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Dellinger 
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Posted: November 30 2017 at 17:59 |
 Squonk19 wrote:
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M27Barney wrote:
Six Degrees - Best Epic by DT. Where is the current CD? |
Actually, the Six Degrees Epic doesn't do much for me. I do love the whole first disc... and that one would even be my very favourite DT CD, but I can't consider the album as a whole my favourite because I don't really find much to enjoy on the "epic"... and it even doesn't feel like a single long song to me, but several songs joined together by a mutual theme. |
I like the album overall - but at the time I found the 'epic' to be very much separate songs joined together rather clumsily with no clear flow though them. As a concept album you need those differences, but as long arrangement calling itself one piece - better bridging, transitions and recurring themes were called for. 'Scenes' did it so much better. |
I guess that doesn't help either. But if it were only the clumsy joining of the pieces it wouldn't really bother me much. It's just that I don't really like the songs, except for "War inside my Head" and a few bits through the rest of the suite (I remember somewhere in there being a very nice guitar solo). I usually don't like medleys, because I end up wanting to hear the whole songs, but I guess this could be an exception, and a well thought medley of that disc could work very nicely (just as they should have done a medley of Scenes from a Memory using the parts that were originally intended for the 20+ min epic song, that ended up becoming a whole album).
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Posted: November 30 2017 at 17:00 |
Dellinger wrote:
M27Barney wrote:
Six Degrees - Best Epic by DT. Where is the current CD? |
Actually, the Six Degrees Epic doesn't do much for me. I do love the whole first disc... and that one would even be my very favourite DT CD, but I can't consider the album as a whole my favourite because I don't really find much to enjoy on the "epic"... and it even doesn't feel like a single long song to me, but several songs joined together by a mutual theme. |
I like the album overall - but at the time I found the 'epic' to be very much separate songs joined together rather clumsily with no clear flow though them. As a concept album you need those differences, but as long arrangement calling itself one piece - better bridging, transitions and recurring themes were called for. 'Scenes' did it so much better.
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Posted: November 30 2017 at 09:28 |
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Hell, I'd like to know what's their best album from inside the classic era. |
I guess you should start a new thread then!! 
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Posted: November 29 2017 at 14:54 |
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Hell, I'd like to know what's their best album from inside the classic era.
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Posted: November 26 2017 at 08:24 |
Six Degrees Octavarium Black Clouds ADTOE ToT SC WDADU
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Posted: November 22 2017 at 21:19 |
M27Barney wrote:
Six Degrees - Best Epic by DT. Where is the current CD? |
Actually, the Six Degrees Epic doesn't do much for me. I do love the whole first disc... and that one would even be my very favourite DT CD, but I can't consider the album as a whole my favourite because I don't really find much to enjoy on the "epic"... and it even doesn't feel like a single long song to me, but several songs joined together by a mutual theme.
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Posted: November 22 2017 at 05:19 |
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Six Degrees - Best Epic by DT. Where is the current CD?
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Posted: November 22 2017 at 00:15 |
Dellinger wrote:
I do love In the Presence of Enemies... mostly part 1, but the rest of the album sounds rather weak to me. Or annoying. |
I like Part 2 more actually...........................................................................................
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Posted: November 19 2017 at 21:39 |
bender99 wrote:
My vote goes to Six Degrees, easily my favorite of DT's.
Out of the rest though, I actually rank Systematic Chaos as number 2 - and yes I know not many people seem to like that one lol.
Even on DT's own forum it doesn't rate highly, and I've never understood why, I never get tired of listening to In The Presence of Enemies, in particular.
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I do love In the Presence of Enemies... mostly part 1, but the rest of the album sounds rather weak to me. Or annoying.
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Posted: November 19 2017 at 01:50 |
My vote goes to Six Degrees, easily my favorite of DT's.
Out of the rest though, I actually rank Systematic Chaos as number 2 - and yes I know not many people seem to like that one lol.
Even on DT's own forum it doesn't rate highly, and I've never understood why, I never get tired of listening to In The Presence of Enemies, in particular.
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Posted: November 18 2017 at 21:33 |
GrafHaarschnitt wrote:
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Making a lot of posts. I don't remember how many, though.
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Posted: November 18 2017 at 14:55 |
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how can I vote?
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Posted: October 20 2017 at 06:53 |
Upbeat Tango Monday wrote:
Train of Thought. Fantastic album. |
Never been able to get into it...
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Posted: October 19 2017 at 14:54 |
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Train of Thought. Fantastic album.
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Posted: October 19 2017 at 14:42 |
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Six Degrees is their last great album so I voted for it.
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Posted: October 19 2017 at 03:22 |
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Octavarium, especially title track
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Posted: October 18 2017 at 15:17 |
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Six Degrees, cause Blind Faith
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Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.
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Posted: October 18 2017 at 14:05 |
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I voted for WDADU, although I know the sound isn't great, the songs are!
Octavarium would be close, Black Clouds.. has two awesome epics back to back to finish, and one disc from Six Degress is sublime, but WDADU wins on consistency...
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Posted: September 13 2017 at 03:28 |
Train of Thought
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