Dream Theater The League - Week 3-C

[Destiny Of Chaos]

Week 3-C


Please vote for the song that you'd like to see win each match.


1.   A Better Life vs. Far From Heaven
2.   Erotomania vs. Hollow Years
3.   Innocence Faded vs. Chosen
4.   Learning to Live vs. Burning My Soul
5.   Beyond This Life vs. Losing Faythe
6.   Metropolis vs. Behind the Veil
7.   Octavaium vs. Another Won
8.   At Wit’s End vs. New Millennium
9.   The Path That Divides vs. Repentance
10.   Sacrificed Sons vs. The Mirror
11.   Room 137 vs. The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
12.   Scarred vs. The Killing Hand
13.   The Great Debate vs. Speak to Me
14.   Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence vs. The Looking Glass
15.   The Dance of Eternity vs. Stream of Consciousness
16.   The Enemy Inside vs. Status Seeker
17.   The Dark Eternal Night vs. Surrender to Reason
18.   Strange déjà vu vs. The Gift of Music
19.   The Glass Prison vs. Space-Dye Vest


You have 48 hours to vote.

[krands85]

1.   A Better Life vs. Far From Heaven
2.   Erotomania vs. Hollow Years
3.   Innocence Faded vs. Chosen
4.   Learning to Live vs. Burning My Soul
5.   Beyond This Life vs. Losing Faythe
6.   Metropolis vs. Behind the Veil
7.   Octavaium vs. Another Won
8.   At Wit’s End vs. New Millennium
9.   The Path That Divides vs. Repentance
10.   Sacrificed Sons vs. The Mirror
11.   Room 137 vs. The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
12.   Scarred vs. The Killing Hand
13.   The Great Debate vs. Speak to Me
14.   Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence vs. The Looking Glass
15.   The Dance of Eternity vs. Stream of Consciousness
16.   The Enemy Inside vs. Status Seeker
17.   The Dark Eternal Night vs. Surrender to Reason
18.   Strange déjà vu vs. The Gift of Music
19.   The Glass Prison vs. Space-Dye Vest

Lots of 'home wins' for me again. Didn't have to think too hard about most of them, but TDoE vs SoC was pretty close.

[jammindude]

Sometimes the hardest ones are when you get two mediocre songs against each other.   

Anyway...

1. A Better Life (easy)
2. Erotomania (easy)
3. Innocence Faded (very difficult...these are two 7's pitted against each other which made it a dead heat...very frustrating)
4. Learning to Live (easy)
5. Beyond This Life (easy)
6. Metropolis (easy)
7. Octavarium (VERY EASY)
8. Rats....I was really having a hard time on this one, so I skipped it and I was going to come back.  Now I realize after turning in my vote that I forgot to go back and check one.   But AAARRRGGGGG!!!  So hard!!   A new classic vs. one of my favs from FII!!!   If I could go back, I would say New Millenium
9. The Path That Divides (easy)
10. The Mirror (easy....best song from Awake hands down)
11. The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun (EASY...but controversial I know.  It's my favorite WDADU track)
12. Scarred (a bit harder on this one)
13. Speak to Me (this one was hard too.  Two fairly meh songs.  I guess StM wins on the strength of the Xmas CD performance)
14. Six Degrees (VERY easy)
15. Stream of Consciousness (this one killed me....but I think SoC flows a bit better)
16. The Enemy Inside (easy)
17. The Dark Eternal Night (easy)
18. Strange Deja Vu (easy)
19. The Glass Prison (easy)

[MirrorMask]

Heaven Years

Innocence to Live

Beyond Metropolis

Octavarium's End (Razor's Edge basically)

The Mirror that Divides

Room Scarred

Speak to Six

The Dance Inside

Surrender to Deja Vu Vest


Some difficult choices here. I gladly reward Speak to Me which is one of their best ballads. It was hard to decide between The Glass Prison and Space-Dye Vest... and as I type this, I realize I associated the wrong song to the wrong title and that I like A Better Life more than Far From Heaven  it's 9 in the morning here and apparently I'm not awake yet... uh well, looks like ABL will win anyway.

[CharlesPL]

1.   Far From Heaven
2.   Erotomania
3.   Innocence Faded
4.   Learning to Live
5.   Beyond This Life
6.   Metropolis
7.   Octavarium
8.   New Millennium
9.   The Path That Divides
10.   The Mirror
11.   The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
12.   Scarred
13.   The Great Debate
14.   Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
15.   The Dance of Eternity
16.   Status Seeker
17.   Surrender to Reason
18.   Strange déjà vu
19.   The Glass Prison

[erwinrafael]

Sad that R137 does not get much love in the DT League. I guess it's too different from the usual DT.

[romdrums]

Sad that R137 does not get much love in the DT League. I guess it's too different from the usual DT.

I voted for it.  One of my favorites from the new album.

[MirrorMask]

Sad that R137 does not get much love in the DT League. I guess it's too different from the usual DT.

I voted for it.  One of my favorites from the new album.

I voted for it too in a heartbeat, never really liked The Ones.

[jammindude]

Sad that R137 does not get much love in the DT League. I guess it's too different from the usual DT.

I voted for it.  One of my favorites from the new album.

I voted for it too in a heartbeat, never really liked The Ones.

I actually really love the song...I just voted Sun because it’s an all time fav.

[erwinrafael]

Sad that R137 does not get much love in the DT League. I guess it's too different from the usual DT.

I voted for it.  One of my favorites from the new album.

I voted for it too in a heartbeat, never really liked The Ones.

I actually really love the song...I just voted Sun because it’s an all time fav.

Yep. I guess I'm just down with the 0-2 record of the song so far, combined with the close vote now with The Ones.

[pg1067]

A couple of REALLY tough matchups here!  I also abstained on a few of these (3, 9 and 13) that exclusively involve bottom five songs, TA songs or an FII reject.  I'd normally vote for anything over a TA song or an FII reject, but there's no way I'm giving a vote to Innocence Faded, The Great Debate or Repentance.

1. Far from Heaven (over a TA song)
2. Erotomania (over Hollow Years -- a difficult choice)
4. Learning to Live (over Burning My Soul)
5. Beyond This Life (over a TA song)
6. Metropolis (over Behind the Veil)
7. Octavarium (over Another Won -- I'm still trying to figure out why Another Won, out of all of the Majesty era songs, is in this competition)
8. At Wit's End (over New Millennium)
10. Sacrificed Sons (over The Mirror)
11. Room 137 (over TOWHTSTS)
12. Scarred (over The Killing Hand -- an almost impossible choice, and I might have gone the other way if it were the Live at the Marquee version of TKH)
14. SDOIT (over The Looking Glass)
15. Stream of Consciousness (over The Dance of Eternity -- another almost impossible choice, but I've long regarded SOC as my favorite DT instrumental)
16. The Enemy Inside (over Status Seeker)
17. Surrender to Reason (over The Dark Eternal Night)
18. Strange Deja Vu (over a TA song)
19. Space-Dye Vest (over The Glass Prison -- tough choice)

[pg1067]

Sad that R137 does not get much love in the DT League. I guess it's too different from the usual DT.

I realize it's three hours after you posted, but it's winning the vote....

[Dublagent66]

1. A Better Life
2. Erotomania
3. Innocence Faded
4. Learning to Live
5. Beyond This Life
6. Metropolis
7. Octavarium
8. At Wit's End
9. Repentance
10. The Mirror
11. Room 137
12. Scarred
13. The Great Debate
14. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
15. The Dance of Eternity
16. The Enemy Inside
17. The Dark Eternal Night
18. Strange Deja vu
19. The Glass Prison

[mikeyd23]

A Better Life
Erotomania
Innocence Faded
Learning to Live
Beyond This Life
Metropolis
Octavarium
At Wit's End
The Path That Divides
The Mirror
Room 137
Scarred
The Great Debate
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
The Dance of Eternity
The Enemy Inside
The Dark Eternal Night
Strange Déjà vu
The Glass Prison

[Dublagent66]

Yep. I guess I'm just down with the 0-2 record of the song so far, combined with the close vote now with The Ones.

I don't see R137 losing this round.

[pg1067]

Yep. I guess I'm just down with the 0-2 record of the song so far, combined with the close vote now with The Ones.

I don't see R137 losing this round.

It's pretty close.

The one that surprises me is The Mirror beating Sacrificed Sons.

[Elite]

Another Won -- I'm still trying to figure out why Another Won, out of all of the Majesty era songs, is in this competition

Maybe because it appeared on Score? I don’t know. Raise the Knife is in here too, but no other demo song is.

[MirrorMask]

Speak to Me is in this very poll and I clearly remember seeing Where are you Now and The Way it Used to Be in previous runs.

[pg1067]

Another Won -- I'm still trying to figure out why Another Won, out of all of the Majesty era songs, is in this competition

Maybe because it appeared on Score? I don’t know. Raise the Knife is in here too, but no other demo song is.

I think all of the "cleaning out the closet" songs (except for You or Me) have turned up in these threads.

As far as Another Won, the following is from the "home thread":  "Featured for the first time in this format will be all of the Non-NOMAC songs of The Astonishing as well as the songs from the brand new album, Distance Over Time!  Together with all of the studio songs, and some of the unreleased songs, that brings our number to 152."

Maybe it being on Score is the reason why it was included as one of the "some of the unreleased songs."

[YtseJamittaja]

 Room 137 vs. The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun

Two of my least favourites.