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Offline npiazza91

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Rank Scenes From a Memory
« on: November 29, 2015, 12:07:34 AM »
I am of the honest opinion that this whole album is better than the sum of its parts.  If I take each individual song by itself, the album is like number 5 in my order, but looking at the whole thing and its story it's number 2, only beaten by Six Degrees.  Anyway, here's my order.

12. Through My Words- It's like a minute so...yeah.
11. Home- Overrated beyond belief.  Feels much longer than it actually is.
10. The Spirit Carries On- Doesn't do much for me.  I can listen once in a while, but meh.
9. Regression- Really enjoy it for its whole 2 minutes.
8. Overture 1928- Solid instrumental, but not amazing.
7. Beyond This Life- A bit overrated, but I still enjoy this one a lot.
6. Through Her Eyes- Underrated IMO.  Such an emotional song, very well written.
5. One Last Time- Very underrated.  The first half is incredible.  One of Labrie's best performances IMO.
4. Fatal Tragedy- Great song all around, no complaints here.
3. The Dance of Eternity- Deserves all its praise.  Fantastic song.
2. Strange Deja Vu- Extremely underrated.  Such a well constructed song. 
1. Finally Free- The best on the album, such a fantastic ride.
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2015, 12:13:04 AM »
12. Through Her Eyes - bleugh
11. Through My Words - short
10. Regression - vaguely better than TMW
09. Strange Deja Vu - Rather good, actually, but everything else is better
08. Overture 1928 - Good, but a lot of this is in other songs since it's, well, an overture
07. The Dance of Eternity - a bit wacky for the sake of being wacky but i do like this
06. One Last Time - great piano, good climax
05. Beyond This Life - everything left is top 50, this just happens to be a little less great than the rest
04. Fatal Tragedy - like the first half but love the instrumental half
03. Home - womp womp. also the intro. also the first part of the instrumental. heavy in all the best ways.
02. The Spirit Carries On - beautiful, one of Petrucci's best solos
01. Finally Free - one heck of an album closer, so many cool parts, drum outro is so intense
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2015, 01:06:51 AM »
12. Regression
11. One Last Time
10. Through My Words
9. Overture 1928
8. Through Her Eyes
7. Beyond This Life
6. The Dance of Eternity
5. Strange Deja Vu
4.  Fatal Tragedy (or 3)

3. Home ( or 4)
2. Finally Free
1.  The Spirit Carries On
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Offline IDontNotDoThings

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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2015, 01:40:18 AM »
12. Through My Words
11, Regression
10. One Last Time
9. Through Her Eyes
8. Overture 1928
7. The Spirit Carries On
6. Strange Deja Vu
5. Home
4. Fatal Tragedy
3. Finally Free
2. The Dance Of Eternity
1. Beyond This Life
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2015, 01:45:06 AM »
1. Amazing
Beyond This Life
Fatal Tragedy
Strange Deja Vu
The Spirit Carries On
Overture 1928
One Last Time
Finally Free

2. Excellent
Home
The Dance Of Eternity

3. Great
Through My Words
Through Her Eyes
Regression


Best I can do, sorry. :lol
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2015, 02:15:27 AM »
7. Finally Free
10. Home
31. The Spirit Carries On
35. Beyond This Life
42. Strange Deja Vu
52. Fatal Tragedy
55. One Last Time
59. Through Her Eyes
63. The Dance of Eternity
73. Overture 1928
105. Through My Words
111. Regression

Like OP said, the whole is greater than the individual parts. Ranked like this, SFaM is only at #7, but is probably higher if I'd rate the entire album.
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2015, 02:21:28 AM »
Quote from: BlackInk on November 29, 2015, 02:15:27 AM
Like OP said, the whole is greater than the individual parts. Ranked like this, SFaM is only at #7, but is probably higher if I'd rate the entire album.

If I ranked every DT song, I'm not sure anything from SFAM would even make my top 20 (possibly TSCO might just sneak in at best), and yet like the OP it's my 2nd favourite only just nudged out by SDOIT. Definitely greater than the sum of its parts, which is why I've never listened to it in individual parts. It's DT's best album experience, as opposed to just being a collection of excellent songs.
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2015, 03:14:54 AM »
I think Home just made my top 15 and Finally Free was at #9, somwething like that, I gotta say though before that OP I've never seen anyone rank Regression above Home :lol.

12. Through Her Eyes
11. Regression
10. Through My Words
9. The Spirit Carries On
8. One Last Time
7. Strange Deja Vu
6. Fatal Tragedy
5. The Dance Of Eternity
4. Overture 1928
3. Beyond This Life
2. Home
1. Finally Free
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Offline MirrorMask

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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2015, 04:23:09 AM »
1-.12 Masterpiece.

The whole album is the best thing ever happened to mankind after the discovery of fire and the development of human rights. End of the story.

But seriously... all the "real" songs (Strange Deja Vu, Fatal Tragedy, Beyond this Life, Through Her Eyes, Home, The Spirit Carries On and Finally Free) are all masterpieces. Sure Home and Finally Free stand out, but they're all great. Both instrumentals are gorgeous (The singalong during Overture 1928 at live shows always gives me goosebumps), and the intro tracks (I consider One Last Time an hybrid, of course it's not a short interlude but not a fully formed song either) are good and not filler material at all.
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2015, 05:20:27 AM »
1. Beyond this life
2. The Dance of eternity
3. Fatal tragedy
4. The Spirit carries on
5. Overture 1928
6. Home
7. Strange deja vu
8. One last time
9. Finally free
10. Through her eyes
11. Regression
12. Through my words

The entire album is fantastic without a single dull moment, though...
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2015, 06:05:06 AM »
1. Home
2. Fatal Tragedy
3. The Spirit Carries On
4. The Dance of Eternity
5. One Last Time
6. Beyond this Life
7. Strange Deja Vu
8. Overture 1928
9. Finally Free
10. Regression
11. Through Her Eyes
12. Through My Words
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2015, 06:45:35 AM »
1. Home
2. Fatal Tragedy
3. Beyond this Life
4. Strange Deja Vu
5. Through Her Eyes
6. Finally Free
7. One Last Time
8. Overture 1928
9. The Dance of Eternity
10. The Spirit Carries On
11. Through My Words
12. Regression

At least I'm not the only one who likes Through Her Eyes more than The Spirit Carries On  :lol I'

However I don't really get the ''whole is stronger than the parts''. I feel all the non-Regression and non-Through My Words songs stand solidly on their own (maybe a bit less lyrically, but I'm sure you could find a more general meaning for most of them)
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Offline jayvee3

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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2015, 06:50:44 AM »
It's funny - so many have 'Through my Words' toward the end of these tracks (understandable, as it's so short), but for such a short piece, I absolutely love that track. Yes it's tiny, but in that tiny song is a whole bunch of emotion, a great transition from Strange Deja Vu and a perfect tie in to Fatal Tragedy. James is quite haunting on this little number and it makes me want to hear more. I often have it on repeat when I listen to this album.  :tup
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2015, 07:23:50 AM »

11. Through her Eyes
10. Through my Words
9. Regression (Don't know why, but I love the part that JLB actually sings in. Great start to the album).
8. One Last Time
7. The Dance of Eternity
6. Fatal Tragedy
5. Beyond this Life

4. The Spirit Carries On: Emotional, beautiful solo. The "Safe in the light that surround me" part might be the single best motif on the album.
3. Home: Incredible song. Great vocal melodies by JLB.
2. Overture 1928/Strange Deja Vu: I know this is kind of cheating, but I consider them one song and I refuse to separate them!
1. Finally Free
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #14 on: November 29, 2015, 07:56:12 AM »
1. Home
2. The Spirit Carries On
3. Finally Free
4. Fatal Tragedy
5. Strange Deja Vu
6. Beyond This Life
7. Overture 1928
8. Through Her Eyes
9. One Last Time
10. Through My Words
11. Regression
12. The Dance of Eternity
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #15 on: November 29, 2015, 08:20:20 AM »
1. Home
2. Finally Free
3. Fatal Tragedy

4. Overture 1928
5. Through Her Eyes
6. Beyond This Life
7. One Last Time
8. The Dance of Eternity

9. Strange Deja Vu
10. The Spirit Carries On
11. Through My Words
12. Regression
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #16 on: November 29, 2015, 08:27:49 AM »
01- The Dance of Eternity
02- The Spirit Carries On
03- Home
04- Beyond This Life
05- Finally Free
06- Overture 1928
07- Fatal Tragedy
08- Strange Deja Vu
09- One Last Time
10- Through My Words
11- Through Her Eyes
12- Regression
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #17 on: November 29, 2015, 09:28:33 AM »
I keep misreading the thread title every time I visit the DT-side: Rank-scenes from a memory. It instantly brings to mind and incident I was involved in during the summer between my Junior and Senior years in Highschool. You see, I was standing at a street corner in downtown Phoenix...

Yeah, never mind.
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #18 on: November 29, 2015, 09:44:02 AM »
1. Finally Free
2. The Dance of Eternity
3. The Spirit Carries On
4. Strange Deja Vu
5. Overture 1928

6. Home

7. Fatal Tragedy
8. Through Her Eyes
9. Beyond This Life (I find this song more overrated than Home, tbh)
10. Regression (I love this song. The acoustic guitar and James singing leading into Overture is way better than going straight to the Overture to open the album.)
11. One Last Time
12. Through My Words

Top 5 make my top 30, Home sneaks into the top 50, the other 5 do not. As a whole, also my second favorite album behind Six Degrees.
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2015, 10:35:11 AM »
1. Finally Free
2. TSCO
3. Through Her Eyes
4. Home
5. One Last Time
6. Overture 1928
7. Fatal Tragedy
8. Dance of Eternity
9. Beyond This Life
10.Strange Deja Vu
11.Through my Words
12.Regression
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #20 on: November 29, 2015, 03:01:27 PM »
1. Beyond This Life
2. Finally Free
3. Fatal Tragedy
4. The Spirit Carries On
5. Strange Deja Vu
6. Dance of Eternity
7. Overture 1928
8. Through My Words
9. One Last Time
10. Home
11. Through Her Eyes
12. Regression
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #21 on: November 29, 2015, 07:16:18 PM »
1. Home
2. Strange Deja Vu
3. Overture 1928
4. Beyond this Life
5. Finally Free
6. The Dance of Eternity
7. The Spirit Carries On
8. Fatal Tragedy
9. One Last Time
10. Through Her Eyes
11. Through My Words
12. Regression
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #22 on: November 30, 2015, 04:21:34 AM »
I can't do this. It's like dissecting Dark Side Of The Moon, and saying that Speak To Me is a weak song because it's a bit over a minute long.
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #23 on: November 30, 2015, 04:35:30 AM »
1. Through My Words/ Fatal Tragedy
2. The Dance Of Eternity
3. Overture 1928/ Strange Deja Vu
4. Home
5. Beyond This Life
6. One Last Time
7. Finally Free
8.The Spirit Carries On
9. Through Her Eyes
10. Regression

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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #24 on: November 30, 2015, 05:24:55 PM »
1-Home/Fatal Tragedy
2-Strange Deja Vu
3-Beyond This Life
4-The Dance Of Eternity
5-Finally Free
6-One Last Time
7-Overture 1928
8-Through Her Eyes
9-The Spirit Carries On
10-Regression/ Through My Words
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #25 on: November 30, 2015, 05:51:15 PM »
I like Overture and Strange Deja Vu, like The Dance of Eternity, FT and Home even more, and love Beyond This Life. BTL is the only one from the album in my top 15, and the only song from the album that made my eyes tear a bit .Yeah, this song, and not TSCO. Yeah, I am a strange guy
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Re: Rank Scenes From a Memory
« Reply #26 on: November 30, 2015, 09:36:52 PM »
General consensus (so far):
#1: Finally Free (avg: 3.75)
#2: Home (avg: 4.05)
#3: Fatal Tragedy (avg: 4.6)
#4: Beyond This Life (avg: 5)
#5: The Spirit Carries On (avg: 5.55)
#6: Strange Deja Vu (avg: 5.65)
#7: The Dance Of Eternity (avg: 5.75)
#8: Overture 1928 (avg: 6.45)
#9: One Last Time (avg: 7.85)
10: Through Her Eyes (avg: 9.05)
11: Through My Words (avg: 10.55)
12: Regression (avg: 11.25)
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