Metropolis Pt. 1 Instrumental is Fantastic

[Darkes7]

Ok... someone wake me up, it's been too long.

[hefdaddy42]

Ok... someone wake me up, it's too long.

Not the first time I've heard that.

[bosk1]

I like all 4 of those songs considerably, but I rank them as follows:

LTL (ranked #5 in the entire pre-BCSL DT catalog)
SOC (18)
WFS (23)
V (25)

[Seventh Son]

This Dying Soul is great even if it's the weakest of the suite.

I'm gonna blow your mind and agree with this as well.

Half-agree. The Shattered Fortress is the weakest, followed by Repentance, The Root of all Evil, then This Dying Soul and finally The Glass Prison.

But TDS is really great.

[Darkes7]

Ok... someone wake me up, it's too long.

Not the first time I've heard that.

DTF: the only place where you have to be careful about every single word you write.

Learning to Live would be somewhere in my top 15, Vacant and Wait For Sleep a little bit behind. Stream of Consciousness... maybe top 50.

[hefdaddy42]

Ok... someone wake me up, it's too long.

Not the first time I've heard that.

DTF: the only place where you have to be careful about every single word you write.

Learning to Live would be somewhere in my top 15, Vacant and Wait For Sleep a little bit behind. Stream of Consciousness... maybe top 50.

Sounds about right. 

[Seventh Son]

I suppose I'm the only one that would have SoC in their top 15? 

[hefdaddy42]

I suppose I'm the only one that would have SoC in their top 15? 

Maybe not.  A lot of people like it.  Hell, I like it, I just don't think it's that good.

[nightmare_cinema]

I suppose I'm the only one that would have SoC in their top 15? 

It would be close for me, it's the first Dream Theater piece I ever fell in love with... it's freakin' awesome almost all the way through, then it goes a bit boring, but then it redeems itself. The screwing around with how the emphasis on the main rhythm is treated around minutes 8 and 9 reallllly fucking does it for me! Never bothered to even try do a list of my favourite DT songs though, way too difficult.

[Darkes7]

I suppose I'm the only one that would have SoC in their top 15? 

I used to love it, but I lost interest in it over time for some reason.

[fsh3702]

maybe some instrumental part of late DT songs as you said are random, abtrusive, showy and not fit in the theme well, but who cares, at least i don't care, i just like that progessive sensation and improvised playing. this already become a label of DT.