Yit Say Jammer's incredibly fanboyish and unnecessarily detailed TOP 50 thread

[Yit Say Jammer]

Ok heaps happening here. Need to just get this over with. I wanted to go ahead and do a full write up but just struggling to come up with time.

10 - Breaking All Illusions

9 - In the name of God

8 - six degrees of inner turbulence

7 - A mind beside itself (yep cheating I know, sue me)

6 - Metropolis pt 1: the miracle and the sleeper

5 - scarred

4 - a change of seasons (has been getting higher and higher)

3 - learning to live

2 - Octavarium

1 - ??

Got to leave one more for you guys to guess.

Who has an idea?

Take the Time?

Why Take the Time is my favourite song:

First of all, I understand how everyone thinks this is a "fun" song but to me it's also an awesome song.

First you have that awesome intro with that killer keyboard solo (one of several).

Second the lyrics written by all members showcases each if them. This is officially out first insight into the style if both LaBrie and Portnoy (and Myung but we also hear from him later in the album)

Third, the third verse is the pinnacle of LaBrie's early album vocal highlights. You can take your f sharps, you can take your "sex is death, death is sex", you can take your "and she listens openly" - it is surpassed easily by this verse. The fact that they skip it when they perform it now should show how incredible it was. The lyrics in this verse are pretty cool too:

"The unbroken spirit,
Obscured and disquiet,
Brings clearness this trial demands.
At the end if the day,
Sighs an anxious relief,
For the fortune lies still in his hands.
If there's pensive fear, a wasted year; a man must learn to cope.
If his obsessions real, suppression that he feels must turn to hope."

Third that instrumental section is amazing. It is the third best in the catalogue, with the only two better being ltl and metropolis (of course). The guitar solo is awesome here, as is the unison section (best unison section) and then the keyboard solo. Unbelievable. The song could have finished after the final chorus and it would have been amazing.

What it does instead is the reason this is number one.

That outro with the gradual build up and the amazing guitar solo. Incredible. I just love it.

I could talk in vivid detail about this song if I had the time but I really don't.

And they is why it's my favourite song.

Hope you enjoyed my list. I'm sorry for the somewhat anti-climactic ending.

[yeah_93]

Solid top 10, except for the number 1. Cheers.

[Crow]

That's probably the highest I've ever seen The Root Of All Evil in a top 50 thread.

oh boy you never saw my thread

and wow TTT as your #1 is sweet too, I have it super high as well. Objectively it's their "best" song but not quite my favorite (that'd be Scarred).

Didn't keep up with this list much to be honest but your top picks make me happy.

[mikemangioy]

That's one really cool top ten. I agree with almost everything 

[ThatOneGuy2112]

Nice top 10. Great list overall!