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ITT, answer the Dream Theater survey. Do not worry about what classifies as 'epic' or 'short'. Whatever comes to mind first.
Best Guitar Solo:
Best Keyboard Solo:
Best Unison:
Best Epic:
Best Lyrics:
Best Short Song:
Best Song:
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BEST GUITAR SOLO: Actually, come to think of it, The Best of Times is right.
BEST KEYBOARD SOLO: Blind Faith
BEST UNISON: I have no idea. Never Enough is the one I always remember as being genuinely different and both pretty mindblowing and musical.
BEST EPIC: Octavarium.
BEST LYRICS: Misunderstood.
BEST SHORT SONG: Erotomania.
BEST SONG: Octavarium.
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Best Guitar Solo: Best of times
Best Keyboard Solo: No clue, not the biggest fan of any of their keyboard solos.
Best Unison: The first ITNOG one.
Best Epic: ACOS
Best Lyrics: LITS
Best Short Song: Voices (Eh, it's short enough)
Best Song: ACOS
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Best Guitar Solo: If live performances count: "To Live Forever" from Live In Tokyo. If they don't, "The Spirit Carries On"
Best Keyboard Solo: "Trial of Tears"
Best Unison: "Take The Time"
Best Epic: "Trial of Tears"
Best Lyrics: "Scarred"
Best Short Song: "Surrounded"
Best Song: "Trial of Tears"
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Best Guitar Solo: If live performances count: "To Live Forever" from Live In Tokyo. If they don't, "The Spirit Carries On"
Best Keyboard Solo: "Trial of Tears"
Best Unison: "Take The Time"
Best Epic: "Trial of Tears"
Best Lyrics: "Scarred"
Best Short Song: "Surrounded"
Best Song: "Trial of Tears"
Hey, what are your thoughts on Trial of Tears?
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Best Guitar Solo: Repentance, TCOT, or Scarred
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith, easily.
Best Unison: ITNOG, right after the guitar solo
Best Epic: 8V
Best Lyrics: Misunderstood
Best Short Song: Wait for Sleep
Best Song: Dunno
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Best Guitar Solo: If live performances count: "To Live Forever" from Live In Tokyo. If they don't, "The Spirit Carries On"
Best Keyboard Solo: "Trial of Tears"
Best Unison: "Take The Time"
Best Epic: "Trial of Tears"
Best Lyrics: "Scarred"
Best Short Song: "Surrounded"
Best Song: "Trial of Tears"
Hey, what are your thoughts on Trial of Tears?
Shitty song.
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Best Guitar Solo: The Best of Times
- Runner-Ups: Razor's Edge from Octavarium, Both Lie Solos, Learning to Live after the F#
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
- Runner-Ups: Trial of Tears
Best Unison: Surrounded '07
Best Epic: Octavarium
- Runner-Ups: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, ACoS
Best Lyrics: Voices
- Runner-Ups: Learning to Live, Misunderstood
Best Short Song: Vacant
Best Song: Voices
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ITT, answer the Dream Theater survey. Do not worry about what classifies as 'epic' or 'short'. Whatever comes to mind first.
Best Guitar Solo: Voices
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: Blind Faith, again.
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Learning to Live
Best Short Song: Caught in a Web
Best Song: Octavarium
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Best Guitar Solo: LITS
Best Keyboard Solo: Fatal Tragedy (Both of them)
Best Unison: Blind Faith (I can play it on keyboard :neverusethis:)
Best Epic: ACOS
Best Lyrics: The Dance of Eternity, Ytse Jam, Stream of Consciousness, or Eve. Can't decide.
Best Short Song: Solitary Shell
Best Song: ACOS
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Best Guitar Solo: The Best Of Times
Best Keyboard Solo: I don't know...
Best Unison: In The Name Of God
Best Epic: Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Best Lyrics: Learning To Live
Best Short Song: Wait For Sleep
Best Song: Learning To Live
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Best Guitar Solo: Solitary Shell
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: In the Name of God, I guess
Best Epic: ACOS
Best Lyrics: Scarred/Lines in the Sand
Best Short Song: Disappear
Best Song: ACOS/Scarred
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Best Guitar Solo: Repentance
Best Keyboard Solo: Octavarium
Best Unison: A Nightmare to Remember
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Octavarium
Best Short Song: The Mirror
Best Song: Octavarium
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Best Guitar Solo: The Ministry of lost souls
Best Keyboard Solo: The Dance of eternity (the crazy piano section in 2nd minute)
Best Unison: This dying soul
Best Epic: A Change of seasons
Best Lyrics: Octavarium
Best Short Song: Overture 1928
Best Song: Metropolis
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Best Guitar Solo: Lines In The Sand
Best Keyboard Solo: Intro to Octavarium
Best Unison: Blind Faith :metal :metal
Best Epic: Trial Of Tears
Best Lyrics: Lines In The Sand
Best Short Song: Hell's Kitchen
Best Song: The Great Debate
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Best Guitar Solo: Take the Time
Best Keyboard Solo: Take the Time
Best Unison: Take the Time
Best Epic: A Change of Seasons
Best Lyrics: Surrounded
Best Short Song: Overture 1928. Even shorter? Regression.
Best Song: Take the Time
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Best Guitar Solo: Learning to Live (after the wooooooooaaaaaaaahhhhh)
Best Keyboard Solo: Learning to Live (Live scenes extended version, after the reggae bit)
Best Unison: Learning to Live (at the end of the keyboard solo)
Best Epic: Learning to Live
Best Lyrics: Learning to Live
Best Short Song: Wait for Sleep
Best Song: Learning to Live
:neverusethis:
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Well my post is actually serious btw. Just saying. :neverusethis:
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Best Guitar Solo: The Best Of Times (perfect merger of emotion and skill)
Best Keyboard Solo: Take The Time
Best Unison: In The Presence Of Enemies Pt. 1 (The one at the end)
Best Epic: A Change Of Seasons
Best Lyrics: A Change Of Seasons
Best Short Song: Wither
Best Song: ......Gonna have to get back to you on that one. But if you were to go by my iTunes most played it would be The Glass Prison.
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Best Guitar Solo: Octavarium
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: Blind Faith
Best Epic: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Best Lyrics: Voices
Best Short Song: Vacant
Best Song: Octavarium (does that make any sense?) :D
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Best Guitar Solo: Voices
Best Keyboard Solo: Take The Time
Best Unison: Blind Faith
Best Epic: A Change of Seasons
Best Lyrics: Lines In The Sand
Best Short Song: Eve
Best Song: Learning To Live
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Best Guitar Solo: The Best of Times. Hands down.
Best Keyboard Solo: Octavarium, starting at 12:15
Best Unison: ITNOG
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Best Short Song: Surrounded
Best Song: Octavarium tied w/ Surrounded
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Best Guitar Solo: Voices
Best Keyboard Solo: Take The Time
Best Unison: Blind Faith
Best Epic: Learning to Live
Best Lyrics: Voices
Best Short Song: One Last Time
Best Song: Voices
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Best Guitar Solo: Hollow Years from LaB
Best Keyboard Solo: n/a
Best Unison: n/a
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Disappear
Best Short Song: Wither
Best Song: Octavarium
I don't have a keyboard solo or unison that immediately comes to mind as my favorite.
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Even though I voted Take The Time as the best key solo, I would like to give a shoutout to The Ytse Jam.
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Even though I voted Take The Time as the best key solo, I would like to give a shoutout to The Ytse Jam.
If there had been a best instrumental option, Ytse Jam would have gone under it. Fuck, I love that song.
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Best Guitar solo: The Best of times
Best Keyboard solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: A nightmare to remember
Best Epic: The Count of tuscany
Best Lyrics: Spirit Carries on
Best short song: Vacant
Best song: ummm...maybe Octavarium, or the count...or ITPOE...maybe ANTR...too hard to decide
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Best Guitar Solo: Learning To Live starting at 7:10
Best Keyboard Solo: Take The Time
Best Unison: Take The Time
Best Epic: A Change of Seasons
Best Lyrics: Voices
Best Short Song: Hell's Kitchen
Best Song: Learning To Live
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Best Guitar Solo: Lines In The Sand
Best Keyboard Solo: Home
Best Unison: Blind Faith
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Scarred
Best Short Song: Surrounded
Best Song: Scarred
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Best Guitar Solo: The Best of Times
Best Keyboard Solo: Octavarium (12:00)
Best Unison: Blind Faith
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Learning to Live
Best Short Song: Fatal Tragedy
Best Song: Learning to Live or Trial of Tears
lot's of love for Blind Faith unison :metal
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Best Guitar Solo: Voices
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: Blind Faith (again...)
Best Epic: The Count Of Tuscany
Best Lyrics: Don't Look Past Me
Best Short Song: I Walk Beside You (or) Hell's Kitchen
Best Song: Space-Dye Vest
Quite the eclectic selection!
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Oh yeah, Blind faiths unison is freaking insane
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Best Guitar Solo: Learning To Live
Best Keyboard Solo: Trial Of Tears
Best Unison: Take The Time
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Lifting Shadows Off A Dream
Best Short Song: To Live Forever (if "short" means "less than five minutes")
Best Song: Learning To Live
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Best Guitar Solo: Lie
Best Keyboard Solo: In the Presence of the Enemies (part 1) (not sure if its considered a solo tho)
Best Unison: A Nightmare to Remember
Best Epic: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Best Lyrics: Disappear
Best Short Song: War Inside my Head (i drew the line of 'short' at tops 3 mins)
Best Song: Disappear
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Best Guitar Solo: "Lines in the Sand"
Best Keyboard Solo: "Trial of Tears"
Best Unison: "Metropolis, Part I"
Best Epic: "Scarred"
Best Lyrics: "Voices"
Best Short Song: "Erotomania" (can I call this a short song?)
Best Song: "Scarred"
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Best Guitar Solo: Surrounded
Best Keyboard Solo: Scarred
Best Unison: Blind Faith
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Home. The word choices are odd but I love them.
Best Short Song: Wait For Sleep
Best Song: Octavarium
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Best Lyrics: Home. The word choices are odd but I love them.
I can't keep away from it's clutch, amirite? :neverusethis:
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Best Lyrics: Home. The word choices are odd but I love them.
I can't keep away from it's clutch, amirite? :neverusethis:
:lol
Well played, didn't notice that.
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Best Guitar Solo: The Spirit Carries On
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: Take the Time
Best Epic: The Count of Tuscany
Best Lyrics: The Best of Times
Best Short Song: Wait for Sleep
Best Song: Learning to Live
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oh and to live forever unison - appreciate.
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oh and to live forever unison - appreciate.
Oh yea, forgot about that one. I really like how slow and movable it is. I really wish they would do another one like that, instead of trying outrace each other.
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oh and to live forever unison - appreciate.
*appreciates*
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Best Guitar Solo: The Best of Times
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: In the Name of God
Best Epic: A Change of Seasons
Best Lyrics: Trial of Tears
Best Short Song: Wither
Best Song: Learning to Live
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Best Guitar Solo: The Ministry of Lost Souls
Best Keyboard Solo: Constant Motion
Best Unison: In the Name of God
Best Epic: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Best Lyrics: In The Name of God
Best Short Song: Vacant/Constant Motion [Voices would be borderline cheating.]
Best Song: Home
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Man, I think The Best of Times is actually winning for guitar solo. That is really shocking, not one person has mentioned Under A Glass Moon yet, which I thought was widely considered his best (not my personal favorite, but still). Actually, in the DT survivor, didn't it win for guitar solos??
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Best Guitar Solo: Octavarium/Goodnight Kiss
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: Blind Faith
Best Epic: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence/Octavarium/A Change of Seasons (they seriously are all tied now)
Best Lyrics: Trial of Tears
Best Short Song: Surrounded
Best Song: see epics.
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Best Guitar Solo: The Best of Times
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: Blind Faith
Best Epic: In the interest of not spoiling the top 50 thread I'm leaving this blank (though anyone who has seen me answer these sorts of questions should know the answer by now)
Best Lyrics: Learning to Live, I guess.
Best Short Song: Not telling
Best Song: Not telling
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Man, I think The Best of Times is actually winning for guitar solo.
That sucks. I mean it fits the song perfect but it's such a by the books Brian May type solo, although a pretty good one. There are a lot more purely Petrucci solos that run circles over it.
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Best Guitar Solo: Voices
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: Blind Faith
Best Epic: The Count Of Tuscany
Best Lyrics: Voices
Best Short Song: To Live Forever
Best Song: Voices
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Man, I think The Best of Times is actually winning for guitar solo.
That sucks. I mean it fits the song perfect but it's such a by the books Brian May type solo, although a pretty good one. There are a lot more purely Petrucci solos that run circles over it.
If you prefer his standard shred, then sure. But that solo speaks in a very unique way.
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Best Guitar Solo: Hollow Years (Live at Budokan)
Best Keyboard Solo: Take the Time
Best Unison: Take the Time
Best Epic: In the Presence of Enemies
Best Lyrics: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Best Short Song: Hell's Kitchen
Best Song: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
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Man, I think The Best of Times is actually winning for guitar solo.
That sucks. I mean it fits the song perfect but it's such a by the books Brian May type solo, although a pretty good one. There are a lot more purely Petrucci solos that run circles over it.
It tugs on the heart strings a bit blatantly, but I can see why people would pick it as their favorite.
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Man, I think The Best of Times is actually winning for guitar solo.
That sucks. I mean it fits the song perfect but it's such a by the books Brian May type solo, although a pretty good one. There are a lot more purely Petrucci solos that run circles over it.
If you prefer his standard shred, then sure. But that solo speaks in a very unique way.
I agree with both of you. But I don't think it is in his top 5.
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If you don't think The Best of Times solo is JP's best, we are not a match.
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Best Guitar Solo: Under a Glass Moon
Best Keyboard Solo: Home
Best Unison: Fatal Tragedy
Best Epic: A Change of Seasons
Best Lyrics: Only a Matter of Time
Best Short Song: Surrounded
Best Song: A Change of Seasons
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I think "The Best of Times" gets a bump just because it's a more recent effort. Among, *ahem*, other, more pedestrian attempts.
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I think "The Best of Times" gets a bump just because it's a more recent effort. Among, *ahem*, other, more pedestrian attempts.
I'm a new fan. I got to know all songs (and solos) pretty much in the same time period. The Best Of Times has the best of solos.
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I can't see how anything can get a bump because of being new material here when 3/4 of this thread is dominated by the first five albums.
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Best Guitar Solo: Under A Glass Moon
Best Keyboard Solo: Solitary Shell
Best Unison: Blind Faith
Best Epic: The Count of Tuscany
Best Lyrics: Disappear or Space-Dye Vest
Best Short Song: Overture 1928
Best Song: The Count of Tuscany
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There are a lot more purely Petrucci solos that run circles over it.
Agreed. Plus, it's never really struck me as an immensely fun solo to play on the guitar.
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Best Guitar Solo: Voices
Best Keyboard Solo: Take The Time
Best Unison: Afterlife
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Voices
Best Short Song: Another Day
Best Song: Voices
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Best Guitar Solo: Under a Glass Moon
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: Endless Sacrifice (last solo section)
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Octavarium (nuggetz!! ;))
Best Short Song: Wither
Best Song: A Nightmare to Remember
I could ad one point
Best non-album Song: To live Forever
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First thing that comes to mind:
Best Guitar Solo: Home
Best Keyboard Solo: Fatal Tragedy maybe?
Best Unison: ITPOE Pt. 1
Best Epic: ACOS
Best Lyrics: don't care
Best Short Song: Overture 1928
Best Song: Home
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Best Guitar Solo: Voices
Best Keyboard Solo: No thanks
Best Unison: Endless Sacrifice
Best Epic: A Change Of Seasons
Best Lyrics: DT is not where I go if I want good lyrics
Best Short Song: Disappear or Vacant
Best Song: Scarred
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Best Guitar Solo: Octavarium
Best Keyboard Solo: Fatal Tragedy
Best Unison: Metropolis Part 1
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Disappear
Best Short Song: Wait for Sleep
Best Song: Octavarium
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Best Guitar Solo: Under a glass moon
Best Keyboard Solo: Home
Best Unison: Metropolis
Best Epic: ACOS
Best Lyrics: Voices
Best Short Song: To live forever
Best Song: Take The Time
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Best Guitar Solo: Lines In The Sand
Best Keyboard Solo: Blind Faith
Best Unison: Surrounded '07
Best Epic: Octavarium
Best Lyrics: Octavarium
Best Short Song: Fatal Tragedy
Best Song: Learning To Live
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Best Guitar Solo: Another Day
Best Keyboard Solo: Learning To Live
Best Unison: Metropolis
Best Epic: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Best Lyrics: A Change of Seasons
Best Short Song: I Walk Beside You
Best Song: Pull Me Under
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Best Guitar Solo: Under A Glass Moon
Best Keyboard Solo: The Great Debate
Best Unison: Never Enough
Best Epic: Count Of Tuscany
Best Lyrics: A Change Of Seasons
Best Short Song: Was Inside my Head
Best Song: Metropolis
Just wrote down the first thing tha came to mind. Funny thing is, if I did this again in another year, all the answers might be different.
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Best Guitar Solo: Under a Glass Moon
Best Keyboard Solo: The Dance of Eternity
Best Unison: Take the Time
Best Epic: Twelve-Step Suite (If that even counts as an epic)
Best Lyrics: Panic Attack
Best Short Song: Regression
Best Song: Take the Time