METROPOLIS PART 2 - SCENES FROM A MEMORY

I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about Progressive Rock in any form. I know a little but nowhere near the extent of many on this site. That said, I love this album. I've heard Operation: Mindcrime, I've seent he wall, along witha few other well known concept musical ventures,a nd I have never been able to feel what is going on so well as I did with this album.

Yes, the lyrics, when observed out of context can be cheesy and cliche, but the emotion played through the music makes you understand how something so simple and so overly- used becomes so honest and truthful. I feel for these characters like I would a great novel, and I feel for the musicians as well.

Granted, there is cheese throughout it. Cheesiness does definately occur. But it is so overlapped by the beauty of Rudess's keyboard, and the undertoned power of Myung's bass. Everything is so calculatedly perfect, as I've enver seen before in an album, concept or otherwise.

I loved it. It is my favorite album.

PS the DVD is really retarded though. Lame graphics, terrible acting, the only reason to watch is to see the boys play.