well maybe in terms of technicality, yeah. but 6 Degrees takes the same ideas musically as Scenes and makes them more accessible/listenable. plus, it's actually pretty freakin catchy in spots, which is saying a lot considering their style and genre.

Album Rating: 3.5

Explain how it makes them more accesible? Coming off an album that contains their best ballads, one of their most recognised and loved songs (Home) to a double cd that contains some of the most un-Dt songs they've ever released. Oh, and a 42 minute epic featuring a 6 minute overture. How is that accesible?

well the composition on 6 Degrees is just better across the board. Scenes felt like a mash-up of a tremendously wide variety of different ideas that, however good they all were individually, served to wear you out after repeated listens and didn't always come together cohesively as well as they should have.

6 Degrees, on the other hand, seemed to me like it refined the ideas on Scenes. There was still complexity, but they figured out how to keep it interesting for an entire album. also, there was much more palpable emotion on 6 Degrees, rather than just raw technicality.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

6 Degrees is quite nice, but I still feel Scenes is better. I feel that Scenes is overall better planned than 6 Degrees, but 6 Degrees has some amazing songs like Blind Faith and Disappear. 6 Degrees title track is IMO their weakest epic, feels disjointed at many points, but the songs work as individual songs.

Album Rating: 3.5

I can't agree with the notion that the latter of the 2 albums is musically more refined. This is THE DT album that they wear their heart on their sleeves. The whole concept of originality escaped them with 6 degrees.



Scenes was meant to be a coming together of radically different sounds, it's the whole premise of the album. And further listening only heightens the emotions that DT were trying to get across musically and/or emotionally.

Scenes was meant to be a coming together of radically different sounds, it's the whole premise of the album.

Album Rating: 3.5

but then a lot of others that sound like they just threw as many influences as they possibly could at the song



Title track for 6 degrees^



Yes, Scenes is filled to the brim with influences, more so than any of their other albums, but it's all balanced out nicely. There's no one area where they got lost in their own ability to play as technical and as fast as they can (save for The Dance Of Eternity, but that's the point with that song), everything moves from one transition to the next without required effort on the part of the listener to not cringe.



Disc 2 aside 6 degrees is Dt at their worst in my opinion. They had just come off a very successful tour for an even more successful album and I think they were unsure of where to go next. The result is a sloppy, ill-advised venture into borderline mainstream territory.

Album Rating: 1.0

ugh dream theater

Album Rating: 3.5

Oh, hey qwe3

oh, hey faggo--I MEAN qwe3.

silly me...so sorry.


Melissa: haha true the title track is a mish-mash. but that's just them paying homage to their past though.

and yeah i guess it's just a difference in tastes. i kinda like the hint of mainstream in 6 Degrees; they seemed a bit more comfortable with that then the extreme spazzy-style they had on Scenes. that's just me though, everyone's gonna be different (obviously lol). and i'm not even saying Scenes is bad...it's a difference of like 0.5 in my ratings.

if you get the chance though, check out Cain's featured review of 6 Degrees...he explains my basic thoughts on the 2 albums even better than i can. plus it's just plain wicked -- the thing would take up a city block if it was written in sidewalk chalk haha

Album Rating: 1.0

hahaha good one omg

Album Rating: 3.5

I'll check it out.

I was never arguing wth you by the way, i'm just always up for a good debate regarding the bands I love and treasure.



And hey, at the end of the day we both dig DT so that's all that matters right? Good talking to you

I was never arguing wth you by the way, i'm just always up for a good debate regarding the bands I love and treasure.

And hey, at the end of the day we both dig DT so that's all that matters right?

oh and you're welcome qwerty. don't worry, the awesomeness of being banned as many times as you makes up for your faggotry.

Album Rating: 3.0

I agree, 6DOIT is their best album in my opinion. It's entire 2nd disc is so genius in itself, it's Dream Theater without the wank, cheese, and is pure musical awesomeness in it's bare form.

Album Rating: 1.0

oh and you're welcome qwerty. don't worry, the awesomeness of being banned as many times as you makes up for your faggotry.

Album Rating: 3.0

Come on, who on Sputnik "isn't" the image of reason and maturity...

Album Rating: 2.0

Cocktavarium lol

i love how you make a big song and dance about maturity etc and say stupid shit like that. well done man! taking quips about dream theater that personally really do paint you as the image of reason and maturity.

Album Rating: 1.0

hahaha yeah okay person who voraciously defends dream theater