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Dream Theater => Dream Theater => Topic started by: Bombardana on March 21, 2010, 04:52:03 PM
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I thought we should do a thread where we choose our favourite Petrucci solo from each album. I'll start:
WDADU: Afterlife
I&W: Learning to Live (the one after WOOOAAAAAAAAAHHHH)
Awake: Erotomania 1:41
FII: Lines in the Sand
SFAM: The Spirit Carries On
6DOIT: The Glass Prison arpeggios
TOT: As I Am
8VM: Razor's Edge
SC: In the Presence of Enemies Part.1 2:09
BC&SL: tough choice between TBOT and TCOT... but gotta go with The Count on this one.
Okay your turn
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WDADU: Afterlife
I&W: Another Day
Awake: Voices
FII: Lines in the Sand
SFAM: The Spirit Carries On
6DOIT: Goodnight Kiss
TOT: As I Am
8VM: Razor's edge
SC: Forsaken
BC&SL: TCOT
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WDADU: Afterlife
I&W: Under a Glass Moon
Awake: Voices
FII: Lines in the Sand
SFAM: The Spirit Carries On
SDOIT: Solitary Shell
TOT: Stream of Consciousness (the fast-as-hell one)
8VM: Razor's Edge
SC: ITPOE (main theme guitar solo)
BC&SL: The Best of Times
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When Dream and Day Unite: sorry... don't remember right now, nothing that I found really memorable
Images & Words: Learning to Live ending solo
Awake: probably Voices, tough choice
Falling Into Infinity: Hell's Kitchen or Lines in the Sand
Scenes from a Memory: surprise! Home, but Finally Free (after "we fade away") and The Spirit Carries on are very close
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: About to Crash/Goodnight Kiss
Train of Thought: obviously, In The Name of God (the insanely fast one ending the instrumental section)
Octavarium: Sacrificed Sons/Razor's Edge
Systematic Chaos: The Ministry of Lost Souls ending solo, my all-time favourite DT solo
Black Clouds & Silver Linings: tough one, The Best of Times ending solo, A Rite of Passage solo, A Nightmare to Remember short solo after "I'm not one to soon forget..."
Honorable non-album mention: Raise The Knife from Score, it's AMAZING.
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WDADU: Afterlife
I&W: Learning to Live (Runner Up: TTT Solo at the end of the song)
Awake: Both Lie Solos (Runner Up: Voices)
FII: Hell's Kitchen
SFAM: Home
6DoIT: The Glass Prison's Arpeggios
ToT: In The Name of God (Runner Up: SoC)
8VM: Razor's Edge (Runner Up: Panic Attack)
SC: Constant Motion (Runner Up: Forsaken)
BC&SL: The Best of Times
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WDADU: Afterlife
I&W: Learning to Live
Awake: Lie
FII: Lines in the Sand
SFAM: The Spirit Carries On
6DOIT: Goodnight Kiss
TOT: In The Name Of God Unison
8VM: Razor's Edge
SC: The Dark Eternal Night Intro
BC&SL: The Best Of Times
*The DVD´s arent an option here but I just want to make clear that the Petrucci solo in Surrounded in Chaos In Motion is insane too!
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When Dream and Day Unite: Afterlife, with A Fortune in Lies in a close second.
Images & Words: Under a Glass Moon (I can't believe anyone would pick anything else)
Awake: Voices
Falling Into Infinity: Lines in the Sand
Scenes From a Memory: The Spirit Carries On
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: Goodnight Kiss
Train of Thought: Stream of Consciousness (Crazy shred one)
Octavarium: Razor's Edge
Systematic Chaos: In the Presence of Enemies Pt. 1
Black Clouds & Silver Linings: The Best of Times
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WDADU : A Fortune in Lies
IAW : Learning to Live
Awake : Voices (Runner up : Scarred)
FII : Lines in The Sand
SFAM : Finally Free
SDOIT : Goodnight Kiss
TOT : Stream of Consciousness
8VM : Sacrificed Sons
SC : Repentance
BCSL : The Count of Tuscany
EP & Non Album : ACOS : Another World
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Images & Words: Under a Glass Moon (I can't believe anyone would pick anything else)
Totally forgot.
Fixed
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WDADU: Afterlife
I&W: UAGM
Awake: Voices
FII: Lines in the Sand
SFAM: Home
6DoiT: 6DoiT-Goodnight Kiss
SoC: ITNOG
8V: Octavarium (Razor's Edge)
SC: Lol, I guess the Ministry outro solo?
BC&SL: TBOT
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WDADU: Afterlife
I&W: UaGM
Awake: Scarred...or Lie
FII: Lines in the Sand
SFAM: Overture 1928...or TSCO
6DoiT: Goodnight Kiss
ToT: As I Am
8V: Octavarium
SC: ITPOE Pt. 1
BC&SL: TCoT, but every song on this album except for ANTR had a great solo IMO
Been on a DT hiatus, so this may not be entirely accurate. :biggrin:
-J
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WDADU : Afterlife
I&W : Under A Glass Moon
Awake : Scarred
Falling Into Infinity : Lines In The Sand
SFAM : Home
SDOIT : Blind Faith
Train of Thought : As I Am
Octavarium : Razor's Edge
Systematic Chaos : TMOLS outro
BC&SL : The Best Of Times
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WDADU: The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
I&W: Under a Glass Moon (duh)
Awake: 2nd Lie Solo
FII: Trial of Tears
SFAM: Home
6DoIT: Goodnight Kiss
ToT: In The Name of God
8VM: Razor's Edge
SC: Repentance/ITPoE Pt 1
BC&SL: The Best of Times
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WDADU: Ytse Jam
I&W: Under a Glass Moon
Awake: Erotomania (the fast one)
FII: Lines in the Sand 5:39
SFAM: Fatal Tragedy 4:39
6DOIT: The Glass Prison 10:25 or Blind Faith 5:13(sorry for the waffle but I'm virtually equal on these)
TOT: Stream of Consciousness 3:49 only because I can't use This Dying Soul 10:29 cuz it's a unison/harmony
8VM: Panic Attack
SC: The Dark Eternal Night 6:09 Aw hamburgers! That solo is awesome :tup
BC&SL: A Rite of Passage 5:18
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WDADU: Afterlife
I&W: Under a Glass Moon
Awake: Voices
FII: Lines in the Sand (clean one)
SFAM: Spirit Carries On
6DOIT: Goodnight Kiss
TOT: In The Name Of God
8VM: Razor's Edge
SC: In the Presence of Enemies Part 1, the first time we hear the main theme
BC&SL: The Best of Times
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Train of Thought- Honor Thy Father
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WDADU: A Fortune in Lies
Images & Words: Under A Glass Moon
Awake: Voices
Falling Into Infinity: Lines in the Sand
Scenes from A Memory: The Spirit Carries On
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: SDOIT (Goodnight Kiss)
Train of Thought: None of them are particularly memorable, but the one in As I Am is alright, I guess.
Octavarium: Octavarium
Systematic Chaos: Repentance
BC&SL: The Count of Tuscany (The reprise of the solo in the beginning)
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WDADU: Afterlife
I&W: Under a Glass Moon
Awake: Voices
FII: Lines in the Sand
SFAM: Fatal Tragedy
6DOIT: About to Crash
TOT: In the Name of God
8VM: Razor's Edge
SC: Constant Motion
BC&SL: The Shattered Fortress
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When Dream and Day Unite: A Fortune In Lies
Images & Words: Under a Glass Moon
Awake: Scarred
Falling Into Infinity: Lines in the Sand
Scenes From A Memory: Fatal Tragedy
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: The Great Debate
Train of Thought: Stream of Consciousness
Octavarium: Octavarium (Razor's Edge)
Systematic Chaos: The Ministry of Lost Souls
Black Clouds & Silver Linings: The Shattered Fortress/The Best of Times (its so hard to choose)
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WDADU: Afterlife
I&W: Learning to Live outro or TTT outro
Awake: Voices
FII: Hell's Kitchen
SFAM: The Spirit Carries On or one last time
6DoIT: Goodnight Kiss
ToT: Stream of Consciousness (the killzone mode one)
8VM: Razor's Edge
SC: The Ministry of Lost Souls
BC&SL: The Best of Times, Almost makes me cry
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When dream and day unite - Afterlife
Images and words - Under a glass moon
Awake - Scarred
Falling into infinity - Lines in the sand
Scenes from a memory - Beyond this life
Six degrees of inner turbulence - Misunderstood
Train of thought - Stream of consciousness (the fast 2nd one)
Octavarium - Razor's edge (duh! ;D)
Systematic chaos - Ministry of lost souls (outro)
Black clouds & Silver linings - The Best of times
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WDADU - Afterlife
Images - Learning To Live (after F#)
Awake - Voices (wah)
Falling - Lines In The Sand (although Trial Of Tears is phenomenal)
Scenes - Home
Six Degrees - Goodnight Kiss
Train - Stream Of Consciousness (outro)
Octavarium - Razor's Edge
EDIT: SC - Repentance
Black Clouds - The Best Of Times
JP has such a catalogue of amazing work.
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Hmm, this probably isn't final
WDADU- Ytse Jam
IaW- I would say Metropolis, but thats more of the entire instrumental part. UAGM is the classic one though, but I really like Another Day
Awake- Erotomania or The Silent Man, short but sweet
FII- Trial of Tears definitely. LITS is the classic here, but Petrucci playing like Holdsworth? :hefdaddy
SFAM- pretty any time Petrucci plays the main melody, like in Overture 1928 and One Last Time, FF etc. But TSCO is probably the best
6DOIT- Goodnight Kiss without a doubt.
TOT- SOC
8VM- Razors Edge
SC- ITPOE
BCSL- The Best of Times or the epic ambient part in TCOT
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I&W: UAGM
Awake: Erotomania(all)
FII: Lines in the sand
SFAM. HOME
SDOIT: Goodnight Kiss
TOT: Stream of C
8VM: Razors edge
SC: constant motion/TMOLS outro
BCSL: Best of Times
All insanely sick solos.
LTE1: Paradigm shift
LTE2: When the water breaks (so many sick solos on this album!!!)
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WDADU: A Fortune in lies
I&W:Under a glass moon
Awake:
FII:Lines in the sand
SFAM:Spirit carries on
SDOIT:Goodnight kiss
TOT:Stream of conciousness, last solo
Octavarium:Razor's edge
Systematic Chaos: Ministry of lost souls outro
Black CLouds: The Best of times!
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WDADU: A Fortune In Lies
I&W: Under A Glass Moon
Awake: Voices
FII: Trial Of Tears
SFAM: Home
SDOIT: About To Crash
TOT: In The Name Of God
Octavarium: Sacrificed Sons
Systematic Chaos: Ministry Of Lost Souls (outro)
Black Clouds: The Shattered Fortress
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u know its sad because i consider myself a huge DT fan, but with WDADU: ah all his tapping guitar solos... ill go a fortune in lies
I&W: under a glass moon ( i was told in high school to go and try and play this on guitar, got me into DT)
awake: ah its between innocence faded or scarred
FII: trial of tears
SFAM: the spirit carries on
SDoIT: blind faith including the ending unison
ToT: As i Am, i would take SoC too
8vm: this album in particular he took a backseat with soloing but i'd go with razor's edge on 8vm
SC: i still love Constant motion guitar solo... id pick ItPoE pt 1 but all those leads are unison
BCaSL: this album is still kind of going through a listening phase even after almost a year, but between tBoT and TSF
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WDADU: Afterlife
I&W: Under a Glass Moon
Awake: Lie
FII: Lines in the Sand
SFAM: The Spirit Carries On
SDOIT: Goodnight Kiss
TOT: Stream of Consciousness
8VM: Probably Razor's Edge
SC: Constant Motion
BC&SL: The Best of Times
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WDADU: A Fortune in lies
I&W:Under a glass moon
Awake:
FII:Lines in the sand
SFAM:Spirit carries on
SDOIT:Goodnight kiss
TOT:Stream of conciousness, last solo
Octavarium:Razor's edge
Systematic Chaos: Ministry of lost souls outro
Black CLouds: The Best of times!
No pick for Awake?
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Not to many people like the solo of The Shatter Fortress? Its awesome.
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I think many people around here love it (myself included), but The Best of Times solo dominated BC&SL.
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WDADU: A Fortune in lies
I&W:Under a glass moon
Awake:
FII:Lines in the sand
SFAM:Spirit carries on
SDOIT:Goodnight kiss
TOT:Stream of conciousness, last solo
Octavarium:Razor's edge
Systematic Chaos: Ministry of lost souls outro
Black CLouds: The Best of times!
No pick for Awake?
It's hard to pick a solo from that album beacause IMO, it is the weakest JP-solo album.
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Voices would like a word with you.
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Voices would like a wah with you.
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Even though Awake is my second favourite and agreed on Voices, I think I have to agree with him. That is, maybe not "weakest", but simply it has the least focus on guitar solos.
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When Dream and Day Unite: A Fortune In Lies
Images & Words: Under a Glass Moon
Awake: Lie (the closing solo mainly)
Falling Into Infinity: If I can't pick the closer from The Way It Used To Be then I will go with Trial Of Tears
Scenes From A Memory: Fatal Tragedy
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: The Glass Prison (pick which one they all beat anything else on that CD)
Train of Thought: Stream of Consciousness
Octavarium: Panic Attack
Systematic Chaos: Repentance (Fairly lengthy without going full Petrucci guitar rape. Nice to see that at times)
Black Clouds & Silver Linings: The Best Of Times (Manly tears were shed the first time I heard it... and it still gives me goosebumps.)
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Even though Awake is my second favourite and agreed on Voices, I think I have to agree with him. That is, maybe not "weakest", but simply it has the least focus on guitar solos.
Thank you. That is what I meant.
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WDADU: A Fortune in lies
I&W:Under a glass moon
Awake:
FII:Lines in the sand
SFAM:Spirit carries on
SDOIT:Goodnight kiss
TOT:Stream of conciousness, last solo
Octavarium:Razor's edge
Systematic Chaos: Ministry of lost souls outro
Black CLouds: The Best of times!
No pick for Awake?
It's hard to pick a solo from that album beacause IMO, it is the weakest JP-solo album.
:eek :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek
I am sorry, but that is just crazy talk. "Voices" is probably his best solo to date, for heaven's sake!
My picks:
WDaDU: "Afterlife"
I&W: "Another Day"
Awake: "Voices"
FII: "Lines in the Sand"
SfaM: "Home"
6DOIT: "Goodnight Kiss"
ToT: "In the Name of God"
OV: "Octavarium"
SC: "The Ministry of Lost Souls"
BC&SL: "The Shattered Fortress"
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WDADU: A Fortune in lies
I&W:Under a glass moon
Awake:
FII:Lines in the sand
SFAM:Spirit carries on
SDOIT:Goodnight kiss
TOT:Stream of conciousness, last solo
Octavarium:Razor's edge
Systematic Chaos: Ministry of lost souls outro
Black CLouds: The Best of times!
No pick for Awake?
It's hard to pick a solo from that album beacause IMO, it is the weakest JP-solo album.
:eek :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek
I am sorry, but that is just crazy talk. "Voices" is probably his best solo to date, for heaven's sake!
I know, but if you compare the other solos of the album with the rest of his solos from the other albums, Awake is the album where there are the fewest very good solos.
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I completely disagree. Awake is loaded with great solos. There may not be as many solos from a quantity standpoint, but the quality of all of the ones he does play is extremely high.
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Voices has, I agree, an awesome solo. Scarred has a great solo. The other songs have nothing special.
It's useless to argue more.
:heart
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"Voices" is probably his best solo to date, for heaven's sake!
This is only a foundational truth of the universe :tup
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I completely disagree. Awake is loaded with great solos. There may not be as many solos from a quantity standpoint, but the quality of all of the ones he does play is extremely high.
The difference is that the solos on Awake have more of a heavy metal direction to them IMO, they're just somewhere deep in the song, and more technical-oriented than on the other albums. There are no beautiful melodic solos like the Learning to Live ending solo or the one in The Spirit Carries On, they're more of a metal kind of guitar solos, and they also have less of an "independent" role than on the other albums. Since myself I'm a fan particularly of melodic solos, nothing really touches me that much on Awake... but well, if despite that it's my second favourite album, it says something. :P
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Oh yeah, awake, haha ^^ well...only songs I kinda listen to there is like, Mirror, Lie, Scarred :S dunno why, I think tha tabum is actually pritty good, although I'm not a big fan of their older stuff, I'll have to listen to more of the songs on awake a little more before I tell wich guitar solo's the best
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Hmm, yeah, the "Voices" solo was pritty cool...but I think Lie's better though
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WDADU: A Fortune in Lies
I&W: Under a Glass Moon
Awake: Scarred
FII: Hell's Kitchen
SFAM: The Spirit Carries On
6DOIT: The Glass Prison (arpeggios)
TOT: As I Am
8VM: Octavarium (Razor's Edge)
SC: Constant Motion
BC&SL: The Count of Tuscany
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WDADU: A Fortune in lies
I&W:Under a glass moon
Awake:
FII:Lines in the sand
SFAM:Spirit carries on
SDOIT:Goodnight kiss
TOT:Stream of conciousness, last solo
Octavarium:Razor's edge
Systematic Chaos: Ministry of lost souls outro
Black CLouds: The Best of times!
No pick for Awake?
It's hard to pick a solo from that album beacause IMO, it is the weakest JP-solo album.
:eek :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek
I am sorry, but that is just crazy talk. "Voices" is probably his best solo to date, for heaven's sake!
My picks:
WDaDU: "Afterlife"
I&W: "Another Day"
Awake: "Voices"
FII: "Lines in the Sand"
SfaM: "Home"
6DOIT: "Goodnight Kiss"
ToT: "In the Name of God"
OV: "Octavarium"
SC: "The Ministry of Lost Souls"
BC&SL: "The Shattered Fortress"
I assume you mean the fade-out one, not the one in the instrumental section?
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WDADU: A Fortune in lies
I&W:Under a glass moon
Awake:
FII:Lines in the sand
SFAM:Spirit carries on
SDOIT:Goodnight kiss
TOT:Stream of conciousness, last solo
Octavarium:Razor's edge
Systematic Chaos: Ministry of lost souls outro
Black CLouds: The Best of times!
No pick for Awake?
It's hard to pick a solo from that album beacause IMO, it is the weakest JP-solo album.
:eek :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek
I am sorry, but that is just crazy talk. "Voices" is probably his best solo to date, for heaven's sake!
My picks:
WDaDU: "Afterlife"
I&W: "Another Day"
Awake: "Voices"
FII: "Lines in the Sand"
SfaM: "Home"
6DOIT: "Goodnight Kiss"
ToT: "In the Name of God"
OV: "Octavarium"
SC: "The Ministry of Lost Souls"
BC&SL: "The Shattered Fortress"
I assume you mean the fade-out one, not the one in the instrumental section?
What's wrong with that solo ? To me, it's as good as the outro one.
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WDADU: A Fortune in lies
I&W:Under a glass moon
Awake:
FII:Lines in the sand
SFAM:Spirit carries on
SDOIT:Goodnight kiss
TOT:Stream of conciousness, last solo
Octavarium:Razor's edge
Systematic Chaos: Ministry of lost souls outro
Black CLouds: The Best of times!
No pick for Awake?
It's hard to pick a solo from that album beacause IMO, it is the weakest JP-solo album.
:eek :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek
I am sorry, but that is just crazy talk. "Voices" is probably his best solo to date, for heaven's sake!
My picks:
WDaDU: "Afterlife"
I&W: "Another Day"
Awake: "Voices"
FII: "Lines in the Sand"
SfaM: "Home"
6DOIT: "Goodnight Kiss"
ToT: "In the Name of God"
OV: "Octavarium"
SC: "The Ministry of Lost Souls"
BC&SL: "The Shattered Fortress"
I assume you mean the fade-out one, not the one in the instrumental section?
What's wrong with that solo ? To me, it's as good as the outro one.
Actually, I like both, I just wanted to know which one he meant.
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Definitely the one at the end. The one during the instrumental section in the middle of the song is good, too, but the one at the end is much better.
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WDADU: A Fortune in lies
I&W:Under a glass moon
Awake:
FII:Lines in the sand
SFAM:Spirit carries on
SDOIT:Goodnight kiss
TOT:Stream of conciousness, last solo
Octavarium:Razor's edge
Systematic Chaos: Ministry of lost souls outro
Black CLouds: The Best of times!
No pick for Awake?
It's hard to pick a solo from that album beacause IMO, it is the weakest JP-solo album.
:eek :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek
I am sorry, but that is just crazy talk. "Voices" is probably his best solo to date, for heaven's sake!
My picks:
WDaDU: "Afterlife"
I&W: "Another Day"
Awake: "Voices"
FII: "Lines in the Sand"
SfaM: "Home"
6DOIT: "Goodnight Kiss"
ToT: "In the Name of God"
OV: "Octavarium"
SC: "The Ministry of Lost Souls"
BC&SL: "The Shattered Fortress"
I assume you mean the fade-out one, not the one in the instrumental section?
What's wrong with that solo ? To me, it's as good as the outro one.
Actually, I like both, I just wanted to know which one he meant.
Actually, I meant the solo right after the unison :lol
I don't know why I didn't think of the one during the instrumental section. But the one after the unison is better than the one from the instrumental section.
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WDADU: Don't know. I don't really listen to WDADU....
I&W: Under a Glass Moon
Awake: Voices (So Underrated!)
FII: Lines in the Sand/Peruvian Skies (LitS wins, but I just love the PS solo so damn much....)
SFAM: The Spirit Carries On
6DOIT: Blind Faith
TOT: As I Am
8VM: Razor's Edge
SC: In The Presence Of Enemies Pt. 1
BC&SL: The Shattered Fortress
I will say though, this thread has made go back through the DT library and listen to a lot of his solos that I've completely forgotten about. Just when I was starting to stray away from DT...
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Wheee! Let's go:
When Dream and Day Unite: Light Fuse and Get Away
Images and Words: Under a Glass Moon
Awake: Lie
Falling Into Infinity: Lines in the Sand
Scenes from a Memory: Finally Free
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: Goodnight Kiss
Train of Thought: Stream of Consciousness shred solo
Octavarium: Razor's Edge
Systematic Chaos: Ministry of Lost Souls end solo (Though though. This album's loaded with great solos)
Black Cloud and Silver Linings: The Best of Times end solo
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I have to go with Lie on awake