Talking about wishes, the one thing that I wish is that they'd write a lot more material than ended up on the album. And by that, I mean completed songs (including lyrics) that are recorded in the studio and saved for various other purposes, be it B-sides, extra tracks for a deluxe version, future compilations and/or other things. This way, they can work out all their ideas to the full and then pick what they feel are the best/strongest tracks for the album, instead of simply writing just enough to fill an album. I know it won't happen, based on their history, post-FII, but I'll continue to dream about it...
I still hope for "Tales from Theatrical Dreams", double CD, four 30 minute tracks (2 per CD). The End.
In a roundabout way (no pun intended - really!) they already did this between SDoIT and BCaSL. But I get what you're saying nonetheless. Not sure if that would be a good idea tho. Certainly you can imagine that the majority of this board would be up in arms over it.
I'd love them to make a more experimental album. With each member's background, something really good can come out of it. And with such a solid fanbase, I don't think they have much to lose.
Absolutely this.
Amen. I think there could be some interesting things that happen with this, going in new directions and keeping things fresh, without sounding just like a mix of everything they've done before.
I'd like to see them jam out an album instead of their usual writing process, but that won't happen
Um...that's pretty much how they write every album.
Bosk beat me to it. I'd like to know how SuperTaco would want things different in the writing process than what they do now.
I dont see what the problem is with ending the album with a long song, assuming they write such a song, isnt the best spot the last track?
I would even go as far to say that I'm disappointed when they don't end with the longest track. I love Beneath the Surface but Breaking All Illusions should absolutely be the last song you hear when listening to A Dramatic Turn of Events. Ditto for Scarred with Awake (although I don't really like Space-Dye Vest) and The Killing Hand for When Dream and Day Unite. The only album where the longest song not ending the album is fine is Finally Free with Scenes From a Memory but being the last part of a whole story, it's different.
Not getting the reasoning of why an album must end with the longest track - seems rather silly to me, TBH. While I think it would get tiring if the band had an epic on every album, I'm not against them periodically being on an album. But requiring them, or even just a semi-epic to be the last track on the album because it's the longest would become cliche. I'd rather them select the order of the songs based on how well they flow from one to another, rather than on some requirement.