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Started by Lucidity, December 17, 2012, 07:28:25 PM

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robwebster

Quote from: MoraWintersoul on January 25, 2013, 05:35:06 PM
Quote from: wasteland on January 25, 2013, 05:32:11 PM
Shush, that's entirely roblevel! Just wait for him to came and award you the Webster Award For Outstanding Post Writings and Topic Awareness.
You're so dead :rollin
No awards, but how would you like to become my official sidekick? It's a great job, we wear shit costumes as we swing from website to website, saving the internet from the tyranny of concise posts.

Wages are abysmal, but there are plenty of promotion opportunities.

MoraWintersoul

Quote from: robwebster on January 25, 2013, 05:46:39 PM
No awards, but how would you like to become my official sidekick? It's a great job, we wear shit costumes as we swing from website to website, saving the internet from the tyranny of concise posts.

robwebster

It's settled. Your leotard is in the post.

GasparXR

:rollin You guys.

Quote from: MoraWintersoul on January 25, 2013, 05:29:55 PM
Quote from: GasparXR on January 25, 2013, 05:28:12 PM
That's like rob level there. :tup
I don't think I've ever received a compliment on par with that :lol

Honestly no one can touch rob-level but we can try. Thank you :heart

If no-one can touch rob level, how does rob reach rob level? :o

I think rob is an alien. Not alien as in a banana in a grape factory, but alien like an unknown fruit from another planet in a grape factory.

robwebster

Quote from: GasparXR on January 25, 2013, 06:49:39 PM
:rollin You guys.

Quote from: MoraWintersoul on January 25, 2013, 05:29:55 PM
Quote from: GasparXR on January 25, 2013, 05:28:12 PM
That's like rob level there. :tup
I don't think I've ever received a compliment on par with that :lol

Honestly no one can touch rob-level but we can try. Thank you :heart

If no-one can touch rob level, how does rob reach rob level? :o
No one can touch rob-level. I'm two people. My real names are Miranda and Clive. Hello!

No, honestly, it's a surprisingly tangible level.

wasteland

I think you just need to be underslept and slightly drunk to get to the levels of posting awesomeness rob can attein while sober at 11AM.

GasparXR

Quote from: wasteland on January 26, 2013, 12:46:48 AM
I think you just need to be underslept and slightly drunk to get to the levels of posting awesomeness rob can attein while sober at 11AM.

Does anyone want to pitch money for a texas mickey and stay up all night on DTF? :D

snapple

Octavarium is a forgettable song/album.

Zook


jonnybaxy


jsem

Quote from: snapple on January 26, 2013, 05:53:58 AM
Octavarium is a forgettable song/album.
Agree about the album in general. The song is magic though.

ZKX-2099

The Jews are evi..... oh opinions on Dream Theater.

Sycsa

Quote from: ZKX-2099 on January 26, 2013, 10:52:56 AM
The Jews are evi..... oh opinions on Dream Theater.
You could maybe make a case for Portnoy, but Jordan's a sweetheart.  ;)

?

Bumping this in case someone has controversial opinions to share.

I know I said I love TOWHTSTS already, but now that my list is over, I can say more precisely that it's a top 20 song for me. And since there's a lot of discussion on Six Degrees going on in the "DT in the studio again" thread, I once again have to say that in my opinion WDADU > SDOIT :)

Onno

Quote from: ? on April 13, 2013, 09:08:24 AM
Bumping this in case someone has controversial opinions to share.

I know I said I love TOWHTSTS already, but now that my list is over, I can say more precisely that it's a top 20 song for me. And since there's a lot of discussion on Six Degrees going on in the "DT in the studio again" thread, I once again have to say that in my opinion WDADU > SDOIT :)
For me, it's the exact opposite. SDOIT is my favourite DT album where WDADU is my least favourite.

BlobVanDam

WDADU is DT's only truly awful album. SDOIT and WDADU are literally the complete opposite ends of DT's best/worst albums for me.


We're in the controversial opinion thread, so I'm covered for that for the 3 people that like WDADU. :neverusethis:

?

I know no-one will agree with me :lol It's not a huge difference in quality and Six Degrees has some absolutely amazing stuff, but I find it easier to sit through WDADU than to listen to 6D in full.

champbassist

I find the complicated bombast of SFAM too difficult to penetrate. It's my least favorite DT album.

legenden1

I have always thought it was incredible that You not me gets so much hate. I think it´s one of the best songs on FII and easily better than songs like Ytse jam, Blind faith, Just let me breathe, Dance of Eternity, The count of Tuscany and especially better than the demo version You or me.

SuperTaco

WDADU is my favorite album.
Octavarium is my favorite song.
FII is my least favorite album.
I think Prophets Of War is a great song.
Other than Repentance and TMOLS being too long, I think SC is a good album.
I probably like DT instrumentals more than most people. I would put Hell's Kitchen and SOC in my top 20.


Rattlehead

A Rite of Passage is a good song and would be somewhere in my top 40.

SeRoX

Elements Of Persuasions vocals are better than both SC and BC&SL. Plus, EoP's guitar playing is much more inspiring and creative than both SC and BC&SL or maybe even Octavarium. 

Elite

Quote from: legenden1 on April 13, 2013, 11:45:58 AM
I have always thought it was incredible that You not me gets so much hate. I think it´s one of the best songs on FII and easily better than songs like Ytse jam, Blind faith, Just let me breathe, Dance of Eternity, The count of Tuscany and especially better than the demo version You or me.

You Not Me is a better song than any song on BC&SL, save Wither.

Yeah, go ahead, rape me, or whatever.
Quote from: Lolzeez on November 18, 2013, 01:23:32 PMHey dude slow the fuck down so we can finish together at the same time.  :biggrin:
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SeRoX

If you say Just Let Me Breathe or Burning My Soul instead of You Not Me I would gladly agree, save TCOT but like this: no way.

aprilethereal

Overture 1928 is by far the best DT instrumental.
Endless Sacrifice is a Top 5 song.
SDV is the best song on Awake. (Although the Mirror comes close).


Quote from: ? on April 13, 2013, 09:08:24 AM
Bumping this in case someone has controversial opinions to share.

I know I said I love TOWHTSTS already, but now that my list is over, I can say more precisely that it's a top 20 song for me. And since there's a lot of discussion on Six Degrees going on in the "DT in the studio again" thread, I once again have to say that in my opinion WDADU > SDOIT :)

SFAM > TOT > Awake > ADTOE > 8VM > SDOIT :)

SDOIT is not bad,  but not amazing either. IMO. ;D

JayOctavarium


BlobVanDam

Quote from: SeRoX on April 13, 2013, 04:39:33 PM
Elements Of Persuasions vocals are better than both SC and BC&SL. Plus, EoP's guitar playing is much more inspiring and creative than both SC and BC&SL or maybe even Octavarium. 

I Love EoP, and I love the gritty vocals, but they're really pitchy. JLB's vocals always sound really rough to me outside of DT projects, like he can't quite control his voice when he's given complete freedom to let loose. SC and BCASL both have better vocals imo. ITPOE and ANTR are both good examples of JLB singing controlled and melodic gritty vocals better than EoP.
And the guitar playing on EoP is just generic riffing in B, while SC and especially BCASL have some of JP's best guitar work. EoP does have some pretty good solos, but the keyboard solos are usually better. :lol

DebraKadabra



?

Quote from: aprilethereal on April 13, 2013, 11:27:18 PM
SDV is the best song on Awake.
:tup

All this love for Octavarium makes it seem like ACOS > 8V is a controversial opinion :lol

Ruba

Quote from: ? on April 13, 2013, 09:27:17 AM
I know no-one will agree with me :lol It's not a huge difference in quality and Six Degrees has some absolutely amazing stuff, but I find it easier to sit through WDADU than to listen to 6D in full.

WDADU = no weak songs
SDOIT = Disappear has grown on me, but still it's only decent at best. SDOIT has enough good material for ~20 minutes, not for 42.

So yeah, I agree.

?

I don't like LF&GA, but otherwise I completely agree with you! :tup

BlobVanDam

No weak songs on WDADU? How can anyone say that with a straight face? :lol The best of WDADU doesn't even come close to the worst from SDOIT.
My controversial opinion is that WDADU should never have been released. It's an embarrassing album, especially when IaW could have made one of the best debut albums of all time.

wasteland

Quote from: BlobVanDam on April 14, 2013, 02:04:58 AM
No weak songs on WDADU? How can anyone say that with a straight face? :lol The best of WDADU doesn't even come close to the worst from SDOIT.
My controversial opinion is that WDADU should never have been released. It's an embarrassing album, especially when IaW could have made one of the best debut albums of all time.

Do you mean that they should have held those songs back instead of releasing them? Because there is no way in hell that they could have written IAW without the musical growth that they experienced in the WDADU era!

?

Quote from: wasteland on April 14, 2013, 02:10:59 AM
Do you mean that they should have held those songs back instead of releasing them? Because there is no way in hell that they could have written IAW without the musical growth that they experienced in the WDADU era!
This. Like it or not, WDADU was a necessary step towards I&W. And had they not released an album with Charlie, they wouldn't have realized that he wasn't the right singer for them and hired James after that. And even if they had started looking for a new singer, James was still the frontman for Winter Rose at the time and probably wouldn't have auditioned.

I think WDADU is really good for a first album and better than a lot of other debuts I've heard. Some of the songs have become classics, and the fact that DT played songs from this album more often than material from some other albums on the ADTOE tour says something.