quintisential HIM album. You've got your "singles", you've got a straight up rocker, you've got ballads, and you've got atmosphere oozing all over the place. If there is someone out there that has never heard HIM before, you can have them listen to DSBH from start to finish and they will hear a variety of sides of the band.
I AGREE, for me is Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights absolutely N.1
2. Venus Doom
3. Razorblade Romance
4. Love Metal
5. Greatest Lovesongs Vol 666
6. Dark Light
7. Screamworks
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sweetsanna81: Zuzka z himsouls? 8)
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1. Love Metal
2. Tears On Tape
3. Razorblade Romance
4. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
5. Venus Doom
6. Dark Light
7. Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights
8. Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice
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1. Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666
2. Razorblade Romance
3. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
4. Tears on Tape
5. Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice
6. Love Metal
7. Venus Doom
8. Dark Light
Their first three albums make the definitive HIM experience.
In my view, Love Metal wrote the blueprint and laid the groundwork (that they will likely never stray from) for all following releases: Dark Light, Venus Doom, Screamworks, and Tears on Tape. In my opinion, Tears on Tape is their best album, “post-Deep Shadows”.
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Their first three albums make the definitive HIM experience.
In my view, Love Metal wrote the blueprint and laid the groundwork (that they will likely never stray from) for all following releases: Dark Light, Venus Doom, Screamworks, and Tears on Tape. In my opinion, Tears on Tape is their best album, “post-Deep Shadows”.
I agree with you on this one. After consideration this is my revised album ranking, although I could see Tears On Tape taking over the third spot over time:
1. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
2. Razorblade Romance
3. Greatest Lovesongs
4. Tears On Tape
5. Venus Doom
6. Love Metal
7. Screamworks
8. Dark Light
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Their first three albums make the definitive HIM experience.
In my view, Love Metal wrote the blueprint and laid the groundwork (that they will likely never stray from) for all following releases: Dark Light, Venus Doom, Screamworks, and Tears on Tape. In my opinion, Tears on Tape is their best album, “post-Deep Shadows”.
yeah i agree too
i already changed my previous post:
http://thesacrament.net/forum/index.php?topic=6165.msg132712#msg132712 (http://thesacrament.net/forum/index.php?topic=6165.msg132712#msg132712)
i think Tears On Tape is awesome album and i am pretty glad they are back ! 8)
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1.Screamworks:Love in Theory and Practice.
2.Razorblade Romance
3.Love Metal
4.Greatest Lovesongs Vol 666
5.Venus Doom
6.Tears On Tape
7.Dark Light
8.Deep Shadows
Yes I know Screamworks 1st, I just think lyrically it has something exceptional and the music fits perfectly with it.
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I don't dislike Screamworks. It's musically like a breezy summer's day, warm and airy. Venus Doom is a cool, dead fall night. Love Metal is a bleak winters day after snowfall. Deep Shadows is one of those cool, dark evenings between summer and fall.
Don't judge me, my brain just thinks up weird things.
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I don't dislike Screamworks. It's musically like a breezy summer's day, warm and airy. Venus Doom is a cool, dead fall night. Love Metal is a bleak winters day after snowfall. Deep Shadows is one of those cool, dark evenings between summer and fall.
Don't judge me, my brain just thinks up weird things.
I think about that kind of stuff all the time. I know exactly what you're talking about.
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I don't dislike Screamworks. It's musically like a breezy summer's day, warm and airy. Venus Doom is a cool, dead fall night. Love Metal is a bleak winters day after snowfall. Deep Shadows is one of those cool, dark evenings between summer and fall.
Don't judge me, my brain just thinks up weird things.
I like post like this, showing what our brains do with the imagination of the music.
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1 - Venus Doom
2 - Love Metal
3 - Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
4 - Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
5 - Razorblade Romance
6 - Screamworks
7 - Dark Light
** This rank isn't static. It changes... Depends on my mood and stage of my life.
The music is a special thing for the meaning we give to our lives... Probably "Tears on Tape" is on my Top 3 but it has been little time to judge it, I need time to give it a meaning on my life.
Deep Shadows is one of the most special of my life (for the meaning). Venus Doom is the soundtrack of my life, so special to me... Love Metal is the most mature album in my view, definitely a masterpiece. Greatest Lovesongs is a masterpiece too, When Love and Death Embrace is the most special song of my life. Razorblade Romance is the most overated album in my view... Screamworks and Dark Light aren't bad... but don't mean much to my life.
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1. Dark Light
2. Venus Doom
3. DSBH
4. Razorblade Romance
5. Screamworks
6. Tears on Tape
7. Love Metal
8. GLS 666
I know a lot of people dislike Dark Light but the lyrics and the music on that album are haunting and brilliant. It also was released at a time when I was taking a music appreciation class so I listened to it intently and fell hopelessly in love. Venus Doom for me came at a time when I broke up with someone I thought I would marry, so.... it just came at the right time in my life and was there to fill the hole in my heart. The rest really I couldn't really put in order because they are all special in their own ways.
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+1 for Dark Light
i think it is their most underrated album with DSBH
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Agreed. The music really compliments the lyrics and the combination of it all together really captures the essence of the songs....like the beginning of I Play Dead. It comes in all symphonic and then quiets while the lyrics are being sung, almost sounds ghostly in some parts ....it's hard to describe what I mean and I can't remember the term for it, but I hope you get what I mean. But I agree that the album is underrated.
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Agreed. The music really compliments the lyrics and the combination of it all together really captures the essence of the songs....like the beginning of I Play Dead. It comes in all symphonic and then quiets while the lyrics are being sung, almost sounds ghostly in some parts ....it's hard to describe what I mean and I can't remember the term for it, but I hope you get what I mean. But I agree that the album is underrated.
Play dead is one of my favorites songs!!! amazing song (beautiful lyrics and amazing music/sound + greatly mixed!).... take a look - http://thesacrament.net/forum/index.php?topic=6170.msg132843#msg132843 (http://thesacrament.net/forum/index.php?topic=6170.msg132843#msg132843)
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Play dead is one of my favorites songs!!! amazing song (beautiful lyrics and amazing music/sound + greatly mixed!).... take a look - [url]http://thesacrament.net/forum/index.php?topic=6170.msg132843#msg132843[/url] ([url]http://thesacrament.net/forum/index.php?topic=6170.msg132843#msg132843[/url])
Awesome! So glad to know I'm not alone. :P I love the whole album and never skip a song. There is just something about how it was mixed, I dunno.... I dig it.
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Play dead is an excellent song, but unfortunately it's been linked to bad memories. Now, whenever I listen to play dead, I just think of those memories. But it's still a great song, even if it does remind me of bad times.
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This is a VERY hard list to make, since I listen to them for different reasons. For example, I go to sleep listening to the soothing songs from DS&BH and I wake up to Venus Doom. Dark Light is played when I'm down, and RR when I'm feeling good. If I had to pick though, it'd be:
1) Razorblade Romance. Every song on this album is great and the whole album flows well. Also, was the first album I heard, thanks to a girl in middle school who let me borrow it, then told me I could have it! Best present ever!
2) Venus Doom. The only song I don't particularly care for is Song or Suicide but for me, Sleepwalking Past Hope makes up for it.
3) Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights. Love everything about it! It's such a relaxing album. There's no standout song on here for me, because I can't pick any of them over the other.
4) Dark Light. It holds great memories for me. Musically though, I can't stand Wings of a Butterfly anymore.
5) Love Metal. I believe it best showcases their abilities. Each member has the song they shine on. This would be the album I'd give to a friend to get them into HIM.
6) Tears on Tape. Great album but it's too short in album length and song length and it's the first album with basically, filler material on it. Though I do like Kiss The Void.
7) Greatest Love Songs, Vol. 666. I really dig the heaviness of this album and listen to it quite often but Don't Fear the Reaper kills it for me. I hate the female vocals in it and that damn keyboard note that drones through the last minute or more of the song is like needles to me.
8 ) Screamworks. This album just doesn't do much for me. I like Ode to Solitude, In the Arms of Rain, In Venere Veritas, Like St. Valentine, and Shatter Me With Hope, but this album seems bland to me. Even most of the acoustic performances are just average.
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1) Love Metal: Nothing can beat Love Metal. Is THE album. It has it all: Melodies, moods, atmosphere, fast rock, best lyrics ever and so on. Funeral of Hearts was the song that drag me to the HIM world and since that day it's been my fav song. I don't really listen to this album a lot, I think is good to breath and listen to it relaxed and all that. Last night I listened from BABL to Path and there's no doubt, I'm in love with this album.
2) Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice: I mistreated this album a lot. I used to underestimate it just because that American sound but hey, fuck that, really, I don't fucking care. It took me sooooome time to realise that there's no song on this album that I don't like. Every song on this album has a special meaning to me, it doesn't matter if the chorus is too un-HIM, at the end of the day is an album that the band is really proud of but it didn't sell well. I have really bad memories with this album, 2010 was my worst year, but now I can enjoy it. Heartkiller, Love the Hardest Way, ITAOR, Ode, Shatter Me, Acoustic Funeral... god. I love the sound of the drums here and it's a really great album for Burton.
3) Venus Doom: A masterpiece. It has atmosphere, poppy choruses, killer drums, it's fantastic. I love all the songs, maybe SOS is a bit filler but as a whole is perfect. It could have been my nº 2 but it's okay here aswell. Sleepwalking and Passion's are up in my HIM top 10.
4) Tears on Tape: I have mixed opinions. It's a great album but it's too short for its wait and has filler material which HIM doesn't need, but in the other hand there are tracks that are fucking gold. HAW, D&Q, WLSTD, the chorus on LWT. I expected more songs and more lenght but is a good album.
5) Razorblade Romance: This album is like having sex. It's energic, erotic, sensual, has some of the best basslines of HIM... Resurrection, Razorblade Kiss, OLT, DIILWU are great tracks but the studio version of Posion Girl, Join Me and RHIMA are a bit uninteresting.
6) Dark Light: It's a really good album and the b-sides Venus and The Cage are pure gold but songs like WOAB, Face of God and Drunk on Shadows are now a bit boring. I have great memories from this album but it has to be on the 6º spot, sorry Dark Light.
7) Deep Shadows and Brilliant Hightlights: Has great tracks like Heartache, Pretending or Beautiful but is really bland. I can see why they don't play tracks off from here, HEM should be played anyway. At first I loved it but as the years pass...
8 ) Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666: I usually don't really love the first album of some bands and with HIM there is no exception. I dig all the tracks but is the album I listen the least and I personally prefer the RR versions of 666 and Wicked.
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Ok i re-opened this thread after several months
it has been a quiet time last few months/weeks . So i hope you all guys will join this thread once again!
i was wondering, Tears on Tape is out almost 8 months now, its a long time to absorb the first impression and feelings of the album
What do you think about the ToT album after that time and hours and hours of listening, and what is your "rank the album" now ??
i can tell for myself that 2013 year was kinda odd, they performed very well, they had perfect sound, Ville was excellent (after the last years Helldone!) and the website is still just a piece of crap , the setlist was boring and the same, there is no complete full soundboard bootleg, no proshot live video ;D ;D ;D
my shit to this:
1.DSBH
(1.666)-And Love Said No (song) !
2.Razorblade
3.Tears On Tape
4.Dark Light
5.Gr8est luvsongs
6.Screamworks
7.Love Metal
8.Venus Doom
maybe this is suprising for someone, but i somehow stopped liking the Love Metal album and ToT went pretty high in my list
i am not excited about tot anymore like i was after the first listening, now i can tell that they really did a great job and ToT is pretty amazing (in my opinion), i never realized how easy going album it is and pretty melodic + i LOVE the artwork, this is by far my favorite booklet ever , i mean FVCK the lyrics in the booklet, the artwork is really ART now and it fits well to this album
few more days and Helldone is behind the door, lets see the setlist and maybe some oldies (i WANT them to play "The Sacrament" and "And Love Said No",..)
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1. Dark Light
2. Love Metal
3. Razorblade Romance
4. Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights
5. Screamworks
6. Tears On Tape
7. Venus Doom
8. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
It's always hard to rank the albums, but that's how they stand currently for me based on how much I listen to each nowadays. I've always been hard on Screamworks, and I rarely ever go back and listen to it, but I do so more often than the three albums listed below it.
As far as Tears On Tape goes, I still find it too short and uninspired for my liking. It gives off the impression that it was just thrown together quickly and without much thought just to get something new out there and see what would happen. It's still good, don't get me wrong. I've never heard a bad HIM song, which means there isn't such thing as a bad HIM album. I think the next album will be much better and more of what we accustomed to from the band, provided they have the money to put into making such a record.
I'm excited about Helldone, and I hope to see some nice changes made to the setlist. My only concern is that the changes won't be the changes I'm hoping for, or that they will revert back to the old setlist when they come here to the US. It's sort of bittersweet remembering back to what the old New Year's shows used to be like compared to how they are now. I hope they give it their all this time around. A rough version of a new song they're working on is probably too much to ask for, but some old favorites thrown back in that should've never been tossed out anyway, a new cover perhaps, and a song or two that have never been played live before would make me very happy, even if we get none of that when they play here in the US.
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You surprised me Cory with that Dark light on the first place ! thumbs up! 8) very good
yeah ToT is without any doubt a very short album, some bands mark these short albums like EPs only, or extended EPs , but nevermind ,at least something.
well i hope you guys will have better and changed setlist in the 2014 Tour (US and South America, Australia too), but its now pretty obvious that they will perform old hits like : wicked game, BABL, wings, join me, its all tears, RHIMA of course
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1. Dark Light
2. Screamworks
3. Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights
4. Razorblade Romance
5. Tears On Tape
6. XX- Two Decades of Love Metal
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Currently, I'd go with
1. Razorbalde Romance
2. Tears on Tape
3. Love Metal
4a. Screamworks
4b. Venus Doom
(I changed their places several times, so they get an A and B)
6. Deep Shadows
7. Dark Light
8. Greatest Lovesongs
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1. Dark Light
2. Screamworks
3. Venus Doom
4. Tears on Tape
5. Deep Shadows, Brilliant Highlights
6. Razorblade Romance
7. Love Metal
8. Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666
I think it's funny how after time you love one album so much then suddenly it falls by the wayside and something else takes its place, but for me I am still utterly in love with Dark Light and have yet to get sick of that album.
Love Metal for me just never ranks high....but it's not because I don't like the album- the whole thing is solid from beginning to end, but what honestly draws me in are the lyrics and that album just doesn't do it for me for some reason. LOL. Regardless, all of them are special to me and it is hard to list them in order of preference but it is what it is at this point...ha!
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i had a nice weekend with plenty of time , it was HOT outside like hell, no water nearby as i live so FAR from any sea, i decided to listen to every HIM album as they were released with all bonuses to it
i was not listening to HIM for a while (only when i played the guitar - but i have my own setlist so its different)
1. Razorblade Romance
1,5. And Love Said No
2. Dark Light
3. Deep Shadows
4. Tears On Tape
5. Greatest Lovesongs vol 666
6. Venus Doom
7. Love Metal
8. Screamworks
after all these years this is finally my list that is not based on actual mood and what i like at the moment, but i considered it, thought about every aspect of the album from the mixing, mastering, production, overall sound, booklet, song titles, album titles, artwork, lyrics and everything together this is the list how i think their albums are like
Razorblade Romance - simple - its their best because it has amazing produced sound, its well mixed and with all the bonuses (the 9th circle, sigillum,... ) its the album that made this band famous worldwide - no wonder, they were young, Ville was at his top with his voice and there are no boring parts on the album, and there is something that makes the band so awesome
And Love Said No song - this is by far one of their most underrated songs ever, this song has only disadvantage that it was released on the compilation, but i understand that, this song doesnt fit to the Dark Light, neither to Love Metal, it has extremely strong lyrics and the melody that is perfect, unique song, only minus is the music video that is kinda weird and not from their best videos
Dark Light - probably my favorite album, but not their best, they screwed a lot of important things on it - badly chosen singles! terrible choices + they should not have made Venus in our blood a bonus but single with Vampire Heart and The Face of God should have been made into the bonus song, but the album is well mixed, its very catchy, melodic
DSBH - i believe if they made this album as they wanted and not as the label forced them, i believe this would be their best work , amazing songs on this album
ToT-well mixed, no bonuses makes it kinda poor and short because of the album lenght
the rest - weaker albums, only love metal is very badly mixed , i dont like the sound of it at all
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1. Razorblade Romance
2. Deep Shadows
3. Love Metal
4. Greatest Lovesongs vol 666
5. Tears On Tape
6. Venus Doom
7. Screamworks
8. Dark Light
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1. Love Metal
2. Razorblade Romance
3. Tears on Tape
4. Dark Light
5. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
6. Greatest Lovesongs vol. 666
7. Screamworks
8. Venus Doom
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My updated list after listening to all of them lately and the excitement of Tears on Tape dying down.
1.Screamworks:Love In Theory In Practice- I know this is many peoples least favourite but for me at least, each song is perfect and i think lyrically it is by far the strongest and the music just compliments them. It contains my 2 absolutely favourite HIM songs in Scared to Death and Acoustic Funeral. It would take an absolutely incredible album to knock this from the top.
2.Razorblade Romance-There isn't a song i don't like on it, there isn't much to say, it's well produced, sounds great and the highlights for me would be Resurrection, Razorblade Kiss and BMDIYH.
3.Love Metal- Again all great songs and good variety between heavier songs and the softer ones.
4.Venus Doom-Another wonderful HIM album heavier again and Dead Lovers Lane is a favourite of mine.
5. GLS666- This would probably be at number 4 if it were a bit longer but For You and Our Diabolikal Rapture are very good and obviously WLADE.
6.Dark Light- The first HIM album i ever heard apart from ALSN(agree with you 616 it's a great song and the one that got me into HIM.) I just don't ever really listen to dark light too often anymore.
7.Deep Shadows- This is a love hate one for me i really like Please don't let it go, Pretending and Salt in our wounds. But i cannot stand Beautiful and i don't really like close to the flame and the others i don't really have a strong opinion on.
8. Tears on Tape- As i said i think it was a good idea to do this list again because in my previous attempt it was up a bit higher in 6th, for me the instrumental tracks ruin it, there just isn't enough material considering the break they took and what there is just doesn't do it for me.
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simple question, simple answer
1.Love Metal
2.Greatest Lovesongs vol.666
3. Tears on Tape
4. Venus Doom
5. Razorblade Romance
6. Dark Light
7. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
8. Screamworks
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1.Love Metal
2.GLS Vol.666
3.Razorblade Romance
4.Venus Doom
5.Tears On Tape
6.Dark Light
7.DS&BH
8. Screamworks
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1. Dark Light
2. Love Metal
3. Razorblade Romance
4. Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights
5. Screamworks
6. Tears On Tape
7. Venus Doom
8. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
Time for a bit of re-ranking.
1. Dark Light
2. Love Metal
3. Razorblade Romance
4. Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights
5. Venus Doom
6. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
7. Screamworks
8. Tears On Tape
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1.Love Metal
2.GLS Vol.666
3.Razorblade Romance
4.Venus Doom
5.Tears On Tape
6.Dark Light
7.DS&BH
8. Screamworks
I cannot decide which one is better, DL or ToT. Both are good so...
1.Love Metal
2.GLS Vol.666
3.Razorblade Romance
4.Venus Doom
5.Dark Light & Tears On Tape
6.DS&BH
7.Screamworks
Deep Shadows and Screamworks are very good albums too. For me it's hard to do a ranking of those albums so there you go xD
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(*) Uneasy Listening Vol. 1, And Love Said No, Again
1. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
2. Screamworks
3. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
4. Dark Light
5. Love Metal
6. Razorblade Romance
7. Venus Doom
8. Tears On Tape
Deciding 4-7 almost made my brain explode. Anyways I think Again is great and always overlooked. And The Heartless being my favorite HIM song (for now at least) bears a lot of weight, almost enough to tip spots 2 and 3 but not quite.
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(*) Uneasy Listening Vol. 1, And Love Said No, Again
1. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
2. Screamworks
3. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
4. Dark Light
5. Love Metal
6. Razorblade Romance
7. Venus Doom
8. Tears On Tape
Deciding 4-7 almost made my brain explode. Anyways I think Again is great and always overlooked. And The Heartless being my favorite HIM song (for now at least) bears a lot of weight, almost enough to tip spots 2 and 3 but not quite.
Which version of the heartless?
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Just the one from Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666. Although I love this video/listen to this one a lot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA6pFbovpZI# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA6pFbovpZI#)
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Just the one from Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666. Although I love this video/listen to this one a lot.
My favorite is the one from the 666 Ways To Love (EP) ... It's commonly referred as the 'Deleted Finnish Version' for some reason. http://youtu.be/96dpkoWynVs?t=54s (http://youtu.be/96dpkoWynVs?t=54s)
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Just the one from Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666. Although I love this video/listen to this one a lot.
My favorite is the one from the 666 Ways To Love (EP) ... It's commonly referred as the 'Deleted Finnish Version' for some reason. [url]http://youtu.be/96dpkoWynVs?t=54s[/url] ([url]http://youtu.be/96dpkoWynVs?t=54s[/url])
I had never heard this version before. At first it didn't catch me much but I started liking it more at around 3:45 (and the picture at 4:40 ;) ) I like it. Kiitos.
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Interesting topic!
Here is mine:
1. Razorblade Romance (what to say? the album that made me felt in love with the band)
2. Venus Doom (mainly for the musical side and the general mood, this album helps me to feel better when I feel down - And I love the guitar riffs)
3. Love Metal (to my opinion, their best work so far, the most complete one)
4. Screamworks (this album perfectly fits the way I drive, it's the one I listen to in my car)
5. Dark Light (weirdly, I never skip any song of this album)
6. GLS Vol.666 (took a lot of time to me to really appreciate it, I am "young" fan)
7. DS&BH (too much repetitive lyrics, a bit boring to me)
9. Tears on Tape (will always remains the last one to me, I got no feeling, no emotion by listening to that album. The lyrics are way to far from the previous ones. And I hate the new keyboard sounds, the acoustic guitar in every chorus...)
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Holy crap, this is difficult. But I'll give it a go!
1. Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights -My first HIM experience, and I'm still in love with it.
2. Screamworks -This album, lyrics in particular, got me through a really tough time in my life. That's all there is to it.
3. Venus Doom -I think Ville does some of his best vocal work here. The arrangement of the vocal lines absolutely blows my mind.
4. Tears on Tape -I really do love this album. It has all the perfect elements of HIM for me, but it feels less cohesive than my top 3.
5. Love Metal -Classic. I feel bad putting this lower on the list, but it just hasn't affected me the way some of the other albums have.
6. Greatest Lovesongs vol. 666 -I hate ranking this one, but here it is.
7. Razorblade Romance -It's fun and I do appreciate it, but it's not a great example of why I love this band.
8. Dark Light -Meh. I have always liked a few songs, but in general I just don't ever find myself wanting to listen to the album as a whole.
Side note: I am forever angry that And Love Said No is not on a proper album, because it's easily in my top 5 songs list.
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This my order i think. i listened first RR but first album is my fav. i this this is the nearest sound to a "Love Metal" as Genre :P
1.- GLS666+EP
2.- Razorblade Romance
3.- Love Metal
4.- Venus Doom
5.- DSBH
6.- Tears on Tape
7.- Dark Light
8.- Screamworks
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This is hard to choose but, at the moment, this is my order:
1 - Love Metal (The most complete Album for me, awesome hard/soft songs with excelent lyrics, the order of the songs work good too and sound awesome live, Nr. 1)
2 - Greatest Love Songs vol. 666 (The Album that made me fall in love with their music, miss this "HIM sound" and this kind of vocals)
3 - Venus Doom - (what can I say? I can feel Ville´s pain and angry in the entire album, very personal songs but he gives it all out and that´s what I like)
4 - Razorblade Romance (I don´t know what to say, it has Heaven Tonight, not a favourite of me, but I love the Album)
5 - Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights (The album has the sound of not being very good prepared but it´s one of my favourites because I love the live versions of the songs, and that´s it)
6 - Dark Light (Good songs but I don´t identify all of them with HIM, but I like a lot of the vocals on this one)
7 - Tears on Tape (Has too much instrumental sound, that bores me)
8 - Screamworks (It has good songs I admit, but all the album has a lot of screams, I do like when he pushes his range, but not like this) This Album works fine with me when I´m angry or when I need to say something to someone and I can´t, I scream my lungs out with it!
At the end of the day, I love all of them...
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1. Love Metal - This one has sealed its place. It's my first memories and impressions of HIM, what got me into the band and rock music in general, and the sound I see as most representative of HIM. Plus, besides the emotional part, I consider it their peak: it's both powerful and sentimental, lots of different influences are integrated into something unique, and the lyrics are no less than excellent (Ville seems to start having a much deeper understanding of what the heavy stuff he likes to sing about really mean).
2. Venus Doom - This album sounds best when you wake up in the middle of the night and can't sleep again. Feeling depressed like hell also enhances the experience. I must have done this over 100 times.
3. Razorblade Romance - Their strongest album and, as said before me, it's fun. Real good let's-paint-our-nails-black-and-play-some-fucking-rock-music fun.
4. GLS666 (+ the EP's preceding it) - Ah, the raw energy and innocence I find captivating in many bands' first works, even if it's not their finest. There was serious potential behind those semi-confident vocals and fuzzy guitars (and HIM sure lived up to that).
5. Screamworks - Lots of little gems here. The "light" seems to have gained a bit of ground against the "dark", and this album leaves a hopeful aftertaste unlike their previous stuff. Just some songs feel like they should (and could) have been longer.
6. Tears on Tape - Quite mature - and maybe a bit safe. I do enjoy listening to it and see nothing wrong with it, it's just nothing too groundbreaking or exciting. Then again something tells me I'm going to appreciate it a lot more in the future.
7. Dark Light - The first times I listened to it it sounded to me like what a longtime HIM tribute band would play if they started writing their own songs. It has some pretty catchy tunes and great lyrics, it's probably just the whole "americanization" thing that weirds me out (also, that's just a pet peeve of mine, but I hate how that's when they started using song titles as album titles).
8. DSBH - I don't think I'll ever really get this album. It's nice to listen to, and I'll listen to the whole thing from the first song to the last (as I do with all HIM albums), but... yeah. Never did much for me.
Overall this was extremely hard to do as, the way I see it, no 2 HIM albums are alike (and that's one of the main reasons they're still my favourite band). Each has its own charm, and to be honest, except for numbers 1 and 8, any album can easily move higher or lower.
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(*) Uneasy Listening Vol. 1, And Love Said No
1. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
2. Screamworks
3. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
4. Dark Light
5. Venus Doom
6. Razorblade Romance
7. Love Metal
8. Tears On Tape
Deciding 4-7 almost made my brain explode. And The Heartless being my favorite HIM song (for now at least) bears it a lot of weight therefore a higher spot, spots 1 and 2 are super close.
Just flip-flopped 5 and 7, and DSBH and Screamworks are getting very close to tied.
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1. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
2. Razorblade Romance
3. Love Metal
4. Venus Doom
5. Dark Light
6. Screamworks
7. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
Tears on Tape at 5, everything else the same.
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Dang! This is what I posted back in 2013 as my order for albums. I had no idea so much time had passed by.....
1. Dark Light
2. Venus Doom
3. DSBH
4. Razorblade Romance
5. Screamworks
6. Tears on Tape
7. Love Metal
8. GLS 666
And here is how I would order them today:
1. Dark Light
2. Screamworks
3. Tears on Tape
4. Venus Doom
5. DSBH
6. Razorblade Romance
7. GLS 666
8. Love Metal
I don't know why but Love Metal has never ranked that high with me. I think it's the lyrics - for some reason I don't connect with them as well as other albums. I love Love's Requiem and Endless Dark but the other songs somehow just don't grab me as much as everyone else.
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1. Love Metal
2. Tears On Tape
3. Razorblade Romance
4. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
5. Venus Doom
6. Dark Light
7. Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights
8. Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice
I kinda want to update mine as well now before the next album.
1. Love Metal
2. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
3. Razorblade Romance
4. Tears On Tape
5. Venus Doom
6. Deep Shadows
7. Dark Light
8. Screamworks
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(*) Uneasy Listening Vol. 1
1. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
2. Screamworks
3. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
4. Dark Light
5. Venus Doom
6. Razorblade Romance
7. Love Metal
8. Tears On Tape
Deciding 4-7 almost made my brain explode. And The Heartless being my favorite HIM song (for now at least) bears it a lot of weight therefore a higher spot, spots 1 and 2 are super close.
Just flip-flopped 5 and 7, and DSBH and Screamworks are getting very close to tied.
(*) Uneasy Listening Vol. 1
1. Screamworks- Think I have been lying to myself for a while now and this should have been my numero uno for quite a while. This is the album I sing along to most. Most challenging of their albums for me vocally. I also think lyrically this is Valo's best.
2. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights- A nice mellow mood. I would listen to this one before sleeping, helped chase some of the nightmares.
3. Venus Doom- This one makes me think of Halloween and autumn. And when I watched Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, the layers of hell.
4. Dark Light- I love the gothic vibe from this one. Visually in my mind this album is the darkest coloring, like a cemetery on a rainy day.
5. Razorblade Romance
6. Love Metal
7. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
8. Tears On Tape- HIM songs are never short on gloomier types of emotions but for some reason this album comes across as the "bluest" to me which I guess means I think the title is a great fit lol.
Just moved everything around.
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My rankings (or rather more like groupings):
1. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 - Textbook example of the perfect album. Every track stands on its own, 11/10, but they all blend together so, so cohesively. It's devilishly decadent; this is what comes to mind when I think of "Heavy HIM". Ville is in his vocal prime, and the lyrics don't need to be overly poetic. I'm such a sucker for this doomy gloomy gothic crooning.
1.5. 666 Ways To Love: Prologue - Sticking Dark Sekret Love and Stigmata Diaboli onto the regular track listing of GLS Vol. 666 would have been too good for this world. Also love the demos.
2. Razorblade Romance - This album is simply a whole lotta fun, it can be tongue-in-cheek in almost a TON way but also has so many beautiful tracks like GWTS, OLT, and BMDIYH. Ville just oozes sex appeal with his little gasps and "my darling"s and Linde mirrors with his guitar. Near perfection in a different way than GLS, the only track I'm not head over heels with is Heaven Tonight.
Here the albums become much, much harder to rank...
3. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights - The instrumentation is a little questionable at times on a few tracks (Salt in our Wounds and those drums on Please Don't Let It Go???), but it has a lot of my favourites as well. Gorgeous vocals. A few tracks toe the line into the filler territory for me, but maybe I need to listen to them more.
4. Love Metal - There are some undeniable classics on this one with amazing vocals, instrumentation, and production. Also a few that toe the filler line (admittedly less than DSBH, but it ranks lower because In Joy and Sorrow and Pretending are two of my faves)
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5. Dark Light - Very catchy songs and a great introduction to the Americanized "New HIM", but the lyrics start to get pretty dang cheesy, and in a different way than on RR
6. Tears On Tape - This was very hard to rank. I love every single song when they stand alone, but as an album it sounds very safe and repetitive. The verse/chorus progression is basically the same on most of the tracks, and Ville's vocals lack power in some parts. I really love the nod to their RR sound, some songs could definitely fit in that era if you toned down the acoustic and if Ville got to work with his voice.
7. Venus Doom - Experimenting with a heavier, grittier sound paid off pretty well. Tons of instant classics, though the production sounds messy at times. I still wish that "heavier" meant going back to the GLS sound.
And, finally...
8. Screamworks - Even though I have some gripes with all the middle-ranked albums above, I still love them dearly and they get very frequent play-throughs. I've tried hard to love Screamworks the same way, but it just doesn't jive with me at all. The lyrics are a little cringe-worthy to me, and I'm not a fan of the poppy instrumentation. None of the songs really stand out as classics to me.
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1. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
2. Love Metal
3. Greatest Lovesongs
4. Razorblade Romance
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I'm new and this is my first post. I'm not entirely sure how to use the site yet so go easy on me please :)
1. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights - I honestly think this album is criminally underrated by most people. Yes, it's slightly poppy, but it still has a dark and atmospheric feel (if I wanted something to be really heavy I would listen to something more extreme. Heaviness does not equal better). Each song on this album touches my heart in a different way, it's very sentimental to me and I often listen to this album with my partner at night. P.S This doesn't affect the quality of the album but The End Records' double-LP coloured vinyl is easily the best looking him vinyl too.
2. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 - The sound is so raw and heavy, yet Ville sounds so calm and smooth throughout the majority of the record. It's an amazing effect, almost like The Doors on crack and modernized. This album is the first HIM album I bought aside from And Love Said No, and I remember planning to listen to this whilst playing a game... I was so in love with the music that I didn't end up doing anything other than sitting and taking in the music. Unlike other fans I really enjoy the addition of the female vocals that are featured in Don't Fear the Reaper. Such a great cover.
3. Dark Light - I really like this album despite people calling it HIM's sellout record. I might be shot for this but Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly is actually one of the best tracks by HIM in my opinion and also happens to be the first song I heard; in the back of my friend's car with the volume cranked high, the second chorus gave me chills that I still get to this day. As a lot of you have stated, the bonus tracks on this album are really good, never thought I would hear a Ramones song sound like this. In the Nightside of Eden is also a very appropriate album closer too, if you're listening to the regular version of the album. P.S It took me well over a year to get my hands on the vinyl edition of this album!
4. Love Metal - This album is a classic. I think it is probably the album you would lend someone to introduce them to the band. Sweet Pandemonium has one of the most beautiful hooks I've ever heard, the intro riff is amazing. I do prefer some of the live presentations of these songs (Soul on Fire mainly) that can be found on Digital Versatile Doom. I can really credit this album for variety as there is a lot of songs that represent both ends of the band's spectrum. P.S I am quite annoyed that the 'gold' vinyl edition by The End Records isn't really gold. I was so disappointed with that.
5. Tears on Tape - I'm a little shocked that some people rank this the lowest, I really like Tears on Tape and only wish it was longer. I think this is definitely one of the heavier albums by the band, it's so low and bassy which I think suits the songs well. I don't think it's fair that people mark the instrumentals as 'filler' as I believe that's missing the bigger picture; these help build tension, atmosphere and add to the flow of the record. They're not designed for you to listen to them alone but that doesn't mean they are worthless or detract from the record as a whole. This album was really a big comeback for the band in my eyes.
6. Razorblade Romance - I love this album but I do wonder why it's widely considered the definitive HIM album, I feel like it's not what the band stand for and doesn't represent what they are about too well... Although it's a great record still and it's very fun. A gripe I have with the songs is that the demo versions mostly sound better in terms of vocals, Ville sounds far better and I wish he had sung similarly on the final takes. It sounds like I'm bashing the album a bit but I do enjoy it a lot, I just know that if it weren't for the flaws mentioned it could've been one of the best works by the band.
7. Venus Doom - I think there's nothing wrong with this record at all, I just prefer the others for whatever reason I can't put my finger on. There's really cool sampling on this album, such as the children screaming on roller coasters being used within the title track. It sounds authentic. For better or for worse I think this album is probably the least diverse HIM album, which I don't mind too much. Of course, Sleepwalking Past Hope is one of the main attractions here and there's good reason for it. The song is so grand, I feel like the song naturally ended up as long as it is and the band didn't force its length for the sake of it. Something that could've been differently here was definitely Linde's solos, because aside from a couple of exceptions I feel like they're very rushed and 'standard'. P.S The fact that this album never made it to vinyl irritates me greatly.
8. Screamworks - I think that it's become very 'cool' to hate on this album, and quite frankly I don't think that's fair. It's my least favourite HIM album but it is still a great album because HIM have never made a truly bad song in my opinion. Arms of Rain and Like St. Valentine do happen to be a couple of my favourite HIM tracks, and I think they're the highlights of the album. Though I enjoy every moment of the album, I do question a couple of single choices; mostly Heartkiller, which is a killer song but I feel like another song instead could've made for a radio hit.
Not including them as they're not studio albums but I'd like to express the fact that Uneasy Listening 1 & 2 kind of annoy me. There is some great material here but the amount of tracks that are just B sides from the singles bugs me. I feel like if the important tracks from both albums were taken and placed onto just one release instead of two, this could've been far better. Opportunity missed in my view.
Apologies if anyone thinks my views are poor :)
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New here!
Currently:
1. Love Metal
Favourite Song: Fortress Of Tears
2. Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights
Favourite Song: Please Don't Let It Go
3. Razorblade Romance
Favourite Song: One Last Time
4. Screamworks
Favourite Song: Katherine Wheel
5. Dark Light
Favourite Song: In The Nightside Of Eden
6. Venus Doom
Favourite Song: Sleepwalking Past Hope
7. Greatest Lovesongs
Favourite Song: When Love And Death Embrace
8. Tears On Tape
Favourite Song: Tears On Tape
Love Metal has been my favourite HIM album since 2005, when I first heard it. But I find greatness in every album, although in Tears On Tape that greatness is limited to two songs.
Venus Doom has an absolutely perfect opening run of songs, until Dead Lovers Lane. The album nosedives from there.
Screamworks is very underrated. Some days it is my favourite album purely because of the melodic goodness, but it lacks the haunting vibe of the classic early albums.
Aside from Tears On Tape, every HIM album is either a masterpiece or close to being one.
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Its hard because i always listen to HIM songs in random order from every album, but i tried:
1. Razorblade romance
2. Love metal
3. GLS666
4. DSBH
5. Venus Doom
6. Tears on Tape
7. Dark Light
8. Screamworks (no i don't hate it! but it had More potention)
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1. Venus Doom (This album is a masterpiece.)
2. Razorblade Romance
3. Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
4. Dark Light
5. Love Metal
6. Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice
7. Tears on Tape
8. Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
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1. VD
2. Love Metal (vinnfox relics)
3. Dark Light
4. DSABH/GLSV666
5. RR
6. ToT
7. SW