Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2 (Concept?)

Edited by Hemis - January 15 2015 at 08:52

Search online and you will find explanations of the concept.......Murder/Mystery/Love Triangle/Reincarnation..

It's best to go through it yourself bit by bit, that's more satisfying than someone telling you straight away, but I will spoil it for you. Without going into details, the final key is that the hypnotizer is the reincarnation of Edward and so he kills Nicholas repeating what he had done with his previous-life-incarnation Victoria.

Thanks for the tips and the words. I have heard the album of course, a few times but it takes time to fully understand a concept

Thanks. It sounds interesting, the concept. And surely the instrumental is..

Its basically tragedy involving an affair with a twist ending. It fails at conveying any themes or "concepts", its characters are poorly written, and the events leading up to the tragedy are very predictable. In short its just a bunch of cliches tied together with music that can only be described as "metal meets movie score". Oh and the twist was really stupid.

Gerinski wrote: micky wrote: hahhaha read my review of it for ALL you need to know about the albums concept ...the music.. the voice.. I Michael, out of curiosity I read it and I'm really curious as to why did you rate it with 4 stars when apparently you despise it?

  ahhh.  Therein was the whole point of the review.  Who cares if I didn't like the album, one reason I have so few negative reviews.  Too many good one not reviewed to waste time sh*tting and pissing on one I obviously did not like.

However while some saw the review as a poke in the eye of DT fan, some saw, and my real intent was to poke the site in the eye.  I was a strong proponent of removing those stupid ratings and even more stupid ***** - masterpiece of prog rock etc etc descriptors. The first problem is the emphasis or onus of the review, is not upon what the reviewer actually writes, but what rating they attached to it.  It was sort of silly, so I piled on to it to try to show that.  4 or 5 stars to complete sh*t-stains of albums, I didn't like it but it is a classic masterpiece of prog rock. But who has ever said it has to be GOOD to be masterpiece.

conversely.. and much less inflamatorily I also rated some albums I loved 1 or 2 starts. I loved them, but only die hard hard fans of the artist should get them. Regardless of how much I loved them, no way IN HELL they should be rated 4 or 5 stars.

so long story to expain that. I was never going to win the fight to remove the ratings feature from the reviews, but the fun is in the fight itself.

yeah.. it served it purpose at the time.  Got some laughs from those who saw what I was doing.. got the panties in a twist of those who didn't and reporting my review to the poor admin team.

ahh...good times...