You're not in Kansas anymore, dorothy. on a related note, I just saw these play for the first time with Mangini in the fold. They're a changed band. LaBrie and Myung aren't phoning it in anymore. Speaking of LaBrie, he's on fire right now,nailing everything and his voice sounds really clear and not the usual nasal screeching of the last 2 portnoy tours. On another note. Mangini. Holy. Fucking Shit. It's like he's not of this planet. It's like watching a magician. He was randomly playing parts using only one hand. Not just for the snare rolls in Fortune in Lies but in every other fucking song. He added loads of cool shit to the old parts too. Portnoy was always a presence but his tricks were basically 3 fills and standing up playing the verse beats. Mangini rocks the fuck out playing everything and you wouldn't know there had ever been another drummer. Petrucci and Rudess killed it as per usual but it's not just them standing out anymore. It's all 5 of them and I didn't hold out much hope for them tonight. We got setlist A, which means no Dark Eternal Night and we got the acoustic break not the piano break which was preferable. The acoustic break needs to stay in the set. People went mad for it. All the dramatic turn stuff sounds so much better with proper sounding live drums rather than the flappy thin sounding ones we got on the record. Thunderous. Even Build Me Up... didn't sound dreadful. Basically, thank fuck for Mangini. The new album is going to fucking reign. tl;dr :
OuuuaaaaaaææÆAÆÆæÆÆÆæUUuuuuUUUææææÆÆÆÆÆæ When he goes up, you can't understand a single goddamn word.
You know an album is great when there are no sarcastic changes to the thread title on the 5/8 forums.
it took about a month to grow on me. i listened to it from start to finish, wasn't impressed. i decided to give it a second chance and listened to the songs individually. now it's up there among my favorite DT albums. the only other album i regard as highly is six degrees.
Dream Theater - A Dramatic TURD of Events v. John PeTOOTchi, Jordan POOdess, John MyDUNG, Jamies LaPEE, and Mike ManPEEPEE.
I never gave this album a proper rating (and in fact slagged the shit out of it when I first heard it haha). I give it an 8.x/10, best album since 2003. lol Mike Portnoy. Here is my ranking: 1. Breaking All Illusions 2. On The Backs Of Angels 3. Far From Heaven 4. Outcry 5. Bridges In The Sky 6. This Is The Life 7. Beneath The Surface 8. Lost Not Forgotten 9. Build Me Up, Buttercup
Just because a song isn't super-witty and non-ignorant unlike you not me and/or their music style doesn't stand out, it doesn't necessarily mean that song is ignorant or not worth considering. Everysong should be respected as a worthy addition to our DT community.
Whoa, shit, sorry my bad, I didn't realise it was you Asteroid. I apologise profusely for my colourful language.
Zoom Q3HD audio quality bootleg of the Milan (Italy) gig: http://www.mediafire.com/?nt4q6k2q412052j Setlist: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dream...um-forum-di-assago-assago-italy-3bde8464.html
once every blue moon, I try to pop this in and genuinely listen to this album...... only to be reminded of all the cringe worthy moments and bad ideas that plague this albums potential. I now understand the importance of MP's role with the band; he had the balls to say "No" to ideas that didn't work, or find a way to make them fit and groove. I keep finding too many parts that just don't fit, flow, or leaving me with a :"WTF were they thinking?", and I thought it was impossible for DT to make music that would bother my musical taste this much. Every time I listen to this album, I keep getting this feeling that they just put 'the whole kitchen sink' of ideas together, without really playing through their ideas and sifting out the bad moments.
Oh the humanity... A "wank fest" on a Dream Theater album. Surely this has never happened with Portnoy in the band.
After having listened to the album a lot... I can finally say it kinda sucks. I like one song on the whole damn thing. But that is one more than the last two albums
