Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Dream Theater - Images and Words


Dream Theater are in impressive form on this album "Images and Words".But Mike Portnoy on drums, John Petrucci on guitar, and Kevin Moore on keyboards and John Myung's bass part usually manages to lend a supportive role rather than a leading presence, but his musicianship and technical mastery of the instrument is quite good as well.Dream Theater manages to fuse balladic lyrics and melodies with searing riffs and unusual technical complexity. Rare is the band that pulls off such a cacophony of stylistic unconformity and makes it work. In Images & Words, DT usually not only makes it work, but makes it enjoyable to listen to.While much of this album is positive in tone, "Learning to Live" is more contemplative and somber

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