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Beyond This Life
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Finally Free
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Offline jammindude

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Re: Dream Theater Survivor 2012 - SFaM, NOT Train of Thought, Round 7a TIEBREAKER
« Reply #35 on: October 10, 2012, 12:29:28 AM »
Beyond This Life is the single greatest song on SFAM, and could very well be the greatest DT song under 12 minutes....EVER. 

Finally Free is a decent enough song.   But it cannot touch the sheer perfection of Beyond This Life. 

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Re: Dream Theater Survivor 2012 - Train of Thought, Round 7a TIEBREAKER
« Reply #36 on: October 10, 2012, 04:00:26 AM »
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Re: Dream Theater Survivor 2012 - SFaM, NOT Train of Thought, Round 7a TIEBREAKER
« Reply #37 on: October 10, 2012, 06:32:06 AM »
I guess BTL is a pretty controversial song  :lol Oh well, I'm sure FF will go next round anyway.
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Re: Dream Theater Survivor 2012 - SFaM, NOT Train of Thought, Round 7a TIEBREAKER
« Reply #38 on: October 10, 2012, 10:03:34 AM »
Quote from: jammindude on October 10, 2012, 12:29:28 AM
Beyond This Life is the single greatest song on SFAM, and could very well be the greatest DT song under 12 minutes....EVER. 

Finally Free is a decent enough song.   But it cannot touch the sheer perfection of Beyond This Life.

This.
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Re: Dream Theater Survivor 2012 - SFaM, NOT Train of Thought, Round 7a TIEBREAKER
« Reply #39 on: October 10, 2012, 05:08:26 PM »
I like the songs equally much so here's my reason for wanting BTL to be booted: FF is simply more essential to the album than BTL is. Think of the album without FF, now that would be horrible (I mean, imagine using TSPCO as the final act). But if you remove BTL, it wouldn't make such a big difference, at least not musically for the album as a whole.
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Re: Dream Theater Survivor 2012 - SFaM, NOT Train of Thought, Round 7a TIEBREAKER
« Reply #40 on: October 17, 2012, 07:42:55 PM »
Hi long time no update... Busy busy busy at school.  Grades were due for progress reports on Monday, and its sprit week at school... So things are a little insane.  No breaks.  Ill howfully be able to continue the survivor tomorrow or Friday, because things are settling down.
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Re: Dream Theater Survivor 2012 - SFaM, NOT Train of Thought, Round 7a TIEBREAKER
« Reply #41 on: October 20, 2012, 06:58:00 AM »
Quote from: Octavaripolis on October 10, 2012, 05:08:26 PM
I like the songs equally much so here's my reason for wanting BTL to be booted: FF is simply more essential to the album than BTL is. Think of the album without FF, now that would be horrible (I mean, imagine using TSPCO as the final act). But if you remove BTL, it wouldn't make such a big difference, at least not musically for the album as a whole.
Ooh, opposite here!

Finally Free is the epilogue, I've always thought. Nicholas has been on a journey, he's learned a lesson, he's jubilant... but then, once the credits have rolled and the lights have gone up, then comes the twist.

The Spirit Carries On is one of the band's signature closers. It's the climax, it's the end of the story. It's Frodo getting his finger bitten off. Finally Free is some hobbits fucking around on a boat. The extra bit. Nice to have, adds a lot of context and wraps up the last questions about what happens to all these characters, (in this case, that they all die horribly,) but the last narrative beat was twelve minutes ago.
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