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Dream Theater => Dream Theater => Topic started by: YngVai on April 11, 2024, 02:44:49 PM
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Apologies if this one's been done before or to death.
What album cycle did you discover or do a deep dive on DT during? What DT album or DT side project was your way in?
I was lent a burnt copy of Suspended Animation during my shred phase in the Fall of '05 and loved it. Didn't properly start the prog journey until I got my hands on a copy of 8vm the following summer, picking up the CDs one-by-one until I was all caught up just in time for SC.
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Scenes was the most recent album out when I started. My first new album with the, was 6DOIT a bit after.
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I put FII, but it really was more ACOS. I discovered them through a friend in 1996.
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An older mentor of mine told me one day in 1992 to go to the record store and pick up a cd with dream theater as it was "the best thing I have ever heard" and that all I went on. Took I&W home and that was it.
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I became a fan during the BC&SL cycle. Was able to catch one concert with Portnoy before he left the band later that year!
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6DoIT had come out soon before I got into the band, but it was ACoS (the song) that really hooked me. I then saw them live for the first time on the TOT tour in London. Looking back the set list for that London gig was absolutely amazing.
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Train of Thought was the first new album I got, and first tour I saw as a fan, so I put that.
However, I saw DT open for ELP and Deep Purple in the summer of '98. Then I picked up Scenes and Awake in the summer of '03, with Scenes really making the impact. By the time I saw them a second time on the ToT tour in the summer of '04 I had caught up and had all the albums.
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I've told this story many times before.
Sometime shortly after WDADU was released, I saw a snippet on MTV about "other bands you might like if you like Queensryche." At the time, QR was riding high on the strength of Operation: Mindcrime, including being in heavy rotation on MTV. They mentioned three bands: Fates Warning, Crimson Glory and Dream Theater. I took note of those names and set about trying to find albums by those bands.
I found FW and CG fairly easily. I bought FW's current album No Exit and was immediately hooked. I found a CG album (either the self-titled debut or Transcendence), but I didn't buy it because I was turned off by the silly masks they wore and the lead singer's pseudonym "Midnight." However, despite my best efforts, I could not find anything by Dream Theater. After several months, I gave up, but I would occasionally check when I'd visit a record store. Of course, if I had been in the New York/New England area, I might have had better luck, but I was in southern California.
Fast forward to the summer of 1992, and a friend told me to keep my ear open for this song called Pull Me Under. I wasn't listening to the radio much anymore because the local metal station had gone full glam and was in the midst of going heavy into grunge. Nevertheless, I made it a point to listen, and I eventually heard the song and found out it was by Dream Theater. Hey...they do exist! I loved the song and went out and bought the album and discovered that PMU wasn't even one of the best songs on the album. I was beyond blown away. I saw the band live four times between November 1992 and June 1993. After the first show, a handful of fiends spent a good half hour outside the band's bus chatting up JM, JP, JLB and MP (KM stayed on the bus). Fast forward 30 years, and here we are.
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I got into Dream Theater around the ADTOE era. Been obsessed ever since.
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I became a fan during the BC&SL era, but my first experience with DT was with SFAM (I think it was Live Scenes, actually). I was 14 years old then and had been taking bass lessons for a while. My teacher had already introduced my to a lot of jazz, fusion, funk and those kinds of things but one day, out of the blue, he played me some stuff from SFAM/Live Scenes and maybe a little bit of SDOIT and LTE. I had never listened to anything like that. I was shocked.
Fast forward a little bit and I went with my parents to visit some of my dad's family in central america. There I met an uncle who happened to be the craziest, most committed DT ever. Somehow, the topic popped up in our conversation and the next day he appeared at her house I was staying in with a plastic bag filled with all the studio and live albums + DVDs and let me keep them until I had to travel back. I was able to rip all the albums using itunes and well, the rest is history.
I had about a full year of DT fandom before MP left, so most of my journey has been with MM on drums, starting with ADTOE as my first new DT release. Let's see how things go for DT16.
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SFAM era. Became a fan in 2000.
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I got into them in 2004, not long after Live At Budokan came out, so I picked TOT since it was their newest studio album at the time.
-Marc.
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FII was the most recent album when I first got into them, but I heard Images & Words, Awake, and A Change of Seasons first (plus Once in a Livetime). Once in a Livetime was the first CD I bought for myself (my brother had all the others at that point).
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I became a fan when The Astonishing was the new album. My first exposure to them was Score, specifically Octavarium, ten years after its release. But the more I heard of their music, which was like nothing I had ever experienced before, and of course the lovely voice of James, I was hooked forever.
And now all other bands stand in their shadow, and unfairly enough, are all measured up to the gold standard set by DT.
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I went and saw DT on the TOT tour. I had just heard Metropolis for the first time a few hours earlier and then decided to see them.
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I picked SC.
I heard 1 of their songs around 05-06, and did not like it (Under a Glass Moon). Then around the time SC came out, I heard Constant Motion and thought it was really cool, so dug a little more and ended up listening to mostly TOT songs. First release was BC&SL, as was my first show (Progressive Nation with Zappa).
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Pretty cool seeing so many votes for I&W!
I wasn't introduced to the band until some point after Octavarium was released, when a friend thought I might like it and played some of the album for me. Come to think of it, I don't remember if I ever asked how he came across the band in the first place he's not exactly a prog or metal fan :lol
Anyway, I liked what I heard, but it wasn't until Systematic Chaos came out that I properly started getting in to the band and getting lost in everything they'd released up until then.
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I picked SC.
I heard 1 of their songs around 05-06, and did not like it (Under a Glass Moon). Then around the time SC came out, I heard Constant Motion and thought it was really cool, so dug a little more and ended up listening to mostly TOT songs. First release was BC&SL, as was my first show (Progressive Nation with Zappa).
:omg: I have to ask just out of fascination, what about CM appealed to you much more than UAGM?
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A friend of mine who knew my musical tastes and was always pushing me to explore new bands loaned me I&W, toid me I'd love it. The first song was familiar so I must have heard it on the radio, I don't recall ever seeing the video until that Live in Tokyo release. I didn't know who the band was, so was happy that mystery was solved. I loved the whole album, and went out and bought my own copy.
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:omg: I have to ask just out of fascination, what about CM appealed to you much more than UAGM?
The style of music I was listening to at the time (a lot of straight forward metal).
CM reminded me of Metallica, but better. And to this day, the drum parts played during the guitar solo is some of my favorite DT moments.
UAGM felt kind of chaotic and all over the place at the time.
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14yo, knew PMU from headbanger’s ball, made Images and Words one of my 10 for 1¢ columbia music club picks, they’ve been band #1 since.
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I discovered the band via the MTV Europe's Headbanger's Ball where they were featured pretty heavily around '93. I'm pretty sure that the first thing I saw there was the clip of Puppies on Acid from Live in Tokyo. Quite an obscure choice by the editorial staff, but that heavy JP intro, augmented with the cool lighting, totally drew me in. I&W was the first album I bought promptly and I still remember the tiny store where I came across WDADU soon after.
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6DoIT had come out soon before I got into the band, but it was ACoS (the song) that really hooked me. I then saw them live for the first time on the TOT tour in London. Looking back the set list for that London gig was absolutely amazing.
Hammersmith Odeon on the 17 January 2004? They'd played the entirety of Train of Thought the previous night which was in Manchester and was the opening night of the tour, if I remember correctly.
Anyway, same as you, I got into Dream Theater between Six Degrees and Train of Thought. And that Hammersmith show was my first, too. On my birthday :biggrin: Death On Two Legs made an appearance, didn't it?
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I became a fan in 2007, so SC was the most recent one. BC&SL would be my first new album as a fan. Little did I (or we) know that MP was to leave the band shortly after :lol
I had bought I&W and Awake a couple of years before, but they didn't really click for me. I liked SC though so I revisited those two again. This time they blew me away, especially I&W.
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Hammersmith Odeon on the 17 January 2004? They'd played the entirety of Train of Thought the previous night which was in Manchester and was the opening night of the tour, if I remember correctly.
Anyway, same as you, I got into Dream Theater between Six Degrees and Train of Thought. And that Hammersmith show was my first, too. On my birthday :biggrin: Death On Two Legs made an appearance, didn't it?
Yep! Also the whole of AMBI, which I was particularly excited about at the time. At that point I listened to Erotomania constantly.
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Since the beginning, with WDADU. :D
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Since the beginning, with WDADU. :D
I'm kind of envious of that, being along for the ride (pun intended) for the whole journey to where we are today.
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Either ToT or 8VM had just come out. I remember seeing six degrees in the rack at Tower Records so it was after that. I want to say it was the ToT era. However, the first song I ever heard was Take the Time and the first album I bought/listened to was I&W.
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Officially, it's Scenes from a Memory.
Took a long time to warm up to them, I heard through my cousin some songs here and there. Falling Into Infinity was the new album and I did have it in my hands and I remember copying the lyrics for a schoolmate as a favor, but I really didn't care for it at the time and all I knew was Hollow Years and Anna Lee put at the end of a cassette tape to fill out the space.
When I finally got into them after 4 months of listening to The Mirror and realizing they rocked, it was 1999, I basically properly got "into" the band a couple of months after Jordan did. And I went to the store blind to buy "the new Dream Theater album" and discovered only then and there it was Metropolis pt. 2.
Ah, those good ol' days without the internet......
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I saw Pull Me Under on MTV (I think) and I heard it a lot on WPLR out of New Haven. I can remember thinking "that singer is AWESOME!" and "that drummer is SICK!".
Look, I love John and John, and Jordan is a beast, but to this day, the essential parts of Dream Theater, the parts that set them apart from everyone else, for me are "that awesome singer" and "that sick drummer". And while I probably like parts of other things (SFAM, O8, 6DOIS) better, I&W will always have a special place in my heart, and all the prog metal I've heard since (a LOT of which I do not really care for) is compared to that.
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I think I first heard the band after Octavarium because I remember my first experience being hearing Panic Attack and Root of All Evil and then their Iron Maiden/Metallica live album covers. Systematic Chaos was the first new album released when I was into the band, I don't really recall in what order I experienced the previous albums, but I remember Budokan and Train of Thought being two early purchases.
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Looking at the results, dang there's some olds here...
I say that with a hefty helping of jealousy, though. I'm such a fanboy for anything KevMurr's done in and outside of DT.
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I'm kind of envious of that, being along for the ride (pun intended) for the whole journey to where we are today.
That’s in fact the only one band for which I can say that, but it’s indeed a good feeling! :tup
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Add me to the list for I&W, thanks to a long lost friend who leant me the cassette that I really hope I returned :rollin. No turning back since the opening of PMU, they've been a release day buy ever since (with the exception of Awake, which I hadn't heard was coming I just kind of stumbled on it about a week after release at my local Strawberries). For me, the big draw for any band has always been the guitars, and JP raised the game for a lot of what I was listening to at the time.
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Images & Words. Pull Me Under on the radio changed everything.
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Late 2008, Systematic Chaos Era. Octavarium was the first album I listened to though.
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SFAM buy I was first exposed to them around FII. Music snobs at my school really dug them and talked crap about black sabbath. Later those same snobs talked crap about Dream Theater and that's around the time I started giving them a chance. I dug the riffs but not always the major keys and certainly not the prog side. I learned to like the soft side and by the time ToT came around I LOVED the heavy side and began to appreciate the prog side.
So it took me 7 years to become a hardcore fan, partially because it was so fun to wade through the layers.
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SFAM buy I was first exposed to them around FII. Music snobs at my school really dug them and talked crap about black sabbath. Later those same snobs talked crap about Dream Theater and that's around the time I started giving them a chance. I dug the riffs but not always the major keys and certainly not the prog side. I learned to like the soft side and by the time ToT came around I LOVED the heavy side and began to appreciate the prog side.
So it took me 7 years to become a hardcore fan, partially because it was so fun to wade through the layers.
Music snobs flip-flopping? Say it ain't so! ;)
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To live Forever was the first DT song i heard, and i got Liquid Tension Experiment 2 as my first album. Then i learned to appreciate JLB's vocals and found out the Scenes tour had just ended... :facepalm:
So i put in 6doit as that was the first new album for me and the first tour i saw them live.
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The first album I ever listened was Awake on a K7. Didn't know the name of the band and I was already in love with it.
When I discovered the name of the band I soon learned that they were about to release a new album. The mighty 'six degrees of inner turbulence', my favourite until today.
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I first heard and became interested in Dream Theater when I was like 10 because they had music in a Dragon Ball Z movie. However, this was like a one-month stint and then I didn't listen to them again for like five years. I truly became an obsessed fan during the 8VM era.
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I really came in during the “eat my ass and balls” era. But the first song I heard of theirs was The Glass Prison at around the time 8vm came out.
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the essential parts of Dream Theater, the parts that set them apart from everyone else, for me are "that awesome singer" and "that sick drummer".
Same for me except replace "drummer" with "keyboard player".. ✨
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The style of music I was listening to at the time (a lot of straight forward metal).
CM reminded me of Metallica, but better. And to this day, the drum parts played during the guitar solo is some of my favorite DT moments.
UAGM felt kind of chaotic and all over the place at the time.
Gotcha. That drumming in CM is some of my favorite ever also.
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I bought "When Dream and Day Unite" in 1990 I believe. Saw them live for the first time in 1993.
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I got into them in 2004, not long after Live At Budokan came out, so I picked TOT since it was their newest studio album at the time.
-Marc.
Now that I think about it, becoming a fan of the band during the TOT era wasn't my first time hearing them. That was actually when I first watched the History of Trunks anime film from the Dragon Ball Z franchise, which featured music from Scenes From A Memory as part of the film's English localization score. DBZ lends itself to metal music with it's long, flashy fight scenes, so the music worked really well as a replacement for the original score, but it didn't register with me at the time as a band I was really going to enjoy as I hadn't yet embarked on my journey to discover progressive rock/metal.
-Marc.
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To live Forever was the first DT song i heard
If that had been the first song I heard, there might not have been a second.
Same for me except replace "drummer" with "keyboard player".. ✨
For me, it was a few things: First, it was the way a metal band incorporated keyboards into its sound. I was already a fan of Yes and Genesis and Rush, but they weren't metal, and all of the metal bands who had keyboards only really used them for texture. Second, it was the fact that all five members - particularly JM - were playing off the charts. Alot of bands had shredder guitarists, and drums are drums, but having a bass player on the same level was definitely new in a metal band. Vocals are foregone conclusion for any band I like.
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My way in was LTE2. That was released in 1999, if I'm not mistaken? I know I just missed the SFAM tour, which was around the time I discovered DT.
The first DT album I bought was Awake.
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I've told this story many times before.
Sometime shortly after WDADU was released, I saw a snippet on MTV about "other bands you might like if you like Queensryche." At the time, QR was riding high on the strength of Operation: Mindcrime, including being in heavy rotation on MTV. They mentioned three bands: Fates Warning, Crimson Glory and Dream Theater. I took note of those names and set about trying to find albums by those bands.
I found FW and CG fairly easily. I bought FW's current album No Exit and was immediately hooked. I found a CG album (either the self-titled debut or Transcendence), but I didn't buy it because I was turned off by the silly masks they wore and the lead singer's pseudonym "Midnight." However, despite my best efforts, I could not find anything by Dream Theater. After several months, I gave up, but I would occasionally check when I'd visit a record store. Of course, if I had been in the New York/New England area, I might have had better luck, but I was in southern California.
Fast forward to the summer of 1992, and a friend told me to keep my ear open for this song called Pull Me Under. I wasn't listening to the radio much anymore because the local metal station had gone full glam and was in the midst of going heavy into grunge. Nevertheless, I made it a point to listen, and I eventually heard the song and found out it was by Dream Theater. Hey...they do exist! I loved the song and went out and bought the album and discovered that PMU wasn't even one of the best songs on the album. I was beyond blown away. I saw the band live four times between November 1992 and June 1993. After the first show, a handful of fiends spent a good half hour outside the band's bus chatting up JM, JP, JLB and MP (KM stayed on the bus). Fast forward 30 years, and here we are.
I think I've asked before, but did you ever give Transcendence a spin? It's definitely the high point for that band, I still go back to it every now and then.
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I think I've asked before, but did you ever give Transcendence a spin? It's definitely the high point for that band, I still go back to it every now and then.
I was going to listen to it and started typing "Crimson Glory" into YouTube, and it shows that I have previously searched for Lady of Winter and Masque of the Red Death. I assume I went with the former because it's the first song on the album, and I probably went with the latter because it's kind of a cool name. I don't have any recollection of either, but I'll check them out again.
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My record store guy pointed me to this strange looking album with a Shirley Temple doppleganger on the cover in summer '92.
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My record store guy pointed me to this strange looking album with a Shirley Temple doppleganger on the cover in summer '92.
"Da doo."
"And then suddenly, and without warning, there was a
total
eclipse
of the sun."
*ding*
-Marc.
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I was first introduced to the band in Autumn 2008, when a high school friend recommended I check out Overture 1928. He later moved on from the band, I never did. It took less than 6 months for me to become a super-fan, and by the time BCSL came out (didn't really like much of it besides TBOT and especially TCOT) I knew I was in for a lifelong fandom!
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2002
Met a girl during a study trip to Southampton (UK)
She was really into SFAM, but at that time I was more into punk rock
Couple of months later a friend of mine made me listen to TDOE, but I didn’t understand what the hell that was.
I then tried with I&W on my own, and that changed me forever.
Almost one year later, in summer 2003, SDOIT was still their latest album and so the first new one I got.
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Saw an interview with them in Raw Power on TV back in early 93, in which they played snippets of PMU, TTT and I think Another Day. Immediately bought I&W, saw them live at the Cathouse a few weeks later (April 93), and that was me hooked.
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SDOIT era. The album just came and I remember TGP blowing my mind. I went out and bought SDOIT and then Met. Pt. 2
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I became a fan in 2007, so SC was the most recent one. BC&SL would be my first new album as a fan. Little did I (or we) know that MP was to leave the band shortly after :lol
Exact same for me.
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SDOIT was the current album as I discovered them (TSCO and Metropolis being the only songs that far in). Soon after, ToT was released and my manager at the time gave me a burned copy on CD. Teenage jamesman was sold. I would then go to my first concert ever on the 8VM tour.
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I first heard Dream Theater the summer before Train of Thought came out thanks to a recommendation from somebody on the Metallica forums. My fandom really picked up a few months after ToT though when I became obsessed with SFAM and saw them on the Train of Thought tour. So Octavarium was the first new album release I remember looking forward to as a DT fan.
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My mom was driving me and a couple friends home from school in the Fall of 1992 and I heard Pull Me Under on the radio. It had a strange 80s feel to it that was quickly becoming rare for songs of the time.
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I guess to be more technical I first heard the band when Awake came out. I heard Caught in a Web on the radio, and then a little while after that my older brother started getting their albums, so I knew of them. But it was Christmas break ‘97 when I started digging into them for myself.
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Looking at the statiscs of this thread, it does confirm that IaW was The Big Bang for DT (obvious), but, more interesting, it seems the period from SfaM to SC was also a very consistent period in the fan base's growing (maybe The Inflationary Epoch? :coolio). What surprise me a bit was that a lot of old fans like me are very much into this forum!
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The Falling Into Infinity years, though the first DT album I heard was I&W. The first new album that they released after I became a fan was SFAM.
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There was definitely a sense of the band picking up steam after SFAM, so it doesn't surprise me to see that era and the next few albums being the starting point for a lot of people.
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Looking at the statiscs of this thread, it does confirm that IaW was The Big Bang for DT (obvious), but, more interesting, it seems the period from SfaM to SC was also a very consistent period in the fan base's growing (maybe The Inflationary Epoch? :coolio). What surprise me a bit was that a lot of old fans like me are very much into this forum!
I'm not surprised by that, more than anything, it confirms that these type of forums are largely a playing ground for older folks. Popping the same question on Reddit would yield different results.
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I went in at the FII era (97'). The story goes like this, my sister was studying abroad, I went to see her and I had with me a copy of I&W that (of course) the cassette player chewed at some point.
Anyway I listened to this album a lot, I was intrigued with the complexity of the music 'cause until then I was mainly listening to bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Iced Earth and stuff.
Then I bought ACOS and later OIAL. I liked them and they became a favorite of mine. Next was the first LTE which was awesome, but the albums that made me really follow these guys pretty much until now with consistency, was LTE 2 and non other that SFAM. Especially Scenes, I can't even remember how many copies I made to take it with me everywhere. Not to mention the Live In NY which I bought the VHS and later the DVD. It was really great to discover new music like this that made you a fan back then.
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My first exposure to Dream Theater was when a friend of mine played Images and Words for me at his house; this would've been Summer 1995. I was blown away, and asked him if they had any other albums, and he said they only had one, Awake, which he also played. (He wasn't aware of WDADU; as far as he knew, those were the only two albums.) I'm a prog guy at heart, with some leanings toward heavier rock, but not really metal. But this was fucking amazing music, something like Yes meets Metallica. Complex compositions with keyboards and unusual time signatures, but also crunchy guitars and wailing vocals. There's a reason Dream Theater is often credited as basically inventing prog metal.
Their new "album" had just come out, A Change of Seasons, which I didn't realize was an EP with the title epic and a bunch of covers, but I didn't care. I bought it from the local Best Buy, so it was my first DT CD. I'd ordered IAW and Awake the from record club because obviously I had to have my own copies, but they hadn't come yet.
I put Awake as the era because it was the closest album in the list. But that's only because ACoS wasn't listed, and I think of the early stuff (anything pre-Jordan) as the IaW era.
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I started listening after TOT had already come out, but before 8VM had been released
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I got into the band before I knew it was so easy to find new music. You had to be savvy with torrents (I wasn't), have a parent's credit card handy (I didn't) or just hope you found something of the band's in a store.
My first album was Awake, which I found in a store. I'd known people liked Dream Theater, but I had never heard a thing.
Then, I got their most recent album (Train of Thought) and their most recent live release (Live in Tokyo/5YIALT). I credit that DVD release with my level of fandom. It was such a cool thing to have, as a relatively new fan, and I immediately felt like the DT legacy was something worth exploring. Also, thanks to the audio commentary, I felt an immediate connection to the personalities in the band.
By the time Octavarium came out a few years later, I'd managed to find most of their studio albums.
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Scenes was the most recent album out when I started. My first new album with the, was 6DOIT a bit after.
Same here but the album that got me into the band was Images and Words.
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I picked Octavarium because Score was 6 months old when I discovered them, and they were touring on that album in addition to the 20th anniversary. The 3 biggest topics I remember when I joined DT.net were Score, 10,000 Days, and Christ 0. Muse was another big one.
But if you mean which album did I start with, not what album was out when I became a fan, it was Images and Words, with my custom fade out of Pull Me Under because where I acquired it said the track was corrupted and cuts off at the end. True story. :biggrin:
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A Dramatic Turn of Events was the first album I followed from the start
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Images and Words in August 1992. I was 14.
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My dad has been following DT since not long after WDADU. Apparently a radio station over here reviewed the album, or something to that effect. He got properly into them after I&W came out. So my entire life I've been listening to DT, but my first memory of becoming a proper fan was listening to Systematic Chaos just after it was released in '07. Fell in love and have never looked back.
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My friend played the first half of Octavarium while we were on a road trip. Told me the band name, but not the name of the album. When we went back home, I went to the record store and asked for the newest Dream Theater album. That was Systematic Chaos. I loved it.
Spent the next year gathering most of the rest of the discography. I kind of listened to it all around the same time so my brain never separated the pre-2007 stuff into "eras". It was all just Dream Theater to me. The last two I needed were WDADU and Falling Into Infinity. Got them I think a month before Black Clouds was announced.
My parents got me this *apparent* tour poster when I was getting into the band from a garage sale. Don't know how legit this is considering they spelt theater the other way, but I see it as a funny souvenir from when I was getting into the band.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLudOLAX0AAzdqP?format=jpg&name=large)
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Vote SC since that was the first new album since i became a fan, but the real answer is "score" as I had become a fan maybe 6 months before it's release.
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I&W era for me. Shortly before Christmas break (1992) of my sophomore year of college, I stayed in for a Saturday night of drinking games with friends. Headbanger's Ball was on in the background when the video for "Pull Me Under" came on. The second the drums started, we all kinda paused to check out what video was on. By the end of the song, my one buddy of mine and I were sitting there with our mouths agape, kinda like "What the fuck was that?!?" I was home a week later and bought I&W on my own, not waiting for Christmas.
Sadly, after going to 2 concerts in all of 1993, I'd have to wait for Awake before I saw them live. But, then, in the next 14 months after Awake was released, I'd see them touring that album and ACOS and at one of their Home For The Holidays shows. Those first few years were awesome! I got to see them at least once every year up until 2001 when they didn't tour at all.
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It's interesting that as of this post only 13% of fans on the board came in during the Mangini era. That says alot about the quality & consistency of the band's output, but also the longevity of this forum. I was a SDOIT era fan.
-Tof
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It's interesting that as of this post only 13% of fans on the board came in during the Mangini era. That says alot about the quality & consistency of the band's output, but also the longevity of this forum. I was a SDOIT era fan.
-Tof
But also, you have to consider, how many younger fans, who probably came on board in the last 10-12 years, are frequenting DT forums, or forums at all, and are probably only active on popular social media sites and apps? It'd be interesting to see the stats of the people who voted in this poll, with regards to age, both currently and when they became a fan.
-Marc.
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Good point. DTF and discussion forums in general tend to be frequented more by older fans. Younger fans (and thus those who generally came to DT later) are on Reddit or Discord or whatever TF it is that people use these days.
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Good point. DTF and discussion forums in general tend to be frequented more by older fans. Younger fans (and thus those who generally came to DT later) are on Reddit or Discord or whatever TF it is that people use these days.
Precisely. I'm not saying there aren't any fans on here under 30, or within the Gen Z/Gen Alpha age-range, but they're probably a very small number of the fanbase here. It'd be neat to know if anyone born after 2000 became a fan of the band prior to MM joining (when they were younger than 10, that is), or if most of them didn't discover DT until their teenage years.
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I misunderstood the poll question so I accidentally voted I&W, but that was the first album I started with.
That didn’t really click with me but somewhere around the year 2000 I picked up SFAM from the library. I was instantly hooked and thought it was the coolest music I had ever heard. I was 14.
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Precisely. I'm not saying there aren't any fans on here under 30, or within the Gen Z/Gen Alpha age-range, but they're probably a very small number of the fanbase here. It'd be neat to know if anyone born after 2000 became a fan of the band prior to MM joining (when they were younger than 10, that is), or if most of them didn't discover DT until their teenage years.
-Marc.
Xennial(s) (husband & I) here, my husband discovered them around 2010 and I was just late to the party (2016). But now you have me wondering whether my Gen Alpha nephew could be converted. He's a smart kid with an open mind about music, so I think it's possible. However I think most in that range prefer rap and pop now, especially in the US. But I also think that this type of music was always a niche thing that attracted a certain type of fan who is maybe a little more open-minded and a little more musically inclined than the general norm.
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I misunderstood the poll question so I accidentally voted I&W, but that was the first album I started with.
That didn’t really click with me but somewhere around the year 2000 I picked up SFAM from the library. I was instantly hooked and thought it was the coolest music I had ever heard. I was 14.
I think the poll question or at least the questions in the OP ask two different questions.
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Yeah, it's a little bit wonky. Not every album is its own "era". I think of eras as subsets of the catalogue, usually at least two or three albums. Like I&W and Awake are from the same era, as they both had the same lineup and were before Kevin left. The Sherinian era was short but had an EP, album, and their first "real" live album. Then came Jordan and the "classic" era (for lack of a better term) which was a pretty stable lineup until MP left. But some might subdivide that era if they feel like there were significant enough changes in their sound and/or approach. The MM era is something of its own thing.
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My dad got the modern drummer 2003 festival dvd from a colleague, the end of the instrumedley performance is played, and hooked ever since!!
This was close to when Octavarium was released I think.
Man has it really been 20 years?? :heart
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Octavarium. One of my good friends was a big fan and got me to check them out, and ended up getting me to go along to see them on that tour. Since then I've been hooked and have seen every show I can.
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Technically, it was the Octavarium era, but the Budokan DVD started it all, so I put Tot. I remember looking at the tour promo video on that DVD and writing down all the album titles when they came across the screen. It was not until 3 or 4 albums in I saw the new album at a Future Shop near my house.