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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Elektra / Wea
Salesrank: 793936
Released: September 19, 1995 |
| Our Price: $3.98 |
| Used Price: $3.82 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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A Change of Seasons Track Listing:
1. Change of Seasons [Medley]
2. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
3. Perfect Strangers
4. Rover/Achilles Last Stand/The Song Remains the Same
5. Big Medley [Medley]
A Change of Seasons Reviews:
not dreamy to me 
2008-12-01 - I just don't get Dream Theater. This is not very good songwriting if you ask me. Compared to any progressive rock band from the 70's, these guys can't compete with ANY of them. Putting Dream Theater in the same category as Yes, Genesis, Rush, or heck, even Kansas and Uriah Heep, is pretty laughable.
Occasionally some guitar tricks will catch my attention, but the vocal melodies leave me scratching my head and asking "What's so great about this?" I *really* want to know if people who are fans of Dream Theater ever seriously listened to artists like King Crimson, Yes, and early Genesis. Because THOSE are genius bands capable of memorable songwriting skills.
Track one on this album, which is 20 minutes long, is pretty boring. Some nice guitar tricks aside, and everything else is rather ordinary, and features a lead singer who can't sing a melody (or doesn't want to sing a melody, whatever).
It's not really a chore sitting through an epic Dream Theater track, because at least the band is trying to write good music, and the band members probably mean well. Just make sure you check out 70's progressive rock before deciding whether this is deserving of classic music or not.
Update- October 25, 2009.
A recent reader comment has inspired me to check out the opening track once again and give it another chance, and... it seemed to work because I definitely enjoy the 20-minute monster more than I did last time I played the album. The vocals have clicked, and the many guitar riffs sound better to me as well. The rating has now moved up to a 3 out of 5, instead of a 2.
The Title Track 
2008-07-14 - If you are into progressive metal at all ... or, dare I say if you are into metal/rock music at all, then you owe yourself to at least once hear the title track from this song.
Don't just 'listen' to it. Put on some headphones. Get the lyrics down in front of you. Read the lyrics when the vocals are sung, and close your eyes in between.
Hopefully you'll agree that it's one of the greatest tracks ever -- a mirror of a passage through a man's life, and through the change of seasons that come in everyone's life.
A masterpiece of sound and emotion.
Dream Theater's second best album.
2008-01-30 - If you're going to get into Dream theater, stay well away from their newest album and dissapointment "Systematic Chaos". Buy this album, it rocks. It IS short, but it comes nothing short (pun intended) of being fantastic. We get the Theater's greatest song of all time "A Change of Seasons". Follow that up with some classic rock covers and you have one of the best albums ever!!!!!! I even like the cover of "In The Flesh?" by Pink Floyd!
New fan here... Superb album! 
2008-01-28 - Count me as a new Dream Theater fan! This is my first review of an album of this band... a couple of year ago this thing was unveliebable.
"Boring" was the word I used to describe DT music... How wrong was my judgment! A workmate owned all the discography and lend me some albums to hear. At first it was difficult to understand all the tempo changes, weird arrangements, the progressive cheese, and the voice of LaBrie (I'm a death metal guy) I didn't hear the albums in order so I hear'em all in a ramdom way... at the end I doscovered a band full of super talented musicians, with great skills in compsition and a corny-less sense of melody. "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence", "Awake", and "A change of seasons" has become new favorites on my album collection.
This EP is a true demostration of instrumental virtuosity. best think in the album is the covers treatment. They kept the feel of the original songs with a nice DT flavor on it.
If you, are reticent to give this band a chance... grab a copy of this CD and convince yourself.
Kick-A$$ Song!
2008-01-23 - Can't say much more that hasn't been said already.
This album is worth it just for the title track alone, as it's all I listen to. The other cover songs are okay, but Change of Seasons (all 26 minutes of it) really shows off the band's talents. And though many versions of this song have been released (live variations), this version is still my favorite!
This is where we get our first taste of Derek Sharidian thumping his fingers on the keys, and a great job he did too!
