Your Favorite Dream Theater Album Cover of the Top 5

[Madman Shepherd]

From the previous poll, five were around 10% or above so let's choose the definitive Dream Theater Forums best album cover.

[ReaperKK]

Metropolis got my vote. It's one of the few DT covers I like.

[Jamesman42]

8VM

It's simple but has a cool atmosphere.

[WilliamMunny]

8VM

It's simple but has a cool atmosphere.

This.

[TAC]

I voted Octavarium. I like the color palette.

[wolfking]

TOT.

[WilliamMunny]

I voted Octavarium. I like the color palette.

Lol...that's kinda where my head is at as well.

[Trav86]

I stand by Train of Thought for the same reasons I did in the original thread.

[pg1067]

I voted for SFAM, but I misread it and thought the question was favorite album, not album cover.  For cover, I'd probably go with Awake.

[Madman Shepherd]

I voted for SFAM, but I misread it and thought the question was favorite album, not album cover.  For cover, I'd probably go with Awake.

My fault. I left the word "cover" off the topic but got it right on the poll question.

[Stadler]

I voted Octavarium. I like the color palette.

Me too.  That period of the band - art wise - was pretty good.  SFAM, 6DOIT, TOT, 8V... all good. 

[hefdaddy42]

SFAM.  All the others have that "generic prog band cover art" look.  SFAM looks like a professional album cover, of which any music professional could be proud.

[HOF]

I'd guess that out of these options the one I've spent the most time looking at and thinking about would be Images & Words, so I went with that, though I agree that SFAM might be the most professional looking cover of these options.

[Dave_Manchester]

Train of Thought. Followed by...

2. Octavarium
3. Awake
4. Scenes
5. Images

But to be honest I'm one of the few who loves the self-titled cover. That may be my overall favourite.

[Nachtmerrie]

SFAM by a landslide.

Most of DT albums covers are nothing more then a random cover for me. Instantly forgettable.

[Madman Shepherd]

So honestly, I don't really like any of them but I chose 8V. The saturation of the images and the landscape are kind of cool I guess.

Train of Thought is decent but still just seems random.

Images and Awake seem amateurish and cluttered. I just looked into it and it was one of the artists first jobs if not *the* first.

I'm kind of perplexed SFAM gets so much love. Maybe if it was more apparent that the images were from the actual story, like having pictures of the characters in the booklet, I would think more highly of it.

Train of Thought. Followed by...

2. Octavarium
3. Awake
4. Scenes
5. Images

But to be honest I'm one of the few who loves the self-titled cover. That may be my overall favourite.

I LOVE the DT12 cover. In fact, when the name and cover were announced from that album I was kind of blown away. Kind of bold to have a very simple yet beautiful cover and then name the album after the band almost 30 years into your career.

I will say this though. I feel that everyone, including myself, has a little bias of the cover art toward the quality of the albums. For instance, I found the album to be kind of middle of the road and when I look at the cover now, I kind of feel let down. Honestly, if the album was a masterpiece, I may look at the simplicity of the cover and feel that it is the best.

On that same token, I mentioned this in the other thread but when ADTOE was announced as the title and then the cover art announcement, I was shocked. Horrible name, horrible cover. Yet now, I look at the cover and how different it was from all of the others and I've grown to love it. It certainly doesn't hurt that ADTOE is one of my 3 favorite DT albums. D/T is another of my favorite covers and albums but where my theory kind of falls apart is that SC is my 3rd favorite album and I don't care for the art at all.

[Buddyhunter1]

Went with Octavarium for the color palette and the simple but cool imagery. Awake would probably be my #2.

The two albums winning the poll right now are probably the ones I'd rank at the bottom of these five. I don't really get the appeal behind Images And Word's cover, and Scenes From A Memory has a cool concept but aesthetically I find it kinda ugly.