 Talvi - 09.12.2006 at 19:02
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| VERY VERY overrated. I'm a true fan of Dream Theater and I rank this among the lowest, along with the debut and FiI. Beyond this Life and Home are too overlong. |
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| Ill disagree, It is one of my favorites. It is full of greta melodies and musical gymnastics. This band never ceases to amaze me |
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Dream Theater's best. I think that the band reached their top quality with this one.
I heard Fatal Tragedy for the millionth time, and I didn't find any error, or perhaps it's on second 0:34?? |
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Mihkel - 19.01.2007 at 17:51
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| I wouldn't say that Dance Of Eternity is too long...It's like every following note in the song makes me say "Wow!" |
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Basso - 19.01.2007 at 20:55
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| My fav DT album. Very good album! |
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Ytse Jam - 22.01.2007 at 17:39
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| There's only one word to describe this album, "masterpiece". DT rules! |
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its a very good album indeed - but i wouldnt say it is their best
i like both 'Images & Words' and 'Awake' more then this album.. it just doesnt seem a solid to me.
the DVD of them doing this album is really good too |
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It is the greatest masterpiece of music. Too overlong??? I listen to it as one song - over 77 minutes  |
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NemeniX - 12.02.2007 at 12:13
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I just think that's the best DT album ever 
All songs of SFAM are simply amazing, and the concept is a so good idea.  |
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Wollan - 02.03.2007 at 02:28
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This is Dream Theaters "gold-album", i love it.
Ill think the best song on this album are "Finally Free"..what do YOU think?? |
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| I love every song on the album and it's impossible to say which one is the best but I can say that John Petrucci's best solos are in The Spirit Carries on and Beyond this Life. =) |
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Bankler - 07.04.2007 at 18:29
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| This is the first Dream Theater album Ive listened to. Its great all over. |
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| Fascinating album! It's not perfect, but I believe that I'll never get tired of it. It deserves a very strong 9! |
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Philaenas - 22.04.2007 at 16:28
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| I think I like Strange Deja Vu the best on this album. It just has the most interesting guitar pieces in it. |
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| I like every song on this one. The sequence of the songs couldnt be better. Definately one of their best releases ever. |
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It really is a Masterpiece, bit I'm not that into ''Beyond This Life''.
Overture 1928, Strange Deja Vu, Home, plus the story and the awesome layout makes Scenes one of DT's best |
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 jorkg - 25.06.2007 at 06:59
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| Hell Yeah, DT is one of the best progressive metal groups of all time. And I think that is the BEST albums of all metal. and is the best album of DT. FATAL TRAGEDY is , for me the song of the album, and I like the progression One Last Time, The Spirit Carries On and Finally Free, overall, this progression sounds very very well at the Live Scenes from NY. |
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Noel Sonic - 05.07.2007 at 04:31
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| Masterpiece. I like its concept, and I do admire their ablity to show the concept in melody and composition. They wrote something which make me be in deep thought. |
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DummFeind - 11.05.2008 at 15:46
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| Absolutely stunning. My favorite album by them, perfect because of the introduction of Mr. Rudess into the band. Favorite track - Dance of Eternity. |
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| Good album my favourite song is finally free the drumming is fantastic |
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| It is hard to imagin a better album then this one. For me their is no better album, their are albums that match this one, althouth their are very few, but their are none that are better. The story is one of the very best as far as concept albums go. It matches storys such as The Wall, Seventh Son, and Operation: Mindcrime. All of the instruments are perfect, as they were 7 years earlier on Images and Words. Great, Great album!!! |
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| What a story! Really an amazing album. |
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| IMO the concept is weak. However, the music is what holds it together for me. There are so many memorable choruses and vocal lines on this album! I find myself humming some of the vocals at random quite often. And the musicianship is REMARKABLE. I was floored the first time I listened to Fatal Tragedy. What a close that song has. The climax on "The Spirit Carries On" is grand as well. This album really plays like a Broadway play, and a fine play at that. I could see them doing something with this album in that aspect. Anyway, this is my favorite Dream Theater album and it gets a 9/10 from me. |
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TuTku - 04.08.2009 at 04:03
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Definitely their masterpiece. Someone should make a movie of it.
Favorite songs: Home and Finally Free |
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Kjaj - 13.09.2009 at 02:07
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| This is my second favorite album of theirs. I would give 10/10. It's great how the album creates a story. Just beautiful. |
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| In my opinion one of the greatest albums i've ever heard, along with Ghost Reveries (Opeth), The Royal Scam (Steely Dan), Aja (Steely Dan) and Watershed (Opeth) |
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| Great great Album... Best prog rock/metal album of all time... 10/10 |
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| If one must pull a "favorite song" from this album, my vote would have to be "The Spirit Carries On". It is a beautiful track with a beautiful message. For me though, the album plays as a single story, so I tend not to separate the tracks. One petty complaint; this is not a concept album. This (and all the comparable albums mentioned) are rock operas. They tell a cohesive story using characters. Awake was a "concept" album, i.e. a collection of similarly themed songs, both lyrically and musically. This is, in fact my favorite DT album. And BTW, 1. How will they ever replace Portnoy, 2. James LaBrie's new solo album is fabulous. |
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| This album is just amazing, I can't count the goosebump-attacks! Easily their best album. If there was any album deserving a 10, it would be this, together with Cult of Luna's Somewhere along the Highway and Nightingale's Alive Again. |
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| Bad review.... the lyrics are brilliant... and the music masterpiece indeed. One of the best |
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Written by JimInFlames on 01.03.2011 at 18:55
Bad review.... the lyrics are brilliant... and the music masterpiece indeed. One of the best
True. I also don't understand why the reviewer gave the album a 10 but still has problems with it  |
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ErnilEnNaur - 12.03.2011 at 22:04
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Written by Darth Mitchell on 12.03.2011 at 21:51
Written by JimInFlames on 01.03.2011 at 18:55
Bad review.... the lyrics are brilliant... and the music masterpiece indeed. One of the best
True. I also don't understand why the reviewer gave the album a 10 but still has problems with it
Because he was honest? No album is without faults and a perfect rating means that the good parts are so overwhelming that the bad parts just don't matter when looking at the work as a whole. The 10 rating is not meant for perfect albums (there are no such albums), it's meant for the absolute greatest albums of all time. |
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| Th reviewer focuses too much on the concept which he doesn't like. Almost 2/3 of the album is about it and when he describes the music it is mostly to tell us what he doesn't like about it. Don't like the concept, find some songs too long, find some solos "expressionless", the keyboard doesn't fit in the music, there's a horrible noisy error in Fatal Tragedy...I find kind of strange that he gives this album a 10 whereas he obviously doesn't find this album near perfect. I get that the good parts can outshine the bad ones and that even though an album cannot be perfect somebody can give him a 10 for "sentimental reasons" but when you focus that much on what you don't like about the music in a review I don't think a 10 is appropriate. I know that you cannot be totally objective and that such a review would be boring but still your score should reflect what you wrote. |
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| I prefer Kevin Moore, Rudess has some insane solos but Kevin Moore is a master at melody and atmosphere plus he got those amazing harmonies and solos too. He made Images & Words perfect, that's why to me Images & Words is the best Dream Theater album and there won't be better. Another reason is James Labrie who still had balls back then and could sing like a real singer who deserves to be in a band like DT. His vocals on Another Day and Surrounded will never be matched by any other DT song. This is a good album but a 10? I'm sorry i'll give it an 8 just because it took so much hard work to make and has very good technical instrumental parts and an interesting concept. James Labrie kinda ruined this album... |
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| Well, this CD was my first actual attempt to get into Dream Theater (my attempt to listen to the new track with their new drummer wasn't exactly a easy listen for me and I got rather lost when trying to listen to "Finally Free" for the first time) and I must admit that I went in half expecting to pass it on to a friend and ended up finding it pretty good, if somewhat overly long (then again, the fact it is prog-metal should have tipped me off that it would be a long album). The best track, in my opinion, is "The Spirit Carries On", which serves as an excellent contrast to the ending of the album (the final track is pretty depressing and chilling compared to the surprisingly uplifting "The Spirit Carries On"). However, James Labrie, while still a good vocalist, doesn't really hold my attention on his own, which is a shame, as the album itself is fantastic and, had Dream Theater gone for a unique vocalist for each character, could have been groundbreaking. I'd say it is roughly an 9 overall. |
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Written by Mountain King on 12.08.2011 at 12:53
I prefer Kevin Moore, Rudess has some insane solos but Kevin Moore is a master at melody and atmosphere plus he got those amazing harmonies and solos too. He made Images & Words perfect, that's why to me Images & Words is the best Dream Theater album and there won't be better. Another reason is James Labrie who still had balls back then and could sing like a real singer who deserves to be in a band like DT. His vocals on Another Day and Surrounded will never be matched by any other DT song. This is a good album but a 10? I'm sorry i'll give it an 8 just because it took so much hard work to make and has very good technical instrumental parts and an interesting concept. James Labrie kinda ruined this album...
I think you might be right about the Kevin Moore argument. Not that I don't like Jordan Rudess, I prefer Moore's structures to Rudess' experimentation. No offence to Rudess fans here. Also, many progheads will agree with you about James LaBrie.
For some reason, Metropolis Part 2 works out fine, but Ayreon's The Human Equation doesn't cut it for me. Too many cooks spoil the broth?? |
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| I totally Agree ! This is THE! Progressive Rock/Metal Album ! and a Must have for all you prog-rockers out there |
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