wankerness
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Who's Anthony Fantano and what does his opinion matter? Google search just suggests he's a youtube ho. I might watch that video if it's amusing.
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Fantano doesn't like any modern prog metal, all he had to say about the new The Dear Hunter record was "more overproduced indie prog, yaaaaay"Did anyone see Anthony Fantano's video on itDude's not a fan.
Fantano doesn't like any modern prog metal, all he had to say about the new The Dear Hunter record was "more overproduced indie prog, yaaaaay"![]()
Probably Fractal just pushing the latest thing.Fantano doesn't like any modern prog metal, all he had to say about the new The Dear Hunter record was "more overproduced indie prog, yaaaaay"
And also, is there any particular reason for why guys like Petrucci use the Axe-FX XL? Doesn't the XL only enable you to store more stuff on it? And I'm pretty sure that Petrucci only uses it as an effects processor, is he really maxing it out?
Anyway, I don't think that DT is saying anything with this album—it's a poorly formed and dangerously uncritical work about a problem that does not exist in the capacity that it is imagined in the context of The Astonishing's narrative framework. How about music that puts a finger on real problems? We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite is a concept album from 1960 that still has resonance and relevancy in 2016, 56 years later. That's a powerful concept there, and there's not a single hobbit in the entire thing.I don’t want my kid to think that the only way you can be a musician is to stand in line at a song contest audition, and then wind up having a bazillionaire tell you you’re not a good singer. Don’t get me started. To me, that’s not what music’s about. It’s destroying the next generation of musicians! Musicians should go to a yard sale and buy an old f—ing drum set and get in their garage and just suck. And get their friends to come in and they’ll suck, too. And then they’ll f—ing start playing and they’ll have the best time they’ve ever had in their lives and then all of a sudden they’ll becoming Nirvana. Because that’s exactly what happened with Nirvana. That can happen again! You don’t need a f—ing computer or the Internet or 'The Voice' or 'American Idol.'
Alternatively, you could just ignore the lyrics and enjoy the album for its many, many virtues
Dream Theater lyrics never warrant that level of scrutiny, it's like expecting Andrew WK to make important social statements. (though at least he doesn't even try)
Or accept that not everything is meant to be some huge allegory that demands action in the real world.. sometimes a story is just a fvcking story![]()
Or accept that not everything is meant to be some huge allegory that demands action in the real world.. sometimes a story is just a fvcking story![]()
Sure DT fans are not casual metalhead "me likey or not", but how fun it is to see each other fighting for each release !
"Not enough metal, too metal, too much religious meanings, dull lyrics, too much shred fapping, too simple..."
The only way they have to please everybody is to release 20 albums and let each other decide, I'm sure some people have only falling into infinity in their car because they never knew of another album (we are the solid base that listens to everything they do).
(This statement is maybe stronger in europe, because DT is I hope better known in USA)
So. After finally listening to it, there are a few things I have to say.
First. This record is fantastic. It is much more melodic and song oriented than most DT records after Scenes. In fact it might be my favourite DT record since Scenes.
But I also see a big missed chance in this one: The character are all sung by LaBrie
Now don't get me wrong. The Astonishing is a fantastic achievement by LaBrie. In fact his Nefaryus is probably the best I heard from him since Voices.
But on the other hand this whole thing has been built up as some sort of musical and thus I just don't get, why DT didn't think about calling some friends in the music business and make it a full out play with different singers.
As I said, I like LaBrie, but when hearing him voicing Faythe it just sounds wrong. In my head, while hearing the record, I always thought about stuff like "Hey. Anneke Van Giersbergen would be great in that role", or "Damn. Michael Eriksen is a great voice for Arhys".
I can understand that the whole thing is, after all, a DT record and maybe LaBrie wouldn't want to be just a minor role in it or whatever. But still all these characters sung only by him are wrong, imho.
So after all as of now I would probably give it a 4/5 or whatever, with that last step being a full blown Prog-Metal-Musical for a full score.
Oh, and yes. I really didn't care for the "story". It's your everyday YoungAdult stuff and frankly, it doesn't bother me at all. Yeah, they could have made a greater topic, yeah it couldn't be just jumping on that trend wagon, but hell. Nefaryus is so damn over-the-top amazing, that I just don't bother.
Alternatively, you could just ignore the lyrics and enjoy the album for its many, many virtues
Dream Theater lyrics never warrant that level of scrutiny, it's like expecting Andrew WK to make important social statements. (though at least he doesn't even try)
Kevin Moore and Myung wrote great lyrics on their early releases.
I don't know how much I buy that. The premise of the story is clearly "Several hundred years into a dystopian future...". That pretty much makes any kind of an activist/agenda argument a non-starter.To be fair, he's giving the lyrics (and the band) far more attention and credit than those of us who just kind of ignore them/think of them as being silly. He really thought about the album and must be a superfan. I guess this just goes to show that Dream Theater works best when you don't speak English very well.![]()