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Which is the better album?

Dream Theater - Train of Thought
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Opeth - Damnation
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Offline Ravenheart

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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #35 on: April 21, 2011, 08:03:00 AM »
Train of Thought better than Damnation?

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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #36 on: April 21, 2011, 08:21:41 AM »
Quote from: ravenheart on April 21, 2011, 08:03:00 AM
Train of Thought better than Damnation?

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People have varying opinions?

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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #37 on: April 21, 2011, 08:22:56 AM »
Oh you guys
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Train of Thought is better than Damnation! But I guess the forum has spoken  :P
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #38 on: April 21, 2011, 08:51:00 AM »
WaIT.. How did I COMPLETELY miss this thread. Anyway, Damnation won, so I'm happy.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #39 on: April 21, 2011, 01:16:16 PM »
Quote from: Jamesman on April 21, 2011, 08:21:41 AM
Quote from: ravenheart on April 21, 2011, 08:03:00 AM
Train of Thought better than Damnation?

 :rollin

People have varying opinions?

:rollin
People are entitled to their opinions, just as I am entitled to disagree with them.

The point of a discussion board is to, y'know, discuss things, not stay completely silent because "a hurr hurr subjectivity."
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #40 on: April 21, 2011, 01:24:26 PM »
It's not that you have an opinion but how you expressed it.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #41 on: April 21, 2011, 02:57:40 PM »
:clap: One of my least favorite Opeth albums, but I prefer it to ToT, and Opeth won't be winning any other rounds, so I'm glad to see them get their moment of glory here. DT already got theirs with SDOIT.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #42 on: April 22, 2011, 04:08:20 AM »
Fantastic result.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #43 on: April 22, 2011, 04:20:31 AM »
Quote from: yorost on April 21, 2011, 01:24:26 PM
It's not that you have an opinion but how you expressed it.

This.

Your opinion could have been "I liked Damnation better." Instead, it was worded like "LOL DAMNATION TOT SUCKS LOL". OK, not really, but you get what I'm saying.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #44 on: April 22, 2011, 08:33:03 PM »
i'm not anti-damnation by any means, but never would i have expected it to win an album of the year. people sure love their opeth (and porcupine tree) on this forum.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #45 on: April 24, 2011, 06:43:08 PM »
Damnation is far too one-dimensional to earn top spot of the year, but people are just going to make the same argument for TOT so meh
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #46 on: April 24, 2011, 06:56:41 PM »
It should have been In Keeping Secrets, Frengers, or Effloresce.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #47 on: April 24, 2011, 07:00:34 PM »
Quote from: MetalManiac666 on April 24, 2011, 06:43:08 PM
Damnation is far too one-dimensional to earn top spot of the year, but people are just going to make the same argument for TOT so meh

Yeah, the albums have the same weaknesses.

Is it just me, or did DTVT drop the ball on completing this series?
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #48 on: April 24, 2011, 07:03:45 PM »
I hope not. I'm enjoying it so far.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #49 on: April 24, 2011, 09:04:18 PM »
Quote from: zxlkho on April 24, 2011, 07:03:45 PM
I hope not. I'm enjoying it so far.

Same. And I have all of my lists finalized except for 2008.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #50 on: April 24, 2011, 09:40:07 PM »
Quote from: Perpetual Change on April 24, 2011, 07:00:34 PM

Is it just me, or did DTVT drop the ball on completing this series?

No, last weekend I saw a percipitous drop in participation, so I'm not running them on the weekends (also, I'll be out of town 2 of the next 4 weekends).

Even though it's more work, I'd still like to see more people participate.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #51 on: April 24, 2011, 09:45:18 PM »
Maybe advertise in your signature or something?
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #52 on: April 25, 2011, 12:25:17 AM »
Quote from: DTVT on April 24, 2011, 09:40:07 PM
No, last weekend I saw a percipitous drop in participation, so I'm not running them on the weekends (also, I'll be out of town 2 of the next 4 weekends).

Even though it's more work, I'd still like to see more people participate.

I don't know, it seems like it is getting a lot of interest.  For the most part, anyone who is interested is probably gonna post their picks in the first day or two, so leaving it open for like a week in the hopes that more people will post theirs probably isn't realistic.  Just my opinion. :)
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #53 on: April 25, 2011, 09:07:21 AM »
I'm not leaving it open a week, I just noticed that when I started the rounds last Friday, participation was real low, so I simply decided to wait until Sunday night/Monday morning to start the next batch.  The forums don't seem to be as busy on weekends, so I thought I was doing everyone a favor by waiting until after the weekend, particularly a holiday weekend.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #54 on: April 26, 2011, 01:27:01 PM »
Quote from: Perpetual Change on April 24, 2011, 07:00:34 PM
Quote from: MetalManiac666 on April 24, 2011, 06:43:08 PM
Damnation is far too one-dimensional to earn top spot of the year, but people are just going to make the same argument for TOT so meh

Yeah, the albums have the same weaknesses.


nah. not only is TOT far less one dimensional, but it is a more accurtate representation of what the band does/is-about.

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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #55 on: April 26, 2011, 01:31:59 PM »
I don't think either album is that one-dimensional.

Saying that Damnation is one-dimensional is like saying that all of their mellow songs sound the same.  Just because they do both heavy and mellow doesn't mean that there isn't a broad range within one or both of those dimensions, so to speak.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #56 on: April 26, 2011, 08:12:20 PM »
Quote from: KevShmev on April 26, 2011, 01:31:59 PM
Saying that Damnation is one-dimensional is like saying that all of their mellow songs sound the same.  Just because they do both heavy and mellow doesn't mean that there isn't a broad range within one or both of those dimensions, so to speak.

That may be so, but I just find every song on Damnation to have almost the exact same feel and tone.  Not so with TOT.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #57 on: April 26, 2011, 08:15:19 PM »
Windowpane is awesome but after that the quality of Damnation drops immensely and only improves in tiny sections.
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Re: In Retrospect - Album of the Year 2003 - FINALS
« Reply #58 on: April 26, 2011, 08:42:16 PM »
Hope Leaves.
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