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Originally posted by mr_freeze338
There's no consensus for "soul", that's self-appointed. People who aren't crazy about DT's music are quick to point out something like "they're all technical, nothing more"... very easy to assume. I find their music has an immense amount of intensity and emotion, with plenty of melody. "Space-Dye Vest" is hardly an example, but mellow nonetheless. "Hell's Kitchen" and "Stream Of Consciousness" as instrumentals would make for a good dose of "soul" I'm guessing, if you can't get into the vocals just yet. I, for one, love James Labrie's voice more than ever. He's got an immense amount of vocal range. Even next to 10 or so other vocalists, he stands out (anyone ever listen to Ayreon's The Human Equation?).
And what's this about contreversy? What does that even mean? You'd like them to act in a Frank Zappa sort of way? You probably don't mean that in a "every album has a distinct difference" sort of way (which they do), but they do have a very original style of music, considering their early albums anyway. The TOT and SDOIT albums sure didn't help label them as original, but they knew before hand what they wanted to create, and that was a classic metal album, and something ressembling Marillon. Everything before that can't be as easily compared.
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Let me try to explain......I think you're putting words in my mouth here. I said the band is NOT conterversial. They simply play music. For some reason, everyone uses them as a lightning rod. They're just another band. For some reason you took my quote and said they need to be conterversial.
I do not complain about their technical ability. I reserve that for Liquid Tension (the offshoot band) which i think is uneccessarily too technical.
I like Images and Words A LOT. I have four other CD's. What I do think is that they are not real interesting, and therefore not worthy of all this angst.
hope that helps.