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Haha! Shortest review ever!
Indeed it sounds like Queen went bad! That was my first reaction when I heard it! But the music is OK, closer to the usual, but not the sound we love today. The production is also very very bad and if I find this album remastered, I'll might take it... I've heard worst bands... |
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| I find the reviewer's point of view rather exaggerated; the debut album of Symphony X is definitely not that great, but I consider it a good album that i enjoy listening to once in a while. I think your rating is way too low. |
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| It would have been better if there had been a deeper argument about why this album is that bad. I actually don't like it but rating is too low, maybe a 5 would be fair. I agree that the production is really low, but the performance isn't that bad. |
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This Review is unfair. Musically the basis of SX were there clearly. this album is quite good actually, despite the awful vocals. The only bad thing of this album Imo.
this album deserves at least a 7,5. |
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Written by BlankFile on 15.07.2007 at 00:16
This Review in unfair. Musically the basis of SX were there clearly. this album is quite good actually, despite the awful vocals. The only bad thing of this album Imo.
this album deserves at least a 7,5.
I second that, this review goes against the open mindess of a listener of such a genre, I enjoyed the album a lot, I strongly dissagree with the review, this is not like a review from staff. |
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| This album really is horrible! One of the worst Metal CD:s out there! |
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| Actually I listened to this album once and I thought it wasnt a very good album. I wouldnt give a 4 though. There were a lot of basis there, even if it was just intention wise. |
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This album is good as for the music, but the vocals render this album not listenable for me... I think SX should re-record this album with Russell Allen on vocals, and all would be ok. Just take the song Masquerade as the shining example, that song being one of the best SX ever made, but only in its '98 version with Russell Allen m/
Wonder what would Russell's vocals do with the other songs...
As for Rod Tyler, I would hide in the deepest corners of the earth because of the shame of singing like that  |
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| Raziel X about the re-recording of this album i absolutely agree. |
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Haha, how I laughed the first time I heard the vocalist.  |
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I do agree about the vocals being.. un-vocalish  |
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| The worst vocalist ive heard in this kind of Metal. |
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Ok the vocalist is terrible but it doesn't mean that originality should be 5!
This may have been written in quite angry state of mind but still...
Yet it really tells the most important: the album ain't any good. |
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| Lol, I went against common sense and got the album, despite the warnings and not being a Symphony X fan. And all I can say is that the singer equals Kamelots Mark Vanderbilt in annoying voice. |
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| Lol funniest review ever! Short. Sweet. In your face. It has it all! I listened to some of this shitty album's tracks out of curiosity and I don't think it's THAT worse than the average power metal album, though... |
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| I think it's a prog metal tradition to have a mediocre or "not that great" first album. Look at Dream Theater with that other dude singing, that was pretty bad, the musicianship was still pretty amazing though which made up for it thankfully...Or how about Coheed and Cambria's first cd? Yowch... |
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Written by Sephiros on 01.08.2010 at 06:36
I think it's a prog metal tradition to have a mediocre or "not that great" first album. Look at Dream Theater with that other dude singing, that was pretty bad, the musicianship was still pretty amazing though which made up for it thankfully...Or how about Coheed and Cambria's first cd? Yowch...
I guess I must be crazy but I like Charlie Dominici... sure it didn't work out or it wasn't the sound they were looking for, but WDADU is still an amazing album. Light Fuse And Get Away is still my favorite DT song... there is just something about that song that gives me goosebumps.
As for Symphony X's first, I have listened to the album in rotation once and learned all I needed to know about it, anytime a song from this album comes up on shuffle I am again reminded. But I refuse to delete it because it makes their later albums seem that much more miraculous. |
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| Masquerade is an awesome song, too bad the vocals were awful at that time. Thank god Russel Allen came later! |
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| Ummm, am I the only one who kinda enjoyed it? |
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qlacs - 25.04.2011 at 17:52
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| It really isn't that bad as the review says. The vocals for me are okay, more like a heavy metal-like vocals singing high and sometimes too high, but apart from this they are just different from what everybody got used to. The production could have been better although. |
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Written by Zhao on 07.05.2010 at 17:39
Lol, I went against common sense and got the album, despite the warnings and not being a Symphony X fan. And all I can say is that the singer equals Kamelots Mark Vanderbilt in annoying voice.
Just bought this to finish off my SX collection. I was just thining along the lines of Kamelot's first two albums, but at least SX only had one with Tyler at the lead. I wouldn't give it a 5, but I if you're like me and first started with albums like V and PL, then I could see how this would be such a drastically poor comparison. |
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