Dream Theater "Systematic Chaos" Revealed

I don't like the album's name nor the cover, specially the third ant on the floor, it just doesn't look good, some shading is missing imo. This cover is lame. I just wish this album is better than octavarium that one's maybe there worst album (but not really a bad one).

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Why are there two guys, on on fire, shaking hands on WYWH?????
Why Is there a woman with a fox head on Foxtrot????
Why is there a flying pig on Animals???
Why is the earth falling apart on fragile????

Get used to prog rock art work my friend! It almost never makes perfect sense when you look at it alone!

TheProgtologist wrote: Who cares about the cover,the music is all that matters!!!!

I'm right with you Progtologist, but you and I both know by now that many people on this site are not content unless they can take people's creativity and express displeasure with it.  If someone creates something from nothing and dares to call it art, to many people that is only a way to open themselves up to being dismissed or worse, ridiculed.  It makes them feel important, as if their opinion is so refined and high-brow that if they haven't been appointed supreme critic of all, by gum, they should be.  To them, most people should not even try to create.

This most often is not a conscience choice.  It is how society works anymore and many people are conditioned to have these types of reactions. In a world of political correctness where many people try and put a shiny veneer on all things, life is still about survival of the fittest.  If you are not the best, you lose.  There are so many meaningless threads on PA to back this up.  Which album/band/musician is better.  The constant need to determine "the best."   But you know what, in real life, I don't have to choose.  I can listen to Pink Floyd one minute and Yes the next and be totally content.  Maybe one is better than the other, but I can enjoy them both and not have to label one as "bad" and one as "good."

Just live your life, take in what is around you and concentrate on things that are actually important.  The release of this album cover artwork should not determine whether your life just got better or worse.  Some person or people came up with the concept and created something that wasn't there yesterday.  I say good for them.

I single no one out with these feelings.  It just seems fairly rampant around here on too many subjects.  If the music disappoints you, by all means pass that along in a constructive manner.  You paid for it (I hope) and are entitled.  But please temper your feelings about artwork or album titles or individuals in their attempt to 1)create something for you to enjoy and 2)make a living while doing it.

(I now step off my soapbox)

The cover is, well, ugly.

TheProgtologist wrote: Who cares about the cover,the music is all that matters!!!!

For me a good album cover is like the icing on the cake ...

Who cares about the cover,the music is all that matters!!!!

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Prog-jester wrote: ugly cover and split epic...I'm already sceptic The split epic worked fine for Pink Floyd ...

As well as the The Flower Kings!

-Marc.

Prog-jester wrote: ugly cover and split epic...I'm already sceptic

The split epic worked fine for Pink Floyd ...

ugly cover and split epic...I'm already sceptic

I'm not a DT fan at all but I like the cover, except for that little crest thing, that looks really lame, it's basically the same as the dead kennedys' one.