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I picked up "Dream Theater - A Train of Thought" this morning, and I am not impressed. From mark 0, every other album i was in shock at the virtuosity and how awesome it was...this one is so...ordinary.

Where are the soaring heights? Did James loose his voice and turn into a n00b singer? I thought he was an operatic tenor! The huge baroque influence is gone, the solos are mindless crap, and the riffs sound like regurgitated 7-string nu-metal crap. This is commercialism gone wrong.

On the scale of music as a whole at least the album is above the rest, just not up to DTs standard.

My Advice - wait until a mate buys it and listen to it then to see if you might like it.

Errr, is James the singer DT had before, or have they changed recently? If it's the same guy it's always been, I was never really impressed with his singing in the first place. His voice, yes. His singing style, no. I thought he always sounded like he was majorly cheesing it up, like he was stuck in the 80's or something. Reminiscent of Foreigner to me...

yeah, same singer. I guess Awake was the last good singing album he did.

I thought Petrucci was the lead singer of Dream Theater? I loved that song "Pull Me Under" Hell, I loved the whole album.

DT can get carried away with themselves sometimes--often the shredding and frantic keyboard solos become like white noise (someone once described it as sounding like lawnmowers). Their best stuff is the more simpler, melodic bits. I had heard that Train of Thought was a more restrained album...havent heard it yet.

Just got the Scenes From New York DVD a little while ago--if you love DT you have to see this (what a fucking album that was too!).