I dislike Dream Theater alot. I have great respect for them as muscians, but find their muic dumb, emotionless, wanking.
The point under the surface we're all dancing around is that very seldom is 'Musican's music' very good on the whole. Racer-X were very cool, much better than DT, but who actually bought their albums?
Remember 'Mr. Big'? Pretty cheesy stuff, but they sold alot of albums for a while. The biggest joke in the industry because that band had likely the best musicans ever - Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan,... Playing WAY BELOW their abilities and selling alot of music. The intro to 'Green-tinted 60's mind' is some great two handed tapping stuff, but it was catchy.
XTC, I've always believed, were prog disguised as catchy 80's pop. It sounded fun and light, but has some great guitar/bass parts and alot of time sig. changes. Listen to Ross Childress' playing with Collective Soul. He is an amazing musican who wote deceptively simple sounding guitar licks.
It's about blending- Dream Theater sound mechanical and lifeless because it's not catcy as a whole.
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