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Offline emtee

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What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« on: November 23, 2022, 02:40:10 PM »
Started thinking about this over the last few days as I've been revisiting his vast output. It's really a difficult decision and on any given day could change but Awake seems to be the one I gravitate to. So I guess on this day Awake is my choice.

SDoIT and Bridge Across Forever are close as is Testimony, One and I&W. Just sooo many to choose from.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2022, 02:41:13 PM »
Images & Words
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2022, 02:45:49 PM »
Probably TOT, followed by I&W, Awake and Scenes.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2022, 02:49:21 PM »
Quote from: wolfking on November 23, 2022, 02:45:49 PM
Probably TOT, followed by I&W, Awake and Scenes.


His drum sound on ToT was absolutely fantastic. Each tom was tonally different, recognizable, clear and punchy. That snare was perfection. Maybe his best overall drum sound.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2022, 02:52:28 PM »
Images & Words, without a doubt.

As a bonus: I know that wasn't the question, but if we are talking drum performance...well, I&W would be in the running for that too, along with Awake, Falling Into Infinity and Train of Thought. I might throw in LTE and LTE2 as well  :)

But, yeah, as far as the main question is concerned - I&W is my favorite album, period, so that's easy!
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2022, 03:01:29 PM »
Definitely Awake. 
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2022, 03:16:06 PM »
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, closely followed by Bridge Across Forever and The Whirlwind. That being said, this is based on my feelings about the albums as a whole; I'm uncertain as to what I would consider my favorite solely based on Portnoy's performance.
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« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2022, 03:17:30 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2022, 03:17:53 PM »
Bridge Across Forever
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« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2022, 03:28:28 PM »
Probably Transatlantic's Bridge Across Forever and The Whirlwind. After that, probably DT's SDOIT and 8VM.

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« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2022, 05:38:58 PM »
Scenes from a Memory. :)
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2022, 05:54:54 PM »
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Bridge Across Forever

Without overloading my brain, this one would be right up there.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2022, 06:16:06 PM »
A Twist of Fate.
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« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2022, 06:38:53 PM »
Scenes From a Memory. Outside of Dream Theater though it’s Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2022, 06:44:06 PM »
For me, this is simply a question as to which pre-2010 DT album is my favorite and, as per the recent DT album rankings, that's 1. SFAM; 2. I&W; 3. SDOIT.
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« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2022, 06:44:59 PM »
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #16 on: November 24, 2022, 01:04:28 AM »
The Whirlwind followed by Sola Scriptura
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #17 on: November 24, 2022, 03:39:06 AM »
Scenes From A Memory is my desert island album, so that. The Portnoy discography would make for a fun top 25 rankings thread.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #18 on: November 24, 2022, 07:20:00 AM »
Close call for me between Awake (DT) and The Similitude of a Dream (Neal Morse Band), both of which are in my all-time top 5, but if forced to choose one, I'd probably go with Awake.
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« Reply #19 on: November 24, 2022, 08:04:56 AM »
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #21 on: November 24, 2022, 12:20:37 PM »
One is my favorite album, so that.  It's been a long time since I've really thought about a top 10 (or top whatever) of all time, but if I did one, most or all of my top 5 and more than half of my top 10 would have Mike Portnoy as drummer.

Off the top of my head, a lot of those would be:  One, SDOIT, SFAM, The Whirlwind, The Great Adventure, SMPT:e...
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2022, 12:22:11 PM »
That sounds like a one-sided top 10 to be honest.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #23 on: November 24, 2022, 12:24:41 PM »
It is.  It's almost unfair that Portnoy has gotten to play on most of the 10 best albums of all time.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #24 on: November 24, 2022, 12:29:50 PM »
That is not how favourites work though :biggrin:
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #25 on: November 24, 2022, 01:00:33 PM »
Quote from: nick_z on November 23, 2022, 02:52:28 PM
But, yeah, as far as the main question is concerned - I&W is my favorite album, period, so that's easy!
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #26 on: November 24, 2022, 01:23:59 PM »
Scenes, followed closely by Awake and The Whirlwind.  Good call up there on Nightmare as well!
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #27 on: November 24, 2022, 01:30:31 PM »
SDOIT and Awake.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #28 on: November 26, 2022, 11:04:56 AM »
Colors 2.

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« Reply #29 on: November 26, 2022, 02:42:53 PM »
Scenes. Top 3 album of all-time by anybody for me.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #31 on: November 27, 2022, 02:02:29 AM »
It has to be I&W for me.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #32 on: November 27, 2022, 03:43:09 AM »
Quote from: bosk1 on November 24, 2022, 12:20:37 PM
One is my favorite album, so that.  It's been a long time since I've really thought about a top 10 (or top whatever) of all time, but if I did one, most or all of my top 5 and more than half of my top 10 would have Mike Portnoy as drummer.

Off the top of my head, a lot of those would be:  One, SDOIT, SFAM, The Whirlwind, The Great Adventure, SMPT:e...
Similitude and The Great Adventure are fantastic back to back prog concept albums, among the best ever by anybody. Right up there with Scenes, and The Astonishing.
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #33 on: November 27, 2022, 04:54:12 AM »
Scenes from a Memory but yeah..... Simlitude and GA are real close
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Re: What Is Your Favorite Album With Portnoy As Drummer?
« Reply #34 on: November 28, 2022, 10:19:11 AM »
All his 10 albums with DT :P

Seriously, I think SFAM and The Whirlwind for me.
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