Went CD shopping today, saw Octavarium on sale for £3.... couldn't help but buy it... not listened yet. But I don't really have high hopes... like I've said before, I prefer the Moore period of DT.

At 10/3/06 01:30 AM, Insert-Pie wrote: Favorite tracks:
Home (one of the best DT songs ever)

Hmm, I found that song a bit too slow, but alright.

The Dance Of Eternity (awesome ragtime solo)

Good instrumental song.

Finally Free

Another good song from Scenes from a Memory.

At 10/3/06 04:55 AM, DreamTheater wrote: I listened through Octavarium 50 times straight before I chose to listen to something else. Ask Bahamut, he thought i'd gone insane.

Yeah, you were fucking insane.

That's how I feel about Images and Words, and surprisingly Metropolis, Pt.1: The Miracle and the Sleeper is my least favourite track by far...

Hahaha, you're gay! :P

I really think the reason I don't like Scenes From a Memory

There were a few crap songs on Scenes from a Memory. Good album overall, however.

At 10/4/06 11:17 AM, Helloween wrote:

That's how I feel about Images and Words, and surprisingly Metropolis, Pt.1: The Miracle and the Sleeper is my least favourite track by far...

Hahaha, you're gay! :P

I concur.

At 10/4/06 11:17 AM, Helloween wrote:

That's how I feel about Images and Words, and surprisingly Metropolis, Pt.1: The Miracle and the Sleeper is my least favourite track by far...

Hahaha, you're gay! :P

Who's the one that's named after a band!.. oh wait...

There were a few crap songs on Scenes from a Memory. Good album overall, however.

I love how much you hate 'Through Her Eyes'

At 10/4/06 11:20 AM, Nev wrote: At 10/4/06 11:17 AM, Helloween wrote: Hahaha, you're gay! :P
I concur.

How do you have the nerve to concur when you said this... :O

At 10/4/06 11:14 AM, Nev wrote: saw Octavarium on sale couldn't help but buy it... I don't really have high hopes

You slag! It's like, the best DT album.

At 10/4/06 02:43 PM, DreamTheater wrote:

saw Octavarium on sale couldn't help but buy it... I don't really have high hopes

You slag! It's like, the best DT album.

No Kevin Moore... or no Derek Sherinian :(. They were only keyboardists, but the period they were with the band that wrote brilliant songs and obviously inspired something in Petrucci. Hence the reason nothing tops the brilliance of Metropolis and A Change of Seasons. Though I've not heard Scene's From A Memory. I'll make sure thats the next DT album I pick up.

At 10/4/06 03:36 PM, Nev wrote: Though I've not heard Scene's From A Memory. I'll make sure thats the next DT album I pick up.

Octavarium, Images and Words and Awake are all a load better than it. It doesn't have that one stand out song in it either.

At 10/2/06 01:42 PM, Helloween wrote:

At 10/2/06 06:11 AM, CowsCanFly wrote: Holy Fuck?!?!?! You don't have Train Of Thought?!?!?!

Hey hey hey, I also don't have Train of Thought yet, although I do plan to get that album very soon possibly with Octavarium as well. :P I can get both albums for about £13 together including postage. The rest of the DT albums will probably have to wait for now.

It's really too bad, this are just graet alboms!
I just bought:
Live Scenes from New York (Disc 1)
Live Scenes from New York (Disc 2)
Live Scenes from New York (Disc 3)
Once In A LIVEtime - Disc 1
Once In A LIVEtime - Disc 2

Now i have all the discogrphy of DT!!!!! no one can be happier!!!

I have the dvd of DT playing at budokan, hour and a half of DT LIVE!!!!!!!!!

I would just like to say sorry to Octavarium.... I had a little listen in the car (first three songs) and I was blown away. I think having low expectations helped.... but yeh, boy was I wrong. Its very much on par with the Moore/Sherinian era of DT. Rudass is off the hook.

I wanna listen to the rest of it... but I refuse to listen to a Dream Theater song (or any complex song) out of the left speaker only. Seeing as I'm gonna be missing out on the half the song (as most decent acts actually pan their songs... especially prog bands). Although my sexy 30w surround sound PC speakers should be coming soon (like tomorrow or Saturday).... w00t :D.

But yeah, sorry Octavarium *hugs*

At 10/4/06 02:43 PM, DreamTheater wrote: Who's the one that's named after a band!.. oh wait...

Helloween > You! BITCH!

I love how much you hate 'Through Her Eyes'

It sounds like a shitty pop song. No offence Dream Theater.

You slag! It's like, the best DT album.

I'll try and get it tomorrow if I see it for £3 from Music Zone. If not, I'll kill whoever bought that one octavarium CD in MusicZone. XP

At 10/5/06 03:42 PM, Helloween wrote: I'll try and get it tomorrow if I see it for £3 from Music Zone. If not, I'll kill whoever bought that one octavarium CD in MusicZone. XP

I'll buy it for you cause I'm nice if you can't XD

At 10/5/06 03:42 PM, Helloween wrote: Helloween > You! BITCH!

I sincerely doubt that. Sincerely. Nine Inch Nails > Faith No More > Dream Theater > Helloween.

I'll try and get it tomorrow if I see it for £3 from Music Zone. If not, I'll kill whoever bought that one octavarium CD in MusicZone. XP

At 10/5/06 03:37 PM, Nev wrote: I would just like to say sorry to Octavarium.... I had a little listen in the car (first three songs) and I was blown away.

The Root of All Evil and These Walls are two of my favourites. I bought the album with only one DT song under my belt, 'Burning My Soul' from the Falling to Infinity album, which from what I can tell, is not prog in the slightest.

I think having low expectations helped.... but yeh, boy was I wrong. Its very much on par with the Moore/Sherinian era of DT. Rudass is off the hook.

I like his bald head.

I wanna listen to the rest of it... but I refuse to listen to a Dream Theater song (or any complex song) out of the left speaker only. Seeing as I'm gonna be missing out on the half the song (as most decent acts actually pan their songs... especially prog bands).

Yes I notice that in my mates car, the sound only comes out of the right speaker because he doesn't have a CD player, so he uses this tape thing that you plug into the speaker bit of a walkman; the wire is old and twisted and shitty, you know?

Although my sexy 30w surround sound PC speakers should be coming soon (like tomorrow or Saturday).... w00t :D.

You should get your dad to buy some speakers aswell, that way if yours bust again, you can use my backup plan ;D

At 10/5/06 04:00 PM, DreamTheater wrote: I sincerely doubt that. Sincerely. Nine Inch Nails > Faith No More > Dream Theater > Helloween.

Lol no... Kiske > Renzor.

You should get your dad to buy some speakers aswell, that way if yours bust again, you can use my backup plan ;D

My dad is a technophobic Welshman.... that'll never happen.

At 10/5/06 03:42 PM, Helloween wrote:
It sounds like a shitty pop song. No offence Dream Theater.

Yeah like Anna Lee...

At 10/5/06 04:10 PM, Nev wrote: Lol no... Kiske > Renzor.

That cut me deep.
Kursch > all.

My dad is a technophobic Welshman.... that'll never happen.

Buy him some for Christmas :p

At 10/5/06 04:54 PM, DreamTheater wrote: Kursch > all.

I'm not gonna deny that :).

Buy him some for Christmas :p

To be honest I don't really like him. He's an arse 95% of the time.

At 10/5/06 04:00 PM, DreamTheater wrote: I sincerely doubt that. Sincerely. Nine Inch Nails > Faith No More > Dream Theater > Helloween.

Shut up bitch!

I'll try and get it tomorrow if I see it for £3 from Music Zone. If not, I'll kill whoever bought that one octavarium CD in MusicZone. XP

And yes, I did get Octavarium from MusicZone. There was enough of those CDs on sale for me, so I easily got the CD! :D Yay, now the next Dream Theater album I plan to get is Train of Thought. :)

At 10/6/06 09:33 AM, Helloween wrote: Shut up bitch!

NO!

Yay, now the next Dream Theater album I plan to get is Train of Thought. :)

Meeh tooh.

At 10/5/06 05:07 PM, Nev wrote:

At 10/5/06 04:54 PM, DreamTheater wrote: Kursch > all.

I'm not gonna deny that :).

I didn't think you would.

At 10/6/06 03:47 PM, DreamTheater wrote: I didn't think you would.

Still, Tobias Sammet > Hansi XD.... maybe.. I dunno.... they're equal. But Hansi has more balls.

And I listened to some more Octavarium in the car (no speakers yet) and during the songs Panic Attack and Never Enough I had this great sense of pride... cause some of the greatest musicians ever, and the greatest Prog Metal band ever, have resorted to completely ripping off homegrown Prog talent like Matthew Bellamy.... I'm so proud...

... Proud?..
... Proud!

Yeah...

At 10/6/06 03:47 PM, DreamTheater wrote:

At 10/6/06 09:33 AM, Helloween wrote:

Yay, now the next Dream Theater album I plan to get is Train of Thought. :)

Meeh tooh.

I already have it... LOL it ROCKS!!! (metals...)

At 10/6/06 03:47 PM, DreamTheater wrote:

Yay, now the next Dream Theater album I plan to get is Train of Thought. :)

Meeh tooh.

Or maybe I'll get A Change of Seasons if I can still see it in Virgin for £7.

At 10/6/06 04:50 PM, Nev wrote: And I listened to some more Octavarium in the car (no speakers yet) and during the songs Panic Attack and Never Enough I had this great sense of pride...

I like The Root of All Evil, These Walls, Panic Attack and 12:00 - 20:00 of Octavarium.

At 10/6/06 04:50 PM, Nev wrote: Yeah...

I thought Never Enough reminded me of Muse : < I guess I wasn't wrong.

At 10/7/06 05:58 AM, Helloween wrote: I like The Root of All Evil, These Walls, Panic Attack and 12:00 - 20:00 of Octavarium.

I never said I didn't like.. just that its horribly ripping off Muse.

After 20-30 years of good music it's hard to make something completely original. There are a lot of coinsidences out there. But it wouldn't suprise me if Muse ripped them off. I was actually going to kill myself when I realised I sort of liked Muse. Now I don't have to.

Sorry I didn't realise what was said. DT actually ripped sum1 off? Weird.

At 10/7/06 09:34 AM, Phantom-Lord wrote: But it wouldn't suprise me if Muse ripped them off.

Difficult considering Stockholm Syndrome came out before Octavarium :S

LaBries voice rips of Matts, with the whole swirling high pitched softness thingy that Matt does.
Petrucci's riffs totally rip of Matts pedal-steelish, single note riffery.
And Rudess's synthy keyboard ascension/decension is just a perfect copy of Stockholm Syndrome.

At 10/7/06 09:06 AM, Nev wrote: I never said I didn't like.. just that its horribly ripping off Muse.

Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP! This is making me want to try listening to other Muse songs. Please, I don't want to get into them, I don't like them at all. Also, I was just saying which songs from Octavarium I liked. I do like Never Enough as well.

I agree with Bahamut.

I agree with Helloween.

I agree with CowsCanFly.

I agree with Bahumut lol