THE HUMAN EQUATION

What the crap is this! I thought when I first stuck in Ayreon's Human Equation CD to find Day One: Vigil with Wife and Best Friend talking to each other. I thought it was pretty weird then song number two came on with Day Two: Isolation and threw me for a loop when James Labrie's voice came floating in as the character Me! I'm a die hard Dream Theater fan and I was thrown for a loop when I was listening to the CD and caught Jame's voice I had to double check my hearing. Though I thought this was weird I continued to go through the CD and found this to now be one of my absolute favorite CDs of all. The story is awsome and the music is even better with the new combination of people he brought in, like Opeth's vocals, Devin Townsend, and others.

Day One: Vigil - 4/5 good begining to the album with wife and best friend talking over it's a good minute and a half for what it is.

Day Two: Isolation - 5/5 the song that threw me for a loop when James came in and is still a good song as he falls farther into his coma to meet all the emotion people! It's good and for all the cast Arjen has he does good and not letting it sound all dialogeish. The song is awsome! Near about 7 minutes the synthesizer remindes me of Pink Floyd on the album Dark Side of the Moon!

Day Three: Pain - 5/5 this song is my absolute favorite song on the entire album! I usually can't stand screaming at all! Gives me headaches most of the time but the way Arjen puts Townsend into the picture with his unmerciful screams (which I usually can't stand) it throws the song into powerful emotion that I absolutely adore and listen to alot! One of my favorites!

Day Four: Mystery - 5/5 good song to listen to and really good when Arjen uses the acoustic most of the way through. Love it, it has a really interesting chorus and whatnot. Freakin' sweet!

Day Five: Voices - 5/5 I love this song! it's so good and just rocks all the way to the top of the hill! The way it breaks out then goes to the darker side and it's just a freakin sweet song.

Day Six: Childhood - 4/5 an interesting song that's actaully really good with great music composition about Me's childhood and how his father was pretty much a f****t and never liked him. This song is good!

Day Seven: Hope - 5/5 this 2.4 minute short song is awsome, about teenage hood as I've always seen it as. But it's just good in every way! Reminds me of high school so much! It's sweet, not much more to say.

Day Eight: School - 5/5 I was thrown for a loop when I heard this song when it broke out with the heavy yelling. When it broke out I totally was not expecting and Arjen once again did a really good job and making the music so I really wasn't annoyed by the screaming as well. He makes it slightly brief but still is very emotional to get the message through the point.

Day Nine: Playground - 4/5 an really good and short instrumental strating with kids on the playground then breaking out halfway through. I like it a lot.

Day Ten: Memories - 4/5 good song, funny lyrics I thought, enjoyable all the same I really liked it cause it put Me in the place.

Day Eleven: Love - 5/5 love this song, made a single, dang freakin' good as well! awsome chorus! I love what Agony is saying the whole time!

Day Twelve: Truama - 4/5 good song, cool music, and interesting lyrics but Mr. Mikael was allowed to growl by Arjen (Arjen asked him to). I love is soft voice but whenever Mikael breaks out his voice number 2 I usually loose all appeal towards his music, though it is short and brief to not totally loose my interests. It's talented yes, and I respect the ability to be able to do that, It's just not in my tastes at all. So I find that degrading and also the scream that breaks it out at the begining, but it's still good.

Day Thirteen: Sign - 5/5 good soft song that has love singing rather lovely in a way. It's good with James coming in and wife and best friend singing together at the end.

Day Fourteen: Pride - 5/5 this song is really, really good with a good heavy beat and power to it! This is just a really good song altogether that rocks and rocks!

Day Fifteen: Betrayal - 5/5 agonizing song that really gets moving towards the song at the end. I love the end of the song the most. With the synthesizer movement that really has a good drumming beat.

Day Sixteen: Loser - 5/5 ha ha ha!!! I laughed so hard during this song! Arjen really threw some interesting lyrics together with some sweet music! And a didgereedoo (spelling?)! The singer is really good too! The screaming at the end could be annoying but it fits the mood of the song to well that makes it more enjoyable though I'd prefer a little different. Still what an awsome song with a crazy solo in the middle....

Day Seventeen: Accident? - 5/5 the truth comes out! But I won't tell you to much about the reason behind the coma..... I've already said to much. But the song is cool with an awsome melody in true prog metal!

Day Eighteen: Realization - 5/5 majority is instrumental but Me wants to break out! So it's pretty good with the vocals at the end but having most of the great musical talent Mr. Arjen puts together really good!

Day Nineteen: Disclosure - 5/5 pretty much a really good song to wrap things up in the real world. Love it because it has really, really good strutcure in the song to it. Best Friend and Wife and Me all talk together to free themselves of all the begining troubles.

Day Twenty: Confrontation - 5/5 holy goodness, what a close for an album! I love this song, even Mikael's totally improvised scream was welcomed. It put in emotion that I liked all the same! Plus the little bonus at the very, very, very end that we all want to hear! Yep, it's pretty cool indeed, but you'll have to listen to catch it!

Altogether this is a Progressive Metal masterpiece! Buy it I would have to say. This album is so worth it right now! I can only recommend and I'd have to say it's a prog masterpiece and you should buy and listen, I hope you wont be disapointed because it rocks!