Hit or Miss: Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

EdgeOfForever · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:00 pm

Antonakis wrote:

TheMetalWarrior316 wrote:

And in the end it's all a matter of taste. :wink:

If you only like Thrash, then it will be your favourite DT album, but if you expect progressive metal, then other DT records are just a little bit more sophisticated and a little bit more DT.

I'm on the same boat with TMW316 here. His reasoning in the previous post also applies and is valid for me. I got to know and loved Dream Theater playing stuff like Images & Words or Awake. So, for me, anything that strays too far from that style was/is a miss.

I agree with this, but I think Systematic Chaos and Octavarium are pure shit, ToT is way better.

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:59 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4HOMPD-1E

Dream Theater covering Master Of Puppets. LaBrie can't do aggressive. It's really funny. 7:50 is pure comedy.

Thomas · **Posted:** Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:56 am

hah, the guitar sound is so thin!

TheOctavarius · **Posted:** Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:23 am

Petrucci needs to stop being a bitch, and let a second guitarist into the band, or let Rudess play it when required. It would surely ameliorate the material they're covering.

But nooo...

grandbazaar · **Posted:** Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:33 am

Hit one of my favs from this band. Endless Sacrifice owns!

SoulSociety · **Posted:** Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:44 pm

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4HOMPD-1E

Dream Theater covering Master Of Puppets. LaBrie can't do aggressive. It's really funny. 7:50 is pure comedy.

yeah, I have the entire bootleg. You should hear Damage, Inc. that is pure comedy.

SoulSociety · **Posted:** Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:45 pm

EdgeOfForever wrote:

Antonakis wrote:

TheMetalWarrior316 wrote:

And in the end it's all a matter of taste. :wink:

If you only like Thrash, then it will be your favourite DT album, but if you expect progressive metal, then other DT records are just a little bit more sophisticated and a little bit more DT.

I'm on the same boat with TMW316 here. His reasoning in the previous post also applies and is valid for me. I got to know and loved Dream Theater playing stuff like Images & Words or Awake. So, for me, anything that strays too far from that style was/is a miss.

I agree with this, but I think Systematic Chaos and Octavarium are pure shit, ToT is way better.

I've yet to hear Octavarium properly, but Systematic Chaos is far from shit.

grandbazaar · **Posted:** Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:31 am

SoulSociety wrote:

EdgeOfForever wrote:

Antonakis wrote:

TheMetalWarrior316 wrote:

And in the end it's all a matter of taste. :wink:

If you only like Thrash, then it will be your favourite DT album, but if you expect progressive metal, then other DT records are just a little bit more sophisticated and a little bit more DT.

I'm on the same boat with TMW316 here. His reasoning in the previous post also applies and is valid for me. I got to know and loved Dream Theater playing stuff like Images & Words or Awake. So, for me, anything that strays too far from that style was/is a miss.

I agree with this, but I think Systematic Chaos and Octavarium are pure shit, ToT is way better.

I've yet to hear Octavarium properly, but Systematic Chaos is far from shit.

Systematic Chaos is good but Octavarium is definately DT's weakest to date imo.

Thomas · **Posted:** Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:52 am

It is definately not worse than Falling Into Infinity

SoulSociety · **Posted:** Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:42 pm

Though to be honest I'm not really into DT as much as I used to be cause I'm discovering superior prog metal stuff like Opeth or Symphony X.

Mintrude · **Posted:** Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:36 pm

metal_xxx wrote:

It is definately not worse than Falling Into Infinity

I find Falling Into Infinity strangely interesting, simply because it's all over the place.

And Lines In The Sand slays, I don't care what anyone else says.

Thomas · **Posted:** Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:47 pm

agreed.. very good song. The only which holds normal DT standard on that record.

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:47 pm

metal_xxx wrote:

agreed.. very good song. The only which holds normal DT standard on that record.

Have you forgotten New Milennium?

Falling Into Infinity is a good album, but it definately slips up sometimes.

Thomas · **Posted:** Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:04 pm

new millenium never clicked for me.... Boring isn't the right word but, not good enough. But definately one of the better ones.

Adveser · **Joined:** Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:26 am **Posts:** 2491

Yeah, I don't care about New Millenium (they tried to stick all three Ozzy guitarists styles in there and it couldn't have been more obvious) I think it "wasn't good enough" myself.

I liked Fii quite well. I thought the second half of the album was pretty boring. But I still like Burning my soul, Hollow Years, peruvian skies, lines in the sand. That stuff was great.

I really sense that that could have been their best album if they were left to their own devices on it, but they weren't and the results were less than what could have been.

Mintrude · **Posted:** Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:30 pm

Anyone heard the Falling Into Infinty demos? I hear they're much improved. They were selling it at their merch desk, should have got it.

Adveser · **Joined:** Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:26 am **Posts:** 2491

I listened to the making of, but skipped the "alternate" versions of the songs. To me if it isn't the studio version, it isn't canon and thusly I will either never listen to it or very rarely listen to it.

Thomas · **Posted:** Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:50 pm

Mintrude wrote:

Anyone heard the Falling Into Infinty demos? I hear they're much improved. They were selling it at their merch desk, should have got it.

Raise the knife is on the score dvd. One of my favourites actually.

TheMetalWarrior316 · **Joined:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:01 am **Posts:** 646

Every song I've heard, that didn't made it on Falling into..., is better than anything on the album self...

Fatpom · **Joined:** Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:23 am **Posts:** 171

Afro Lint wrote:

Their best album. Big hit!

Ditto.

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