What Is The Last DT Album You Loved Front-To-Back?

[emtee]

I'm talking about truly loving the entire album with no skipping of songs.

For me it's Awake. SFaM and SDoIT come very close but don't quite make the cut.

[TAC]

A View From The Top Of The World.

[WilliamMunny]

Such a good question!

I 'like' virtually everything they've released. Hell, when I did my run-thru a few months back, I even gave The Astonishing a full spin.

But love? I mean, I can count on two hands the people in this world I truly LOVE.

I'm tempted to say DOT, but there's defintily moments on that album I never need to hear again.

I'd like to say ADTOE, but I only LOVE 7 of those 9 songs.

So, I guess that takes me back to Octavarium, which I truly LOVE from front to back.

Wow, has it really been that long?

[HOF]

Awake for me. 

I love FII but it has You Not Me, Burning My Soul, and Just Let Me Breath. SFAM has the fruity “Through” tracks.

[hefdaddy42]

When listening to an album, I normally listen to the entire album, even tracks I don't care for all that much.

I also never expect to like every single song on any album by anyone.  That's an awfully high bar.

Having said that, the last DT album that I legitimately like every song on the album is probably Train of Thought.

[Stadler]

Such a good question!

I 'like' virtually everything they've released. Hell, when I did my run-thru a few months back, I even gave The Astonishing a full spin.

But love? I mean, I can count on two hands the people in this world I truly LOVE.

I'm tempted to say DOT, but there's defintily moments on that album I never need to hear again.

I'd like to say ADTOE, but I only LOVE 7 of those 9 songs.

So, I guess that takes me back to Octavarium, which I truly LOVE from front to back.

Wow, has it really been that long?

Me too.

[Lonk]

ADTOE for me.

[DreamerTV]

I'd say SDOIT.

[bosk1]

A View From The Top Of The World.

[Mladen]

The Astonishing

[romdrums]

D/T for me.  I really, really like View, but Invisible Monsters drags it down just a little in my opinion. 

[425]

Depending on how high the threshold is for "love," it would probably be either DT12 or ADTOE for me. Invisible Monster stops it from being AVFTTOTW, a lot stops it from being DOT, and I'm just not enthusiastic enough about all of The Astonishing to choose it.

On DT12, I enjoy every song, but there are some that I'm not all that enthusiastic about liking (Behind the Veil, The Looking Glass).

On ADTOE, I'm enthusiastic about most of the songs, and still have a good time with stuff like BMU,BMD.

If we set the bar really high, where I have to be completely enamored with every song, then it's SFAM. ToT is at around the level of ADTOE because of HTF.

[pg1067]

I'm talking about truly loving the entire album with no skipping of songs.

For me, "loving" the album and not skipping songs don't connote anywhere close to the same thing.

I haven't listened to View enough to love it, but I don't think it'll get there.

Definitely not DOT.  I find Paralyzed and FITL a bit ponderous, don't care for R137, and find AWE and PBD just average.

TA?   

DT12 - Not a bad song on the album.  I certainly wouldn't skip anything, but I certainly don't "love" Enigma Machine.

ADTOE?  I don't like LNF and never got into the ballads other than BTS.

BC&SL?  The only songs I really want to listen to are Wither and TCOT (and sometimes TSF)

SC is full of duds, including DT's all-time worst album track.

Octavarium comes close, but it has IWBY and Never Enough

TOT has HYF, and I don't really care for TDS

SDOIT has TGD, which is a bottom 5 song, and Disappear is BORING.

SFAM is probably as close as it gets.

[TAC]

I'm talking about truly loving the entire album with no skipping of songs.

For me, "loving" the album and not skipping songs don't connote anywhere close to the same thing.

I haven't listened to View enough to love it, but I don't think it'll get there.

Definitely not DOT.  I find Paralyzed and FITL a bit ponderous, don't care for R137, and find AWE and PBD just average.

TA?   

DT12 - Not a bad song on the album.  I certainly wouldn't skip anything, but I certainly don't "love" Enigma Machine.

ADTOE?  I don't like LNF and never got into the ballads other than BTS.

BC&SL?  The only songs I really want to listen to are Wither and TCOT (and sometimes TSF)

SC is full of duds, including DT's all-time worst album track.

Octavarium comes close, but it has IWBY and Never Enough

TOT has HYF, and I don't really care for TDS

SDOIT has TGD, which is a bottom 5 song, and Disappear is BORING.

SFAM is probably as close as it gets.

Dude, you are a bitch!

[pg1067]

Wait...what?  Which part?

Not necessarily disagreeing, but I need to know why!   

[TAC]

Wait...what?  Which part?

Not necessarily disagreeing, but I need to know why!   

The bolded! 

For me, "loving" the album and not skipping songs don't connote anywhere close to the same thing.

I haven't listened to View enough to love it, but I don't think it'll get there.

Definitely not DOT.  I find Paralyzed and FITL a bit ponderous, don't care for R137, and find AWE and PBD just average.

TA?   

DT12 - Not a bad song on the album.  I certainly wouldn't skip anything, but I certainly don't "love" Enigma Machine.

ADTOE?  I don't like LNF and never got into the ballads other than BTS.

BC&SL?  The only songs I really want to listen to are Wither and TCOT (and sometimes TSF)

SC is full of duds, including DT's all-time worst album track.

Octavarium comes close, but it has IWBY and Never Enough

TOT has HYF, and I don't really care for TDS

SDOIT has TGD, which is a bottom 5 song, and Disappear is BORING.

SFAM is probably as close as it gets.

Other than that, we're in total agreement!

[Adami]

Probably Awake. Scenes is close but I've gotten so sick of TSCO.

[emtee]

Probably Awake. Scenes is close but I've gotten so sick of TSCO.

Me too.

[425]

When listening to an album, I normally listen to the entire album, even tracks I don't care for all that much.

I meant to add to my earlier post that I agree with this. To me, an album is a complete artistic statement, and when I'm listening to an album, I want to listen to the full album. Much like how I don't skip chapters in a novel or scenes in a movie.

That's not to say I don't sometimes pick and choose individual songs, but for me that's a different "mode" of listening than album listening, which is straight through.

[emtee]

I used to he a hard core, tried and true full album guy...no matter what. But now I'm old and I've heard some albums multiple hundreds of times and when a "meh" song comes on, I skip it nowadays.

[Madman Shepherd]

Distance Over Time.

If it weren't for Transcending Time I would say AVFTTOTW except there are moments in some other songs I don't love necessarily but instead just really really like.

[Dream Team]

I guess it would be the self-titled, with a caveat: I love The Astonishing but I skip the NOMACS tracks and a couple others. Doesn’t really count when you like 25 of the songs.

[Dublagent66]

Loved = SDOIT

The last 2 albums are somewhere between liked and loved.

[ChuckSteak]

Probably Six Degrees.

[goo-goo]

Probably SFAM and Six Degrees. I could probably include  ToT there as well.

Very interesting question because Six Degrees Disc 1 would be my favorite DT album if it was a standalone album. My favorite DT album is Awake but I guess I played it so many times that it's hard for me to go back and listen to it.

[DoctorAction]

I really like all of DOT. And View bar IM. But not quite loved.

Loved front to back? Six Degrees.

[faizoff]

A View From The Top Of The World.

Same here. There's only a small section of the title track that doesn't do much for me, but other than that I listen to it front to back and love it.

[crystalstars17]

A View From The Top Of The World.

💯

[DTwwbwMP]

SFAM (and I & W)

[Dream Team]

A View From The Top Of The World.

Same here. There's only a small section of the title track that doesn't do much for me, but other than that I listen to it front to back and love it.

There’s sections of that song that bother you more than sections of IM or TT?

[JLa]

I think it has to be Octavarium for me. Although I might skip some of the songs now, when it was released I played every second of every song and loved it.

Awake, SFAM and SDOIT are also strong contenders.

[faizoff]

A View From The Top Of The World.

Same here. There's only a small section of the title track that doesn't do much for me, but other than that I listen to it front to back and love it.

There’s sections of that song that bother you more than sections of IM or TT?

Pretty much. I love Transcending Time and Invisible Monster start to finish. The section in the title track isn't that long, I think it's the prechorus that's done twice. somehow the vocals and keys playing at the time don't jive much. I don't hate it but it's just something that takes me out for a bit.

[Trav86]

When listening to an album, I normally listen to the entire album, even tracks I don't care for all that much.

I also never expect to like every single song on any album by anyone.  That's an awfully high bar.

Having said that, the last DT album that I legitimately like every song on the album is probably Train of Thought.

Same here. I think Octavarium is probably last classic album in my mind.  But I like Train of Thought a little more. Everything after that has something about it I’m not a fan of.

[dparrott]

SFAM.  Every album after that has at least one "meh" track for me.

[TAC]

SFAM.  Every album after that has at least one "meh" track for me.

Yeah, but SFAM has Home, which naturally meh is an anagram of.