My post earlier on in this thread is from months ago!!

Six Degrees is a brilliant album, I love the actually song, some of it is scarily inspiring!! The hammond organ in Blind Faith is stunning and to me, is one of those songs that sends chills up my spine.

The Great Debate is also great for having on in the background. I will say that the quality of the sound on the album deteriorates in some parts, ie. The Glass Prison.

[QUOTE=sensitiveorgan00]A bit late, but I gave 6DOIT (Disk 1) another listen last night. I haven't touched this cd in months, but after listening to it, I enjoyed it. Sure, it's not as good as SFAM or Awake (IMO), but The Glass Prison and Dissapear are really stunning. That melody in the beginning of Dissapear is so fvcking awesome. That song owns live. :cool:[/QUOTE]
I take it you were at the NYC show too? ;)

I agree sensitives older comment. I've actually been listening to the album again in the past week. My opinion didn't change much about disc 2, except maybe an appreciation for some of the soloing at the end of Goodnight Kiss. I really like every song on disc one though, save for that final part of Misunderstood. Listening again also made me remember how much The Glass Prison just totally owns.

Yep. Teh show = teh goodness. Teh red hair babe down from me = teh hotness.

Anyone have Blind Faith and is willing to send it to me? I was checking tabs of it, and after hearing it on Guitar Pro I want to hear the full version...finally someone that isn't nu-metal using drop A on guitar...must hear

[QUOTE=The JoZ]Anyone have Blind Faith and is willing to send it to me? I was checking tabs of it, and after hearing it on Guitar Pro I want to hear the full version...finally someone that isn't nu-metal using drop A on guitar...must hear[/QUOTE]
I don't think it's a drop-tuning, but I'm pretty sure he uses a 7-string.

...Standard 7 string tuning is BEADGBE...and in the tabs and in the MIDI I have, his lowest is tuned to an A

Not 'true' drop A (ADGCFAD, in his case) but still lower than his usual B

I don't think it's a drop-tuning, but I'm pretty sure he uses a 7-string.

This album is really really good. Very diferent from the others, This one is a lot more heavier, well ToT is more heavy. I'd give it a 4/5.

Listening to the Great Debate live is absolute sex. The songs are played much better live.

I've always had a problem with Six Degrees.. (the track). It has some very good parts (Solitary Shell, About to Crash), but as a whole it really doesn't strike me as much as many of Dream Theater's long songs do.

A Change of Seasons is the obvious comparison - ACOS is a song; one complete song, it's focused and coherent (and absolutely fantastic, as a side note), and it works. Six Degrees.. on the other hand really just appears to be several shorter songs cobbled together, with no uniting direction or focus. It just sounds bitty and half-hearted most of the time. Random personal notes - I absolutely love the riffing at the end of Solitary Shell (about 30 minutes in), and I absolutely despise the Overture.

The rest of the album pretty much follows that pattern. The Glass Prison is good though.

[QUOTE=Bartender]I've always had a problem with Six Degrees.. (the track). It has some very good parts (Solitary Shell, About to Crash), but as a whole it really doesn't strike me as much as many of Dream Theater's long songs do.

A Change of Seasons is the obvious comparison - ACOS is a song; one complete song, it's focused and coherent (and absolutely fantastic, as a side note), and it works. Six Degrees.. on the other hand really just appears to be several shorter songs cobbled together, with no uniting direction or focus. It just sounds bitty and half-hearted most of the time. Random personal notes - I absolutely love the riffing at the end of Solitary Shell (about 30 minutes in), and I absolutely despise the Overture.

The rest of the album pretty much follows that pattern. The Glass Prison is good though.[/QUOTE]

I agree that 6diot is not their strongest epic, but it does have some very intriguing moments, and Petrucci hardly ever resorts to just showing off to fill up some space. My band is actually using this piece as a template to write our own epic (we'll probably make ours a little more "cohesive" though). I take the tracks in this song as separate songs themselves, I guess it makes it easier to digest a 42 minute long song.

Album Rating: 4.5

[QUOTE=Kaden]I don't think it's a drop-tuning, but I'm pretty sure he uses a 7-string.[/QUOTE]



Actually, it's a baritone guitar that IS in fact tuned to A, which he uses for the whole song. That's why he plays all those relatively low-register Am soloing licks so fast, is because they're higher up the neck. The keyboard/guitar tandem bit is a six string tuned normally.



EDIT: oops, somebody got this already. Disregard.

This is their only album i don't have. I will be picking it up after reading this.

Album Rating: 3.5

blind fiath, solitary shell, and goodnight kiss just take the cake. those songs are phenomenal . . . but the rest of the album is just abosolutely kickass too, i'd give it 4/5 . . .

[QUOTE=slashjunior]I would give 6DOIT 4.5/5.

Great album. IMO it is their greatest album in terms of songwriting and the transistion from metal to ballad. The first disc has some real heavy stuff mixed with some great ballady stuff, really a lot more experimental with different sounds, especially Petrucci and Rudess. The second disc is just amazing.

Not really related but does anyone notice how the last 3 DT albums smoothly transist from one to the other? The rain from the end of SFAM starts the 6DOIT album, then that long fade out at the end of 6DOIT slowly fades back in at the start of TOT. Try putting all the albums into something like Winamp SFAM first, then 6DOIT, then TOT and tell me what you think. Sorry if this has already been done, but I found it and I am pretty proud :D.[/QUOTE]

If you made to any DT gigs during their 6DOIT tour they play the end of Metropolis II I didn't make it to a train of thought gig but I suspect they followed through there too. You guys could check out Liquid Tension Experiment (The story behind it all is pretty cool!) - Members of DT plus Tony Levin on bass

6DoIT is my latest DT album after getting ToT, I&W and SFaM, I like I&W most but 6DoIT isn't bad at all.

Blind Faith is a good song. I don't like a part of Glass Prison's part 2. The part where LaBrie sings really fast, meh, it's just not right.

I agree with your review. Dream Theater beats downs all competition for best long song with "The Glass Prision." :smash: After all, who can't love the bass line in the intro :thumb: and the drums and guitar through out the song. One of the bands I'm in are playing DT stuff just as good as DT (I'm don't brag about the bands I'm in :D) for my school's rock show.

Dream Theater Rule :thumb:

I'm listening to this album for the first time in a while. I just love it. Like the first disc is quite modern in the sense that it sounds very metal, rock, and alternative. The second disc sounds like it could almost be straight out of the seventies. And I love the transition from Goodnight Kiss to Solitary shell. And the synth tone at the beginning of SS rocks.

The cd in all is one of my favorites, there's no song that i dont love. i agree the last minute and a half of misunderstood does drag on pretty bad but the first 7-8 minutes make up for it :thumb: The intro to dissapear kinda freaks me out...those keyboards just do something..im sure im not the only that feels this way. 5/5

Album Rating: 2.0

Nice work. I love the Glass Prison even though I don't own this.