"A Rite of Passage" -- 11 years later

[Trav]

The fact I had to bring the song up in Spotify to remind myself of how it went says a lot about how I feel about it - which is not much apparently.

Why did you have to bring it up on Spotify?  You don't have the album? 

I can't speak for him but I use Spotify for all of my daily listening. Rather I own the album or not.

[TheBarstoolWarrior]

This song is very meh. Probably too long as well.

[hefdaddy42]

The fact I had to bring the song up in Spotify to remind myself of how it went says a lot about how I feel about it - which is not much apparently.

Why did you have to bring it up on Spotify?  You don't have the album? 

I have the album, but I wouldn't dig it out to listen to one song.  I would take out my phone and pull up the song on Spotify.

[Dublagent66]

The fact I had to bring the song up in Spotify to remind myself of how it went says a lot about how I feel about it - which is not much apparently.

Why did you have to bring it up on Spotify?  You don't have the album? 

I have the album, but I wouldn't dig it out to listen to one song.  I would take out my phone and pull up the song on Spotify.

I have the album on my phone.   As for streaming, YouTube music is the way to go. 

[Trav]

The fact I had to bring the song up in Spotify to remind myself of how it went says a lot about how I feel about it - which is not much apparently.

Why did you have to bring it up on Spotify?  You don't have the album? 

I have the album, but I wouldn't dig it out to listen to one song.  I would take out my phone and pull up the song on Spotify.

I have the album on my phone.   As for streaming, YouTube music is the way to go. 

To each, their own.

[Dublagent66]

Yeah, pretty much goes without saying...

[Kotowboy]

Re: "A Rite of Passage" -- 11 years later


Not bad. nice instrumental section until Bebot. The snare sounds flappy. Don't like the entrance into the final chorus.

[darkshade]

Re: "A Rite of Passage" -- 11 years later


Not bad. nice instrumental section until Bebot. The snare sounds flappy. Don't like the entrance into the final chorus.

You mean you don't like the hard

?

[Volante99]

Black Clouds is a criminally underrated album, BUT even I have to admit, if there is one song that hints at Portnoy-era DT showing signs of creative fatigue, it would be Right of Passage. Everything about the song is just "meh"- it's listenable, the riffs are okay, the chorus isn't bad, but the song just screams "auto-pilot" to me.

[darkshade]

Speaking of AROP:
https://youtu.be/mP6qQCgp4bs

[Mr.Mister]

Speaking of AROP:
https://youtu.be/mP6qQCgp4bs

Thanks for sharing! pause at 6:25 

[darkshade]

I think AROP suffers from a slower tempo on the studio version. The live versions definitely packs more punch being a little faster. I don't like JLB singing the harmonized melody instead of the lead melody on this particular performance, but damn does he sound so good here compared to most later tours.

[ZirconBlue]

Black Clouds is a criminally underrated album, BUT even I have to admit, if there is one song that hints at Portnoy-era DT showing signs of creative fatigue, it would be Right of Passage. Everything about the song is just "meh"- it's listenable, the riffs are okay, the chorus isn't bad, but the song just screams "auto-pilot" to me.

I feel quite the opposite.  ARoP is my favorite song on BCaSL, and other than Wither, I don't really listen to the rest of the album very often.