What are your thoughts on DT12?

[BlobVanDam]

Enigma Machine is ok, but for me it's easily one of their weakest instrumentals (I'd say probably the weakest). It's not even the best instrumental on the album.
I enjoy it enough when listening to the album, but it's fairly simple riffing and soloing, and not too inspired to me. It doesn't have the buildup, the payoff, the melody, the beauty, the creativity etc that I enjoy from their other instrumentals.

[jjrock88]

This is a very addicting album.  I thought ADTOE was a great return to form for the band, but this one is on a different level; for me personally at least.  Just a beautiful piece of art and I just keep going back to this one over and over again.

This is officially the number 2 DT album for me behind Images & Words.  Looking forward to their next live release which will hopefully include many of the s/t tracks.

[JiM-Xtreme]

Today, for the first time, I am listening to tracks from the album out of sequence 

First one I listened to out of sequence was TBP. I didn't even really like that song all that much the first time round, I guess it's grown on me.

[aprilethereal]

This is a very addicting album.  I thought ADTOE was a great return to form for the band, but this one is on a different level; for me personally at least.  Just a beautiful piece of art and I just keep going back to this one over and over again.

Exactly this.

[Elite]

Here's me ranking the songs from 'Dream Theater', two months after the release. From favourite to least favourite, here goes:

The Bigger Picture
Enigma Machine
False Awakening Suite
The Looking Glass
Along For The Ride
Illumination Theory
The Enemy Inside
Behind the Veil
Surrender to Reason

[Onno]

Oh, good idea. Here goes nothing.

Illumination Theory
The Bigger Picture
Along for the Ride
The Enemy Inside
Behind the Veil
Enigma Machine
Surrender to Reason
False Awakening Suite
The Looking Glass

I must say I don't like this album nearly as much as any other DT release and I haven't listened to it enough to be quite sure of my ranking.

[JiM-Xtreme]

Guess I'll follow suit.

Surrender To Reason
Illumination Theory
False Awakening Suite
Enigma Machine
Behind the Veil
The Looking Glass
The Bigger Picture
The Enemy Inside
Along For The Ride

[wolfking]

IT
BTV
TBP
TLG
TEI
STR
EM
FAS
AFTR

[Bolsters]

The Bigger Picture
The Looking Glass
Surrender To Reason
Behind the Veil
Along For The Ride
Illumination Theory
False Awakening Suite
The Enemy Inside
Enigma Machine

[King Postwhore]

Surrender To Reason
The Bigger Picture
The Looking Glass
Behind the Veil
Illumination Theory
The Enemy Inside
Along For The Ride
False Awakening Suite
Enigma Machine

[gmillerdrake]

Today, for the first time, I am listening to tracks from the album out of sequence 

I thought I felt a disturbance in The Force.

[gmillerdrake]

Surrender To Reason
The Bigger Picture
Behind the Veil
The Looking Glass
Illumination Theory
The Enemy Inside
Along For The Ride
Enigma Machine
False Awakening Suite

[Lolzeez]

Illumination Theory
Behind The Veil
Surrender To Reason
The Bigger Picture
The Looking Glass
Along For The Ride
The Enemy Inside











False Awakening Suite
Enigma Machine

[adastra]

The Looking Glass  (Great riffs and good chorus!)
Along For The Ride  (Beautiful ^__^! )


Illumination Theory 
Surrender To Reason
The Bigger Picture
Behind the Veil



False Awakening Suite  (confusing)



The Enemy Inside  (worst single by DT)
Enigma Machine    (worst song by DT)

[bl5150]

The Bigger Picture
Illumination Theory
The Enemy Inside
The Looking Glass
Surrender To Reason (a grower)
Behind The Veil
Along For The Ride
FAS
Enigma Machine

[mikeyd23]

Illumination Theory
Behind The Veil
The Bigger Picture
Surrender To Reason
The Looking Glass
The Enemy Inside
Along For The Ride
Enigma Machine
False Awakening Suite

[Edan the Man]

I'm no good at doing rankings, but I will say The Bigger Picture is definitely my favorite song. Such an incredibly strong song

[Implode]

I just noticed that there isn't one song on the album that I love listening to all the way through. Many of the songs have great parts, but I guess their low parts are just too low to justify me listening to the album a lot.

I still love 90% of IT though. I find it to be a solid epic.

[Tom Bombadil]

The Bigger Picture



Everything else...

[TAC]

Heavily Rush influenced song
Heavily Rush influenced song
Heavily Rush influenced song
Behind the Veil
Illumination Theory
The Enemy Inside
Along For The Ride
False Awakening Suite
Enigma Machine

Makes perfect sense to me, King!

[King Postwhore]

Heavily Rush influenced song
Heavily Rush influenced song
Heavily Rush influenced song
Behind the Veil
Illumination Theory
The Enemy Inside
Along For The Ride
False Awakening Suite
Enigma Machine

Makes perfect sense to me, King!

What the?!

I'm being pigeonholed!! 

[TAC]

Heavily Rush influenced song
Heavily Rush influenced song
Heavily Rush influenced song
Behind the Veil
Illumination Theory
The Enemy Inside
Along For The Ride
False Awakening Suite
Enigma Machine

Makes perfect sense to me, King!

What the?!

I'm being pigeonholed!! 

[King Postwhore]

 

And to answer your question.  it must have!

[JediKnight1969]

After listening to DT12 many, many times, I can say the "problem" (for me) with this record, is I don't feel the NEED to sing the songs. It doesn't move me at all. I can't say anything negative about it musically, it's obviously a great job, but it's kind of cold. This short song format, doesn't work for me. Maybe Mangini was "unleashed", but the others don't. IMHO.

[jayvee3]

False Awakening Suite  (confusing)

Why is it confusing? It's a cinematic little piece used as an album opener, and to open concerts of the current tour. Pretty straightforward really..

[hefdaddy42]

I'm being pigeonholed!! 

Did you at least get kissed first?

[jakepriest]

The Bigger Picture
Surrender To Reason
IT minus the ambient and orchestral part
Behind The Veil
The Enemy Inside




Enigma Machine
The Looking Glass
Along for the Ride
IT as a whole with the ambient/orchestral part
False Awakening Suite

[King Postwhore]

I'm being pigeonholed!! 

Did you at least get kissed first?

Nope.  One can only wish Hef.

[adastra]

False Awakening Suite  (confusing)

Why is it confusing? It's a cinematic little piece used as an album opener, and to open concerts of the current tour. Pretty straightforward really..

There's so much stuff in it   It is like SDOIT Overture compressed to 3 mins.   
maybe if those "Melodies" would have some space to breathe,  (meaning that they wouldn't change so fast) I'd like it.

[TheGreatPretender]

False Awakening Suite not only packs a whole bunch of music into tiny 3 minutes, it also packs a whole lot of awesomeness. Definitely one of the best album openers.

[BlobVanDam]

False Awakening Suite not only packs a whole bunch of music into tiny 3 minutes, it also packs a whole lot of awesomeness. Definitely one of the best album openers.

I think it works perfectly for an album opener, especially for a self titled album. It's actually one of my favourite tracks from the album, top 2 or 3 for me.

[adastra]

False Awakening Suite not only packs a whole bunch of music into tiny 3 minutes, it also packs a whole lot of awesomeness. Definitely one of the best album openers.

I think it works perfectly for an album opener, especially for a self titled album. It's actually one of my favourite tracks from the album, top 2 or 3 for me.

Yeah, U could say that.  But I'd also say that it would ONLY work as an album opener   Think about in the middle of the album.. haha 
I don't mean that I hate it.  I just find it "weird" ...

I don't like really much what comes after FAS.  TEI isn't my favourite DT Single

[TheGreatPretender]

Yeah, U could say that.  But I'd also say that it would ONLY work as an album opener   Think about in the middle of the album.. haha 
I don't mean that I hate it.  I just find it "weird" ...

I don't like really much what comes after FAS.  TEI isn't my favourite DT Single

Well, maybe it would sound a little weird in the middle of a playlist, but it's still good to listen to all by itself. It is a stand alone piece that doesn't necessarily feel like it's leading into anything.
Regression, on the other hand, would sound weird in the middle of a playlist, AND it's too brief to stand strongly all on its own.

[cyberdrummer]

It pains me to say it, but I made an edit of Illumination Theory - in which I cut out pretty much the entire ambient and string section - and it has made it a much better song for me. It now flows a lot better and is a very solid track of 17:50 mins.

[PixelDream]

I was totally crazy about the album when it came out.

Now it's a lot different. I'm not playing the album at all anymore. All I listen to when it comes to DT, is Awake.

Probably a defect on my part. The album's pretty good. It's just that I don't have the desire to hear it anymore. I'll just let it rest.

I have to say this marks the first time that a new DT record isn't in my top 10 albums of the year. Maybe it's my personal tastes moving towards somewhere else.