DREAM THEATER - SCORE: 20TH ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR LIVE WITH THE OCTAVARIUM ORCHESTRA

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This is probably one of the best live recordings of all time. Score perfectly encapsulates the bands music over the course of their career, with at least on song from each album.

Normally with live albums the quality can suffer, yet here some of tracks sound as good, if not better than their studio counterparts. LaBrie's voice is flawless throughout, bar the odd missed word.

When rock bands team up with a full orchestra there can only be two results, chaos or perfection. Dream Theater achieved the latter. The songs with the orchestra are really transformed, especially six degrees and Metropolis 1. If your wary, though, of this transformation fret not, many classics like UaGM and IF are played by the band alone.

This brings me on to another point. Metropolis 1, Under a Glass Moon, the full Six Degrees and Octavarium... What a setlist!! And that's not all of them! Raise the Knife, Another Won, Sacrificed Sons... I could go on. I bought this DVD on that alone.

Closing comments are that this is an amazing live video, with enough blemishes to make it real yet enough strengths to make it masterful. 4/5!!!!

shininglight | 4/5 | 2007-9-8

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