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Posted: December 16 2009 at 09:21
Bonnek wrote:
, one of the worst albums ever :-)
Dude, you destroyed the good image I have for you... I only forgive you because of your avatar, which is nice... but really... you did seem like you knew about music... but at last you don't... well...
Edited by jampa17 - December 16 2009 at 09:22
Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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Posted: December 15 2009 at 20:02
Well, reading thru this it seems that people are quite passionate about DT! Like it or hate it, and it seems like everybody has their favorite and their worst. Interesting poll.
Personally, my favorite is TOT. yeah, somewhat going against the flow.
As for their worst, don't have their WDaDU, so I will vote for FII. Strangely enough everytime I listen to FII, I find it somewhat decent, but the fact is I rarely listen to it.
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Posted: December 15 2009 at 10:38
Hmm, well I very much like the songs on WDaDU, but I strongly dislike the vocalist over there, so I will pick that one - The Killing Hand is a very good DT song, but I prefer LaBrie's Live at the Marquee version to the album version...
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Posted: December 07 2009 at 00:52
"When Dream and Day Unite" is without a doubt their worst album when speaking in terms of the production quality, but this debut has to be one of my favorites in terms of musicality and themes. Songs like "Ytse Jam" and "The Killing Hand" are Dream Theater classics!
My vote was for "Falling Into Eternity" (I just never got into it).
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Posted: December 06 2009 at 22:09
I'd have to go with their debut, largely because they simply hadn't matured as musicians and song writers yet. That's not to say that its a bad album (though personally I think the songs are better when LaBrie sings them on "When Dream and Day Re-Unite").
On the other hand, I'm not a huge fan of the direction they've taken starting around Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. Train of Thought was a huge let down for me when it first came out, but songs like "Stream of Consciousness" have really grown on me with time.
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Posted: December 06 2009 at 17:19
For me, it's Systematic Chaos. It just gets worse each time I listen to it. The self-indulgence on In The Presence Of Enemies particularly gets to me. And the whiny minor key that pretty much every song is written in also gets to me.
Kashmir75 wrote:
WDADU was not bad per se, the musicians were great. Dominici's vocals
let it down. Charlie Dominici isn't even a bad singer. He just didn't
sound right for DT. He made them sound like any number of other 80s
metal bands. In fact, didn't they get Labrie in order to get MORE
mainstream exposure? (Well, it did work on one occasion)
I particularly like the quote from Mike Portnoy regarding Dominici: "It was like having Billy Joel playing in Queensrÿche."
Edited by Elderflower Man - December 06 2009 at 17:23
I feel sorry for those who voted Scenes From a Memory the worst album. 6 people, a shame.
Nice new signature Jeff.
Yeah, I know! SFAM is one of the best things they've ever done. They've been trying to better it ever since. Well, I actually though Six Degrees was quite good, and a decent attempt at trying to top SFAM. Octavarium came close, with the awesome Sacrificed Sons and the excellent title track, but not quite as classic as SFAM.
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Posted: December 03 2009 at 19:24
Kashmir75 wrote:
FII was compromised by the record label, but I still liked most of it. There are a couple of radio-friendly tunes on there, though, the Quiet One. Take Away My Pain, Hollow Years? Even Burning My Soul to me sounds like an attempt to recapture the style of Pull Me Under.
But you're right. Stuff like Lines In the Sand, Trial of Tears would never get airplay on radio.
I'm still puzzled by the reaction to Octavarium by the fans. I like that one a lot. Maybe its because it was my first DT album.
I know those tunes are radio-friendly and that's why I didn't mention them, or did I? Come on, you can't call an album radio-friendly because out of 11 songs 4 that are pop, and not that all of them are bad, eh!
Octavarium was also my first DT album and liked it at first and still do enjoy some of it, but having discovered their earlier works, Octavarium just worn-out I suppose, it's pretty un-original for me.
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