Rank the DT albums.

[XB0BX]

I'm doing this mainly to once again profess my love for the albums that everyone else seems to hate.

1) I&W
2) SC
3) BC&SL
4) Awake
5) SFaM
6) DToE
7) 6 Degrees
8) Octavarium
9) ToT
10) WDaDU
11) FII

I love every song on albums 2 and 3, I still can't phathom what you guys are thinking. Opinions can be a crazy thing.

[BlobVanDam]

perfect
SDOIT
SFaM
I&W

awesome
FII
ToT (it was a toss up to put this either here or at the top of the next "tier")

great
SC
Octavarium
BC&SL
ADTOE

never gets listened to
Awake

don't even consider it a real DT album
WDaDU


btw, I love SC and BCASL, and they have several songs in my top 20. I rank plenty higher, but that's based on the strength of those other albums, and not weakness of SC/BCASL.

[ResultsMayVary]

SDOIT
I&W
SFAM
ADTOE

8VM
Awake
FII

ToT
BC&SL
SC
WDADU

[theseoafs]

Perfect:
I&W
SFAM
SDOIT

Great:
A Dramatic Turn of Events
Train of Thought
Falling into Infinity
Octavarium
Awake

Good:
Black Clouds and Silver Linings

Yuck:
Systematic Chaos

Retcon'd:
WDADU

[Syzzle]

Perfect
SDOIT
SFAM

Almost Perfect
I&W
Awake

Great
ADTOE
FII
TOT

Decent
8VM
BC&SL

Meh
SC
WDADU

[Jay.Ess]

1) Images & Words
2) Train of Thought
3) When Dream And Day Unite
4) A Dramatic Turn of Events
5) Octavarium
6) Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
7) Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes From A Memory
8) Systematic Chaos
9) Awake
10) Black Clouds & Silver Linings
11) Falling Into Infinity

That was difficult. I enjoy every Dream Theater album, each one has its own charm.

[Ħ]

1) Scenes From a Memory
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2) Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
3) Falling Into Infinity
4) Train of Thought
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5) Images and Words
6) A Dramatic Turn of Events
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7) Octavarium
8) Awake
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9) Black Clouds and Silver Linings
10) Systematic Chaos
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11) When Dream and Day Unite

[Zydar]

1. Images And Words
2. Scenes From A Memory
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3. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
4. A Dramatic Turn Of Events
5. Awake
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6. Octavarium
7. Falling Into Infinity
8. Train Of Thought
9. Black Clouds And Silver Linings
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10. Systematic Chaos
11. When Dream And Day Unite

[wasteland]

Images And Words
A Dramatic Turn Of Events
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Scenes From A Memory
Awake
Falling Into Infinity
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Six Degrees Of Inner Turboulence
Black Clouds And Silver Linings
When Dream And Day Unite
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Train Of Though
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Systematic Chaos
Octavarium

[Fran521]

1.Images and Words
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2.Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
3.Scenes From a Memory
4.Awake
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5.A Dramatic Turn of Events
6.Octavarium
7.Train of Thougt
8.Black Clouds & Silver Linings
9.Falling Into Infinity
10.Systematic Chaos
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11.When Dream And Day Unite

[Jamariquay]

Good:

Images and Words
Scenes From A Memory
Awake
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
A Dramatic Turn Of Events

OK:

Train Of Thought
Falling Into Infinity

Meh:

Octavarium
Systematic Chaos
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
When Dream and Day Unite

[Estiui]

1) Images and Words
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2) Awake
3) Scenes from a memory
4) A dramatic turn of events
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5) 6DOIT
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6) Train of thought
7) Falling into infinity
8) Octavarium
9) BC&SL
10) Systematic Chaos
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11) WDADU

[Mladen]

1. Scenes from a memory
2. Images and words
- - - - - -
3. Awake
4. A Dramatic turn of events
- - - - - -
5. Six degrees of inner turbulence
6. Systematic chaos
7. Black clouds & silver linings
- - - - - -
8. Train of thought
9. Octavarium
- - - - - -
10. When dream and day unite
- - - - - -
11. Falling into infinity

[?]

Awake (my favorite by far, will probably always remain my #1 DT album)
Images
Events
Degrees
Scenes
WD&DU
Train
Octa
Clouds
Infinity
Chaos

Scenes often switches places with 6D. TOT and 8V are also rotating positions depending on my mood.

[Ħ]

^ That is an odd but strangely cool way to abbreviate the albums.

[Dreamer81]

Images And Words
A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Scenes From A Memory
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Awake
Falling Into Infinity
Six Degrees Of Inner Turboulence
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Train Of Thought
When Dream And Day Unite
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Systematic Chaos
Octavarium
Black Clouds And Silver Linings

[BlackInk]

01 - Six Gegrees of Inner Turbulence
02 - A Dramatic Turn of Events
03 - Train of Thought
04 - Systematic Chaos
05 - Octavarium
06 - Images & Words
07 - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory
08 - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
09 - Awake
10 - Falling Into Infinity
11 - When Dream and Day Unite

This isn't the order I would pick if I just wrote the list on how I felt. This list is a result of how high the individual songs of each album is placed in my song rankings. The rank of every song on one album divided by how many songs which gives the album avarage and the lesser avarage song ranking the higher it goes on the album rankings.

[Phoenix87x]

1. Images and Words
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2. Scenes from a Memory
3. Awake
4. A dramatic Turn of Events
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5. WDADU
6. Train of Thought
7. Falling into Infinity
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8. SDOIT
9. Octavarium
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10. Systematic Chaos
11. Black Clouds and Silver Linings

[Ruba]

never gets listened to
Awake

Seems like we have a lot to discuss on this album...

1.Awake 5/5
2.Images and Words 5-/5
3.Metropolis pt.2: The Miracle and the Sleeper 5-/5
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4.Falling into Infinity 4,5/5
5.When Dream and Day Unite 4+/5
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6.Train of Thought 4-/5
7.Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 3,5/5
8.A Dramatic Turn of Events 3,5/5
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9.Black Clouds & Silver Linings 3/5
10.Octavarium 3-/5
11.Systematic Chaos 2,5/5

[RuRoRul]

1. Train Of Thought
2. Images And Words
3. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

4. A Dramatic Turn Of Events
5. Black Clouds And Silver Linings
6. Scenes From A Memory

7. Falling Into Infinity
8. Octavarium
9. Systematic Chaos
10. Awake

11. When Dream And Day unite

7-10 and 4-6 are pretty much interchangeable, the order I end up listing them in usually just depends on what are my current favourites (e.g. normally FII ends up last and Octavarium lower and SFAM as #4).

[krands85]

1. Images and Words
2. Train of Thought

3. A Dramatic Turn of Events

4. Octavarium
5. Scenes From a Memory
6. Awake

7. Systematic Chaos
8. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

9. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
10. Falling into Infinity
11. When Dream and Day Unite

[?]

^ That is an odd but strangely cool way to abbreviate the albums.

I thought it'd be more interesting than just using normal abbreviations like BC&SL, SFAM etc

[fibreoptix]

Alright, let's give this a go... as it stands...

1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
2. A Dramatic Turn of Events
3. Falling Into Infinity
4. Octavarium
5. Scenes From a Memory
6. Images and Words
7. Train of Thought
8. Awake
9. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
10. When Dream and Day Unite
11. Systematic Chaos

AS IT STANDS... it's always changing. I'm really bad at maintaining a consistent list. In fact the only constant for some time has been Six Degrees.

[yorost]

Great, regular listens.
1. Train of Thought
2. Awake
3. Scenes From a Memory

Good, but some faults.  Not spun as much.
4. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Disc 1 alone would be in the great tier)
5. Images and Words

Nice listens on occasion, have to be in the mood.
6. Falling Into Infinity
7. A Dramatic Turn of Events
8. Systematic Chaos

Rarely desire to hear whole album.  Enjoy notable stretches on occasion.
9. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
10. When Dream and Day Unite

Terrible, might get it out to listen to a particular song.
11. Octavarium

[Jaffa]

1. Images and Words
2. Train of Thought
3. Scenes from a Memory
4. Awake
5. A Dramatic Turn of Events
6. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
7. Systematic Chaos
8. Octavarium
9. Falling Into Infinity
10. When Dream and Day Unite
11. Black Clouds and Silver Linings

Something like that.  It changes frequently - and keep in mind that I still really like BC&SL. 

[Tomislav95]

1. Awake
2. Images & Words
3. Metropolis Part 2: SFAM
4. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
5. A Dramatic Turn of Events
6. Train of Thought
7. Octavarium
8. Falling into Infinity
9. Systematic Chaos
10. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
11. When Day and Dream Unite

[Nekov]

1. Metropolis Part 2: SFAM
2. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
3. Images & Words
4. Awake
5. Falling into Infinity
6. When Day and Dream Unite
7. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
8. A Dramatic Turn of Events
9. Train of Thought
10. Systematic Chaos
11. Octavarium

[Freeze]

1.Images And Words
2.Scenes From A Memory
3.Awake
4.Octavarium
5.When Day And Dream Unite
6.A Dramatic Turn Of Events
7.Falling Into Infinity
8.Black Clouds & Silver Linings
9.Train Of Thought
10.Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
11.Systematic Chaos

[KevShmev]

1. Awake

2. Images and Words
3. Scenes from a Memory

4. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
5. A Dramatic Turn of Events
6. Falling into Infinity


7. When Dream and Day Unite
8. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
9. Train of Thought



10. Systematic Chaos
11. Octavarium

[King Postwhore]

1. Images and Words
2. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
3. Scenes from a Memory

4. A Dramatic Turn of Events
5. Octavarium
6. Falling into Infinity

7. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
8. Awake
9. Train of Thought

10. Systematic Chaos
11. When Dream and Day Unite

[The Letter M]

Great:
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Scenes From A Memory
Images And Words

Really Good:
Octavarium
Awake
Falling Into Infinity
Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Good:
Train Of Thought
Systematic Chaos

Okay:
When Dream And Day Unite

-Marc.

[Lashie]

perfect
SDOIT
SFaM
I&W

awesome
FII
ToT (it was a toss up to put this either here or at the top of the next "tier")

great
SC
Octavarium
BC&SL
ADTOE

never gets listened to
Awake

don't even consider it a real DT album
WDaDU


btw, I love SC and BCASL, and they have several songs in my top 20. I rank plenty higher, but that's based on the strength of those other albums, and not weakness of SC/BCASL.

You don't like Awake?!

[Nick]

Holy resurrection batman.

[Metrovarium]

Perfect:
I&W
SDOIT

Great:
Awake
ADTOE
8VM
SFAM

Good:
BC&SL
WDADU
TOT

Poor:
SC
FII

[Frost134]

1. SC
2. I&W
3. SFAM
4.Awake
5.SDOIT
6. ToT
7. ADTOE
8. 8vm
9. FII
10.BC&SL
11.WDADU