Dream Theater Megathread NEW SONG POSTED!!!!!

TSJMajesty said:
I'm reading a bunch of references to The Astonishing over on the DT forum, but I have no idea, because I've never been able to get into that album. And I've tried.

I hear some In The Presence of Enemies (music, not lyrics; Portnoy went out of his way, imo, with the lyrical call-backs) in The Shadow Man Incident.

My 2 favorite songs are the last 2. The album definitely has a main motif that gets repeated throughout, but it's hard to id all of them until you really know the songs.

It's definitely in my top 6:
In no order...
Train Of Thought
Scenes From A Memory
ParaSomnia
Systematic Chaos
Falling Into Infinity
Octavarium

The MM-era songs mostly don't compare, for me, with a few outliers (Breaking All Illusions, On The Backs of Angels)
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My top list is basically all of their albums from Images and Words to Train of thought (but not in that order) with Images and words and Scenes form a memory being my favorite ones.

Octavarium has a great epic and few other good songs but is the first album I didn't like from start to finish.

The astohishing is 100% no go for me. I still can't belive they really put it out.

From systematic chaos to a view from the top of the world is kind of a big black hole for me. There are some nice songs here and there but, I tell you, even the good ones have things I don't like that much.

This new record sounds like a nice return to a better songwriting overall.

So far my favorite songs so fare are midnight messiah, bend the clock and the shadow man incident (even if I'm not sure I really appreciate the quirky opening riff)
 
la szum said:
Refreshing to see instances of love, enjoyment, and enthusiasm on a Gear Forum. :banana




:rofl

Seriously. Very refreshing! :chef
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oh well, I love music and I love prog and, you know, I've been a DT fan since the early 90s and suffered when they stopped making music I enjoyed and suffered more when Portnoy left. His departure has been really hard to accept. I actually never accepted it, LOL! and in fact I've never been to a DT concert with MM on drums.

Having Portony back and a nice record I can enjoy from start to finish is really a refreshing and love generating experience.
 
Goll dang it, Jordan. That Calypso section you just had to toss in there, didn't you Che Guevara. :hmm

The dude could not go an entire album without some weird-ass, out-of-the-box, way-out-in-left-field
genre bending insertion. :brick



:rofl
 
HotRats said:
oh well, I love music and I love prog and, you know, I've been a DT fan since the early 90s and suffered when they stopped making music I enjoyed and suffered more when Portnoy left. His departure has been really hard to accept. I actually never accepted it, LOL! and in fact I've never been to a DT concert with MM on drums.

Having Portony back and a nice record I can enjoy from start to finish is really a refreshing and love generating experience.
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Like I said, very refreshing!! :beer
 
la szum said:
Goll dang it, Jordan. That Calypso section you just had to toss in there, didn't you Che Guevara. :hmm

The dude could not go an entire album without some weird-ass, out-of-the-box, way-out-in-left-field
genre bending insertion. :brick



:rofl
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I love it!! Assuming you're talking about the part in TSMI...? Where the guitar falls out in the first part? That part is so cool, with the bass doing that groovy line underneath!
 
Sad Will Ferrell GIF by First We Feast



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There is a glaring omission of goofballness and inappropriate displays of
genre-stuffing that Jordan seems to fall prey to. There's no Danny Elfman
"I want to score movies!" schtick.... but there is that Calypso bit shoved into a
19:00 song.

I guess I can give them a pass. :LOL:
 
la szum said:
Sad Will Ferrell GIF by First We Feast



Snl Change GIF by Saturday Night Live




:rofl



There is a glaring omission of goofballness and inappropriate displays of
genre-stuffing that Jordan seems to fall prey to. There's no Danny Elfman
"I want to score movies!" schtick.... but there is that Calypso bit shoved into a
19:00 song.

I guess I can give them a pass. :LOL:
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Well, they wanted to lay into “the Dream Theater you know and love” and unfortunately, Jordan’s done that shit enough that it was pretty much inevitable to end up on the album. At least it wasn’t ragtime. I may have broken something if it were ragtime.
 
One of John Petrucci's "go-to's" when it comes to writing is the Tritone. He used it way back in the main riff in PMU, and it's almost like his 'signature'......., "emotive musical sound." (Someone could describe it better than me.)

Take an A power chord on the 5th fret, then lay your 2nd finger across the low E & A on the 6th fret. That's it. Just move any chord up 2 minor 3rds. (See Andy- you DON'T need context to describe an interval. :rofl )

And it is all over this album, and greatly responsible for that dark feeling/mood. It's one of the things I love about this album.

Here it is in PMU- 3rd bar of the main riff.

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And you hear it when the verse starts in TSMI, here:

 
Back at it! Really digging the 7 and 8 string tones and riffage. :chef

The use of the Flanger on Dead Asleep is freaking bad-ass.
 
Really dig the flow and vibe of the Album. Always a soft spot in my heart for a
thematic record like this.

Not a dud on it. I feel like I can even hear James digging a little deeper than in
recent memory.
 
Who ARE these people!? First, the girl who worked up Bend The Clock the same day it came out, and now this guy learned ALL THE SOLOS within 1 day of the album's release. I notice he hasn't changed out of his pajamas. :rofl

I mean, playing new DT stuff comes easier for me than it used to, since I've learned portions of a lot of Petrucci's solos/riffs these past few years (even though very few are up to tempo), but this is on a whole other level! :rawk:headbang

 
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TSJMajesty said:
Who ARE these people!? First, the girl who worked up Bend The Clock the same day it came out, and now this guy leaned ALL THE SOLOS within 1 day of the album's release. I notice he hasn't changed out of his pajamas. :rofl

I mean, playing new DT stuff comes easier for me than it used to, since I've learned portions of a lot of Petrucci's solos/riffs these past few years (even though very few are up to tempo), but this is on a whole other level! :rawk:headbang

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Since there have been advanced copies around several days before the official release date, I hope he's got one of those, somehow.
 
Man Dream Theater needs to get their shit together wrt who they subcontract with.

Feb 9, I ordered the Limited Edition Deluxe Edition Parasomnia. And, I learned that Hugh Syme had already used some of the artwork included in the booklet on another band's release!

Still haven't received it. DHL was listed as the shipper, yet they used USPS, who, instead of leaving it at my door (won't fit in the mailbox), left me a notice to pick up. It's not AT the PO shown on that notice, and the next PO higher up in the system can't find it.

Maybe DT could've used a better vendor to sell their wares...? It'll at least be interesting to see if they ever use Hugh Syme again, as apparently he's done this sort of thing before too!

Hugh Syme is at it again

Hugh Syme is at it again
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