05-15-2004, 10:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-15-2004, 10:11 PM by [wcip]Angel.)
Veering off topic:
When I first started listening to DT I couldn't stand The dance of eternity. It was the last song on the album I really got into, and still it's one of my least favourite songs on my most beloved album "Metropolis part II: Scenes from a memory". Still, it's kind of neat to listen to every once in a while. I mean, the song is so chaotic, there's just no way in hell I can conduct or play the damn thing (I'm a drummer too), it's just so impressive they manage to play this live.
One of my favourite songs would have to be The Spirit carries on. It's a kind of soft ballad-type thing which segues into some sort of semi-gospel-triumphant-rock-sort of deal. It's really quite powerful towards the end after the guitar solo (which is amazing as always. The guitarist, John Petrucci, is almost as insane as the drummer.)
The first DT-song I ever heard was Overture 1928. It's an amalgamation of all the themes on the Metropolis-album. It's a short summary of all the songs on the album. Very stylish.
Space dye vest is a sad, melancholic tune. It starts out simple with the piano but becomes quite powerful and "large". The guitar has a very "fat" sound, especially towards the end. (Just before the "I will never be open again"-section). I think the song might be a about unrequited love. It may not be, but this song is special to me, for obvious reasons.
This is the mighty Metropolis. This is the song from 1995 which inspired the album "Metropolis Part II - Scenes from a memory". If you listen to both; the song and the album, you'll hear many, *many* similarities in every aspect of the music; the drum fills and rhtyms, the lyrics, the structure of the songs, everything from the album mirrors the original song in some way. It's really quite astounding.
And none of them deal with the issue of hole-digging. :)
When I first started listening to DT I couldn't stand The dance of eternity. It was the last song on the album I really got into, and still it's one of my least favourite songs on my most beloved album "Metropolis part II: Scenes from a memory". Still, it's kind of neat to listen to every once in a while. I mean, the song is so chaotic, there's just no way in hell I can conduct or play the damn thing (I'm a drummer too), it's just so impressive they manage to play this live.
One of my favourite songs would have to be The Spirit carries on. It's a kind of soft ballad-type thing which segues into some sort of semi-gospel-triumphant-rock-sort of deal. It's really quite powerful towards the end after the guitar solo (which is amazing as always. The guitarist, John Petrucci, is almost as insane as the drummer.)
The first DT-song I ever heard was Overture 1928. It's an amalgamation of all the themes on the Metropolis-album. It's a short summary of all the songs on the album. Very stylish.
Space dye vest is a sad, melancholic tune. It starts out simple with the piano but becomes quite powerful and "large". The guitar has a very "fat" sound, especially towards the end. (Just before the "I will never be open again"-section). I think the song might be a about unrequited love. It may not be, but this song is special to me, for obvious reasons.
This is the mighty Metropolis. This is the song from 1995 which inspired the album "Metropolis Part II - Scenes from a memory". If you listen to both; the song and the album, you'll hear many, *many* similarities in every aspect of the music; the drum fills and rhtyms, the lyrics, the structure of the songs, everything from the album mirrors the original song in some way. It's really quite astounding.
And none of them deal with the issue of hole-digging. :)
