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Nick-Valentine
Quite a stinker with bad choruses and a muddy production. Only "Bridges in the Sky" is good. 6/10
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DaddyRamaSenpai
Hold your horses buddy. While the production is lacking (tho I suggest you to get the HD Tracks version, which fixes most of the problems), the songs by themselves are great. On The Back of Angels, Lost Not Forgotten, This is the Life and Breaking All Illusions are top tier.
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metaloly999
This album have one of this band best chorus ( Breaking all Illusions) and one of the worst ( Lost Not Forgotten )
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PinkFloydrulez
the rest of it though imo is the best dream theater in i don't know how long. i've always been primarily an images and words fanboy and that's the only album that i -love- the whole way through (there isn't a single other dt album that i even -like- the whole way through, nevermind the bits that are mind-numbing or nauseating ballads)
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PinkFloydrulez
iirc, lame = build me up, break me down / far from heaven / this is the life / beneath the surface
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panda_polaco
This album is awesome. It has a amazing atmosphere! I really don't know what this people see of lame here. [2]
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PinkFloydrulez
This album would be almost on par with Images and Words if the ~20 minutes of crap was cut from it.
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OcellatedGod
They are as competent as ever, but it feels more like a product than art at this point.
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Arthur_Dent_42
http://dr.loudness-war.info/ Database about the dynamic range of thousands of albums. Who's fallen casualty to and who survived the so called Loudness War? Find out for yourself. ;) Some brilliant and essential educational stuff on that for every musiclover important topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoudnessWar
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toddstormz
I have "This dream" track for theatre and life, hope to pass it by. Be friends of mine anytime... http://www.last.fm/listen/user/toddstormz/neighbours
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storm20200
I liked this at first then grew to hate it, now it's grown on me again. I don't think it's spectacular but it has some great songs like On the Back of Angels, This is the Life, Breaking All Illusions and Beneath the Surface.
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Amaterasu123456
As much as I dig this album, Labrie sounds exceptionally weak here. His voice has really gone downhill in the past 3 years. It's sad really.
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Ambient2100
Can't stand this album. It's so bland and dreary. It's hard to fathom that the same band who made masterpieces like "Scenes From a Memory", "Images and Words", "Octaviarium" and "A Change of Season" could come up with a record like this.
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Cosmic_Terminal
I am quite liking this album~ I'm tempted to put this between Octavarium and Six Degrees. Rudess is just as good as ever, his piano especially. Myung's piece "Breaking all Illusions" is a competitor for my favourite song of 2011, as well as it is so good to hear his bass again! Haven't heard it this strongly since the earlier years of DT. And Petrucci's solos are fantastic! He's not always in world domination mode, but the emotion put here is enough to dominate my ears. I feel they've returned to an era I truly cherished with a couple of new ideas and even a new drummer. I await with strong anticipation for their next album~
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