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Title: Loses a Star Because It Has Some Filler.
Review: Like Liquid Tension Experiment 1, some of the work on this album amounts to just hitting the record button and jamming without much thought. As far as what I have heard, at the point at which this album was created, though Dream Theater could be considered masters of metal, they were not masters of jazz. In fact, when improvising in their live music, it sounds like they still have a lot to learn. That said, really this album is an impromptu jam, with some more structured songs mixed in. As is typical of Dream Theater, the more structured songs sound orders of magnitude better than the impromptu jams. At this time, one of the better jam bands out there, Liquid Tension Experiment was not. Yet, there are some masterpieces on this album, and it deserves everyone one of its 4 stars for them.
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