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Originally Posted by The Batlord
You can be as diverse as you wanna be, but it don't mean **** if you're garbage.
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Dream Theater’s ‘Images and Words’ Wins Metal Madness 2013
Not saying Dream Theater don't have their fair share of meh material, but c'mon. If Images & Words was really that bad it wouldn't continue to be appreciated by new audiences decades after its release. It stood out from the crowd and balanced the technical wankery with some good hooks and emotional songwriting. Critical opinion on DT's early period is pretty much uniform on these points, one that I'm in agreement with.
Once you get past 1994's Awake you start seeing a much bigger divergence of opinion in what constituted a good album from DT or not.
Scenes From A Memory Pt. 2 was pretty polarizing (critical darling conceptually, songwriting not so much), and while you like Train Of Thought it's definitely a mixed bag. Neither album stood out the way I&W or Awake did in the early 90's, plus LaBrie's voice got ****ed up around '95 which he still hasn't completely recovered from.
Oh well. Let us move onward to new metal masturbation horizons!