I thought we could get a little ambitious with a top 100 favorite DT songs list, and below is how (I saw this done elsewhere and thought it was a great idea).
I will count down the top 100 Dream Theater songs in order, and they will be taken from lists of anyone who wants to send me theirs via PM. Do not post them on the forum here. Send them to me via PM. It doesn't matter if it ends up being 3 of us (I will include mine as well), 12 or 23 people. I will take all of the lists and come up with a top 100 based on all of them and count the songs down from 100 to 1. Could be fun, especially with winter coming and COVID likely to keep many inside again.
Just a few rules: -Songs must be listed from 100 to 1 in order (in reverse order), with no ties. No having three songs at number 1 or anything like that. 100 songs, listed from 100 to 1.
-For the sake of this countdown, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and In the Presence of Enemies both as single songs. Any list that lists any of the individual Six Degrees... tracks individually or breaks up the two In the Presence of Enemies tracks will not be counted. Every other song from a DT studio album must be listed individually, so no combining songs from Scenes as one track for example. Feel free to PM and ask me if you unsure of anything like that. Non-studio album tracks like A Change of Seasons, Raw Dog, Eve, the FII demo songs, etc., are all fair game.
-This one is important: NO SONGS FROM A VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD MAY BE INCLUDED. I personally think the new car smell is still too powerful to include them. My game, my rules.
-Anyone wanting to submit a list must do so by December 26th. I will then begin the countdown later that week, probably over New Year's weekend, but maybe a touch earlier if I am that quick in tallying up the lists.
The list will be tallied numerically in a simple way. On each list, whatever song is at number 1 gets 100 points, number 2 gets 99 points, number 3 gets 98 points, etc.
Feel free to post in this thread as well that you have PM'd me, a) so I do not miss it
), and b) so it bumps it back up for others who may want to participate to see.
Top 100:
01 Learning to Live
02 A Change of Seasons
03 Octavarium
04 Metropolis Part 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper
05 Voices
06 Breaking All Illusions
07 Trial of Tears
08 Home
09 Scarred
10 Finally Free
11 In the Name of God
12 Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
13 The Glass Prison
14 The Count of Tuscany
15 Surrounded
16 Bridges in the Sky
17 Lines in the Sand
18 Fatal Tragedy
19 The Mirror
20 At Wit's End
21 Space Dye Vest
22 Blind Faith
23 Illumination Theory
24 Strange Deja Vu
25 In the Presence of Enemies
26 Take the Time
27 Pull Me Under
28 The Spirit Carries On
29 Under a Glass Moon
30 Beyond This Life
31 Disappear
32 Wait for Sleep
33 Misunderstood
34 The Root of All Evil
35 (t) Lifting Shadows Off a Dream
35 (t) The Bigger Picture
37 Outcry
38 Overture 1928
39 Barstool Warrior
40 Endless Sacrifice
41 These Walls
42 Hell's Kitchen
43 Fall into the Light
44 Another Day
45 Panic Attack
46 The Great Debate
47 The Dance of Eternity
48 The Killing Hand
49 Pale Blue Dot
50 Stream of Consciousness
51 This Dying Soul
52 Erotomania
53 Sacrificed Sons
54 6:00
55 A Nightmare to Remember
56 The Enemy Inside
57 Innocence Faded
58 Surrender to Reason
59 (t) Lie
59 (t) Lost Not Forgotten
61 Peruvian Skies
62 The Shattered Fortress
63 Caught in a Web
64 Behind the Veil
65 One Last Time
66 The Ministry of Lost Souls
67 Beneath the Surface
68 A New Beginning
69 Hollow Years
70 S2N
71 As I Am
72 Raise the Knife
73 On the Backs of Angels
74 This Is the Life
75 Only a Matter of Time
76 A Fortune in Lies
77 The Best of Times
78 The Dark Eternal Night
79 Ytse Jam
80 The Silent Man
81 Honor Thy Father
82 Constant Motion
83 The Gift of Music
84 Moment of Betrayal
85 Three Days
86 The Path That Divides
87 Ravenskill
88 A Life Left Behind
89 Vacant
90 New Millennium
91 To Live Forever
92 The Looking Glass
93 I Walk Beside You
94 Through Her Eyes
95 Forsaken
96 Afterlife
97 Our New World
98 A Savior in the Square
99 Never Enough
100 The X Aspect