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Poll Question: which album should I buy?[out of the ones I dont have]
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    Posted: September 22 2007 at 11:05
ive gathered up fifteen pounds over the last two weeks and am deciding which symphony x album I should get that I dont have. I already have:
symphony X
 V the new mythology suite
paradise lost
 
 
 Your advice would be much appreciated or you could suggest to me some of the solo projects various members have done-i dont know about any of them
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Great someone out there wants to listen to Symphony X! Great band, dude!

With eyes closed, you ought to buy the materpiece The Divine Wings Of Tragedy. First class (Power) Prog Metal!! Clap
Then The Odyssey, which is more metallish, and Twilight In Olympus, which are still very prog. I feel The Damnation Game is for fans, I love the band and I like it very much.
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haven't heard the others... but I loved The Divine Wings of Tragedy.  
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First get Divine Wings, then The Odyssey ... then Twilight in Olympus. Of course you'll need Damnation Game too ... Big%20smile
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

First get Divine Wings, then The Odyssey ... then Twilight in Olympus. Of course you'll need Damnation Game too ... Big%20smile
 
 
^^^ exactly like the man says...Wink
 
but here's a thought... you're in the UK, and the almighty £ is very strong at the moment, especially against the dollar.... click onto Amazon, and check out the prices through Caiman or ImportCDs; I bet £15 will currently get you 2 of those titles, AND pay the P&P too!
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^ of course ... here are some offers:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00012BD0S/ref=dp_olp_2/026-6479945-1183629?ie=UTF8&qid=1190481226&sr=8-2

I'd recommend either import_cds or caiman ... they've never given me any trouble. Even including shipping you shouldn't pay more than 8 pounds for each CD.


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thankyou for the advice-and thanks for telling me about how much cheaper it is on amazon ill get divine wings of tragedy and then odyssey-my birthdays in a week so ill get loads of money hopefully and ill be able to afford a few of the others like damnation game. Thanks alot
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Divine Wings.... and Twilight.... are the best of those, dont think much of The Odyssey and havnt heard the first two and live SX albums.
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The Odyssey is wicked. I've only heard the title track, but it was an amazing blend of video game music and crazy prog metal, with a few soft interludes.
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^ It's also their heaviest album - some songs are quite thrashy, not unlike to what Dream Theater did on Train of Thought.
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Well I can't speak for the rest of the album, only the title track. (Which wasn't particularly trashy as I recall.)
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^ the riffs in the middle sections are quite thrashy ... a definitive nod to Megadeth and Metallica - and to their predecessors (Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate etc.).Cool
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twilight in olympus or  the divine wings both of those are for me fine examples of good and honest work
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Definitely get Divine Wings first. But only do that if you never want to listen to your other Symphony X albums ever again, because that's what is going to happen. It's that good.
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Divine Wings of Tragedy is more Cheesy then The Odyssey.
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Twilight and Divine Wings. Some of the bands best songs are on those ones!
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such a band requires everything some stuff is better than other stuff  pending on mood I'd start with The Damnation Game and work from there  to get a clear picture of what symph x is really all about.  Their best CD from the list is probably "Divine wings of Tragedy"  if you can afford to get both together . Tongue


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i think they're all great, but divine wings of tragedy is a masterpiece. i think it's the best thing they've done, so i would go with that first. however, i recommend getting all their albums, because they are a great band. 
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Originally posted by Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote:

The Odyssey is wicked. I've only heard the title track, but it was an amazing blend of video game music and crazy prog metal, with a few soft interludes.

the Odyssey is an excellent song, its just the rest of the album that I have a problem with. Its effetively the same as Divine Wings and Twilight but with a worse bass player.
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote:

The Odyssey is wicked. I've only heard the title track, but it was an amazing blend of video game music and crazy prog metal, with a few soft interludes.

the Odyssey is an excellent song, its just the rest of the album that I have a problem with. Its effetively the same as Divine Wings and Twilight but with a worse bass player.


I like very much Miller's work, he's more imaginative. Clap And the sound on Divine Wings is great, I think it's a fretless, but I'm not sure. Also, a fretless for metal is kinda odd.
And about Lepond, I have problems trying to distinguish his bass from the rest of the music when I try to play a SX song.

I just remembered when they came here like 3 months ago, around the middle of the concert, a bass/guitar duel showed me the great technique Lepond has! Clap
It was funny, it semmed like a Lepond - Romeo competence. LOL
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