My thoughts on 'Dream Theater' (***SPOILERS***)

[Kotowboy]

Cyberdrummer.... Any segues in the album?

He says there aren't.

[Tis BOOLsheet]

How about BTV? I'm disappointed that didn't make as big of an impression on people

It's because it's a pretty straight rocker, kinda like black album era Metallica in the riff department with some anthemy vocals. It's a song that could just as well have existed on sc.

Definitely not what I was hoping for 

Can you add any more about Surrender to Reason? That seems to be one that stuck with people who attended. Does that song feel totally different from BTV?

[Another_Won]

"Nothing you can do to change me
But accept me as I am
As I aaaaaammmmm
YEAH!"

Ha.  I have sung that from the very first time I heard the song

[cyberdrummer]

Thank you Cyberdrummer
One question: that french named movement in IT, does it contain french lyrics (probaby not but I'm just curious)?

No, it's instrumental.

[wasteland]

Could you descibe it?

[Kotowboy]

There are no words. . .

[lightbug]

Thank you Cyberdrummer
One question: that french named movement in IT, does it contain french lyrics (probaby not but I'm just curious)?

No, it's instrumental.

In a Forum in venezuela someone saids that IT sounds like a hugh grant comedy  is this true?

[Kotowboy]

All of Hugh Grant's films are comedies.




Whether they were intentional or not.

[dongringo]

Kotowboy, You're cracking me up in this thread. Love your sense of humor.   

[Kotowboy]

 

[aprilethereal]

How exactly does a Hugh Grant comedy sound?

[Kotowboy]

Really whiny.

[425]

I'm thinking, since random people on Venezuelan forums are very reputable, that this is true and that Illumination Theory has guest vocals from Hugh Grant.

[7StringedBeast]

I have to ask, did every song with vocals in it have a defined chorus section?  Or did it go back to earlier days where the choruses weren't really defined or the song was much more linear with no repeating elements?

Thanks

[aprilethereal]

Rich chocolate cake cheese

[wolven74]

Chocolate cheese? Gross.

[JayOctavarium]

Chocolate cream cheese

[dongringo]

Cheese enchiladas. 

[Tom Bombadil]

This is all very informative but I'd really like to get back to Dream Theater.

[TheGreatPretender]

He says there aren't.

Noxon confirmed this too. I'm glad. Not really a fan of songs segwaying into each other. I mean, it works for SFAM which pretty much works best when listened to as a whole, but for Octavarium, the segways get kind of annoying, like the end of Panic Attack or the Al Qaeda chatter at the beginning of Sacrificed Sons. Thank God for the Gretest Hit version.

[KevShmev]

How exactly does a Hugh Grant comedy sound?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVkU8dDSC9w

[425]

Noxon confirmed this too. I'm glad. Not really a fan of songs segwaying into each other. I mean, it works for SFAM which pretty much works best when listened to as a whole, but for Octavarium, the segways get kind of annoying, like the end of Panic Attack or the Al Qaeda chatter at the beginning of Sacrificed Sons. Thank God for the Gretest Hit version.

I agree. I actually made edited versions of These Walls, Panic Attack and Never Enough in Audacity so that I had versions of those songs that stand alone (taking off the heartbeat and clock from These Walls, the Never Enough-style synth solo from Panic Attack and adding it to Never Enough, and the chanting from Never Enough).

[TheGreatPretender]

I agree. I actually made edited versions of These Walls, Panic Attack and Never Enough in Audacity so that I had versions of those songs that stand alone (taking off the heartbeat and clock from These Walls, the Never Enough-style synth solo from Panic Attack and adding it to Never Enough, and the chanting from Never Enough).

Haha, I did that too. 

[Lucidity]

Does anyone who's listened remember any of the lyrical content of IT? I'm interested to know what it's actually about.

[?]

Not really a fan of songs segwaying into each other.

So you don't think it's cool when songs use these to transition into each other:

[TheGreatPretender]

No, it's lazy and expensive. It should've been called, "I Segway Beside You".

[energythief]

This thread is now about Dream Theater.

[utopiarun]

I have NEVER heard of a near 8 minute song fitting on a 7" vinyl.  I thought 7 mins was the max.

Totally OT here, but Guns n' Roses "November Rain" 7" ran 8:57 and Bruce Springsteen had a live version of "Incident on 57th Street" on a flip side of a 45 and it was over 10 minutes.

[Daso]

Hey cyberdrummer! Thanks for all the questions you've answered so far!

My question, and I don't really know if you'll remember but I'm most certain you do know about the topic (because you're a drummer): Does Mangini's spotlight come mostly from mindblowing, out-there parts, or from technical playing, as in really complex, yet musical polyrhythms and so on?

[Ħ]

Any potentially cringe-worthy stuff from LaBrie? Like overstraining, overemphasizing syllables, or poor pronunciation.

[Jinx]

Any potentially cringe-worthy stuff from LaBrie? Like overstraining, overemphasizing syllables, or poor pronunciation.

"Beneath the Surfesssssss..."

[TheGreatPretender]

"Beneath the Surfesssssss..."

"Sorry aboat the short sat."

[eviljust]

"Beneath the Surfesssssss..."

"Sorry aboat the short sat."

[Outcrier]

Cyberdrummer, can you tell us what you think about IT?
Like, in your opinion, it feels like 3-5 songs in one or it flows nicely?

EDIT: Already answered it in your first post, i didn't see 

[mocool13]

Did that scat singing MM did in the studio vid was a drum part to any song? In the vid I just thought he mumbled out a drum part...