What song/s made you a DT fan?

Sir Walrus Cauliflower · May 02, 2014, 08:37:14 AM

Quote from: Laughingplace56 on May 01, 2014, 09:36:21 PM
started to learn how music didn't have to live in the restraints of 4/4 timing and could extend into different, beautiful realms of odd time signatures and obtuse arrangements.

Yeah. Before ADTOE I had never really heard things in time sigs other than 4/4, so I was really thrown off, but amazed by how technical they were.
I remember trying to drum along in the car on the night of my 13th birthday on my way to Red Robin... I was so confused.

Newmz · May 02, 2014, 12:43:34 PM

I had to make a post for this...

This was last year, in a sound recording class I was taking in high school. my teacher (who is now the drummer in a group I'm in, and we're playing TDoE in two hours!) wanted to show an example of some recording technique I forgot about and played the beginning of in the name of god for the class. Holy crap, I got hooked from that point on. This band was awesome. From there I just youtubed Dream Theater and found a couple other ones, but the moment I became a rabid fan was when I heard Octavarium for the first time. Petrucci had me at the high F.

Daso · May 02, 2014, 12:51:28 PM

I first heard Pull Me Under and thought it was pretty good, but then I heard Take the Time and that was it for me. Everything about it was just spectacular.

RoeDent · May 02, 2014, 12:54:26 PM

Octavarium. Couldn't get enough of the ending in particular. Then I found out more about how it ties the album together, and its concept and all, and fell in love with it even more.

kiwiclapton · May 02, 2014, 01:03:35 PM

No one song, the entire record Awake did the job nicely ,

jakepriest · May 02, 2014, 02:00:50 PM

As I Am got me interested and ITNOG completely made me obsessed with the band. I remember just listening to TOT on repeat for hours straight.

The Holy Tune · May 02, 2014, 02:49:37 PM

Lie got me into it. I was way into Queen by then and I loved their 70's which was the proggiest period of them. After hearing Lie, I heard something off I&W (I guess it was Metropolis). All the changes in the songs and the kick-ass vocals, the gentle harshness at almost each song got me more into it

perfectchaos180 · May 02, 2014, 04:32:58 PM

My friend sent me Fatal Tragedy, and I was love with it immediately. However, when I tried listening to the whole album it didn't grab me that much. Then I listened to Train of Thought and got sucked in for good. (I was coming from a heavier background so that's why ToT was useful, Scenes is definitely my favorite).

hefdaddy42 · May 03, 2014, 05:15:35 AM

Quote from: kingshmegland on May 01, 2014, 06:16:59 PM
Heard Pull Me Under on the radio in 92 and I had to have the album.

And boom goes the dynamite.

fsh3702 · May 03, 2014, 07:38:46 AM

6:00, i still remember that day, it's sunny, i was having lunch in my office and downloading some music online.

after i finished the download, i put my headphone on my ear to have my first DT adventure, what i downloaded is <awake>.

when the melody of 6:00 flew into my ear, i was very astonished, excited, i almost cannot express my feeling properly at that moment,

it felt like my whole life has changed forever.

at that day i listened this song until midnight.

Cable · May 03, 2014, 02:29:33 PM

New Millennium.

dragonmaster715 · May 03, 2014, 04:10:42 PM

Whats funny is that I heard the first half of SFAM back 4 years or so ago, but it somehow wasn't enough to get me into DT. I only got into DT a year or two after that when I heard The Ministry of Lost Souls. I basically got SC entirely because I loved that one song, and Ive been hooked ever since.

54_diplomats · May 03, 2014, 09:40:45 PM

Panic Attack (on rock band 2 lol...) got me into them, but Octavarium (album) and The Glass Prison made me into a fan.

Now when I first heard Metropolis pt.1, DT officially became my favorite band.

tiagodon · May 04, 2014, 02:57:59 AM

None.
A live performance did!
I was not even a rock prog fan when I was sitting there waiting for this band called Dream Theater to show up.
In the middle of the the show I was like: "Wow, I want to be like that when I grow up!"

When I got home I threw all my Guns N Roses cds in the garbage can!

Enalya · May 04, 2014, 01:08:09 PM

A Nightmare To Remember. Watched Score after that and couldn't close my eyes and mouth during the full length of it (

) Must've looked charming.

ErHaO · May 04, 2014, 02:37:49 PM

I heard Dark Eternal Night at youtube and liked it. Listened to the song pretty frequently but never bothered to check out the rest. Then, a year later or so I just bought the Images and Words CD randomly and liked it as well. Same story, listened to it some times and never really checked out the other albums.

Then, at some point I wanted to buy a new live recording of a(ny) band and saw Score and Live at Budokan in the stores. After seeing a fragment of both DVD's (there was this computer in the store where you could scan the products to see a trailer/teaser) I chose Score. I absolutely loved the whole DVD and decided to check out their other stuff.

But I still was not really a fan. That just happened gradually over the years I guess.

GasparXR · May 04, 2014, 02:45:36 PM

Quote from: Enalya on May 04, 2014, 01:08:09 PM
A Nightmare To Remember. Watched Score after that and couldn't close my eyes and mouth during the full length of it ( ) Must've looked charming.

I generally feel that way about Score every time I watch it. Probably because I always put myself into a zen state beforehand with all the lights off, and then I get completely absorbed. The atmospheric intro of TROAE probably contributes to that.

Enalya · May 04, 2014, 03:50:12 PM

Quote from: GasparXR on May 04, 2014, 02:45:36 PM
Quote from: Enalya on May 04, 2014, 01:08:09 PM
A Nightmare To Remember. Watched Score after that and couldn't close my eyes and mouth during the full length of it ( ) Must've looked charming.

I generally feel that way about Score every time I watch it. Probably because I always put myself into a zen state beforehand with all the lights off, and then I get completely absorbed. The atmospheric intro of TROAE probably contributes to that.

Haha similar yes, it kinda became a holy moment to me

Still can't grasp the brilliance of it.
Only downside I could name is the appearance of JLB and JP there - I like it better how they look nowadays. But that's of no importance to the music at all

Phoenix87x · May 04, 2014, 06:36:47 PM

Not specifically a single song really. It was all of TOT that cemented my love for the band.

clinks63 · May 05, 2014, 02:29:29 AM

surrounded
under a glass moon

Zydar · May 05, 2014, 02:30:57 AM

Pretty much all of Images And Words.

Shadow Ninja 2.0 · May 05, 2014, 06:20:26 AM

Quote from: tiagodon on May 04, 2014, 02:57:59 AM
None.
A live performance did!
I was not even a rock prog fan when I was sitting there waiting for this band called Dream Theater to show up.
In the middle of the the show I was like: "Wow, I want to be like that when I grow up!"
When I got home I threw all my Guns N Roses cds in the garbage can!

What kind of live performance was that, where they didn't play any songs?

tiagodon · May 05, 2014, 06:35:40 AM

Quote from: Shadow Ninja 2.0 on May 05, 2014, 06:20:26 AM
Quote from: tiagodon on May 04, 2014, 02:57:59 AM
None.
A live performance did!
I was not even a rock prog fan when I was sitting there waiting for this band called Dream Theater to show up.
In the middle of the the show I was like: "Wow, I want to be like that when I grow up!"
When I got home I threw all my Guns N Roses cds in the garbage can!

What kind of live performance was that, where they didn't play any songs?

That was really weird! They just stood there, for 3 hours and a half, looking at us and teaching some crazy riffs and stuff.

But seriously, no particular song hooked me. I didn´t even know the names of the songs. What hooked me was the overall experience of watching those guys play.

docsp76 · May 05, 2014, 09:28:50 AM

I liked Pull Me Under when I heard it in 92 but it was when I was driving home from St. Louis one night in 94 and I heard Lie on the radio. I was like "What the fuck is this guy tuned down to?!" Then they said it was DT and I went out and bought Awake and fell in love.

Nefarius · May 06, 2014, 07:16:34 AM

I got SFAM as a birthday present from a friend without knowing DT at all. She knew what music and bands I was into, so she must have guessed it would fit my tastes. Damn, she was right! From the tick tock of Regression to the turntable static of Finally Free it was one intense experience that opened new musical doors for me. I bought the other albums over the next few months. Thanks Stefanie!

Greetings...
Nef

sylvinception · May 07, 2014, 07:04:19 AM

The first track of the album that make me fall in love with this band == >> "6:00"!!

I let you guess of what album I'm talking...

Lowdz · May 07, 2014, 01:44:26 PM

The whole of WDADU. It wasn't one particular song, just the whole damn thing.
Then PMU came along.

haceeb · May 07, 2014, 08:58:24 PM

Mine were: Space-Dye Vest, Endless Sacrifice, Stream of Consciousness, Fatal Tragedy, Panic Attack, Octavarium, Pull Me Under, Tears (Rush cover)
Then I explored more of their stuff and became a DT Lunatic

soulburner · May 08, 2014, 08:07:53 AM

The first Dream Theater song that made me a fan was Learning To Live. I have heard Train Of Thought before but didn't really like it. But Learning To Live... it was almost a life changing event

BlueRoseOrchestra · May 08, 2014, 06:05:23 PM

i was first exposed to DT in 2009. at that time it was Ministry of Lost Souls and Count of Tuscany. then i worked my way through all of their albums. after seeing them live last month i started to dig their debut album.

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What song/s made you a DT fan?