Where is all of the Dream Theater???

[John Galt]

On a whim I thought I would see what all Dream Theater songs were on this site's list. Much to my surprise I found there were only seven songs!

I thought, "no, that can't be right, maybe they just don't have much newer stuff." So I looked up Spock's Beard, and found a whopping 85 songs.

I have a Spock's Beard CD (V), and while it has its good parts, it has nothing on any of my DT CDs.

So I am forced to conclude that you don't have much because of their heavy metal leanings, which brings me back to a thought I've had many times before. How can people musically flexible enough to listen to prog be incapable of enjoying heavy metal? It makes no sense to me. Maybe you older people have some deeply ingrained metal-phobia. It would take no less to deny the greatness of Scenes From A Memory (or for that matter The Great Debate, or Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence, or Honor Thy Father, or Octavarium, etc.). Do you realize that Dream Theater is the most popular progressive rock band among teenagers?

Perhaps the reason prog has been dwindling the past 2 or 3 decades is that any new band, no matter how talented, with a different sound isn't accepted by the prog community. Then most of the other bands are labeled derisive. A few manage to toe the line (The Flower Kings), but don't have anything to offer younger listeners.

And lest you dismiss me as a know-nothing teenager, I must tell you I didn't stumble onto progressive rock after listening to Dream Theater or TOOL like most young proggers (to tell you the truth, I don't know any "young proggers" besides myself, but I know they exist, if only because they post stuff sometimes), but instead went through my dad's 90125 tape, and another Yes song on a computer game (Homeworld), and the good things my dad said about Rush (no tapes, though ). I now enjoy King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Peter Gabriel Genesis, Pink Floyd, and many other bands (finally managed to appreciate Tales From Topographic Oceans a coupla' months ago, took forever).

So if you ever find yourself wondering whatever happened to all the good prog that seemed so abundant many years ago, pull yourself out of the seventies, and bring yourself into the 21st century, you musically stagnating, closed-minded, middle-aged adult (or should I say... schizoid man ).

Just in case you wanted a teenager's point of view on your site.