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Of the eight tracks making up SDOIT, which is your favorite?

Overture
About to Crash
War Inside My Head
The Test That Stumped Them All
Goodnight Kiss
Solitary Shell
About to Crash (Reprise)
Losing Time/Grand Finale
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Offline FlyingBIZKIT

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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #105 on: June 26, 2012, 07:13:47 PM »
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Wait... Seoafs? Your user name is supposed to be "The Seoafs"? I've been reading it as "These oafs."  :rollin

You've been reading it right. It's not the seoafs.
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #106 on: June 26, 2012, 07:18:57 PM »
Then why did Bosk call him "Mr. Seoafs"?
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #107 on: June 26, 2012, 07:19:54 PM »
Cuz the boss is wrong.
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #108 on: June 26, 2012, 07:25:18 PM »
About to Crash (reprise)
Solitary Shell
Goodnight Kiss
About to Crash
War Inside My Head/Test That Stumped Them All
Losing Time(grand finale)
Overture
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #109 on: June 26, 2012, 07:28:50 PM »
Quote from: TheGreatPretender on June 26, 2012, 07:18:57 PM
Then why did Bosk call him "Mr. Seoafs"?

Inside [forum] joke.

Beware the seoafs!  BEWARE!  :dangerwillrobinson:
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #110 on: June 26, 2012, 07:31:38 PM »
I feel so left out now.  :'(
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #111 on: June 26, 2012, 07:45:38 PM »
On a somewhat more on topic note, Six Degrees is my favorite song, but I got kinda burned out on it and haven't spun it much for quite awhile.  Thanks to this thread, I'm listening to it right now and loving it. 

As for ranking the movements, if we're doing that now:
1.  War Inside My Head - I can't say I consider it the "best" movement, but I probably do consider it my favorite.  And I actually like that it's fairly short.  It's metal, and leaves me wanting more.
2.  Losing Time/Grand Finale - I remember the first time the lyrics in this movement really clicked and tied up all the random parts of this song, and I realized the subtle genius of what the song is actualy about.  Just epic.  Still gives me chills to this day. 
3.  ATC (reprise) - Bringing back the original ATC, both in lyrics and music, really makes this monster of a song start to feel somewhat unified.  Plus, great intro riff.
4.  ATC - Yeah.  Just really good.
5.  The Test That Stumped Them All - :2metal:
6.  Solitary Shell - Who woulda thought that DT could to Green Day better than Green Day?  Really good.
7.  Goodnight Kiss - My least favorite movement.  It has some great moments, but I agree with TheGreatPretender that it feels like it kills the momentum of the song.  Still, not a bad movement by any means, and the guitar solo is indeed epic.
8.  Overture - Not bad.  But as someone else said, it's almost not really even fair to include it in a ranking.  It's an overture.  It does its job.  End of story.
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #112 on: June 26, 2012, 07:50:34 PM »
I almost never listen to the song. To be honest I  have no idea why. I have 0 complaints about either About to Crashes (except the Jackie one, she sucks), or War Inside my Head or any of them beyond Losing time and Overture. My only complaint about losing time is that the end of it is rather...cliche and DT has essentially done that exact same type of section 3-4 times now. As far as Overture goes, it's not that it's bad....it's that it's way too long. And if I wanted to listen to Wagner, I'd listen to Wagner.
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #113 on: June 26, 2012, 08:14:29 PM »
Quote from: bosk1 on June 26, 2012, 07:45:38 PM
Thanks to this thread, I'm listening to it right now and loving it. 

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Though I'm not sure I can agree with Solitary shell being Green Day-esque.
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #114 on: June 28, 2012, 02:43:57 AM »
The Test That Stumped Them All. Solitary Shell is also great.
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #115 on: June 28, 2012, 11:44:38 AM »
I have a lot of favorite parts but Overture is what breathes life into the rest of the song and it's brilliantly written.  Every time I listen, it doesn't seem like 42 mins long.  Too many favorite parts to mention.
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #116 on: June 28, 2012, 12:18:19 PM »
I listened to the whole song again, and I think that I have found new appreciation of the Overture. It's still the weakest part of the song, but it's pretty good, imho.
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #117 on: June 28, 2012, 05:11:46 PM »
I just listened to the concept album again, and I think it's a wonderful collection of songs.  :tup
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #118 on: June 28, 2012, 05:13:50 PM »
The Test That Stumped Them All
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #119 on: June 28, 2012, 05:14:12 PM »
Six Degrees is fucking amazing. The album and the song.
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #120 on: June 28, 2012, 06:04:50 PM »
Quote from: Scorpion on June 28, 2012, 12:18:19 PM
I listened to the whole song again, and I think that I have found new appreciation of the Overture. It's still the weakest part of the song, but it's pretty good, imho.

Funny story, but 100% true.  For a long time I didn't listen to SDOIT disc 2, because every time I started, I would hear the overture, and it sounded like some bad version of a broadway overture done on a synth, and I was like "what is this stupid shit?  Dream Theater has lost their way..." and turn it off.  It wasn't until after Octavarium came out that I started actually listening to it consistently.

Now that composition/collection of songs/megasong is the one disc I would take with me to a dessert island over all others to listen to for the rest of eternity.

Moral of the story:  the overture is the least-good part of the whole thing, and you need to get past the cheesy synth parts.
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #121 on: June 28, 2012, 06:07:09 PM »
I treat the entire song as one, so I hate choosing between the eight movements. But, if I had to, it would be Solitary Shell being my favorite. Mostly for the instrumental at the end.
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #122 on: June 28, 2012, 06:13:04 PM »
the part when its over
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #123 on: June 28, 2012, 08:02:49 PM »
Solitary Shell

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Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (because it's one song)
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Re: What is your favorite part of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
« Reply #124 on: July 03, 2012, 07:12:37 AM »
Quote from: Syzzle on June 22, 2012, 03:51:21 PM
Voted for Solitary Shell before I saw the option for all of them.
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