Sabs89

I love this album. I think it's easily a top 7 Rush album, maybe top 5. Either way, it's much better than the previous album. S&A was probably the worst they've made in their career.

QUOTE (tick @ Jun 27 2009, 06:08 PM) QUOTE (Sabs89 @ Jun 27 2009, 12:14 PM) QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 27 2009, 10:23 AM) QUOTE (tick @ Jun 27 2009, 11:10 AM) QUOTE (Sabs89 @ Jun 27 2009, 11:06 AM) Upon fifth listen....This album still sucks. Hey, nice to hear. tick has turned the corner? He has seen through the plastic? But the album doesn't really suck. No it doesn't. But it's not what i hoped for. I hold DT to a higher standard, as they've made some magical albums. This album is just so standard. I want to hear music, not 7 minutes a song of DT dicking around with their instruments. On Images and Words and SFAM the extended instrumental passages were smart, beautiful, and fitting. Lately on the past two albums it's just the same cliched formula of Rudess' circus keyboards, and Mike Portnoy doing mini drum solos, followed by a synth vs guitar battle. It's really just old. They should try making music, not trying to follow some predesigned archetype that they've made since they fired Moore. Also, the experimentation with harsher vocals is just embarrassing. It's not their bag, they aren't Opeth. You are entitled to feel that way, but on the DT boards the fans are loving the album, and thats what really matters. I love the new album, and have no problem with what you call formulaic. There really should be the official Dream Theater whiners thread, so all you disenchanted fans can criticize and bash there recent albums as much as you like. No offense, but I started this thread to celebrate the band, not rip them apart at every turn. Do you prefer the most recent albums to Images and Words ? Because if you do, you and I will never agree. I liked a lot of what DT has done, but Moore was the most creative member of the band, and without him they don't write songs as well. I know most DT fans are going to drool over the album, but these are the same people who are utter die hards and will drool over anything as long as the names of the musicians on it are the Petrucci, Rudess, Myung, and Portnoy. And for the record, they need to let Myung write more lyrics. These lyrics are embarrassing to sing with.

QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 27 2009, 10:23 AM) QUOTE (tick @ Jun 27 2009, 11:10 AM) QUOTE (Sabs89 @ Jun 27 2009, 11:06 AM) Upon fifth listen....This album still sucks. Hey, nice to hear. tick has turned the corner? He has seen through the plastic? But the album doesn't really suck. No it doesn't. But it's not what i hoped for. I hold DT to a higher standard, as they've made some magical albums. This album is just so standard. I want to hear music, not 7 minutes a song of DT dicking around with their instruments. On Images and Words and SFAM the extended instrumental passages were smart, beautiful, and fitting. Lately on the past two albums it's just the same cliched formula of Rudess' circus keyboards, and Mike Portnoy doing mini drum solos, followed by a synth vs guitar battle. It's really just old. They should try making music, not trying to follow some predesigned archetype that they've made since they fired Moore. Also, the experimentation with harsher vocals is just embarrassing. It's not their bag, they aren't Opeth.

Upon fifth listen....This album still sucks.

A great review of the new album: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=219926 Pretty much everything i said a few pages back.

QUOTE (PhilCastro @ Jun 18 2009, 12:46 AM) QUOTE (Sabs89 @ Jun 17 2009, 11:57 PM) "It features all the guitar and keyboard wankery that DT is famous for, but very few parts of it are really fresh and catchy to me. " "The refrain of the song sounds like something that should be played on a mainstream rock station. " okay, so you dont like them for not being catchy, then you dont like them for sounding TOO catchy? I guess this is what Mike was trying to say in "Never Enough" i guess. I don't dislike it because it's catchy. I dislike it because it's cliched and boring. Honestly, I haven't been overly impressed with DT since SFAM. 6 Degrees second side was excellent, Train of thought had some good songs, and Octavarium and SC had their moments, but none of the albums can capture the magic that they had with Images and Words. Jordan Rudess while being a technically brilliant keyboardist lacks the creativity that Moore had. Maybe you are all right, but to me the act is getting old. Heavy Metallica-esque riff, progressive breakdown with carnival sounding keyboards and a guitar/synth battle. Same formula every song, and i guess it's just getting old to me. I was looking forward to the new album as maybe a partial return to form, and a shift in sound, but it definitely was just more of the same from SC.

I should give it a few more listens, but after 3 times through I've found most of it just sounding uninspired. It's the same album as SC, but without any hooks. A Nightmare to Remember is very boring and forgetable. It features all the guitar and keyboard wankery that DT is famous for, but very few parts of it are really fresh and catchy to me. A Rite of Passage is a solid song, and the first one that i enjoyed. Wither's guitar line is wickedly sinister and dark, but the rest of the song doesn't hold up. The refrain of the song sounds like something that should be played on a mainstream rock station. The Shattered Fortress was a big disappointment to me. On its own it's a very good song, however my biggest problem with it is the utter lack of originality. All the lyrics and music are from other songs in the AA trilogy. Not one bit of it is really new or fresh. And as much as i love The Glass Prison, This Dying soul, and The Root of all evil, I don't need to hear them again in one song. The Best of Times is a pretty good song. Maybe my favorite on the album now. It's solid DT. The Count of Tuscany is ok. Parts of it are really good, and other parts drag on and on. It is a long song, so i guess that's natural, but the great long songs are good all the way through. I'd like to have the lyric sheet on that one, as the story seems cool. All in all, there are some moments were it drags a little, but most of it is solid music. But just nothing is really great. And Dream Theater is a band i hold in high regard, so to me it was a big let down.

I listened to DCSL when it leaked. I was totally unimpressed. Probably the worst Dream Theater album since Falling into Infinity. I was really really disappointed.

Heaviest: 1. VT 2. Counterparts 3. 2112 Softest: 1. HYF 2. Roll the Bones 3. Signals

Sweet Miracle with Earthshine, Ghost Rider, Nocturne, Ceiling Unlimited, Secret Touch, and Vapor Trail all being close seconds.

You know you are a Rush fan when you learn french, just so you can understand the refrain in Circumstances.

QUOTE (VagabondUZ @ Sep 26 2007, 10:45 PM) I love it when the synth starts kicking in in Middletown Dreams, right after "brilliant shooting star" Give me goosebumps every time Second that totally!

The Notebook Love Actually

This one is too easy: On the 82st day of Christmas, my Rush love gave to me 82 Snakes and arrows 81 Signals 80 pieces of classic literature to use for lyrics 79 Cries from Afar =DD 78 Hemispheres 77 parts of "fear" 76 Spirits of the Radio 75 more Rush references for this thread 74 Temples of Syrinx 73 Working men 72 Tobes of Hades 71 Digital Men 70 Certain nights 69 Alien shores 68 brief eclipses 67 Locks and keys 66 Halves of the World 65 Tai Shan mountains 64 English Rains 63 hopeful bridges 62 Valleys flooded in light 61 High school halls 60 Pages a' Turnin' 59 camera eyes 58 Friends to Take 57 Stars that Stopped in the Sky 56 gods of Balance 55 Signals 54 Trails of Vapor 53 Retrospectives 52 Subdivisions 51 Methods of Rhythm 50 Shipwrecked mariners 49 Anthems of the heart and mind 48 Mystic Rhythms 47 Things to Leave Alone 46 Honeydew melons 45 Fawn-eyed girls 44 Mad Immortal Men 43 Dreamlines 42 Bones a'rolling 41 Kneeling Kings 40 one less teacher 38 fisheye lenses 37 minutes to Drum to Moving Pictures 36 vibrating wires 35 Tests for echo 34 Pieces of (Lemony) Cake 33 Power Windows 32 eggs in vises 31 oracles from a better time 30 pemanent waves 29 Vital Signs 28 Gates of the Year 27 Shrimp Cots 26 Snow Dogs 25 Jacob's ladders 24 secret country places 23 Different Stages 22 Planets of the solar federation 21 smokes on the pier 20 tossing derby hats 19 flighty nights 18 Tide Pools 17 Dog Years 16 Totems 15 unpressured graces 14 Ghosts of a Chance 13 Steels caressing 12 Neil Pearts Drumming 11 Red Barchettas 10 Little Victories 9 magic rabbits 8 Spotted dalmations 7 Magic Digits (1-0-0-1-0-0-1) 6 Priests of Syrinx A Fiiiiivve Pointed Star! 4 Pictures that move 3 Puppet Kings 2 Magic Prism Eyes and a blue owl in a lofty oak tree

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Same. I'm a huge fan of both of the directors. Im pumped for this.

I'd say that his best work is with Ayreon on the Human equation.

yeah its awesome isn't it?

Over my Head is still one of my favorite songs. Gotta love King's X.

I speak on behalf of straight male high school students everwhere when i say "Jessica Alba."

bardan i envy you. G3 April 7th. John Petrucci, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert. Guitar orgasm on stage.

I will send you it tonight. pm me later around 5 to 7 eastern time.

ODB? Is that Dimebag? If so i got that one. That is a sweet song. I am starting to get into the song Coma. I like that one alot.

You need Nottingham Lace, in my opinion its his best song. Undoubtedly one of his most popular guitar solos too.

Gotta love Buckethead. I listened to Nottingham Lace, Last train to buckethead land, Welcome to buckethead land, Jack and the Ripper, Coma, and We are one just today only. He is awesome.