Dream Theater Megathread NEW SONG POSTED!!!!!

[DrewJD82]

I heard a 15 second snippet last week of the chorus, I’ll wait until I’m at home with a bong and good speakers to dig into the whole thing. I know the chorus had me lookin’ at my ipad a little sideways.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Oh hell yeah!! That's more like it!! Head-bobbin'....

We can move on now.

 

[norminal]

1:44 - Sounds like As I Am
2:46 - What in the fuck is this chorus? Am I still listening to the same song?
4:48 - Bridge is weak
5:14 - Solo sounds like a ripoff of Untethered Angel
5:44 Oh look, a unison keyboard/guitar finger exercise! That’s never been done before.

This song is all over the place. Like the other two, completely forgettable. And I say this as a super fan of nearly four decades. Do better Dream Theater.

So far, that’s 3 turds out of 8 tracks.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Un fuckin real:

 

[norminal]

Un fuckin real:

That guy HAS to have an advance copy.

 

[la szum]

Not hating. Just saying.

Sometimes I feel like the songwriting approach of DT---where the music gets all worked up
apart from the singer and then James has to try and slap a compelling vocal/melody
on top of pre-existing and determined track---is maybe not always the best approach to
a compelling end result.

Just a thought.

 

[norminal]

James has to try and slap and compelling vocal/melody
on top of pre-existing and determined track-

I was thinking the exact same thing as I listened to the new track.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I tried listening to it.

 

[la szum]

Sure sounds/feels something like to my ears. I do know they have said
that is the way DT works.

 

[la szum]

I tried listening to it.

Did you make it to the Chorus that never came??

 

[DrewJD82]

5:14 - Solo sounds like a ripoff of Untethered Angel

The cool thing about not digging the Mangini era is that if they rip themselves off from that era, it’ll all be new to me! Unless it was on Distance Over Time, I actually listened to that one quite a bit.

 

[norminal]

Unless it was on Distance Over Time, I actually listened to that one quite a bit.

I actually enjoy that album. I think I’m going to put together a tier list.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Not hating. Just saying.

Sometimes I feel like the songwriting approach of DT---where the music gets all worked up
apart from the singer and then James has to try and slap a compelling vocal/melody
on top of pre-existing and determined track---is maybe not always the best approach to
a compelling end result.

Just a thought.

David Lee Roth
just sayin'...

 

[TSJMajesty]

I actually enjoy that album. I think I’m going to put together a tier list.

 

[DrewJD82]

At 4:36 in that tune, during the divorce period I was driving home from work one day and that section came in like a giant, cathartic battering ram and I just lost it. Totally one of those “this is going to happen whether you like it or not because you need it” sessions.

That was the first album they’d put out in quite a while where it actually sounds like they just had a good time writing in the room together, which is exactly how they wrote it.

 

[norminal]

At 4:36 in that tune, during the divorce period I was driving home from work one day and that section came in like a giant, cathartic battering ram and I just lost it. Totally one of those “this is going to happen whether you like it or not because you need it” sessions.

Oh yeah, I definitely feel that.

 

[TSJMajesty]

At 4:36 in that tune, during the divorce period I was driving home from work one day and that section came in like a giant, cathartic battering ram and I just lost it. Totally one of those “this is going to happen whether you like it or not because you need it” sessions.

That was the first album they’d put out in quite a while where it actually sounds like they just had a good time writing in the room together, which is exactly how they wrote it.

Same thing happened to me, but the song was Through Her Eyes. Same situation.

 

[la szum]

Geesh. I had no idea nerdy Prog Rock could be so emotional.







Glad you guys made it out the other side.

 

[la szum]

David Lee Roth
just sayin'...

Didn't Van Halen write/jam together as a band, though?

I saw a neat fact the other day about Van Halen III (the Cherone album), where
the Producer (Mike Post) was talking about Edward's state of mind at the time
they were working on the Album. He mentioned that Edward wanted total creative
control without having to defer to, or work with a "lead singer."

How'd that work out?

 

[norminal]

I’m reading the comments of the video and many are praising the fact that it has many references to previous songs.

I guess I’m just not into the fan service thing and expected Portnoy’s return to spark something new and original.

Oh well, at least they’ll be playing a lot of classics at the upcoming show.