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algebra testes posted:This is so strange, For most of my life I subscribed to the "Dream Theater is a bunch of technical wank" school of thought, but now I find myself thinking that Scenes From a Memory, Awake, A Change of Seasons and Images and Words are good actually? That’s generally considered to be DTs good stuff, so maybe not so strange
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# ? Jul 20, 2020 00:38 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 15:16 |
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I'm giving Peter Sinfield's solo record a listen for the first time and it's really one of the more disappointing efforts I've ever heard from this many ex-Krimsoneers. There's several good ideas, but Pete himself has almost no voice (even before he's aggressively mixed into the background by Mel Collins and Greg Lake, who produce and make guest appearances that are, oddly enough, mixed way louder than any of the purported frontman's material.) The whole affair plays like demo tapes instead of a finished record. ...also WG Snuffy Walden's on it for some reason? I think if they'd put out even five bucks and a sandwich for a better producer, they'd come up with something way more listenable. I suspect it could be saved if someone gave Steve Wilson the masters, but who even knows.
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# ? Jul 21, 2020 01:58 |
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I had a dream last night where I was hanging out with Alex life’s on and Geddy lee and we were getting along really well until I crashed Alex’s wife’s car and it caught on fire, and it made me wonder if we’re going to hear new music from those guys. I imagine the answer is yes, but I wonder when or why or what.
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# ? Jul 21, 2020 02:50 |
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I honestly doubt it. Like, I like My Favorite Headache and would gladly listen to more (I have not heard Victor yet tbh), I have gotten the feeling over the last couple decades that they'd probably rather just take a break.
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# ? Jul 21, 2020 04:17 |
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Victor kinda sucks. But I think they’re too creative to just hang it up. It might take 5 years but I bet they’ll want to play again together some day.
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# ? Jul 21, 2020 11:53 |
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Tim Smith of Cardiacs passed away last night https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/22/tim-smith-frontman-cult-band-the-cardiacs-dies-aged-59
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 14:27 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RwwU8Nvs1g This new Fish song/Video ....my god this is good.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 12:34 |
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Fish is known to be a great lyricist, but this might be his best work. Very touching.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 12:47 |
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Thoughts on the new Haken? I feel like between vector and virus there's one album of solid content
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 12:52 |
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I’m a big fan and held off listening to the singles/leaks. I enjoy it. I’ve spun the whole thing and then just the Messiah Complex again separately... it feels super polished and has a ton of ‘oh holy gently caress’ moments, but I can’t put it above Restoration EP or The Mountain just yet Btw all those theme callbacks in the Messiah Complex is v nice
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# ? Jul 25, 2020 00:08 |
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tote up a bags posted:Thoughts on the new Haken? I feel like between vector and virus there's one album of solid content
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# ? Jul 25, 2020 10:19 |
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I mostly lurk on SA nowadays but I just wanted to drop this small preview of an instrumental prog-metal song I've been working on for the past couple years. It's only a 90 second teaser of a 10+ minute song but I'm really itching to get some feedback. I'm in a two man project with my best friend and we play drums and guitar respectively, for this track we hired Derek Sherinian on keyboards and Conner Green from Haken for bass, and the finished version is to be mixed and mastered by the great Jens Bogren. Really hoping you guys enjoy it and don't hesitate to give any feedback/criticism! Meroda - Nonzero Entity
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# ? Jul 26, 2020 00:04 |
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Not my kind of thing but definitely sounds polished! Very cool.
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# ? Jul 26, 2020 00:08 |
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Really appreciate it! There's definitely "proggier" parts later in the song but at its heart it's still a metal song through and through.
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# ? Jul 26, 2020 04:03 |
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Double Bass posted:Really appreciate it! There's definitely "proggier" parts later in the song but at its heart it's still a metal song through and through. So how much direction did you give to Derek Sherinian? Was it fully written out? Did he collaborate with you on his part? Did you just tell him to do his thing?
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# ? Jul 26, 2020 12:49 |
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BigFactory posted:So how much direction did you give to Derek Sherinian? Was it fully written out? Did he collaborate with you on his part? Did you just tell him to do his thing? We wrote the entire song in Guitar Pro before actually recording so having all the instruments notated and being able to provide sheet music + a midi track made it very easy to get across what we wanted him to play, although at the end of the day it really was just a "do what you think sounds good" thing and he just used our parts as a reference. It really was fascinating how quickly he learned and recorded the parts in literally a single afternoon, really wasn't expecting him to learn all the guitar solos on keyboards either, but hey now we have some crazy unison parts. He definitely strikes me as someone who's VERY busy but it was really enjoyable to work with him. Conner was a great dude too, I felt pretty honored that these esteemed musicians actually want to play anything I wrote haha. I'll definitely be posting the finished version when it's ready, and once again I appreciate the interest even if it's not everyone's cup of tea!
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# ? Jul 26, 2020 21:54 |
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That’s really awesome! Amazing to be able to bring a project to fruition like that.
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# ? Jul 26, 2020 22:08 |
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I didn't check the description at first, and thought, wow, somebody's doing a really good Sherinyan impression there. Cool track.
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# ? Jul 27, 2020 03:05 |
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hexwren posted:I'm giving Peter Sinfield's solo record a listen for the first time and it's really one of the more disappointing efforts I've ever heard from this many ex-Krimsoneers. I like the title track and "Under the Sky". though there's a GG&F version of the latter that's way better. what can you say really. Sinfield ain't much of a musician. El Gallinero Gros posted:Tim Smith of Cardiacs passed away last night still bummed about this. Tim Smith was really a one-of-a-kind musician. gifted in a way that no one outside of maybe Christian Vander is. his music really did mean a lot to me, even if his recent situation made it difficult to listen to sometimes. there was a part of me that still believed he was gonna recover, no matter how impossible that seemed. this one hurts a lot.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 16:22 |
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Paladinus posted:I didn't check the description at first, and thought, wow, somebody's doing a really good Sherinyan impression there. Cool track.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 17:48 |
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He has the most recognizable sound in keyboard-dom Edit: and I’m not a huge dream theater fan, but it’s a pretty great sound.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 20:14 |
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If this track made it onto Falling Into Infinity it would've definitely been bumped up a few notches for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKZkL4dL58Q
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 18:55 |
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I think DT is good up until Train of Thought. I'm not sure though, because 2005/6 is around the time I started branching out into heavier metal and other styles, so I don't know how much of the fact that they started sucking for me at that moment is due to them actually sucking, or me becoming uninterested.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 23:05 |
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Octavarium's an interesting album (2005). A lot of stuff either melded with modern UK alternative (Muse, Radiohead, U2) and old school 70's prog. Probably the last time they experimented to such a degree while staying memorable. Something happened with following two albums where Mike Portnoy pushed for a more radio active rock sound and, uh... it didn't work. Then of course Portnoy left, but except for the "return to form" that is A Dramatic Turn Of Events and maybe half of their self-titled, they've hit creative bankruptcy. The Astonishing is an abomination Jesus loving Christ.
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 01:37 |
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MasqueradeOverture posted:Octavarium's an interesting album (2005). A lot of stuff either melded with modern UK alternative (Muse, Radiohead, U2) and old school 70's prog. Probably the last time they experimented to such a degree while staying memorable. I thought Distance Over Time was alright although I cannot remember a single moment of any track from it so maybe it's not, heh. The Astonishing is genuinely horrendous and even the album title makes me feel a deep fatigue
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 02:00 |
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The Astonishing is one of the funniest pieces of music ever
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 02:31 |
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Raise the Knife is a genuinely good track and as much as I actually kinda like Falling into Infinity, I think Raise the Knife would have been a much better opener than New Millennium is. Train of Thought is basically Mike Portnoy's teenage angst album and is not good except for Stream of Consciousness and the track that James LaBrie wrote about his daughter nearly dying. Octavarium is good and so is Distance over Time, as well as some of Systematic Chaos and bits of Black Clouds and Silver Linings. The Astonishing is John Petrucci having a quantum leap into the born-again body of Dave Mustaine and coming back with some wacky ideas about Jesus and trying to make a sci-fi prog epic about it. Dream Theater was my second major foray into prog when I was in high school and for better or worse a lot of my musical tastes branched out from there. tote up a bags posted:Thoughts on the new Haken? I feel like between vector and virus there's one album of solid content IMO it's "more Haken" and that's about all there is for me. I prefer Vector as a whole cover-to-cover album but there's some really good bits in there. The callback to Cockroach King was funny, but in a good way. e: completely unrelated I realized today that Neil Peart has been gone for less than a year and that's still kinda weird to me and hard to get through in a way
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 11:24 |
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Train of Thought saw DT go way overboard into being a "metal" band, but they had enough new riffs and ideas at the time that it's their last worthwhile album, IMO. I was surprised when they completely dialed the heaviness back on Octavarium, but I really disliked their overt tributes to Muse, U2, and whatever nu-metal inspired These Walls. I never want to listen to that album in its entirety, though the title track is a lot of fun. Although knowing what they would become since then, I kinda resent Octavarium for giving Jordan Rudess the impression that it's OK for him to write insanely overlong atmospheric intros. I was looking forward to them going as ridiculous and cheesy as possible on The Astonishing, but I seem to remember it having half a dozen similarly sleep-inducing keyboard intros that made it even more of a slog to get through. When Spotify's Release Radar put on Haken's opening track off of Virus a month or two ago, I thought I was listening to Fear Factory or something at first. I'm not crazy about the direction they've taken, but they're definitely good at it, and I already like the new one more than Vector, which I thought was by far their weakest outing. Skjorte fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Jul 31, 2020 |
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Yeah, These Walls is clearly them looking at other bands and JP going "well, I can go one further" and tuning down to drop-omega and hoping like hell that the Mark V will take a guitar tuned that low. It's a fun song but the obsession around that time that he had with going a full step lower every album was so far beyond having jumped the shark at that point that it was a few seasons of Happy Days later. Even some of the newest stuff would honestly be better served if it wasn't played on seven strings. The bonus track on Distance over Time owns even with the drop-brown-note tuning but IMO it would be better off in standard with just adding the lower fifth where needed for extra harmonics and chugging. The six-string version of the intro to The Mirror played before Take the Time on the Images and Words tour is a good example of that being used. e: Threw on A Change of Seasons and man this EP is good, Derek Sherinian is an *awesome* keyboardist Kazinsal fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Jul 31, 2020 |
# ? Jul 31, 2020 12:06 |
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Dream Theater's biggest mistake was letting Petrucci (and Portnoy for a while) anywhere near the production and mastering desks. edit: God I just remembered when the self-titled was coming out and Petrucci did some interview where he's like oh my guitar tone is like chocolate cake, so thick and layered and then it turned out tinny and awful
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# ? Jul 31, 2020 17:42 |
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Eh. I think the guitar tone on their ST comes across better on the "audiophile" master of that album (drums do too). Only way to get that though is to either re-buy it for $20 at HD Tracks / Qobuz / Tidal or something or like... pirate. EDIT: Lyrics were unfinished, but the Moore-era arrangement of A Change Of Seasons is *chef's kiss* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWqtihQvDrI Nightmare Cinema fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Aug 1, 2020 |
# ? Aug 1, 2020 22:59 |
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A golden oldie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kesio4k-dMU In the '80's, 2 mormons created the hardest known route up El Capitan and named it after this song. Noone was able to climb the route again until a few years ago, and by none other than the Pirate of El Capitan. There's a pretty good documentary about it https://www.amazon.com/Assault-El-Capitan-Ammon-McNeely/dp/B00STUXTGA I'm actually not sure if its a fact that they named the route after this song but where else could the name have come from?
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 05:31 |
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Pain Of Salvation dropped another single - PANTHER, and it's got these cool electronic tinges to it but the vocal lines are really weird, kind of a weird spoken poem rap
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# ? Aug 13, 2020 17:34 |
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tote up a bags posted:Pain Of Salvation dropped another single - PANTHER, and it's got these cool electronic tinges to it but the vocal lines are really weird, kind of a weird spoken poem rap From Spitfall it was pretty clear Gildenlöw fancies himself a bit of a rapper.
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# ? Aug 13, 2020 20:29 |
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Paladinus posted:From Spitfall it was pretty clear Gildenlöw fancies himself a bit of a rapper.
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# ? Aug 15, 2020 04:48 |
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Wow the singles from the new Pain of Salvation is probably the worst thing I've heard from them. That said, they've always bit hit or miss. Be was such a bloated pretentious album with few redeeming qualities for example. I've been listening to a lot of Crimson-related material recently. Trey Gunn is a really underappreciated musician. A lot of his albums are really great. Besides that I'm really digging the Dizrhythmia self-titled and the Europa String Choir album is also absolutely fantastic. Levin Torn White also shows that Alan White can actually play drums in a non-boring way!
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# ? Aug 19, 2020 08:27 |
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From a couple of months ago, but I didn't see it mentioned here. Ayreon's forthcoming album looks pretty good, and it comes with a graphic novel of the story. I will listen to it for the Tom Baker narration if nothing else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2PidKn4IbA
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# ? Aug 19, 2020 14:56 |
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abske_fides posted:Wow the singles from the new Pain of Salvation is probably the worst thing I've heard from them. That said, they've always bit hit or miss. Be was such a bloated pretentious album with few redeeming qualities for example. Gunn was part of Gordian Knot too right? I loved that band. Which of his albums would you recommend?
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Colonel J posted:Gunn was part of Gordian Knot too right? I loved that band. Which of his albums would you recommend? Gunn played Warr guitar on the first Gordian Knot album yeah. I also really like his albums The Third Star and The Waters, They Are Rising. I'm slowly exploring some of the other stuff he's been on. I'm a geek for touchstyle stuff as well so...
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# ? May 11, 2024 15:16 |
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I've never heard Jon Anderson's speaking voice until today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWib02yZmKc It's literally just his singing voice. Wild.
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