Six Degrees of Inner turbulence
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Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater Disc 2 is the pinnacle of rock music. -Nicmos, on his top 50.
How does it sound like?The most perfect thing I've ever heard. Every note, every detail, each lyric is so well constructed that I don't get how just 5 guys made such a masterpiece, and even managed to make a god-like 42 minute songs. DT went to the studio with lots of motivations and new influences from the new millenium like Radiohead and Tool and blend them together plus their own sound and mixed it all with lots of experimentation. Lots. The result? A double album, the first disc containing 6 long songs, each one different from the other on mood and style yet they flow perfectly, and an epic self-titled song.
It's heavy, it's melodic; it's beautiful, it's weird; it's hard to digest yet has some accessible songs; it's brutal, it's calm; it's long, it's short; it has some wankery, it has a smart songwriting - it's everything I love about music and Dream Theater. No other album resonates that hard with me. Hell, it's like this album was made by/for me.
Recommended songs: All the damn thing.
Something personalI'll confess that the first time I heard it, I didn't know what to think about it. It took along time, really a long time to digest. It was the last DT album I fully appreciated when I still was a fanboy, and man it has grown and grown. Hearing the Score version of the epic helped a bit. so sad that James fucks it off on Solitary Shell - well, not everything is perfect. But how smart it's written blows me away every time I listen to it, it's amazing how all the movements flow from each other. Insane. I doubt there will ever be another album that makes my top #1.
I don't really know what to say, other than I fucking love this record and all it's songs. Every song from disc on could be my #2 of the album, because my #1 favorite DT and all-time song is in disc 2. Hell, there are so many styles there, so many parts of the DT sound and it all forms an unique masterpiece. About to crash (reprise) is my fav moment in music, ever - my eargasms are unstoppable when I listen to it.
Ok, I know what I've written probably makes no sense, but it's hard for me to describe how much I admire this album and the band. I was even considering buying a turntable just to listen to it's vinyl edition. Oh well. It was a nice thing to do, this top 50, and has kind of improved my English writing (this writeup doesn't count
) and some people have discovered new bands, so I'm quite happy of the results and will surely do this again next year, just to see how much things have changed. And will use some kind of method to limit the albums per artists, so there aren't like 5 Anathema album on the same tier and like half of DT's discography
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