Best Encores

[wasteland]

So, which is your favourite encore set among those listed above? Which one of them did you think was or would be the most enthralling and climatic ending to a DT show? And most of all, which one, if anyone, would you like the band to choose for the upcoming summer tour?

For those who may be interested in checking out how these songs worked as the encores of some bootleged gigs, I'm listing here when they have been used to close the shows:

A Change Of Seasons: 2000, 2004
Wait For Sleep / Learning To Live: 1992-3, 1995, 2005-6
Metropolis: 1994-5, 1996-7-8, 2004, occasionally 2006, 2009
Pull me Under/ Metropolis: 2000, 2005-6, 2010
The Count Of Tuscany: 2009-10
Schmedley Wilcox: 2007-8
Encore Medley: 2008-9
Home / Hollow Years / Take The Time: 2002
When Images And Words Unite: 1999-2000
In The Name Of God: 2004, 2005-6



Note to the mods: if you feel that this topic should have been posted in the Concerts 'n' Setlists Section, sorry for my misjudgement   

[Aquila Chrysaetos]

LtL, great closer imo.

[Ben_Jamin]

TCoT

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

Wait for Sleep / Learning to Live

Best concert closer I've ever seen.

[wasteland]

Wait for Sleep / Learning to Live

Best concert closer I've ever seen.

Octavarium Tour? If so, did you appreciate the extended instrumental section in the middle of Learning To Live?

[DarkLord_Lalinc]

Wait for Sleep / Learning to Live

Best concert closer I've ever seen.

Octavarium Tour? If so, did you appreciate the extended instrumental section in the middle of Learning To Live?

Why, yes of course. 

[Mladen]

Metropolis

Although I saw them ending the show with Encore medley, and it was awesome. 

[YtseJamittaja]

I'd say ITNOG, that outro is amazing!

[skydivingninja]

The only DT encore I've seen is Metropolis, but I have a feeling that WFS/LtL would be better.

[MetropolisxPt1]

I saw them play WFS/LTL as an encore after octavarium on the 8vm tour and it reaffirmed dt as the best concert ive ever been to.

[wasteland]

Wait for Sleep / Learning to Live

Best concert closer I've ever seen.

Octavarium Tour? If so, did you appreciate the extended instrumental section in the middle of Learning To Live?

Why, yes of course. 

There are a lot of conservative fans who loathe any tiny addition or variation of the original album songs. I'm glad it's not your case 

[Infinite Cactus]

Metropolis. Although WFS/LTL would be the tits I am sure.

[JayOctavarium]

Tied between acos. And wfs/ltl.  Metropolis as the encore with the orchestra was though...  it can't be beat... unless the encore consists of Kevin joining them.. but.wfs / ltl with Kevin would be cool.

[Aniland]

No medleys. Medleys piss me off.

[MetropolisxPt1]

Wait for Sleep / Learning to Live

Best concert closer I've ever seen.

Octavarium Tour? If so, did you appreciate the extended instrumental section in the middle of Learning To Live?

Why, yes of course. 

There are a lot of conservative fans who loathe any tiny addition or variation of the original album songs. I'm glad it's not your case 

i thought it was really cool same progression but a new jam its always fun to hear something new.

[Blazinarps]

No medleys. Medleys piss me off.

No kidding. Rush does a lot of medleys. I fucking hate that. Makes me feel funny.

[wasteland]

No medleys. Medleys piss me off.

No kidding. Rush does a lot of medleys. I fucking hate that. Makes me feel funny.

Did you know that JP once said that Rush medleys really pissed him off? He said something like: "why don't they play the whole fucking song?" So, I guess, no medleys on this tour, and I'm very happy for that  

Tied between acos. And wfs/ltl.  Metropolis as the encore with the orchestra was though...  it can't be beat... unless the encore consists of Kevin joining them.. but.wfs / ltl with Kevin would be cool.

I'm torn with the same question: acos or ltl? Don't know... Concerning Metropolis, though, I have to disagree: I've always believed it to be the strongest opener, but not the strongest closer, while Learning To Live is the exact way round.

[ResultsMayVary]

I voted Schmedley Wilcox. Don't hate.

[BRGM]

I voted Schmedley Wilcox. Don't hate.

for me, it's almost a tie between that one and TCOT...I went with TCOT

[bobs23]

I had to go WFS/LtL. On the 8V tour, it was just stunning. The extended jams went through many revisions as the tour went on. Although the San Fransisco jam was easily in my top 5 alltime DT jams, this one was completely different than all the others that I had seen. Every now and again, they would throw in a jam out of left field. Like the BTL jam at MSG or AFIL in Wallingford on the ToT tour. It keeps the hard cores like me in your toes. Sorry got off topic...

[Jirpo]

ACOS!

[JediKnight1969]

Smoke on the water!

Wait... Wrong forum.

Sorry...

[Lotion]

I've seen Schmedley Wilcox and TCOT as encores, the best one was TCOT imo.. but my vote would be Metropolis, even tho i haven't heard it live. Seems so freakin epic!

[Adami]

I voted for their best song, ACOS.

[?]

I like medleys when they are well constructed. But my vote goes to ACOS, although WFS/LTL must be amazing too.

[Ħ]

I don't know many of these encores, but here's my ranking of what I know:

1. A Change of Seasons
2. Metropolis
3. Wait for Sleep/Learning to Live
4. The Count of Tuscany
5. In the Name of God

[mrjazzguitar]

Change of Seasons definitely

[emindead]

I voted for Wait for Sleep/Learning to Live

But after giving it a though, the best encore DT has ever done was with LSFNY.

I consider both LTL and A Change of Seasons the best encore any fan can get.

[Riceball]

Considering the only DT show I've been to had to be called off mid-set due to an explosion of awesomeness, I can't really comment.

However, I can throw my support behind medleys as encores; I think they are awesome.

[lucky7]

I voted for the TCOT but in reality any of the above would be cool   

I love a good medley though, I felt robbed in Australia when for their first time here they played a medley back during SC tour.....I would love to see the Instrumedley from Live in Budokan live!!

[The Letter M]

I went with WFS/LTL because, WFS is just a great way to say "Hey, we're back on stage, everyone quiet down as we play this awesome song"...and then BAM....launch into "Learning To Live". I'd say it's probably the best 14-16 minutes of DT Encore that anyone could wish for.

ACOS would come VERY close behind WFS/LTL, though. I hope we get WFS/LTL as an encore on the upcoming tour so it gets released on an official live album next year (or whenever)!

-Marc.

[Global Laziness]

I like medleys when they are well constructed. But my vote goes to ACOS, although WFS/LTL must be amazing too.

All of this.

And was Octavarium (the song) never really an encore song other than during the Score show? Because if it was, then why isn't it listed here?

[The Letter M]

I like medleys when they are well constructed. But my vote goes to ACOS, although WFS/LTL must be amazing too.

All of this.

And was Octavarium (the song) never really an encore song other than during the Score show? Because if it was, then why isn't it listed here?

AFAIK, "Octavarium" was the second set closing song and "Metropolis" was SCORE's encore. Actually, I don't believe "Octavarium" was ever used as an encore by itself, but I could be wrong.

-Marc.

[Global Laziness]

AFAIK, "Octavarium" was the second set closing song and "Metropolis" was SCORE's encore.

Oh, you're right. I'm not sure why I thought that.

[emindead]

In the Octavarium tour I got Pull Me Under/Metropolis pt. 1 as the last song. Prior to that it was The Spirit Carries On.