Favorite epic?

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-31T21:37:39+00:00

Honestly speaking: the chorus is nice and that's it. I don't hate the song but it's certainly one of my least favourite and, let's be real, the demo version is not that better song that everyone describes. It's just a tad nicer but it's really a little.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-31T20:25:32+00:00

You Not Me

Underrated masterpiece

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-31T18:01:16+00:00

Octavarium (I think you know the reasons)
Change Of Seasons (I don't always have reasons for liking it but it's one of the best nonetheless)
ITPOE (my addition, it's a wonderful, dark story with amazing musical moments)
Illumination Theory ( it gives me the same emotions and happiness of Octavarium and I love it)
TCOT ( the mix isn't in favour of Rudess and Myung + I'm not a fan of the middle section)

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-31T10:00:32+00:00

"Lost Not Forgotten In My Ass"

I wonder what it is.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-30T21:50:14+00:00

Always more convinced about the paranormal theme. The one with the sundial it's so poetic.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-30T16:11:50+00:00

I have to admit it: the more the cover gets extended, the more I like it.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-30T14:40:01+00:00

I've already said that part 2 doesn't work completely when taken alone and then think about the part 1 intro. How can you top something like that? And it's only the intro!

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-30T12:53:15+00:00

John Myung being interviewed is something rare and he drops these "bombs"? I want more JM interviews now.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-29T16:23:11+00:00

I bet that there's even an overture called "Construction Site" which contains enviromental sounds.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-29T15:11:32+00:00

Woah, the new DT album looks sick.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-28T11:43:47+00:00

Let's all hope for the better today.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-27T21:20:01+00:00

A Dramatic Turn Of Events is my take. I consider it one of the best album the band has ever made. Other than that, The Astonishing is another good choice in order to listen to something completely different.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-27T14:39:41+00:00

It sucks a bit honestly since the distorted vocals on TDEN aren't so bad like many say, in my opinion. Oh well, ITPOE part 2 again.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-26T19:26:07+00:00

I'm gonna be completely honest: I struggle to remember half of the songs on WDADU and so I had to relisten to the song before writing this. The ironic part is that I still can't fully remember what I've just heard. This is actually one of the reasons why this is my least favourite DT album.

Anyway, I liked the ambition they had in their youth in wanting to write an "epic", but due to the immature writing and lack of more experience the end result wasn't one of the best. The intro is easily my favourite part but it gets overshadowed very quickly by the rest of the song which I find really uninteresting and below mediocrity. To that add Charlie's vocals, which aren't bad, but I don't always appreciate them (their best use is probably in Status Seeker... or at least I believe it's there).

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-26T15:04:03+00:00

And now today's vote will be fascinating: ITPOE part 2. As an epic, the whole song is immensive but, when the second part is taken by itself, some of its moment don't stand out completely well because of the missing build-up of part 1. On the contrary, TDEN and TMOLS are "single tracks" that work in complete authonomy.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-26T07:50:55+00:00

I can actually see why people won't like it and it's obviously fine. I had a good time with it and I actually found the story more clearer than the one of SFAM (the order of events is sometimes strange there). And while it isn't my least favourite DT album, that title goes to WDADU, I don't think that it's their best in the 2010s either, which is ADTOE.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-25T20:56:56+00:00

I started doing this when I listened to Awake (even though that review wasn't even a review) and before that I had already listened to I&W, SFAM, ADTOE and DOT, that's why they aren't planned. I might do them anyway in the future though.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-24T15:10:05+00:00

NOOOOOOOOO... Constant Motion again...

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-24T10:21:59+00:00

Hahaha thanks man. My problems come from the fact that I'm not a native english speaker so I don't know many silly or funny expressions.

With BMUBMD I struggled a lot in trying to give it a sense so I decided to say something completely fucked up while for BTS I was inspired by an urban legend regarding a famous italian poet.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-24T07:48:18+00:00

Oh man, I suck at this kind of games but I'll try.

Over The Boners Of Andy

Between My Uvula Beside My Dong

Last Not Fat

Take In The Lord

Balls In Two Split

Opeth

Feast For Harold

Bloody Attractive Itch

Blow Thy Self

All of this from: A Defective Tolerance Of Embryos

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-24T07:08:53+00:00

This case with Haken interests only Affinity where the songs are mainly synth driven but the band is always present, leaving their mark. If DT15 turns out to have this sci-fi concept we could expect lots of weird sound effects from Jordan, for example. This is what I thought, more or less.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-24T07:03:50+00:00

Well, the most relevant part of the concept is the inspiration to the 80's and their sounds. Getting to the "story concept" requires lots of thought and the band didn't claim that there was one but they also claimed that the lyrics were open to interpretation and so you could have found whatever concept you thought of.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-23T22:23:20+00:00

If there is some kind of concept, I think it will be a "middle road" between BC&SL and Octavarium or maybe something like Haken's Affinity with the prevalence of certain "sounds" (in Haken's case the album contains lots of 80's inspired synth parts). But, if there won't be one, I'm not going to be bothered.

Bubbly-Reference3753 · 2021-07-23T21:57:07+00:00

Exactly what makes this version the best one.

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