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Mr ProgFreak 
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 Posted: June 03 2009 at 17:04 |
^ why would someone buy 6 or more albums of a band that he hates? Nah, I'm not buying that. 
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Logan
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Posted: June 03 2009 at 17:28 |
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^ the lengths some will go to to impress a girl. ;)
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Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me.
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King Crimson776
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Posted: June 03 2009 at 17:59 |
^ Girl's like DT!? f**k! And to think I've been trying to like Radiohead! 
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JayDee
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Posted: June 03 2009 at 20:25 |
LaBrie's gonna be replaced by Portnoy.  Seriously, I can't picture Dream Theater having a different vocalist aside from LaBrie.
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The T
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Posted: June 03 2009 at 22:32 |
 Mr ProgFreak wrote:
^ why would someone buy 6 or more albums of a band that he hates?
Nah, I'm not buying that.
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Oh buy it. I own all 4 Mars Volta albums and probably will buy the fifth as a song is titled after a volcano in my country. So i will end with 5 cds of a band I almost hate  (with the exception of the first album). It's just that sometimes you try hard, and think that the next album will be the one you'll like. Alas, it doesn't happen.
Regarding the thread, I would actually have serious problems digesting DT without LaBrie.
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Isa
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Posted: June 03 2009 at 22:35 |
Greg W wrote:
Get rid of LaBrie and you get rid of half the cheese. Get rid of the rest of the band and you get rid of the other half of cheese. Just kidding....maybe........
Seriously, Labrie did a solid job on Human Equation. With DT, he is happy singing in that old hair spray metal style of voice which is extremely annoying. He has proven, he is quite capable of singing in a more modern style, so why does he still sing with that cliched 80's style glam metal voice? YUK!  |
\ Funny you should say that, actually... I went straight from being a total hair metal fan to a prog head in a matter of a couple weeks. I remember first hearing LaBrie's voice and thinking "wow... does he really have to sing all alternative rock like that?" Ask any real fan of hair metal, they'd disagree with that statement.
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Scrub
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 01:07 |
catfood03 wrote:
They could stage a TV show like INXS did and audition for a new singer, or swap LaBrie for an American Idol contestant. 
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Get Adam Lambert please! Lol...
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progkidjoel
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 01:29 |
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I don't like LaBrie's voice, TBH
but...
You can't deny his amazing vocal range
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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 02:31 |
The T wrote:
Mr ProgFreak wrote:
^ why would someone buy 6 or more albums of a band that he hates?
Nah, I'm not buying that.
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Oh buy it. I own all 4 Mars Volta albums and probably will buy the fifth as a song is titled after a volcano in my country. So i will end with 5 cds of a band I almost hate (with the exception of the first album). It's just that sometimes you try hard, and think that the next album will be the one you'll like. Alas, it doesn't happen.
Regarding the thread, I would actually have serious problems digesting DT without LaBrie.
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By "I'm not buying that" I really meant that I didn't believe what SFranke said on the previous page ... of course I'll be buying the album. 
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Marty McFly
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 04:12 |
DT without LaBrie would make a feel like it's missing something. Don't you think ? Genesis without Gabriel wasn't so good. I know, he in Gen was far more important, but still.
Actually, DT can impress a girl, in autumn 2008, when I was in pub with girl I was dating, I turned on my notebook and showed her Score, live from 2006. She was very impressed. Same situation was few times since. And when I met my current girl this february, first thing (which was by the way one of reasons to make a date) was to show her this gig. And she loves DT since.
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu  Even my
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 04:14 |
M@X wrote:
Maybe you are right or maybe not because as you may not know that PORCUPINE TREE released an intrumental version of "Fear of a Blank Planet".
So maybe it's just a new market trend to improve the quality and content of CD-package !
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Be nice if you have the option of being able to isolate individual tracks, so I can remove all the crappy guitar solos from what is an otherwise really great album.
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StyLaZyn
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 06:49 |
Petrovsk Mizinski wrote:
M@X wrote:
Maybe you are right or maybe not because as you may not know that PORCUPINE TREE released an intrumental version of "Fear of a Blank Planet".
So maybe it's just a new market trend to improve the quality and content of CD-package !
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Be nice if you have the option of being able to isolate individual tracks, so I can remove all the crappy guitar solos from what is an otherwise really great album.
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You know, that (removing lenghty pointless solos) and the ability to replace all those drum fills with basic beats. Some soloing is needed but too much of a good thing is a bad thing.
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UMUR
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 07:02 |
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LaBrie sounded great on Images & Words and Awake because the song lines were outstanding and fit his voice perfectly. Iīve always felt that it was the songlines that werenīt as good on later albums and not problems with James voice. This only counts for studio work though because he absolutely sucks live. Saw Dream Theater on both the Awake and the Falling Into Infinity tours and he sounded strained and uncomfortable. He dragged the overall performance down quite a bit IMO. Havenīt bothered to see them since then though. He might have bettered his performance?
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SFranke
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 09:41 |
Mr ProgFreak wrote:
^ why would someone buy 6 or more albums of a band that he hates?
Nah, I'm not buying that.
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I paid <$4 for each one. I'll try almost anything for that price. Plus the hype machine for this band is incredible. I do like I&A, ACOS, and the Glass Prison. Everything else I find extremely irritating. Oh well; I gave them an honest try.
Edited by SFranke - June 04 2009 at 09:42
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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 10:59 |
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^ why use a strong word like "hate" then, if you even like some of their works? Of course you can say (almost) anything you want about them, I just find it a bit strange.
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The T
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 10:59 |
Mr ProgFreak wrote:
The T wrote:
Mr ProgFreak wrote:
^ why would someone buy 6 or more albums of a band that he hates?
Nah, I'm not buying that.
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Oh buy it. I own all 4 Mars Volta albums and probably will buy the fifth as a song is titled after a volcano in my country. So i will end with 5 cds of a band I almost hate (with the exception of the first album). It's just that sometimes you try hard, and think that the next album will be the one you'll like. Alas, it doesn't happen.
Regarding the thread, I would actually have serious problems digesting DT without LaBrie.
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By "I'm not buying that" I really meant that I didn't believe what SFranke said on the previous page ... of course I'll be buying the album.
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By "buy it" I actually meant that you should buy what you weren't buying, which is SFranke's statement that he bought albums of a band he hates. I was just giving some more evidence that such a silly behavior can happen, and does happen, like my TMV experience shows... 
Of course I know you'll buy DT... 
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The Pessimist
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 12:55 |
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Best news I've heard in a long time.
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
Arnold Schoenberg
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Logan
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 13:02 |
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Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me.
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 13:02 |
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No way to really know unless something happens, but I HOPE this is true!
I would like to see a new vocalist.
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Posted: June 04 2009 at 13:10 |
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