The Astonishing (studio album)
by Dream Theater
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The Astonishing is ranked 15th best out of 38 albums by Dream Theater on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Dream Theater is Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory which is ranked number 760 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,300.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 72 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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95/100  | 02/26/2025 22:07 | POWER18 | | 97/100 |
85/100 | 02/24/2025 10:19 | tiger555 | | 93/100 |
95/100 | 02/12/2025 19:54 | Museman | | 93/100 |
60/100 | 12/09/2024 04:33 |  zags7000 | | 64/100 |
60/100 | 09/30/2024 14:39 | jon5417 | | 68/100 |
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teague 06/14/2020 01:29
I remember being very excited for this album when it came out, and I was equally disappointed. This album is extremely boring and bloated. The performances are as baseline as you can get with Dream Theater (which is admittedly more impressive than most bands can pull off), the concept is just so predictable and lackluster, and the vehicles with which they try to portray this story are so weak that I can't help but fall asleep every time I listen to this album. At least it's not as bad as their previous effort. I'd steer clear of The Astonishing, even if you are a hardcore fan of these guys.
An amazing Mozart quality opera!
sageamagoo 02/07/2017 04:53
I listened to this album with a few prog heads when it came out. After disc one, we were all incredibly disappointed. Low quality, even by post-2010 Dream Theater standards. We decided to take a break, and a friend put on the greatest hits for Spock's Beard while we stopped to get a drink.
Wow, did that ever highlight how bad this album is. We were entranced! We ended up spending the rest of the night listening to them and never got back to The Astonishing.
Dream Theater's expiry date has long passed.
Cargusbralem 10/09/2016 15:46
Alright can we bring Portnoy back now?
AAL2014 07/24/2016 20:10
One of the site's biggest Dream Theater fans here.
I can tell you even live the music from this record was disappointing and I went to the show well aware that I was getting the full record..
..Left at intermission.
DanielNunes93 07/24/2016 18:33
The album is not bad, but...34 songs? More than 2hours?
It is impossible not to become bored, which is a shame , the album has good times! If they had just picked the best 10/12 songs, we had here a great Dream Theater album !
The length really hurts this album, when it used to be one of the strong points of Dream Theater.
I mean, I appreciate the effort, but it's like they wanted to achieve another Scenes from a Memory, in this era of the band.
And it really makes you uncomfortable...
mickilennial 02/18/2016 20:20
Astonishingly unremarkable.
awesomness425 02/04/2016 17:02
Some pretty decent instrumentation. but this album sounds as well as lyrics get's cheesy as fuck. CRINGE!! Disc 2 Just makes it worse.
this album lacks a little bite...
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