You know you were a DT noob when...

[theGonz]

when you thought that The Shattered Fortress was an original song...  (BC&SL was my first DT album... better late than never to get into one of the best bands of all time though  )

This. I thought it sounded all over the place.

[Zook]

When I first heard Lines In The Sand, for whatever reason I thought Petrucci was doing the backing vocals in the chorus.

[MajorMatt]

When you had a downloaded copy of SDOIT and TGP was actually Don't Look Past Me. I thought the song was oddly named, but is wasn't later until I bought SDOIT that I realised. I had a shock. 

[MoraWintersoul]

I learned ACOS was about Portnoy's mother years after hearing it for the first time.

I think I can beat that.

I only learned Pull Me Under is loosely based on Hamlet one month ago. After four years of adoring that song.

I was reading the lyrics again for some reason (like I don't know them by heart) and came to the "I'll take seven lives for one"-part and I was thinking... whoa, seven lives, father, wait, what? Is this about motherfucking Hamlet, Kevin? And of course, as soon as I typed the words "Pull Me Under" into google, one of the first suggested searches was "pull me under hamlet" and I facepalmed.

So yeah. I'm still a DT noob.

[Nekov]

I only learned Pull Me Under is loosely based on Hamlet one month ago. After four years of adoring that song.

Let me top that, I just found out PMU is about Hamlet 

[MoraWintersoul]

Let me top that, I just found out PMU is about Hamlet 

Woo hoo, I'm not the worst! 

[TheGreatPretender]

I think I can beat that.

I only learned Pull Me Under is loosely based on Hamlet one month ago. After four years of adoring that song.

I was reading the lyrics again for some reason (like I don't know them by heart) and came to the "I'll take seven lives for one"-part and I was thinking... whoa, seven lives, father, wait, what? Is this about motherfucking Hamlet, Kevin? And of course, as soon as I typed the words "Pull Me Under" into google, one of the first suggested searches was "pull me under hamlet" and I facepalmed.

So yeah. I'm still a DT noob.

The ending didn't tip you off? "O that this too, too solid flesh would melt"?

[Scorpion]

When you had a downloaded copy of SDOIT and TGP was actually Don't Look Past Me. I thought the song was oddly named, but is wasn't later until I bought SDOIT that I realised. I had a shock. 

Don't Look Past Me is a great song, though - better than TGP, though it doesn't work as well as TGP in context of the album.

[MoraWintersoul]

The ending didn't tip you off? "O that this too, too solid flesh would melt"?

It COMPLETELY flew over my head, because in Kevin songs quotes/samples contextually rarely have anything to do with the topic of the song. Back then I thought the whole song made no sense either - whenever I thought about it and got to the "watch the sparrow falling gives new meaning to it all"-part in my mind, I always concluded it made no sense and then I slowly stopped thinking about it. Good thing that it makes some sense now huh

[Zook]

When you had a downloaded copy of SDOIT and TGP was actually Don't Look Past Me. I thought the song was oddly named, but is wasn't later until I bought SDOIT that I realised. I had a shock. 

Don't Look Past Me is a great song, though - better than TGP, though it doesn't work as well as TGP in context of the album.

No.

[ZKX-2099]

When you had a downloaded copy of SDOIT and TGP was actually Don't Look Past Me. I thought the song was oddly named, but is wasn't later until I bought SDOIT that I realised. I had a shock. 

Don't Look Past Me is a great song, though - better than TGP, though it doesn't work as well as TGP in context of the album.

No.

Yes.

[ZKX-2099]

By yes I mean I agree with Zook.

[Kwyjibo]

When your first Dream Theater concert is on the awake tour and you think to yourself "Oh look, Kevin Moore cut his hair". 

[PortnoyPetrucciMyung]

..i liked other bands better than DT 

[Rattlehead]

when you thought that The Shattered Fortress was an original song...  (BC&SL was my first DT album... better late than never to get into one of the best bands of all time though  )

This. I thought it sounded all over the place.

Same here... but it was nothing like anything I had heard at the time and I loved it... even though it was always hard to listen to the entire song in one sitting for me and it is even more now that I've heard all of the other songs.

[chrisbDTM]

totally thought this was a different thread, had two tabs open and posted to the wrong one.


so uhh i guess im a noob for that

[TheSilentHam]

When I first found DTF (I didn't join until much later), thinking it was cross-section accurately approximating the entire DT fan community - After reading the top 20 threads, I thought - Wow, I didn't realize DT was so awful, I had better listen again.

[snapple]

I never usually half ass things, so when I first started listening to DT (Panic Attack was on the Gigantour sampler in 2005), I researched the band in depth. I pretty much knew all the little things like PMU's sudden end before I even listened to it.

[Orbert]

you are listening to Tyranny by Shadow Gallery and you think "Wow this album Train Of Thought by DT is a lot different than IAW and Awake and it's awesome"... This happend because at the time I was getting into DT and into any real music actually I had only my brother's minidisc which my brother gave be as birthday present. I didn't have an internet connection at that time and my brother got three DT albums on minidisc IAW, Awake and TOT. Apparently he rerecorded Tyranny over TOT and forgot to change the label or whatever but the result was that I was listning to Tyranny for about a month thinking it's TOT. Then when my brother came to my room one day he asked me if I like Shadow Gallery too. I said what? That's Dream Theater and he said no that's Shadow Gallery. So that's how I got into Shadow Gallery and it became at that time my second favorite (out of two ) band after DT.

That's actually a pretty cool story.  I like Shadow Gallery.

Also, I remember minidiscs.  "I can record on a disc!  I can record on a disc!"  Then recordable CDs hit the market and it was game over.

[Tunnel Vision]

When I didn't know the glass prison was about 12 step suite

[John94]

I thought it was "to the devil I demand, take me as I am" not "to the doubtful." 

I had many nooby DT moments. I still do!

[Stonestef]

I just remembered a noob moment of mine:

It was about 2003 and I hadn't listened to DT yet. I had a Tama drums catalogue at home because I wanted to buy drums and in the last pages there were photos of the endorsed artists. I knew about MP and that he was supposed to be one of the best but the photo that they had of him, made him look like a douchebag and I was like:

 "No way can this guy play good, he seems to care more about his looks!".

I know, stupid of me but that's the way I was thinking back then. I haven't seen this photo since then and I couldn't find it on Google now but if anyone cares, I'll try to find the catalogue and scan it. Anyway, I had bought the S&M DVD (Metallica with the Orchestra) but I hadn't yet listened to the "Master of puppets" album. For those that don't know, Ulrich played very simple drums on the original Master of Puppets song, but on the S&M concert, he put more complex stuff on that song( at least,for his level). So, I thought that the original was like this, too.

And then,one day I am at a friend's house and he tells me he's downloaded a clip of DT playing Master of puppets. We watch it and he's playing the exact drums of the MoP album but to me, he played simpler stuff than what I thought he was supposed to be playing! From that moment on, I thought Ulrich was a better drummer and MP was just overrated.

Until some months later when a friend lent me "Images  & Words"..

[JoiseyDTLovah]

You attend an evening with concert that includes ANOTHER WON, and your secretly bitching they didn't play Solitary Shell.  (true story from my first DT show)

[snapple]

You attend an evening with concert that includes ANOTHER WON, and your secretly bitching they didn't play Solitary Shell.  (true story from my first DT show)

I am so fucking jelly. Another Won is like, fucking awesome.

[Scorpion]

Yeah, but Solitary Shell is like, a million times better.

[wolfandwolfandwolf]

Yeah, but Solitary Shell is like, a million times better.

This is the second time this thread that you've said something not true.

[BlobVanDam]

Yeah, but Solitary Shell is like, a million times better.

This is the second time this thread that you've said something not true.

You're right. A million times zero is still zero. Solitary Shell is a lot better, by a huge margin.

[wasteland]

Yeah, but Solitary Shell is like, a million times better.

This is the second time this thread that you've said something not true.

You're right. A million times zero is still zero. Solitary Shell is a lot better, by a huge margin.

You're awfully biased when it comes to praise anything off Six Degrees (save TGD) 

Back to the OP, I uset to skip the instrumental part in Metropolis. Blasphemy. Madness.

[TheGreatPretender]

Back to the OP, I uset to skip the instrumental part in Metropolis. Blasphemy. Madness.

YOU'RE DEAD TO ME!!!! I... Don't really know you all that well, but you're dead to me!

[wasteland]

Back to the OP, I uset to skip the instrumental part in Metropolis. Blasphemy. Madness.

YOU'RE DEAD TO ME!!!! I... Don't really know you all that well, but you're dead to me!

Nowadays, I listen to instrumental jams first and foremost. Have I come back to life to you? 

[TheGreatPretender]

Nowadays, I listen to instrumental jams first and foremost. Have I come back to life to you? 

Wait... Does that mean that you actually skip past the verses and to the instrumental sections?

[wasteland]

Nowadays, I listen to instrumental jams first and foremost. Have I come back to life to you? 

Wait... Does that mean that you actually skip past the verses and to the instrumental sections?

Sometimes, like in Beyond This Life. I am no fool, it is unholy to skip any second of Images And  Words and Awake (and ADTOE too) 

[Scorpion]

Yeah, but Solitary Shell is like, a million times better.

This is the second time this thread that you've said something not true.

... I'm sorry that you don't agree with my opinions?

Also, what was the first time? And do you disagree with me outside of this thread a lot as well?

[JoiseyDTLovah]

Don't get me wrong - Solitary Shell is a fantastic song. But Another Won is just epic. The bass line slays me.

[TheGreatPretender]

Sometimes, like in Beyond This Life. I am no fool, it is unholy to skip any second of Images And  Words and Awake (and ADTOE too) 

Well, if you ask me, I'd say it's unholy to skip any second of Scenes From A Memory.

Yeah, but Solitary Shell is like, a million times better.

You know, I like Solitary Shell. I don't think it's their best, but I think it's pretty good. So that statement... I really couldn't tell whether you were being sarcastic or not.