Topic: Album review #44; Top 10 Albums of All Time #6: Dream Theater, Scenes From A Memory
+Review Guy !lp7gpoTp6Y — 11 years ago #43,350
It's not uncommon for bands to write a sequel to a song on a later album (Rush, for example, with Cygnus Book 2), but I'm pretty sure this is the only example of a song on one album (in this case, Metropolis on the Images and Words album from 1992) getting not just a song for a sequel, but an entire album. Thus, the full name of this record is: Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory.
The storyline is ludicrous and I won't bother going into it. Only 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' rivals it for sheer baffling gibberish. It's strictly from a musical point of view that this album reaches greatness.
The track 'Home' is a good distillation of the band. 12 minutes of barely-believable virtuosity, with one of John Petrucci's greatest ever solos towards the end (though by their own admission they did 'borrow' the riff from Tool's 46&2).
Beyond This Life, Finally Free and Fatal Tragedy are other highpoints on this album of precisely no low points.
Favourite album of all time #6.
The storyline is ludicrous and I won't bother going into it. Only 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' rivals it for sheer baffling gibberish. It's strictly from a musical point of view that this album reaches greatness.
The track 'Home' is a good distillation of the band. 12 minutes of barely-believable virtuosity, with one of John Petrucci's greatest ever solos towards the end (though by their own admission they did 'borrow' the riff from Tool's 46&2).
Beyond This Life, Finally Free and Fatal Tragedy are other highpoints on this album of precisely no low points.
Favourite album of all time #6.
+GO BACK TO SHITCHAN — 11 years ago, 9 minutes later[T] [B] #473,069
·Review Guy !lp7gpoTp6Y (OP) — 11 years ago, 11 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #473,072
+The Robot — 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #473,099
Beep bop boop
+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #473,116
@OP
Cygnus X-1, Book 2: Hemispheres
Cygnus X-1, Book 2: Hemispheres
+Anonymous E — 11 years ago, 9 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #473,118
Moving Pictures was their best, not this garbage.
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