Controversial opinions on metal

[waif]

Rhapsody is pretty damn cheesy but Blind Guardian? I mean, cheesy, but not embarrassing...

 

[damnromulans]

That's what you think, have you ever tried playing "Lord of the Rings" to someone who isn't interested in metal?

 

[King Richard]

It doesn't have to be the best song on the album, but it's also almost never in the top 50th percentile either.

I don't know, I just don't like rock/metal ballads pretty much ever. Just like I hate slow synthpop songs.

Fair enough.

I will say that I don't consider a song like Fade to Black a "ballad." It has ballad qualities, but in no way mirrors a song like Sacrificed Sons by Dream Theater. /imo

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I will say that I don't consider a song like Fade to Black a "ballad." It has ballad qualities, but in no way mirrors a song like Sacrificed Sons by Dream Theater. /imo

<obligatory "Thank fuck for that" comment>

 

[waif]

That's what you think, have you ever tried playing "Lord of the Rings" to someone who isn't interested in metal?

Point taken. It's not exactly Forest of Unicorns, though.

 

[damnromulans]

Dream Theater is boring

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Not really.

 

[The Butt]

Dream Theater is boring

<3

 

[DEATH_TO_THE_FALSE]

Dream Theater is boring

I agree to an extent. They have more "boring" material than not however, I feel A Change of Seasons and Images and Words were anything but "boring". They were pretty good imo.

 

[Episteme]

Dream Theater has alot of filler. Almost too much to sift through to find decent songs.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Dream Theater has alot of filler. Almost too much to sift through to find decent songs.

Nah, the filtration method is rather simple. First three albums and A Change of Seasons track 1 are placed reverently on the Good Stuff&#8482; shelf, and track 2 through their newest are thrown into the filler can.

EDIT: Well, Status Seeker and The Silent Man can be tossed too, and a couple later songs are worth salvaging, but still.

 

[ArneZ]

When I need my prog. fix I just randomly put on a Dream Theater album. And I always seem to get satisfied. Still, agree on the filler thing.

 

[King Richard]

They don't have filler, they just have shit songs. If you want filler go listen to a Tool album.

When Dream Theater actually attempt to write kickass songs, they do. When they start going overly melodic and decide they want to create some soft ballad it fucking drives me nuts.

I also hate it when they make a medley out of their own songs and rename it something else. Especially when they use shitty songs in the medley! wtf?!

Other than that, Dream Theater kicks ass.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

They don't have filler, they're just have shit songs. If you want filler go listen to a Tool album.

The six 11+ minute songs on Train of Thought disagree with you.

 

[King Richard]

That album doesn't count. Neither does Falling Into Infinity or Black Clouds and Silver Linings.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Neither does Scenes as well, I take it? Beyond This Life is like Metallica's Fuel repeated twice with several minutes of guitar and keyboard masturbation, the sex sounds in Home exist only because Petrucci likes the idea of women moaning to his guitar playing, there's uninteresting story line crap littered throughout (see: half of Finally Free).

Or Six Degrees, fuck, that's their most bloated one yet. srsly, they (along with Iron Maiden) define filler and song padding.

 

[damnromulans]

I don't like prog in general and I'm no DT expert, but I haven't heard one song that was "interesting" yet. It's not pretty, it's not catchy, what is it?

You're welcome to try and change my mind.

 

[King Richard]

Neither does Scenes as well, I take it? Beyond This Life is like Metallica's Fuel repeated twice with several minutes of guitar and keyboard masturbation, the sex sounds in Home exist only because Petrucci likes the idea of women moaning to his guitar playing, there's uninteresting story line crap littered throughout (see: half of Finally Free).

Or Six Degrees, fuck, that's their most bloated one yet. srsly, they (along with Iron Maiden) define filler and song padding.

I really don't care what you think. I like DT so that's all that matters to me.

I don't like prog in general and I'm no DT expert, but I haven't heard one song that was "interesting" yet. It's not pretty, it's not catchy, what is it?

You're welcome to try and change my mind.

You don't like DT because you don't like prog and you probably never will. I'd rather not waste my time feeding you songs to listen to when I already know you won't like it.

It's all good though, DT and prog in general isn't for everyone.

 

[cookiecutter]

I don't like prog in general and I'm no DT expert, but I haven't heard one song that was "interesting" yet. It's not pretty, it's not catchy, what is it?

This is pretty much how I feel about prog and DT. Prog to me has always sounded like instruments playing for a period of time rather than songs.

 

[King Richard]

You just don't get it man! And you never will!