I can't really appreciate Lost Not Forgotten that much because it sounds too much like Under A Glass Moon.
/Thiago
You forgot a in there.
Yeah, I got that it was just a joke, but jokes have to follow some logic, too and the "Thiago" part doesn't make any sense.
It's because you weren't here at the time when ADTOE was being released. One guy, Thiago, who is quite famous among DT fans for his great (and aknowledged my MP) split screen covers, came here with a lenghty analysis maintaining that ADTOE was a blatant ripoff of Images And Words. An unpolite discussion ensued and Thiago was either banned or left without ever coming back.
Uhm, yeah, I was there (reading the forum) and I know it and I just posted a quote from Thiago. If you just scroll up a little, you can see that I know exactly what you are talking about.
And Thiago
NEVER claimed that "ADTOE was a blatant ripoff of Images and Words". Did you actually read what he said? He said that there are structural similarities that obviously are no coincidence. And that certainly is
true. And my point right now was that Thiago never said anything bad about that, he just pointed it out and people just always seem to think that believing that those structural similarities are intentional is the same as CRITICIZING it, which is not.
It was Portnoy who looked at this thing in a negative way, not Thiago.
Thiago:
"I have no idea why Dream Theater did this. Maybe because it was the album that “made them” in a time where it was a do or die for their careers, so it’s an inspiring model. Maybe because this represents a new beginning for them with Mike Mangini, as it was when James Labrie joined the band back then. Maybe to celebrate 20 years of the album that defined the Dream Theater sound? Maybe they just thought it would be a fun challenge to write unique songs over pre-established charts, much like a few fans did (myself included) when they held the Stream of Consciousness song-writing contest back in 2002-2003. Either way, I applaud them for having the balls to do it and
for the overall quality the end result turned out to have. I know how hard it is to write a song based off of a pre-established arrangement and have it sound concise, genuine and inspired. The tendency is to have a fucked up Frankenstein instead of music, so props to DT for pulling it off."
That's why my point is, the joke "I don't like it because it sounds too similar to UAGM /Thiago" is not justified. You could say /Portnoy, but, yeah, you see what I mean, right?