*** Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence by Dream Theater – Dream Theater’s Worst Album

In my opinion, the only good song on this album is the subdivision Solitary Shell, which is a part of the Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence song.   The rest of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence has its moments, but on the whole, with almost every song I feel like there is too much repetition.  It is as if Dream Theater was simply adding filler so that they could release a double album instead of a cd.  That said there are definitely some redeeming parts of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, and that much was demonstrated on later discs, such as Score.  On the album Score, all the parts of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence are astounding.  So perhaps you may think that it is the recording quality that I am complaining about and not the song writing itself.  That is almost certainly not the case, because I have heard 4 Degrees of Radio Edits and every track on that cd blew my socks off.  Four Degrees of Radio Edits essentially takes most of the filler out of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, making the songs more action packed and more impressionable.  So while Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is only a three star album, I would give Four Degrees of Radio Edits five stars.  Likewise, 4 Degrees cuts to the chase and is only 1 cd long, where 6 degrees of Inner Turbulence probably should not have ever been released though it is the favorite album of many of Dream Theater’s fans.  For example, I think Awake is far superior to Six Degrees, but the last I check at allmusic.com Awake was absurdly rated 2 or 3 stars, while Six Degrees was absurdly rated 4 stars.