your top 10 Dreamtheater songs

mimipetrucci · June 25, 2015, 05:32:48 AM

it's really hard to choose top 10 because lot of their songs are impressive

i think their good melodic songs for me are

-hollow years
-spirit carries on
-wither
-home
-another day
-endless sacrifice
-surrounded
-through her eyes
-octavarium

instrumental/technical songs:

enigma machine
glass prison
erotomania
dance of eternity
breaking all illusion
etc

even mike portnoy was left nothing changed.dramatic turn of events album is blow my mind too.

Stadler · June 25, 2015, 05:33:02 AM

I have a list on here somewhere and I agonized over it, and I'm not doing that again. I do know that Number One is "Cover My Eyes", and somewhere in there is "To Live Forever", "Fatal Tragedy", "I Walk Beside You" and "This Is The Life".

mimipetrucci · June 25, 2015, 05:37:28 AM

paradigm shift
universal mind
another dimension
when the water breaks
acid rain

liquid tension songs are more mind blowing so technical./

zecawolf · June 25, 2015, 06:02:59 AM

Liquiid Tension, technically awesome as it is, does not appeal to me at all.

mimipetrucci · June 25, 2015, 06:12:40 AM

before i usually play loud/intense music but as we mature and lose the need for peer approval we become more inclined to unpretentious or sophisticated music such as jazz and classical pieces

zecawolf · June 25, 2015, 06:19:40 AM

Actually, I think it's the other way around. When we mature it's when we do not feel the need to play such things, and we start to play what we actually LIKE. If I understood correctly what you meant.

OsMosis2259 · June 25, 2015, 06:21:42 AM

Quote from: zecawolf on June 24, 2015, 05:22:51 PM
are you pointing out that it is just a part of SDOIT? If so, I prefer to look at that separately, because there are some "songs" in it that I do not like so much....

Same here.
I don't look at SDOIT as "one" song. I see it as a song cycle similar to Porcupine Tree - The Incident, Meshuggah-Catch 33, or even A Mind Beside Itself.

I think it's totally fine for you to put Solitary Shell as it's own song because it is.

TheOutlawXanadu · June 25, 2015, 06:24:47 AM

In chronological order:

Metropolis
Learning to Live
Voices
A Change of Seasons
Lines in the Sand
Trial of Tears
The Spirit Carries On
Blind Faith
Misunderstood
Octavarium

hefdaddy42 · June 25, 2015, 06:34:29 AM

Quote from: Stadler on June 25, 2015, 05:33:02 AM
I have a list on here somewhere and I agonized over it, and I'm not doing that again.

Same here. I may try to find it when I get time.

Zydar · June 25, 2015, 06:40:45 AM

Quote from: zecawolf on June 25, 2015, 06:02:59 AM
Liquiid Tension, technically awesome as it is, does not appeal to me at all.

Me neither. I have no interest in instrumental music.

mimipetrucci · June 25, 2015, 07:00:34 AM

technically on how petrucci playing solos at 1000 notes per minute.

wasteland · June 25, 2015, 07:24:52 AM

1. Learning To Live
2. Metropolis
3. Trial Of Tears
4. Breaking All Illusions
5. Scarred
6. Take The Time
7. Surrounded
8. Eve
9. Finally Free
10. The Bigger Picture

ThatOneGuy2112 · June 25, 2015, 08:01:33 AM

1. Metropolis, Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper
2. A Change of Seasons
3. Scarred
4. Learning to Live
5. Finally Free
6. Octavarium
7. Misunderstood
8. Breaking All Illusions
9. Home
10. Blind Faith

Something like that.

CharlesPL · June 25, 2015, 09:17:05 AM

1. Learning To Live
2. Metropolis
3. A Change of Seasons
4. Trial of Tears
5. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
6. Octavarium
7. Surrounded
8. Another Day
9. Illumination Theory
10. Take The Time/In the Name of God/ The Count of Tuscany (Can't decide)

Octavarious · June 25, 2015, 02:35:45 PM

My first ten picks in no particular order

Octavarium
A Change of Seasons
The Count of Tuscany
A mind besides itself
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Learning to Live
Home
The Spirit Carries on
Breaking all Illusions
This is the Life

Crow · June 25, 2015, 03:47:58 PM

i'll do this for realsies tho

1. Scarred
2. Take The Time
3. The Root of All Evil
4. The Mirror
5. Disappear
6. Breaking All Illusions
7. Voices
8. Lines in the Sand
9. Hell's Kitchen
10. A Change of Seasons

or something like that I haven't listened to much DT lately so this is is basically just my top 10 from like two years ago

mrrct · June 25, 2015, 05:08:23 PM

I won't defend my picks, since nobody else is defending theirs.

1. The Spirit Carries On
2. Metropolis Pt. 1
3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (the whole suite)
4. The Count of Tuscany
5. Forsaken
6. Take the Time
7. Learning to Live
8. Pull Me Under
9. The Root of All Evil
10. Space Dye Vest

Honorable Mention: The remainder of Images and Words in its entirety (except Another Day); Caught In A Web, The Silent Man, Lifting Shadows Off A Dream, and Scarred; A Change of Seasons; Trial of Tears; most of the remainder of Scenes From A Memory; Blind Faith; As I Am, This Dying Soul and Endless Sacrifice, In the Presence of Enemies Pt. 1 and The Dark Eternal Night; A Nightmare to Remember; Bridges in the Sky; The Enemy Inside and Illumination Theory.

Finally, if part of a suite is presented as its own track number on a CD, it should be able to count as a song for this exercise. I only included all of Six Degrees because it is played live in its entirety (at least parts II. through VIII.), is presented as only one track on Score, and is brilliant from beginning to end.

CDrice · June 25, 2015, 05:43:19 PM

Man, that's actually harder to chose than it seems.

Let's see... I know my top 2 are Hell's Kitchen and Learning to Live. I'm not sure which is number 1 and which is 2 though...

As for the others, here's a list of the songs that could potentially make my top ten:
The Killing Hand with young James on vocals
Take The Time and Wait for Sleep
The Mirror and Lifting Shadows of a Dream
Peruvian Skies
Home
The whole first CD of Six Degrees
Vacant and In the Name of God
Sacrificed Sons
A Nightmare to Remember
Bridges in the Sky
The Bigger Picture and Illumination Theory (mostly due to the first 2 movements)

Unfortunately, I really can't narrow it down more than that... let alone rank them

LCArenas · June 25, 2015, 06:58:32 PM

No particular order. These are my favorite DT songs as of today, the list always keeps changing.

Octavarium
Blind Faith
A Change of Seasons
Voices
Learning to Live
Breaking all Illusions
Hell's Kitchen
Lines in the Sand
Surrounded
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Under a Glass Moon

Yes, that would make it 11. I just think it would be a crime to leave any of these out of the list.

Darkstarshades · June 27, 2015, 12:05:22 AM

Scenes from a Memory as a whole, that's it
Overture 1928 is part of Strange Deja Vu.
Through my Words is part of Fatal Tragedy.

There we go

1.- Regression
2.- Overture Deja vu
3.- Through my Tragedy
4.- Beyond This Life
5.- Through Her Eyes
6.- Home
7.- The Dance of Eternity
8.- One Last Time (Kicks so much ass it isn't part of The Dance of Eternity, it's a coincidence, don't get yourselves fooled)
9.- The Spirit Carries On
10.- Finally Free

There you go.

BlobVanDam · June 27, 2015, 12:08:44 AM

Quote from: mrrct on June 25, 2015, 05:08:23 PM
Finally, if part of a suite is presented as its own track number on a CD, it should be able to count as a song for this exercise. I only included all of Six Degrees because it is played live in its entirety (at least parts II. through VIII.), is presented as only one track on Score, and is brilliant from beginning to end.

Six Degrees is one song, so no justification necessary.

zecawolf · June 27, 2015, 05:43:59 AM

I think if you have a song that clearly is made of some shorter songs that has well defined beginnings and ends (which is not always the case in DT songs), for the purpose of this exercise you can name the whole or any piece of that. Why not?

unrealxxx · June 27, 2015, 06:53:50 AM

1 About to crash
2 Through her words
3 Status seeker
4 Disappear
5 You not me
6 Endless sacrifice
7 Surrounded
8 Caught in a web
9 A fortune in lies
10 Strange Déja Vu

tofee35 · June 27, 2015, 07:53:24 AM

It's always changing,but currently:

1. Blind Faith
2. Fatal Tragedy
3. Beyond This Life
4. Disappear
5. Bridges in the Sky
6. Count of Tuscany
7. Stream of Consciousness
8. The Great Debate
9. Breaking All Illusions
10. The Glass Prison

I haven't been into the pre-SFAM stuff lately. I can't get into it anymore.

-Tof

RJ86 · June 28, 2015, 11:50:25 AM

1. Learning to Live
2. Breaking All Illusions
3. Metropolis
4. The Killing Hand (the original version)
5. Under A Glass Moon
6. Space-dye Vest
7. The Mirror
8. Trial of Tears
9. The Glass Prison
10. Home

After the first 4 or 5, it gets pretty blurry. And to be honest, I could have gone another 20 or so at a tie for #10...

alexofsweden · June 29, 2015, 01:58:02 PM

1. A Change Of Seasons
2. A Change Of Seasons
3. A Change Of Seasons
4. A Change Of Seasons
5. A Change Of Seasons
6. Breaking All Illusions
7. Octavarium
8. A Change Of Seasons
9. Illumination Theory
10. A Change Of Seasons

Honorable mentions:
A Change Of Seasons
A Change Of Seasons
A Change Of Seasons
A Change Of Seasons
Metropolis pt1
A Change Of Seasons
The rest of Images & Words

Horrible mentions:
Drumsound on DT13
Anna Lee

Train of Naught · June 29, 2015, 02:19:53 PM

Quote from: alexofsweden on June 29, 2015, 01:58:02 PM
Horrible mentions:
Anna Lee

Thank you.

Outcrier · June 29, 2015, 02:22:35 PM

Octavarium
A Change of Seasons
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Learning to Live
Fatal Tragedy
Home
The Glass Prison
Beyond This Life
Blind Faith
The Great Debate

Kotowboy · June 29, 2015, 04:24:50 PM

Too hard to pick a top 10.

top 3 :

1. Octavarium
2. Lines In The Sand
3. Strange Deja Vu

Bottom 10:

1. A Change Of Seasons.

bluehaze1933 · June 29, 2015, 10:48:01 PM

1.Change of Seasons
2.Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
3.Metropolis
4.Lie
5.Erotomania
6.Learning To Live
7.Octavarium
8.Fatal Tragedy
9.Dance Of Eternity
10.Fortune in Lies
11.Home

yorost · June 30, 2015, 08:38:02 AM

Haven't thought about it in awhile...

In the Name of God
Misunderstood
Forsaken
New Millennium
The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
A Change of Seasons
Scarred
As I Am

Scenes from a Memory
A Mind Beside Itself

JayOctavarium · June 30, 2015, 02:13:56 PM

In no particular order, here is where I stand at this moment:

Endless Sacrifice
Space Dye
Octavarium
Ministry Of Lost Souls
Scarred
Stream Of C.
6:00
Finally Free
Home
These Walls

425 · June 30, 2015, 02:51:10 PM

My serious answer, from my top 50 thread a while back:

1. Breaking All Illusions
2. Octavarium
3. The Count of Tuscany
4. Learning to Live
5. Metropolis, Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper
6. Trial of Tears
7. Far From Heaven
8. A Nightmare to Remember
9. In the Name of God
10. The Bigger Picture

This is probably still about what it would be today, though Wait for Sleep and Surrounded are knocking on the door.

AnnaZ · July 10, 2015, 10:52:11 AM

I'm a newbie, but at this moment:

1. A Nightmare to Remember
2. SDOIT
3. The Spirit Carries On
4. The Count of Tuscany
5. A Change of Seasons
6. Beyond This Life
7. In the Presence of Enemies
8. Another Day
9. The Great Debate
10. Octavarium

BlackInk · July 10, 2015, 11:11:44 AM

I think A Nightmare to Remember as #1 is something I've never seen before.

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