Kiss My Axe said:Listen to Awake first. It's their best CD (I don't care what anyone says, it IS their best) and it will allow you to catch on to them the fastest. It's also the best produced CD that I own. :lol:
reo73 said:If you want to hear Petrucci but not in a DT context check out the Liquid Tension Experiment albums. They are all instrumental pieces and includes Portnoy & Petrucci with Rudess prior to being a part of DT.
visualrocker69 said:reo73 said:If you want to hear Petrucci but not in a DT context check out the Liquid Tension Experiment albums. They are all instrumental pieces and includes Portnoy & Petrucci with Rudess prior to being a part of DT.
I wouldn't draw such a line between DT and LTE... The writing chemistry between Petrucci, Rudess, and Portnoy is apparent in both projects. At least to me, Tony Levin doesn't make a substantial impact, either stylstically of conceptually. To me, LTE is an extention of one element of Dream Theater. Same goes for Petrucci's solo album.
I think exactly that too. Before listening to DT I really hated keyboards on heavy songs and when I first listened to DT I wasn't able to like them. But then things have changed as you can see from my nicknameOctavarius said:Another thing I noticed is, how the music you don't like at first, grows on you after some time. When I first heard Six Degrees, I didn't like it at all, but after I listened to it over and over again, I noticed more and more details and the whole thing just... grew on me eventually. The first prog I heard (Metropolis Pt. 1) was overwhelming and unbearable, but after a while I started to understand the compositions and get used to the odd-times etc. Now it's all I listen to.
Octavarius said:Am I the only one who constantly enjoys Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence? :shock:
I agree, Images and Words and Awake are great pieces. But to me, Dream Theater has a much wider musical range than just that. Those two albums doesn't really represent everything that DT music is in my opinion. And I wasn't really able to really judge any album or decide which I like better until I heard all of them. They have changed through the years, and they're constantly showing up with new stuff, and each album is very different, so it's really a matter of taste which one you prefer. My point is, don't judge them by just hearing one album.
Another thing I noticed is, how the music you don't like at first, grows on you after some time. When I first heard Six Degrees, I didn't like it at all, but after I listened to it over and over again, I noticed more and more details and the whole thing just... grew on me eventually. The first prog I heard (Metropolis Pt. 1) was overwhelming and unbearable, but after a while I started to understand the compositions and get used to the odd-times etc. Now it's all I listen to.
But I really think that you should check out something of their early stuff, as already mentioned, and perhaps some of the later stuff. You'll notice it's completely different and see what you prefer.
I'd recommend Awake or I&W and Scenes From A Memory or Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence.
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