DREAM THEATER - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory

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Scenes From A Memory is Dream Theater's first studio album in two years and the epic masterpiece fans
have been waiting for. This album features a special, tantalizing focus that die-hard fans have been
demanding for years. Scenes From A Memory shows the band to be in top form, wrapping their superb
musicianship around a set of smart, accessible, solidly crafted rock.

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Progressive rock has long been the most devalued currency in popular music, perhaps due to the
culture's dumbing down, too many conceptually knotted triple-albums, or merely a Greek chorus of
critics parroting the emperor from Amadeus: "Too many notes!" Maybe that's what makes Dream
Theater's Scenes such an audacious rush (no pun intended). Here we have a two-act murder mystery
examined from a hypnotic dream state and parlayed by "The Orchestra," as the band refers to itself
here. Andrew Lloyd Webber hasn't written anything as focused--or musically audacious--in decades. And
if the band attacks feverish shift meters and plows through enough structural modes and, yes, notes, to
make the aforementioned emperor's head spin, they manage to keep things concise, focused, and
largely effective. The addition of keyboardist Jordan Rudess has freshened the band's tack, infused now
with the odd, playful ragtime piano quote and sitar sample. Vocalist James Labrie, meanwhile, amply
proves that Queensryche's Geoff Tate isn't the only drama queen in prog metal. --Jerry McCulley

Product details

Audio CD (October 15, 1999)

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Elektra

ASIN: B000021XS0