Your Controversial Opinions on DT

[Zook]

Surrounded is easily a top 10 DT song.

Top 5 for me, even.

Top 1.

[krieger]

Surrounded is easily a top 10 DT song.

Top 5 for me, even.

Top 1.

Surrounded is pure gold.  Controversial would be something like "Anna Lee is Top 5, best lyrics ever, best piano lines ever, they should just make that kind of music." 

[gmillerdrake]

Surrounded is easily a top 10 DT song.

Top 5 for me, even.

Top 1.

Surrounded is pure gold.  Controversial would be something like "Anna Lee is Top 5, best lyrics ever, best piano lines ever, they should just make that kind of music." 

The song makes me want to shoot an elephant and carve a tower out of one of its tusks.....

[Dark Castle]

That's pretty damn metal Gmiller, I'm going to have to write that down 

[TheGreatPretender]

Controversial would be something like "Anna Lee is Top 5, best lyrics ever, best piano lines ever, they should just make that kind of music." 

Still better than The Great Debate or New Millennium.

[PROGdrummer]

I'm not crazy about Surrounded.

Also, Raw Dog is a Top 10 song for me. I'm being sincere.

[gmillerdrake]

That's pretty damn metal Gmiller, I'm going to have to write that down 

That's just the way I roll......     


     


But seriously, the lyrics alone in Surrounded are awesome. What I like about them is that they can mean different things to many different people. Then there's the music 

[aprilethereal]

Anna Lee is one of the best FII songs. And FII contains lots of amazing stuff.

[serrano]

Anna Lee is a great song, one of the highlights of FII for me, there is sure some great songs in FII but there is also a lot of skippers. When i think of FII i remember when it came out, i had a lot of expectations and it was underwhelming. The gig at the biskuithalle in Bonn was also far from the performances in the last tours. Then since SFAM, FII has been pretty forgettable for a long time. Fair enough it has aged good for me since i never listened to it so intensively.

[Ruba]

Anna Lee is very good. Not the most memorable song, but I still prefer it to everything on BC&SL, or maybe not The Count of Tuscany.

[rumborak]

My controversial opinion of the day: MM's hair looks really weird

[BlobVanDam]

My controversial opinion of the day: MM's hair looks really weird

I've seen many others mention that one in other threads, so I don't think that's too controversial. He must have found JP's hair straightener.

[Lucien]

Learning to Live is the best I&W song.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=37278

[Ruba]

Why is it number five then? 

E: I missed the I&W part  .

[serrano]

Learning to Live is the best I&W song.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=37278

Not really controversial but I couldn't agree more

[BlobVanDam]

Learning to Live is the best I&W song.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=37278

That's not controversial. A lot of people consider LTL the best song on IaW.


What's controversial is that I don't even consider LTL a top 5 on IaW, let alone a top 5 for DT. Come at me!

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

Eh. I've always found most of Images to be better than Learning To Live. Of course, I'm not knocking on the song because everything on I&W is fantastic.

Learning to Live is the best I&W song.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=37278

That's not controversial. A lot of people consider LTL the best song on IaW.


What's controversial is that I don't even consider LTL a top 5 on IaW, let alone a top 5 for DT. Come at me!

\o

[BlobVanDam]

Eh. I've always found most of Images to be better than Learning To Live. Of course, I'm not knocking on the song because everything on I&W is fantastic.

Being the weakest song on IaW is like being the slowest runner in the Olympic 100m final. You'd still kick everyone else's ass in a race.

\o

o/

[aprilethereal]

LTL is my third favourite on I&W, and probably wouldn't make my top 50 if I made one.

[krieger]

Controversial would be something like "Anna Lee is Top 5, best lyrics ever, best piano lines ever, they should just make that kind of music." 

Still better than The Great Debate or New Millennium.

Fact. 

[The Boomr]

Learning to Live is the best I&W song.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=37278

That's not controversial. A lot of people consider LTL the best song on IaW.


What's controversial is that I don't even consider LTL a top 5 on IaW, let alone a top 5 for DT. Come at me!

But....but...But F#! Whoa, whoa.....whoa?

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

The F# is not even close to being the best part of I&W. Or even Learning To Live, for that matter.

[TheGreatPretender]

The F# is not even close to being the best part of I&W. Or even Learning To Live, for that matter.

Well, to that I say, F# your opinion! 

[The Boomr]

The F# is not even close to being the best part of I&W. Or even Learning To Live, for that matter.

Well, to that I say, F# your opinion! 

For me, the whole song builds to it. It's the climactic moment, and I love it, and then JP's tremendously beautiful guitar solo starts to slowly bring us back down from that peak. It's amazingly well structured and executed, imo.

[FlyingBIZKIT]

The F# is not even close to being the best part of I&W. Or even Learning To Live, for that matter.

Because Take the Time is

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

The F# is not even close to being the best part of I&W. Or even Learning To Live, for that matter.

Well, to that I say, F# your opinion! 

For me, the whole song builds to it. It's the climactic moment, and I love it, and then JP's tremendously beautiful guitar solo starts to slowly bring us back down from that peak. It's amazingly well structured and executed, imo.

The guitar solo is great. The F# is just a high note. If I just wanted high notes, I'd go listen to power metal.

[The Boomr]

The guitar solo is great. The F# is just a high note. If I just wanted high notes, I'd go listen to power metal.

To call an F#5, sung by a male, with excellent technique, beautiful tone, and stellar placement within the structure of the song, just a high note, is.....sigh. Haha it's ok, it doesn't have to be your favorite thing But there's a reason most power metal is so boring compared to DT. When that's the highest note sung on the album (or indeed, on any studio album until Octavarium), and it is placed at (what I consider to be) the biggest climax and structural resolution of the piece, that's what makes it so good. It isn't just a high note.

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

Eh.

[The Boomr]

Hey if the rest of the band is allowed to go all wankery-style on us whenever they want, then so should James be able to (not that he really can anymore...hahaha)! High notes are a singer's (or, tenor's, more accurately) wankery. Well, one form of it.

[aprilethereal]

The F# is not even close to being the best part of I&W. Or even Learning To Live, for that matter.

Because Take the Time Metropolis is

[The Boomr]

The F# is not even close to being the best part of I&W. Or even Learning To Live, for that matter.

Because Take the Time Metropolis Under a Glass Moon's high E in the chorus is

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

  UAGM is probably my least favorite track from Images And Words.

[Kotowboy]

I've never listened to When Dream And Day Unite - and i've no intention of listening to it.


Does anyone else think it's a bit mad that there's only 2 of the WDADU line up still in the band ?

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

Listen to WDADU.











Do it.









DO IT

[TheGreatPretender]

Does anyone else think it's a bit mad that there's only 2 of the WDADU line up still in the band ?

If by mad you mean crazy, yeah.