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richardh
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Topic: Bored With Dream Theater? Posted: January 27 2005 at 02:54 |
I've got most of their albums and seen them live twice.I've also got the DVD 'Scenes From A Memory'.Unfortunately the CD's and DVD's seem now to be just gathering dust. on my shelves.I havn't played any DT for ages.It's got me thinking whether I ever really liked this band.I thought I did but somewhere along the line I stopped liking them.Train Of Thought was a dissappointment so that may well have triggered my reaction.Portnoy although one of the most talented drummers around is sounding too familiar now while Rudess is just a speed freak.The music is just heavy metal with some fast keyboard runs to alleviate the monotony is it not?
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richardh
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 02:56 |
Sorry I meant to post this in the general discussion section (wasn't being sarcastic LOL).
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 02:58 |
Well I find them still interesting
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Blacksword
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 03:00 |
I'm just discovering DT. I ignored them for so long, having dismissed the smal amount I'd heard as metal, and totally un-prog.
My opinion has changed, since joining this forum last summer. I read so much about them on here, I thought I should give them a go. So far,three albums later, I'm not dissapointed. Train of thought was a little metal for me, but Images and Words is brilliant.
So, I'm not bored yet, because I like the songs. Perhaps that pollished metal production will start to grate after a while.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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goose
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 04:51 |
I got totally bored of Dream Theater a while ago, but then back into
them again; recently I'm not all that interested in them but it seems
to come in waves.
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Swinton MCR
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 05:01 |
Iv'e only just discovered them - So I'm hooked - a few more to buy yet !
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tuxon
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 05:02 |
I find their albums to be to long.
50 minutes is enough for an album. (no matter which band). Only for live albums, or compilations the 70 minute option is a good idea, but for studio releases it's too much. I never have the time and patience to sit through an album for more than an hour.
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Valarius
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 06:21 |
I've been a fan for two years now, and I've never got bored of them.
I've got all their albums and DVD's, and love every single song!
If your bored, I'd recommend getting the "Live At Budokan" DVD. Although the "Scenes From New York" DVD is great, not everyone can sit through watching the entire album being played. "LAB" has more variety and just has an overall better feel to it.
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sigod
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 10:11 |
Swinton MCR wrote:
Iv'e only just discovered them - So I'm hooked - a few more to buy yet ! |
Likewise
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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starofsirius
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 12:40 |
I've only gotten two albums of theirs. Images and Words and Scenes from a Memory. I really like Scenes from a Memory, but I just don't care for Images and Words, I know everyone says its great, but I can't get into it.
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"I'm in a freefall like a snowflake falling down down down down down."
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Oracle
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 12:44 |
i do not the dream theaters like . they very noisesome and i can be turning them down most times. they are not so poulars in my country because they not play for fun just for the posings.
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I see the future.Tomorrow is cancelled.
Thorgeir Vifilsson
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Blacksword
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 15:24 |
Oracle wrote:
i do not the dream theaters like . they very noisesome and i can be turning them down most times. they are not so poulars in my country because they not play for fun just for the posings. |
Yes, but they are currently the best posers in prog/metal. Give them some credit for that. Not all proggers have to be fat fifty somethings with beards and bad personal hygiene.
But I like to think it helps
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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goose
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 15:30 |
James LaBrie is pretty fat, though.
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Metropolis
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 16:18 |
He certainly is
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We Lost the Skyline............
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Oracle
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 16:21 |
goose wrote:
James LaBrie is pretty fat, though. |
it is straing for mans to be calling James labrie pretty is it not ?
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I see the future.Tomorrow is cancelled.
Thorgeir Vifilsson
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 16:38 |
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Oracle
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 16:40 |
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I see the future.Tomorrow is cancelled.
Thorgeir Vifilsson
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Swinton MCR
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 16:45 |
A Butcher from Greenland, are you having a "Tin-bath" -
I thought it was the bethnal-street butcher who was in with the right hook !
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Oracle
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 16:47 |
butcher? yes the baking of breads and sweetcake.
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I see the future.Tomorrow is cancelled.
Thorgeir Vifilsson
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 27 2005 at 17:02 |
stuffed with yellow snow
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