THE FINAL EXPERIMENT (SPECIAL EDITION)

You can see my review for original album in proper section (Ayreon artist page, studio albums section, first entry), so my positive words about CD1 can be found here. I'll concentrate on CD2 then.

Maybe this entry shouldn't be here at all, maybe it should just be added as bonus tracks (CD) to original album, but it's here, many people reviewed it and so I take it that way. Because I rated Original Album with 5 stars, shouldn't this be 5 stars as well, when it's OA + something more ? If you think that way, take this review as 5 stars, but I'm personally not sure how to think about it. Not what to think, because I already know what I think about this music, but this word how is the problem.

Semi-Acoustic ? If you wonder what it means, just think "acoustic" most of the times, it will make it clearer. Of course, this stuff isn't as good as OA, they're not as strong. It still bear Ayreon's watermark, you can recognize him in this, but it's more "for fans" addition.

However, if planning to buy "The Final Experiment", it's better to buy this version. Because if you'll like first CD, you'll probably like 2nd CD as well. But if you won't like even "the strong point", 1st CD, you won't care about this one as well. But you'll get the same result with OA, so it really doesn't matter.

Either ways, this version is better.

4(+), it puts this down a little bit, making it more "for fans", but not so much. Original CD is still here.