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Yes, anyway you are somewhat misinterpreting the discussion; the fact that an album evokes emotions does not necessarily mean it is a good album.. And for me "the spirit carries on" made me cry, yes, but out of sadness from hearing a piece so uselessly, pathetically devoid of artistic depth.. it sounds like a longer and more redundant Bon Jovi ballad...

: )) So, until next time!

I didn't say that Dream Theater fans are necessarily stupid; much more often, in fact, it has been said the opposite precisely by you fans: that everyone who doesn't listen to them is somehow limited because they're "jealous" of their technique, "incapable" of understanding them, etc. And you've contributed to this too, dear Downtown (see a few comments above)...
Duran Duran still exists as a group, so they've well surpassed the 15-year mark... And if we want to talk about being "in fashion," well, I don’t think the latest DT album has been very well received, and even the last tour got a significant thumbs down from the fans (at least those from Florence)...

Quite stupid this comment of yours "what a drag"... I've already written everything in the review, if anything I just limit myself to responding to those who argue... If you have a problem with the controversies, take it out on the die-hard fans of the DT who, as you can see, never stop intervening in defense of their champions...

beautiful little sheep!!

Just read your second comment: are you kidding?! Oh my gosh, Muse and the Rasmus!! Get behind me!! :) Of course, thank goodness there are different points of view..

The fact that everyone pursues their own characteristic, that is, their own style, is obviously a legitimate index of personality; but even a style is built, it is not imitated. Dream Theater "demand" emotions because they don't play with a communicative purpose, but with a terrifyingly aesthetic purpose, absolutely self-serving; from this point of view, they are even worse than a Ramazzotti, who, in his total banality, at least does not "demand." In 1967, Genesis played music very similar (like, to name a few, King Crimson, EL&P, Gentle Giant, Colosseum, etc.) to that Prog you attribute to DT; and with all due respect, I don't really feel comfortable calling "innovation" the act of combining the insights of the 60s/70s Progressive with some Metal-derived distortion. The fact that they have "brought forth" a genre is not in itself a virtue: even Duran Duran did it with "New Romantic," but that doesn’t make me feel I should define them as a great band.

Second note: you made the same statement as ALL the other Dream Theater fans before you: as usual, you don't seem to grasp the concept that there is a big difference between reinterpreting and much more simply copying what others have done. Dream Theater's music poetry, impressionist painting? One comparison that comes to mind is rather with the way film critic Mereghetti describes Von Trier's films (as much as one can disagree): an empty music that demands emotions instead of eliciting them. The DT are "skilled air fryers" who appeal to an audience that perhaps isn't exactly cultured, fearful of falling behind the provocation of their excessively showcased super-technique... It might be a matter of not understanding the "essence" of music, or perhaps much more simply, it's a matter of points of view...

"Are there few of us who can grasp its pure essence"? Another statement not exactly humble... In any case, you brought up the worst possible example, since Picasso followed an artistic journey where the final step was precisely the rejection of technique in favor of an "childlike" and deliberately clumsy art... Which is practically the opposite of Dream Theater.

but the unpublished work was beautiful, wasn't it? : )