Imagine how difficult it would be to rank all of their discs (starting with BITWOA since, for the 883rd time, The Flower King is NOT a TFK record) if you broke all of the double albums up and had to rank the 15 full discs (4 double albums and 7 singles)...
True, not necessarily a TFK "record", but definitely the start of TFK music. Some might not think of the Majesty Demos as a Dream Theater album, but it's the start of Dream Theater music, as was evidenced by their Silver Anniversary being celebrated in 2010 and not 2014.
Either way, ranking 15 discs would be insanely hard, but why would you split up a double album? I never got the point of ranking "Disc 1 against Disc 2", like DT's
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence - a records format shouldn't have any bearing on how it is listened to or ranked. If it were all vinyl, would anyone be asking "how would you rank all 60 sides of TFK music?"
I see 11 albums, not 15 discs, but that's just me. If the format allowed them to fit all their music for one album onto one piece of music medium, then we wouldn't have discussions like "the first disc is better" etc. etc. that many people seem to have with double albums (like The Lamb, The Wall, Snow, Six Degrees, etc.)
-Marc.