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Originally posted by dtguitarfan dtguitarfan wrote:

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Dream Theater..the new one..what's it called?There I thought of one.
Totally disagree with you on this one.  A Dramatic Turn Of Events is the first album in YEARS that Dream Theater has sounded like Dream Theater.  For years they've been experimenting, and while that has resulted in some great stuff here and there, they haven't had an album that was strong all the way through in years.  Now they've finally gone back to their roots and made an album that is in the same leagues as Images and Words.

Bullsh*t.

Yeah? Well, what's your favorite band? 'Cuz their albums SUCK...
Well Dream Theater is one of them which is why I was massively disappointed.Cry
Hmmm... not so sure Snow Dog... lemmie think, what could be Snow Dog's favourite band? I bet it's an Anthem type band and I'll think of it as Best I Can and look Beneath, Between and Behind or By Tor,  and Snow Dog, perhaps even I'll Fly By Night to Make Memories of Rivendell In The End...
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Clutching at Straws - Marillion. Not terrible by any stretch, but leagues below all the albums that preceded it, imo.


 

The best of the Fish era albums. Seriously. The album that made me think, hey...maybe Marilllion are not so bad. Then came Season's End. You know how I feel about thjat.
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Originally posted by dtguitarfan dtguitarfan wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:


Originally posted by dtguitarfan dtguitarfan wrote:



Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Dream Theater..the new one..what's it called?There I thought of one.
Totally disagree with you on this one.  A Dramatic Turn Of Events is the first album in YEARS that Dream Theater has sounded like Dream Theater.  For years they've been experimenting, and while that has resulted in some great stuff here and there, they haven't had an album that was strong all the way through in years.  Now they've finally gone back to their roots and made an album that is in the same leagues as Images and Words.

Bullsh*t.

Yeah? Well, what's your favorite band? 'Cuz their albums SUCK...
Well Dream Theater is one of them which is why I was massively disappointed.Cry
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Clutching at Straws - Marillion. Not terrible by any stretch, but leagues below all the albums that preceded it, imo.

Big Generator - Yes. Same as above. I generally don't have a problem with Rabin era Yes, but BG is not a patch on 90125.

Born Again - Black Sabbath. After the glorious two albums which Dio fronted, BA sounds slapdash and comical in comparison.

Anything by Rush, post Counterparts - Geddys voice got progressively better over the years, but I think their songwriting has been uninspired. A few little gems in there, but I've not heard anything since 1993 that confirms for me why this band is one of my favourites.

Zones - Hawkwind. Purchased at a time when I thought the Hawks could do no wrong. I had only heard their 'consistent' albums. I was very disappointed by the ad hoc, mish mash of badly performed, badly produced half baked ideas, that was Zones.
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Jethro Tull - Catfish Rising

Genesis (1970-1976) - The Lamb lies down on broadway

Camel – Harbour of Tears & Stationary Traveller

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Talking of bands I really love (which to me means my top 5 or so bands), and there are few albums.
 
 VDGG  - A Grounding In Numbers
Soft Machine - Land Of Cockayne
Magma - Merci
 
And even of those...Merci has some good moments. Also, I didn't expect Merci or LOC to be good but with AGIN I did with all the positive reviews.
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

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afore I start - nothing wrong with Seasons End or Holidays in Eden - Strange Engine - yeah that one was a miss for me that took me until Anoraknophobia to pick them up again - then any band that can record albums like Brave and Marbles can be forgiven. 
 


This Strange Engine is one of my desert island discs which I love from start to finish and I've never been able to understand the negative response to this album by a lot of people. Radation on the other hand contains about 15 minutes of worthwhile music and the remainder is just filler.



Must be about 10 years since I listened to The Strange Engine put perhaps I will dig it and give it another go.
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Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Originally posted by sagichim sagichim wrote:

Having only listened to the new Mars Volta twice (not with my full attention) I'm afraid it's going to be a disappointment, where are the guitars? Actually Octahedron wasn't what I expected too.

Noctourniquet is brilliant. Though i do miss Omar's masterful guitar playing, but it's fine. The compositions, thought not entirely made by him, are still great. Plus the focus on in-the-pocket drums and keys are a major success. 


I really want to like this since i'm gonna see them live in a month!! Big smile
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I actually really like going for the one, but tormato is a disappointment.  And then there were three was in my opinion genesis's last good album. Every genesis album after attwt is an utter disappointment. even duke
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:


Animals - Loved Water's lyrics in DSOTM and WYWH but from Animals onwards he gets more and more negative and cynical about the music industry and politicians. However loved the song Dogs which is one of Floyd's best numbers.

My favorite Floyd album.
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Points: 18057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2012 at 20:50
Well since I saw them on the tour in Sept, I appreciate Bridges/Sky a lot more now, I did not get Breaking All Illusions.....and I did not like Outcry live, its a boring song......It just drones on and on.
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Points: 7971 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2012 at 20:35
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ sure, but was it a massive disappointment?

Oh, definitely! When Portnoy left I was expecting them to move to new and bold directions (even though I basically love almost every album they have released so far), when, actually, they moved backwards and mysteriously decided that all of the sudden LaBrie was a good enough composer to contribute with the band when all of his solo albums are as good as being kicked in the balls repeatedly by someone using boots made of iron.
 
That's a pretty good response.......I would also add it was rushed and it shows, maybe Mike Portnoy was right.......They should have taken some time off.
I only like a couple songs on the new album......I skip a lot of them.

Quite true, it sounds like it was somewhat rushed and I also only like one, maybe two song off of it.
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2012 at 20:33
Originally posted by sagichim sagichim wrote:

Having only listened to the new Mars Volta twice (not with my full attention) I'm afraid it's going to be a disappointment, where are the guitars? Actually Octahedron wasn't what I expected too.

Noctourniquet is brilliant. Though i do miss Omar's masterful guitar playing, but it's fine. The compositions, thought not entirely made by him, are still great. Plus the focus on in-the-pocket drums and keys are a major success. 
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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ sure, but was it a massive disappointment?

Oh, definitely! When Portnoy left I was expecting them to move to new and bold directions (even though I basically love almost every album they have released so far), when, actually, they moved backwards and mysteriously decided that all of the sudden LaBrie was a good enough composer to contribute with the band when all of his solo albums are as good as being kicked in the balls repeatedly by someone using boots made of iron.
 
That's a pretty good response.......I would also add it was rushed and it shows, maybe Mike Portnoy was right.......They should have taken some time off.
I only like a couple songs on the new album......I skip a lot of them.


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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

afore I start - nothing wrong with Seasons End or Holidays in Eden - Strange Engine - yeah that one was a miss for me that took me until Anoraknophobia to pick them up again - then any band that can record albums like Brave and Marbles can be forgiven. 
 


This Strange Engine is one of my desert island discs which I love from start to finish and I've never been able to understand the negative response to this album by a lot of people. Radation on the other hand contains about 15 minutes of worthwhile music and the remainder is just filler.

Massive disappointments for me are:

Camera Camera (Renaissance) - Never quite got into Azure D'or but nothing prepared me for Renaissance's attempt at going pop.

Animals - Loved Water's lyrics in DSOTM and WYWH but from Animals onwards he gets more and more negative and cynical about the music industry and politicians. However loved the song Dogs which is one of Floyd's best numbers.

Relayer - Coming on the heels of TOTO which is my favourite all time progressive rock album, the first section of Gates Of Delirium I found to be a rambling mess. It gets a lot better towards the end of the first side (the Soon section) and side 2 contains two great songs in Sound Chaser and To Be Over.

The Sum Of No Evil (Flower Kings) - Just never been able to get into this album
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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

I immensely dislike Dream Theater's newest, a Dramatic Turn of Events. 

After a little bit of skepticism during the first few listens, ADToE became one of my favorite albums.  It stands out to me because I think it's better composed than their others; DT has a tendency to get all heavy-riff-happy on the parts with vocals and solo-happy during the instrumental parts, and I felt that this album had more interesting parts underneath the vocals and that the instrumental sections had more of a compositional, structured feel instead of just functioning as cadenza sections.
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Points: 7971 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2012 at 20:24
Originally posted by sagichim sagichim wrote:

Having only listened to the new Mars Volta twice (not with my full attention) I'm afraid it's going to be a disappointment, where are the guitars? Actually Octahedron wasn't what I expected too.

You need to listen to that again, bro. Every song of every album is composed by the guitarist and he plays in EVERY song.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ sure, but was it a massive disappointment?

Oh, definitely! When Portnoy left I was expecting them to move to new and bold directions (even though I basically love almost every album they have released so far), when, actually, they moved backwards and mysteriously decided that all of the sudden LaBrie was a good enough composer to contribute with the band when all of his solo albums are as good as being kicked in the balls repeatedly by someone using boots made of iron.
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Having only listened to the new Mars Volta twice (not with my full attention) I'm afraid it's going to be a disappointment, where are the guitars? Actually Octahedron wasn't what I expected too.
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