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Octavarium

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 ...

Matacon 08.10.2007 · Read full review
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A fine follow up to an impressive debut

Advantages: Fantastic arrangement of tracks from a band that is pushing the boundaries.
Disadvantages: Sound may not be to the taste of all listeners.

Frances The Mute is the second studio album from the Mars Volta. The band is the brainchild of the former At The Drive-In members Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler Zavala. The album, which is only 5 tracks long but runs for over 70 minutes, is based on the diaries of Jeremy Ward, who was the band's audio artist until his untimely death. The sound is similar to that of their debut Deloused In The Comatorium. Tracks are built up on a number ...

Schubbard_28 15.05.2008 · Read full review
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Marillion's Marbles still stunning!

Advantages: Contains classics Neverland and Fantastic Place!
Disadvantages: The single disc retail version is missing 4 excellent songs, worth seeking out the 2 disc edition.

...Tracklisting: The Invisible Man Marbles I You're Gone Angelina Marbles II Don't Hurt Yourself Fantastic Place Marbles III Drilling Holes Marbles IV Neverland Personally I'd recommend the double CD version, it's still available from Marillion's own site: http://www.marillion.com/music/albums/marbles.htm the tracklist of this is: Disc 1 The Invisible Man Marbles I Genie Fantastic Place The Only Unforgivable Thing Marbles II Ocean Cloud Disc 2 Marbles ...

melinda3536 05.11.2009 · Read full review
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In the Beginning.......

Advantages: Some all time classics songs
Disadvantages: Format seems out of kilter to me

The Platinum Collection from Genesis is a three CD boxed set of all their best songs. It's really the story of Genesis told backwards. The third CD ends with their first ever release and the first CD begins with their last hit before they stopped recording. It's really quite hard to review this CD, as its 40 odd songs long and takes about 4 hours to listen to properly, and a track by track analysis would take forever to write and be extremely tedious ...
...lots of live albums) went platinum and spawned many chart successes. In 1996, Phil Collins left the band, not through musical differences, it was simply a matter of geography (this was when Collins moved to Switzerland). Rutherford and Banks decided to carry on without him and in 1997, they announced that Collins would be replaced by ex-Stiltskin vocalist Ray Wilson. In September 1997, Genesis released what would be their final studio album "Calling ...

Bollinger28 21.06.2005 · Read full review
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Deadwing - nearly porcupine tree's best

Advantages: heavy guitars in places along with nice vocals
Disadvantages: not many 'anthem' tracks

...other albums they have made, Deadwing is perhaps not the best, but it rates quite high in my opinion, especially tracks like open car and shallow. There is little to fault about the album, all the tracks are superbly written, deep lyrics sung with good pleasent voices, excellent musician ships and good rhythms. there will be some fans of their earlier stuff, that will not take to the album as i have, for it is not as progressive and moves closer ...

salmonf1 22.07.2008 · Read full review
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