Never thought I'd hear myself say this

[Metal head87]

Images and Words
Awake

without Kevin Moore (he wrote the vocal parts too) this band is not perfect anymore.

Definite agreement, although I would also add WDADU, since that's my favorite DT album.
It wasn't only Moore's songwriting that made me love those albums, he also had a very atmospheric and ethereal playing style.

 

[Shpongled]

I have a hard time taking Kevin's post seriously.

Understandable, but indeed I'm serious.

 

[Chromatose]

Deadly serious.

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

Space-Dye Vest is an awesome song. The best DT song, easily.
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That is because it is one of Kevin Moore's tunes. He actually does a much better version on his first demo.

No annoying MP drums and JP guitars.

 

[Shpongled]

Sounds like DT is one of them "love em or hate em" kind of bands, eh?

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

I used to love them but now they bore the hell out of me. The only song I still listen to is Blind Faith.

 

[Chromatose]

That is because it is one of Kevin Moore's tunes. He actually does a much better version on his first demo.

No annoying MP drums and JP guitars.

<3 kevin moore

*currently listening to OSI and shaking my fist at MP*

 

[Chromatose]

or more particularly I've taken a break from the fist shaking and am now swooning over steven wilson on shutDOWN

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

As much as I bash DT and their fans, Awake actually isn't that bad. Everything else can go to shit though.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

Mega-Dave-Peh Truck See! Do a barrel roll!

http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=868550xmegatron2th0.jpg

 

[azal]

or more particularly I've taken a break from the fist shaking and am now swooning over steven wilson on shutDOWN

fantastic track.

IMO that album would have been perfect it, say, mark zonder played drums on it.

it's great as it is...but on songs that are slower like shutdown and the radiohead-sounding stuff like hello, helicopter, I think portnoy, as he has a tendency to do in most songs that are not too proggy, overplays the fuck out of everything.

on slower and more ambient songs dude needs to have his second bass drum and 7/8 of his toms and cymbals confiscated.

 

[Cat5Messiah]

Cool, good insight. I guess I should check out the rest of their stuff. It'll be interesting to discover these guys backwards. What album should I start with?

Awake.

Scenes From a Memory is a great fucking album but probably not the best to start out with (Systematic Chaos aside). Images and Words was a great album and that's how I got started with DT considering it was their only album at the time (minus When Dream and Day Unite but that's pre-Labrie).

Awake has the most heaviness to it compared to anything that DT released in the 90s, in my opinion. The Mirror = fucking win.

 

[fading]

I dig the new DT. I haven't liked much since "Scenes from a Memory". Although I liked some of "Train of Thought".

 

[Dead_Lioness]

I agree with Derick... Awake is the only album that is tolerable, the rest are not my cup of tea, to put it mildly

 

[Chromatose]

I didn't say that!

 

[Dead_Lioness]

well,I said that.
but you made me remember the name of that album that I can actually stand by DT

 

[mReEtTaIlRsEkD]

that concept album, scenes from a memory: metropolis? or something


SHE'S MY BROTHER BUT I LOVE HER!!!!!!

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

The chiild with balls of fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiire

James Labrie is a horrible front woman

 

[Cat5Messiah]

that concept album, scenes from a memory: metropolis? or something


SHE'S MY BROTHER BUT I LOVE HER!!!!!!

Yea, Metropolis Part 2.

 

[Liverslapper]

But daaaaamn the newest Dream Theater album is awesome! Where have I been all these years?!

i liked it.