anonymousnick2001 said:All I know is, when a member of Kayo Dot drops in to tell you he's been in your shoes and, in essence, is on your side, you know you've got to do something.
I will do my best to show my teacher up. I'll probably end up doing my composition the way he wants, finish the semester, and then drop the course in the future. But I will still prove to him that metal is the sophisticated, structured, experimental music of today, and that his lack of understanding cannot malign or change that fact.
Btw, Change Of Seasons won't work after the first three or four minutes.
Y...you just said that Dream Theater has minimal cheese?
DiscipleOfPlato said:I can expect someone misguidedly labeling Dream Theater as "technical wankery." I've seen it an innumerable amount of times from certain individuals, and it's a perfectly viable surmisal from their opinionated point of view, but I just can't fathom why anybody would consider them "cheesy." Enlighten me, if you will. Point out for me specifically which work of theirs is noteworthy of "cheese," because I must have missed it somehow.
the alumnus said:your professor is setting you up for failure. i'm sure he, like many, consider beethoven's 9th to be the greatest work of art in existence. how then could any metal compare to beethoven? even haydn could not compare, and he was the quintessential classical composer. the only way to win is to trick your professor. play for him james murphy's cover of "race with the devil on spanish highway" from the album "feeding the machine". its an al dimeola cover. al is a great jazz guitarist, and for him to criticize al would be to criticize all of jazz. i'm sure he wouldn't wittingly do so, but you can trap him into such a position.
if i were you i wouldn't expect to change your professor's mind. he gave you an assignment and you fufilled the terms. he simply disagreed with your style on arbitrary and subjective terms. i would refuse to work under such a disgrace of a professor.
Theli said:For metal with minimum cheese or childishness...
Dream Theater and Savatage (Streets and post Streets) directly comes to mind.
anonymousnick2001 said:I know, you guys. I just need to prove a point.
And Planetary Eulogy, you yourself said that metal at its best was better than jazz. Maybe that's all I need to prove...
The power ballads on images and words...even though the rest of the album is pretty good. I think dt have really outgrown the cheese stage of their career, but they certainly HAVE been guilty of it in older albums.