Favorite/Least Favorite DT record and......

[cygnusx1jg]

....on a scale from 1 to 10, what is the difference between the two?  (No live or bootlegs)

For instance, my fav is SFAM and I give it a 10.  My least fav is WDADU and I give it a 6.5.  So the difference is 3.5.

Expecting many varied responses.  DT fans are the best!!

[Kotowboy]

Favourite = Octavarium 8/10

Least Favourite = When Dream And Day Unite - 4/10*




* I can't give it a lower score than that because whilst i't a bit ragged and it's not Labrie singing - it still has some good songs on it.

[Tom Bombadil]

Favorite- Awake 10/10
Least Favorite- SC 3/10

[Xersiz]

My  Favourite Records are Train of Thought and Black Clouds and Silver Linings which are definitely 10s, and my least favourites are Six Degrees and Falling Into Infinity which are 6 to me. so "4"

[RuRoRul]

Train Of Thought - 10/10
When Dream And Day Unite - 1/10

So 9.

If we restrict it only to Labrie era albums then we are maybe talking about a difference of 2. Although it all depends how you're treating your scale and what you are comparing it to - in the grand scheme of things, all Labrie era DT albums are a 10.

[cygnusx1jg]

If we restrict it only to Labrie era albums then we are maybe talking about a difference of 2. Although it all depends how you're treating your scale and what you are comparing it to - in the grand scheme of things, all Labrie era DT albums are a 10.

If you feel that every album from I&W to DT12 is a 10 out of 10, that's fine.   However, I'd be willing to bet that most DT fans and people on this board especially feel very differently.

[RuRoRul]

If we restrict it only to Labrie era albums then we are maybe talking about a difference of 2. Although it all depends how you're treating your scale and what you are comparing it to - in the grand scheme of things, all Labrie era DT albums are a 10.

If you feel that every album from I&W to DT12 is a 10 out of 10, that's fine.   However, I'd be willing to bet that most DT fans and people on this board especially feel very differently.

Except in my post I said the difference between the best and worst would be 2... (indicating an 8/10 being the lowest).

It's just that there is a difference between the score I'd give an album like Awake when comparing it to the other DT albums, or to other music that I like (the 8/10) and comparing it to the entirety of music in existence.

[yorost]

Train of Thought: 10/10
Octavarium: 3/10

...so 7.

[liran95]

SFAM and SDOIT: 10
WDADU: 7.5

After listening to WDADU and really really paying attention to the music instead of focusing on Dominici, it's a very good album. I highly recommend on listening to When Dream And Day Reunite.

[ZKX-2099]

SFAM: 10
WDADU: 7.5

Charlie aint that bad.

[Nekov]

SFAM: 10
Octavarium: 4 (I was going to give it a 2 but Octavarium the song doesn't deserve that)

[krands85]

I&W - 10
WDADU - 5.

[Dellers]

SFAM: 10
SC: 3

The rest are closer to SFAM than SC.

[jakepriest]

SFAM, TOT, SDOIT: 10
WDADU: 5

[ThatOneGuy2112]

SFAM gets a 10/10 from me. WDADU, a 7/10. So a difference of 3.

If we restrict it only to Labrie era albums then we are maybe talking about a difference of 2. Although it all depends how you're treating your scale and what you are comparing it to - in the grand scheme of things, all Labrie era DT albums are a 10.

I can actually sympathize with this. WDADU is itself a pretty solid album, but comparing it to the rest of DT's catalog, it feels so lack-luster and so much less great by comparison.

[ariich]

Favourite - Six Degrees, 10/10
Least favourite - WDADU, 6/10

[Destiny Of Chaos]

SFAM - 10/10
FII - 7/10

[GasparXR]

SDOIT - 10/10
BC&SL - 7/10

[bl5150]

I&W 10/10
ToT  5/10

[Daso]

I&W 10/10
ToT  5/10

Pretty much.

[TheGreatPretender]

SFAM 10
WDADU 6

[Outcrier]

SDOIT/SFAM - ? (used to be favorites a long time ago)
BCSL - 0  (no desire to ever hear it again)

[Sacul]

Six Degrees 10/10
8VM 3/10

7, great numbah.

[bl5150]

SDOIT/SFAM - ? (used to be favorites a long time ago)
BCSL - 0  (no desire to ever hear it again)

So what's ?-0   

[Zyzzyva17]

Well, by normal arithmetic rules, it should be ?.

[ThatOneGuy2112]

SDOIT/SFAM - ? (used to be favorites a long time ago)
BCSL - 0  (no desire to ever hear it again)

Wat even

[GasparXR]

Well, by normal arithmetic rules, it should be ?.

No, because "?" already represents "?"."?" is an unknown variable, therefore the closest thing to a final answer is "?-0" as it already was.

[BlobVanDam]

SDOIT - 10 (value derived by the fact the album is perfect)
WDADU - 3 (value derived by rating each song individually and finding the average)

[Outcrier]

SDOIT/SFAM - ? (used to be favorites a long time ago)
BCSL - 0  (no desire to ever hear it again)

So what's ?-0   

Just breaking the rules of the topic 
Nah, it's still 1 to 10... ?/10 and 0/10.

EDIT: Let's change my BCLS rating to 1/10 so it fits the "rules of the topic"

[?]

SDOIT/SFAM - ? (used to be favorites a long time ago)

You think I'm as good as those two albums? Thanks...

[Jaffa]

Well, by normal arithmetic rules, it should be ?.

No, because "?" already represents "?"."?" is an unknown variable, therefore the closest thing to a final answer is "?-0" as it already was.

It may be an unknown variable, but subtracting zero from it still isn't going to change it.  The difference between any given number and zero will always be that given number.   1-0=1, 2-0=2, 34,567-0=34,567, x-0=x, y-0=y, z-0=z, and ?-0=?.

Anyway, as for me...

Images and Word: 10/10
Black Clouds and Silver Linings: 6/10. 

BCSL's rating is pretty arbitrary, though, to be honest.   

[haceeb]

Favorite:Metropolis, Awake, Dream Theater, Images and Words, Octavarium, A Dramatic Turn of Events    10/10
In Between: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, When Dream and Day Unite, Train of Thought, Black Clouds & Silver Linings  9/10
Least Favorite:  Systematic Chaos, Falling into Infinity  8/10

[GasparXR]

Well, by normal arithmetic rules, it should be ?.

No, because "?" already represents "?"."?" is an unknown variable, therefore the closest thing to a final answer is "?-0" as it already was.

It may be an unknown variable, but subtracting zero from it still isn't going to change it.  The difference between any given number and zero will always be that given number.   1-0=1, 2-0=2, 34,567-0=34,567, x-0=x, y-0=y, z-0=z, and ?-0=?.

Shit, I wasn't even paying attention to the 0. XD

[Jaffa]

Well, by normal arithmetic rules, it should be ?.

No, because "?" already represents "?"."?" is an unknown variable, therefore the closest thing to a final answer is "?-0" as it already was.

It may be an unknown variable, but subtracting zero from it still isn't going to change it.  The difference between any given number and zero will always be that given number.   1-0=1, 2-0=2, 34,567-0=34,567, x-0=x, y-0=y, z-0=z, and ?-0=?.

Shit, I wasn't even paying attention to the 0. XD

  Well, that'd explain it, then. 

[son_ov_hades]

Scenes From A Memory 10/10
Train Of Thought 2/10

A difference of 8. If Train Of Thought didn't have Stream Of Consciousness I would give it a 1.