Are Dream Theater Over Rated?

darkshade wrote: the average person does not know who Dream Theater are or know their music, so they are underrated **Edit** that sounds very narrow-minded, i know...

Well... Those people who don't know of them are are not underrating the band, of course, because by not knowing of them they cannot have a low opinion of the music, they have no opinion of the music.  However, one might say that DT is under known, and that possibly could be in part because the more mainstream music establishment underrates/ underestimates the band's potential commercial appeal and so does not promote it.  Course Prog  is not a popular label/ "genre" these days, so we could say the same for Prog generally, and there are reasons why it doesn't get promoted so much or find its way on mainstream radio so much.  COurse there are popular bands with mainstream success that we incorporate under the prog label beyond certain classics.

not assess or value the music too lowly in that they're not rating it at all.

debrewguy wrote: well, if you compare how necessary they are to life vs things like "air" , "food", lodgings", then they are over-rated. If you compare them to other musical acts, then all that can be said is that they make music that some people love, some people like, some people pass on, some people dislike, some people hate. Then there's the ones who abhor the actual concept without having heard the music. So ask a fan - "do you love them too much" ? Ask an Anti-DT person - "do you really hate them that much" ? Then gfo back to the important things in life ...

the average person does not know who Dream Theater are or know their music, so they are underrated

**Edit** that sounds very narrow-minded, i know...


Edited by darkshade - April 07 2009 at 14:08

Every band is overrated and underrated.I think there fair musicians not a huge fan of virtuoso metal in general,there dam cheesy though.Give me Liquid Tension Experiment.

They are not my favourite band from the third wave of prog, but the issue of whether they are overrated has been dealt with in other threads - it's purely a question of personal taste. I've got a couple of their LPs and listen from time to time, but am not that gone on them. It doesn't mean they are overrated, just that I rate other bands more highly.

Having said that, anyone who can bring Transatlantic into existence, as Portnoy did, simply cannot be described as anything other than historic, genius, incredible, and every other superlative I haven't got time to think of now

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Visitor13 wrote: Logan wrote: ^ Yeppers, Micky Visitor13 wrote: Logan wrote: "Overated" is meaningless, according to my dictionary, but "overrated" is not.  That said, it can have differences in connotation/ usage.  And "over rated" like with the topic title means something else again to me, that there are too many ratings. ;) 'Overated' - fallen victim to overeating Right, so the answer to "Are Dream Theater overated?" is complex. Judging from the last time I saw an up-to-date photo of them, I'd say that: LaBrie is overated; Portnoy is somewhat overated; Myung is underated; Rudess is severely underated; Petrucci is ated just about right.

Indeed, and one could say that LaBrie is particularly well fed up about overated commentary.   Too much brie in the diet....

^ Yeppers, Micky

Visitor13 wrote: Logan wrote: "Overated" is meaningless, according to my dictionary, but "overrated" is not.  That said, it can have differences in connotation/ usage.  And "over rated" like with the topic title means something else again to me, that there are too many ratings. ;) 'Overated' - fallen victim to overeating

Logan wrote: "Overated" is meaningless, according to my dictionary, but "overrated" is not.  That said, it can have differences in connotation/ usage.  And "over rated" like with the topic title means something else again to me, that there are too many ratings. ;)

'Overated' - fallen victim to overeating

"Overated" is meaningless, according to my dictionary, but "overrated" is not.  That said, it can have differences in connotation/ usage.  And "over rated" like with the topic title means something else again to me, that there are too many ratings. ;)