Album Rating: 2.0

This, Scenes and Awake are all you need

Album Rating: 5.0

As well as the Change of Seasons epic. It is the greatest Sherinian-era epic, even better than the ones on Falling Into Infinity.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah this band pisses me off, but ACoS is a classic.

Album Rating: 3.5

"As well as the Change of Seasons epic. It is the greatest Sherinian-era epic"



It's also their best song

Album Rating: 4.5

I'd say their entire discog is worth going through if you're in the mood for them, except the self titled. Sure, some albums have awful songs, but they also have great ones too. Don't ever touch the self titled though.

Album Rating: 4.5

There are (or used to be) bootleg videos of A Change of Seasons live with Kevin Moore.

Some parts were way different, it sounded amazing with Moore's keyboards.

Album Rating: 5.0

It's also their best song [2]



Metroplis' instrumental section isn't bad, but I think that song's the one I listen to the least

because of the wank

Album Rating: 3.5

Moore has always been my favorite DT keyboardist. He was perfectly skilled and added a very nice melodic touch to their sound. Sherinian was okay and Rudess has some pretty cool lines and solos, but definitely none of them has the songwriting skills of Moore.

Album Rating: 5.0

I love Rudess and he gets a lot of undue hate, but Moore was obviously a major part of the old school DT sound. Sherinian was cool as well, his contributions on FII are pretty damn good, plus he uses an actual B3 Hammond Organ, extra marks for that.

Album Rating: 4.0

Rudess grew up like five minutes away from me

Album Rating: 5.0

Moore is the man.

Album Rating: 5.0

5 this or derp

Album Rating: 4.5

Rudess is great, but the wankery is too much when it comes to him. He brings the most sonic variation in the band at least, but that's all I can defend him with with their recent efforts

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah I like Rudess' contributions to the band generally, but he also has some horrible keyboard that just don't fit, like in his solos in Beneath the Surface and Along for the Ride

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah he exclusively uses synthesizers, it would be good to hear some more organic instrumentation. But his parts apart from the wanky instrumental sections are normally interesting. He needs to vary his ideas now though, he's exhausted them

Album Rating: 4.5

Well besides the stuff he uses that resembles samples, it would be nice if he played around with his synth sounds more. I mean, we all know that *classic* DT keyboard sound and I think that should change

Album Rating: 4.0

Rudess is hit or miss sometimes

Album Rating: 5.0

He needs to buy an actual Hammond organ, a Rhodes piano, a mellotron, and use his actual piano

Album Rating: 4.5

He needs to do more interludes like the one in Blind Faith. I wouldn't mind the wankery so much if it were on an actual piano and not something trying too much to compete with Petrucci's guitar

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, DT would need more piano parts, like the Lost Not Forgotten intro and in Blind Faith.



"trying too much to compete with Petrucci's guitar"



Yeah, I think that's something Moore understood way better. Him and Rudess just don't have the same way of seeing the role of a keyboardist in DT imo. Moore was the melodic, textural part of their music, whereas Rudess acts like a second lead musician. I mean, of course he should have solos, and some of his solos are excellent, but Petrucci already does an awful amount of wanking in his solos, and I don't expect even more wanking from the keyboards, as there are so many nice textures, sounds and different things you can do on a keyboard.