What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Wait... Seoafs? Your user name is supposed to be "The Seoafs"? I've been reading it as "These oafs." 

You've been reading it right. It's not the seoafs.

[TheGreatPretender]

Then why did Bosk call him "Mr. Seoafs"?

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Cuz the boss is wrong.

[Ben_Jamin]

About to Crash (reprise)
Solitary Shell
Goodnight Kiss
About to Crash
War Inside My Head/Test That Stumped Them All
Losing Time(grand finale)
Overture

[bosk1]

Then why did Bosk call him "Mr. Seoafs"?

Inside [forum] joke.

Beware the seoafs!  BEWARE! 

[TheGreatPretender]

I feel so left out now. 

[bosk1]

On a somewhat more on topic note, Six Degrees is my favorite song, but I got kinda burned out on it and haven't spun it much for quite awhile.  Thanks to this thread, I'm listening to it right now and loving it. 

As for ranking the movements, if we're doing that now:
1.  War Inside My Head - I can't say I consider it the "best" movement, but I probably do consider it my favorite.  And I actually like that it's fairly short.  It's metal, and leaves me wanting more.
2.  Losing Time/Grand Finale - I remember the first time the lyrics in this movement really clicked and tied up all the random parts of this song, and I realized the subtle genius of what the song is actualy about.  Just epic.  Still gives me chills to this day. 
3.  ATC (reprise) - Bringing back the original ATC, both in lyrics and music, really makes this monster of a song start to feel somewhat unified.  Plus, great intro riff.
4.  ATC - Yeah.  Just really good.
5.  The Test That Stumped Them All -
6.  Solitary Shell - Who woulda thought that DT could to Green Day better than Green Day?  Really good.
7.  Goodnight Kiss - My least favorite movement.  It has some great moments, but I agree with TheGreatPretender that it feels like it kills the momentum of the song.  Still, not a bad movement by any means, and the guitar solo is indeed epic.
8.  Overture - Not bad.  But as someone else said, it's almost not really even fair to include it in a ranking.  It's an overture.  It does its job.  End of story.

[Adami]

I almost never listen to the song. To be honest I  have no idea why. I have 0 complaints about either About to Crashes (except the Jackie one, she sucks), or War Inside my Head or any of them beyond Losing time and Overture. My only complaint about losing time is that the end of it is rather...cliche and DT has essentially done that exact same type of section 3-4 times now. As far as Overture goes, it's not that it's bad....it's that it's way too long. And if I wanted to listen to Wagner, I'd listen to Wagner.

[Jaffa]

Thanks to this thread, I'm listening to it right now and loving it. 

Though I'm not sure I can agree with Solitary shell being Green Day-esque.

[Ruba]

The Test That Stumped Them All. Solitary Shell is also great.

[Dublagent66]

I have a lot of favorite parts but Overture is what breathes life into the rest of the song and it's brilliantly written.  Every time I listen, it doesn't seem like 42 mins long.  Too many favorite parts to mention.

[Scorpion]

I listened to the whole song again, and I think that I have found new appreciation of the Overture. It's still the weakest part of the song, but it's pretty good, imho.

[Priest of Syrinx]

I just listened to the concept album again, and I think it's a wonderful collection of songs. 

[wolfking]

The Test That Stumped Them All

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Six Degrees is fucking amazing. The album and the song.

[nicmos]

I listened to the whole song again, and I think that I have found new appreciation of the Overture. It's still the weakest part of the song, but it's pretty good, imho.

Funny story, but 100% true.  For a long time I didn't listen to SDOIT disc 2, because every time I started, I would hear the overture, and it sounded like some bad version of a broadway overture done on a synth, and I was like "what is this stupid shit?  Dream Theater has lost their way..." and turn it off.  It wasn't until after Octavarium came out that I started actually listening to it consistently.

Now that composition/collection of songs/megasong is the one disc I would take with me to a dessert island over all others to listen to for the rest of eternity.

Moral of the story:  the overture is the least-good part of the whole thing, and you need to get past the cheesy synth parts.

[ResultsMayVary]

I treat the entire song as one, so I hate choosing between the eight movements. But, if I had to, it would be Solitary Shell being my favorite. Mostly for the instrumental at the end.

[snapple]

the part when its over

[Zook]

Solitary Shell

or

Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (because it's one song)

[Lolzeez]

Voted for Solitary Shell before I saw the option for all of them.