Dream Theater Survivor 2017 - The Albums - Round 4

[The Letter M]

The Albums
Images And Words
Awake
Falling Into Infinity
Scenes From A Memory
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Train Of Thought
Octavarium
Systematic Chaos
A Dramatic Turn Of Events
The Astonishing

Round 3's Results:
Falling Into Infinity 11 (27.5%)
Systematic Chaos 9 (22.5%)
Black Clouds & Silver Linings 13 (32.5%)
The Astonishing 7 (17.5%)

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11. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
12. Dream Theater
13. When Dream And Day Unite


By two votes, the band's 10th album and last with Mike Portnoy is now out. Not far behind it was FII, and behind that was SC, two albums I thought would've gathered more votes by this time, if not already be out. I think I'll go with FII once again this time, which I am sure it'll be out in this round considering how close it was last round.

Also, I will be posting the Dream Theater Survivor 2017 home thread tonight, posting the Album Formats and how I will lay everything out leading up to the Finals, so please keep an eye out for that!

-Marc.

[Serah Farron]

Systematic Chaos

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10. Systematic Chaos
11. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
12. Dream Theater 12
13. When Dream and Day Unite

A fun album to listen to, but for me, it's quite inconsistent. But ITPOE for the win!!!

[Adami]

SC again.

[Serah Farron]

SC again.

Iirc correctly, you said that your favorite off your albums is Repentance? What puts that over ITPOE??

[Bolsters]

SC again.

[Prog Snob]

SC again.

[Scar]

SC again.

[CharlesPL]

SC again.

[Adami]

SC again.

Iirc correctly, you said that your favorite off your albums is Repentance? What puts that over ITPOE??

You do recall correctly!

Repentance has a heart and truly grounded sense of emotion that very few DT songs have. It has an intent and purpose, whereby the band knew exactly what the song is about as they wrote it, which is usually not the case of their songs since they come up with lyrics and ideas well after the song is written musically. It has new textures and sounds for DT and they don't ever feel the need to show off.

With ITPOE....I dunno, I just don't connect with it at all. First bit is a little fun, but the lyrics just throw me off completely, and much of the music is just typical DT prog wanking. At some point I stopped being impressed with how many time signatures they could do while cramming in a ton of notes per unison. It just stopped mattering. On ITPOE, their focus was crazy DT prog which doesn't do much for me, especially at that stage of their career, while Repentance is the antithesis of that.

The only part of Repentance I don't like is the weird voice modulator Portnoy had. If he had just spoken in his regular voice, the song would be in my top 3 DT songs.

[Kwyjibo]

SC again.

[Crow]

where did all the astonishing voters disappear to lol

[Zydar]

where did all the astonishing voters disappear to lol

Oh I'm still here.

[BlackInk]

So am I.

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7.
8.
9.
10. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
11. The Astonishing
12. Dream Theater
13. When Dream & Day Unite

[?]

SC again.

[MirrorMask]

Systematic chaos, easily. It's an album where my favorite song is the simplest one, Forsaken, and that should never happen with a DT album 

[Destiny Of Chaos]

 Falling Into Infinity

Black Clouds and SC are top 5 for me...

[Tomislav95]

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2.
3.
4.
5. Dream Theater
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7.
8.
9.
10.
11. Systematic Chaos
12. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
13. When Dream & Day Unite

[jjrock88]

TA

[IDontNotDoThings]

#1.
#2.
#3. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
#4.
#5.
#6.
#7.
#8.
#9.
10.
11. When Dream & Dau Unite
12. Falling Into Infinity
13. Dream Theater

[romdrums]

Octavarium.

[jakepriest]

Falling Into Infinity

Black Clouds and SC are top 5 for me...

[Eldomm]

Octavarium

[Mladen]

Falling Into Infinity

[mikeyd23]

So far so good,  SC

[Evermind]

FII

[ThatOneGuy2112]

SC. Not too bad, and it's a lot more consistent as a whole than BC&SL was.

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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. Dream Theater
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10.
11. Systematic Chaos
12. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
13. When Dream and Day Unite

[Serah Farron]

SC again.

Iirc correctly, you said that your favorite off your albums is Repentance? What puts that over ITPOE??

You do recall correctly!

Repentance has a heart and truly grounded sense of emotion that very few DT songs have. It has an intent and purpose, whereby the band knew exactly what the song is about as they wrote it, which is usually not the case of their songs since they come up with lyrics and ideas well after the song is written musically. It has new textures and sounds for DT and they don't ever feel the need to show off.

With ITPOE....I dunno, I just don't connect with it at all. First bit is a little fun, but the lyrics just throw me off completely, and much of the music is just typical DT prog wanking. At some point I stopped being impressed with how many time signatures they could do while cramming in a ton of notes per unison. It just stopped mattering. On ITPOE, their focus was crazy DT prog which doesn't do much for me, especially at that stage of their career, while Repentance is the antithesis of that.

The only part of Repentance I don't like is the weird voice modulator Portnoy had. If he had just spoken in his regular voice, the song would be in my top 3 DT songs.

Thank makes sense. Yeah, Repentance is either number 2 or 3 and it alternates with Ministry. It is just too dang unique and haunting.