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Dream Theater => Dream Theater => Topic started by: Lolzeez on December 20, 2012, 03:58:49 PM
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Noticed that there was no thread on the greatest hit. Might as well make one myself and complete the I&W song threads. :metal Well,PMU is a good song. But i'm not really the biggest fan. Blew me away the first time i heard it though. That's a fact.
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The first song I heard from Dream Theater.
Mostly overrated by fans but still amazing. The intro is pure awesome, the high vocal part is the highlight of the song.
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Pull me Under....well, there's a local metal pub I frequent with my friends and PMU is pretty much the only DT song I ever get the chance to hear, but when that happens, I'm the one that parties the hardest. So I owe some nice experiences to it. Other than that, I usually skip the song after the first chorus when I listen to I&W, although "watch the sparrow falling" is one of my favorite LaBrie moments. The intro is kickass as well.
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Mostly overrated by fans but still amazing.
I think it's overrated by outsiders and casual DT fans and underrated by the hardcore.
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I don't think it's overrated by anyone. Fantastic song.
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It's an amazing song. Great intro, great band intro, great second verse, great instrumental breakdown, great chorus and great ending.
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Yeah it's an excellent song, took a bit to grow on me but I still appreciate it now as much as I do when I first began loving the song. It's a top 20 song for me.
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Should we also make this the On The Backs Of Angels thread?
:neverusethis:
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^ :facepalm:
Anyhoo - first DT song I ever heard, and the song still kicks major butt. :metal
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Why does my version suddenly stop at the end?
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Why does my version suddenly stop at the end?
that's the original song. they wanted to be proggy and symbolize the suddenness of death, I guess.
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I don't listen to this song very much anymore, but when I do, boy does it hit the spot! It's an excellent song, with some of Petrucci's best riffs.
Also, something to listen to when the world ends sometime today. Pull me under, I'm not afraid! :metal
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Great song, I'm not bored of it at all. But then again, I wasn't even born when this song was a hit! :lol
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Possibly the first DT song I heard, but not during its heyday in the early nineties. This was around 2000-2001 and I bought Images a few weeks after that (and Awake).
It's a great song and I can see why it became a hit, although the musical landscape was turning into the alternative/grunge scene during the time.
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Mostly overrated by fans but still amazing.
I think it's overrated by outsiders and casual DT fans and underrated by the hardcore.
That sounds about right. It's a really good song, but it's pretty average for IaW. Mind you, the average on that album is incredibly high. :lol
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I have always enjoyed Pull Me Under and think it deserves all the credit it gets, fabulous song.
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Great song, I'm not bored of it at all. But then again, I wasn't even born when this song was a hit! :jets:
Damn fogey moments. :getoffmylawn:
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Why does my version suddenly stop at the end?
Oh you.
Anyway great song, definitely top 40.
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Great song, I'm not bored of it at all. But then again, I wasn't even born when this song was a hit! :lol
I was :biggrin:
Not that I remember anything from that time.
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Great song, I'm not bored of it at all. But then again, I wasn't even born when this song was a hit! :lol
Hmmm... Reminds me of what i will reveal once my top 50 albums list ends.
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Great song, I'm not bored of it at all. But then again, I wasn't even born when this song was a hit! :lol
I was :biggrin:
Not that I remember anything from that time.
But you weren't born whe the song was being composed. I was :p
Anyway, would you have kept the erotomania bridge in the final version of the song?
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The song is almost as good as its video is bad.
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The song is almost as good as its video is bad.
I believe that's known as SWS, or "Separate Ways Syndrome".
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Great song, I'm not bored of it at all. But then again, I wasn't even born when this song was a hit! :lol
I was :biggrin:
Not that I remember anything from that time.
But you weren't born whe the song was being composed. I was :p
Anyway, would you have kept the erotomania bridge in the final version of the song?
Heck no. If they made the song longer,i'd have never discovered the band.
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Why does my version not suddenly stop at the end?
:neverusethis:
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I have never heard this song before
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The song is almost as good as its video is bad.
I believe that's known as SWS, or "Separate Ways Syndrome".
:lol
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This was my first Dream Theater song, I loved it from the start and I still love it to bits. Everything about it is just plain awesome, it's a classic.
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I love the song. One of my favorites from I&W.
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It's an amazing song. Great intro, great band intro, great second verse, great instrumental breakdown, great chorus and great ending.
I see what you did there. :D
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Why does my version not suddenly stop at the end?
The first time I heard it, I had downloaded it, and I actually thought the file was corrupted. Then when I bought the actual album and heard it, I assumed someone dropped the ball at the studio and released it like that by accident.
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JP's guitar tone is terrific, particularly with the main chunky riff and the chorus lead-ins.
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It's actually grown on my quite a bit. Love the simple rockin song to death.
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The instrumental riff beneath "gives new meaning to it all" is one of the best of Images And Word.
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The instrumental riff beneath "gives new meaning to it all" is one of the best of Images And Word.
:neverusethis:
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I don't get the tard face.
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The song is almost as good as its video is bad.
Truth. :jets:
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I don't get the tard face.
The instrumental riff beneath "gives new meaning to it all" is one of the best of Images And Word.
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Just a typo :lol
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But maybe TGP thought it's a huge mistake to forget even one letter from the name of a classic album! :lol
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When you are typing on your iPad there is no way you can conclude a post without even making one typo :)
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When you are typing on your iPad there is no way you can conclude a post without even making one typo :)
Written from my iPad.
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This song is the reason why I am here. Period.
Don't listen to it very often nowadays, but I everytime I do so, I enjoy it a lot.
Why does my version suddenly stop at the end?
Seems like your CD has a scratch or is dirty. Wipe it with a soft and moist cloth.
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Until a few weeks ago I had never heard of this song. Hard to believe but true, I'm brand new to DT. Amazing song, incredible that a band's best known song is eight minutes plus. Powerful chorus, distinct but beautifully joined sections, progressive, loads of interest, raw power juxtaposition soaring melody. Wow, blown away.
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Until a few weeks ago I had never heard of this song. Hard to believe but true, I'm brand new to DT. Amazing song, incredible that a band's best known song is eight minutes plus. Powerful chorus, distinct but beautifully joined sections, progressive, loads of interest, raw power juxtaposition soaring melody. Wow, blown away.
Yeah, probably a lot of us (me definitely) kind of take PMU for granted at this point. We've heard it so often, it's been played live 100s of times . . . amazingly well-constructed song.
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Until a few weeks ago I had never heard of this song. Hard to believe but true, I'm brand new to DT. Amazing song, incredible that a band's best known song is eight minutes plus. Powerful chorus, distinct but beautifully joined sections, progressive, loads of interest, raw power juxtaposition soaring melody. Wow, blown away.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I started listening to the band's albums in mid 2005 and the first time I heard "Pull me under" was in mid 2007 on MTV, late at night. I was high on Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence, so I didn't care about much else.
Also: you might know this by now, but their first Grammy nomination was for a song also 8+ minutes long.
How are you liking the band so far?
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At least as a new fan you can appreciate PMU without having it worn out by hearing it so many times. It's an excellent song, even if more straightforward than much of the rest of the album.
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Still love this one, it's so creative and it gives me a special feeling of just getting into DT, such times of wonder and happiness lol.
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I recently re-read Hamlet and thought about this song.
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At least as a new fan you can appreciate PMU without having it worn out by hearing it so many times. It's an excellent song, even if more straightforward than much of the rest of the album.
I know that feeling, having followed Jethro Tull, I never need to hear Aqulaung again.
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Until a few weeks ago I had never heard of this song. Hard to believe but true, I'm brand new to DT. Amazing song, incredible that a band's best known song is eight minutes plus. Powerful chorus, distinct but beautifully joined sections, progressive, loads of interest, raw power juxtaposition soaring melody. Wow, blown away.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I started listening to the band's albums in mid 2005 and the first time I heard "Pull me under" was in mid 2007 on MTV, late at night. I was high on Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence, so I didn't care about much else.
Also: you might know this by now, but their first Grammy nomination was for a song also 8+ minutes long.
How are you liking the band so far?
Put it this way, not listened to anything by anyone else for the past three weeks! Not like me at all, but I really think this lot are special and will be worth really concentrating on the music and getting into it all.
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Put it this way, not listened to anything by anyone else for the past three weeks! Not like me at all, but I really think this lot are special and will be worth really concentrating on the music and getting into it all.
Ah you sound just like me when I learned about DT, enjoy the discovering experience ^__^
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One of the greatest tracks of all time.
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Until a few weeks ago I had never heard of this song. Hard to believe but true, I'm brand new to DT. Amazing song, incredible that a band's best known song is eight minutes plus. Powerful chorus, distinct but beautifully joined sections, progressive, loads of interest, raw power juxtaposition soaring melody. Wow, blown away.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I started listening to the band's albums in mid 2005 and the first time I heard "Pull me under" was in mid 2007 on MTV, late at night. I was high on Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence, so I didn't care about much else.
Also: you might know this by now, but their first Grammy nomination was for a song also 8+ minutes long.
How are you liking the band so far?
Put it this way, not listened to anything by anyone else for the past three weeks! Not like me at all, but I really think this lot are special and will be worth really concentrating on the music and getting into it all.
Ahhh, sounds like me 24 years ago when I heard it for the first time! :o
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Pull me Under is the first track I loved from a purchased DT product, without knowing it's history. I think I really liked Dark Eternal Night (fun accessible prog metal song for me at the time) at yt and just bought the cheapest DT cd a while later. I listened to PMU quite a lot and listened to separate stuff at yt as a result. Then quite some time later I bought Score and my father gave me tickets to the 2011 tour upon hearing it. Score is what lured me in as a fan, but PMU served as a crucial bridge during the three to four years I knew them.
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A really great song. Though somewhat overrated, it is still a very fun track on a legendary album. It's also my girlfriend's "Dream Theater comfort zone" song. She doesn't listen to anything else from DT, missing out on so much greatness!
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Though somewhat overrated
Is it, though? I think that, among DT fans, it may be slightly underrated. Seems to have gone through a typical 'big song' life in that it becomes huge and gets loads of praise, but as people dig in to other stuff, they kind of stop talking about that song to counter-balance the attention. Then it goes the other way into being underrated. I may be wrong about the consensus though.
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Though somewhat overrated
Is it, though? I think that, among DT fans, it may be slightly underrated. Seems to have gone through a typical 'big song' life in that it becomes huge and gets loads of praise, but as people dig in to other stuff, they kind of stop talking about that song to counter-balance the attention. Then it goes the other way into being underrated. I may be wrong about the consensus though.
I get your point, I just don't understand why it's been globally defined as a big song. I believe that PMU is fairly average within their discography, though it's a great track. People go apeshit whenever it's played as an encore. I see a lot of people associating that particular song with DT as if it its cornerstone, too. I think that a large amount of people talk about Pull Me Under when someone mentions Dream Theater, though that's mostly people jumping on the DT bandwagon. Guitar Hero should've had more DT songs! :lol
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I have to say, coming at it fresh, it really is a great song. I know what it's like when you have been intricately and emotionally linked to a band for many, many years and it is hard to be objective. I'm like that with Tull and a bunch of others. I'm privaleged to be a DT newbie, still able to see the wood from the trees, and appreciate PMU for what it is.
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I have to say, coming at it fresh, it really is a great song. I know what it's like when you have been intricately and emotionally linked to a band for many, many years and it is hard to be objective. I'm like that with Tull and a bunch of others. I'm privaleged to be a DT newbie, still able to see the wood from the trees, and appreciate PMU for what it is.
Not gonna lie, I thought, what with you being a DT newbie, that this post was going to be about that thing that happens at the end of
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Never heard of it.
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The first song that introduced me to the world of Dream Theater. As I said, my first was Images and Words and when I listened to that album and this song, there was some kind of connection, some kind of puzzle piece that had clicked with me.
This song is fantastic and words can't describe how perfect this song is. Expect me to say that for each song. :tup
I've come to appreciate the drums from this album as I am loving the drum sound for "The Greatest Hits" album. Now, for me, when I listen to a song, I listen to it five times in this order:
1. Just for the music.
2. Reading the lyrics while listening.
3. Paying more attention the instrument.
4. For all of that.
5. To think about what parts of the song speak out to me.
That is the bare basic for all the songs. If I fall in love with it or I'm just bored, I just turn on a Dream Theater album and if it's Images and Words, this song always plays first (because it is the first song of the this album :loser:)
I've always loved the chorus (how catchy it is) and the resemblance to On the Backs of Angels.
Dat acoustic intro though!
Out of all the bands I've listened to, this band is the only album in which some songs easily clicked with me. I used to find epics to be awkward to listen to and not my style, but I've come to appreciate Dream Theater for the music they bring.
This song is awesome.
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First DT song I ever heard. So yeah...great song.
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Still an amazing song after all these years.
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Sometimes I feel like a band's super-fans just can't bring themselves to admit when a band's biggest songs are also their best. "Pull Me Under" is one of Dream Theater's best songs, just like "The Spirit of Radio" is for Rush, "Highway to Hell" is for AC/DC, "Don't Stop Believin'" is for Journey, etc etc.
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I wouldn't say PMU is close to DT's best (just because they happen to have a lot of amazinger songs), but it's still awesome. :tup
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I wouldn't say PMU is close to DT's best (just because they happen to have a lot of amazinger songs), but it's still awesome. :tup
Amazinger... :lol
I like the lyrics more than the music. Kevin's lyrics are always alluring.
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Amazinger... :lol
It's a word. Look it up in the Blobtionary.
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I will not now or ever look at anything called a blobtionary.
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I will not now or ever look at anything called a blobtionary.
Don't worry, there are no images. Just words.
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Better to look in the blobtionary than the kingtionary. It's like reading Gizoogle online.