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Another rank the albums thread
« on: October 16, 2017, 09:27:12 PM »
1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (I have no idea how this isn't considered the greatest piece of music ever created)
2. Awake
3. Train of Thought
4. Scenes From a Memory
5. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
6. Octavarium
7. A Dramatic Turn of Events
8. Falling Into Infinity
9. Dream Theater
10. Systematic Chaos
11. Images and Words (I know...kill me.  It's just...kind of bland to be honest...very 80's style synth sound with prog rock)
12. When Dream and Day Unite
13. The Astonishing

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2017, 11:06:38 PM »
1. Octavarium
2. Scenes From a Memory
3. Images and Words
4. Awake
5. The Astonishing
6. Train of Thought
7. Dream Theater
8. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance
9. A Dramatic Turn of Events
10. Falling Into Infinity
11. When Dream and Day Unite
12. Black Clouds and Silver Linings























13. Systematic Chaos
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2017, 11:11:23 PM »
1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
2. The Astonishing
3. Scenes From A Memory
4. Octavarium
5. Images and Words
6. Dream Theater
7. Train of Thought
8. ADTOE
9. Awake
10. Falling Into Infinity
11. Systematic Chaos
12. Black Cloud and Silver Linings
13. When Dream And Day Unite
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2017, 12:15:42 AM »
01: Scenes From a Memory
02: Octavarium
03: Images and Words
04: A Dramatic Turn of Events
05: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
06: The Astonishing
07: Awake
08: Train of Thought
09: Black Clouds & Silver Linings
10: Dream Theater
11: When Dream and Day Unite
12: Systematic Chaos
13: Falling Into Infinity
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2017, 01:31:20 AM »
1. Images and Words
2. Scenes from a Memory
3. The Astonishing
4. Black Clouds
5. Awake
6. Six Degrees
7. Octavarium
8. Train of Thought
9. Self titled
10. A dramatic turn of events
11. When Dream and Day Unite
12. Systematic Chaos
13. Falling into Infinity

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2017, 01:59:34 AM »
We're making a whole new thread for this? I mean, the old one's been resurrected time & time again since, like, 2009, but ok.

Anyway, reposting the same ranking from that thread:
#1. Images & Words
#2. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
#3. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
#4. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
#5. Systematic Chaos
#6. Train Of Thought
#7. Awake
#8. The Astonishing
#9. Octavarium
10. Dream Theater
11. A Dramatic Turn Of Events
12. When Dream & Day Unite
13. Falling Into Infinity
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2017, 06:23:53 AM »
1. Awake
2. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
3. Scenes from a Memory
4. Images & Words
5. Train of Thought
6. Octavarium
7. Falling Into Infinity
8. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
9. Systematic Chaos
10. A Dramatic Turn of Events
11. Dream Theater
12. When Dream & Day Unite
13. The Astonishing
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2017, 06:46:59 AM »
1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
2. Images & Words
3. Octavarium
4. Awake
5. The Astonishing
6. Scenes From A Memory
7. A Dramatic Turn of Events
8. Falling Into Infinity
9. Train of Thought
10. Systematic Chaos
11. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
12. Dream Theater
13. When Dream and Day Unite
« Last Edit: October 17, 2017, 07:07:19 AM by Kattelox »
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2017, 07:03:34 AM »
1-Awake
2-I&W
3-Scenes From A Memory
4- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance
5- Falling Into Infinity
6- When Dream & Day Unite
7- Octavarium
8- Dream Theater
9- Train Of Thought
10- A Dramatic Turn of Events
11- Systematic Chaos
12- The Astonishing
13 - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2017, 07:27:22 AM »
1. A Dramatic Turn of Events
2. The Astonishing
3. Images and Words
4. Scenes from a Memory
5. Octavarium
6. Awake
7. Dream Theater
8. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
9. Falling Into Infinity
10. Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Those are the ones I've picked up. I have no immediate desire to purchase the remaining three, so this may be it.

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2017, 08:34:05 AM »
Awake
Scenes
Images

Train
Octavarium
Systematic
Dramatic
Black 'n Silver
DT
FiI
6
Astonish



The last 3 aren't horrible... they just rank lowest. Still all God or Near God tier music.


(forgot ToT. Fixed)
« Last Edit: October 17, 2017, 10:10:37 AM by JayOctavarium »
I just don't understand what they were trying to achieve with any part of the song, either individually or as a whole. You know what? It's the Platypus of Dream Theater songs. That bill doesn't go with that tail, or that strange little furry body, or those webbed feet, and oh god why does it have venomous spurs!? And then you find out it lays eggs too. The difference is that the Platypus is somehow functional despite being a crazy mishmash or leftover animal pieces

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2017, 09:18:57 AM »
1. Images and Words
2. Scenes From a Memory
3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
4. Awake
5. A Dramatic Turn of Events
6. Octavarium
7. Falling Into Infinity
8. Train of Thought
9. Dream Theater
10. Systematic Chaos
11. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
12. When Dream and Day Unite
13. The Astonishing

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2017, 10:15:04 AM »

Awake
Scenes
Images

Train
Octavarium
Systematic
Dramatic
Black 'n Silver
DT
FiI
6
Dream & Day
Astonish



The last 3 aren't horrible... they just rank lowest. Still all God or Near God tier music.


(forgot ToT. Fixed)
« Last Edit: October 20, 2017, 09:28:34 AM by JayOctavarium »
I just don't understand what they were trying to achieve with any part of the song, either individually or as a whole. You know what? It's the Platypus of Dream Theater songs. That bill doesn't go with that tail, or that strange little furry body, or those webbed feet, and oh god why does it have venomous spurs!? And then you find out it lays eggs too. The difference is that the Platypus is somehow functional despite being a crazy mishmash or leftover animal pieces

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2017, 11:47:59 AM »
1. Scenes From A Memory
2. Awake
3. 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulance
4. Octavarium
5. A Dramatic Turn of Events
6. Images and Words
7. Dream Theater
8. Train of Thought
9. Falling into Infinity
10. The Astonishing
11. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
12. Systematic Chaos
13. When Dream and Day Unite

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2017, 12:33:48 PM »
1. Images and Words
2. Scenes From A Memory
3. Awake
4. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance
5. When Dream and Day Unite
6. Octavarium
7. Dream Theater
8. Falling into Infinity
9. Train of Thought
10. The Astonishing
11. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
12. A Dramatic Turn of Events
13. Systematic Chaos

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2017, 04:31:32 PM »
1. Awake
2. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
3. Falling into Infinity
4. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
5. Images and Words
6. Train of Thought
7. When Dream and Day Unite 
8. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
9. Octavarium
10. A Dramatic Turn of Events
11. Dream Theater
12.Systematic Chaos
13. The Astonishing
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2017, 06:38:23 PM »
1. Images and Words
2. Awake
3. Scenes from a Memory
4. Train of Thought
5. The Astonishing
6. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
7. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
8. Falling into Infinity
9. Octavarium
10. Systematic Chaos
11. When Dream and Day Unite
12. Dream Theater
13. A Dramatic Turn of Events

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2017, 06:49:10 PM »
1. Awake
2. Scenes from a Memory
3. Images and Words
4. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
5. A Dramatic Turn of Events
6. The Astonishing
7. Falling into Infinity
8. Dream Theater
9. Train of Thought
10. Octavarium
11. When Dream and Day Unite
12. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
13. Systematic Chaos

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2017, 06:59:33 PM »
Oh. OK.

1. Images And Words
2. Scenes From A Memory
3. A Dramatic Turn Of Events
4. When Day And Dream REunite
5. Awake
6. The Astonishing
7. Train Of Thought
8. Systematic Chaos
9. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
10. Black Clouds And Silver Linings
11. Dream Theater
12 Octavarium
13. Falling Into Infinity
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2017, 10:53:24 PM »
4. When Day And Dream REunite

I see what you did there. 

Damn, just giving these lists a quick glance (and I do mean 'quick'), I cannot believe that I did see it.

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #20 on: October 18, 2017, 01:39:43 PM »
Awake
SDOIT
I&W
FII
ADTOE
TOT
SC
SFAM
WDADU
DT12
8V
BC&SL

I honestly don't know where to rank The Astonishing.  I haven't listened to it enough to know where to put it.  I think it's so different that I wouldn't even possibly know where to rank it against their other albums.
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #21 on: October 18, 2017, 01:59:37 PM »
Here we go again!

1. Images & Words
2. Awake
3. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
4. Falling Into Infinity
5. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence*
6. Dream Theater
7. When Dream and Day Unite
8. A Dramatic Turn of Events
9. Octavarium
10. Systematic Chaos
11. Train of Thought
12. Black Clouds & Silver Linings

*mainly on the merits of disc 1. Without disc 2, it would be #3 without question.



I think the Astonishing would come in at around #6, but I still haven’t listened to it enough.
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #22 on: October 18, 2017, 02:55:34 PM »
Something like this:

1. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
2. Images and Words
3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
4. Awake
5. Octavarium
6. Dream Theater
7. Falling Into Infinity
8. Train of Thought
9. A Dramatic Turn of Events
10. The Astonishing
11. Systematic Chaos
12. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
13. When Dream and Day Unite
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #23 on: October 19, 2017, 10:52:10 AM »
Sometimes it changes a lot, but currently my ranking is:

1. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
2. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
3. The Astonishing
4. Images and Words
5. A Dramatic Turn of Events
6. Dream Theater
7. Awake
8. Systematic Chaos
9. Train of Thought
10. Octavarium
11. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
12. Falling Into Infinity
13. When Dream and Day Unite
It sounds like, "ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk." Instead of the more pleasing kick drum sound of, "gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk."

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #24 on: October 19, 2017, 03:05:33 PM »
Ones I still listen to:

1. Images and words
2. Scenes from a memory
3. Train of thought
4. Falling into infinity
5. Awake
6. When dream and day unite
7. Dream theater
8. Dramatic turn of events
9. Six degrees of inner turbulence


Ones I havn't listened to since their release:

10. Octavarium
11. The astonishing
12. Systematic chaos
13. Black clouds and silver linings
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #25 on: October 19, 2017, 04:36:42 PM »
Since we’ve had a million of these, I’m going to do it a bit differently.

1. WDADU
2. I&W
3. Awake
4. FII
5. SFAM
6. 6DOIT
7. ToT
8. 8vm
9. SC
10. BC&SL
11. ADTOE
12. DT12
13. TA

I decided to rank them chronologically.
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #26 on: October 19, 2017, 05:06:25 PM »
On any given day number 1 could be any of the top 5:

Masterpieces:

1. Awake
2. Scenes From A Memory
3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
4. Train of Thought
5. The Astonishing

Great:

6. Octavarium
7. Images and Words
8. A Dramatic Turn Of Events
9. Dream Theater

Good:

10. Systematic Chaos
11. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
12. Falling Into Infinity
13. When Dream And Day Unite

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #27 on: October 19, 2017, 05:37:43 PM »
Since we’ve had a million of these, I’m going to do it a bit differently.

1. WDADU
2. I&W
3. Awake
4. FII
5. SFAM
6. 6DOIT
7. ToT
8. 8vm
9. SC
10. BC&SL
11. ADTOE
12. DT12
13. TA

I decided to rank them chronologically.

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #28 on: October 19, 2017, 08:21:16 PM »
Curious to see Train of Thought in your top 5, Dave. Not that I'm criticizing, just not often one you see in the top 5, especially alongside The Astonishing. What about that album resonates with you so much? That goes for anyone with ToT up high. I loved it back in the day but much like Black Clouds I find it exhausting to listen to these days, mainly because of the multiple epic tracks.
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #29 on: October 20, 2017, 05:40:32 AM »
Curious to see Train of Thought in your top 5, Dave. Not that I'm criticizing, just not often one you see in the top 5, especially alongside The Astonishing. What about that album resonates with you so much? That goes for anyone with ToT up high. I loved it back in the day but much like Black Clouds I find it exhausting to listen to these days, mainly because of the multiple epic tracks.

A large part of it is sentimentality. Train of Thought was the first DT album to be released after I became a huge fan of the band, and my anticipation was as high as it's ever been for an album by any band. It didn't disappoint either, in fact it blew my socks off. I was in awe then - and still am now - at how a band could shift between moods so brilliantly. I've seen a lot of people describe that album as relatively 1-dimensional (i.e. predominantly metal), and perhaps it is, but it also has some of their most beautiful moments (the end of Stream of Consciousness, for example, or the finale of ITNOG). I still think it's one of the two best metal albums ever written, along with Master of Puppets.

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #30 on: October 20, 2017, 08:32:38 AM »
On any given day number 1 could be any of the top 5:

Masterpieces:

1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
2. Scenes From A Memory
3. Awake
4. Train of Thought
5. The Astonishing

Great:

6. Octavarium
7. Images and Words
8. A Dramatic Turn Of Events
9. Dream Theater

Good:

10. Systematic Chaos
11. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
12. Falling Into Infinity
13. When Dream And Day Unite

FTFM, but otherwise I'm totally with you.

As for Train of Thought, just like Dave_Manchester, I don't find it one dimensional at all. I've never really understood that criticism. Still a fantastic album for me...but then, I've always been more of a metal guy.
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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #31 on: October 20, 2017, 09:39:38 AM »
I like TOT a lot, but I feel it was heavy just for the sake of making it heavy. It's not balanced at all, just a lot of heavy/in your face tracks, and Vacant. That's why I rank it 9 on my list.
It sounds like, "ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk." Instead of the more pleasing kick drum sound of, "gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk."

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #32 on: October 20, 2017, 10:15:31 AM »
Everyone always says ToT is heavy when there's like three heavy tracks on there. The rest is either ballad/powerballad stuff or plodding midtempo stuff
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« Reply #33 on: October 20, 2017, 10:25:29 AM »
Everyone always says ToT is heavy when there's like three heavy tracks on there. The rest is either ballad/powerballad stuff or plodding midtempo stuff

AIA
TDS
2nd half of ES
HTF
ITNOG

That's almost all the album.
It sounds like, "ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk, ruk." Instead of the more pleasing kick drum sound of, "gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk, gzarruk."

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Re: Another rank the albums thread
« Reply #34 on: October 20, 2017, 10:41:25 AM »
1. Scenes from a Memory
2. Images and Words
3. Octavarium
4. The Astonishing
5. Six Degrees
6. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
7. A Dramatic Turn of Events
8. Awake
9. Falling Into Infinity
10. Train of Thought
11. Dream Theater
12. When Dream and Day Unite
13. Systematic Chaos
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