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If this is the last hurrah for Fates Warning I felt I needed to write a review and buy the CD. I know the band doesn’t get much money off of a CD, but it’s more than they get from streaming. I’ve been a fan of FW for over 30 years and Long Day Goodnight has made me rediscover much that I may have missed over the years. What an amazing way to go out…If this is indeed their last. A couple of songs don’t “fit”, but overall this is their best since A Pleasant Shade of Gray. I still remember picking buying Parallels in the late 80’s. The good ol’ days when you had to go to a brick and mortar record store and buy something you could hold in your hands. You would struggle to open the packaging and jewel case to read the lyrics along with the song and the thank you notes as well! It was an experience. Sometimes it was a hit and miss when you would try out a new band, but when hit it you thought you struck gold! Fates Warning was one of my best discoveries. To know where my taste in music lies...I’m not a musician, but I was always drawn to progressive rock (hair metal and hard rock as well) starting with Rush, then Queensryche, FW, and Dream Theater. All three bands hit their peak a couple of albums in…For FW it took a vocalist change to hit theirs (and Dream Theater…Even though many think their first was Images and Words). Queensryche hit their stride with the masterpiece Operation Mindcrime. Then followed it up with Empire and Promised Land. Then sadly faded away. They are now back with a new singer among others. Their last three CDs have been far better then anything they put out in two decades, but are forgettable. Dream Theater had Images and Words, Awake, and Metropolis Pt2; Scenes from a Memory. Leaving out Falling Into Infinity as a misstep. Then for me they too faded away. Dream Theater became a technical jam band. Scenes from a Memory (which is their best) is really the only thing I would even listen to anymore other than some songs on Awake (The Mirror and Lie). Fates warning had a great run (but were sadly overlooked) with Perfect Symmetry, Parallels, Inside Out and A Pleasant Shade of Gray. Then for me Disconnected, FXW, Darkness in a Different Light and Theories of Flight never really hit me. So much so that I didn’t even realize Long Day Goodnight came out a couple of months ago. Long Day Goodnight feels like it could have been made just after Inside Out (A criminally underrated CD) or PSOG, with a “fuller” updated sound and much better production. My current rankings of top FW CDs;Perfect Symmetry - Will always be #1PSOG – Perfect! FW’s Operation Mindcrime and Scenes From a MemoryParallels – Most commercial soundingInside Out – Completely underrated. Felt stripped down. I wonder if it was done on purposeLong Day Goodnight – Could easily end up #2 on this list. If not for a couple of songs that don’t “fit" (Liar and maybe Glass House) it would be there now.Theories of Flight – Looked over this one when it came out, but I should not have. Went back to their sweet spot. Could also move up. Long Day Goodnight is so good it has made me look to see if I “missed” anything else. On a side note, I found Ray Alder’s – What the Water Wants. That would definitely make it on this list as well. If you like Long Day Goodnight…Get it!!!Live Over Europe – Not a big fan of live CDs, but this one is mixed perfectly and opened my ears to stuff I may have missed between Disconnected and Theories. I could pick apart each song on Long Day Goodnight, but FW has always made albums that feel like epic novels and should be listed to all at once. I’m writing this review to be more of a Thank You to Fates Warning for giving a teenage kid hours and hours and decades of enjoyable listening. Fates Warning was one of my greatest discoveries in the long forgotten record store.