Least favorite song on ADTOE?

[Omega]

What the heck is wrong with you people?!

Lost Not Forgotten is amazing!

[RandalGraves]

Easily Outcry.  I really don't get the love for the song, as it's a mess.  Boring melodies and chorus, and instrumental break that's trying too hard to be Metropolis, lyrics that do absolutely nothing for me . . . I skip it almost every time I listen to the album.

[bosk1]

There is pretty much a consensus about the best song on ADTOE (BAI)

Not even close to the best song on the album.

[rude boy]

i can't stand harmonic minor scale 

That's very odd. Regardless, not very much of the song is based on the harmonic minor anyway. Instead, they use the same Arabian scale you'll find in Home for the greater majority.

Phrygian Dominant

i tend to view most of the music in major/minor categories. the way i see it is, the scale used in both home and lost not forgotten is based in harmonic minor- for example, it's a scale going from e to e (the dominant tone) in a harmonic minor, the same way as i tend to see a song in d lydian (for example, satriani's song time machine) as a part of the A major scale- a scale going form d to d (the subdominant tone). it's a bit complicated, maybe even wrong way of looking at it but it works for me     that's what i meant by not liking harmonic minor scale used and not liking it in general. having heard the song for a couple of times since i posted that coment trying to force myself into liking it (LNF, y u no good song to me?!  ), i noticed that it's not that much about the scale used- i simply don't like the melodies and the beat. home, on the other hand, has much better melodies and beat IMO

[hefdaddy42]

Innocence Faded does not have anything I would consider a feature of metal.

Innocence Faded's outro, regardless of key, is far too heavy to be considered anything but metal, I don't think. (Double bass, ridiculous riffing, etc.)

No way.  Not metal at all.  If anything, it sounds like the Dixie Dregs - rock/jazz fusion.  I mean, that outro sounds like the Dregs wrote it.

I agree with BVD on this one completely, Innocence Faded is not metal at all, but a melodic rock song.

[jcmistat]

I'm with the majority BMUBMD easy choice. Lost Not Forgotten is awesome it has too many votes.

[fadetoblackdude7]

BMUBMD.......LNF is right behind it, although that song has been slowly growing on me.


Outcry is the best.

[skydivingninja]

How the heck does Far From Heaven have more votes than LNF.  It boggles the mind.

[TAC]

BMUBMD, easily. So out of place on this grand album.

[King Postwhore]

BMUBMD, easily. So out of place on this grand album.

Total agreement TAC.

[Elite]

How the heck does Far From Heaven have more votes than LNF.  It boggles the mind.

Far From Heaven is awesome.

[SeventhSon]

I voted for Build Me Up, Break Me Down. I will say that it works really well live though.

[lumpy33]

Lost Not Forgotten is awesome it has too many votes.

+1!!  seriously.

What the heck is wrong with you people?!

Lost Not Forgotten is amazing!

+1 again.  seriously!!!

[ishak540m]

I do find it surprising that a lot of people dislike LNF and Outcry.  Two of my favorites on the album. 

[bosk1]

I find it surprising that people dislike BMU, BMD.  It is currently my most played song from the album in my iTunes.

[ishak540m]

I find it surprising that people dislike BMU, BMD.  It is currently my most played song from the album in my iTunes.

I find I enjoy that song a lot more when driving.

[hefdaddy42]

I find it surprising that people dislike BMU, BMD.  It is currently my most played song from the album in my iTunes.

Honestly, every time I hear it I like it less.

[Ħ]

I find it surprising that people dislike BMU, BMD.  It is currently my most played song from the album in my iTunes.

Same!

[theseoafs]

I find it surprising that people dislike BMU, BMD.  It is currently my most played song from the album in my iTunes.

Honestly, every time I hear it I like it less.

I think it's the worst song on the album and that there's nothing seriously great about it, but I think there's something to it that becomes more apparent each time I hear it. The chord progression that Jordan plays over the half-time riff near the middle of the song, for example, is incredibly creative and very unlike anything you'd hear A) in a similar radio-friendly tune and B) in any other song in the rest of DT's discography. There's really more to it than is apparent immediately.

[ishak540m]

I do find that the unison in BMUBMD is my least favorite part on the album though.  It just seems a bit unispired to me.  It's hardly a criticism though because I do like the song.

[Pols Voice]

OTBOA is easily my least favorite. Lyrics can make or break songs for me, and I usually don't like even vaguely political lyrics because it just makes me picture a bunch of buttugly DC politicians. I listen to music to escape from the news, man.

Also, I don't like most of its vocal melodies.

[WindMaster]

How the heck does Far From Heaven have more votes than LNF.  It boggles the mind.

Far From Heaven is awesome.

IKR?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[InfraredDream]

Lost not forgotton is the only one I don't really like.

[Cable]

Lost Not Forgotten is awesome it has too many votes.

+1!!  seriously.

What the heck is wrong with you people?!

Lost Not Forgotten is amazing!

+1 again.  seriously!!!

My vote was LNF. Least favorite is the poll, there is no hatred on the song from me.

LNF runs way to close to another song, compared with the others. The thing about that other song is that was the last song I connected with on that album. Even still, it is hard for me to want to hear that other song. So that is partly the reason behind my choice.

I also like the simplicity of the two others in the top 3. LNF has not really hooked me with anything yet, riffs or vocal melodies. FFH and BMU, BMD have. But I understand and appreciate LNF; just not as the other two.

[skydivingninja]

I like BMU BMD.  Its a good song.  Its not amazing, but its the best "radio friendly" DT tune we've had in years.  (Not counting "Wither" because power ballads haven't been radio friendly for what, twenty years now? ).  I can't understand it getting the most plays on iTunes when songs like Bridges, FFH, and BAI exist though

[Phoenix87x]

I find it surprising that people dislike BMU, BMD.  It is currently my most played song from the album in my iTunes.

I absolutely love BMU, BMD. Its one of my favorite songs on the album.

[TAC]

I find it surprising that people dislike BMU, BMD.  It is currently my most played song from the album in my iTunes.

Bosk, it helps if you load more than one song onto your iTunes!

[Ravenheart]

Lost Not Forgotten is the only song on the album I find to be subpar.

I find it surprising that people dislike BMU, BMD.  It is currently my most played song from the album in my iTunes.

Bosk, it helps if you load more than one song onto your iTunes!

[The Silent Cody]

There are 185 votes and only one is for BAI. And it is mine vote. I honestly don't like that song at all.

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

BMU, BMD I guess. Tough choice, I like all the songs.

[Slain]

This Is the Life. Only song on the album that I regularly skip. Build Me Up Break Me Down is probably second to it.

[energythief]

BMUBMD, despite being a badass song, doesn't match the standards of the rest of the album IMO

Agreed. However, I still like BMUBMD better than almost everything on BC&SL, 8VM and SC.

[contest_sanity]

I find it surprising that people dislike BMU, BMD.  It is currently my most played song from the album in my iTunes.

It's probably my most played song as well, and I can say exactly why.  Even though it's not my favorite (that's BITS), I really like to have some easily digestable material from DT in addition to the complex, sprawling epics.  If I'm just driving down to the corner store, a lot of times I want to play a DT song that I can actually finish listening to on the way.  And BMU, BMD is a song that perfectly fits such a mold.  Banging riff, cool chorus, etc.  I also really like that it has the slower unison section rather than the million notes per second solo a la AROP or "Constant Motion."  And I really think BMU, BMD could be a strong single on the metal airwaves or Headbanger's Ball or wherever the hell metal singles get exposure these days.  Anyway, just my take.   

[Jarzombek]

ADTOE has one only really bad song: Build me up, break me down.

[tristl]

I find it surprising that people dislike BMU, BMD.  It is currently my most played song from the album in my iTunes.

Honestly, every time I hear it I like it less.

Actually i always listen to the whole album and never skipped a song!
Even the slow ones, which i normally would rather skip.
I did have a break now for a few days listening to the new machine head(unto the locust), for me their strongest ever, but now i am back with adtoe.
Still love it
By the way about the metal discussion:
When i am listening to the last 4 maiden outputs, which i did once which each of them, how much more pop(In the most negative sense you can think of) can you get?
That is what i love so much about DT, i still love every album they do .
Nothing really mediocre ore stale! Still going strong