Talk:Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

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[edit] With the exception of Overture and Losing Time?

Who was the idiot/ignorant who wrote in the article "Each portion (track) is intended to represent a different mental illness, with the exception of Overture and Losing Time"? Overture is the introduction or presentataion to ALL the mental illnesses that follow. Losing Time is obviously a mental illness (amnesia) just as the other ones. Or maybe the person who said it is not is so amnesic that forgot amnesia is a mental illness.

I'll erase that senseless entry from the article.

F15x28 04:34, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] untiteled

is disc 2 one track consisting of a song with 8 movements. or 8 tracks each of which are a movement to the one song —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.64.223.203 (talk • contribs).

The latter. It was orignially (I believe) meant to be one song and one track, but Mike Portnoy said somewhere that they decided to split the song into 8 tracks just so people wouldn't have to fast forward and rewind endlessly to find their favorite part of the song. -- Loudsox 18:55, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Great Debate?

I think something should be said about this track, since it details the controversy of stem cell research. Is that not worth mentioning?

More than that. Dream Theater, like inspiration Rush (band), seem to take a slightly-leaning-right centrist (but maybe not completely objectivist) stance on the issues they write about. This may not be clearly evident in their "issue" songs (The Great Debate, In The Name of God, Sacrificed Sons) but it seems to me that their politics may only be an issue because they are not following in the footsteps of mainstream rock opinion (Green Day, the Rolling Stones' "My Sweet Neocon," Radiohead's "Hail to the Theif" and most of Muse's new album).

I don't know if it's worth it to talk about the politics of Dream Theater on the main article, because when you come down to it, the only side they've shown is that they're not militantly Anti-Bush. It would be interesting to see only in that it follows that DT doesn't subscribe to trends in their music, but only if the majority of interested Wikipedians could agree that a heavy anti-Bush sentiment is currently a trend in popular music. Matzoball1982 18:37, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, politics on this article are not worth it. You have to keep in mind that John Petrucci and John Myung are both very religious. The others may be as well. Religious people generally tend to be against stem-cell research and abortion. And, not surprisingly, Petrucci recieves credit for the lyrics of that song. So "The Great Debate" may not necessarily reflect all of the band's political viewpoints............65.100.179.145 03:53, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

the first time i heard it, i thought "the great debate" was anti-stem cell research, haha. --Progjunky 08:01, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

they claim (going to try and find a source) that the point of the song is that it presents both sides of the argument, and I think that it does that quite well. For almost every argument there is presented a counter-argument. Incidentally, note that LaBrie is ChristianDTFAQ site, and Portnoy is (nominally) Jewish. So the background is there. They do come from NY though... Matsuya 20:40, 2 December 2006 (UTC)