Best Song of your 10 Favorite Bands

[Portrucci]

Dream Theater - Octavarium
Agalloch - Not Unlike the Waves
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Rush - Xanadu
Between The Buried And Me - Sun of Nothing
Protest The Hero - The Dissentience
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Metallica - Orion
OSI - Be The Hero
 

[Nihil-Morari]

No order:

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Frank Zappa - *Impossible*
Fantomas - Suspended Animation  (album)
Mono - Moonlight
Neal Morse/Spock's Beard - The Light
No-Man - Watching over Me
Sigur Ros - Untitled 7
Transatlantic - Stranger In Your Soul
Pain of Salvation - Used
Bass Communion - Construct IV

[sneakyblueberry]

Dream Theater - Octavarium
Agalloch - Not Unlike the Waves
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Rush - Xanadu
Between The Buried And Me - Sun of Nothing
Protest The Hero - The Dissentience
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Metallica - Orion
OSI - Be The Hero
 

The "Interprets the law as aging..." part never fails to excite. 

[PlaysLikeMyung]

1. Rush - Marathon
2. Dream Theater - Learning To Live
3. Aerosmith - Kings And Queens
4. Yes - Tempus Fugit
5. Dropkick Murphys - Fields of Athenry
6. NOFX - Liza & Louise
7. Genesis - Dance on a Volcano
8. Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
9. Everclear - Santa Monica
10. Opeth - Baying of the Hounds

My favorite bands have changed (and some songs):

1. Rush - Marathon
2. Dream Theater - Octavarium
3. Aerosmith - Kings And Queens
4. Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
5. Symphony X - The Edge of Forever
6. Genesis - Firth of Fifth
7. Dropkick Murphys - (F)lannigan's Ball
8. Iron Maiden - Paschendale
9. Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
10. Pat Metheny - Tie between 'The Way Up' and 'Bright Size Life'

[ReaperKK]

dredg - Planting Seeds/The Canyon Behind Her
Dream Theater - Misunderstood
OSI - Standby (Looks Like Rain)
Dire Straits - On Every Street/Wild West End/Sultans Of Swing
Mark Knopfler - Prairie Wedding
Pink Floyd - High Hopes
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
California Guitar Trio - Eve
Kaki King - Joi
Porcupine Tree - Fadeaway

[InTheNameOfGod]

So hard to pick one song:

Opeth -  Demon of the Fall
Pain of Salvation - A Trace of Blood
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here/Russia On Ice
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Symphony X - Candlelight Fantasia
Kamelot - Memento Mori
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Green Carnation - 9-29-045/Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Alcest - Souvenirs d'Un Autre Monde
Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire

[nightmare_cinema]

Nice idea, this is gonna be tricky... and probably some bands that don't exactly fit in here...

1) Dream Theater - Learning to Live/A Change of Seasons/In the Presence of Enemies

2) Porcupine Tree - Trains/Russia On Ice/Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape/Anaesthetize (whoops)

3) dredg - Sang Real/Jamais Vu/Gathering Pebbles

4) Pink Floyd - Echoes/Dogs/Shine On You Crazy Diamond

5) Muse - Hyper Chondriac Music/Citizen Erased/Muscle Museum

6) Radiohead -2+2=5/Where I End You Begin/Lucky

7) Sigur Ros - Untitled #7/Untitled #8/Vidrar Vel til Loftrasa

8) Symphony X - The Serpent's Kiss/Paradise Lost/Inferno (Unlease the Fire)

9) Tool - Lateralus/The Pot/Vicarious

10) Blackfield - Pain/Epidemic/Once

Don't think I could have narrowed it all down to just one song each.

[bodiesinflight]

Biffy Clyro - Bodies In Flight - 57 - ...And With The Scissorkick Is Victorious
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees - Talk Show Host - There There
Oceansize - Ornament / The Last Wrongs - The Charm Offensive - Unfamiliar
Dream Theater - Learning To Live - A Change Of Seasons - Metropolis
Porcupine Tree - Even Less - Trains - Russia On Ice
Opeth - In My Time Of Need - The Leper Affinity - The Moor
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Serve The Servants
Reuben - Stuck In My Throat - Best Enemies - Suffocation Of The Soul
Pearl Jam - Jeremy - Rearviewmirror - Black
Metallica - Fade To Black - Battery - One

[energythief]

Great thread! Alphabetically:

Dream Theater - Home
Electric Light Orchestra - The Way Life's Meant To Be
Extreme - Everything Under The Sun
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Heart - Desire Walks On
Nine Inch Nails - The Wretched
Queensryche - Screaming in Digital
The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers
They Might Be Giants - Spiraling Shape
Tool - Lateralus

That's 10 already, isn't it? Damn. Oh look, it's my identical twin, um... powerrobber. Here's his Top 10:

Def Leppard - Too Late For Love
Green Day - Whatshername
Hoobastank - The First of Me
Linkin Park - In The End
My Chemical Romance - Mama
Pink Floyd - Hey You/Comfortably Numb/Learning to Fly/On the Turning Away (yeah, yeah, I couldn't decide, shoot me)
Queen - The Show Must Go On
Sarah MacLachlan - Possession
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
Van Halen - Right Now

Wow. That took a really long time.

[Plasmastrike]

Opeth - Hessian Peel
Dream Theater - Learning To Live
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Tool - Wings For Marie (Part 1) & 10,000 Days (Wings Part 2)
Megadeth - Good Mourning / Black Friday
Symphony X - Revelation (Divus Pennae Ex Tragoedia)
Liquid Tension Experiment - When The Water Breaks
Iron Maiden - Caught Somewhere In Time
Between The Buried And Me - White Walls

I can't think of who my 10th favorite band would be because a lot of bands are tied after that.

[glaurung]

Yeah, after my top seven bands I don't know how I would rank them. I'm never entirely sure how I would rank my top seven bands either.

Dream Theater - Octavarium
Rush - 2112/ Red Barchetta
Iron Maiden - Paschendale
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition/ Beneath the Mire/ Face of Melinda
Symphony X - Paradise Lost/ The Odyssey
Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno

[Stallion1]

Shadow Gallery: New World Order
Dream Theater: Voices
Angra: No Pain For the Dead
Amaran's Plight: Revelation
Avantasia Pt.2: Seven Angels
Ayreon: Day 11 Love
Vanden Plas: January Sun
Edguy: King Of Fools
Fates Warning: A Pleasant Shade Of Grey (Technically all one song just in parts to make it easier to navigate)
Kamelot: Lost & Damned

Bonus-

Queensryche: The Whisper
Rob Rock: I'm A Warrior
Roswell Six: The Sinking Of The Luminara 2
Savatage: Anymore
Darkwater: Tallest Tree

[Quadrochosis]

1. Dream Theater - Learning To Live / Surrounded / Blind Faith / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

2. Porcupine Tree - Trains / She's Moved On

3. The Beatles - A Day In The Life

4. Rush - 2112 / The Trees

5. Muse - Time Is Running Out / Stockholm Syndrome / Map Of The Problematique

6. Opeth - Ghost of Perdition / Blackwater Park / The Drapery Falls / Burden

7. Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien / Karma Police

8. Pink Floyd - Dogs / Pigs (Three Different Ones) / Sheep / Time

9. Devin Townsend - Earth Day / Gaia / Traveler

10. Marillion - Sugar Mice / Neverland / Happiness Is The Road



EDIT: The only one that's in order is DT at number 1, as far as bands go the rest are all kinda under DT and rotate around.

As far as songs go they're not in any order either.

[Nick]

Rush - Xanadu
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Ayreon - Across the Rainbow Bridge
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere... But Not Here
Shadow Gallery - The Archer of Ben Salem
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Transatlantic - Duel With the Devil
Riverside - Conceiving You
Redemption - Sapphire
Marillion - White Russian

Marillion is in counting it as "Fish-era", and the two before it could be swapped with a myriad of bands I love very much. The first 7 however are pretty well locked.

[PlaysLikeMyung]

What's your favorite Symphony X song, if I may ask?

[glaurung]

What's your favorite Symphony X song, if I may ask?

You may not.

[m0hawk]

Muse - Stockholm Syndrome

Dream Theater - Octavarium

Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls

Sigur Ros - Milano

Metallica - Fade to Black

Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal

Silverchair - The Greatest View

Coldplay - Politik

Moby - Porcelain

[PuffyPat]

Say Anything - Admit It!!!

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons

A Great Big Pile of Leaves - Drought of Snow

Avenged Sevenfold - Second Heartbeat

Andrew W.K. - Girls Own Love

Lamb of God - Black Label

Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction

Brand New - I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light

Against Me - Walking is Still Honest

Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension

[LTE]

This is hard cause I can never pick a "best" song by my favorite bands really. It moves around a lot.

Aphex Twin- Xtal/Rhubarb
Dream Theater- A Change of Seasons/Octavarium/Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Eric Johnson- When The Sun Meets the Sky
Incubus- Aqueous Transmission
Joe Satriani- Time
Meshuggah- In Death- Is Death
Nick Drake- Pink Moon
Pink Floyd- Dogs/Atom Heart Mother
Primus- Hamburger Train
Rush- Natural Science
Tool- Lateralus


I can count.

[Nic35]

Not in order.

Dream Theater - Octavarium
Metallica - Orion
The Dear Hunter - What It Means To Be Alone
Opeth - Bleak
Transatlantic - My New World
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Slipknot - Duality
System Of A Down - Aerials
Meshuggah - Pravus
Neal Morse - Help Me The Spirit And The Flesh

[Arcaeus]

My ten favorite bands/artists have changed, so let's try this again:

Pain of Salvation - Used
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini
Tool - Lateralus
65daysofstatic - Install A Beak In The Heart That Clucks Time In Arabic
Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over
Thrice - Daedalus
Immortal Technique - Dance With The Devil
The Dear Hunter - City Escape or Life And Death
Dream Theater - Scarred
Faith No More - Zombie Eaters

I have a feeling some artists I'm just beginning to get into, such as Bjork, Kayo Dot and Sigur Ros will force their way into my top 10 in the coming months.

[setrataeso]

I might as well update mine, considering my list would be pretty different now:

Rush - YYZ
Dream Theater - Metropolis
Thrice - The Great Exchange
Muse - Map of the Problematique
Symphony X - Of Sins and Shadows
Redemption - Walls
Metallica - Fade to Black
Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzak
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb/Dogs
Devin Townsend - Earth Day
Pain of Salvation - Trace of Blood/Disco Queen
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Ayreon - Beneath the Waves

+ a bunch of other bands that I can't decide on my favourite song for...

[Dark Master Of Sin]

Old bump lol.

Dream Theater - The Glass Prison

System of a Down - Radio/Video

Slipknot - My Plague or Duality

Protest the Hero - Sequia Throne

Children of Bodom - (I'ma take shit for this) In Your Face

Symphony X - The Odyssey

Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain

Iron Maiden - Hallowed be thy Name

iwrestledabearonce - Tastes like Kevin Bacon

August Burns Red - Speech Impediment

[Nic35]

System of a Down - Radio/Video

Slipknot - My Plague or Duality

Glad to see some SOAD appreciation here !

[setrataeso]

System of a Down - Radio/Video

Slipknot - My Plague or Duality

Glad to see some SOAD appreciation here !

Vous savez que je peux comprendre ce qu'est écrit dans votre texte personnel aussi, Nic.

[Nic35]

Damn it !

[setrataeso]

Damn it !

Il y probablement n'a pas assez de place dans votre zone de texte pour ajouter mon nom...

[Nic35]

Oh que oui mon ami !

[zxlkho]

Dream Theater - The Count of Tuscany
Rush - Limelight
Porcupine Tree - Trains (yeah, I had to...)
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition
In Flames - My Sweet Shadow
Tool - Lateralus
Thrice - Daedalus
Coheed and Cambria - The Crowing
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight

[setrataeso]

Oh que oui mon ami !

Il y a assez d'autres gens qui comprennent aussi, mais je me sens si exclusif cette façon, donc je ne distribuerai pas des noms...

[Nic35]

Oh que oui mon ami !

Il y a assez d'autres gens qui comprennent aussi, mais je me sens si exclusif cette façon, donc je ne distribuerai pas des noms...

J'imagine, c'est juste drole de voir les gens m'envoyer des PM en français avec plein d'erreurs de syntaxe.

BUT, this ain't the subject of the thread. We should stop this NAO.

[setrataeso]

Oh que oui mon ami !

Il y a assez d'autres gens qui comprennent aussi, mais je me sens si exclusif cette façon, donc je ne distribuerai pas des noms...

J'imagine, c'est juste drole de voir les gens m'envoyer des PM en français avec plein d'erreurs de syntaxe.

BUT, this ain't the subject of the thread. We should stop this NAO.

True. My french is pretty rusty. I wouldn't be surprised if I made some errors in there...

[Nic35]

Oh que oui mon ami !

Il y a assez d'autres gens qui comprennent aussi, mais je me sens si exclusif cette façon, donc je ne distribuerai pas des noms...

J'imagine, c'est juste drole de voir les gens m'envoyer des PM en français avec plein d'erreurs de syntaxe.

BUT, this ain't the subject of the thread. We should stop this NAO.

True. My french is pretty rusty. I wouldn't be surprised if I made some errors in there...

You did But I'm pretty sure you made less mistakes than I do when I post in English

[setrataeso]

Oh que oui mon ami !

Il y a assez d'autres gens qui comprennent aussi, mais je me sens si exclusif cette façon, donc je ne distribuerai pas des noms...

J'imagine, c'est juste drole de voir les gens m'envoyer des PM en français avec plein d'erreurs de syntaxe.

BUT, this ain't the subject of the thread. We should stop this NAO.

True. My french is pretty rusty. I wouldn't be surprised if I made some errors in there...

You did But I'm pretty sure you made less mistakes than I do when I post in English

And thats why I don't post in French very much. I'm much better at reading and understanding French than I am writing and speaking it.

Anyway, back on subject...music is good.

[Sintheros]

Bands in no particular order. Top 3 songs (in order) for each.

Dream Theater - Metropolis part 1, Voices, In the Name of God
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing, Trains, Dark Matter
Devin Townsend - Earth Day, Deadhead, Seventh Wave
Ayreon - The Sixth Extinction, Age of Shadows, Day 3: Pain
Opeth - Bleak, Blackwater Park, The Drapery Falls (derp, all BWP)
Coheed and Cambria - The Light & the Glass, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, Mother Superior
Pain of Salvation - A Trace of Blood, Idioglossia, Iter Impius
Tool - Vicarious, Rosetta Stoned, Lateralus
Between the Buried and Me - White Walls, Sun of Nothing, Disease Injury Madness
Pink Floyd - Echoes, Comfortably Numb, Us and Them

Bonus:
Green Carnation - Light of Day Day of Darkness, Lullaby in Winter, Crushed to Dust