Advantages: each track is long making this album worth your money Disadvantages: none what so ever
OK this album by Dream Theater is purely one of their best pieces of work yet if not the best. It consists of 8 completely groundbreaking tracks. Groundbreaking in terms of it's excellence that is. I personally cannot say one bad thing about a single track on the album. It is true music and truly inspirational. your very much getting your money worth with buying this album. each track is a masterpiece with the shortest track being 4 minutes 29 seconds ...
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Advantages: an awesome cd, with unbelievable guitar solos that will inspire all you guitarists out there! Disadvantages: songs are rather long and get a little repetitive
yes people!
dream theater are such an awesome talented band that really do show the other bands up in playing abilities!
john petruci never lets you down with those unbelieveable guitar solos and the drum rides and the super fast keyboard solos!
the only problem i have with it is that dream theater always seem to bore me after iv heard 10 minutes of continuous guitar solos, i wish they would learn to keep songs below the 10 minutes mark, ...
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Advantages: Classic Dream Theater, but with a new twist Disadvantages: More of a "poppy" style that Dream Theater's other work
...introduced on Train of Thought, Octavarium still manages to be a different album, with its own individual style.
The range of different song styles on this album is staggering, with the poppy U2esque style of I Walk Beside You, compared to teh PInk Floyd style of parts of the title track Octavarium. Possibly the only thing I would change about this album would be more focus on the progressive style of Dream Theater's earlier albums, such as Awake ...
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Octavarium
Prog rockers Dream Theater tallied 16 years as a band with the release of Octavarium, but
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in listening you're apt to suspect otherwise. As a collective they remain as tight as they were on 2003's obsessively dark Train of Thought (like all music-school...
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