Pull Me Under
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Topic: Pull Me Under
Posted By: Yorkie X
Subject: Pull Me Under
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 05:33
I never liked this particular song didn't like the lyrics ,didn't like the melody, I thought the chorus sounded weak and the song itself seemed to go nowhere. I must be in the minority because Dream Theater themselves consider this their only hit song ?they even made a double compilation Dream Theaters greatest hit and 21 other pretty cool songs(I know  ) ... well enough of my thoughts what do you think of Pull me under ?
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 05:38
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Yes (good song)
Cant hear anything wrong with the lyrics, vocal melody is good, memorable chorus, powerful album opener. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 05:42
What you said!  ------------- 
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Yorkie X wrote:Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 06:00
| I think it's a great song! |
Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 06:20
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The song is easy to get in, it's catchy with melody and the lyrics are not so bad compare to other DT songs.
------------- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran |
Posted By: Kustin
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 06:32
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I'm not quite a fan of this song ever since my first listen, probably because of the uninspired melodies (especially the chorus) and the ending part that keeps plodding until the abrupt (yet original) end. But it's not entirely a trash track, since I found the production to be outstanding (for my high-end sound system) and well-balanced. I don't mind about the lyrics that I sing along to, but the drum groove is what keeps my interest. If I were to vote, it's a hard decision but I am certain that it's not my favourite so I vote it down. How Dream Theater gained their popularity through this is pretty absurd but if it works, it works. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 08:48
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Yeah, it's a good song. Far from DT's best, but it's a decent song.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 09:19
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^Seconded. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dorsalia
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 10:45
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Yes, good song.
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Posted By: KingCrimson250
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 10:54
| Forget the song, I can't stand the sheer cheese of the clean guitar tone and the synth tones. |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 11:57
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I like it but Take the Time is much better.
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:08
| That and Another Day are the only songs that I skip from Images & Words. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:17
I love Another Day! Sure it isn't prog, but it's a beautiful song. IMHO at least  -------------
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:19
Don't get me wrong, it's a decent ballad, but doesn't fit the album at all IMO, the sax solo, it just doesn't fit. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:22
Yeah I guess. It's not progressive or metal so then I guess it isn't DT?... maybe?..? ?? -------------
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:29
Again, your're not getting what I mean. I do enjoy pop, as well as dance, and what-not, but Another Day just doesn't fit the album, just like More Fool Me doesn't fit Selling England by the Pound, both are decent pop songs that were misplaced. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:34
I was JOKING!! I actually agree with you, Pablo!  -------------
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:36
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I think it's one of the better ones from an album I don't really like and don't think is the pinnacle of progressive metal.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:39
Do you like Learning To Live? -------------
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:41
Read his review  He's quite the opposite of me: He consideres Scenes to be a masterpiece while I think it isn't great, while I think Images & Words is their masterpiece while he thinks it pretty much sucks. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:42
| I thought that this was going to be about Radiohead. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:43
And I'm half of both of you. I gave them both 5 stars  -------------
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:44
That's still true, Pablo, but I have extremely high regard for a certain Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. "Learning to Live" is okay, I guess, but I much prefer "Under a Glass Moon" or maybe "Metropolis Part I" ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:44
You're the average normal kind of DT fan. Robert, Rob and I are in the odd exception, I think... |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 12:47
One of the best songs off their best album, so yes I like it  ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 13:02
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Pull Me Under is a great song. Obviously Wait For Sleep leading into Learning to Live is the best, and also Metropolis, Under A Glass Moon, Take The Time are excellent. Ive warmed up to Another Day and Surrounded in recent times. I&W is just a great album for 1992
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 15:56
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It was this song more than any others that caused me to start paying attention to them. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 16:07
| It's not a bad song, not their best but a pretty goood song, especially considering it's their single |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 16:25
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It's a good song, it's just that nearly all of the rest of the album overshadows it so much. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 22:09
| I like that song very much. Not the very best by DT, but indeed among the better ones. |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: August 24 2009 at 02:44
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I'm with Robert on this one. This is one of the two best (the other being Metropolis Part 1) from an album that doesn't really hit the spot for me. DT would soon be on an upward curve though. The next was better and then came A Change Of Seasons.....
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Posted By: Malve87
Date Posted: August 24 2009 at 12:51
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I never particularly liked it... ------------- ] 
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Posted By: kcmadman
Date Posted: August 24 2009 at 19:29
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Pull me under is an enjoyable song, even though it doesn't takes a lot of risk. It's not even original, since, in my opinion, its melody, the roughness of the guitar and Labrie's voice takes a lot of influence from Queensryche 's Operation Mindcrime. ------------- "Silence has a virtue that apparently denies, which is obligate to speak" |