Dream Theater vs Tool
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Topic: Dream Theater vs Tool
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Subject: Dream Theater vs Tool
Date Posted: May 16 2019 at 16:22
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1999: Dream Theater released their greatest masterpiece (according to PA ranking: 4,30): Metropolis Part 2 - Scenes From a Memory. 2001: Tool released their greatest masterpiece (according to PA ranking: 4,22): Lateralus. According to your opinion, today, what is the most memorable album? ------------- "Happiness is real only when shared" |
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Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: May 16 2019 at 17:04
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Hmmmm.... As a general rule, I'll take DT over just about anything, even Tool. But I am given pause on this one as I think this site has scenes overrated relative to a number of other DT offerings. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: May 16 2019 at 17:32
| Scenes from a Memory for me. I do think Lateralus is overall more consistent, but nothing really stands out, and it doesn't remotely have the same highs that Metropolis 2 has. |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: May 16 2019 at 17:59
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I would consider myself a bigger Tool fan than a Dream Theater fan all around. ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: DarkTower
Date Posted: May 16 2019 at 18:15
| DT. Scenes is a real masterpiece . |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: May 16 2019 at 18:16
| Though I don't consider either "overrated", none is my cup of tea. I don't think I can vote for one or the other. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 16 2019 at 22:27
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DT ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: May 17 2019 at 05:57
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I'll take DT for 100, Alex . . . ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 17 2019 at 06:09
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I haven't listened to these two albums in a very long time, neither is a favorite from these bands. So no vote for now.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 17 2019 at 06:40
| Tool for me. These are both stunning albums though. |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: May 17 2019 at 07:06
agree but voted overrated.
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Manuel wrote:Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 17 2019 at 07:12
| Tool, but I don't really like anything by DT. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: May 17 2019 at 11:31
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both albums are excellent when I am in the mood for heavy voted both ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: May 17 2019 at 23:26
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firstly both are masterpieces but the vote went to DT ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: May 18 2019 at 06:01
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I voted for both. I like them very much, for different reasons: - the powerful melodies -> DT - the great work on the rhythm -> Tool But, to be sincere, I dont consider these albums absolute masterpiecese of prog - though they are very solid. ------------- "Happiness is real only when shared" |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: May 18 2019 at 06:13
| I vote Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory, it's a wonderful album amongst the best albums ever made, even today after all these years it still has an effect on me (playing it now). |
Posted By: tboyd1802
Date Posted: May 18 2019 at 07:51
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Tool... ------------- He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me -- John Barrymore |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 18 2019 at 11:03
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Tool - not a big fan but I have a lot of respect for them (and 10000 Days in particular is very beautiful). I do like that they seem quite indifferent towards belonging to a genre - metal, progmetal or whatever and create their music in whichever way comes natural for the lyricism and what they want to express. I can only think of Radiohead amongst other hugely successful mainstream bands who seem equally free, open minded and artistically ambitious. They're sonical universe is bigger and emotions at display more diverse which makes them unpredictable and more artistically interesting than DT (who are always semi complex metal in one way or another) ------------- 
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 18 2019 at 11:20
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Of these two choices? Lateralus — easily. That's Tool's best album. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Upbeat Tango Monday
Date Posted: May 18 2019 at 11:46
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Dream Theater. Scenes From a Memory is a great album. I don't like Tool one bit. ------------- Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 19 2019 at 03:37
| Tool easily . There are at least 4 Dream Theater albums I prefer to Scenes from a Memory. |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: May 19 2019 at 08:33
| I don't really get Tool which is why I keep trying ... everybody tells me to keep trying. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 19 2019 at 10:36
Same here: the four before SFAM  ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 19 2019 at 11:02
it's like you read my mind
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Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: May 23 2019 at 22:29
| Their latest one gets back to the four before SFAM. |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 27 2019 at 09:28
| What did you call me? |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 27 2019 at 12:40
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I wouldn't say that either album is overrated (at least that I know of) -- when talking overrated, I prefer to speak of specific claims that are made about music and bands. For instance, if someone genuinely claimed that Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory is undoubtedly the first true Prog album, then I would make the argument that that person has overrated its significance and should study the history of Prog more. I don't like either album, and while I have listened to both in full, neither were memorable to me, other than I remember not enjoying either of them (I found Tool's album rather more palatable). I might listen to both in full again to try to remember the music, then wait a while to see which one's music I can best still remember, but after listening to portions of those tracks just now, I don't want to. That said, Tool has some music that I have heard and liked, and Dream Theater has some that I have quite enjoyed, such as "The Ytse Jam" because it reminds me in part of Spinal Tap's "Rock 'n' Roll Creation". ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 27 2019 at 13:14
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Laterus is my favorite by Tool and i can't abide any DT so it's Tool easily ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 02:28
| bump! |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 03:17
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Too easy. Even if I didn’t prefer Tool to DT in general, Scenes is not one of my favourite albums by DT by a very long shot, so it would not even give any competition to Undertow (which is probably the album most likely to have a chance at me choosing a DT album over). Against Lateralus, though? No chance! ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 03:20
Scenes is not my favorite either, but still wins here. Tool's first couple of albums would be a tougher choice indeed.
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 03:38
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Lateralus, hands down. I have never got DT, although I have tried. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 04:05
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Tool by a mile. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 04:05
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Tool - Lateralus ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 05:49
| Tool without any hesitation |
Posted By: felonafan
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 06:54
| DT |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 07:05
| There are a couple of DT albums that I enjoy, but I'll pick the last option, as I think both are overrated. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 08:34
I agree here, a bit overrated they are.
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Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 09:10
| Tool. I'm not a fan, but they have some good songs (and a lot of missed potential, methinks). I can't stand Dream Theater. |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 09:29
| That Tool song enters my head every time my kid gets complicated LEGOs. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 17 2022 at 09:51
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Whatever the question is, the answer is TOOL. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 12:00
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DT ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |