Album Rating: 3.0

(bows)

Album Rating: 4.0

The Glass Prison is awesome.

lul dream theater

Album Rating: 4.0

Not your best review for Dream Theater but good nonetheless. My favorite is Awake, you really did a great job on that one.



I can't decide which album i prefer most. Images and Words, Awake, sfam, six degrees, train of thought, and bc&sl are all my favorites.

Album Rating: 5.0

Nice review...a 96-minute album is bound to not have everything on it catch on with everyone. There are some things I, of course, disagree with given my rating.



Misunderstood is about that very condition. Nobody understands this main character, so an effective "wall" is built between him and the people he meets - like Pink Floyd's wall. The dissonant outro is this wall being built. Okay, that was a bit simpler...



Disappear doesn't use any samples and deals with a different subject for sure - after all, LaBrie wrote the lyrics and could never try to be Kevin Moore. Its horrible empty feeling is apparent from the very beginning, while Space-Dye Vest is a gradual slide into oblivion.



The way that this mood is created is also different: Space-Dye Vest is burnt-out, almost a black hole of emotion. The listener knows the character is empty because they can't feel anything. Disappear involves the listener more directly: they feel the emptiness and despair associated with losing a life partner.





Goodnight Kiss will obviously be cheesy to many listeners. However, the character is suffering from post-partum stress disorder and we don't know what's happened to her baby...obviously, you can't expect her to be very sane.



No composition is truly trying to copy any other. Go back and listen to the two songs back-to-back, paying attention to the structure and the overall development of the pieces, and see if I change your opinion. I may not like all the thematic elements of music I listen to (ie: Kekal), but I still appreciate their contribution to the overall whole.

Album Rating: 3.0

Well, I'm not saying that it's copying everything from it, but the keyboard line does sound almost exactly the same. And I think Disappear is dull, you may be right about its meaning but I still don't think it's a good song.



It's opinions in the end, though, I appreciate your comment on the review, obviously, if you enjoy this that much, good for you, there are plenty that would agree with you.

Album Rating: 5.0

I enjoy Six Degrees because of its incredibly deep thought behind the overall concept. A huge amount of effort was put into this album, but that alone doesn't make a classic. Some other reviewers have illustrated how 9/11 had a profound effect on the mood of the music.



Each degree - alcoholism and/or insanity, death, moral conflict, alienation, mental illness and doubting one's religion - is a factor that can separate humans from each other or from God. If you spoke to devout atheists, you'd often find those who lost faith because they were in doubt about it, disagreed with moral teachings, could not believe that a God exists because they either had no evidence and/or were betrayed by religion, or they could not believe that God would let their loved one die.



Such "degrees" of inner turbulence are also the causes behind religious extremism as a whole (see Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider), which is what led to 9/11 - and the root of human evil itself. The theme of Six Degrees as an album is pretty much contained in the Grand Finale: understand the people who are lost in this way and help them, and you WILL build a better world. This is probably the reasoning behind the 100-second final chord: you, as the listener, have to fill in the ending yourself. Think about that next time you listen - it's truly quite a brilliant, unique concept.



PS: DT fans will like what I dig. I don't see this band in your ratings...

Album Rating: 3.0

I'm fairly new to prog. I'm more of a hard rock guy, but Dream Theater has been a recent dig, and I thought it would be interesting to take on reviewing their discography. I'll look into that band though, thanks for the rec.

this is amazing, the second disc is so emotional and well put together









o wait its Dream Theater 2.5

Album Rating: 3.0

Don't worry, Fade, Train of Thought is next.

that and Awake are the only ones i kind of like

still dont listen to them anymore though

Album Rating: 4.0

metropolis part 2 ftw

Album Rating: 3.0

You'll just have to suffer through seeing Dream Theater on the front page a few more times, then it'll all be over ;)

Album Rating: 4.0

whoa almost missed this. i gotta take more breaks from my game im making and get on sputnik more.

i find the glass prison and SDOIT Finale to be the best from this album

that finale gives me shivers



great review as usual ties, pos'd

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this is amazing, the second disc is so emotional and well put together









o wait its Dream Theater 2.5

Album Rating: 4.0

This is a pretty good album. Not the best they've done, but certainly not the worst.

Album Rating: 5.0

Excellent review as usual.

Album Rating: 2.5

i actually kinda like the glass prison from this

Album Rating: 3.0

negged. sorry bro

Album Rating: 5.0

Just after listening, I am back to proclaim that this is now my favorite album EVER. Absolutely incredible...I don't even think I could review it...