Which album got you into DT

[jsem]

A few tracks. PMU, ytse jam, ANTR, SDOIT - the first few I listened to.

[The Dark Master]

Too bad the list does not count live albums, since the first DT album I ever heard was Once in a LIVEtime, right when it came out.  It was funny, cause at the time I was in my high school band studying all this music and a bunch of other guys in band were huge fans of DT.  I remember being really impressed by their musical complexity and dexterity.  At the time, I wasn't really into prog bands like Rush or Yes (though my mom did have Asia's debut on vinyl, and I do recall liking that one quite a bit),  I was more into bands like AC/DC, Ozzy, Alice Cooper, Sabbath, Scorpions, GnR and the like, but when I first heard Dream Theater it really struck a chord.  I was a huge fan of Deep Purple at the time too, and the frequent use of classic hammond organ sounds by both Moore and Sherinian was another thing that drew me to the band.  Oh, that and the fact that I immediately could tell that Petrucci was in the same league as Randy Rhodes or Yngwie.  After hearing LIVEtime, I began checking out their back catalog starting with Awake, then Images and FII, as well as buying new albums like SfaM and SDoIT.  Now I own all of their studio albums, most of their live ones and I've seen almost every show they've played in the Chicago area since the turn of the Millennium, and I haven't looked back since  

[Bone_Daddy]

Images and Words. I was late getting it - had heard Pull Me under for some time on the radio and on eMpTV. My buddy told me about Awake so I ran to the store and picked up I&W and Awake and learned that ACoS was coming soon. I&W solidified me listening to DT. Awake satisfied the balls and chunk stuff I was craving. And later ACoS blew me away with epic-progressive writing, composition, and bad-ass musicianship.

[SPNKr]

I realy liked the album entitled Herp the Derp

[Adami]

I realy liked the album entitled Herp the Derp

Oh god that joke is horrible.

[SPNKr]

[The Letter M]

I realy liked the album entitled Herp the Derp

Oh god that joke is horrible.

Indeed. You could have at least put some more thought into it and made it SOUND like a DT album: When Herps And Derps Unite, Herps And Derps, Herping Into Derpinity, Herps From A Derp, Six Herps Of Inner Derpulence, Herp of Derp, Herpaderpium, Sysherpatic Derpos, Black Herps & Silver Derpings, A Herp Of Derps EP...

-Marc.

[wkiml]

my first listen was images....it was pure musical ecstacy compared to everything else I had ever heard.  instantly amazed and instant fanatic

This

[Deez]

Awake.  I remember watching the band promote it on Headbanger's Ball way back when and thought, okay, I gotta give this band a try.

Got the album and...it didn't initially do anything for me.  But I was younger and my tastes were still developing.  What did I know?

I believe it was a couple of more years before I gave the disc a couple of proper listens when it finally hit me.

DT has had me by the balls ever since.

[juice]

Octavarium(album) and The Mirror from Awake.

[OsMosis2259]

Train of Thought for me. My friend sent me In the Name of God and it blew me away and I remember at the time that was the only album I was listening to. Then I got Octavarium when it came out then worked backwards in the catalog

[DeanTheater]

I&W


HANDS DOWN.

I heard Pull Me Under on ZROCK in PHX, AZ sometime in 92'.   It was right after they played CEMETARY GATES from PANTERA, while I was driving,  I was floored and bought it immediately.  DT fan ever since.  Still Vivid moment othis day

[MetropolisxPt1]

I remember when...

[Lowdz]

...in the unity of our five day sessions...

Only 5 of us there from the (almost) start? We should get a pension...

[Metabog]

Awake. First song I heard was The Mirror.

[The Curious Orange]

I&W.

I was staying with my parents and I went shopping in Cambridge and saw a copy of I&W in an independent store for a bargain price (the now defunct Parrot Records). I'd seen reviews of it in the music press, described as "Metallica and Queensryche playing at the same time" and thought that sounded worth a punt.

I remember listening to it on my Mom's stereo with the headphones on (not the best). I was a fan by the time the Pull Me Under intro had finished. Take the Time blew me away.

I went to see the band at Nottingham Rock City in '93, confident that they would not be able to reproduce music this technically complex live on stage - how wrong I was. Awake sealed the deal.