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

[Kotowboy]

I rank it 11th in DT's albums

[ariich]

Have to say, thanks to cyber and Meatrose, and of course noxon as well, for all the snippets of information. It really is building quite a nice hype for me - I'm pretty good at approaching things with minimal expectation or preconception, but this is one of those cases where I do find it quite exciting and all these little tidbits are contributing nicely to that!

[noxon]

How do you rank ADToE?

Oh, somewhere in the middle.

[GasparXR]

Have to say, thanks to cyber and Meatrose, and of course noxon as well, for all the snippets of information. It really is building quite a nice hype for me - I'm pretty good at approaching things with minimal expectation or preconception, but this is one of those cases where I do find it quite exciting and all these little tidbits are contributing nicely to that!

Echoing this. I can't NOT be excited for a new DT release (although this is only the second album I've been in the waiting for), but the comments from cyber, Meatrose and noxon are definitely building some positive hype for me! Thanks for providing some insight, and can't wait to read the reviews.

[ResultsMayVary]

i wish i could! sept 9th.

SOMEONE! HURRY! GET THE COUNTDOWN CLOCK!

[Outcrier]

Same. Remember when I read Ulver's Perdition City reviews. Many where just waaay negative, but I decided to give it a try anyway. Well, after many years, I still believe it's a real masterpiece.

Use Rate Your Music then, it's the site that i find that the majority of the albums deserves the rating they have... and it's one of the best for movies too, million times better than IMDB

[Outcrier]

I say this in my reviews- and i'm paraphrasing here; it's not my fav dt album, but it's not among my least favs either. I'd say it's above average, but the average being what it is means it's a pretty good one. But i doubt anything will reach as high for me as 90s dt, which is why i'm sticking with above average.

With regards to ratings... I think it'll end up as a 3,5 on progarchives even after release. Maybe up to 3.8.

Don't think it will end up as 3.5, ADTOE was overrated already

[Syzzle]

Progarchives rating system is terrible so I wouldn't really worry about what any album's rating is there.

[Outcrier]

No, it does! And it's what I wanted to hear frankly. ADTOE too lacked the big, immediately discernible moment, but with later listenings a lot of peaks surfaced (the guit solo in BAI, "karma starts the signal", the BTS solo and so on). Hopefully DTDT will behave similarly! 

For me, the defining moments in ADTOE are the 1st "Shaman take my hand" (then comes the Final Fantasy 8 section  ) and BAI 9:06...
Other cool moments are the piano melody in Outcry(with that bassline behind  ) after the instrumental section, LNF Petrucci's solo and the guitar riff before the keyboard one,BITS solos 

[Lolzeez]

For me, the defining moments in ADTOE are the 1st "Shaman take my hand" (then comes the Final Fantasy 8 section  ) and BAI 9:06...
Other cool moments are the piano melody in Outcry(with that bassline behind  ) after the instrumental section, LNF Petrucci's solo and the guitar riff before the keyboard one,BITS solos 

OH MY GOD! I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS OF FF8 WHEN I LISTEN TO THAT PART! YES!

[Outcrier]

OH MY GOD! I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS OF FF8 WHEN I LISTEN TO THAT PART! YES!

It's a version of The Landing in other time signature 

[Lucidity]

For me, the defining moments in ADTOE are the 1st "Shaman take my hand" (then comes the Final Fantasy 8 section  ) and BAI 9:06...
Other cool moments are the piano melody in Outcry(with that bassline behind  ) after the instrumental section, LNF Petrucci's solo and the guitar riff before the keyboard one,BITS solos 

OH MY GOD! I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS OF FF8 WHEN I LISTEN TO THAT PART! YES!

There are more of us than you might think 

[PROGdrummer]

For me, the defining moments in ADTOE are the 1st "Shaman take my hand" (then comes the Final Fantasy 8 section  ) and BAI 9:06...
Other cool moments are the piano melody in Outcry(with that bassline behind  ) after the instrumental section, LNF Petrucci's solo and the guitar riff before the keyboard one,BITS solos 

OH MY GOD! I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS OF FF8 WHEN I LISTEN TO THAT PART! YES!

There are more of us than you might think 

https://youtu.be/Aoc8G4o63c8?t=51s

[Outcrier]

The Landing x Bridges In The Sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoiWWE8w6KU

Just change the pitch and some notes, voala 

[PROGdrummer]

@cyberdrummer
how heavy is this album altogether? From what im hearing it sounds very light prog rock like the I&M and Awake days. Is Enemy pretty much the only track with some really headbangable riffs?

[ariich]

For me, the defining moments in ADTOE are the 1st "Shaman take my hand" (then comes the Final Fantasy 8 section  ) and BAI 9:06...
Other cool moments are the piano melody in Outcry(with that bassline behind  ) after the instrumental section, LNF Petrucci's solo and the guitar riff before the keyboard one,BITS solos 

OH MY GOD! I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS OF FF8 WHEN I LISTEN TO THAT PART! YES!

There are more of us than you might think 

Yeah, pretty sure everyone who has played FF8 noticed that the first time they heard it.

Outcrier, nice to see that your two defining moments are identical to mine! (see reply #487 earlier in the thread)

[serrano]

Well, BAI end of the instrumental section is an easy choice, just brilliant

[cyberdrummer]

@cyberdrummer
how heavy is this album altogether? From what im hearing it sounds very light prog rock like the I&M and Awake days. Is Enemy pretty much the only track with some really headbangable riffs?

I've answered the first question a couple of times in more detail earlier in the thread - it's by no means very light prog rock.

There are headbangable riffs in a few other songs.

[HyunmoYang]

*SNIP*
is this real?

[serrano]

Fake or not fake, better delete the link.

[nikatapi]

I think the drum machine gives it away as a fake.

[Zydar]

[RMGadelha]

Oh, well... People really need to learn to read rules when they register on forums.  By the way,  even though it's fake,  I really liked the solo and would love to know the source.

[Meatrose]

Have to say, thanks to cyber and Meatrose, and of course noxon as well, for all the snippets of information. It really is building quite a nice hype for me - I'm pretty good at approaching things with minimal expectation or preconception, but this is one of those cases where I do find it quite exciting and all these little tidbits are contributing nicely to that!

I'm glad that some of what I and the others have been saying has made the rest of you get more excited about the album. I know that I'm repeating myself now and that I'm probably going to start sounding like a broken record real soon but I'd like to once more point out that what I've written will probably in some cases turn out to be inaccurate. My memories of tracks 6 through 8 are especially blurry and it's definitely possible that some of the things I wrote there may even have been attributed to the wrong song. Hopefully that's not the case but I just wanted to throw it out there.

Now I can't wait to get to listen to the album again, at home, properly, on a good system this time. By then it will probably almost be like hearing it for the first time again.

[Progressive Metal Fusion]

Ironically, the waiting for the new album will be more hard for the people like Cyberdrummer or Meatrose rather than for all the others that haven't heard it yet.
I would kill myself to hear again, in my home, a new DT album that I have already heard, but only 1 time.

[cyberdrummer]

Tell me about it...

[m0hawk]

He just did, you big loser!

[serrano]

Yeah, we are so lucky we didn't hear it yet...

[Kotowboy]

Yeah, we are so lucky we didn't hear it yet...

I'm so happy i've turned into a fangirl on twitter and I just...I can't...Nope....I...   

[cyberdrummer]

A photo from last week:

[Mladen]

Awesome. 

[wasteland]

A photo from last week:
*snip*

Is this the first we see from cyber-D?

And by the way, I had no idea JR was there as well! 

[cyberdrummer]

A photo from last week:
*snip*

Is this the first we see from cyber-D?

Haha it might well be.

[?]

And by the way, I had no idea JR was there as well! 

Me either.

It's weird to see James wearing a pink shirt

[ariich]

A photo from last week:
*snip*

Is this the first we see from cyber-D?

Haha it might well be.

Not for me, I've met you in person.