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Poll Question: Octavarium - best song?
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2 [2.94%]
1 [1.47%]
1 [1.47%]
2 [2.94%]
5 [7.35%]
10 [14.71%]
1 [1.47%]
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    Posted: August 15 2005 at 22:23
Octavarium would be my choice, but The Answer Lies Within is still one of the top ones, so since it ranks in with zero votes, I guess I'll put that one. Just to be fair, is all.
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Originally posted by Axis Axis wrote:

Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

IMO Octavarium is a three star album (3 1/
2) stars, and Octavarum (the song) is overrated. Most of the songs
aren't bad, but where's the creativity and originality gone?


The originality clearly went over your head. Plenty of people out
there 'get' DT it's not our fault if you're misiing a taste gene!

Opinions are divided on the subject. If I rate it 3 1/2 stars, it still means that it's a good album. I don't like the way they try to please 70's prog fans by all the 70's prog references on the title track. I really like the 70's references in the Full Circle section and the following instrumental frenzy, but as a whole the track fails to achieve true greatness.

I really like The Root of all Evil, Never Enough, Panic Attack and Sacrificed Sons. But the magic of I&W, Awake and ACOS is long gone.
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

IMO Octavarium is a three star album (3 1/
2) stars, and Octavarum (the song) is overrated. Most of the songs
aren't bad, but where's the creativity and originality gone?


The originality clearly went over your head. Plenty of people out
there 'get' DT it's not our fault if you're misiing a taste gene!
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IMO Octavarium is a three star album (3 1/2) stars, and Octavarum (the song) is overrated. Most of the songs aren't bad, but where's the creativity and originality gone?
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Octavarium IS the masterpiece that DT has prodused so far and if they mange to surpass it on another album it will blow me away.
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i made up my mind ... and the winner is OCTAVARIUM by a
mile... no, a thousand miles...
The rest of the album doesnt impress me. Its too heavy for my standards.
If DT released Octavarium as an EP like they did with a Change of Seasons
I would give it 5 stars, but as a album its not that fantastic. Anyway
Octavarium (the track) is among the best they ever did.
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Octavarium

And the album as a whole is as great

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obviously the title track.  no need for explanation.
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Clearly Octavarium but "I Walk Beside You" is awsome too.
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I just heard Octavarium for the first time and I dont know. It didnt had the same impact that as Awake or Falling into infinity. The sound is just too heavy and one of the things I like about DT is that they can be heavy and melodic at the same time, and Octavarium is not their best example of heaviness/melody. But I promise I'll answer to this poll after a second or third hearing. Its not their easiest album that's for sure.
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1. Octavarium
2. These walls
3. The Root Of All Evil
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This is almost the silliest thread I have seen, the title track (to me) seems to be by SO FAR the best track on the CD.
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Easy poll this one cos' Octavarian is the only good track on it!
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Octavarium is great.

But Never Enough is ok too, although it reminds me a lot of Muse.

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Octavarium
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I don't know why I'm so adicted to These  Walls... But Octavarium is mindblowing, so It gets my vote.... (It'd still be better with Moore!!!!!!!!!)
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Originally posted by Valarius Valarius wrote:

They all rule. I love this album.

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Octavarium for sure, though I enjoy Panic Attack very much too.
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They all rule. I love this album.
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TRAPPED INSIDE THIS OCTAVARIUM!!!!!

TRAPPED INSIDE THIS OCTAVARIUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TRAPPED INSIDE THIS OCTAVARIUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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