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Dream Theater => Dream Theater => Topic started by: ResultsMayVary on October 08, 2011, 03:11:01 PM
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I've gone through the many comparison threads that have been made since the new album has come out and a few opinions have struck me as kind of strange. Years ago, the majority of people could be seen listing their three favorites as the holy trinity (SFAM, I&W, Awake). But, in the new holy trinity thread, we have SDOIT listed several times and sometimes even ADTOE sneaking in for an honorable here or there.
So those threads have inspired this poll and how I want to see what everyone is thinking about their three favorite Dream Theater albums as those opinions are today. I realize this may have been done in the past, but I'm looking at the current view of the top 3 from the forum's perspective as of today.
There is an option for all 11 DT albums. You'll have three votes to select your three favorites according to your opinion. Hopefully after a while, we can see the general consensus on the top 3 DT albums here on the forum and maybe positions 4-11 on which some people with different opinions may think.
Get voting!
My personal three are:
SDOIT
I&W
SFAM
with ADTOE honorable mention in 4th.
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I&W
SFAM
SDOIT
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Awake
Images and Words
Scenes from a Memory
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Awake
Images and Words
Scenes from a Memory
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#1 is definitely Images and Words. That's beyond doubt.
#2 is Train of Thought. I'm not completely positive of that anymore, but for now I still think of it as my second favorite.
#3 is... tougher. Probably Scenes from a Memory, but Awake and ADTOE are decent contenders, too.
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1: Scenes From A Memory hands down.
2: Images and Words
3: It's a tie between Systematic Chaos and A Dramatic Turn of Events
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1. SFAM
2. ADTOE
3. Octavarium
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Awake
Images and Words
Scenes from a Memory
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Images And Words
Scenes From a Memory
A Dramatic Turn of Events
my favorites 3 of all time :tup
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Awake
Images and Words
Scenes from a Memory
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is SDOIT, Scenes from a Memory and Awake
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BC&SL
ADTOE
TOT
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I&W
SFAM
SDOIT
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I&W
SFAM
SDOIT
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Images And Words
Scenes From a Memory
A Dramatic Turn of Events
my favorites 3 of all time :tup
I'd say those are the three most important albums for the band.
First of all they're all major "New Beginnings." The first one is LaBrie's first, second one is Rudess' first, and third one is Mangini's first.
Second, they're great milestones. Great displays of how far the band has come.
DT has changed a lot over the years, and if you listen album to album, it might not even seem like that much, because those changes are small, but over time they accumulate. And these three albums are great for measuring how much they've changed over the years.
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sfam
6doit
awake
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SDOIT
TOT
8VM
IaW and ADTOE are very close though, with Awake right up there.
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Awake
I&W
Six Degrees
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Awake
I&W
Six Degrees
Same.
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Images And Words
Scenes From a Memory
A Dramatic Turn of Events
my favorites 3 of all time :tup
I'd say those are the three most important albums for the band.
First of all they're all major "New Beginnings." The first one is LaBrie's first, second one is Rudess' first, and third one is Mangini's first.
Second, they're great milestones. Great displays of how far the band has come.
DT has changed a lot over the years, and if you listen album to album, it might not even seem like that much, because those changes are small, but over time they accumulate. And these three albums are great for measuring how much they've changed over the years.
Exactly what i think about them , and thats why i like them so much
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Awake
A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Falling Into Infinity
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Images & Words
Awake
Scenes From A Memory
ADTOE and SDOIT are 4th and 5th, respectively. Though I rated SFAM higher, the individual songs on ADTOE and SDOIT are better than the individual songs on SFAM. The only reason it's rated higher, really, is because it feels like much more of a whole than the other two albums do.
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Awake
6DoIT
I&W
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I&W and 6DoIT for sure. ADToE or Awake is third. I still feel it's too early to judge ADToE, it still has that new album feel.
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I&W
SDOIT
ADTOE
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1. SFAM
2. IAW
3. ADTOE (A month ago, would've been tough to choose & I would've ended up picking Octavarium, but this album just blew me away)
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SDOIT
SFAM
I&W
In that order. The more I listen to those albums, the more they just cement themselves in those top 3 spots. They all sound just as fresh and energetic and enjoyable as the first time I listened to them. DT certainly have songs on other albums just as good, but for whole albums, these are the "perfect" ones.
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I&W
SFAM
6DoIT and ADTOE
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Sfam
ADTOE
I&W
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Images, Scenes and Awake, but ADTOE is just behind Awake now...
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Awake
Images
Events
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Images And Words
Train Of Thought
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
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Awake
SDOIT
ADTOE
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Scenes
ADTOE
I&W
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awake is the best album ever created
SDOIT
BC&SL, yes
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Scenes from a Memory
Images and Words
Awake
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Awake
Images and Words
Falling Into Infinity
it used to be
Awake
Images
WDADU
but recently FII ousted it and ADTOE moved to 4.
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Awake
Scenes From A Memory
A Dramatic Turn of Events
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1. I&W
2. TOT
3. ADTOE
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Important to notice that ADTOE is also getting the "new material bonus points" here, every album when is new is always very well seen, well i know not necesarilly (as in the case of SC)... but still... it is only when time passes when you can really compare with older material...
Talking about SC, I have the imnpression it actually has become more and mroe appreciated with time... so this could even work the other way around... haha
And not that I have anything againts ADTOE, it is in fact an amazing album
Still my favorite 3 are: I&W, SFAM and SDOIT
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6DOIT
SFAM
ADTOE
Not necessarily in that order.
FII has a fair bit of material I really like too, though there's a bit too much that isn't very strong as well.
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FII
Awake
I&W
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1.I&W, 2.SFaM, 3.Awake
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ToT
Awake
SFaM
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SDOIT
SFAM
ADTOE
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Currently my top 3 are
Six Degrees
Images and Words
Surprise.... Systematic Chaos
Octavarium is currently 4 and I've thought about making it 3 the other day. ADToE is rising fast the more I listen to it the more I enjoy it.
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Scenes
Awake
ADToE
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images and words
train of thought
every other album
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1. SFAM
2. I&W
3. ADTOE
So basically the actual results.
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Right now it's:
1. Images & Words
2. Scenes From a Memory
3. A Dramatic Turn of Events
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SDOIT, just love every song on that album, it's all gold!
A Dramatic Turn of Events, doesn't have one song I wanna skip, they're all great - awesome
Train of Thought! This surprised me actually, but it has lotsa great stuff, Vacant is their best ballad along with disappear, SoC is definetely top 10 material, ITNOG is great as well, This Dying Soul is verry good too, and Honor thy father and Endless sacrifice is also very enjoyable, As I Am is cool I guess, nothing special though.
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Images & Words
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a memory
A dramatic turn of events
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Images & Words and Awake are 1 and 1A
Scenes From A Memory gets a slight nod over Six Degrees for third.
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Awake
I&W
SFAM
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Images and words
Scenes from a memory
A dramatic turn of events
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SFAM
I&W
SDOIT
In that order. SDOIT used to be second but lately I've been listening to I&W a lot and falling in love with Kevin Moore.
On another note, it amazes me that so many people would put ADTOE in the podium. I'll wait till we do this again in a year or so to see how it grows on people.
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1. AWAKE
2. I&W's
3. 6DOIT
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It's not working. I keep getting "too many selections please choose 3" ;D
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Awake
Images and Words
Scenes from a Memory
Same but just not in that order.
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If I had to pick three albums right now it would have been these:
1.I&W
2.SFAM
3.Tied between ADTOE and Awake
But in reality it's impossible for me to have three favorite albums from DT. Because I love each of the albums equally.
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Awake
Train Of Thought
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
:metal
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Awake
Train Of Thought
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
:metal
Yeah, the heavy 3!!! I like it!! :2metal:
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Awake
I&W
I don't know why, but I love that you love Awake as much as I do.
I don't have a #3 at the moment.
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Awake
Images And Words
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
ADTOE/SFAM
The rest
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Awake
Six Degrees
I&W
ADTOE might be fourth. I feel that, overall, I like it more than SFAM, but I don't know if that's the 'OMG NEW ALBUM!!!!1111' feeling or something more longlasting.
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My top 3 based upon various circumstances, looks like this:
1. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
2. A Dramatic Turn of Events
3. Images & Words
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SFAM
8VM (which is surpisingly lower than I expected)
SDOIT (primarily for the title track)
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Awake
Train Of Thought
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
:metal
Yeah, the heavy 3!!! I like it!! :2metal:
I seem to get more out of these albums then any of the others (including ADToE). Maybe I'm just predisposed to their heavier material, but not everything off of Awake and BC&SL is all metal, either. Those albums just seem to be the most cohesive and solid to me.
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I&W
SFAM (straight up tie with 8VM but I had to pick only one)
ADTOE
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I&W
Awake
Falling Into Infinity
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Awake
I&W
I don't know why, but I love that you love Awake as much as I do.
:tup :tup
Awake is in my all-time top 5. It is that great. I&W is easily top 20 as well. If there was some internal clock that could tell you what albums you have listened to the most in your lifetime, I guarantee both of those would be way up there. :coolio
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It seems I am a typical DT fan...
I&W, Scenes and ADTOE! At least for the moment..
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For me, it´s:
FII
SDOIT
AWAKE
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I&W, Scenes and SDOIT.
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SDOIT
TOT
SC
awake and SFAM comes 4th and 5th respectively .
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1) WDADU
2) I&W
3) Awake
Honorable mention: ADToE
SDoIT barely missed the cut because of the title track and Disappear. I like the title track but to me it's always been a bunch of short DT songs rather than one whole song since the transitions (smooth or not) bring in such drastically different moods/motifs at times that it really never sounded like one song to me so I tend to judge it as its own album which aside from Solitary Shell, TTTSTA, and the instrumental section of ATC Reprise, doesn't quite floor me although I generally like all the other parts.
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For me, it´s:
FII
SDOIT
AWAKE
Now that list has a nice twist..... :tup I love FII also, but don't think I've seen many call it their #1.
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For me, it´s:
FII
SDOIT
AWAKE
Now that list has a nice twist..... :tup I love FII also, but don't think I've seen many call it their #1.
Yeah, it´s not everyones cup of tea, but i really love FII. I remember when it came out, and months later i saw them in the ´98 Monsters of Rock here in Brazil...great show, it made me fall in love with the band.
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I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't think A Dramatic Turn of Events is THAT good. Don't get me wrong - it's good - but one of the three best Dream Theater albums? You people are nuts!
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I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't think A Dramatic Turn of Events is THAT good. Don't get me wrong - it's good - but one of the three best Dream Theater albums? You people are nuts!
Completely agree.
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1) WDADU
2) I&W
3) Awake
Honorable mention: ADToE
SDoIT barely missed the cut because of the title track and Disappear. I like the title track but to me it's always been a bunch of short DT songs rather than one whole song since the transitions (smooth or not) bring in such drastically different moods/motifs at times that it really never sounded like one song to me so I tend to judge it as its own album which aside from Solitary Shell, TTTSTA, and the instrumental section of ATC Reprise, doesn't quite floor me although I generally like all the other parts.
In reverse of the top 3. But you nailed it.
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I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't think A Dramatic Turn of Events is THAT good. Don't get me wrong - it's good - but one of the three best Dream Theater albums? You people are nuts!
I agree. I don't like to keep repeating it, because I don't want to seem down on the album at all, because it is a great album, and they deserve recognition for that, but it does not even come close to "the holy trinity" to me.
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I & W
SDOIT
SFAM
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Images & words - a flawless masterpiece in their discography and in the progressive metal genre. With this I don't usually just listen to one or two songs it is almost always the entire album.
Awake - the successor to images & words. Retains very strong song writing gains new ground in accessibility and takes a more metallic approach
Train of thought - post awake you get a mixed bag of albums with hit or miss tracks.Then we get a return to form where every song holds its own and represents strong songwriting. Their hardest sound at this point with a very straightforward prog metal approach.
The thing with DT is no two albums sound truly the same. Pretty cool how the favourites vary per ear.
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You know, a year ago it'd have been hard for me to choose just 3. Now, I struggled to think of 2 others besides Six Degrees. Went with Awake and Octavarium, but could easily replace the former with FII or I&W. Weird how tastes evolve.
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SDOIT
SFAM
Images
After that, Awake completes my top 4 but since you only asked for my three favorites, here you go.
(Hey, this is a pretty old thread :D )
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SDOIT
SFAM
Images
After that, Awake completes my top 4 but since you only asked for my three favorites, here you go.
(Hey, this is a pretty old thread :D )
I was taken aback that there is no Dream Theater option, then realized it is an old thread. :lol
But just in case, here is my answer:
Awake
Dream Theater
Six Degrees
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I was taken aback that there is no Dream Theater option, then realized it is an old thread. :lol
Good to know I wasn't the only one...
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#1 and #2 are very easy for me, ADTOE and IAW, but #3 is not as solid, toss up between a lot of albums, but I went for SDOIT.
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I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't think A Dramatic Turn of Events is THAT good. Don't get me wrong - it's good - but one of the three best Dream Theater albums? You people are nuts!
I agree. I don't like to keep repeating it, because I don't want to seem down on the album at all, because it is a great album, and they deserve recognition for that, but it does not even come close to "the holy trinity" to me.
I'm in that group too. It's not even above the median for me. If it wasn't for "This Is The Life", I don't know if I would ever listen to it.
For me:
Images and Words (by a LOT)
Octavarium
Then, on any given Sunday, SDOIT, SFAM or Awake. Right this very moment it is SFAM
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My Top 3 will not change until they bring out an album that is as good as - or better than Scenes, Six Degrees & Octavarium.
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8V is overrated just because of the title track. Take that song out of the record and it will become totally forgettable, like BC&SL. IMHO.
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8V is overrated just because of the title track. Take that song out of the record and it will become totally forgettable, like BC&SL. IMHO.
I rank These Walls, Panic Attack, TROAE, and perhaps SS as highly as Octavarium (which I rank very highly). The album does have a few badly placed duds, but even without the title track, the album has plenty of excellent material, far from forgettable. I would however argue that DT12 would be nothing without its epic.
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I don't like DT12. Huge disappointment for me.
Bottom to top:
10- BC & SL
11- DT12
12- WDADU
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8V is overrated just because of the title track. Take that song out of the record and it will become totally forgettable, like BC&SL. IMHO.
Actually, no. "I Walk Beside You" is in my top ten DT songs of all time. The only song that doesn't slay me is, ironically enough if you saw my post in the "Was Portnoy right?" thread, "Never Enough".
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1: SFaM
2: IaW
3: 8VM
These three albums alone take up 22 spots in my top 50 list with all of IaW, all of SFaM except for Regression, TmW, THE, and OLT, and all of 8VM except for TALW and IWBY included.
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Images & Words and Awake are 1 and 1A
Scenes From A Memory gets a slight nod over Six Degrees for third.
Still this, for me.
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1. Octavarium
2. Scenes From a Memory
3. Images and Words
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IaW
Awake
SFAM
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8V is overrated just because of the title track. Take that song out of the record and it will become totally forgettable, like BC&SL. IMHO.
The only song that doesn't slay me is, ironically enough if you saw my post in the "Was Portnoy right?" thread, "Never Enough".
lol that's my second fav song on the album, behind the title track.
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I&W (obvs)
ToT
6DOIT
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8V is overrated just because of the title track. Take that song out of the record and it will become totally forgettable, like BC&SL. IMHO.
I've been a non-stop fanboy since IAW was first released in 1992, and Octavarium is the single greatest front to back album the band has ever released. A *perfect* album.
If I had to pick one thing that was just a mild issue, it would be the lyrics of The Answer Lies Within...but even those lyrics are better than anything on SC.
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8V is overrated just because of the title track. Take that song out of the record and it will become totally forgettable, like BC&SL. IMHO.
I agree completely.
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1. Awake
2. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
3. Scenes From A Memory
Those are the magical 3 in my eyes
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1 Images and Words
2. DT 12
3. ADTOE/Awake depending on the day.
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1. DT12
2. ADTOE
3. IAW
After that though it'd be extremely hard for me to rank the next few.
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I&W, Awake, DT12
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1. Scenes From a Memory
2. Images & Words
3. Awake
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Where is A Change of Seasons EP?
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Where is A Change of Seasons EP?
I would imagine that the OP would say (rightly) that ACOS is an EP, not a full album.
Also, this thread was started in 2011, so I'm not sure it's worth it to ask such questions. Or, indeed, to resurrect it at all.
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1. Train of Thought and I&W
2. Metropolis pt. 2
3. Octavarium
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Not at all surprised to see that the Top 3 are SFAM, I&W, and SDOIT. Those are my top 3 as well.
Awake would be my #4 or #5 album with DOT so I'm not surprised to see Awake on this list at #4 either.
I am a little surprised to see that so few people have FII in their top 3. I know its often considered the worst of the classic era but it's still in the classic era.
I have ADTOE as my least favorite DT album(not upon release, put upon repeat listens) and that is #5. Not surprised the fanbase has it there, but it's the one that I am most out of place with.
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This might be a rather unpopular opinion
Octavarium
Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes From A Memory
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
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This might be a rather unpopular opinion
Octavarium
Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes From A Memory
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Great picks!
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1. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
2. Octavarium
3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
I think Six Degrees is Dream Theater's best album, but it's not quite my favorite for three simple reasons:
Octavarium, The Best of Times, and The Count of Tuscany.
And in case anyone's wondering, I do really enjoy the rest of Octavarium; even the couple of otherwise infamous songs like The Answer Lies Within.
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1. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
2. Octavarium
3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
I think Six Degrees is Dream Theater's best album, but it's not quite my favorite for three simple reasons:
Octavarium, The Best of Times, and The Count of Tuscany.
And in case anyone's wondering, I do really enjoy the rest of Octavarium; even the couple of otherwise infamous songs like The Answer Lies Within.
I'm glad someone loves The Best Of Times as much as I do. It's a stunning piece of music in my opinion.
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In no particular order:
Images & Words
Scenes From A Memory
Awake
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I'm glad someone loves The Best Of Times as much as I do. It's a stunning piece of music in my opinion.
Agreed. And it most definitely goes beyond the incredible guitar solo at the end; I love every part of the song. Out of every Dream Theater song, it ranks at about #5 for me. If you're wondering, #4-#1 are Illumination Theory, The Count of Tuscany, Octavarium, and A Change of Seasons.
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The guitar solo is one of Petrucci’s finest moments, the song’s kind of dull though to me apart from the intro.
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In no particular order:
Images & Words
Scenes From A Memory
Awake
Hard to argue with that. It only goes to show how consistently great DT have been though that I bet nearly every album they’ve done will be someone’s favourite. They’ve never done a really bad album in 30 years and that’s pretty incredible.
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In no particular order:
Images & Words
Scenes From A Memory
Awake
Hard to argue with that. It only goes to show how consistently great DT have been though that I bet nearly every album they’ve done will be someone’s favourite. They’ve never done a really bad album in 30 years and that’s pretty incredible.
Agreed, it's an amazingly strong catalogue. On any given day my top 3 could be an entirely different set of albums. I voted Octavarium, Awake and Scenes in the poll but ask me next week and it could just as easily be Train of Thought, Six Degrees and DT12.
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Images
Scenes
Six
Not necessarily in that order.
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What I voted for back then:
I&W (obvs)
ToT
6DOIT
What I'd vote for now:
I&W
SFAM
D/T
BC&SL (if I can't vote for D/T)
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Scenes
DT12
TA
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What I voted for back then:
I&W (obvs)
ToT
6DOIT
What I'd vote for now:
I&W
SFAM
D/T
BC&SL (if I can't vote for D/T)
You can, on the new updated thread I created earlier today.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54901.0
This thread is outdated, and mine is new :biggrin:
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New thread: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=54901.0