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Re: Prog Report Ranking – Dream Theater Albums
« Reply #35 on: June 25, 2016, 04:44:18 PM »
I still will never understand how people can rank Octavarium so low. It takes what they tried to do with Falling Into Infinity (more accessible songs that maintain their basic elements) and did it better and then ended the album with what is arguably their best song in the title track (I think it is and most fans rank it at least top five).
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Re: Prog Report Ranking – Dream Theater Albums
« Reply #36 on: June 25, 2016, 06:35:05 PM »
I still will never understand how people can rank Octavarium so low. It takes what they tried to do with Falling Into Infinity (more accessible songs that maintain their basic elements) and did it better and then ended the album with what is arguably their best song in the title track (I think it is and most fans rank it at least top five).

Octavarium is a tough album to rank for me. Octavarium is one their best songs, but then you have songs like Never Enough, Panic Attack, and The Answer Lies Within, that bring the album down a few notches. TALW is a good song, but when you have great songs like These Walls, The Root Of All Evil, and Sacrificed Sons, it's tough to be considered above average. So, basically I understand why some people rank it low.

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Re: Prog Report Ranking – Dream Theater Albums
« Reply #37 on: June 25, 2016, 07:47:36 PM »
I think the title track is one of the most overrated songs ever to be honest though the Razors Edge part is still pretty good. But yeah the album as a whole is probably one of my favorites. SS is EASILY my favorite song off that album though, will never understand the universal love for 8vm (song).
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« Reply #38 on: June 25, 2016, 08:10:58 PM »
though the Razors Edge part is still pretty good

you highlighted the worst part of the song and still don't like it  :loser:

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Re: Prog Report Ranking – Dream Theater Albums
« Reply #39 on: June 25, 2016, 08:51:00 PM »
I still will never understand how people can rank Octavarium so low. It takes what they tried to do with Falling Into Infinity (more accessible songs that maintain their basic elements) and did it better and then ended the album with what is arguably their best song in the title track (I think it is and most fans rank it at least top five).

My ranking of Octavarium not that far from the bottom (it would be 9th probably if ranking all 13 albums) has more to do with how good many of their other albums are than it does about its quality.  Octavarium is a very good record, but many others are just better, IMO.

However, I am not sure I see the comparison to Falling into Infinity.  Just about every DT album has a couple songs that, international or not, sound like attempts at being accessible, so they aren't isolated in that regard.

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Re: Prog Report Ranking – Dream Theater Albums
« Reply #40 on: June 26, 2016, 01:57:46 AM »
Yes. You have a problem with that?

Of course I don't, but it surprises me. I've never heard anyone say that's their favourite.

It's my #2. I like it better than almost everything they've done, but IAW is untouchable.
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Re: Prog Report Ranking – Dream Theater Albums
« Reply #41 on: June 26, 2016, 02:13:45 AM »
ADTOE is probably my favorite DT album, but I haven't really attempted to rank them in a pretty long time. I think it would be close with IaW aswell though.
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Re: Prog Report Ranking – Dream Theater Albums
« Reply #42 on: June 30, 2016, 11:51:56 AM »
IMO, FII would be a top 5 DT album if it had looked liked this:

New Millennium
You or Me
Peruvian Skies
Hollow Years
Raise the Knife
Hell's Kitchen
Lines in the Sand
Speak to Me
Eve
Trial of Tears


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Re: Prog Report Ranking – Dream Theater Albums
« Reply #43 on: June 30, 2016, 12:21:53 PM »
I'm doing a top 50 best albums right now, and 8VM is just a flawless album. I do not see anything wrong with and their title track, I consider to be one of the most greatest and pleasant to the ear. Razor's Edge is awesome, the solo, but I think the piece that takes the cake would either have to be "Someone Like Him" or "Full Circle."
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