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TexasKing
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Topic: Prog metal albums battle Posted: November 05 2016 at 16:40 |
The album of your choice is? My choice is definitely Operation Mindcrime and I like the other one.
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Posted: November 05 2016 at 17:42 |
No idea why Operation Mindcrime is even considered prog (doesn't make it good or bad necessarily). Easily Images and Words, and I'm not even a particularly big fan of DT. A lot of 80's metal is rather dull to me, and Queenscryche is no exception.
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Posted: November 05 2016 at 21:49 |
Mindcrime
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Posted: November 06 2016 at 05:09 |
Op Mindcrime... by lightyears man...
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Posted: November 06 2016 at 05:58 |
I'm not into metal, and I've only know Images and Words, so no vote from me.
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Posted: November 06 2016 at 08:15 |
DT easily
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Posted: November 06 2016 at 09:10 |
Operation : MindcrimeWe're an underground revolution Working overtime Operation : Mindcrime There's a job for you in The system boy, with nothing to sign
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Posted: November 06 2016 at 11:00 |
Images and Words is very good. Some really exceptional songs and some songs I don't care about or even rather dislike, as with most DT albums. But I've still got to hear Operation Mindcrime. I guess getting some Queensryche and Fates Warning is my next step in Prog Metal (besides getting some more Devin Townsend ).
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micky
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Posted: November 06 2016 at 11:06 |
psstt.... do Symphony X next..... they smoke DT....
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Posted: November 06 2016 at 11:19 |
Operation Mindrime. I much prefer Awake over Images and Words.
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A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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Posted: November 06 2016 at 11:55 |
Even if I don't listen to Dream Theater for 15 years or so, I still prefer Images & Words to Operation Mindcrime. But if you ask me, I will rather go and listen to Voivod's Nothing Face or Angel Rat...
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Dellinger
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Posted: November 06 2016 at 20:25 |
micky wrote:
psstt.... do Symphony X next..... they smoke DT....
| What I have heard from Symphony X does just about nothing for me. I got first Iconoclast, which was the last album they had released when I bought it, and so it was available at the local store and had been reading several reviews from it and I found no song at all that I really liked. Then, since they are usually considered the second Prog Metal act (at least from USA) to check out after Dream Theater, I thought I should give them another try, and ordered The New Mythology Suite, since it's their best rated album... and still nothing. Well, Communion and the Oracle is very nice, but still there's tons of DT stuff I like much better. However, it's not like I hated them, they just didn't click with me... actually I believe DT have much more annoying songs that the most annoying I heard from Symphony X... but they also have songs I really love beyond anything I could expect SX being able to release.
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Posted: November 06 2016 at 23:42 |
Dellinger wrote:
Images and Words is very good. Some really exceptional songs and some songs I don't care about or even rather dislike, as with most DT albums. But I've still got to hear Operation Mindcrime. I guess getting some Queensryche and Fates Warning is my next step in Prog Metal (besides getting some more Devin Townsend ). |
Queensryche went downhill fast after Promised land (1994), the only albums of theirs I can recommend is Tribe (2003) and the two albums with the new vocalist.
Fates Warning with Ray Alder is worth exploring first, I rarely listen to their US Power years with John Arch (their first two albums are Iron Maiden influenced ).
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Posted: November 07 2016 at 06:13 |
Mindcrime by a hair.
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Welcome to the middle of the film.
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Posted: November 07 2016 at 06:20 |
DT for me
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Prog On!
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Posted: November 07 2016 at 12:23 |
DT for me
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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.
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b_olariu
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Posted: November 09 2016 at 12:58 |
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
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Posted: November 09 2016 at 13:28 |
I think Mindcrime is the better album as a metal album but DT has the better prog album. They're both classics though. Love em both
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