SX self titled

[estYMaj]

Ok sorry if this has been talked about a lot before but I was on my way to work today and i just for the hell of it threw in SX first album , I have not touched it in years !!!! , I always liked masquerade and Absinthe and Rue but i found a real appreciation for Thorns of sorrow and a lesson before Dying tho I still have a problem with the vocals on most I really enjoy these songs now.

Just wondering what peoples thoughts were on this album lately??

 

[Phanto]

I don`t know why my heart keeps calling
but I really don`t want you to stay
I have my reasons to keep from falling
then cast me into -

 

[Postulate]

this album is so funny because you can tell rod tyler and michael romeo want to be totally different things, and you end up with some weird-ass hybrid that sounds like a melodramatic metal opera performed in the dark with synthesizers.

 

[EyeballKid]

OH NO...Phanto's done it...

 

[Postulate]

listening to it again right now

it is growing on me, i admit

I guess I always took for granted SX's technical ability, but really the fact they played so well together right from the debut is pretty incredible.

Also, the verses in Premonition are awesome.

 

[Lucius Octavion]

this album is so funny because you can tell rod tyler and michael romeo want to be totally different things, and you end up with some weird-ass hybrid that sounds like a melodramatic metal opera performed in the dark with synthesizers.

You are correct

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

The album has some tracks that I think would sound awesome if re-done with Russ on vocals (Premonition, Absinthe & Rue, Thorns of Sorrow). I'd love to see them release a few bonus tracks on the next album; Masquerade worked great on The Odyssey!

 

[Slaydon]

I recently got Spotify, so I looked up SX and immidiately got the songs from the first album on top. Now I see why this album is largely ignored by fans and critics. Some songs start out well, but then spur off to nowhere.

 

[mark b]

I have always liked it, i'm sure Symphony X mark1 if they had stayed together would still have a great following today!!

 

[proulxski]

I think its just as good as every other symphony x album. Granted it sounds like they recorded in a bathroom (toilet to be exact)! And Rod Tyler sounds like my cat when it gets stuck in the vacum! But I dig it alot, and I'm just joshing about Rod Tyler he really isn't 'that' bad! If you guys have the Fan Club Disk, he does a version of 'A Winters Dream' and I was actually really impressed. He isn't a bad singer, just what he was trying to do really wasn't his style!

 

[PurpleDink]

Hate it hate it hate it.

 

[_Gentleman of_the Snow_]

I've only heard it once, but I enjoyed it to a certain extent.
As good as any of their other albums? LOL, how can you say that?!?!?!

 

[proulxski]

Because Symphony X has never dissapointed me, and I love all their music. Like I said minus the obvious gripes, sound quality, and the singer. Its rather nicely done, by just as good as all the other ones I mean it fits in with their other albums just fine, obviously on a chart its the lowest of all. But its still pure symphony x rapege!