Your favorite 3 back to back to back DT studio albums

[cygnusx1jg]

No live, best of, etc.  They have to be in a row based on when they were released.

Mine are: FII, SFAM, SDoIT.  This is due to liking FII just a little more than ToT.  The other two were "requirements" for me.

Also, what is your ALL-TIME favorite 3 studio albums in a row from any band?

Mine are: Operation: Mindcrime, Empire, and Promised Land (Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, and Moving Pictures are an extremely close second.)

[energythief]

Really should add a poll option.


Mine are Awake, FII, SFAM.


Favorite all time? Probably same as you: Queensryche's O:M, Empire, PL. Although ELO's Time, Secret Messages, Balance of Power is pretty close.

[TAC]

For DT:
WDADU
I&W
Awake

Of all time? Here are my nominees:

Ozzy: Blizzard, Diary & Bark
Rush: Hemispheres, PW, & MP
UFO: No Heavy Petting, Lights Out, & Obsession
Helloween: Keepers Pt1, Keepers Pt 2 & Pink Bubbles
Iron Maiden: DOD, AMOLAD, TFF

[Zyzzyva17]

Dream Theater: Their 3 most recent, actually.

All time: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals

[Kotowboy]

My three favourite in a row ?



Option 1 : Scenes From A Memory  - - > Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - - > Train Of Thought.

Option 2 : Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence - - > Train Of Thought - - > Octavarium.



I'm leaning towards Option 2 only because it includes my favourite Dream Theater album.

[Crow]

I&W, Awake, FII, not really much of a contest for me
though tbh DT doesn't have any spectacular 3-album runs, 2-album is the best they've gotten
SFAM, 6DOIT, ToT is a runner up for 3-album but only about half of 6DOIT is really good so ehh?

[cygnusx1jg]

Which half of SDoIT are you referring to as being really good?

IMO, less than half of ToT is really good.

[Jaffa]

For DT specifically, I'd go with Scenes from a Memory, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, and Train of Thought. 

For all time... that's a bit tougher.  The DT run I just mentioned would be a contender.  Metallica's golden three (RTL, MOP, and AJFA) would be a contender.  So would Muse's Origin of Symmetry, Absolution, and Black Holes and Revelations.  Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, and Powerslave also come to mind. 

I don't know.  Tough call. 

[maximumrocker]

Probably

SFAM, SDoIT, and ToT

Runners up would be
SDoIT, Tot, 8va
or BC&SL, ADToE, and DT12

[jakepriest]

SFAM, SDOIT, TOT

No contest.

[Kotowboy]

For Green Day i'd go


Dookie - Insomniac - Nimrod.


or Nimrod - Warning - American Idiot.

21st Century is my least favourite album by them and I do love the trilogy.

[Prog Snob]

Wasn't this done recently? 

Eh, anyway.  That's a tough call. Images & Words and Awake are my Top 2, so I can either use WDADU or FII. Or I can use Metropolis 2,  6DOIT, and Train of Thought...

Nah..

WDADU, I & W, Awake

[Jaffa]

Yeah, Images and Words is definitively my favorite album, so I hate to leave it out in a poll like this.  But my next three favorite albums are TOT, SFAM, and SDOIT, so that run is just too good not to choose. 

[PROGdrummer]

cool thread

My picks are SDOIT, ToT, Octavarium. That was a good era for the band.

Other band? I'll say Genesis- Foxtrot, Selling England, The Lamb.
and if we arent counting EPs
Between The Buried and Me- Colors, The Great Misdirect, and Future Sequence is an epic trio of albums

[Kotowboy]

Mastodon : You could pretty much pick any consecutive three.

Leviathan - Blood Mountain - Crack The Skye    - what an amazing run.

[?]

Really should add a poll option.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=36427.0

[Daso]

Definitely I&W - Awake - FII. And

All time: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals

[Crow]

Also if we're doing an "all-time" thing too
no contest at all
Oceansize - Effloresce, Everyone Into Position, Frames

well actually that's a lie here's two more
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun, (), Takk...
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I, Remedy Lane, Be

...but yeah I think Oceansize still wins out.
And the PF trio of course is great too.

[As I Am]

My ALL TIME "tri-fecta" of albums are:
Queen II - Sheer Heart Attack & A Night A The Opera

My favorite DT "tri-fecta" of albums are:
Images & Words - Awake & Falling Into Infinity

[Siddhartha]

My ALL TIME "tri-fecta" of albums are:
Queen II - Sheer Heart Attack & A Night A The Opera

+10000

For me, I would  extend that trio to the previous and the next one, to make it a quintet.

[Tom Bombadil]

Dream Theater- I&W, Awake, and FII.

All Time: either the DT one or Genesis: Nursery Crime, Foxtrot, and Selling England by the Pound.

[bl5150]

WDADU, I&W, Awake ................could easily be I&W, Awake, FII though...would definitely be if I could drop those first two FII tracks.


All time (aside from DT) --  need to list a few that are hard to separate:


Queensryche: RFO, Mindcrime, Empire (if I had to pick one)
Savatage: Hall of the Mountain King, Gutter Ballet, Streets
Talisman: s/t Genesis, Humanimal
Def leppard: High'n'Dry, Pyromania, Hysteria
Yngwie: Marching Out, Trilogy, Odyssey
Dokken: Tooth and Nail, Under Lock and Key, Back For The Attack
Joe Satriani: Surfing With The Alien, Flying In a Blue Dream, The Extremist
Ozzy: Madman, BATM, Ultimate Sin

[son_ov_hades]

When Dream And Day Unite, Images And Words, Awake

Non Dream Theater:
Pink Floyd - Meddle, Obscured By Clouds, Dark Side Of The Moon
Genesis - Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot
Metallica - Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets
Rush - 2112, A Farewell To Kings, Hemispheres
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell, Mob Rules, Born Again
Sepultura - Schizophrenia, Beneath The Remains, Arise
Wolves In The Throne Room - Diadem Of 12 Stars, Two Hunters, Black Cascade

I could go on on but that'll do.

[BlobVanDam]

FII - SFAM - SDOIT (#4, #2, #1 respectively), so that one wins very easily. There aren't a lot of 3 back to back albums I consider that awesome, so this would be my all time winner there too. Three incredible albums.

[ThatOneGuy2112]

For DT: SFAM -> SDOIT -> TOT

Of all time? There's just way too many. Dream Theater is still definitely one of them.
Yes (The Yes Album -> Fragile -> Close to the Edge)
Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon -> Wish You Were Here -> Animals)
Metallica (Ride the Lightning -> Master of Puppets -> ...And Justice For All)
Iron Maiden (The Number of the Beast -> Piece of Mind -> Powerslave)
and Rush (2112 -> A Farewell to Kings -> Hemispheres)

[olddtfan51@gmail.com]

for me its  Scenes From A Memory  - - > Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - - > Train Of Thought. 

[Nearmyth]

Gonne have to go with the popular opinion: SFAM - SDOIT - TOT

All time? Well let me see...

Rush: A Farewell To Kings -> Hemispheres -> Permanent Waves

Porcupine Tree: In Absentia -> Deadwing -> Fear of a Blank Planet

Genesis: Foxtrot -> Selling England -> The Lamb (this was really hard because Nursery Cryme is one of my favorite albums by them, but doesn't beat Lamb imo)

Pink Floyd: DSotM -> Wish You Were Here -> Animals (by far).

Steven Wilson: Insurgentes -> Grace For Drowning -> The Raven (  )

King Crimson: Larks' Tongue -> Starless a/ Bible Black -> Red (also really hard because I absolutely love Discipline, but can't leave out Larks)

Just a few of my favorite bands, I can't possibly choose a best.

[Laughingplace56]

Scenes-->Six Degrees-->Train of Thought. All 3 amazing albums, although ToT is edged down by Awake.

[hefdaddy42]

I&W, Awake, FII, not really much of a contest for me

This.

[Elite]

Infinity - Physicist - Terria



But really:

I&W, Awake, FII, not really much of a contest for me

This.

[Octavarious]

Scenes From A Memory  - - > Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - - > Train Of Thought.

This

Plus


All time: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals

[The King in Crimson]

For DT:
Images, Awake, FII

For some other bands:
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon -> Wish You Were Here -> Animals (this one's probably my favorite)
Queensryche: Rage for Order -> Operation: Mindcrime -> Empire (also an incredibly strong run)
Muse: Origin of Symmetry -> Absolution -> Black Holes and Revelations
Metallica: Ride the Lightning -> Master of Puppets -> ...And Justice For All
Led Zeppelin: Zoso -> Houses of the Holy -> Physical Graffiti
Devin Townsend: Terria -> Accelerated Evolution -> Synchestra
Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath -> Paranoid -> Master of Reality
The Mars Volta: Deloused in the Comatorium -> Frances the Mute -> Amputechture
Yes: The Yes Album -> Fragile -> Close to the Edge
Leprous: Tall Poppy Syndrome -> Bilateral -> Coal ()
King Crimson: In The Court of the Crimson King -> In The Wake Of Poseidon -> Lizard

[franklypancakes]

Easily Train of Thought, Octavarium, and Systematic Chaos for me.

[PolarizeMe]

For Dream Theater...

6DOIT - TOT - 8VM
SFAM - 6DOIT - TOT comes a close 2nd

Other bands...there's too many I'll tell you that!

Rush - Permanent Waves - Moving Pictures - Signals
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia - Deadwing - Fear of a Blank Planet
Iron Maiden - Powerslave - Somewhere in Time - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Katatonia - Discouraged Ones - Tonight's Decision - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Death - Human - Individual Thought Patterns - Symbolic
Opeth - Blackwater Park - Deliverance - Damnation
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - Wish You Were Here - Animals
Sonata Arctica - Silence - Winterheart's Guild - Reckoning Night
Stratovarius - Visions - Destiny - Infinite
Yes - The Yes Album - Fragile - Close To The Edge
Mastodon - Leviathan - Blood Mountain - Crack The Skye

[Ruba]

WDADU, IAW, Awake.

Favourite:

Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, With Teeth

Runners-ups:

Bruce Dickinson: Accident of Birth, The Chemical Wedding, Tyranny of Souls (Bruce Dickinson Skunkworks isn't technically Bruce Dickinson album, it was the self-titled album of the band)
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals
Ministry: The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste, ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ, Filth Pig
Rush: A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves
Nightwish: Oceanborn, Wishmaster, Century Child

Sepultura - Schizophrenia, Beneath The Remains, Arise

I prefer Chaos A.D. to Schizophrenia, but  .