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Which Dream Theater studio album has the best looking artwork?

When Dream and Day Unite
0 (0%)
Images and Words
3 (3.6%)
Awake
13 (15.7%)
A Change of Seasons
1 (1.2%)
Falling Into Infinity
1 (1.2%)
Scenes from a Memory
7 (8.4%)
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
6 (7.2%)
Train of Thought
19 (22.9%)
Octavarium
28 (33.7%)
Systematic Chaos
1 (1.2%)
Black Clouds and Silver Linings
4 (4.8%)

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Album Artwork
« on: April 28, 2010, 09:20:25 AM »
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2010, 09:26:06 AM »
I personally love Octavarium the most. Though, Train of Thought comes to a close second.
I felt its length in quite a few places.

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2010, 09:34:40 AM »
Train of Thought. Not their best album (although still really good) but the artwork is great

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2010, 09:41:33 AM »
SFAM
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2010, 09:51:16 AM »
Scenes
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2010, 10:01:21 AM »
I love 6 D's. I think it is very cool.
8V would be my second fave cover.
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2010, 10:22:15 AM »
Octavarium by far. I love how on the back side to the lyrics book, it reflects the last ball on that side is also in the same place, representing the octavarium to be trapped. Genius.

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2010, 10:43:45 AM »
Train with Octavarium in a close second.

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2010, 10:58:31 AM »
I&W

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2010, 11:42:26 AM »
This is surprisingly hard. I went with Six Degrees though.

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2010, 01:37:59 PM »
ToT. It's dark and surreal, and it just looks awesome.

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2010, 01:47:44 PM »
Went with Octavarium, it's awesome, very bright yet in some way mysterious.

SFAM comes second, due to the great use of minimalism and theatric feeling.

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2010, 02:09:04 PM »
Train of motherfucking Thought
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2010, 02:10:17 PM »
Train of Thought

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2010, 02:13:54 PM »
I love 6 D's. I think it is very cool.
8V would be my second fave cover.

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2010, 02:16:02 PM »
No Awake love?  :(
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2010, 02:17:08 PM »
No Awake love?  :(

 ??? It has 18% of the vote, despite only being 10% of their studio albums.  I'd say that is plenty of love. :biggrin:

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2010, 03:20:07 PM »
Octavarium, then Train of Thought, then Scenes.

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #18 on: April 29, 2010, 12:53:44 PM »
No Awake love?  :(

 ??? It has 18% of the vote, despite only being 10% of their studio albums.  I'd say that is plenty of love. :biggrin:

Well I was aware of that, I was just referring to no one mentioning Awake. Hooray for ambiguous statements!
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #19 on: April 29, 2010, 08:27:17 PM »
8v in a photo finish with ToT
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2010, 08:57:21 PM »
Train of Thought, easily.

Also personal gripe: I can't stand the Falling Into Infinity artwork for some reason.
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #24 on: May 01, 2010, 07:12:14 AM »
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I love that album artwork.  Awake would be my 2nd pick

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #25 on: May 01, 2010, 07:23:19 AM »
I'd swear that the artwork of Falling into Infinity was one of the major reasons why I didn't like the album at first. I was highly influenced in my judgement by how the album cover looked. I&W and Awake both had the signature DT look, and then FII just looked terrible.
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #26 on: May 01, 2010, 03:21:58 PM »
I'd swear that the artwork of Falling into Infinity was one of the major reasons why I didn't like the album at first. I was highly influenced in my judgement by how the album cover looked. I&W and Awake both had the signature DT look, and then FII just looked terrible.

I totally feel you man. The album deserves a much better cover than what it has. If I were to look at a collage of all of DT's album covers it would stick out like a sore thumb. Because as you said, it lacks that signature "something" that the other covers posses.
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #28 on: May 04, 2010, 04:35:43 PM »
Octavarium

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #29 on: May 04, 2010, 04:44:44 PM »
Wow, I'm really surprised that Octavarium is winning right now...didn't it get crushed a few months ago??  Awake was the winner with ToT in at second, right??

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« Reply #30 on: May 04, 2010, 05:05:59 PM »
Wow, I'm really surprised that Octavarium is winning right now...didn't it get crushed a few months ago??  Awake was the winner with ToT in at second, right??

I dont think so.
Octavarium and ToT are usually 1st and 2nd.
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #31 on: May 04, 2010, 09:20:20 PM »
And boy howdy, isn't it wonderful having a new one of these threads every month and a half?

Go easy, he's new here.

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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #32 on: May 04, 2010, 09:27:26 PM »
And boy howdy, isn't it wonderful having a new one of these threads every month and a half?

Go easy, he's new here.

Yeah, but so is everyone else who makes these threads.

Then just dont vote if it bothers you so much.
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #33 on: May 04, 2010, 09:30:24 PM »
And boy howdy, isn't it wonderful having a new one of these threads every month and a half?

Go easy, he's new here.

Yeah, but so is everyone else who makes these threads.

Then just dont vote if it bothers you so much.

Voting itself isn't what bothers me, it's people's inability to perform a basic search that bothers me. We should get a "Let Me Google That For You" for DTF.
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Re: Album Artwork
« Reply #34 on: May 04, 2010, 09:36:40 PM »
And boy howdy, isn't it wonderful having a new one of these threads every month and a half?

Go easy, he's new here.

Yeah, but so is everyone else who makes these threads.

Then just dont vote if it bothers you so much.

Voting itself isn't what bothers me, it's people's inability to perform a basic search that bothers me. We should get a "Let Me Google That For You" for DTF.

Then, redirect the OP to the previous thread. You don't need to put him down because he didn't look something up.
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