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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2006 at 18:18

Originally posted by cowbell1 cowbell1 wrote:

Does anyone else think that Darkside of the moon is a bit over-rated when compared to other Pink Floyd albems? I mean I think Meddle is a far better albem with Darkside of the moon maybe being their 4th or 5th best.

Originally posted by cowbell1 cowbell1 wrote:

Does anyone else think that Darkside of the moon is a bit over-rated when compared to other Pink Floyd albems? I mean I think Meddle is a far better albem with Darkside of the moon maybe being their 4th or 5th best.

Yeah basically most people who are actually into Floyd think that...  but DSOTM is no where near as overrated as The Wall.

On progarchives Animals, WYWH, Meddle, etc. generally get the recognition they deserve... its only the mainstream that really knows them for DSOTM and The Wall.

My opinion on DT doing an entire album of Pink Floyd covers is that they like money... Its amazing how much crap some of these bands will put on cd.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2006 at 18:48
^I think DSOTM is a great album.  A lot of people scorn it because it gets such public recognition.  Imo Pink Floyd's peak was from 1970-1975.  During this period the band worked best as a whole instead of trying to find their feet pre 1970 and Waters dominated stuff 1977-1983.  I think DT covering DSOTM sound really interesting and I would like to hear it. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2006 at 18:56
Where can I get it? Coz it ain't on Ytsejam Records...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2006 at 19:35
Originally posted by Valarius Valarius wrote:

Where can I get it? Coz it ain't on Ytsejam Records...


They are releasing it in two weeks (i think) on the Ytsejam records website.

Since I know someone asked: LaBrie's vocals sound great on the CD. He
really did a great job at least IMO.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 00:52
I'd like to hear it.......



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 00:57
So it is more like a bootleg kinda thing rather than official record label release?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 03:48
Originally posted by hamham hamham wrote:

Originally posted by martinprog77 martinprog77 wrote:

SORRY GUYS BUT NOTHING IS BETTER THAT THE ORIGINAL IMO
have you even listened to this cover yet? lol

edit: has anyone listened to this yet though? how is labrie? :(
YES I DO . A FRIEND OF ME [DT FAN] DOWNLOW  A COPLE OF SONG AND TO BE HONEST IS LIKE 6 OUT OF 10.IS JUST OK .BY THE WAY I THINK THE IN THE FLESH[FROM COS IS BETTER THAT THIS]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 08:40
I have listened the cd, I have to say it are good cover's. LaBrie has a good voice, bu imo you shouldn't cover songs from a great band like Pink Floyd. Dream Theater is a great band too, but with an other character and an other sound. I shouldn´t make covers anyway.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 23:01
Originally posted by jesperz jesperz wrote:

So it is more like a bootleg kinda thing rather than official
record label release?


It's one of Dream Theater's "official" bootlegs from their label Ytsejam
records. So it's official and was sold at their show but it's not a major label
release if that's what you mean.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2006 at 17:30

Originally posted by cowbell1 cowbell1 wrote:

Originally posted by Dr Know Dr Know wrote:

They are a great band, but doing all these covers is getting a bit ridiculous. I will stick to the original Dark Side of the Moon by the original band.



Does anyone else think that Darkside of the moon is a bit over-rated when compared to other Pink Floyd albems? I mean I think Meddle is a far better albem with Darkside of the moon maybe being their 4th or 5th best.

i feel the same way ...

but it's not bad or anything ... maybe a bit overrated or something ...

or maybe not :)

saying that it's better then meddle is risky for me, because most tracks on it suck (imo).
Even one of these days gets boring fast ... that just leaves echoes which is nice ...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2006 at 18:17

nothing ever beats the origanol but still my two favorite bands are pink floyd and dream theatre it should be intresting

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2006 at 18:29
I have heard the bootleg and it sounds nearly the same as the original. I expected Petrucci to play his own solos but he just reproduces note by note the original Gilmour solos, trying to sound exactly the same. And he gets it, but I don't see the interest of buying this. It's exactly the same DSOTM we all know. I already have it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2006 at 19:09

Animals is still my favorite by Pink Floyd. I wonder what it would be like if Dream Theater covered that...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 09 2006 at 23:36
Originally posted by _sam_ _sam_ wrote:

Animals is still my favorite by Pink Floyd. I wonder
what it would be like if Dream Theater covered that...



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2006 at 00:05
Originally posted by Malice Malice wrote:

Originally posted by cowbell1 cowbell1 wrote:

Originally posted by Dr Know Dr Know wrote:

They are a great band, but doing all these covers is getting a bit ridiculous. I will stick to the original Dark Side of the Moon by the original band.



Does anyone else think that Darkside of the moon is a bit over-rated when compared to other Pink Floyd albems? I mean I think Meddle is a far better albem with Darkside of the moon maybe being their 4th or 5th best.

i feel the same way ...

but it's not bad or anything ... maybe a bit overrated or something ...

or maybe not :)

saying that it's better then meddle is risky for me, because most tracks on it suck (imo).
Even one of these days gets boring fast ... that just leaves echoes which is nice ...

Call me crazy or whatever you want, but i really think that Pink Floyd in general is overrated

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2006 at 14:58

And for some reason I think it absolutely SUCKS that they've recorded the gig in London...
I was there, in Amsterdam... Call me selfish, but I just think so

By the way, in Japan they played 'Made in Japan', right? Will that be released?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2006 at 19:45
Eh, theyve already butchered Master of Puppets and Number of the Beast, so ill leave my DSOTM to Floyd thank you very much
If anyone knows where I can get a copy of some Flute and Voice (Indo-Prog/Raga Rock) albums please PM me! Many thanks!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2006 at 02:21

Many years ago a friend of mine send me a cassette tape (i said: many years ago) with a band doing covers of rock classics, and I liked very much.  It was the 'Change of Seasons' by DT, a band that I heard before but didn't liked. Then I buyed various albuns and became a DT fan. But then came the '6 Degrees' and 'Train of Thought' albuns and I forgot them again...

The years passed and I heard that they were doing live versions of complete classic rock albuns. I remembered that they did great covers in the past, and when I heard that they were doing 'DSotM' I became interested. Then I downloaded a live version of it, but when I listened... what a deception...  It was only a fine copy of the original ! They didn't added nothing, absolutely nothing to the songs... It's something like 'The Moon Revisited' by Magna Carta...

If you want good covers of PINK FLOYD songs by great bands that did own personnel versions, try 'Signs of Life - Angular Tribute to PF'. It's excellent !!! Forget this DT xerox copy versions...

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2006 at 18:05
Originally posted by cowbell1 cowbell1 wrote:


Does anyone else think that Darkside of the moon is a bit over-rated when compared to other Pink Floyd albems? I mean I think Meddle is a far better albem with Darkside of the moon maybe being their 4th or 5th best.


Meh.  Floyd has a lot of great albums with interesting material.

But it's important to remember that DSOTM was a profoundly innovative album. It really blew the world away when it came out, partly because of the totally new sounds, partly because of the unusually perceptive and human lyrics (especially for prog rock, which tends to go off the deep end), partly for Alan Parson's brilliant engineering and production work, and partly because this is the album where Gilmore first becomes a guitar god (though he was clearly moving there in Meddle).

People often evaluate art by its context and impact.  As such, DSOTM was one of the most influential albums ever made in any genre.  It's up there with Sgt. Pepper's, Ziggy Stardust, and Never Mind the Bollocks as albums that most changed the course of music history.  So I think the accolades are justified, even if it isn't always my favorite Floyd album.

There's a reason it was the longest in the top two hundred albums.  It had staying power that lasted multiple decades.  Just last year I played it for my sister in law, who is 17 years younger.  She said she won't listen to music the same way ever again.  It is that kind of album, even more than 30 years later.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2006 at 18:12
on the website of Ytsejam (www.ytsejamrecords.com) you can watch a preview of the dvd.
Amazing stuff if you ask me. Still not for sale though.

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