SMPT:E

I always thought the successor was better than this debut but I'm not sure anymore. It's a fact to me that All of the Above is the strongest composition of both the albums. I consider it one of the ultimate epics ever, really tremendous. On the other hand it is also by far the best track of this album. We all need some light is a very nice ballad and My new world is another great long one. But the other two tracks are to be rated much lower. Still that leaves all in all a very good album, at least worth four stars but not good enough for 5. And that was also the case with Bridge across forever. So I think the albums are more or less equal in quality.

I think summarizing Transatlantic was a succesful project but I think it's wise to leave it at this. Two albums will do and it's better for the members to concentrate on their own bands, that's more important it seems to me.