Because that's not how I argue. Plus looking at how you've responded to TOX it's pretty clear it wouldn't matter anyways.
Examples would do no good in this case because I'm trying to convey a feeling that is just so common sense and logical to me that it's hard to really describe using time stamps and lyrical passages.
How is this post supposed to convince anyone (let alone me)?
just to debate your point, I have actually read through all of your posts, and I just don't see the correlation between why you would open a thread asking "Awale = #1 DT album?" and then debate all of the relevant points that people make without supporting your OP without any evidence. I mean, orcus made a good point, and if you're going to debate that point, at least give some reasons why.
Okay.
First off, this claim:
it is the only album they've made that is actually sincere in its seriousness and on a critically respectable level
Really? The
only one? Yes, I agree with you that it is serious, I agree with you that it is sincere, and I agree that it is critically respectable. People here are getting the idea that I don't like Awake. Let me make this clear,
I love Awake. But it seems like a lot of the pro-Awake people like it more because of how it compares to other albums and stands out, rather than liking it for what it is separate from the rest. In other words, it seems like a lot of the Awake love comes from external dislike of other albums, rather than genuine like for what Awake really is. This relates to your claim, because your claim is, in fact, a comparison, in the sense that you used the word "only" the way that you did.
Awake doesn't really have an eyeroll factor the way most of their other albums do.
Umm......."until the circle breaks, and wisdom lies ahead"? "Mother Mary quite contrary?" The album is chock-full of eye-roll factors. And by the way, again you magnify Awake by pissing on the other albums.
In fact, I'm not even going to quote the rest of that post since it is basically a piss on the other albums.
I love when people attack the older lyrics words like "cryptic" always pop up, as if even attempting real poetry somehow automatically makes the lyrics worse.
Aside from the sarcastic quip, you assume I haven't looked at the lyrics. Let's run through an example, shall we? Good ol' Innocence Faded...possibly the most "cryptic" lyrics you'll get.
"Animation breathes a cloudless wine. Fascination leaves the doubting blind." Ok, neat little double rhyme, neat rythym. But the lyrics make no sense. John Petrucci is not God and I would bet money that he just pulled that out of his ass.
"Until the circle breaks and wisdom lies ahead, the faithful live awake, the rest remain misled." Still no sense.
"Some will transcend spinning years, one as if time disappears." Yep, no meaning.
Et cetera.
Look, there's a difference between being a lyrical Charles Darwin, writing beautiful prose in a meaningful manner, and being someone who just schlops a bunch of words together to sound profound. I don't mean that the song's meaning has to be
obvious, but honestly there ought to be at least
some extractable meaning or it just comes across as pretentious. The Count of Tuscany's lyrics are better than Innocence Faded's.