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

[Tis BOOLsheet]

TEI. TLG. AFTR


that's it. not to be ungrateful or anything. we do have a full stream tomorrow!

I'm going to have to try to listen to the album at work without giving away that my mind isn't on any work at all. Should be interesting considering my boss sits next to me.

Hook your boss up with the stream!

[ResultsMayVary]

Just under 9 hours, guys!

I got a class that ends at 11:15am and then a nice gap until my next at 1:50pm. Definitely enough time to get several listens of this album in its entirety.

[Tis BOOLsheet]

Damn, I'm too excited about this to sleep right now.

[SystematicThought]

Why didn't they release TLG as a single? That would have been great

[Tis BOOLsheet]

Why didn't they release TLG as a single? That would have been great

Agreed. I think TLG would have made a better single than AFTR.

[Lucidity]

Why didn't they release TLG as a single? That would have been great

Agreed. I think TLG would have made a better single than AFTR.

I disagree.

[theseoafs]

I'm not sure AFTR counts as a "single" for the album in any concrete sense.  I think it's just a track they streamed before the album came out. 

[Tis BOOLsheet]

Yeah maybe. I dunno if TLG would have been a better single strategically, but I definitely enjoy it more than TEI.

[Zook]

Why didn't they release TLG as a single? That would have been great

Maybe because it sounded too much like another single from a different prog band.

[Marion Crane]

Haven't listened yet...but is it really that much of a Rush ripoff?

[Tis BOOLsheet]

Haven't listened yet...but is it really that much of a Rush ripoff?

There's is noticeable similarity to Limelight, but I wouldn't say it's a "ripoff"

[JayOctavarium]

WHAT THE HELL DID I MISS?

[Voices]

What a delicious song!

[Outcrier]

Looking glass... good song, much better than the singles.

[atmyne]

best DT track in a LONG time. wow...

[Dreamer81]

And it's not even the best one on the album, for me the bigger picture and IT are really awesome!!


PS: before everyone go crazy, I won a contest and i went to RR office in Italy for a listening party!

[?]

Living in this timezone can suck sometimes... I could've listened to the premiere of TLG because it's just one song and not the full album.

[Marion Crane]

Wow....DT should have named this album "Chorus" from all the effects they're using

[eviljust]

I'm so happy I heard something like that! The JP solo with JM on the background is definitely a Dream Theater moment!

[Marion Crane]

Why didn't they release TLG as a single? That would have been great

Agreed. I think TLG would have made a better single than AFTR.

I disagree.

I disagree too. After 3 listens, AFTR is a much better song IMO

[Outcrier]

And it's not even the best one on the album, for me the bigger picture and IT are really awesome!!


PS: before everyone go crazy, I won a contest and i went to RR office in Italy for a listening party!

What about Surrender To Reason?
Oh, nevermind... We all gonna be able to hear it Monday anyway 

[eviljust]

And it's not even the best one on the album, for me the bigger picture and IT are really awesome!!


PS: before everyone go crazy, I won a contest and i went to RR office in Italy for a listening party!

What about Surrender To Reason?
Oh, nevermind... We all gonna be able to hear it Monday anyway 

isn't monday just...now?   

[rush-signals]

I heard some Camera Eye in there too. Old school for sure, could have came off of I&W, but much better. It's so different.............

[Outcrier]

And it's not even the best one on the album, for me the bigger picture and IT are really awesome!!


PS: before everyone go crazy, I won a contest and i went to RR office in Italy for a listening party!

What about Surrender To Reason?
Oh, nevermind... We all gonna be able to hear it Monday anyway 

isn't monday just...now?   

[JohnnyLayne]

DAT GUITAR SOLO...

[wasteland]

6.5 hours to go!

[rush-signals]

DAT GUITAR SOLO...

[illusionist]

Very tasty song and compact.It reminded me ,apaprt from Rush,Another Won.I think it'll grow on me,listen after listen.Now,that's encouraging forumers!

[eviljust]

DAT GUITAR SOLO...

yeah...that is definitely intense.

I just can't wait anymore. I'm listening to LMR and trying to keep calm but isn't working.

[The Boomr]

I didn't hear the TLG today. I can't decide if I'm gonna listen to the stream tomorrow or wait until I have a copy of the CD. I am worried about the sound quality. I know it's not a huge difference, but when I compared the soundcloud of TEI to the download I purchased of it, there was a very clear difference in quality just because of the compression difference and I was in fact able to enjoy the song a little more because of that. I don't want to hear new absolutely amazing DT music and be thinking in the back of my head "Well that sounds off, why is the ______ all muddy and _______" etc. INDECISION

[BlackInk]

The sort of old-school style of The Looking Glass and the quality I heard it in makes it sound like it should have been on Cleaning Out the Closet. It would have fit right in and if someone told me it was an old demo or something that would have been on there but didn't make it for some reason I would have believed it.

[mikemangioy]

really good track! really limelight-y riff... I'm sure I will even like it more when I'll listen to it with a better quality in the stream today, even though soundcloud quality is not the best, but I don't mind it. The only thing I don't like is the ending. PAPAPAPAPAAAAAA end. There should've been somethng else. Otherwise 

[The Stray Seed]

really good track! really limelight-y riff... I'm sure I will even like it more when I'll listen to it with a better quality in the stream today, even though soundcloud quality is not the best, but I don't mind it. The only thing I don't like is the ending. PAPAPAPAPAAAAAA end. There should've been somethng else. Otherwise 

The weird finale is the trademark of perfection. See: pull me under.

[matte.braso]

The weird finale is the trademark of perfection. See: pull me under.

agreed. and that solo with myung again on the foreground. just wow

[mikemangioy]

yeah, I like the PMU finale, but this one felt like this

"Uhmm.. it's over? uh, ok."