What was the first Dream Theater CD you bought?

novenpeter · July 22, 2011, 06:24:03 AM

A Change of Seasons

Sketchy · July 22, 2011, 06:25:03 AM

Scenes From A Memory.

It also counts as the first metal album I bought too, and the one which was how I stopped hating and learned to love metal. It also promptly dissapeared into my mother's car... As did all the other ones I bought. But yes. I bought it because it had been mentioned to me, and by the time it hit the Fatal Tragedy instrumental section, I had to buy more.

Then it was:
SC
Score
I&W
Don't know the correct order for the next lot, it includes a lot of official bootlegs too...
BCSL (release day)
WDADU (obviously not release day)
ADTOE (preordered)

ZBomber · July 22, 2011, 06:29:24 AM

The first DT album I heard was Scenes. I ripped my friend's copy, absolutely in love with it, and I then got my own copy shortly thereafter (I'm pretty sure it was a birthday present).

The first DT album I bought myself was A Change Of Seasons, however. They had a used copy at FYE and I picked that up.

Mr. Beale · July 22, 2011, 06:46:03 AM

I&W

Guitalguy · July 22, 2011, 06:57:55 AM

I started by downloading (sorry) Octavarium because I'd heard Pull Me Under and a song from Elements of Persuasion, and I also picked that album as a starter because I really liked the cover

After listening a lot online and downloading, I bought Octavarium, Scenes, Six Degrees and Score. Then I listened the hell out of that, and now I have every album exept WDADU and Change of Seasons. And also I have Score, Budokan and LSFNY.

reo73 · July 22, 2011, 06:58:34 AM

Bought in order since I&W in '93 except for WDADU I bought a few weeks after Awake came out in '95.

chknptpie · July 22, 2011, 07:17:41 AM

Went to the store and bought any DT album they had - Images and Words, Scenes from a Memory, and Octavarium.

Dublagent66 · July 22, 2011, 07:22:43 AM

I&W (1992).

necrotomist · July 22, 2011, 07:29:30 AM

I started with the Chaos in Motion DVD
After that I think it was Systematic Chaos

CrimsonSunrise · July 22, 2011, 07:40:33 AM

Awake, then went back and got I&W's

carl320 · July 22, 2011, 07:42:09 AM

Falling into Infinity (along with the guitar tab book)

DramaticEvents · July 22, 2011, 07:54:09 AM

1. BC&SL + Awake (2009)
2. Six Degrees (2010)
3. Scenes From A Memory (2011)
4. Train of Thought + I&W + Octavarium (2011)
5. Systematic Chaos (2011)

I miss FII and WDADU + the lives.

yorost · July 22, 2011, 08:05:41 AM

A Change of Seasons, but if the EP doesn't count then Falling Into Infinity.

Woot, Sherinian joiners!

MykeHavoc · July 22, 2011, 08:07:19 AM

Scenes from a Memory.

Ryzee · July 22, 2011, 08:19:07 AM

I & W in like '93 I think. Then everything else after that in order except I got WDADU after Awake I think, and FII after Scenes. I'd lost touch with the band after ACOS and didn't realize they'd put out another album before Scenes until after I got back into them by stumbling across Scenes at a Tower Records.

PixelDream · July 22, 2011, 08:57:43 AM

Six Degrees in 2002 I believe. I had heard I&W + SFAM earlier. I&W sparked the interest but I couldn't get used to how polished and cheesy it all was, then SFAM blew my mind with the concept and the many great solos and tradeoffs. But in 6DOIT I heard a more refined, atmospheric sound that was really authentic. I still love that album the most of the JR era stuff, and happens to be the first I bought.

MetropolisxPt1 · July 22, 2011, 10:10:42 AM

Quote from: wkiml on July 22, 2011, 05:33:22 AM
Quote from: tjanuranus on July 22, 2011, 01:08:58 AM
In Order since Images and Words. Bought WDADU after IAW though.

This except WDADU came after Awake

then comes saturday?

SFAM

MasterShakezula · July 22, 2011, 10:11:19 AM

Quote from: MetropolisxPt1 on July 22, 2011, 10:10:42 AM
Quote from: wkiml on July 22, 2011, 05:33:22 AM
Quote from: tjanuranus on July 22, 2011, 01:08:58 AM
In Order since Images and Words. Bought WDADU after IAW though.

This except WDADU came after Awake
then comes saturday?

And after that, Sunday?

Dream Team · July 22, 2011, 10:46:07 AM

Images and Words.

Secor · July 22, 2011, 12:47:45 PM

1. Images and Words (2003)
2. Scenes from a Memory (2004)
3. Train of Thought (2004)
4. Octavarium (2005)
5. Awake (2005)
6. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2005)
7. Falling Into Infinity (2006)
8. A Change of Seasons (2006)
9. When Dream and Day Unite (2006)
10. Systematic Chaos (2007)
11. Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009)

pmahoney1337 · July 22, 2011, 01:53:56 PM

Black Clouds & Silver Linings. I know, I'm a newbie. It was also the first album I ever looked forward to by any band.

Banny · July 22, 2011, 02:31:40 PM

I got on board around the time of SDOIT, I didn't have such a hard catch-up time.

1. SFAM
2. I&W
3. Awake
4. FII
5. WDADU

SDOIT
ToT
8VM
SC
BC&SL

fleaman · July 22, 2011, 05:44:05 PM

Scenes from a memory and then Images and words!If i had to buy just ONE DT album that would summarise the whole band's sound attitude and playing style that would definitely be SFAM!!

Jaffa · July 23, 2011, 07:14:27 PM

In order of purchase:

1. Systematic Chaos
2. A Change of Seasons
3 and 4. Images and Words and Octavarium
5 and 6. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and Scenes from a Memory
7. Train of Thought
8. Black Clouds and Silver Linings

In order of first listen:

1. SC
2. ACOS
3. 8VM
4. I&W
5. SFAM
6. 6DOIT
7. ToT
8. BC&SL

Still don't have the others. Heard all of the songs online at this point, but haven't been able to find FII, WDADU, or Awake in any stores yet.

ghostnotes · July 23, 2011, 07:43:58 PM

Quote from: cfmoran13 on July 22, 2011, 05:55:54 AM
Images and Words - December 1992

Ditto - but September 1992. Followed by Awake on October 4, 1994 (release day), etc.

pogoowner · July 23, 2011, 09:04:46 PM

I think I bought used copies of I&W, Awake, ACOS, SFAM, and SDOIT all at once. My brother already owned all of those albums, and he got me into DT. Then I bought ToT when it was released.

Metropolis Pt. II · July 23, 2011, 09:30:27 PM

Scenes From a Memory.
I fell in love with that album the first time I heard it. What a tremendous experience that was.

darkshot · July 23, 2011, 10:13:08 PM

The first one I paid for was BC&SL, but I had heard all their previous albums in their entirety before that. I became a fan around the time SC came out, but I hadn't bought any albums at that point.

TL · July 23, 2011, 10:19:29 PM

I got into Dream Theater in the fall of 2004 when a friend of mine showed me the Metropolis 2000 DVD. The first album I actually bought was Octavarium.
In fact, when I met the band in 2009 (I got one of the BC&SL silver tickets), I got them to sign the Metropolis: 2000 DVD, and the Octavarium album (my brother joined me for that show, since he was scouting out apartments in Montreal at the time. In spite of not being a DT fan prior, that concert converted him).

That DVD my friend showed me didn't just expose me to a range of great music I was previously unaware of; it conveyed to me the idea that an artist can be successful without compromising their artistic vision. Currently, I'm studying to make films. I can definitively say right now that if I ever make it as a filmmaker, I will make a point of including DT in my films if they want.

To this day, Octavarium is one of my essential summer albums. Any time I listen to that album, especially The Root Of All Evil, I think of summer at a particular friend's house. Such great memories.

Thank you, Dream Theater. Thanks to your inspiration, you have literally improved my life!

farsight · July 23, 2011, 10:28:03 PM

Train of Thought, I thought it was pretty good.
and then I got I&W, and got my mind blown.
thinking about it, Id sell a kidney to be able to leave an I&W disk on my bed and then erase all memories of DT ala Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and then have to rediscover the whole discography, those were some of the best days of my life.

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