What Dt song changed your life, for the better or for the worse

[Nt-II]

Thought this be a very interesting question to ask.. basically what Dream Theater song changed your life.. was it a lyric that made you do something.. wanna bash everyone who doesn't like dt.. or maybe heard the siren in A Nightmare to remember and sped away from the cops, that where driving behind you, then getting charged with speeding and running over an old man, and now in a jail cell with a guy named Gaven who is very lonely.


dont no if this thread has been done before.. if there has, delete it

new to the forum to .. well kinda i read but didn't reply

Constant motion..

this song changed the way i played guitar.. made me faster but more fluent now i can rip out this song and feel like a pro

or just Dream Theater in general, made me learn harder songs then metallica   

[Ice9ine]

Bash people?...Sped away from the cops?

Um sorry, neither of those   

[Ben_Jamin]

Home. Once I heard that song, it made me realize how great music is and the world. Maybe its because I heard it at the right time.

[skydivingninja]

I heard Overture 1928 and learned that there were modern rock bands making great music, which introduced me to this forum, which has recommended countless bands for me to listen to. 

[antigoon]

Overture 1928. I didn't know music could sound that awesome.

[VioletS16]

aCoS. I tend to--in very bad times--forget how little time we have on this earth. When I do I listen to that song and it puts me back in line.

Sped away from the cops hearing ANTR? LOL! That's hilarious!

[Mebert78]

My song is "Space-Dye Vest."  There's no song that can hit the spot like this one when you're feeling down and out in the romance department.  I don't know if it "changed my life," but it certainly led me to closely follow the career of Kevin Moore -- and that's really had a big impact on my life.  Not a day goes by now where I don't listen to a KM-era DT tune or Chroma Key or OSI or Fates Warning.

[Darkes7]

I think I'll have to say Octavarium. It needed time to fully click and I was mostly drawn to The Root of All Evil, These Walls and Panic Attack at first, but this was the song that made me realise how much I like complexity and fairly long songs, and that was the main cause of my massive prog addiction which hasn't ended at all yet.

As for changing my life, SFAM and especially Home appeared at a pretty difficult and important moment, but didn't change. It was simply there.

And not a particular song, but it was because of DT that I got enlightened and realised that bass guitar isn't the one that's used for heavy riffs, and that there _is_ something else beneath all that stuff I didn't pay attention to.

[skydivingninja]

As for the song that changed my life for the "worse": Constant Motion.  I learned that this band I had put up on a pedestal was capable of failure.  I guess it was actually a good thing overall, though.

GOOD THING RUSH AND PORCUPINE TREE WILL NEVER DISAPPOINT ME EVER BECAUSE THEY'RE MUSICAL GODS.

[ReaPsTA]

The Dance of Eternity, the first DT song I ever heard.  Catapulted my life in multiple different directions:

- I liked the song and wanted to hear more of the band, beginning the sometimes madness that is my following the band

- At the time, my cousin introduced me to FL studio, a music composition program.  DT got me interested in music on a deeper level and stirred the desire to understand how to make it on my own.

- It was the beginning of my interest in a lot of other kinds of music I'd previously never even thought of trying.

[toro]

Overture 1928. I didn't know music could sound that awesome.

This This This.

[TL]

Overture 1928/Strange Deja Vu. They introduced me to DT, which introduced me to the whole idea of progressive music, which introduced me to the possibility of real art still existing a few steps outside of the mainstream. I think it's very possible that if I hadn't heard those songs, I might not be a film student right now.

[wkiml]

Can't say that any song has changed my life....but this board has opened me to bands that I may or may not have found on my own

[Amoniz]

First,
it was Caught In a Web that attracted me to the whole prog-metal genre.
Then 6DOIT, which really got me into reading psychology books.

[BRGM]

The Root of all Evil, it wss the first DT song I heard...the rest is history

[jsem]

The DT song for me was Octavarium. I think it was, next to PMU one of the first songs I heard - and well... the entire song was like epicness all over.

[oh8wrx]

"The Glass Prison" because it made me realize that I was being trapped in a glass prison that I wanted to break out of...borderline alcoholism.  The other songs helped, thus leading to the DT tattoo (majesty symbol) as a reminder not only for the band but for the alcoholism songs/message...

[Super Dude]

Not my own life personally, but I may have prevented a suicide by playing I Walk Beside You for someone a few years back.  True story.

[LearningToLive]

The lyrics of Learning to Live are so easy for me to relate to... just put into words that cleared my thoughts (hence my username).

[WDADU]

Wow, Super Dude, that is awesome! Good for the person you helped and yourself.

The song that changed my life for the better, I guess would be Home because that was the song that got me into Dream Theater and thus got me into many other bands and, of course, to this forum where I have met such amazing people.

And the song that changed my life for the worse would probably have to be Constant Motion because it was a band that had been staying away from the mainstream for twenty years and then all of a sudden they were making music that applied to every mainstream metal band on the rise right now.

[yeshaberto]

pull me under...my musical tastes would never be the same and my love for music has only grown every day since