Oh really? welll that makes sense now. I was wondering why it was like that 😂 I will keep that in mind going forward with the album. Thank you! I’m also doing your request soon too, I just did this one first because a patron requested it 🤘🤘
@@L33Reacts think once you follow the story you might appreciate his stylistic approach. Are you aware that he suffered food poisoning back in 1994 which ruptured his vocal chords? Try listening to his singing before then on the Images and Words album. His singing may sound more crisp and less grating. It's either you love or hate his vocals. I don't see anyone else singing for Dream Theater. He's been doing it for over 30 years. I feel he's an absolute beast of a singer hanging in there and not caring about what haters think. 😊
@@alanalanis2257ea was gonna say it’s how it’s suppose to be lol . Also before his voice issues listen to awake, and images and words. He was so good then.
I love how the "overture" is exactly like overtures in classical music, showing kind of a medley of what's coming in the following songs, to "prepare the audience". This entire album is a masterpiece of intertwining melodies and reprises. Yes, Portnoy is the drummer in this studio version and I think he's doing some of the backing vocals too (together with Petrucci if I'm not mistaken)..
Oh, it's #1 in my heart, and always will be. I know a lot of fans will put "Images & Words" in that spot, but I think this is better, mainly because it's more compositionally-mature. Images & Words is a technical masterpiece, but from a songwriting perspective, you can tell that they were trying to make complicated metal music with lots of changes that they made no effort to disguise. But as they grew as a band, they grew as songwriters, and began to use their technical abilities in order to serve the song's lyrics and story, rather than distract from them. It's still complicated music (see: _The Dance of Eternity_ ), but it's WELL-WRITTEN complicated music. And when complexity is not required, it's not used (I mean, c'mon, _The Spirit Carries On_ is a Dream Theater classic for a reason, and it's in 3/4 time with a simple chord progression and a guitar solo that I can actually mostly play...and I'm not an amazing guitarist by any stretch of the imagination). This is the album (for me at least) where Dream Theater became my favourite band (a position they occupied up until roughly "Systematic Chaos", when I noticed that they were starting to run out of ideas, and instead of re-discovering their creativity, they were starting to again rely on insane technical feats, but this time in order to try and hide the fact that they had nothing to say anymore). I was done when Portnoy left the band, and I haven't looked back. I really wish they'd taken him up on his "hiatus" idea and just...gone and done their own thing for a year or two, because I think if they had, they would have come back together and started making incredible music once again. Perhaps they'd even still be relevant to the prog metal scene today, instead of being a relic of the past. Oh well...such is life. Nobody recognizes the mistakes they're making WHEN they're making them.
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Regarding the story. It is a concept album that deals with the story of a man named Nicholas and the discovery of his past life, which involves love, murder, and infidelity as Victoria Page.
Thanks for your honest opinion man, sometimes I too don't really like his vocals, but this album is a masterpiece, even more when you go along with the lyrics and correlate the story with the instrumental tone/pacing along the album, it is awesome, hope you like it!
This is what I used to consider as "middle" dream Theater, but nowadays you can almost still say early - 1999. When it comes to DT I only like their really old classic Images&Words (1992) - were the vocals are imo much better - and some few selected Songs of all their stuff after that, "Home" beeing the one on this album.
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One of my favourite albums from one of my favourite bands. I've seen them live 11 times in Sweden. Portnoy was the drummer all the way until 2010.
I love portnoy man he is absolutely nuts I love his style. And I love DT! The vocals just rub me the wrong way sometimes. Sometimes I do like them though. They were great in the Count of Tuscany. Like legit great. ThTs why I’m so hard on him, I know he has it in him 😂🤘
Thanks for your honest reaction, I really do appreciate it. I will say that you are correct that there are a lot of people that for some reason do not like Labrie's vocals and I am not one who has ever had a problem with them. I am a fan and have seen the band at least 10 to 12 times over the years and only remember one concert that I was a bit disappointed in （they played well but just seemed to be not in a good mood）. I am never sure what vocal styling dissenters are looking for, so it remains a mystery to me what others yearn to hear instead.
Thank you for the nice comment Rodney! I really appreciate it. I try to be as honest as possible. No one wants to watch someone who just loves everything and just nods there head the whole time lol. I am going to finish the album and I am excited to hear what is out there :D
This album is 1999. Mike Portnoy didn't leave until 2010. But, it was the first album with Jordan Rudess. James LaBrie has said that, after the food poisoning incident in 1994 that ruptured his vocal chords, he didn't feel normal again vocally until at least 2002. He did an interview ,with Elizabeth at The Charismatic Voice channel, a little over a year ago that he discusses this ,among other things.
Another commenter mentioned that he is also doing other voices and such... I didn't realize that. I went back and listened to these three again and it sounds better to me now. Just needed to warm up to them lol :D
I love James LaBrie's voice in this album,I like the contrast between the heavy instrumental and soft voice,live he's a little agressive,unfortunately his voice is not that great nowadays,but I still like his way to sing,specially his "crow drive" which is pretty much like Rob (?) from Judas Priest
Bless you, thank you for not holding back! I originally found Dream Theater through the instrumental version of Black Clouds And Silver Linings, but they cut the solos from A Nightmare To Remember and The Shattered Fortress so I ended up listening to the vocals... And it grew on me - I just couldn't stop listening to their studio albums and when I found the live performance of this one and there was no turning back. The instrumentals, the solos, the vocals and lyrics are just amazing. I actually like LaBrie's voice most of the time now, for the studio albums and all but the most recent live concert release(s?). I think I can agree with the people who say that James LaBrie is the best singer FOR the band. He gets along with everyone, and was the lyricist for their "Grammy song", The Alien, after all. I went to see them in Toronto during their Distant Memories tour - it might have been the mood of the concert overtaking me, but his vocals sounded great... then I listened to the recordings from London that were the official live version and the vocals (heavily mastered) really let me down. Basically, yeah, I totally get it.
Thank you so much for supporting the channel! It means the world to me. I will always try to be honest with my opinions and feelings with the song. No reason to lie 🤷♂️ can’t wait to hear the rest 😉
Finally some more music I am good with., even though "Home" is the only track on this album that I listen to on a regular basis. Last couple vids were not for me. Highly recommend to check out Rivers of Nihil - "The Silent Life" :)
Also this is one of my favorite concept albums. Along with Snow from Spock's Beard. Rush's cygnus songs (my verbiage) from the end of A farewell to Kings and the beginning of Hemispheres is also very sweet but those are not full concept albums. Some of the best prog. albums ever but not full concept albums.
Spock’s beard?? Like from Star Trek? Lol Spock had his beard for the evil universe episode 😂😂 sorry I love Star Trek. I will definitely check these out! Thank you Carl
Dream Theater are my all time favourite band, and James LaBrie's voice is the main thing that got me into them almost 20 years ago (with this album, actually), and I can never understand why most people don't like him. It makes me sad for him, but I guess I'm very lucky that I get to appreciate this amazing band 100% without any drawback! LOL
I really liked his voice for the most part on this album but the first two tracks weren’t my favorite tbh but he is an amazing vocalist for sure. And his lyrics are great too!
this is such a great album. I listen to the live version from NYC only. It is so much better than the studio version IMO. But I am a big live music fan when bands do it well. Just so much more real and raw. Sometimes prog (studio versions) can be so sterile sounding. Again, just my opinion.
The person who requested this album asked me to do the live version for the last part and said that it was way better then the studio! But some other people didn’t agree so I just did the studio 😂
I loved his vocals on Another Day, Count of Tuscany, and Glass prison. The others not so much. He’s hit or miss for me but you are right, he is for sure the vocalist of this band.
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Hi L33, I'm one of those who also is a bit confused about the singing quality part of the time. He mixes his performance live. I've attended shows where he has performed top notch and some less good. I sometimes would dream of having one of my favourite singers, Jeff Scott Soto, on vocals. Mike Portnoy has had the same idea (my interpretation) as he summoned the great band Sons of Apollo with JSS on vocals. Take a listen to them sometime. Here's a link: ruclips.net/video/tG7hYazcfOw/видео.html
Oh man imagine this band with great vocals…. They already are legends but they would be… bigger legends?? Lol I would love to see that. Oh and you can just say “Lee” you don’t have to do the 3s lol it’s just… looks cool? I guess 🤷♂️😂
That's crazy cuz I didn't realize till y'all told me... Went back and listened to these three again and it sounded way better with that in mind. I can't wait to hear the rest of the album!
I like Dream Theater, but still think they are not as good as Symphony X or Opeth, or if you want to go back farther Rush and Styx. Haven't listened to enough Gojira or Porcupine Tree to really have a strong impression yet. James Labrie is good, but Russel Allen blows him away. And I just enjoy the harder sound of Opeth. Still, a good album when you want to listen to an interesting story well told. Great reaction and keep rocking.
I did a video with Genesis in it and they were awesome! I really should do a Rush song, I only know their hits. What are some good deep cuts from them?
@@L33Reacts "Free Will" is a good choice, not so mainstream, good solo and drum fills. "The Trees" is a song that could describe today's world and one of my favorites. "Xanadu" first Rush song to use synthesizers inspired by the poem Kubla Khan. "Red Barchetta" my favorite. And of course, their 20 minute opus, "2112".
@@L33ReactsIf you want some real deep epic cuts from Rush check out By Tor and The Snow Dog, The Fountain of Lamneth, The Necromancer, Cygnus X-1, and Cygnus X-1 book 2.
@@alanalanis2257 sweet thanks Alan I will definitely check them out. I am trying to do older prog more because I know so little of it compared to my era
I think the vocals are great. Keep in mind he's narrating several characters both male and female. That's why he sounds like he's all over the place.
Oh really? welll that makes sense now. I was wondering why it was like that 😂 I will keep that in mind going forward with the album. Thank you!
I’m also doing your request soon too, I just did this one first because a patron requested it 🤘🤘
@@L33Reacts think once you follow the story you might appreciate his stylistic approach. Are you aware that he suffered food poisoning back in 1994 which ruptured his vocal chords? Try listening to his singing before then on the Images and Words album. His singing may sound more crisp and less grating. It's either you love or hate his vocals. I don't see anyone else singing for Dream Theater. He's been doing it for over 30 years. I feel he's an absolute beast of a singer hanging in there and not caring about what haters think. 😊
@@alanalanis2257ea was gonna say it’s how it’s suppose to be lol . Also before his voice issues listen to awake, and images and words. He was so good then.
I enjoy the vocals too. I think it’s great story telling
I love how the "overture" is exactly like overtures in classical music, showing kind of a medley of what's coming in the following songs, to "prepare the audience". This entire album is a masterpiece of intertwining melodies and reprises. Yes, Portnoy is the drummer in this studio version and I think he's doing some of the backing vocals too (together with Petrucci if I'm not mistaken)..
It sets up the rest so well! It introduces a concept that is expounded upon later in the piece. It’s a wonderful mechanism :)
My favorite Drummer, Keyboardist, Vocalist, Guitarist, and Bassist. (for this album's lineup) I'm sure you can guess that it is my favorite band.
Out of their many albums this is definitely S tier. Top 3 for sure. Love me some concept albums.
Dude me too! I’m a sucker for a good narrative and prog metal 😂🤘
Oh, it's #1 in my heart, and always will be. I know a lot of fans will put "Images & Words" in that spot, but I think this is better, mainly because it's more compositionally-mature. Images & Words is a technical masterpiece, but from a songwriting perspective, you can tell that they were trying to make complicated metal music with lots of changes that they made no effort to disguise. But as they grew as a band, they grew as songwriters, and began to use their technical abilities in order to serve the song's lyrics and story, rather than distract from them. It's still complicated music (see: _The Dance of Eternity_ ), but it's WELL-WRITTEN complicated music. And when complexity is not required, it's not used (I mean, c'mon, _The Spirit Carries On_ is a Dream Theater classic for a reason, and it's in 3/4 time with a simple chord progression and a guitar solo that I can actually mostly play...and I'm not an amazing guitarist by any stretch of the imagination). This is the album (for me at least) where Dream Theater became my favourite band (a position they occupied up until roughly "Systematic Chaos", when I noticed that they were starting to run out of ideas, and instead of re-discovering their creativity, they were starting to again rely on insane technical feats, but this time in order to try and hide the fact that they had nothing to say anymore). I was done when Portnoy left the band, and I haven't looked back. I really wish they'd taken him up on his "hiatus" idea and just...gone and done their own thing for a year or two, because I think if they had, they would have come back together and started making incredible music once again. Perhaps they'd even still be relevant to the prog metal scene today, instead of being a relic of the past. Oh well...such is life. Nobody recognizes the mistakes they're making WHEN they're making them.
Regarding the story. It is a concept album that deals with the story of a man named Nicholas and the discovery of his past life, which involves love, murder, and infidelity as Victoria Page.
Thanks for your honest opinion man, sometimes I too don't really like his vocals, but this album is a masterpiece, even more when you go along with the lyrics and correlate the story with the instrumental tone/pacing along the album, it is awesome, hope you like it!
This is what I used to consider as "middle" dream Theater, but nowadays you can almost still say early - 1999.
When it comes to DT I only like their really old classic Images&Words (1992) - were the vocals are imo much better - and some few selected Songs of all their stuff after that, "Home" beeing the one on this album.
One of my favourite albums from one of my favourite bands. I've seen them live 11 times in Sweden. Portnoy was the drummer all the way until 2010.
I love portnoy man he is absolutely nuts I love his style. And I love DT! The vocals just rub me the wrong way sometimes. Sometimes I do like them though. They were great in the Count of Tuscany. Like legit great. ThTs why I’m so hard on him, I know he has it in him 😂🤘
Thanks for your honest reaction, I really do appreciate it. I will say that you are correct that there are a lot of people that for some reason do not like Labrie's vocals and I am not one who has ever had a problem with them. I am a fan and have seen the band at least 10 to 12 times over the years and only remember one concert that I was a bit disappointed in （they played well but just seemed to be not in a good mood）. I am never sure what vocal styling dissenters are looking for, so it remains a mystery to me what others yearn to hear instead.
Thank you for the nice comment Rodney! I really appreciate it. I try to be as honest as possible. No one wants to watch someone who just loves everything and just nods there head the whole time lol. I am going to finish the album and I am excited to hear what is out there :D
I think you're gonna love Fatal Tragedy and Beyond This Life, assuming those are in the next part
This album is 1999. Mike Portnoy didn't leave until 2010. But, it was the first album with Jordan Rudess.
James LaBrie has said that, after the food poisoning incident in 1994 that ruptured his vocal chords, he didn't feel normal again vocally until at least 2002.
He did an interview ,with Elizabeth at The Charismatic Voice channel, a little over a year ago that he discusses this ,among other things.
Another commenter mentioned that he is also doing other voices and such... I didn't realize that. I went back and listened to these three again and it sounds better to me now. Just needed to warm up to them lol :D
Yea poor guy gets bashed. He made a mistake but man he really sung his ass off on the first 2 albums. Still had a good voice
I love James LaBrie's voice in this album,I like the contrast between the heavy instrumental and soft voice,live he's a little agressive,unfortunately his voice is not that great nowadays,but I still like his way to sing,specially his "crow drive" which is pretty much like Rob (?) from Judas Priest
Bless you, thank you for not holding back! I originally found Dream Theater through the instrumental version of Black Clouds And Silver Linings, but they cut the solos from A Nightmare To Remember and The Shattered Fortress so I ended up listening to the vocals... And it grew on me - I just couldn't stop listening to their studio albums and when I found the live performance of this one and there was no turning back. The instrumentals, the solos, the vocals and lyrics are just amazing. I actually like LaBrie's voice most of the time now, for the studio albums and all but the most recent live concert release(s?).
I think I can agree with the people who say that James LaBrie is the best singer FOR the band. He gets along with everyone, and was the lyricist for their "Grammy song", The Alien, after all. I went to see them in Toronto during their Distant Memories tour - it might have been the mood of the concert overtaking me, but his vocals sounded great... then I listened to the recordings from London that were the official live version and the vocals (heavily mastered) really let me down. Basically, yeah, I totally get it.
Thank you so much for supporting the channel! It means the world to me. I will always try to be honest with my opinions and feelings with the song. No reason to lie 🤷♂️ can’t wait to hear the rest 😉
Last thing to add: This album is telling a pretty detailed and interesting story, its worth took take a look at some lyrics.
For the next video I will have the lyrics up 🤘 thanks for the heads up 🙏
Finally some more music I am good with., even though "Home" is the only track on this album that I listen to on a regular basis.
Last couple vids were not for me.
Highly recommend to check out Rivers of Nihil - "The Silent Life" :)
Sorry bro! I’ve been branching out and doing other stuff. A lot of requests and patron stuff as well. I’m glad you enjoy this though 😊🤘
I’ve been meaning to check them out, I’ve had a few requests for them. I will definitely do them soon.
Amazing album
Also this is one of my favorite concept albums. Along with Snow from Spock's Beard. Rush's cygnus songs (my verbiage) from the end of A farewell to Kings and the beginning of Hemispheres is also very sweet but those are not full concept albums. Some of the best prog. albums ever but not full concept albums.
Spock’s beard?? Like from Star Trek? Lol Spock had his beard for the evil universe episode 😂😂 sorry I love Star Trek. I will definitely check these out! Thank you Carl
Yes, still Mike Portnoy.
I could tell by the third track it was still him 😂 he’s nuts. I can’t wait to hear what else he has in store for the rest of the album
Album really picks up after these first few tracks
Dream Theater are my all time favourite band, and James LaBrie's voice is the main thing that got me into them almost 20 years ago (with this album, actually), and I can never understand why most people don't like him. It makes me sad for him, but I guess I'm very lucky that I get to appreciate this amazing band 100% without any drawback! LOL
I really liked his voice for the most part on this album but the first two tracks weren’t my favorite tbh but he is an amazing vocalist for sure. And his lyrics are great too!
Love the reactions but the multiple voices are intended from male and female perspective
Y’all let me know like you usually do, so thank you. I was wondering what was going on 😂🤘
@@L33Reacts ye when I heard it years ago I was like what? It’s clever but woo through you off lol.
@@darrenlucas7362 😂😂 maybe the rest of the album will warm me up to it 🤘
@@L33Reacts yea wait till you hear home it’s insane and fatal tragedy
this is such a great album. I listen to the live version from NYC only. It is so much better than the studio version IMO. But I am a big live music fan when bands do it well. Just so much more real and raw. Sometimes prog (studio versions) can be so sterile sounding. Again, just my opinion.
The person who requested this album asked me to do the live version for the last part and said that it was way better then the studio! But some other people didn’t agree so I just did the studio 😂
As per usual, you are off about the vocals. His voice is perfect for this music. I can’t imagine anybody else singing these songs
I loved his vocals on Another Day, Count of Tuscany, and Glass prison. The others not so much. He’s hit or miss for me but you are right, he is for sure the vocalist of this band.
Hi L33, I'm one of those who also is a bit confused about the singing quality part of the time. He mixes his performance live. I've attended shows where he has performed top notch and some less good.
I sometimes would dream of having one of my favourite singers, Jeff Scott Soto, on vocals. Mike Portnoy has had the same idea (my interpretation) as he summoned the great band Sons of Apollo with JSS on vocals.
Take a listen to them sometime.
Here's a link: ruclips.net/video/tG7hYazcfOw/видео.html
Oh man imagine this band with great vocals…. They already are legends but they would be… bigger legends?? Lol
I would love to see that. Oh and you can just say “Lee” you don’t have to do the 3s lol it’s just… looks cool? I guess 🤷♂️😂
This album is such a mixed bag.. And the vocals sure are what they are.. You have some foine moments ahead of ya though ✌
I’m excited to hear what’s next! Thanks for watching bro🤘🙏
He is signing multi parts different characters.
That's crazy cuz I didn't realize till y'all told me... Went back and listened to these three again and it sounded way better with that in mind. I can't wait to hear the rest of the album!
I like Dream Theater, but still think they are not as good as Symphony X or Opeth, or if you want to go back farther Rush and Styx. Haven't listened to enough Gojira or Porcupine Tree to really have a strong impression yet. James Labrie is good, but Russel Allen blows him away. And I just enjoy the harder sound of Opeth. Still, a good album when you want to listen to an interesting story well told. Great reaction and keep rocking.
I did a video with Genesis in it and they were awesome! I really should do a Rush song, I only know their hits. What are some good deep cuts from them?
@@L33Reacts "Free Will" is a good choice, not so mainstream, good solo and drum fills. "The Trees" is a song that could describe today's world and one of my favorites. "Xanadu" first Rush song to use synthesizers inspired by the poem Kubla Khan. "Red Barchetta" my favorite. And of course, their 20 minute opus, "2112".
@@L33ReactsIf you want some real deep epic cuts from Rush check out By Tor and The Snow Dog, The Fountain of Lamneth, The Necromancer, Cygnus X-1, and Cygnus X-1 book 2.
@@alanalanis2257 sweet thanks Alan I will definitely check them out. I am trying to do older prog more because I know so little of it compared to my era
@@alancarter41 thanks Alan I will add them to the list and take a look. You rock bro 🤘
So disagree about his voice. No one else could pull off what he has done. Completely off. Wow!
🤷♂️ just my opinion lol
Having the reactions out of sync with the audio is a pain to watch