Dream Theater
Feb. 20th, 2025 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
got_quietI've been struggling to find new music. I rely on youtube too much nowadays and that algorithm is awful for any sort of discovery, and I've never been dialed in to the music scene, so decided to just go back to the tired and true method of stopping by a record store and pulling some random CDs from the just in bins. The store near me has changed a lot in the past 5 or so years. There used to be a lot more CDs, but now a significant chunk, like 60% or more, is dedicated to records, which I never cared about. And the metal section has shrunk by half.
I ended up picking up three albums from the new in the shop section. The only one I've listened to so far is Dream Theater's new album, Parasomnia. Scenes from a Memory is one of my favorite albums of all time, which makes DT one of my favorite bands of all time. This album was classic DT, but almost too much so. I've only listened to it a couple times while in the car, and while I'm definitely enjoying it it isn't blowing me away. It feels a bit too familiar and not quite pushing hard enough to do something new and interesting. I would probably prefer to listen to Scenes from a Memory again if given the choice.
Digging through the CDs I also remembered how much of a pain it is to get a good sense of whether or not I might like music based only on the hints provided on the CD case. The genres "pop," "rock," and "metal" are entirely inadequate when what I'm looking for is prog, mathcore, and complex drum and bass.
Anyway after all that I'm back to listening to an album from 1999. I'm hoping the other two CDs I got reveal something new for me.
If anyone has some rec for music with some good, complex instrumentality and fucked up time signatures, hit me up!
I ended up picking up three albums from the new in the shop section. The only one I've listened to so far is Dream Theater's new album, Parasomnia. Scenes from a Memory is one of my favorite albums of all time, which makes DT one of my favorite bands of all time. This album was classic DT, but almost too much so. I've only listened to it a couple times while in the car, and while I'm definitely enjoying it it isn't blowing me away. It feels a bit too familiar and not quite pushing hard enough to do something new and interesting. I would probably prefer to listen to Scenes from a Memory again if given the choice.
Digging through the CDs I also remembered how much of a pain it is to get a good sense of whether or not I might like music based only on the hints provided on the CD case. The genres "pop," "rock," and "metal" are entirely inadequate when what I'm looking for is prog, mathcore, and complex drum and bass.
Anyway after all that I'm back to listening to an album from 1999. I'm hoping the other two CDs I got reveal something new for me.
If anyone has some rec for music with some good, complex instrumentality and fucked up time signatures, hit me up!
