Overture should never have been recorded either live or in the studio
Oh yes. It's not that great to start a song with six minutes of a cheesy artificial orchestra. DT has already done an Overture the right way, so why did they have to totally ruin a great song's beginning like this?
The main theme at the beginning of Overture is neat, but then it just kind of goes on and on, meandering about, and never really being that interesting. I might very well like 6DOIT a lot more as a single piece of music if the Overture had been much better. The fact that it is so obviously a keyboard trying to channel orchestra sounds and whatnot does not help its cause (since it is carrying the song).
Yup, exactly! Especially the bit about the way the orchestra sounds. So artificial. And not in that cool 80's obviously artifical way, but in the "trying too hard to sound real and failing" way.
It's slightly better sounding on Score, but it still suffers from being too long and meandering.
Anyway, circling back to the actual topic...
For me, DT are just one of those bands that usually sound better when they go for the stripped-down "live" feel. Very few of their songs benefit from extra tinkering under special studio circumstances. Here, I'm thinking not just of SDOIT, but also stuff like all the extra strings sections in the Octavarium album. So, yeah, I full support a "Live in the Studio" type album mix.