What albums did you listen to today?...continued

Ahh, I always found it was LaBrie's voice on that one that was my undoing with it, so shrieking in parts. He's still not my favourite singer, but you can really tell how he learned to tone things down on the later albums (say, from `Scenes From a Memory') moving onwards, became a much better singer because of it too.

That reminds me, I've been meaning to ask...it's not just my imagination that every few weeks DT's `The Astonishing' pops back up on the `Most Popular Album of the Last 24 Hours' section on the front page of the Archives, right?! It's some kind of glitch, I assume?!

Meltdowner wrote: ^^ Nice!  ^ What did you think of the new GBS? This weekend: Dream Theater - Images & Words Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement Lena d'Água - Lusitânia The Cars - The Cars Zone Siz - Zone Six

Well as per usual my mind tends to gravitate towards electronics, so it was a nice and welcome surprise that they'd infused their usual approach with different sounding synths and modern electronics. The drums and bass though remains in the sweetspot - y'know that warm old school almost wooden sound that most contemporary bands shun (their loss).
I listened to the titletrack off Octavarium here the other day. T'was pretty nice actually although I could do without the singing. Kinda like a tribute track to Floyd's Wish You Were Here and 70s Yes...with a big boot full of crunching guitars and double pedal work from the good Mike Portnoy.

My fave has always been the Mazda

Sorry Jim, I was being my usual sarcastic self
I still don't own a driver's license...but if I did I'd look out for an original Mini Cooper or maybe the old VW Scirocco instead

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Ahh, I always found it was LaBrie's voice on that one that was my undoing with it, so shrieking in parts. He's still not my favourite singer, but you can really tell how he learned to tone things down on the later albums (say, from `Scenes From a Memory') moving onwards, became a much better singer because of it too. That reminds me, I've been meaning to ask...it's not just my imagination that every few weeks DT's `The Astonishing' pops back up on the `Most Popular Album of the Last 24 Hours' section on the front page of the Archives, right?! It's some kind of glitch, I assume?!

I've been only listening to I&W when I feel like listening to them, partly because it's their shortest 

Cristi wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: That reminds me, I've been meaning to ask...it's not just my imagination that every few weeks DT's `The Astonishing' pops back up on the `Most Popular Album of the Last 24 Hours' section on the front page of the Archives, right?! It's some kind of glitch, I assume?! I don't know how the`Most Popular Album of the Last 24 Hours' works, but this is a mess of an album, one of my disappointments in recent years (although i will say DT has been going downhill for me after Octavarium, with very few outstanding moments for me to enjoy ).

Cristi, I just couldn't believe that it really would be `Most Popular Album of the Last 24 Hours' anymore! Sure, when it came out...they're a high profile band probably putting out (regardless of its actual quality!) one of the `biggest' prog albums of that year....but how long ago was it? Three years or more? I mean, it was popping up in that corner of the front page when there were some pretty big albums being checked out, drawing a lot of attention, or being quite heavily reviewed on the main page. Unless people are still angry about it after all this time!

Ha, I remember I gave it a five-star review when it came out. I never liked it, but I greatly admired the band for putting out such an obnoxiously self-indulgent and over-the-top `prog' statement and overblown concept piece. I still admire them for it, even if I can't really dig the album!

Meltdowner wrote: And for classic European cars, this one's my favourite

Edited by AEProgman - October 30 2018 at 14:22

The Dead C | The Dead See Perform M Harris
The Dead C | DR503
The Dead C | Clyma est Mort
Sly/Fam Stone | Stand
Klaus Schulze | Cyborg
James Ferraro | Human Story 3
James Ferraro | Discovery
Joni Mitchell | Taming the Tiger
Faust | s/t
Crispy Ambulance | Random Textures
Connan Mockasin | Jassbusters
Colin Newman | Not To
OCS (Oh Sees) | Memories of a Cut off Head

Thee Oh Sees have succeeded in putting out one of the most kickbutt records I’ve heard in the last couple years (A Weird Exits) and one of the gentlest and prettiest (Memories of a Cut off Head). They are certainly a current band to watch.

Edited by HolyMoly - October 30 2018 at 18:38