Lukaz wrote:
Maybe If I was there when it came out it would be different, I only bought it after I already knew all the other post-Eternity releases... ...
yeah probably.
It's like fans who discovered TG through Nighttime birds, and (much) before Mandylion... they usually prefer Nighttime Birds.
Well, Eternity will stay a masterpiece to me... (I don't want to know if it's because I'm an older fan than you... the older the better lol)
the Eternity songs were really unique (more unique than Pentecost III tunes) the first time I heard them. It's music art to me.
and it's still a gloomy doom music as Anathema was used to create before Alternative 4.
No more real art/gloomy/madness music then, the following albums are more "grand public" and less creative, and still Eternity inspirated (ex: Angelica/Angels walk Among us) but they are great too and differently but too constant, comparing the latest releases.
well, this is kinda psychology to me : What happened in peoples past or their environment conditionnate their future taste or affinity... and this is the same with music taste.
Actually I was already used to listen to raw/cheap/whatever productions released before it came out in nov 1996. A lot of goth/doomy/ raw stuffs (in 1992-1993 to be precised) ... some poor bands and whose production is even rawest than Eternity one.. and i still adore them today.
this is for sure the reason why I had no difficulty listening to and enjoying this album when it came out.
You can't force people to listen to raw stuffs. For example, I wouln''t recommend The Black Angels, The Warlocks albums to someone who enjoys only listening to The Gathering (Anneke era)/Pink Floyd/Dead Can Dance/Dream Theater/Massive Attack, whom pure and clean sound is so important to him (or her)
well, whatever our chatting, as Hans said usually, "this is a matter of taste, you have to like it" ahaha.. and he's right.