Dream Theater Top 100 countdown - 2024 Version!

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KevShmev

19 lists so far, with a little over three weeks left to submit. I figured many would want time for revisits and whatnot, which is why I made the submissions period so long this time.

TAC

I'm definitely sending one. I'm almost finished with it.
Quote from: wkiml on June 08, 2012, 09:06:35 AMwould have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Quote from: Zydar on November 09, 2024, 08:20:58 AMTAC are all puns blazing today.

wolfking


Evermind

I wrote down the list of DT songs I like, couldn't come up with a hundred of them and that was it. :lol I'll work on it in the upcoming weeks.
Quote from: Train of Naught on May 28, 2020, 10:57:25 PMThis first band is Soen very cool swingy jazz fusion kinda stuff.

hefdaddy42

Quote from: Stadler on December 07, 2023, 12:56:57 PM
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on December 07, 2023, 10:21:56 AM
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Quote from: TAC on December 07, 2023, 08:18:21 AM
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on December 07, 2023, 08:16:04 AM

But it doesn't get "a raw deal."  There are just a lot of people who don't like it, while you DO like it.  That doesn't mean it gets a raw deal.

:lol

I mean, you're not wrong.
Don't be so sure.  I have been told that I am wrong no less than 3 times already this week.

Yeah, but we're not your wife.    :) :) :)
I wasn't counting her  :lol

Oh shit....
Keep in mind that I haven't actually BEEN wrong.
Quote from: BlobVanDam on December 11, 2014, 08:19:46 PMHef is right on all things. Except for when I disagree with him. In which case he's probably still right.

geeeemo

I have been listening, and re-listening. It takes a bit of time..

MirrorMask

I guess I'm basically done, I'm just doing the last cross checks.

For songs around the 100th position, I tried to look at the songs from 101 onwards and ask myself "does it really saddens me and pains me that this song was eliminated?".... if the answer is not, bye bye songs who didn't make the cut.

wolfking

Quote from: Evermind on December 07, 2023, 08:02:50 PM
I wrote down the list of DT songs I like, couldn't come up with a hundred of them and that was it. :lol I'll work on it in the upcoming weeks.

You signed up to the right bands forum mate?

Stadler

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on December 07, 2023, 08:28:16 PM
Quote from: Stadler on December 07, 2023, 12:56:57 PM
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on December 07, 2023, 10:21:56 AM
Quote from: Stadler on December 07, 2023, 09:45:19 AM
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on December 07, 2023, 08:43:32 AM
Quote from: TAC on December 07, 2023, 08:18:21 AM
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on December 07, 2023, 08:16:04 AM

But it doesn't get "a raw deal."  There are just a lot of people who don't like it, while you DO like it.  That doesn't mean it gets a raw deal.

:lol

I mean, you're not wrong.
Don't be so sure.  I have been told that I am wrong no less than 3 times already this week.

Yeah, but we're not your wife.    :) :) :)
I wasn't counting her  :lol

Oh shit....
Keep in mind that I haven't actually BEEN wrong.

I assumed that went without saying.  :)

hefdaddy42

Quote from: BlobVanDam on December 11, 2014, 08:19:46 PMHef is right on all things. Except for when I disagree with him. In which case he's probably still right.

pg1067

Quote from: wolfking on December 07, 2023, 06:07:38 PM
I haven't even started.

Quote from: TAC on December 07, 2023, 05:18:05 PM
I'm definitely sending one. I'm almost finished with it.

I got my list and started with the ranking engine, but I forgot to save.  Fortunately, I hadn't gotten too far into it, but I haven't yet gone back.  I'll probably tackle it a bit this weekend.
Feelin' kinda spooky.

nobloodyname

It normally lets you resume where you left off if you were ranking at the time. No saving necessary.

pg1067

Quote from: nobloodyname on December 08, 2023, 09:19:39 AM
It normally lets you resume where you left off if you were ranking at the time. No saving necessary.

I had to close the window and restart my computer.  It saved my list of songs, but not the rankings I had done to that point.  I had to pick up the pieces, move back to square one.
Feelin' kinda spooky.

gzarruk

Life got in the way (just moved to a new apartment, among other things) and haven't been able to tackle this yet. Will still *try* to do it if I'm able to, but could some kind soul please share the link to the ranking engine with me? Too lazy right how to try to find it in the previous pages :lol

jingle.boy

Quote from: gzarruk on December 08, 2023, 10:06:53 AM
Life got in the way (just moved to a new apartment, among other things) and haven't been able to tackle this yet. Will still *try* to do it if I'm able to, but could some kind soul please share the link to the ranking engine with me? Too lazy right how to try to find it in the previous pages :lol

Just look in the OP
Quote from: Jamesman42 on September 20, 2024, 12:38:03 PM
Quote from: TAC on September 19, 2024, 05:23:01 PMHow is this even possible? Are we playing or what, people??
So I just checked, and, uh, you are one of the two who haven't sent.
Quote from: Puppies_On_Acid on September 20, 2024, 12:46:33 PMTim's roulette police card is hereby revoked!

twosuitsluke

I've got my top 40 pretty much solidified. 100-41 I'm gonna give another listen and any adjustments. Then I'm gonna give it a week or two, one more full run through before sending.
Quote from: ariich on November 07, 2023, 12:38:53 PMJust popping in to say Luke, you were right.
Quote from: ariich09/07/2023, 14:25:10
luke: Pokemon – Pokemon Theme That was the best! I like Pokemon and I liked the characters. I think there was all of them. It was cool. [Have you heard that song before?] No! Score: 10 trillion

Animal

I started compiling my list yesterday and I had an idea: this time, I was going to do it without the ranker, just ranking the songs off the top of my head. I thought that this way, the list would feel more authentic, like it was really my own list, not just something the ranker had spat out. Ranking he top 5 songs this way was a breeze and I was starting to think how all you people were doing it all wrong, just going through the ranker. The n. 6 was where the trouble began. Then...

The long story short, what a fool I was. I'll be definitely using the ranker.

Stadler

Quote from: Animal on December 08, 2023, 11:58:54 AM
I started compiling my list yesterday and I had an idea: this time, I was going to do it without the ranker, just ranking the songs off the top of my head. I thought that this way, the list would feel more authentic, like it was really my own list, not just something the ranker had spat out. Ranking he top 5 songs this way was a breeze and I was starting to think how all you people were doing it all wrong, just going through the ranker. The n. 6 was where the trouble began. Then...

The long story short, what a fool I was. I'll be definitely using the ranker.
Hahaha

Wim Kruithof

I've been revisiting this top 100 I've send a couple of times now and each time I'm thinking 'darn, this really is a good list'. Never used the ranking machine before but it surely helped me out a lot.
'Your light shines on my soul, while a thousand candles burn'. - Endless Sacrifice

gzarruk

Quote from: jingle.boy on December 08, 2023, 10:15:57 AM
Quote from: gzarruk on December 08, 2023, 10:06:53 AM
Life got in the way (just moved to a new apartment, among other things) and haven't been able to tackle this yet. Will still *try* to do it if I'm able to, but could some kind soul please share the link to the ranking engine with me? Too lazy right how to try to find it in the previous pages :lol

Just look in the OP

Thank you :tup

MirrorMask

Quote from: Animal on December 08, 2023, 11:58:54 AM
I started compiling my list yesterday and I had an idea: this time, I was going to do it without the ranker, just ranking the songs off the top of my head. I thought that this way, the list would feel more authentic, like it was really my own list, not just something the ranker had spat out. Ranking he top 5 songs this way was a breeze and I was starting to think how all you people were doing it all wrong, just going through the ranker. The n. 6 was where the trouble began. Then...

The long story short, what a fool I was. I'll be definitely using the ranker.

The ranker doesn't lie. Trust a computer  :hat

Animal

The thing is, I did a list or two without the ranker and it went just fine. But these were Top 25-Top30 kind of lists, plus ranking favorite artists or songs by the band you are just a casual fan of seems much easier.

nobloodyname

Quote from: pg1067 on December 08, 2023, 09:28:11 AM
Quote from: nobloodyname on December 08, 2023, 09:19:39 AM
It normally lets you resume where you left off if you were ranking at the time. No saving necessary.

I had to close the window and restart my computer.  It saved my list of songs, but not the rankings I had done to that point.  I had to pick up the pieces, move back to square one.

Oh, no! Sorry about that. Mine survives reboots and weeks off, for some reason.

jingle.boy

I'm just over 1/2 way through the first stab at my list, and man it's nice to revisit some of these songs.

I'll tell ya, my Top 25 has barely budged in the last 5 years though; after TA, I created a Top 25 playlist, and although I had The Bigger Picture and Our New World in at 24 and 25 respectively (just to have representation from every album), the way I currently ranked the rest of that Top 25 from 5 years ago had all but two of those same songs - some in a slightly different order, many of them in exactly the same spot.
Quote from: Jamesman42 on September 20, 2024, 12:38:03 PM
Quote from: TAC on September 19, 2024, 05:23:01 PMHow is this even possible? Are we playing or what, people??
So I just checked, and, uh, you are one of the two who haven't sent.
Quote from: Puppies_On_Acid on September 20, 2024, 12:46:33 PMTim's roulette police card is hereby revoked!

Cool Chris

Quote from: jingle.boy on December 10, 2023, 06:35:33 AM
I'll tell ya, my Top 25 has barely budged in the last 5 years though

I don't have my list from the last Top 100 but I believe there is very little movement in my Top 25 as well.
Maybe the grass is greener on the other side because you're not over there fucking it up.

Wim Kruithof

My top 25 is filled with four songs from the Mangini-era (3 songs from A Dramatic Turn and one from A View), but 80% is from 'the early days'. Although I didn't even was a fan back then.
'Your light shines on my soul, while a thousand candles burn'. - Endless Sacrifice

axeman90210

I sent my list in this morning, I didn't participate last time, so this was my first formal DT ranking. I started with the full list of eligible songs and then sorted them into five tiers: Top, Great, Good, OK/Maybe, and those that definitely weren't making the cut. The top tier only had ten songs, so I was able to sort that myself. The bulk of the volume were in Great and Good, for each of those I subdivided into upper and lower groups and then fed those groups through the ranking engine. At the end of that I had a top 85 with 23 songs in the OK tier, so I ended up with a ranked top 108. I didn't review the list at all, I'm trusting the ranking engine. If I start to tinker with the output manually, well, that way lies obsession/madness.

KevShmev

Just an FYI that I am still the person to send your lists, but once the submissions period is over, I will hand this off to ReaperKK and he will run it. I have zero motivation at this point to invest any real time into this project, but I didn't want to totally abandon doing it since I know many are looking forward to it.

Zydar

OK, my list is now sent. My Top 10 was pretty much what I expected it to be after one spin of the ranker thingie.

And now we wait (for sleep?)

Mladen

Quote from: KevShmev on December 10, 2023, 04:54:00 PM
Just an FYI that I am still the person to send your lists, but once the submissions period is over, I will hand this off to ReaperKK and he will run it. I have zero motivation at this point to invest any real time into this project, but I didn't want to totally abandon doing it since I know many are looking forward to it.
Everything alright? Hopefully you're not dealing with some serious private stuff, I know how much you enjoy doing countdowns like this.