Poll
Question:
Favorite 4-album run?
Option 1: WDaDU/I&W/Awake/FII
votes: 9
Option 2: I&W/Awake/FII/SFaM
votes: 49
Option 3: Awake/FII/SFaM/6DoIT
votes: 22
Option 4: FII/SFaM/6DoIT/ToT
votes: 9
Option 5: SFam/6DoIT/ToT/8V
votes: 45
Option 6: 6DoIT/ToT/8V/SC
votes: 2
Option 7: ToT/8V/SC/BC&SL
votes: 1
Option 8: 8V/SC/BC&SL/ADToE
votes: 3
Time to take it up a notch. :biggrin:
I'll go with Option 2: I&W/Awake/FII/SFaM.
Images/Awake/Falling/Scenes, which are my 2nd, 1st, 4th, and 3rd fave DT albums respectively.
Awake/FII/SFAM/SDOIT
Easy choice for me.
The four first, which are also my four favourite DT albums.
Images, Awake, FII, SFAM.
FII/SFAM/SDOIT/TOT
Basically the four best DT albums.
Quote from: Syzzle on April 03, 2013, 11:20:20 PM
Awake/FII/SFAM/SDOIT
Easy choice for me.
it must have sdoit
Still a tough choice, but having both Scenes and 6 Degrees was more important to me than keeping Images and Words. So Awake/FII/SFAM/SDOIT.
inb4 favourite 5-album run.
Picked the first one, although option 2 was very tempting too. I'm not the biggest FII fan, but the awesomeness of the other 3 albums makes up for it.
SFAM-SDOIT-TOT-8VM
Three of those four are in my Top Half of DT albums, and TOT isn't that bad. Sure, I love IAW and Awake as much as the next guy, but SFAM and SDOIT just can't be beat, and I really do love 8VM (especially since it was the band's first new album after I became a die-hard fan).
I await the inevitable "Favorite 5-Album Run" Thread...
-Marc.
Quote from: The Letter M on April 04, 2013, 02:12:51 AM
SFAM-SDOIT-TOT-8VM
I chose this option as well, mostly because as far as going from Album to Album, it's the best run. I mean, back then, they had the whole "Meta album" thing going on, so as far as listening to these four back to back, it provides the most solid journey. So as far as a listening experience goes, I think this option gives a much smoother, and more interesting run from beginning to end.
FII/SFaM/6DoIT/ToT. By a mile.
Fave 11 album run ?
WDADU / IAW ? Awake / FII / SFAM / 6DOIT / TOT / 8V / SC / BCSL / ADTeE []
39 Smooth / Kerplunk / Dookie / Insomniac / Nimrod / Warning / American Idiot / 21st CB / Uno / Dos / Tre ! []
:biggrin:
Obvious choice for the second, but only because SFaM is a better than WDADU. The first option was my second choice. All the others are out of the league, since they either don't include I&W or Awake, or have at least one shitty album amongst them.
Knew this was coming ;D
Split between 2 again like I was with the 3-album run - I&W/Awake/FII/SFaM and SFam/6DoIT/ToT/8V but Images has too strong a pull for me not to vote for it's grouping.
Quote from: Bolsters on April 04, 2013, 01:19:12 AM
inb4 favourite 5-album run.
I think a Least Favourite 4-Album run would be more interesting, wouldn't it?
Quote from: wasteland on April 04, 2013, 06:13:28 AM
Quote from: Bolsters on April 04, 2013, 01:19:12 AM
inb4 favourite 5-album run.
I think a Least Favourite 4-Album run would be more interesting, wouldn't it?
Easy. ToT - BCSL.
Quote from: Scorpion on April 04, 2013, 06:41:45 AM
Quote from: wasteland on April 04, 2013, 06:13:28 AM
Quote from: Bolsters on April 04, 2013, 01:19:12 AM
inb4 favourite 5-album run.
I think a Least Favourite 4-Album run would be more interesting, wouldn't it?
Easy. ToT - BCSL.
Easy for me too, but maybe not for everyone else.
Tough. I ultimately went with I&W/AW/FII/SFAM, though I also strongly considered AW/FII/SFAM/SDOIT.
Although, really, the best time to be a DT fan was SFAM/SDOIT/TOT/8v. Not the best albums, especially the latter two, but I feel like DT were really laying the spoils on the fans back then, in a way that hasn't really occurred since Evening With's ended.
I&W/Awake/FII/SFAM
Also, betting is off for the next thread being "Favourite 11-album run". :biggrin:
Quote from: Perpetual Change on April 04, 2013, 07:10:40 AM
Although, really, the best time to be a DT fan was SFAM/SDOIT/TOT/8v. Not the best albums, especially the latter two, but I feel like DT were really laying the spoils on the fans back then, in a way that hasn't really occurred since Evening With's ended.
This. Best live super-era. By far.
Once again a tough choice...
Scenes and Six Degrees are my two favorite DT records and since they were released in succession it was very easy to narrow it down to the combinations that include both of them. I almost never listen to any songs on FII or TOT so FII/SFAM/6DOIT/TOT was easily discarded. It boiled down to a choice between Awake and Octavarium. The title track from the latter is probably my favorite song ever but Awake is a much stronger album overall. In other words... I'm going to have to go with Awake/FII/SFAM/6DOIT.
Edit: Double post. Please remove.
I&W/Awake/FII/SFaM
It's strange how I had to include my least favorite Dream Theater album in the run, the other three are just too amazing.
Quote from: wasteland on April 04, 2013, 07:04:37 AM
Quote from: Scorpion on April 04, 2013, 06:41:45 AM
Quote from: wasteland on April 04, 2013, 06:13:28 AM
I think a Least Favourite 4-Album run would be more interesting, wouldn't it?
Easy. ToT - BCSL.
Easy for me too, but maybe not for everyone else.
If someone makes that poll, then hopefully TOT-BC&SL will get a landslide victory like Scenes-TOT got in the favorite 3-album run poll :biggrin:
Quote from: Mladen on April 04, 2013, 07:52:53 AM
I&W/Awake/FII/SFaM
It's strange how I had to include my least favorite Dream Theater album in the run, the other three are just too amazing.
Came to post this. FII could be replaced with an album of hippopotamus sounds and I would still pick this option.
Quote from: Cool Chris on April 04, 2013, 08:15:25 AM
FII could be replaced with an album of hippopotamus sounds and I would still pick this option.
I am pretty sure the You Not Me chorus is the vocal equivalent of those sounds.
SFam/6DoIT/ToT/8V - best run of albums by the band :tup
Awake through SDOIT. I hated leaving I&W out but I like SDOIT a little better
Quote from: wasteland on April 04, 2013, 06:13:28 AM
Quote from: Bolsters on April 04, 2013, 01:19:12 AM
inb4 favourite 5-album run.
I think a Least Favourite 4-Album run would be more interesting, wouldn't it?
Scenes - Degrees - Thought - Varium.
Perfect. :tup
Quote from: darkshade on April 04, 2013, 09:01:23 AM
SFam/6DoIT/ToT/8V - best run of albums by the band :tup
SFAM through to 8VM
SFam/6DoIT/ToT/8V
Quote from: KevShmev on April 03, 2013, 10:54:25 PM
Time to take it up a notch. :biggrin:
I'll go with Option 2: I&W/Awake/FII/SFaM.
This.
I much prefer WDADU to SFAM. So, the first option.
Though these days I really don't like FII all that much, I have to go with the run from I&W to SFAM. Those two and Awake are three of my favorite DT albums, so any run with them in it wins by default.
Quote from: snapple on April 11, 2013, 07:40:34 AM
I much prefer WDADU to SFAM. So, the first option.
What what what!? Why I've never!!!
FII/SFaM/6DoIT/ToT, and the next best is swapping ToT with Awake.
Tack FII onto the best 3 album run, an album I still really enjoy.
I&W/Awake/FII/SFaM
Replace SFaM by 6DoIT!! ;D
Minus ToT:
SFam/6DoIT/ToT/8V