This Dying Soul appreciation thread.

[Misirlou]

Noticed in the index of songs and albums that this one didn´t have a thread.

I´ll start by saying that Portnoy going half time at 6:39, while the riff from the Glass Prison keeps going, is probably the heaviest shit this band has done. Impossible not to headbang.

And this is amplified in Budokan, where he stands up to play that half time, you can hear the crowd going "Hey! Hey! Hey!" which is the exact reaction you´d get in any South American country in that part (excellent crowds, especially Argentina and Chile).

[wolfking]

Was my number 1 DT song for the longest time.  These days and the last countdown Octavarium just pipped it, but I find the whole thing intense and amazing.  Agree, love that Glass Prison riff reprise in the middle there.

That last minute is also one of my fav DT moments.  Just incredible.

[TheBarstoolWarrior]

More than any other song I think TDS captures that balls to the wall spirit they were going for on ToT.

[Stadler]

Was my number 1 DT song for the longest time.  These days and the last countdown Octavarium just pipped it, but I find the whole thing intense and amazing.  Agree, love that Glass Prison riff reprise in the middle there.

That last minute is also one of my fav DT moments.  Just incredible.

This was always a favorite, but in recent listenings, it's really shined. In the last song countdown it wasn't #1, but it was #7.   Just a great song, and the perfect kind of heavy for me (fitting the song, not just heavy for the sake of being heavy).

[Cool Chris]

There's some good stuff here musically (though it does wear on me at bit toward the end - that's the era we're in with DT - but outside of the sections where James is singing in him normal style, I don't like the vocals at all.

[wolfking]

This was always a favorite, but in recent listenings, it's really shined. In the last song countdown it wasn't #1, but it was #7.   Just a great song, and the perfect kind of heavy for me (fitting the song, not just heavy for the sake of being heavy).

The song has aged really really well IMO too.

[TAC]

The song has aged really really well IMO too.

Unlike TGP.

[WilliamMunny]

Yeah, def my favorite track of Train of Thought and probably my favorite 'ball's to the wall' metal song from the band. James just kills it from start to finish.

[wolfking]

Unlike TGP.

While I'll always disagree with you on TGP, I do agree and think it has aged not nearly as well as TDS has.

[DTA]

If the song lost that last minute or so of random noodling, it'd be pretty great. I think the majority of their 10+ minute long songs from 6DOIT through Black Clouds are bloated with unnecessary parts, but this one feels pretty tight and well-constructed aside from that ending.

[durga2112]

Come to think of it, this is probably my favourite song in the suite. It is relentlessly heavy, and I love the variety of vocal styles that LaBrie gets to use in it. I particularly like the part where he first sounds like James Hetfield ("Come to me my frieeeend"/"Blackened is the eeeeend"), and then Dave Mustaine (no particular Megadeth song comes to mind, but just the way he sounds when he's singing the "These tormenting ghosts of yesterday" section). I don't know if this was ever "proven", but I remember back in the day there was some discussion about the fact that those are two well known metal musicians who have struggled with addiction, so it's like they're being channeled in this song. Even if it's not what anyone intended, I choose to believe it as my own head canon. 

[hefdaddy42]

i've always liked this song a lot.

[nobloodyname]

I would just like to officially and formally register my love of This Dying Soul. Quite possibly a top ten DT tune for me. Yes, even the last minute of it
 
Although The Glass Prison is still my favourite part of the suite.

[gzarruk]

Although The Glass Prison is still my favourite part of the suite.

It's a shame that they still haven't released an official/accessible live version of it. The Bucharest show was never reissued through the LNFA, the one for Graspop 2002 wasn't properly recorded (the first half), and I don't think the Gigantour album is available anywhere. Hopefully we get one the next few years now that they've confirmed they plan to do the suite at some point.

[brakkum]

I need to give this song a revisit, it's one of the songs from ToT that kind of became "meh" over time, but I think I need to give it a fair shake again. TGP has always overshadowed it for me

[Cool Chris]

I gave TDS a listen at work today, and it was as I remembered. Some good stuff for the first few minutes, and then it descends in to awful vocals and mind-numbing noodling. My ears were a bit exhausted once it was over. Happily ES coming on next was nice palate cleanser for my ears.

[TAC]

I gave TDS a listen at work today, and it was as I remembered. Some good stuff for the first few minutes, and then it descends in to awful vocals and mind-numbing noodling. My ears were a bit exhausted once it was over. Happily ES coming on next was nice palate cleanser for my ears.

A great 1-2 punch!

[CraftyCaleb2483]

I haven't listened to TDS in like two years I should probably listen to it at some point, as I can't remember how it sounds apart from the first two minutes. But I remember disliking it intensely*

*Edit: though that was definitely because I have only heard the Budokan version, and I have to say that the album version sounds a whole lot better