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Pick one album for every three

On The Sunday of Life
4 (0.4%)
Orchid
3 (0.3%)
Images and Words
106 (9.5%)
Up the Downstair
11 (1%)
Morningrise
3 (0.3%)
Awake
89 (8%)
The Sky Moves Sideways
17 (1.5%)
My Arms Your Hearse
35 (3.1%)
Falling Into Infinity
47 (4.2%)
Signify
10 (0.9%)
Still Life
24 (2.2%)
Scenes From A Memory
79 (7.1%)
Stupid Dream
14 (1.3%)
Blackwater Park
51 (4.6%)
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
60 (5.4%)
Lightbulb Sun
34 (3.1%)
Deliverance
20 (1.8%)
Train of Thought
46 (4.1%)
In Absentia
68 (6.1%)
Damnation
13 (1.2%)
Octavarium
40 (3.6%)
Deadwing
50 (4.5%)
Ghost Reveries
50 (4.5%)
Systematic Chaos
19 (1.7%)
Fear of a Blank Planet
65 (5.8%)
Watershed
23 (2.1%)
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
26 (2.3%)
The Incident
14 (1.3%)
Heritage
18 (1.6%)
A Dramatic Turn of Events
75 (6.7%)

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Author Topic: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*  (Read 5133 times)

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Offline Big Hath

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #35 on: July 18, 2012, 01:22:06 PM »
ok, so I went a little crazy with this . . .

I went ahead and ranked the albums 1 to 30 and handed out points per my usual (30 points for 1st, etc) and came up with this:

Opeth - 175
Dream Theater - 169
Porcupine Tree - 121


I also ranked each group of three albums based on that scoring system and came up with this:

1 - Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (65 pts)
2 - Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos (62 pts)
3 - In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium (58 pts)
4 - Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory (54 pts)
5 - Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought (50 pts)
6 - Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings (47 pts)
7 - On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words (36 pts)
7 - Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake (36 pts)
9 - The Incident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events (31 pts)
10 - The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity (26 pts)
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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #36 on: July 18, 2012, 01:53:57 PM »
Interesting Poll I must say.

On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events
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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #37 on: July 18, 2012, 02:14:21 PM »
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Incident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #38 on: July 18, 2012, 02:36:41 PM »
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Now wait a minute then man
That's not how it is
You must be confused
That isn't who I am how you do.....it!  :P Am i wrong? :blush
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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #39 on: July 18, 2012, 02:45:31 PM »
Images
Up the Downstair
My Arms Your Hearse
Scenes From a Memory
Lightbulb Sun
Six Degrees
Lightbulb Sun
In Absentia
Deadwing
Fear of a Blank Planet
A Dramatic Turn of Events

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #40 on: July 18, 2012, 07:48:07 PM »
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #41 on: July 19, 2012, 10:25:52 AM »
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Now wait a minute then man
That's not how it is
You must be confused
That isn't who I am how you do.....it!  :P Am i wrong? :blush


Well you are right but I can't choose between them. Like them all equally.
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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #42 on: July 19, 2012, 01:05:36 PM »
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Now wait a minute then man
That's not how it is
You must be confused
That isn't who I am how you do.....it!  :P Am i wrong? :blush


Well you are right but I can't choose between them. Like them all equally.
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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #43 on: February 12, 2018, 05:14:39 PM »
1.My Arms Your Hearse - Opeth
2.Scenes from the Memory - Dream Theater
3.In Absentia - Porcupine Tree

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #44 on: February 12, 2018, 05:33:58 PM »
Opeth all the way. Even though the band ended after 2005.

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #45 on: February 12, 2018, 07:54:03 PM »
Not what I voted for when the thread was made, but here are my votes right now (since I'm more familiar with Porcupine Tree's discography than I was back then)

On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Incident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #46 on: February 12, 2018, 08:16:43 PM »
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Incident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

1 - 6 were really simple to pick. Lightbulb is such a knockout. I love Deliverance but it doesn't stand a chance for me when placed next to Lightbulb Sun.
7, 8, and 9 were all tough between PT and Opeth.

The Incident won because the other two are just not good. Heritage is my least favorite Opeth record and DT's is probably tied for my least favorite.
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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #47 on: February 13, 2018, 01:31:39 AM »
Images and Words
Awake
My Arms Your Hearse (all three are among their worst albums, though)
Scenes From A Memory
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Deliverance
Damnation
Deadwing
Fear of a Blank Planet
A Dramatic Turn of Events

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #48 on: February 13, 2018, 07:44:20 PM »
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words

Haven't listened to the other two yet oops.

Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake

Again, victory by default.

The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity

I really should listen to Porcupine Tree's first albums.

Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory

Not hard at all, even though Still Life is really good.

Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Okay, now this one was hard. SDoIT and BP are both 5* albums for me. BP wins by a hair I guess. Edit: Except I accidentally voted for SDoIT so nevermind

Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought

Train of Thot > Deliverance > Lightbulb Sun

In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium

Octavarium > In Absentia > Damnation. Wasn't hard at all, Octavarium's just that good.

Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos

Picking between Deadwing and Ghost Reveries was hard. Ghost Reveries > Deadwing > Systematic Chaos

Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings

This one wasn't hard at all. FoaBP > Watershed > BC&SL

The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

I like all three, but ADToE is so much better than the other two. ADToE > The Incident > Heritage

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #49 on: February 14, 2018, 03:18:17 AM »
All DT, Opeth runner up. I can add that I bought all of PT's albums, listened carefully to them and never understood the fuss. They are now dust collectors.

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #50 on: February 14, 2018, 03:23:53 AM »
Wow, an almost 6-year-old thread revived!
Hey dude slow the fuck down so we can finish together at the same time.  :biggrin:
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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #51 on: February 15, 2018, 01:47:02 PM »
My DT clean sweep vote remains.

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #52 on: February 15, 2018, 01:53:06 PM »
I really hate that deadwing (best PT album) was up against ghost reveries (genuine masterpiece)

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #53 on: February 15, 2018, 07:01:36 PM »
I don't know any Opeth but I picked Stupid Dream and SFAM.  I've always thought that DT was better than PT at heavy and prog songs but PT does ballads, lighter songs and spatial songs much better.  PT tries to be heavy but to me comes up a bit mild.  Except for Futile, which is at a DT level of awesome.
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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #54 on: February 15, 2018, 07:53:43 PM »
The poll was a cool idea for this forum because a lot of us are fans of all 3 bands. They all happen to be in my top 10 favorite bands of all time and I actually discovered PT through this forum. I then introduced my mom to PT and Steven Wilson, and Steven is now one of her favorite artists of all time. So yeah, I am very grateful for discovering this forum  :lol I also liked the original poster in general, it's a shame he doesn't post here any more.

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Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
« Reply #55 on: February 16, 2018, 04:56:51 AM »
I was getting pumped to vote for this thread and it turns out I voted for it long ago :lol