Dream Theater Enter Studio to Record 12th album

isn't him saying "it wasn't very good" simply him voicing his opinion?


Edited by Sumdeus - January 06 2013 at 15:46

HemispheresOfXanadu wrote: 2112R wrote:   Of course it is all a matter of opinion, but does something have to be groundbreaking to be one of the best? Good point. I suppose the only things I can say I really disliked about it was the (in my opinion) overuse of angel chorus synth and LaBrie's voice in general.

What didn't you like about Labrie's voice on the album?  I thought it was a good performance, appropriately restrained but not stale, and emotional without being too try-hardy.

dtguitarfan wrote: The Truth wrote: Snow Dog wrote: The Truth wrote: Anthony H. wrote: dtguitarfan wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Because it wasn't very good obviously.... Why do you insist on using such language?  Why can't you just say something like "it didn't meet my preferences" or simply "I didn't like it"?     It's this kind of thing that explains my inactivity on the forums as of late. That's why I took a 3 month long break as well. I look forward to the new record, I was pleasantly surprised by ADToE. Do you mean my obviously controversial comment or DTGfans reply? DTGfans reply. You gave an opinion. He gave some kind of... musical political correctness...? No, I showed how you present an opinion as opinion rather than presenting it as fact.

ole-the-first wrote: Many people loved Justin Bieber as well.

Hence why it's not obvious that he sucks.

Anthony H. wrote: dtguitarfan wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Because it wasn't very good obviously.... Why do you insist on using such language?  Why can't you just say something like "it didn't meet my preferences" or simply "I didn't like it"?     It's this kind of thing that explains my inactivity on the forums as of late.

HarbouringTheSoul wrote: Snow Dog wrote: HarbouringTheSoul wrote: ole-the-first wrote: Many people loved Justin Bieber as well. Hence why it's not obvious that he sucks. Oh, I think it is... You can think that all you want, but it's not true. If it were obvious, there wouldn't be so many people who disagree.

HarbouringTheSoul wrote: Snow Dog wrote: HarbouringTheSoul wrote: ole-the-first wrote: Many people loved Justin Bieber as well. Hence why it's not obvious that he sucks. Oh, I think it is... You can think that all you want, but it's not true. If it were obvious, there wouldn't be so many people who disagree.

I was rather a bit disapointed with the last album. It did have all the elements that have made previous DT albums brilliant (plus some of those elements that could make them not so brilliant), but in the end I guess that's it's very flaw. It's just more of the same. For 3 or 4 albums that might be good, but after 11 albums, perhaps it's a bit too much. Plus, most important, even though most of it's songs may be very good, they just aren't as good as their best songs from previous albums. I might say the songs sound uninspired. I really hope Mangini really gets into the writing process (and that he proves himself up to the task), I guess a bit of new perspective could do the band a lot of good. Also, I wish they would make the album shorter, and stick to the very best they can come up with, without trying to fill the 80 min that a CD can hold. I have found that even though I really love DT and have an enormous amound of music that I enjoy, there's no one single album that I would call a masterpiece, and that's because on every album there's an important amount of songs that I don't care for. However, I have also noticed that for most of their albums I could easily chose over 40 min of music at least that I love, and if those albums only had those songs they would all be masterpieces for me (and the only album that has a whole CD that I love is a double album, and I don't really care for the other CD).

zeqexes wrote: Dellinger wrote: I was rather a bit disapointed with the last album. It did have all the elements that have made previous DT albums brilliant (plus some of those elements that could make them not so brilliant), but in the end I guess that's it's very flaw. It's just more of the same. For 3 or 4 albums that might be good, but after 11 albums, perhaps it's a bit too much. Plus, most important, even though most of it's songs may be very good, they just aren't as good as their best songs from previous albums. I might say the songs sound uninspired. I really hope Mangini really gets into the writing process (and that he proves himself up to the task), I guess a bit of new perspective could do the band a lot of good. Also, I wish they would make the album shorter, and stick to the very best they can come up with, without trying to fill the 80 min that a CD can hold. I have found that even though I really love DT and have an enormous amound of music that I enjoy, there's no one single album that I would call a masterpiece, and that's because on every album there's an important amount of songs that I don't care for. However, I have also noticed that for most of their albums I could easily chose over 40 min of music at least that I love, and if those albums only had those songs they would all be masterpieces for me (and the only album that has a whole CD that I love is a double album, and I don't really care for the other CD). Well written.  This is exactly how I feel about the last album. And you seem to have taken the words right out of my mouth about the length of the album. I'd much rather see them do a 50 minute album this time round, where the quality of the music is consistently good.

Of course, the problem would be to choose the best 50 min from each album. Specially where DT is concerned, I have found that the favourite songs from one fan are the least liked by another, and so on.

Why?