Author Topic: When did you first listen to Dream Theater? (Read 16355 times)

sonatafanica · « **on:** July 22, 2009, 08:15:44 PM »

Going by the latest release when you first listened to them.

Of course there are going to be some conflicts with actual timing, but give it a shot.

Also, post with the first DT album you listened to.

I first listened to them a little after Octavarium came out, but the first album I heard was SFAM then Awake.

ehra · « **Reply #1 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:17:14 PM »

SFAM had just came out, but Awake was my first album. I was 10 and the chorus to Voices made me an instant fan forever.

tbw2445 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:21:20 PM »

well i heard As I Am in 2008 and have been a fan ever since. As I Am is still one of my favorites since it was my first DT song.

Dublagent66 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:21:52 PM »

Images and Words 1992

Jamesman42 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:23:44 PM »

2004, listened to Metropolis, The Spirit Carries On, and As I Am. I was floored, but it would be another 2 years before I became a huge fan.

So, ToT era.

ResultsMayVary · « **Reply #5 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:31:05 PM »

I was given Octavarium the day after it came out. I loved it.

Buckethead · « **Reply #6 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:39:07 PM »

I heard Six Degrees around when Score came out. Of course, my life was changed when the first guitar hit.

ZBomber · « **Reply #7 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:39:44 PM »

I heard DT back in 05-06... but I didn't become a fan until 2008.

sonatafanica · « **Reply #8 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:42:11 PM »

I make some awesome threads.

brakkum · « **Reply #9 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:45:25 PM »

'06. seen them every year since.

Zook · « **Reply #10 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:45:33 PM »

First listened to them in '06, and became a fan in '06.

Mave · « **Reply #11 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:53:20 PM »

I might have heard my brother playing DT on his stereo, then I heard it and became interested.

Nick · « **Reply #12 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:55:18 PM »

2003.

chknptpie · « **Reply #13 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:59:08 PM »

I'm a noob, first heard DT 2-3 months ago with SFAM.

emindead · « **Reply #14 on:** July 22, 2009, 09:27:15 PM »

03-04 with SFAM. Bought M:2000. Then bought L@B. And then their new album, Octavarium, came out.

Amoniz · « **Reply #15 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:00:17 PM »

SC era, 2007

I bought Awake & I&W at the same time, but listened to Awake first (attracted to its artwork!)

Piolo · « **Reply #16 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:40:58 PM »

03-04

got into all past DT records really fast. I think that ToT with a 12-13 yo boy works good

KevShmev · « **Reply #17 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:45:42 PM »

Shortly after I&W came out.

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #18 on:** July 22, 2009, 11:03:04 PM »

I chose SDOIT 02, although it was actually very early 03. But it was well before ToT came out, so I went with SDOIT.

Fuzzboy · « **Reply #19 on:** July 23, 2009, 12:34:35 AM »

Late 2003, early 2004. My first album was SDOIT.

tri.ad · « **Reply #20 on:** July 23, 2009, 01:23:28 AM »

October 2005.

Neccy60 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 23, 2009, 01:42:29 AM »

many nmoond

Zydar · « **Reply #22 on:** July 23, 2009, 01:56:09 AM »

Late 2000, first album was Images And Words.

Valdor · « **Reply #23 on:** July 23, 2009, 02:36:08 AM »

Summer 2008, when I picked a copy of SDOIT from my local library. I actually had to replay the intro of Glass Prison several times because it was so awesome.

YtseBitsySpider · « **Reply #24 on:** July 23, 2009, 05:33:45 AM »

I am the 89-91 Vote.

I received WDADU that had been taped onto/over a Prince-Purple Rain tape. But it was missing the last two songs which I didn't know about until after I & W.

Funny...there was no real internet at the time...and no coverage or knowledge of this band..I remember wandering through HMV and seeing Images and Words on the shelf (after hearing the band had lost its singer and that was that)....I nearly fainted.

Setlist Scotty · « **Reply #25 on:** July 23, 2009, 06:06:47 AM »

I also got into DT during the WDaDU days. Picked up the album after reading a review of the album in RIP! magazine (June of 89).

Darkes7 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 23, 2009, 06:47:59 AM »

Well, I'm kinda a "child of Octavarium"

that is, I listened to DT once after Six Degrees IIRC but I was too young back then and it didn't really interest me.

erik16 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 23, 2009, 09:40:01 AM »

97-98 in my dad's car. The album (or rather song) was Voices. Hooked by the guitar solo

and I wished it to go on forever. Would become a fan only 10 years later in 2007

. I was too young to digest the awesomeness of DT and I didn't know it was DT at that time

.

staveoffzombies · « **Reply #28 on:** July 23, 2009, 09:56:51 AM »

Spring of 2004. My first album was SDOIT followed by ToT and Awake.

LudwigVan · « **Reply #29 on:** July 23, 2009, 09:57:05 AM »

SFAM around 2001. It was blind buy from Amazon.com. Immediately went and got I&W and Awake shortly thereafter.

~InConstantMotion~ · « **Reply #30 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:28:03 AM »

Around '06, when I joined ultimate-guitar and heard about them all the time.

millahh · « **Reply #31 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:33:19 AM »

'94. Saw Awake at a used CD store for $8. I remembered hearing PMU & Another Day when they were released as singles, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

TAC · « **Reply #32 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:43:27 AM »

I went to see Iron Maiden at the Ritz in New York City on June 8, 1992. We got there early, so we’d be close to the stage. That also meant we’d have to stand there for some lame opening band.
Well, Dream Theater hit the stage and completely changed my musical life. When I got home, I grabbed Images And Words as soon as I could, and played the shit out of it for the next couple of years.

My first impressions of Dream Theater that night..
1. The Drummer is incredible.
2. The Bass Player is insane!

My avatar is a picture of the Ritz’s marquee that I took that afternoon.

TioJorge · « **Reply #33 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:44:54 AM »

SDOIT had released months before, and I had seen "The Glass Prison - Dream Theatre" all over Kazaa at the time, that was at the end of '02. After that I went out and bought, literally the next day, all of their albums prior to and including SDOIT and have been keeping up and addicted to them since that time.

skydivingninja · « **Reply #34 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:47:25 AM »

Heard them in 99 with "Through Her Eyes" on the radio (srsly). Liked the song, but never heard it or found out who the band was.

Fast forward to 2006, my friend gives me Scenes and that piano melody sounds awfully familiar, followed by Octavarium, ACoS, and Score. Thats when I actually started LISTENING to them, so 2006.

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