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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.
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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.
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Upon fifth listen....This album still sucks.
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A great review of the new album:
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=219926
Pretty much everything i said a few pages back.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Heaviest:
1. VT
2. Counterparts
3. 2112
Softest:
1. HYF
2. Roll the Bones
3. Signals
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Sweet Miracle
with Earthshine, Ghost Rider, Nocturne, Ceiling Unlimited, Secret Touch, and Vapor Trail all being close seconds.
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ok thanks. That shouldn't be too hard.
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does anyone know bass tabs for The Larger Bowl? My friend is gonna learn it and he wants me to play the bass on it. I just started playing so i don't know it by ear. Anyone know?
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Hey thats Awesome! If you ever teach poetry, get the students to analyze lyrics in class. Scan them, figure the rhyme scheme, figure the meaning, look for poetic devices. Pick a bunch of Rush songs for examples. That would be cool. Then for homework let them pick 2 songs of their choosing to scan and analyze.
Thats what my teacher did sophmore year in high school (although i did the Rush songs, not her) and it was a huge hit.
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You know you are a Rush fan when you learn french, just so you can understand the refrain in Circumstances.
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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!
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The Notebook
Love Actually
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I used Rush in my Philosophy 101 class a week ago. The professor was equating life as a journey and he asked me what i thought about it. Since i was sleeping (8 am class) I responded with the first thing i could think of:
"The point of the journey, is not to arrive."
He lauded me with praises after that one, and i just kind of smirked. That made my week.
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Get the Rotosound Monel strings. They are made of Nickel. I like them just as much as the steel.
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I bought my bass from a Man who has been playing that particular one for 10 years. He has always used Rotosound strings, and so do I. Let me tell you, my frets are in perfect condition. They are the best strings you can buy.
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haha yea. I noticed
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I like the Fender P Bass.
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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.
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I'd say that his best work is with Ayreon on the Human equation.
Am I the only one who feels somewhat underwhelmed?
in Rush
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