Still working on my multiquotes skills LOL
At KevShmevThere is no such thing as half of a concept album. The title track from Six Degrees is a song, not half a concept album.
Okay. My point stands that DT already did both things (a concept album and a double album) with MP, just not on the same album.
Is The Astonishing still really good, despite not being as good as Scenes? Absolutely
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A sizable chunk of the fanbase would disagree with that statement.
DT playing covers made them different? Er, no. DT was not the first band to play covers, ya know.
Since when did I say they were the first ones to play covers? I never even made the claim that they were the first to cover entire albums. But doing those covers, in particular the full albums after doing a 1.5 hour set of their own material on the second night of a two-night stand on Evening With tours did make them stand out as different. It was something fans could count on happening once the tradition was established and new tour dates announced. How many other bands can you name that did the same thing?
No, it is a testament to the band as a whole, as them continuing to play so many of their own songs is. The band as a whole gets props for how good they have been over the entire career at playing so many of their songs from year to year, tour to tour.
True, but MP had pushed them to do this, seeing as he wrote all the setlists. And since then they have followed the pattern he establish when coming up with the mostly static setlists for each tour, not falling into the habit of playing at least 4-5 perennial favorites at every show on every tour like Rush, Maiden and many other bands.