Album Rating: 4.5
This album also grew on me, albeit rather quickly. A bit ago I read an analysis of the 5 and 8 theme, as well as some other stuff over at http://dt.spatang.com/octavarium.php and it really struck me how ingenious Portnoy can be as a producer. I especially like the idea of the songs progressing up a modal scale, with Octavarium ending on the same note the album began on.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Nice review, "Panic Attack" is my favorite song on this and you did good job analysing it. 
4 for the album
4.5 for the reviewThis Message Edited On 04.03.06
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Album Rating: 5.0
Octavarium is the ultimate track on this, although Never Enough is awesome, almost Stockholm Syndromey in epic as well as similar sounding riffs (Drop D, octave leaps etc)
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Album Rating: 3.0
A friend leant me this, and while the production is excellent, I'm finding it a little cold and samey. I really quite like Images and Words, but maybe this will have to grow.
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Album Rating: 2.5
I'm really dissapointed in this album. I'd give it 2/5 the most.
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Album Rating: 3.5
THIS ALBUM IS QUITE AMAZING! IF I WERE IN DREAM THEATER'S SHOES I WOULD BE QUITE DAUNTED BY THE FACT THAT SOMEDAY WE WOULD HAVE TO MAKE AN ALBUM TO TOP "6 DEGREES" & "T.O.T"!! THEY DID, & THEY DID IT WELL!!
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Album Rating: 3.5
We finally get a releif from the super heavy metal from TOT and go back to classic DT. All of the songs show how well the band can perform togethor but my favorate DT song EVER is Octavarium. The best epic that anyone has written.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Not better than Shine on You Crazy Diamond, surely?
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'm on a 5/5 mood today.
I must say man, you did a great job and did give a good perspective of this CD for me!
Keep it up
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Album Rating: 5.0
For all of you so called DT fans who complain about albums and how they put them together. Also, to those who complain about concert setlists and lack of heaviness in an album....listen to the lyrics to "Never Enough" They're about you. Be a real DT fan and love everything they do because they do it for us, and sacrifice everything else they love for us.
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Album Rating: 4.0
The song 'Octavarium' bores me slightly - but 'Panic Attack' is incredible.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I've got to say, all the people leaving dissappointing negative comments on this album should buy the actual album instead of DOWNLOADING FAKE VERSIONS OF THE SONGS. The ones you get on Limewire or Kazaa are most likely fake. Go out and buy the actual album instead of criticizing DT for somebody elses work. This album is amazing. Buy it.
p.s. Good review.
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I dislike this review. Especially your description of the title track. I don't like how you just described the song part by part, bit by bit.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Btw, it sounds like this person reviewed the wrong version of "Never Enough" too. I heard the fake version with the same track length and it fit the reviewer's description.
p.s. Am I the only person who noticed "The Root of All Evil" ends with a main piano part reminiscent to "Voices"? Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's from "Octavarium" but every time I hear it, I get "Voices" stuck in my head...This Message Edited On 05.16.06
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Album Rating: 3.5
"Not better than Shine on You Crazy Diamond, surely?"
It surely is. PF repeated that song way too much where as you are acually climbing something in Octavarium. And when you reach that last note, you realised that you have been listening for 24 mins!
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Come on guys! This album is full of references both musicaly and lyricaly come one this is a peace of art!
- The hole cd is referenced as a musical octave! this is a peace of art! Each song is in their corresponding note acording to a musical octave in a piano, and at the end, in octavarium, in the intervals you can hear a part where each verse, or interval, is a reference to a song in the album and you can hear portnoy in the background singing in each interval
root..
second...
third...
all the way until the octave!
and the hole thing gets united!
and at the very end you hear the first chord of the root of all evil, like if the whole thing starts all over again, The story ends where it begaaan!!
this cd is just a peace of art, I cant believe that this review forgot to review the best and unique fact of the album that it is a peace of very hard work by these increidable musicians!This Message Edited On 06.02.06
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Come on guys! This album is full of references of other albums and songs.
- The hole cd is referenced as a musical octave! this is a peace of art! Each song is in their corresponding note acording to a musical octave in a piano, and at the end, in octavarium, in the intervals you can hear a part where each verse, or interval, is a reference to a song in the album and you can hear portnoy in the background singing in each interval
root..
second...
third...
all the way until the octave!
and the hole thing gets united!
and at the very end you hear the first chord of the root of all evil, like if the whole thing starts all over again, The story ends where it begaaan!!
this cd is just a peace of art, I cant believe that this review forgot to review the best and unique fact of the album that it is a peace of very hard work by these increidable musicians!
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it doesnt top scenes from a memory but still one of their best albums!This Message Edited On 06.02.06
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Album Rating: 2.5
I'm listening to this album for the first time right now. I liked The Root of All Evil, but The Answer Lies Within is really bad so far.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I think the album is amazing and you did a great review
I don't think they really need to "top" anything
They just do new, amazing things and take things in different directions
even if the intro to 8v is a bit long
This was the first whole album of theirs I heard and the technicality and thought behind the whole album was amazing
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