Every time I turn around, there's another silence drowning me

[axver]

This evening, I've been reading a thread on a Dream Theater forum on the topic of realising your favourite band is not your favourite band any more, and this has sparked a number of thoughts for me. Music is possibly the most important thing in my life, even ahead of literature, my academic interests, and railways. When I wake up or study or do

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[axver]

See, I absolutely despise Systematic Chaos. It makes me nauseous. I could not imagine a more uninspired, dull, or bland prog metal album. It sounds like Dream Theater are plagiarising all of those DT clone bands, and that's never going to be a good thing. You can't sell me a photocopy of a fax of a rare manuscript and tell me it's just as good as owning the original. I don't even find Forsaken catchy; the one moment I got bored and really started to question if I'd wasted my money when I saw DT was during that song, though that feeling was compounded by the fact I'd just sat through The Dark Eternal Night and watched a pack of n00bs headbanging through it when they probably don't even own Images And Words and looked distinctly bored during Surrounded. I'm just thankful they didn't play The Ministry Of Lost Souls or that Muse reject Prophets Of War, both of which I think are worse than You Not Me.

At least Train Of Thought and Octavarium have some good songs. I think your description of "extremely bad in comparison but on its own is still pretty decent" fits a fair few songs there. I'd never dream of taking As I Am or The Root Of All Evil over Pull Me Under, but they still interest me and I loved hearing As I Am live. But goodness, Systematic Chaos completely lost me. I don't know if I'll even care much when the next album comes, that's just how much it has completely changed things for me.