Metal Reviews

I remember way back when this album came out and the internet metal community splooged all over it, including myself... however after a couple years of not having listened to it and then going back, I just couldn't get through it. There's maybe three good songs on the entire CD (Strange Deja Vu, Fatal Tragedy and Home... Beyond This Life would also be on this list if it was trimmed down), with most of the album being rather blah ballads, plus the whole storyline of "I was once a girl and I got shot, oh noes..." and trying to recreate the Mindcrime whodunnit ending just fall flat with me

On my personal DT album rankings I'd actually put it near the bottom of the list

Maybe it's not good to judge Dream Theater from the metal point of view. DT are more than metal and Scenes is from the beginning to the end a great album. Whereas my least favourite song is Home.

This was my favorite musical album for a long time. Labrie and Rudess on Finally Free still give me goosebumps.give me goosebumps

While Home and Through Her Eyes sound suspiciously like Tool and Roger Waters songs, respectively, the... plagarism isn't blatant like on later releases (like on Systematic Prolapse, where they plagarise themselves).

More to the point, this album is intelligent without being pretentious, and emotional without being mushy (although it gets close on a few instances). LaBrie's delivery is excellent, for the most part. It's a pity his vocals nowadays have turned into shit.

The only other fault I can find with this album is that Kevin Moore didn't play on it. Maybe my younger self would disagree with my self of the now, but his keyboard playing simply irks me; this album would've been untouchable, methinks, if either Kevin or Derek played on it. But Rudess' playing here is still more tolerable than it is on later releases.

Still, like Awake and Images and Words, this is a classic, albeit for different reasons than those two albums.