I won’t say that this is a bad album. However, I will say that Dream Theater seems
to have something both similar and better than everything on this album that
they have done prior to BC&SL. Prior
to this, I won’t say that Dream Theater had done no wrong. I did think 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence was
a weak and repetitive effort. However,
that much was all cleaned up when I heard 4 Degrees of Radio Edits, which is I
think is totally awesome. I’ll also say
that I can’t tell if A Nightmare to Remember is supposed to be comedy or is
serious, which probably means that the band was serious. Lol!
I guess what I find most disappointing about this album is
that physically it offers nothing more than a typical hair band album, like say
Poison, or Warrant. Yes, I admit to
liking Poison, but I don’t have any delusions about their technical grandeur,
and when it comes to technical grandeur that is what I expect from them, and I
feel that their offering of technical albums fills a very important role in
many people’s lives, in the same way that folks where angry when Pantera broke
up because Pantera filled a very important niche in peoples’ lives.
Wither is nothing but an mediocre ballad. You know the standard ballad Dream Theater
puts on an album that is just trash to attract new fans to the other stuff that
they do that is better. Except, what is
different on this album is that the cheese ballad is one of the better songs on
BC&SL. Enough said!!! . As
for this album, it doesn’t have any redeeming greatness, just mediocrity that
might help them get popular, so I suggest moving on to something that will
challenge you more intellectually, and not stuff that would have made it on the
radio in the 1980s.
My best advice is not to buy this one and to buy a real
Dream Theater album like Awake or A Dramatic Turn of Events.
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