Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

DREAM THEATER does not have a s/t CD...I think you mean When Dream And Day Unite...

Of course, it's been a long week (my weeks are technically from Tuesday evening to Monday afternoon).

thejokeriv wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

40,000 copies sold in the first week....#6 on the US albums chart...first Top 10 debut for the band ever and highest number of first week copies sold for them ever...

Good for them! The deserve it! Gotta love that real music is selling this week, unfortunately sandwiched between pop garbage.....

amen!

I listened to the samples of the album and it sounds pretty good and i'm not even a fan. It has a slight Savatage influence in the keyboard sound. I like their more aggressive approach on this one.

i saw the DT live 2 days ago.

iamrockerfun wrote:

i saw the DT live 2 days ago.

How was the show?

fantastic unforgottable. a little bit it was bornig at the end. playlist as follows

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  1. 
     In The Presence Of EnemiesPart 1 only
     
  2. 
     Beyond This Life
     
  3. 
     Panic Attack
     
  4. 
     A Nightmare To RememberWorld Premiere
     
  5. 
     Hollow Years
     
  6. 
     Constant Motion
     
  7. 
     Erotomania
     
  8. 
     Voices
     
  9. 
     A Rite Of Passage
     
  10. 
      The Spirit Carries On
      
  11. 
      As I Am
      
  12. Encore:
      
  13. 
      Metropolis Pt. 1 / Learning to Live / A Change of Seasons
      
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recommended. saw them 1st time and 'njoy it.

Nice!!!! I would love to see them play The Count Of Tuscany live!!!

I would love to see them on the progressive nation tour, but its too expensive at the moment! ahhh!

I've been mostly listening to Wither, A Rite Of Passage, The Shattered Fortress and The Best Of Times, and they're pretty amazing.
I'm more into Speed Metal, so it's never going to be a masterpiece in my mind, but it's alright... for prog.

I'll be seeing them July 29...can't wait! It'll be my second DT show. Looks like I have to brush up on later albums...

Bought the 3CD version of BC&SL today...parts of the opening track remind me of OPETH (musically)...dark, heavy and epic!

This is a good album, but nowhere near as good as my faves from them. I have spun it twice thus far and I think it's a vast improvement over the last two. Peace.

the sentinel wrote:

This is a good album, but nowhere near as good as my faves from them. I have spun it twice thus far and I think it's a vast improvement over the last two. Peace.

That's my feeling as well.

xyz wrote:

the sentinel wrote:

This is a good album, but nowhere near as good as my faves from them. I have spun it twice thus far and I think it's a vast improvement over the last two. Peace.

That's my feeling as well.

That's how I felt about Systematic Chaos...

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

xyz wrote:

the sentinel wrote:

This is a good album, but nowhere near as good as my faves from them. I have spun it twice thus far and I think it's a vast improvement over the last two. Peace.

That's my feeling as well.

That's how I felt about Systematic Chaos...

I loved systematic chaos, great album.

I'm on my 3rd spin of BC&SL now and I am really liking it. It's pretty different from the band's early material, but then they do tend to try different things. So far, this record for me has a dark, moody vibe coupled with the band's technical ferocity. It's the closest thing to Awake they've done since that album. I've also noticed James' vibrato has been reeled in a bit, something I haven't noticed since FII...I guess this is an attempt to sound contemporary while still sounding like DT. There are no songs I don't like, but so far I love "Wither" and "A Nightmare To Remember"...but, again, all the songs are really good. Parts of "ANtR" remind me of OPETH musically...dark, heavy and epic.

It's good to be a DT fan again... I've missed them...

I'm curious...does anyone that purchased the deluxe 3-cd version of Black Clouds... listen to the 3rd intrumental disc more than once?

I'm giving it a spin and it's ok, but I don't see this getting much play when I have the same "vocal" version right here too.

I might actually like an all-instrumental Dream Theater disc...