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What is your favorite of these 30-35 minute stretches?

The Glass Prison, Blind Faith and Misunderstood
14 (18.7%)
Overture 1928, Strange Deja Vu, Through My Words, Fatal Tragedy and Beyond This Life
19 (25.3%)
The Mirror, Lie, Lifting Shadows Off a Dream and Scarred
13 (17.3%)
Metropolis, Under a Glass Moon, Wait for Sleep and Learning to Live
29 (38.7%)

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Voting closed: September 11, 2019, 05:47:35 PM

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Offline KevShmev

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Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« on: April 17, 2014, 05:47:35 PM »
30-35 minutes, give or take.

And yes, I intentionally made this poll a difficult one to choose. :biggrin:

All of these are ridiculously awesome, so it is hard to choose, but I'll go with the Awake option.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2014, 06:28:25 PM »
At the moment I really can't decide. I feel like the Awake option would be a good contender had Voices been a track closer to Scarred. I'm leaning more towards the SFAM and I&W options.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2014, 06:35:45 PM »
I&W easily, the others all have a weaker part, but that ending to I&W... cant be beat
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2014, 06:36:41 PM »
Definitely the Awake one, but that's what I always say.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2014, 06:46:01 PM »
I went with the I&W option but SFAM was a seriously close contender.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2014, 06:53:52 PM »
Well the I&W option features my 2 favourite songs in LTL and Metropolis (plus UAGM, which I prefer to any of the other songs in the poll, aside from TGP), so the other selections have no chance  :lol The SFAM set is a distant second.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2014, 07:50:03 PM »
Images and Words.  The other options are pretty great, too, but it's hard to beat the second half of I&W.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2014, 07:51:10 PM »
I&W. Awake could've been a competition, but that's my favorite part off I&W.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2014, 08:07:02 PM »
SFAM. Not difficult to choose at all. The I&W was the only one that came close.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2014, 08:13:15 PM »
Six Degrees. TGP and Blind Faith=Nothing else had a chance.
The Awake, SDOIT and I&W stretches are probably the best parts of each album, and Awake and I&W would be very good choices had my #2 and #7-9 song (BF is somewhere in between there  :lol) were not together in one option.

I left out SFAM because, while SFAM is my favorite album and I love all those songs, I think the second half, starting with Home's outro through FF (I like Home, but the outro into TDoE is just beyond perfection) is the dominant section of the album. Which isn't saying much, because the first half is incredibly strong too.

So, even though SFAM is my favorite album, I'd rank these choices like this:
1. SDOIT
2. I&W
3. Awake (Had SDVest made it in it'd be #2)
4. SFAM
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2014, 08:15:53 PM »
The Awake stretch is some of the greatest music ever created.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2014, 08:21:11 PM »
You're right Kev.  Really tough choices.  I went with I&W, but they are all awesome.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2014, 08:28:23 PM »
Though choices, except for the second (never really been a fan of Scenes from a Memory); but I had to go with the last one. Nothing tops it.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2014, 08:33:46 PM »
This is actually really easy for me. Only one of these options includes 2 top 10 songs with the other two being top 20. The back half of Images, no contest.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2014, 08:36:31 PM »
Quote from: Theme Dreater on April 17, 2014, 06:46:01 PM
I went with the I&W option but SFAM was a seriously close contender.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2014, 09:15:32 PM »
The 6DOIT option has my 3rd and 4th favorite DT songs, so I had to go with that one.

If there were a Train of Thought option for TDS, Endless Sacrifice and Honor Thy Father, I'd pick that instead.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2014, 09:18:57 PM »
SFAM option but the others are great too.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2014, 10:47:17 PM »
Quote from: Outcrier on April 17, 2014, 09:18:57 PM
SFAM option but the others are great too.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2014, 10:49:04 PM »
The SDOIT option by a hair over the SFAM option. The SDOIT has the stronger songs overall, but there's no better way to start an album than how SFAM kicks off (yes, I realize the poll couldn't include Regression, but close enough).
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #19 on: April 17, 2014, 10:58:52 PM »
Quote from: Lucien on April 17, 2014, 08:36:31 PM
Quote from: Theme Dreater on April 17, 2014, 06:46:01 PM
I went with the I&W option but SFAM was a seriously close contender.

This.  :tup
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2014, 12:14:58 AM »
Quote from: Infinite Cactus on April 17, 2014, 08:15:53 PM
The Awake stretch is some of the greatest music ever created.
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2014, 12:31:49 AM »
SFAM
Awake
I&W
SDOIT
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2014, 06:54:36 AM »
I&W, but man, those runs on SFAM and SDOIT are killer as well. 
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Re: Your favorite of these 28-35 minute stretches
« Reply #23 on: April 18, 2014, 07:09:23 AM »
#3 contains two of my top 5 DT songs, so yeah, this isn't much of a choice for me  :lol
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