METROPOLIS PART 2 - SCENES FROM A MEMORY

After years, im givin this one a try again. The album that let me stop to wait for a dream theater release forever. I remember, when i listened the first time to Falling into infinity it was on a recorded cassette, that my old gf gave me... When I listened to it I just thought "What's this s**t????". So I was waiting for the next release, as a die hard fan myself too. So one day my best friend came at home with something in his hands. Metropolis Part II. I thought wow, let's listen to it. When i listened to Overture, i thought "Well, dream theater are back it seems", apart for some ridiculus moment in the song. Then the second track. I thought it was a little strange, with iteresting moments, but... boring and bloated. Well, I listened to the rest of the album just looking to my friend that did the same he did when we listened for the first time to falling into infinity. We were running circles with our thumbs. Now Im listening again to it, and im surely more mature. Well... Overture have its moments... but i still find some pieces ridiculous. Then comes Strange dejavu... interesting chorus... but what about the rest? boring, full of cliches.... Then I can enjoy the slow moment but... it lasts for 1 minute! The next song is terrible... It goes for some minutes of boring verse/chorus/bridge/whatsoever and culminate in a ridiculous solo moment... please, stop that solo! and please someone kicks rudess and erase his ridiculous sounds from his keyboard! When it stops i said "Yeah!" but then I said "Pleaseeeeeee i want the solo again!!!!!". The most ridiculous riff in Dream Theater history, and one of the most ridiculous of the last year surely. The song continues in weak moments, unuseful riffs, and of course the superriff of the beginning of the song repeated sometimes.Unlistenable.And then what??? Jordan Rudess with his ridiculous sound soloing over a variation of the superriff. I want to die. And then John doing his unuseful solo. And then Rudess again. please.. please..have they listened to the 8.45 part before producing?? at 9.05 it gets worst, and i thought that was impossible. Why bloat a song with unuseful (and ugly) solos?? And then the mellow part, unuseful of course... but after the stupid soloing is a pleasure. Wow, they take the slow part introduced in track 4, that could be maybe a good idea like pieces of art like space dye vest or Wait For Sleep... but no, let's do a pop song like Hollow years. As prog as.. dunno, it's like george michael (i wrote it random, sorry if i spelled it wrong). Home starts with arabic influences + some sitar... And then proceeds with some boring riff... Wow, I enjoy a little piece but... Lol, it's just a rearshal of old material! And then it goes boring again. Let's listen the solo.... Argh. Rudess. Ridiculous melodies, ridiculous sounds. Im not talking of his past works... but with dream theater... God save us from him. After the song rewinds, rearshal, arabic, boring. Ugly. Dance of eternity... I thought i'd have enjoyed this one... Boring till 2.30 where it becomes ridiculous. Please, kill Rudess and his circus like things. Then some unuseful solo... and boring and unuseful riffing. Ugly sounds. The worst instrumental of dream theater at the date they recorded this cd. Then begins "one last time", that, without the ridiculous riff that's in the middle, is quite audible, but certainly not over the top. Then an average pop song, the spirit carries on, that culminate in some decent soloing... but... Where's dream theater??? Im yawning. Wow, some unuseful solo again. Yawn. Let's listen to the last track, it could be a surprise. Well not a great surprise, but they go much better for me in this one. nothing impressive, but at least there are some good melodies, and it's not as boring as the other songs.

So, we have an album with a few good moments, bloated with ugly solos, with horrible keyboard solos, that should be the masterpiece of progressive metal. LOL I don't know it this is the worst dream theater album ever, cause Falling into infinity is poor too... But at least I enjoy some songs in that one... Poor, weak, ugly, bloated, and especially overrated.

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