Best DT Album (A Revised FII)

Ben_Jamin · April 14, 2011, 10:31:03 AM

That's the only cool part about that song.

contest_sanity · April 14, 2011, 09:43:59 PM

I really love FII as is and wouldn't want ACOS on it (despite ACOS' greatness). Also, people arguing for ACOS to go on I&W made me wonder how a FII with the original version of Metropolis Pt. 2 would have fared...

Ben_Jamin · April 14, 2011, 09:59:11 PM

That's what I mean.

Bolsters · April 18, 2011, 03:39:31 AM

1. A Change of Seasons - 23:06
2. Burning My Soul - 5:29
3. Hell's Kitchen - 4:16
4. Lines in The Sand - 12:05
5. New Millennium - 8:20
6. You Not Me - 4:58
7. Peruvian Skies - 6:43
8. Trial of Tears - 13:07

Total: 78:04

Edit: Forgot an entire song.

robwebster · April 18, 2011, 03:57:40 AM

Quote from: JPX on April 11, 2011, 08:42:47 AM
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Also I don't see how ACoS fits on anything but I&W based on how the recording sounds. It would feel completely out of place on FII.

Fail

Huh?

How is a song recorded in '95 featuring Sherinian on Keyboards fit better with I&W? Production wise it sounds very FII.

Everything about ACoS sounds more like I&W and nothing like FII.

And yet the recording belongs to that era. To the extent that Raise the Knife was going to appear on the Change of Seasons EP for a while.

Just because they've had an idea kicking around for a while doesn't mean they've got to draw a line under it and go "NO." Much of Scenes from a Memory was written for FII. A huge contingent of Erotomania was written for Images and Words. Puppies on Acid was an intro to Take the Time. Stars burn cold, sofas can read - it's a big universe.

They rewrote ACoS from the 1989 version before recording it, anyway. Just as they rewrote SfaM from the Met pt. 2 demo.

Moonchild · April 18, 2011, 01:25:19 PM

Quote from: Ben_Jamin on April 13, 2011, 02:30:48 PM
1. Burning My Soul
2. Speak To Me
3. A Change of Seasons
4. Hollow Years (demo)
5. Trial of Tears
6. Hells Kitchen
7. Lines In The Sand w/ added verse

Pretty interesting to hear this with crossfades and everything.

I quite like that setlist.. will put it on winamp later. Imo I probably would change Speak to me for Analee.

Ben_Jamin · April 18, 2011, 01:39:48 PM

It was a hard choice for me to put either Anna Lee or Speak to Me. But now that I listen to it, Anna Lee would be pretty amazing before ACoS.

DarkEternalNight · April 18, 2011, 02:42:52 PM

FII would still be my 2nd favorite album. For some reason, ACOS has never clicked with me.

Moonchild · April 24, 2011, 04:01:42 PM

Quote from: Ben_Jamin on April 18, 2011, 01:39:48 PM
It was a hard choice for me to put either Anna Lee or Speak to Me. But now that I listen to it, Anna Lee would be pretty amazing before ACoS.

Yes it is, I'm spinning it on my car and it's awesome.

Ben_Jamin · April 24, 2011, 04:41:15 PM

Nice...I thought Id try something different and see if I could make it flow well with an epic in the middle.

Global Laziness · April 24, 2011, 04:58:08 PM

Quote from: JPX on April 11, 2011, 08:17:03 AM
Also I don't see how ACoS fits on anything but I&W based on how the recording sounds. It would feel completely out of place on FII.

I agree with the bolded part, but if they waited to record it along with the rest of Falling into Infinity and left out the weaker songs, it would be a pretty fantastic album.

FretMuppet · April 25, 2011, 02:38:49 AM

I can't imagine ACoS with the FII snare

Tomislav95 · April 25, 2011, 09:26:26 AM

Raise the Knife, Speak to me and Cover my eyes are from FII demos, right? Better than all songs from orginal FII $:\$

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