Do You Like SDV?

[Zukuduku]

I think it is an excellent song. As it is very different from "normal DT songs" I don't like to compare it against them, only against other piano ballads i.e. Wait for Sleep, Disappear and Vacant. And SDV is in the top in my list.

It is pretty interesting how SDV is kind of larger than its parts. If you analyze the song by breaking it into parts, the parts themselves are not that special. For example the chord structure and the composition is IMHO not mind-blowing at all. The same could be said about the lyrics, the execution of the song or about the samples. But when you put all together, the end result works magically well.

Vacant is closely behind SDV in the second place of my DT piano ballad song. Previously I just thought that Vacant is just a great song, but now after it was revealed that the lyrics are about JLB's daughter, it has also begun to have some kind of magic in my ears. Needless to say, Jordan's work on Vacant is totally amazing.

[commanderbob]

It was the song that made me a Dream Theater fan.

I was working at a McDonald's in 1994, and my friend had brought it in and played in the break room, loudly.  The breakroom was in the middle of all of the work areas, and was audible to the grill area and the drive thru.  When the song kicked in something happened that I'll never forget:  Black, white, hispanic, and mostly rap and pop fans, all stopped what they were doing, motionless for about 30-45 seconds and simply listened in wonderment.  It was a straight-out-of-a-movie moment.  I was one fo those people, and have been a fan ever since.

One of the best songs of the 90's.  One of my favorite songs ever.

That's pretty epic.

[bosk1]

It was the song that made me a Dream Theater fan.

I was working at a McDonald's in 1994, and my friend had brought it in and played in the break room, loudly.  The breakroom was in the middle of all of the work areas, and was audible to the grill area and the drive thru.  When the song kicked in something happened that I'll never forget:  Black, white, hispanic, and mostly rap and pop fans, all stopped what they were doing, motionless for about 30-45 seconds and simply listened in wonderment.  It was a straight-out-of-a-movie moment.  I was one fo those people, and have been a fan ever since.

One of the best songs of the 90's.  One of my favorite songs ever.

They were probably trying to digest the lyrics, and were saying to themselves in disbelief, "Wait...so there was this guy...and he was...really, REALLY depressed.  And...he wanked to a picture of a girl wearing a vest in a catalog...  And...he was still really, REALLY depressed...  And he wrote a song where he whines about it to let the whole world know...  Wow.  Stunned."

[jsem]

It was the song that made me a Dream Theater fan.

I was working at a McDonald's in 1994, and my friend had brought it in and played in the break room, loudly.  The breakroom was in the middle of all of the work areas, and was audible to the grill area and the drive thru.  When the song kicked in something happened that I'll never forget:  Black, white, hispanic, and mostly rap and pop fans, all stopped what they were doing, motionless for about 30-45 seconds and simply listened in wonderment.  It was a straight-out-of-a-movie moment.  I was one fo those people, and have been a fan ever since.

One of the best songs of the 90's.  One of my favorite songs ever.

They were probably trying to digest the lyrics, and were saying to themselves in disbelief, "Wait...so there was this guy...and he was...really, REALLY depressed.  And...he wanked to a picture of a girl wearing a vest in a catalog...  And...he was still really, REALLY depressed...  And he wrote a song where he whines about it to let the whole world know...  Wow.  Stunned."

[commanderbob]

It was the song that made me a Dream Theater fan.

I was working at a McDonald's in 1994, and my friend had brought it in and played in the break room, loudly.  The breakroom was in the middle of all of the work areas, and was audible to the grill area and the drive thru.  When the song kicked in something happened that I'll never forget:  Black, white, hispanic, and mostly rap and pop fans, all stopped what they were doing, motionless for about 30-45 seconds and simply listened in wonderment.  It was a straight-out-of-a-movie moment.  I was one fo those people, and have been a fan ever since.

One of the best songs of the 90's.  One of my favorite songs ever.

They were probably trying to digest the lyrics, and were saying to themselves in disbelief, "Wait...so there was this guy...and he was...really, REALLY depressed.  And...he wanked to a picture of a girl wearing a vest in a catalog...  And...he was still really, REALLY depressed...  And he wrote a song where he whines about it to let the whole world know...  Wow.  Stunned."

And I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you were trying to be light-heartedly funny instead of trying to rain on someone's story by projecting  your insecurities in a rock band forum.  Because, yes, the lyrics are awful now to me.