Images And Words (studio album) by Dream Theater

Je découvre cet album en 2025. Je pense qu'il a mal vieilli. La production est assez orientée années 80 alors qu'on est début 90.
La qualité des chansons ne me transportent pas non plus. Les musiciens sont bons évidemment.

Pull Me Under is great, but not a fan of the rest of the album to be honest.

Incredible album, best from Dream Theater IMO. Another day, metropolis, surrounded, wait for sleep are my favourite but each track is great.

The first half of this album is amazing but the second half just doesn't maintain that quality in my opinion. The instrumentation is very consistent and every song is packed full of amazing guitar and drum work that really stuns me. Some tracks just completely overpower you at times and they almost have too much going on at one time so it feels a bit confused. Its the slower tracks that really shine for me and when they go at a slower tempo the quality is far better. Despite this, my favourite song was probably Pull Me Under which opens the record and gets you so excited with how brilliant it is. The songs are a little repetitive though and that makes the album drag as you feel you are listening to the same song for a lot of the run time. Overall, this is probably the groups best album as it has some great moments but it just struggles to build upon those moments.

From jeremy9 08/17/2020 14:19

One of the best Prog-Metal album

Much as I like Dream Theater, I feel that with a lot of their work, they are trying to cram every idea possible into an album and sometimes even into one track. I personally like the slower more melodic affairs like 'Another Day' and 'Wait For Sleep', the latter with its moving piano and subtle strings is far too short. I get a sense with the heavier tracks, that Mike Portnoy wants to bash the absolute shit out of his kit and prove something with the speed of his double kick drum pedal. It is without doubt, a complex album which needs a few listens to truly appreciate the musicianship because in a lot of parts it sounds too cluttered. I think that if they had stripped the sound back a bit it would have been awesome.

From VictorVale 12/12/2018 21:43

O progressivo resiste com a maravilhosa Images and Words.

From Goliath 11/13/2018 16:29

The musicianship is incredible, I can see why Dream Theater have such a devoted fan base. This is so fast and complex, there's enough material for five albums here. It's too fast for me, it feels like they are trying to play as fast as possible to cram so many ideas into the album's run time. I don't like too much repetition but this is taking it to the extreme, if I heard a 10 second part of any of these tracks I would be hard pressed to identify which track it was from (much like most of Yes). I need to listen more to take it all in, (but those drums are irritating as hell).

Complex, intriguing, beautiful, melodic progressive metal. Wonderful string of songs found on this album.

From LedZep 05/07/2018 18:42

What a melodic beast of an album. Equally complex, accessible and enjoyable which cannot be said about many prog (metal) albums.
Favourite songs: Under A Glass Moon, Learning To Live, Metropolis, Take The Time