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Title: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Perpetual Change on July 18, 2012, 02:53:49 AM
These are probably easily the three favorite bands of this forum, and if they're not, they're definitely the most comparable on an album to album basis because they each have around the same amount of albums and began writing music around the same time.

Vote for one album per every three slots.

Also, for fun, say what the hardest and easiest rounds for you were.

Personally, choosing between Signify, Still Life, and Scenes was tough. As was choosing between Stupid Dream, BWP, and SDOIT. I had the easiest time with the next round: Lightbulb Sun is just so much better than Deliverance and Train of Thought.

*When Dream and Day Unite has been omitted so that the poll can actually occur.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Jirpo on July 18, 2012, 03:00:16 AM
Cool poll!

1: Orchid is one of my fave Opeth albums, but it isn't a match for I&W.
2. All great, probably my toughest round but went with Morningrise.
3. My Arms, Your Hearse comfortably.
4. Still Life easily.
5. Blackwater Park, though close with Six Degrees.
6. Lightbulb Sun easily.
7. In Absentia, close with Damnation.
8. Ghost Reveries
9. Fear of a Blank planet, pretty close with Watershed.
10. A Dramatic Turn of Events, though close with Heritage.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Zydar on July 18, 2012, 03:04:31 AM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

Dream Theater almost all the way.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Sigz on July 18, 2012, 03:12:01 AM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident
/ Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

Basically goes DT -> Opeth -> PT
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: DebraKadabra on July 18, 2012, 03:16:10 AM
Voted for:

Images and Words
Still Life
Stupid Dream
Blackwater Park
Octavarium
Deadwing
Ghost Reveries
Fear of a Blank Planet
Watershed
A Dramatic Turn of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Kwyjibo on July 18, 2012, 03:17:54 AM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

Dream Theater (6)>Porcupine Tree (3)>Opeth (1): Seeing this result it looks like DT beats the others easily but it's misleading. All three bands battle constantly (among others) for my #1 spot.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Scorpion on July 18, 2012, 03:18:52 AM
 :facepalm: I totally misunderstood the poll and voted for my three favourite albums by each respective artist.

Anyway, my list would go like this:

On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: DebraKadabra on July 18, 2012, 03:19:41 AM
:facepalm: I totally misunderstood the poll and voted for my three favourite albums by each respective artist.


I may have misundersto
od it too. :-[
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Zantera on July 18, 2012, 03:21:06 AM
Voted:

Orchid > Images & Words > On the Sunday of Life
Up the Downstair > Awake > Morningrise
My Arms Your Hearse > The Sky Moves Sideways > Falling Into Infinity
Signify > Still Life > Scenes From a Memory
Stupid Dream > Blackwater Park > Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Deliverance > Lightbulb Sun > Train of Thought
In Absentia > Damnation > Octavarium
Ghost Reveries > Deadwing > Systematic Chaos
Fear of a Blank Planet > Watershed > Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Incident > Heritage > A Dramatic Turn of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: ? on July 18, 2012, 05:06:39 AM
Images > Orchid (haven't heard OTSOL apart from a couple of songs)
Awake > Downstair > MR
Sky > Hearse > Infinity
Life > Scenes > Signify (this one was the hardest)
Dream > Degrees > Park
Train > Deliverance > LBS
Absentia > Damnation > Octa
Reveries > Deadwing > Chaos
Fear > WS > Clouds
Events > Heritage > Incident

DT: 4
PT: 4
Opeth: 2
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Pyroph on July 18, 2012, 07:49:14 AM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Incident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

Ghost Reveries vs. Deadwing was a bitch of a choice. While Deadwing is one of my favorite PT albums, Ghost Reveries is Opeth at their best for me, so I had to go with that.

PT- 5
Opeth- 3
DT- 2
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: ZKX-2099 on July 18, 2012, 07:53:47 AM
All DT.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: lonestar on July 18, 2012, 08:00:33 AM
Never listened to Opeth much. DT across the board except for Deadwing, which I fucking love.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: KevShmev on July 18, 2012, 08:02:03 AM
These are probably easily the three favorite bands of this forum...

Opeth lost to Iron Maiden recently in a Battle of the Bands contest, and I doubt either PT or Opeth are as popular here as Rush and possibly Pink Floyd.  Just saying...;) :)
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: krands85 on July 18, 2012, 08:11:41 AM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Incident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

Oddly enough, all my choices but one are the current majority. The only one where I didn't pick the current poll leader was Octavarium over In Absentia and Damnation and that was probably my toughest choice.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Perpetual Change on July 18, 2012, 08:15:59 AM
These are probably easily the three favorite bands of this forum...

Opeth lost to Iron Maiden recently in a Battle of the Bands contest, and I doubt either PT or Opeth are as popular here as Rush and possibly Pink Floyd.  Just saying...;) :)
I did consider that Rush is probably the 2nd most popular band at this forum. But, consider it's much harder to stack them up with the other bands due to their number of albums, I decided to stick with PT and Opeth. Plus, PT, DT, and Opeth are all contemporaries of one another, which makes it funner.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: KevShmev on July 18, 2012, 08:18:03 AM
These are probably easily the three favorite bands of this forum...

Opeth lost to Iron Maiden recently in a Battle of the Bands contest, and I doubt either PT or Opeth are as popular here as Rush and possibly Pink Floyd.  Just saying...;) :)
I did consider that Rush is probably the 2nd most popular band at this forum. But, consider it's much harder to stack them up with the other bands due to their number of albums, I decided to stick with PT and Opeth. Plus, PT, DT, and Opeth are all contemporaries of one another, which makes it funner.

Agreed; this is much easier to do.  But I think the results would be more interesting if only those who have heard all of these albums were voting, but you can get that plenty who aren't fans of PT and/or Opeth, and likely haven't heard all of those albums, are voting for all of the DT albums, skewing the results. 

Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Elite on July 18, 2012, 08:19:08 AM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
    My favourite album ever
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
    DT's second best
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
    TSMS is my third favourite PT album, but MAYH is my second favourite Opeth album
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
    The exact reverse here, Signify is my second favourite PT album, while Still Life is my third favourite Opeth album
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
    BWP is in my top 5 albums
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
    Don't really care for any of those, but if I have to choose; LBS
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
    In Absentia is in my top 5 albums
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
    Ghost Revereis over Deadwing is difficult, they both kick ass. Ghost Reveries has Harlequin Forest though, so it wins
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
    Between FOABP and Watershed for me, but gotta give the forst the edge
The Incident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events
    Well, it's probably the most solid out of those 3
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Elite on July 18, 2012, 08:20:26 AM
Voted:

My Arms Your Hearse > The Sky Moves Sideways > Falling Into Infinity
Signify > Still Life > Scenes From a Memory
In Absentia > Damnation > Octavarium
Ghost Reveries > Deadwing > Systematic Chaos
Fear of a Blank Planet > Watershed > Black Clouds & Silver Linings

You are awesome.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Perpetual Change on July 18, 2012, 08:27:01 AM
Agreed; this is much easier to do.  But I think the results would be more interesting if only those who have heard all of these albums were voting, but you can get that plenty who aren't fans of PT and/or Opeth, and likely haven't heard all of those albums, are voting for all of the DT albums, skewing the results.

Yeah, but what can ya do? This is a DT forum, so obviously it's going to be skewed either way. This is the life we belong to....

And anyway, some people aren't voting in every tier it seems. Looking at it now, the first tier has a total of 26 votes, while the third only has 19...  :justjen
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: MetropolisWatches on July 18, 2012, 08:32:57 AM
Images and Words
Awake
Falling Into Infinity
Scenes From A Memory
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Deliverance
In Absentia
Ghost Reveries
Fear of a Blank Planet
A Dramatic Turn of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Kwyjibo on July 18, 2012, 09:03:59 AM
These are probably easily the three favorite bands of this forum...

Opeth lost to Iron Maiden recently in a Battle of the Bands contest, and I doubt either PT or Opeth are as popular here as Rush and possibly Pink Floyd.  Just saying...;) :)
I did consider that Rush is probably the 2nd most popular band at this forum. But, consider it's much harder to stack them up with the other bands due to their number of albums, I decided to stick with PT and Opeth. Plus, PT, DT, and Opeth are all contemporaries of one another, which makes it funner.

Agreed; this is much easier to do.  But I think the results would be more interesting if only those who have heard all of these albums were voting, but you can get that plenty who aren't fans of PT and/or Opeth, and likely haven't heard all of those albums, are voting for all of the DT albums, skewing the results.

I know all the albums of all three bands by heart, but yeah, I think the overall result may be misleading.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Elite on July 18, 2012, 09:08:22 AM
These are probably easily the three favorite bands of this forum...

Opeth lost to Iron Maiden recently in a Battle of the Bands contest, and I doubt either PT or Opeth are as popular here as Rush and possibly Pink Floyd.  Just saying...;) :)
I did consider that Rush is probably the 2nd most popular band at this forum. But, consider it's much harder to stack them up with the other bands due to their number of albums, I decided to stick with PT and Opeth. Plus, PT, DT, and Opeth are all contemporaries of one another, which makes it funner.

Agreed; this is much easier to do.  But I think the results would be more interesting if only those who have heard all of these albums were voting, but you can get that plenty who aren't fans of PT and/or Opeth, and likely haven't heard all of those albums, are voting for all of the DT albums, skewing the results.

I know all the albums of all three bands by heart, but yeah, I think the overall result may be misleading.

Same, and they are from 3 of my favourite bands, so I really do know all their stuff.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: senecadawg2 on July 18, 2012, 09:42:22 AM
Scenes From  A Memory
I&W
Awake
ADTOE
SDOIT
Damnation
Ghost Reveries
Heritage
Deadwing
In Absentia
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Nick on July 18, 2012, 10:36:30 AM
I would have voted for WDaDU, but ended up with Images, Scenes, Six Degrees, Train of Thought, ADtoE, Up the Downstair, Signify, Stupid Dream, In Absentia and Deadwing. Black Clouds and The Incident narrowly missed the cut.

Edit: And the fact that you cut WDaDU to keep On the Sunday is major fail.

Edit2: Just realized we're supposed to pick our favorite of every trio, will revise.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: LieLowTheWantedMan on July 18, 2012, 11:23:35 AM
On The Sunday Of Life (first vote yeah) / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Nick on July 18, 2012, 11:31:54 AM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: TioJorge on July 18, 2012, 11:35:38 AM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

It's a bit sad to know I've almost entirely cut out DT from my musical life. Still much respect, good memories, learned lessons, but I've got very little want for DT in my current life. PT and Opeth have raped. It was good. Mmhm. With one exception, and the Degrees deserves it. Overall this was very easy.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Big Hath on July 18, 2012, 11:40:29 AM
Here's mine.  After the first two sets, the difference between #1 and #2 were really small:

Images and Words > Orchid > On The Sunday of Life
Awake > Morningrise > Up the Downstair
My Arms Your Hearse > Falling Into Infinity > The Sky Moves Sideways
Scenes From A Memory > Still Life > Signify
Blackwater Park > Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence > Stupid Dream
Deliverance > Train of Thought > Lightbulb Sun
In Absentia > Damnation > Octavarium
Ghost Reveries > Deadwing > Systematic Chaos
Fear of a Blank Planet > Watershed > Black Clouds & Silver Linings
A Dramatic Turn of Events > Heritage > The Incident

Giving each band 3 points for 1st, 2 for 2nd, 1 for 3rd I get

Opeth - 24
Dream Theater - 21
Porcupine Tree - 15
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: MrBoom_shack-a-lack on July 18, 2012, 12:06:01 PM

On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

Opeth - 5 votes
DT - 4 votes
Porcupine Tree - 1 vote

That was really tough especially the last ones but the first two was DT all the way! Funny enough i was more struggling to choose between PT and Opeth because those 4 DT albums wins over pretty much everything so there were no debate over those!

In Absentia / Damnation
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed


I love all those albums so much so that was really tough!
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: ? on July 18, 2012, 12:31:23 PM
If I give points to each band the way Big Hath did it, the result is:

DT: 20
PT: 20
Opeth: 20

Looks like the consistency of Opeth's career makes them get as many points as PT and DT in my books!
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Zook on July 18, 2012, 12:36:49 PM
Voted All DT. Who woulda thunk it?
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Lowdz on July 18, 2012, 12:50:37 PM
All DT for me. Can't stand Opeth's harsh vocals and Heritage's vocals bored me, and the only PT album I've really listened to (FOABP) was up against BC&SL which is a good DT album.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: SeRoX on July 18, 2012, 12:54:09 PM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life /Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance/ Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing/ Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed/ Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: robbob on July 18, 2012, 01:12:25 PM
Don't listen to PT much , so it was basically Opeth vs DT

Images, easily
Awake, again, easily
My Arms Your Hearse
Still Life, very close (Still Life is my fav Opeth, so have to chose it)
Six Degrees, also close
Train of Thought
Damnation, close
Watershed
A Dramatic Turn of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Big Hath on July 18, 2012, 01:22:06 PM
ok, so I went a little crazy with this . . .

I went ahead and ranked the albums 1 to 30 and handed out points per my usual (30 points for 1st, etc) and came up with this:

Opeth - 175
Dream Theater - 169
Porcupine Tree - 121


I also ranked each group of three albums based on that scoring system and came up with this:

1 - Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (65 pts)
2 - Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos (62 pts)
3 - In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium (58 pts)
4 - Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory (54 pts)
5 - Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought (50 pts)
6 - Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings (47 pts)
7 - On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words (36 pts)
7 - Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake (36 pts)
9 - The Incident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events (31 pts)
10 - The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity (26 pts)
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Pockets17red on July 18, 2012, 01:53:57 PM
Interesting Poll I must say.

On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: pogoowner on July 18, 2012, 02:14:21 PM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Incident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: MrBoom_shack-a-lack on July 18, 2012, 02:36:41 PM
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Now wait a minute then man
That's not how it is
You must be confused
That isn't who I am how you do.....it!  :P Am i wrong? :blush
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: skydivingninja on July 18, 2012, 02:45:31 PM
Images
Up the Downstair
My Arms Your Hearse
Scenes From a Memory
Lightbulb Sun
Six Degrees
Lightbulb Sun
In Absentia
Deadwing
Fear of a Blank Planet
A Dramatic Turn of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: The King in Crimson on July 18, 2012, 07:48:07 PM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: SeRoX on July 19, 2012, 10:25:52 AM
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Now wait a minute then man
That's not how it is
You must be confused
That isn't who I am how you do.....it!  :P Am i wrong? :blush


Well you are right but I can't choose between them. Like them all equally.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: MrBoom_shack-a-lack on July 19, 2012, 01:05:36 PM
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Now wait a minute then man
That's not how it is
You must be confused
That isn't who I am how you do.....it!  :P Am i wrong? :blush


Well you are right but I can't choose between them. Like them all equally.
I feel your pain brother! (https://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/free-sad-smileys-748.gif)
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: WildRanger on February 12, 2018, 05:14:39 PM
1.My Arms Your Hearse - Opeth
2.Scenes from the Memory - Dream Theater
3.In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: ChuckSteak on February 12, 2018, 05:33:58 PM
Opeth all the way. Even though the band ended after 2005.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Rattlehead on February 12, 2018, 07:54:03 PM
Not what I voted for when the thread was made, but here are my votes right now (since I'm more familiar with Porcupine Tree's discography than I was back then)

On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Incident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: ProfessorPeart on February 12, 2018, 08:16:43 PM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words
Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake
The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity
Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory
Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought
In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium
Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos
Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Incident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

1 - 6 were really simple to pick. Lightbulb is such a knockout. I love Deliverance but it doesn't stand a chance for me when placed next to Lightbulb Sun.
7, 8, and 9 were all tough between PT and Opeth.

The Incident won because the other two are just not good. Heritage is my least favorite Opeth record and DT's is probably tied for my least favorite.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Mladen on February 13, 2018, 01:31:39 AM
Images and Words
Awake
My Arms Your Hearse (all three are among their worst albums, though)
Scenes From A Memory
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Deliverance
Damnation
Deadwing
Fear of a Blank Planet
A Dramatic Turn of Events
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Ninjabait on February 13, 2018, 07:44:20 PM
On The Sunday Of Life / Orchid / Images And Words

Haven't listened to the other two yet oops.

Up The Downstair / Morningrise / Awake

Again, victory by default.

The Sky Moves Sideways / My Arms Your Hearse / Falling Into Infinity

I really should listen to Porcupine Tree's first albums.

Signify / Still Life / Scenes From A Memory

Not hard at all, even though Still Life is really good.

Stupid Dream / Blackwater Park / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Okay, now this one was hard. SDoIT and BP are both 5* albums for me. BP wins by a hair I guess. Edit: Except I accidentally voted for SDoIT so nevermind

Lightbulb Sun / Deliverance / Train Of Thought

Train of Thot > Deliverance > Lightbulb Sun

In Absentia / Damnation / Octavarium

Octavarium > In Absentia > Damnation. Wasn't hard at all, Octavarium's just that good.

Deadwing / Ghost Reveries / Systematic Chaos

Picking between Deadwing and Ghost Reveries was hard. Ghost Reveries > Deadwing > Systematic Chaos

Fear Of A Blank Planet / Watershed / Black Clouds & Silver Linings

This one wasn't hard at all. FoaBP > Watershed > BC&SL

The Inicident / Heritage / A Dramatic Turn Of Events

I like all three, but ADToE is so much better than the other two. ADToE > The Incident > Heritage
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Silent Man on February 14, 2018, 03:18:17 AM
All DT, Opeth runner up. I can add that I bought all of PT's albums, listened carefully to them and never understood the fuss. They are now dust collectors.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Elite on February 14, 2018, 03:23:53 AM
Wow, an almost 6-year-old thread revived!
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: ZKX-2099 on February 15, 2018, 01:47:02 PM
My DT clean sweep vote remains.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Crow on February 15, 2018, 01:53:06 PM
I really hate that deadwing (best PT album) was up against ghost reveries (genuine masterpiece)
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: dparrott on February 15, 2018, 07:01:36 PM
I don't know any Opeth but I picked Stupid Dream and SFAM.  I've always thought that DT was better than PT at heavy and prog songs but PT does ballads, lighter songs and spatial songs much better.  PT tries to be heavy but to me comes up a bit mild.  Except for Futile, which is at a DT level of awesome.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: Rattlehead on February 15, 2018, 07:53:43 PM
The poll was a cool idea for this forum because a lot of us are fans of all 3 bands. They all happen to be in my top 10 favorite bands of all time and I actually discovered PT through this forum. I then introduced my mom to PT and Steven Wilson, and Steven is now one of her favorite artists of all time. So yeah, I am very grateful for discovering this forum  :lol I also liked the original poster in general, it's a shame he doesn't post here any more.
Title: Re: Porcupine Tree VS Opeth VS Dream Theater*
Post by: ReaperKK on February 16, 2018, 04:56:51 AM
I was getting pumped to vote for this thread and it turns out I voted for it long ago :lol