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Title: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: Ħ on February 10, 2011, 11:35:39 PM
Hearing this live on the fanclub I+W anniversary rekindled my love for DT.  I honestly have no words.  Surrounded could now be my favorite song.
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: Jirpo on February 10, 2011, 11:37:22 PM
A good song, doesn't let down I&W (my fave DT album), and helps give the album its overall solidness.

*appreciates*
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: antigoon on February 10, 2011, 11:40:40 PM
Surrounded is fucking amazing.
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: lateralus88 on February 10, 2011, 11:42:21 PM
Surrounded is and always will be my favourite Dream Theater song.
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: Finally Tree on February 11, 2011, 12:19:42 AM
I don't really get why people like Surrounded so much. I mean, it's a good song but not that good.
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: inoku on February 11, 2011, 12:24:17 AM
i like surrounded and mother too.
but i dont quite like the surrounded/sugar mice/mother live song..
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: Zydar on February 11, 2011, 12:28:27 AM
Surrounded is and always will be my favourite Dream Theater song.

Top 3 for me, I've always loved it.

Not much a fan of their Sugar Mice/Mother version though, the song is awesome as it is.
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: Aniland on February 11, 2011, 02:30:11 AM
Surrounded was the first Dream Theater song I ever loved, and it was the moment they first clicked with me. May 2006, on a bleacher in the rain of New Hampshire.
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: tri.ad on February 11, 2011, 02:34:04 AM
I really like Surrounded. When I saw it in Linz, they played the S/SM/M medley, though. Not knowing both of the other songs back then, I was a bit confused. I'd love to hear it again, but I don't think that it'll happen.
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: Lowdz on February 11, 2011, 04:04:53 AM
Love Surrounded and liked what they did with the annniversary live version. I feel it works well. I wasn't aware that there was another track in there (Mother) as I don't know the original, phillistine that I am. I will now put that right. Off to spotify I go.

Edit. Ah, Pink floyd, the Wall I'm assuming. Not on Spotify and not an album I'm that familiar with. Great solo in the song though, and strangely fits very well with the solo in Sugar Mice...
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: hefdaddy42 on February 11, 2011, 04:22:39 AM
Meh.  I prefer Surrounded without the extra song parts, although I loved what they did with the intro.
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: wasp2020 on February 11, 2011, 07:50:59 PM
The first DT song I really connected with, still is my favourite DT song, and one of my favourite songs period. It has so much of what I love about music in it.
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: TheKillingHand on February 11, 2011, 08:45:13 PM
Surrounded really reminds me of The Camera Eye by Rush...not the whole song but there's one section of it where the rhythm of it reminds me of it
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: lonestar on February 11, 2011, 08:48:22 PM
I love surrounded, and Sugarmice is my most favorite song of all, enough said.
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: SlickSy on February 12, 2011, 02:30:05 PM
Hearing this live on the fanclub I+W anniversary rekindled my love for DT.  I honestly have no words.  Surrounded could now be my favorite song.

 :tup I agree. The version of Surrounded on the I&W Fanclub cd is bliss. It's fucking amazing.
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Post by: DarkLord_Lalinc on February 12, 2011, 03:12:27 PM
James' vocal performance on that CD is miles better than the performances found in Chaos in Motion.


Hell, most performances I've heard from James are miles better than the ones in Chaos in Motion.  :lol
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: Cool Chris on February 12, 2011, 03:32:44 PM
When I&W first came out, I liked Surrounded and Another Day more than anything else on the album (except PMU). I didn't care of TTT or Metropolis or LtL as much. Then time passed, Awake came out, I started to get more in to metal and heavier music, and appreciating the heavier side of DT more, and my love for Surrounded and AD waned. I still don't listen to either of them much, bit today much prefer AD to Surrounded. 

I think I've only heard that 2007 version of Surrounded once. I might need to give it another listen. I like when they throw in a riff or a solo bit in to a song, but don't like it when they add in a vocal part. And Sugar Mice is a pretty lame song to begin with.
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: jsem on February 12, 2011, 03:46:22 PM
I appreciate
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: Occasional_Madman on February 13, 2011, 02:58:41 PM
The first time I heard the Mother solo in the live medley, I nearly shed a tear. I aleady very much enjoyed Surrounded, but that just made my love for the song skyrocket.

*heavily appreciates*
Title: Re: Surrounded/Sugar Mice/Mother appreciation
Post by: Dr. DTVT on February 13, 2011, 03:15:39 PM
I love surrounded, and Sugarmice is my most favorite Fish-era Marillion song, enough said.

Fixed for me.