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What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums (pick 3)

When Dream and Day Unite
Images and Words
Awake
Falling into Infinity
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Train of Thought
Octavarium
Systematic Chaos
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater
The Astonishing
Distance over Time

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #35 on: February 26, 2020, 11:43:14 PM »
Six Degrees
Awake
When Dream and Day Unite

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #36 on: February 27, 2020, 12:43:31 AM »
There's been two surprises so far:

1. WDaDU got a vote
2. SC hasn't

I also wonder f the lone WDADU vote came from the same one who voted for Infinity.
Nope. I was the first one to vote for WDaDU, and my other 2 choices were SFaM and SDoIT, just as they were in the previous thread.  ;)
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #37 on: February 27, 2020, 03:22:42 AM »
For me it's:

Scenes
Six
Train

...although not necessarily in that order.

Ditto.

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #38 on: February 27, 2020, 06:16:26 AM »
Where's all the love for Train of Thought? I can't believe DOT has more votes than it.

Train of Thought was usually in my top 3.  But I find myself going back to DOT more, since it's still a heavy record, but really feels like classic Dream Theater.  I still love TOT though!

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #39 on: February 27, 2020, 06:23:38 AM »
1. Images and Words (not even close)
2. ADTOE
3. DT12

Still need to listen to DOT more than I have to figure out where that sits - suffice it to say that the Mangini era rekindled my interest which had waned from FII onwards..  If it was based on influence then WDADU and Awake would be 2/3 but I am working with the albums I would reach for these days.
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #40 on: February 27, 2020, 06:35:00 AM »
1. I&W
2. Awake
3. FII

with SFAM missing the mark ever so slightly.
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #41 on: February 27, 2020, 12:41:48 PM »
Mine hasn't changed and probably won't since I haven't really enjoyed their latest releases. I did like DT12 a lot when it came out but I rarely feel like visiting it.

1. SFAM
2. 6DOIT
3. I&W
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #42 on: February 28, 2020, 04:19:16 PM »
1. ADTOE
2. DOT
3. SC

It's funny because I think the best songs on SC aren't as good as the best songs on some other albums, but also I don't think there is a single song that isn't excellent on that album which I can't say for almost any other album.

Disc 1 of SDOIT would probably be my number 2 spot if disc 2 didn't weigh it down so much.

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #43 on: February 28, 2020, 04:47:13 PM »
Awesome man!  You gave SC a vote.  I was rooting for it  :tup

There are really only 2 songs on SC that I don't care for all that much and that's Constant Motion and Repentance.  The rest I like a lot.

I'm also glad to see that ADToE has gotten a few more.
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #44 on: February 28, 2020, 08:12:32 PM »
Images
Awake
SFaM

By a huuuuge margin

ADToE is an honorable mention.

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #45 on: February 29, 2020, 12:44:07 AM »
DT12
Octavarium
D/T
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #46 on: February 29, 2020, 11:20:20 AM »
ADTOE
The Astonishing
D/T

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #47 on: February 29, 2020, 02:02:47 PM »
ADTOE
The Astonishing
D/T

*mic drop*
Good choices!   :tup
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #48 on: February 29, 2020, 03:00:38 PM »
1. SFAM
2. I&W
3. 6DOIT

With Awake at a close fourth. I don't think this will ever change for me.

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« Reply #49 on: February 29, 2020, 03:52:56 PM »
ADTOE
The Astonishing
D/T

Love seeing this. The Mangini-era albums are so strong, it's good to see them represented in such a legendary back catalogue.

My own top 3 are:

Octavarium
Scenes From A Memory
Train of Thought

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #50 on: February 29, 2020, 05:41:05 PM »
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #51 on: February 29, 2020, 05:44:08 PM »
It looks like the top 4 are pretty clear by this point, and it's probably not a surprise to anyone.  But 5th place looks like a very close race between Octavarium and ADToE.  That I think is very interesting.
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #52 on: March 01, 2020, 11:49:19 PM »
1 - I&W
2 - SFAM
3 - 6DOIT

4 - ADTOE

14 - SC   :biggrin:

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #53 on: March 08, 2020, 08:01:30 PM »
Well, Octavarium and ADToE are now tied for 5th favorite DT album.  I wasn't going to bump this thread but considering that happened I thought it would be interesting to mention.
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #54 on: March 09, 2020, 07:44:39 AM »
I’ve been listening to DT for over twenty years and while I like every album and they’ve each had their moments, these are the ones I go back to the most.

Images and Words
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
A Dramatic Turn of Events
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #55 on: March 09, 2020, 10:07:45 AM »
In this order:

6DOIT
SFAM
Awake
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #56 on: March 09, 2020, 11:15:33 AM »
This needs a follow up poll of top albums outside of the big four, those eat up 75% of the picks

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #57 on: March 09, 2020, 12:47:40 PM »
Agreed

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #58 on: March 09, 2020, 03:23:20 PM »
This needs a follow up poll of top albums outside of the big four, those eat up 75% of the picks

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #59 on: March 09, 2020, 03:32:21 PM »
Images
Astonishing
Scenes

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #60 on: March 09, 2020, 05:27:58 PM »
This needs a follow up poll of top albums outside of the big four, those eat up 75% of the picks



Sounds like a good idea.  I'll do it.
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #61 on: March 12, 2020, 07:46:12 PM »
Awake
Images and Words
Six Degrees
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #62 on: March 13, 2020, 12:50:09 AM »
1.Images and words
2.When dream and day unite
3.Awake

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #63 on: March 21, 2020, 12:05:57 PM »
Awake
I&W
Scenes


...and that will probably never change, even though Six Degrees is not far behind.

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #64 on: May 21, 2020, 08:06:17 AM »
Right now:

1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
2. Awake
3. The Astonishing

Followed closely by Scenes from a Memory.

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #65 on: May 22, 2020, 01:15:58 PM »
Where's all the love for Train of Thought? I can't believe DOT has more votes than it.

The love is over here. Just voted SFAM, SDOIT en TOT.
Awake and I&W come close.

None of the albums after TOT does even come close to those five.

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« Reply #66 on: May 22, 2020, 01:52:05 PM »
Where's all the love for Train of Thought? I can't believe DOT has more votes than it.

The love is over here. Just voted SFAM, SDOIT en TOT.
Awake and I&W come close.

None of the albums after TOT does even come close to those five.

There was a companion thread, which I think asked folks to pick their favorite DT album other than I&W, Awake, SFAM and SDOIT (i.e., the "regular top 4").  While TOT doesn't rank in most folks' top 3, it seems to be commonly in the next tier for most folks.
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #67 on: May 31, 2020, 09:33:55 AM »
Mine haven’t changed:

1. SFAM
2. SDOIT
3. 8VM

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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #68 on: June 01, 2020, 07:23:38 AM »
1 & 2 haven't changed.

1. Images & Words
2. Scenes From A Memory


For this poll, I bumped ADTOE over Awake for third place.
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Re: What are your three favorite Dream Theater albums 2.0
« Reply #69 on: June 01, 2020, 08:16:00 AM »
SDOIT
SFAM
I&W
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