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What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums? (Pick three!)

When Dream and Day Unite
11 (1.4%)
Images and Words
184 (23.1%)
Awake
110 (13.8%)
Falling Into Infinity
17 (2.1%)
Scenes From A Memory
165 (20.7%)
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
115 (14.4%)
Train of Thought
32 (4%)
Octavarium
36 (4.5%)
Systematic Chaos
9 (1.1%)
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
15 (1.9%)
A Dramatic Turn of Events
102 (12.8%)

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What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« on: October 08, 2011, 03:11:01 PM »
I've gone through the many comparison threads that have been made since the new album has come out and a few opinions have struck me as kind of strange. Years ago, the majority of people could be seen listing their three favorites as the holy trinity (SFAM, I&W, Awake). But, in the new holy trinity thread, we have SDOIT listed several times and sometimes even ADTOE sneaking in for an honorable here or there.

So those threads have inspired this poll and how I want to see what everyone is thinking about their three favorite Dream Theater albums as those opinions are today. I realize this may have been done in the past, but I'm looking at the current view of the top 3 from the forum's perspective as of today.

There is an option for all 11 DT albums. You'll have three votes to select your three favorites according to your opinion. Hopefully after a while, we can see the general consensus on the top 3 DT albums here on the forum and maybe positions 4-11 on which some people with different opinions may think.

Get voting!

My personal three are:

SDOIT
I&W
SFAM

with ADTOE honorable mention in 4th.
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2011, 03:17:10 PM »
I&W
SFAM
SDOIT
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2011, 03:21:10 PM »
Awake
Images and Words
Scenes from a Memory
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2011, 03:25:26 PM »
Awake
Images and Words
Scenes from a Memory

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2011, 03:26:07 PM »
#1 is definitely Images and Words.  That's beyond doubt.
#2 is Train of Thought.  I'm not completely positive of that anymore, but for now I still think of it as my second favorite.
#3 is... tougher.  Probably Scenes from a Memory, but Awake and ADTOE are decent contenders, too.
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2011, 03:28:37 PM »
1: Scenes From A Memory hands down.
2: Images and Words
3: It's a tie between Systematic Chaos and A Dramatic Turn of Events
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2011, 03:48:09 PM »
1. SFAM
2. ADTOE
3. Octavarium

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2011, 04:26:51 PM »
Awake
Images and Words
Scenes from a Memory

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2011, 04:30:16 PM »
Images And Words
Scenes From a Memory
A Dramatic Turn of Events


my favorites 3 of all time  :tup

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2011, 04:30:25 PM »
Awake
Images and Words
Scenes from a Memory

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2011, 04:30:42 PM »
is SDOIT, Scenes from a Memory and Awake
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2011, 04:37:23 PM »
BC&SL
ADTOE
TOT

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2011, 05:35:43 PM »
I&W
SFAM
SDOIT

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #14 on: October 08, 2011, 05:38:55 PM »
Images And Words
Scenes From a Memory
A Dramatic Turn of Events


my favorites 3 of all time  :tup
I'd say those are the three most important albums for the band.
First of all they're all major "New Beginnings." The first one is LaBrie's first, second one is Rudess' first, and third one is Mangini's first.
Second, they're great milestones. Great displays of how far the band has come.
DT has changed a lot over the years, and if you listen album to album, it might not even seem like that much, because those changes are small, but over time they accumulate. And these three albums are great for measuring how much they've changed over the years.
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2011, 05:59:15 PM »
sfam
6doit
awake
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2011, 06:03:02 PM »
SDOIT
TOT
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IaW and ADTOE are very close though, with Awake right up there.

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #17 on: October 08, 2011, 06:04:43 PM »
Awake
I&W
Six Degrees

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #19 on: October 08, 2011, 06:11:05 PM »
Images And Words
Scenes From a Memory
A Dramatic Turn of Events


my favorites 3 of all time  :tup
I'd say those are the three most important albums for the band.
First of all they're all major "New Beginnings." The first one is LaBrie's first, second one is Rudess' first, and third one is Mangini's first.
Second, they're great milestones. Great displays of how far the band has come.
DT has changed a lot over the years, and if you listen album to album, it might not even seem like that much, because those changes are small, but over time they accumulate. And these three albums are great for measuring how much they've changed over the years.

Exactly what i think about them , and thats why i like them so much

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #20 on: October 08, 2011, 06:44:46 PM »
Awake
A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Falling Into Infinity

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #21 on: October 08, 2011, 07:43:38 PM »
Images & Words
Awake
Scenes From A Memory

ADTOE and SDOIT are 4th and 5th, respectively. Though I rated SFAM higher, the individual songs on ADTOE and SDOIT are better than the individual songs on SFAM. The only reason it's rated higher, really, is because it feels like much more of a whole than the other two albums do.

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #22 on: October 08, 2011, 07:57:55 PM »
Awake
6DoIT
I&W

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #23 on: October 08, 2011, 08:07:42 PM »
I&W and 6DoIT for sure.  ADToE or Awake is third.  I still feel it's too early to judge ADToE, it still has that new album feel.
     

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #24 on: October 08, 2011, 08:11:35 PM »
I&W
SDOIT
ADTOE

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #25 on: October 08, 2011, 08:12:25 PM »
1. SFAM
2. IAW
3. ADTOE   (A month ago, would've been tough to choose & I would've ended up picking Octavarium, but this album just blew me away)

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #26 on: October 08, 2011, 10:11:17 PM »
SDOIT
SFAM
I&W

In that order. The more I listen to those albums, the more they just cement themselves in those top 3 spots. They all sound just as fresh and energetic and enjoyable as the first time I listened to them. DT certainly have songs on other albums just as good, but for whole albums, these are the "perfect" ones.
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #27 on: October 08, 2011, 11:51:55 PM »
I&W
SFAM
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #28 on: October 09, 2011, 12:01:03 AM »
Sfam
ADTOE
I&W

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #29 on: October 09, 2011, 12:17:23 AM »
Images, Scenes and Awake, but ADTOE is just behind Awake now...

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #30 on: October 09, 2011, 01:07:44 AM »
Awake
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #31 on: October 09, 2011, 06:05:03 AM »
Images And Words
Train Of Thought
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #32 on: October 09, 2011, 06:09:53 AM »
Awake
SDOIT
ADTOE

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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #33 on: October 09, 2011, 06:39:18 AM »
Scenes
ADTOE
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Re: What is your three favorite Dream Theater albums?
« Reply #34 on: October 09, 2011, 06:44:44 AM »
awake is the best album ever created

SDOIT

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