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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 05:20

Octavarum is crap compared to TOT, IMO.

Octavarium: 3 or 3.5/5
 
TOT: 4.5/5
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 06:15
When I first played  octa I was Big smile    now I am  Confused    when I first played train I was Confused  now I am Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 06:27
I own both and routinely listen to neither. 

These albums, to me, represent the beginning of the end for Dream Theater.  Lack of originality, uninspired lyrics, ripoffs galore all over the place... 

Totally not progressive...not even Octavarium's title track.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 07:43
ToT - innovative,challenging,dark,angry,METAL!!!

8ium - weak,repetitive,void,usual,unprofessional,CRAP!!!

Easy choise!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 09:37
I voted TOT because I consider it better as a whole album, but Octavarium (the song) is the best track DT ever produced IMO.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 13:20
Octavarium indeed.
More progressive than Train Of Thought.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 13:23
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 13:48
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Train of Thought, easily.Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 16:22
Octavarium is the best of the 2.  ToT is more metal than Prog.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 16:33
Well...we're talking about Progressive, and so I chose Octavarium, cause I think that Train Of Thought isn't so much prog....it's more like a sheer Metal album...the only prog influence on it in my opinion are on tracks: Vacant and In the name of God....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2006 at 08:20
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2006 at 08:27
Originally posted by Malve87 Malve87 wrote:

Well...we're talking about Progressive, and so I chose Octavarium, cause I think that Train Of Thought isn't so much prog....it's more like a sheer Metal album...the only prog influence on it in my opinion are on tracks: Vacant and In the name of God....


When I listen to a pure metal album in comparison - for example the latest Bruce Dickinson album or even Judas Priest, In Flames, whatever ... then I do hear an apparent difference. It's not a prog masterpiece, but certainly a progressive album.
    
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2006 at 10:36
I'll have to go with Octavarium.  There is some good matierial on Train of Thought, but nothing in particular stands out the way Octavarium and Sacraficed Sons do.  Octavarium also has some great tracks in Never Enough, The Root of All Evil, and These Walls.
 
Of course In the Name of God and Stream of Conciousness are great tunes, but they just seem to be weak compared to other DT tracks of that same calibur.

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