So as prog fans, sometimes we get excited when we see that a song's track length is breaking double-digits in the minutes-side of the clock, be it 10-15 or 20-25 minutes long, and in the latter half of DT's career, they've made a LOT of songs that are fairly long.
But, if you had to choose one set versus the other, which would you pick? Here's a breakdown of the songs for your convenience:
Dream Theater Songs Shorter Than 10 Minutes:
All of The Majesty Demos except "A Vision"
All of When Dream And Day Unite
"Don't Look Past Me" & "To Live Forever
All of Images And Words except "Learning To Live"
"Eve"
All of Awake except "Scarred"
"Where Are You Now?", "The Way It used To Be", "Cover My Eyes", and "Speak To Me"
All of Falling Into Infinity except "Lines In The Sand" & "Trial Of Tears"
All of Scenes From A Memory except "Beyond This Life", "Home" and "Finally Free"
"Misunderstood" & "Disappear"
"As I Am" & "Vacant"
All of Octavarium except "Sacrificed Sons" & "Octavarium"
"Forsaken", "Constant Motion", "The Dark Eternal Night", and "Prophets Of War"
"A Rite Of Passage" & "Wither"
"On The Backs Of Angels", "Build Me Up, Break Me Down", "This Is The Life" , "Far From Heaven", and "Beneath The Surface"
All of Dream Theater except "Illumination Theory"
Dream Theater Songs Longer Than 10 Minutes:
"A Vision"
"Learning To Live"
"Scarred"
"A Change Of Seasons"
"Raise The Knife"
"Lines In The Sand" & "Trial Of Tears"
"Beyond This Life", "Home" and "Finally Free"
All of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence except "Misunderstood" & "Disappear"
All of Train Of Thought except "As I Am" & "Vacant"
"Sacrificed Sons" & "Octavarium"
"In The Presence Of Enemies", "Reprentance" and "The Ministry Of Lost Souls"
"A Nightmare To Remember", "The Shattered Fortress", "The Best Of Times", and "The Count Of Tuscany"
"Lost Not Forgotten", "Bridges In The Sky", "Outcry", and "Breaking All Illusions"
"Illumination Theory"
The longer side has 33 songs total (counting multi-track epics ITPOE and SDOIT as one song), while the shorter side has a whooping 86 songs. Not included in this count, as studio demos go, are "Resurrection of Ernie", "The School Song" and "Cry For Freedom" as they never really got finished beyond the demo stage (unlike the tracks featured on Cleaning Out The Closet or The Majesty Demos).
I'm not sure how LONG the Longer-Than-10-Minutes side amounts to, as far as playlist time (approximately 475 minutes, I think), so if someone wants to figure that (and the shorter side) out, that'd be nice!
Anyways, I know this is a silly and arbitrary poll, but I figured I'd do something quite different than the usual, so let's see what everyone has to say. Do you like your DT songs long? Or short?
-Marc.