Dream Theater self titled album discussion - [SPOILER FREE DISCUSSION ONLY]

[cyberdrummer]

I wonder why there's lots of people changing "inside"  to "within" in the song title.  I do agree though that within is a more "sophisticated" word.

Probably because 'The Enemy Within' is a Rush song.

[RoDT]

Hmmm... wtf are those pictures anyway?

It's a closeup of JP's [insert creative body part here]

Game on!

[RMGadelha]

I wonder why there's lots of people changing "inside"  to "within" in the song title.  I do agree though that within is a more "sophisticated" word.

Probably because 'The Enemy Within' is a Rush song.

Oh I feel ashamed now.  I shall go into exile for not knowing Rush song names   

[aurorablind]

The most obvious thing is that its the back of an old persons neck.
Personally, i believe its the close up of a forty year old mans badly shaved penis.

[The Boomr]

The most obvious thing is that its the back of an old persons neck.
Personally, i believe its the close up of a forty year old mans badly shaved penis.

[MoraWintersoul]

inb4 Kotowboy LOLPENISLOLIT'SFUNNYBECAUSEPENIS




It's either a neck or an elephant or a really really old hedgehog or some hairy exotic fruit.

[Kotowboy]

LOLPENISLOLIT'SFUNNYBECAUSEPENIS

[MoraWintersoul]

^ thanks

[Kotowboy]

^ thanks

[bosk1]

OK, last general warning.  Spam posts are going to be snipped and will start earning people official warnings and bans. 

And as far as the single, please keep discussion in the appropriate thread, since a new one was started.

[Edson Wilton]

[dparrott]

UK band Turin Brakes' new album is coming out Sept 30, and their website's updated with the (awesome) new art theme already.  Get crackin' DT!  NO MORE CLOWNS!!!!

[robwebster]

Plead all you want - it's never happened until the album's release has been more or less imminent.

In part, I think, because they always use the inside booklet art. Sure, the designers might do lush things with it on the website, but a compressed icon next to a banner that says "DISCOGRAPHY" is not the best way to reveal your expensively commissioned new artwork to the world.

[Theme Dreater]

I think that's going to be the entirety of the single cover. They are spiting us for all of the complaining on the album art cutoff.

[ResultsMayVary]

My prediction:

Half of the fanbase will approve of the single,
25 percent will not
and still another 25 percent won't be sure what to think.

What you did there, I see it.

[BlackInk]

I'm wondering why they keep using the old album art for all the official announcements.

[wasteland]

Looks like a closeup of an elephant 

My first thought exactly! Maybe it's a giant elephant leg?

[sueño]

The skin is much too smooth to be that of an elephant.

[wasteland]

The skin is much too smooth to be that of an elephant.

It could be a neck, but unless the head is bent backward those rolls of fat look quite unnatural 

[Edson Wilton]

I think it's a bald head, and that the parts of the image are also better on the bottom...

[thosava]

My reaction: OMG a single!!!!!
But then: oh no thats when im away without internet...

[Outcrier]

I'm getting the impression that this album is gonna sound like Circus Maximus - NINE (less wanking and more accessibility)

[TheGreatPretender]

My reaction: OMG a single!!!!!
But then: oh no thats when im away without internet...

I have work that day, so if the single does come up on USA Today at around 11 AM, then hopefully, by 6 PM when I'm done work, the track should be live at all of the alleged servers that RR has partnered up with for this event.

[cookienut]

I'm getting the impression that this album is gonna sound like Circus Maximus - NINE (less wanking and more accessibility)

Given how much I love that album, I have no problem with this idea.

[TheGreatPretender]

There better be at least a couple songs with some hefty wankery on them. Wankery rules.

[Laich21DT]

I'm getting the impression that this album is gonna sound like Circus Maximus - NINE (less wanking and more accessibility)

I'm getting the impression that this album is gonna sound like Dream Theater.

[Mosh]

So saying that it will sound like Circus Maximus is not that far off then. 

[Laich21DT]

  I guess you're right.

Man, since the announcement of the single, this thread had gotten really off track. Well, especially since the announcement.

I've said this before, but the song titles really have me excited. With ADTOE, I felt that the subject matter seemed a bit little more cerebral, and mature than what we were used to from the previous few albums. Song titles like "Enigma Machine" and "Illumination Theory" give the impression that we're in store for a further shift that direction.

[TheGreatPretender]

I sure hope so. And now that I think about it, maybe the reason why this thread is always going off track is because if we were just talking about the album and the single the entire time, we'd go insane with impatience. Dammit, I want it now!

[theseoafs]

I guess you're right.

Man, since the announcement of the single, this thread had gotten really off track. Well, especially since the announcement.

I've said this before, but the song titles really have me excited. With ADTOE, I felt that the subject matter seemed a bit little more cerebral, and mature than what we were used to from the previous few albums. Song titles like "Enigma Machine" and "Illumination Theory" give the impression that we're in store for a further shift that direction.

Well, Enigma Machine is almost definitely the instrumental, so I'm unsure what you can glean from its title.

[Blackfield]

I dont get it. What are we supposed to discuss here if every new major event of the album release gets à new thread? 

[wolven74]

I guess you're right.

Man, since the announcement of the single, this thread had gotten really off track. Well, especially since the announcement.

I've said this before, but the song titles really have me excited. With ADTOE, I felt that the subject matter seemed a bit little more cerebral, and mature than what we were used to from the previous few albums. Song titles like "Enigma Machine" and "Illumination Theory" give the impression that we're in store for a further shift that direction.

The song titles are a shift in a completely new direction. These definitely feel more cerebral. Some of the subtitles for IT are really intriguing. I hope to hell that Live Die Kill is a killer heavy section. With a title like that, I don't know how it could be anything but IT also has the first foreign language title in DT history, and that's blowing my mind. It'll be even better if it's not an instrumental. That might be asking a bit much though. We'll see.

[mocool13]

I'm excited. Can't wait to hear how the drums will sound on the record

[Dekost]

That picture is definitely a close-up of JR's neck.

[Dream Team]

I'm taking everything I've heard, including stuff from Noxon, with a grain of salt until I hear the album myself. For one thing, I can't see DT taking 4-5 months to write a bunch of short, commercial songs. It doesn't add up, unless they spent the bulk of that time on IT. I think there is more there than we are being led to believe.