bluefox4000 Posted October 30, 2023 Posted October 30, 2023 42 minutes ago, Segue Myles said: Dream Theater- Octavarium (just the title track) I have conflicting thoughts about this album. I dislike the songs that feel like tributes to other bands (that I'm already not huge on), so normally I play this album, get to the title track, and feel worn out by it. I've decided to just play the title track in isolation a couple of times the last few days. Oh. My. God. Just gobsmacked I never fully embraced this song before! I don't hate this album, but I feel I wrote this song off just because I never gave it proper time to take in. Now? Wow. It's like the rest of the album is bonus material just for this! it's my fav DT epic. II once played it like 4 times in a row, lol and DT honestly....i don't go them for 20 minute epics but they nailed this one. Mick 2
bluefox4000 Posted October 30, 2023 Posted October 30, 2023 Last night. Gordon Lightfoot Summer Side of Life (10/10) Don Quixote (10/10 Old Dan's records (8/10) Sundown (10/10) Cold on the Shoulder (9/10) Summertime Dream (10/10) Bar none my fav of the 60/70's singer/songwriters. Just absolutly brilliant singer and writer. Mick 3
Segue Myles Posted October 30, 2023 Posted October 30, 2023 44 minutes ago, bluefox4000 said: it's my fav DT epic. II once played it like 4 times in a row, lol and DT honestly....i don't go them for 20 minute epics but they nailed this one. Mick You've told me for ages but I based my opinion on this album far too much on the U2/Muse wannabes My bad
Segue Myles Posted October 30, 2023 Posted October 30, 2023 40 minutes ago, bluefox4000 said: Last night. Gordon Lightfoot Summer Side of Life (10/10) Don Quixote (10/10 Old Dan's records (8/10) Sundown (10/10) Cold on the Shoulder (9/10) Summertime Dream (10/10) Bar none my fav of the 60/70's singer/songwriters. Just absolutly brilliant singer and writer. Mick Honestly this style of music is likely to increase in domination of my life the next few years I'm not sad about it 2
bluefox4000 Posted October 30, 2023 Posted October 30, 2023 16 minutes ago, Segue Myles said: Honestly this style of music is likely to increase in domination of my life the next few years I'm not sad about it i hope so. Me this style is nostalgic. this and musicals were really my first memories of music. this style especially. i used to just sit in front of the stereo and for hours just pour over the artists that my mom was into. i've been wanting to share these artists with you since we met. but it is generally not a style that people in their early 20's have an ear for, lol. so i've been waiting for you to age up Mick
Segue Myles Posted October 30, 2023 Posted October 30, 2023 11 minutes ago, bluefox4000 said: i hope so. Me this style is nostalgic. this and musicals were really my first memories of music. this style especially. i used to just sit in front of the stereo and for hours just pour over the artists that my mom was into. i've been wanting to share these artists with you since we met. but it is generally not a style that people in their early 20's have an ear for, lol. so i've been waiting for you to age up Mick We don't have equivalent UK artists I like like your countries. It is special to me to find singer songwriters I adore
Union 5-3992 Posted October 30, 2023 Posted October 30, 2023 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The Silver Cord George Harrison - Dark Horse Elder - Reflections of a Floating World Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex Howling Giant - Glass Future 1
bluefox4000 Posted October 30, 2023 Posted October 30, 2023 Dream Theater-Octavarium (8/10) Ya know what? i dunno if i haven't played it in a while but fukk it this was fun. it's not perfect but....i enjoyed every minute of this. EVEN the ripp-off stuff. I'm gonna give it time. could be a one-off but i may have to adjust my ranking, lol. this was a blast. The title track is the best epic they've done and if ya say not. well enjoy being wrong. There is not one single second of it i felt didn't belong. the flow was perfect. Mick 3
Super25Smasher Posted October 30, 2023 Posted October 30, 2023 On 10/29/2023 at 6:37 AM, Segue Myles said: Taking Back Sunday- 152 Oh gosh, this is easily their best work since 2006's Louder Now!! What a bloody wonderful surprise! I agree! I like those other four, but they honestly don't come close.
Chronos Posted October 31, 2023 Posted October 31, 2023 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard -- The Silver Cord (2023) 1
bluefox4000 Posted October 31, 2023 Posted October 31, 2023 Taylor Swift 1989 (8/10) Original. i really in the grand scheme have next to zero use for the TV'S Mick
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Segue Myles Posted October 31, 2023 Posted October 31, 2023 13 minutes ago, bluefox4000 said: Taylor Swift 1989 (8/10) Original. i really in the grand scheme have next to zero use for the TV'S Mick Far from my fave of hers anyway. I'm actually shocked how much I dislike the Vault tracks.
bluefox4000 Posted October 31, 2023 Posted October 31, 2023 1 minute ago, Segue Myles said: Far from my fave of hers anyway. I'm actually shocked how much I dislike the Vault tracks. and those come after she did said 1989 would be the ultimate TV ('scuse me while i laugh) Anyway i like the album but it is WAY too mythologized at this point. Mick
Segue Myles Posted October 31, 2023 Posted October 31, 2023 1 minute ago, bluefox4000 said: and those come after she did said 1989 would be the ultimate TV ('scuse me while i laugh) Anyway i like the album but it is WAY too mythologized at this point. Mick I feel album itself has really had a good makeover on the mix front. However, I felt the Vault tracks feel more like bad Midnights leftovers. I wish she had tried to actually capture that eras feel. 1
Segue Myles Posted October 31, 2023 Posted October 31, 2023 Dream Theater- Octavarium (just the title track) Yeah, I really don't mind skipping over the rest of the album, even the songs I like, just for this gem. Gosh I wish I'd listened to alone like this sooner! 1
bluefox4000 Posted October 31, 2023 Posted October 31, 2023 (edited) Dream Theater-Octavarium (8/10) unlike Segue i'm having a real fun time with this one as a whole. what i thought a slog has been RIDICULOUSLY fun for me lately. is a masterpiece no but i had more fun with this than Awake. Which WAS a bit of a slog for me, Mick Edited October 31, 2023 by bluefox4000
Union 5-3992 Posted October 31, 2023 Posted October 31, 2023 Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare Ruby the Hatchet - Fear is a Cruel Master Type O Negative - October Rust Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Misfits - Collection Misfits - Famous Monsters Opeth - The Ghost Reveries 5
Segue Myles Posted October 31, 2023 Posted October 31, 2023 42 minutes ago, bluefox4000 said: Dream Theater-Octavarium (8/10) unlike Segue i'm having a real fun time with this one as a whole. what i thought a slog has been RIDICULOUSLY fun for me lately. is a masterpiece no but i had more fun with this than Awake. Which WAS a bit of a slog for me, Mick The album as a whole isn't bad. I just find by the time the shorter songs are done, I really don't want to sit through an epic. However I do now enjoy that epic by itself! 1
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