Dream Theater Appreciation Thread

[Mosh]

Seriously, this band doesn't get the credit they deserve. Let's hear it for Dream Theater! 


Also, Octavarium is my favorite song ever.

[yeshaberto]

my enthusiasm has only continuously grown for them ever since the first time I heard PMU in 1992...

they are an amazing band they incessantly amazes me.

they are brilliant live to boot

[Dellers]

Dream who? Isn't this the Lady Gaga forum? 

Seriously though, they are widely and deeply appreciated by both myself and many people around me. While I and most others are listening to a lot of stuff that's not even remotely in the same neighborhood as DT, the band seems to be a common midpoint (I'm sure this sounds wrong in English) up here near the North Pole.

[Priest of Syrinx]

They're nice.

[TAC]

Within minutes of them hitting the stage as an unknown band to me in 1992, I had found my new favorite band. Hands down, my most listened to band of my adult life.

[senecadawg2]

Definitely my favorite band, by far. Most of it just never gets old.

[AngelBack]

Life long Rush groupie and was sure no band would ever touch me heart, mind, soul and musically like Rush did.  Then in 2000 I heard Scenes.  I felt like I was cheating on my wife to have a new favorite, but sometimes you follow your heart !!  There are very few days in the last 11 years I have not listened to DT.

[Priest of Syrinx]

It was the late 90's, and a musical fug had descended on me.  I had lost some enthusiasm for music in general, and most of the music I did listen to was Rush, Queen, Santana, SRV... and some stuff I don't even recall.  I mean, I was really restricting the rotation. Then I listened to Images and Words, and it like a wind howled thru the canyons of my musical despair and blew the smog away.  Not only did I become enthused about DT, but I also had a renewed interest and joy in all my music.

[dongringo]

Can't get enough of em! I feel revitalized along with them while listening to ADTOE. Musical bliss!

[theseoafs]

A band of which I hold fond memories and which will surely be missed.

...is how I would classify DT after I started getting really down on them due to the messes that were SC and BC&SL.

But my faith in them was very recently restored.

[Jirpo]

DT is my second favourite band! Amazing...

[ResultsMayVary]

They have been my favorite band for 6 and 1/2 years since the day Octavarium was released. I can't express the love I have for this band and what they've released. Absolutely amazing and it's disturbing that most people don't know who they are.

Long Live Dream Theater!

[Priest of Syrinx]

A band of which I hold fond memories and which will surely be missed.

...is how I would classify DT after I started getting really down on them due to the messes that were SC and BC&SL.

But my faith in them was very recently restored.

I wasn't (and am still not) especially enthused about SC and BC&SL, either.  Yet, I wasn't really down on the band, because I figured that those 2 albums were a "phase" for DT that they would move away from.  So I did have a good deal of optimism prior to the release of ADTOE.

[MasterShakezula]

I haven't been into DT for extremely long (ADTOE was my first new DT album experience), but I can honestly say that they are one of the few things I enjoy as much as I enjoy Rush. 

[theseoafs]

A band of which I hold fond memories and which will surely be missed.

...is how I would classify DT after I started getting really down on them due to the messes that were SC and BC&SL.

But my faith in them was very recently restored.

I wasn't (and am still not) especially enthused about SC and BC&SL, either.  Yet, I wasn't really down on the band, because I figured that those 2 albums were a "phase" for DT that they would move away from.  So I did have a good deal of optimism prior to the release of ADTOE.

Oh, prior to ADTOE I had a tremendous amount of enthusiasm. The whole MP fiasco left me uncertain but they picked a great guy and wrote some great songs. I have never had so much anticipation for an album.

[Priest of Syrinx]

Oh, prior to ADTOE I had a tremendous amount of enthusiasm. The whole MP fiasco left me uncertain but they picked a great guy and wrote some great songs. I have never had so much anticipation for an album.

I hear ya.  I had some extra juice going, too.

[Priest of Syrinx]

I haven't been into DT for extremely long (ADTOE was my first new DT album experience), but I can honestly say that they are one of the few things I enjoy as much as I enjoy Rush.

I finished listening to I&W a few minutes ago, and am now spinning Permanent Waves. 

Yeah, man.

[BlobVanDam]

A Dream Theater appreciation thread on a Dream Theater forum? How delightfully oddball!

I appreciate them very much for writing many of my favourite songs and albums.

[lonestar]

They have been neck and neck with Yes as my favorite band for twenty years.