Dream Theater's best album (Updated 2014)
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Topic: Dream Theater's best album (Updated 2014)
Posted By: adg211288
Subject: Dream Theater's best album (Updated 2014)
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2014 at 3:01am
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I've closed the last poll as it doesn't seem right to exclude 75% of their full-lengths from the poll. The old topic is here: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=219&PN=1&title=dream-theaters-best" rel="nofollow - http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=219&PN=1&title=dream-theaters-best My ranking:
Yes I really did just put Awake that low.  ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2014 at 3:08am
Why is Awake that low?  ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
adg211288 wrote:Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2014 at 3:11am
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I don't know why but it's never really grabbed me the way other albums by them have. There are a few songs I love from it but most of it I don't find all that memorable. I know I am in the minority opinion on this... ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2014 at 3:12am
To me it's their best. One of those albums that just allows itself to breathe as it is a fantastic piece of work in my opinion ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2014 at 7:17am
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My rankings: 1. Awake 2. Train of Thought 3. Images and Words 4. Scenes From a Memory 5. Systematic Chaos 6. Black Clouds and Silver Linings 7. Octavarium 8. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 9. A Dramatic Turn of Events 10. Dream Theater 11. The Astonishing
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2014 at 3:04pm
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I´ve heard all their releases, but it´s only the early releases that I still put on so it´s a bit of a tie between Images and Awake. Images gets my vote. I´m still in awe when listening to that album all these years later. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: floflo79
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2014 at 4:28am
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From best to worst : 01. Metropolis Part II : Scenes From A Memory 02. Images And Words 03. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence 04. Awake 05. Octavarium 06. Train Of Thought 07. Black Clouds & Silver Linings 08. A Dramatic Turn Of Events 09. Systematic Chaos 10. Dream Theater 11. Falling Into Infinity 12. When Dream And Day Unite ------------- For heavy metal we will die ! http://www.lastfm.fr/user/TheProgRockFan |
Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2014 at 10:40pm
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My three favorite albums by them are I & W, SFAM, and ADTOE. Must be a change in personnel gives them a kick in the pants, or something
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Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2014 at 3:50pm
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Top 3: 1. Images and Words 2. Octavarium 3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Really Good: 4. A Change of Seasons 5. Train of Thought 6. Metropolis Pt 2 7. A Dramatic Turn of Events 8. Awake 9. Falling Into Infinity Meh: 10. Black Clouds and Silver Linings 11. Systematic Chaos 12. Dream Theater 13. When Dream and Day Unite |
Posted By: DippoMagoo
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2014 at 3:57pm
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This is really hard, because they're one of my top 5 favorite bands, at the very least. 1. Metropolis, Part 2: Scenes From a Memory 2. Awake 3. Dream Theater 4. A Dramatic Turn of Events 5. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 6. Black Clouds & Silver Linings 7. Images & Words 8. Octavarium 9. Train of Thought 10. When Dream and Day Unite 11. Systematic Chaos 12. Falling Into Infinity (There's a huge gap between 12 and 11, followed by another big gap between 11 and 10. From 10 on, are all albums I'd rate at least 85/100.) |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2014 at 9:24pm
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For me it's Train of Thought. I really love music from most of their albums, but they also have always included songs that I rather dislike. Train of Thought is the one that suffers the least from that. |
Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2014 at 1:22am
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My favorites have actually changed, my top 5 now would be: 1. A Dramatic Turn of Events 2. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 3. Scenes From a Memory 4. Awake 5. Black Clouds and Silver Linings ------------- If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2014 at 8:52pm
 ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2014 at 10:25pm
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The debut and Train of Thought are quite listenable. Images and Words is ok. The rest I have 0 interest in or patience for. |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2014 at 12:31am
The debut and Train of Thought are not so good in my opinion. Images and Words is ok too in my opinion. Awake is the only other one I have interest in
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Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 7:56pm
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I have heard alot of Dream Theater, but I find myself picking an album that isn't even that good: Octovarium. I dunno, I've always liked the album, especially the tracks 'Panic Attack' and 'Never Enough'. I don't even like DT that much, but this album is pretty good imo.
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:55pm
^ Great avatar by the way   ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: m@x
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 8:41am
| Metropolis, Part 2: Scenes From a Memory |
Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:10am
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Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence for me, followed by Train of Thought and Systematic Chaos. I have odd taste There's none I don't like though, when I think about it.
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 10:15pm
Yes you do ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 10:46pm
Me? |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 10:50pm
Yes you ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 10:51pm
Oh, thanks!
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 10:59pm
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^^ Your welcomed ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: Vic
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2014 at 8:06am
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1. Awake 2. Images and Words 3. Change of Seasons --------------------------- ze godly Here is where the two LTE albums would be as well 4. Scenes from a Memory 5. Six Degrees 6. When Dream and Day Unite 7. Falling into Infinity --------------------------- ze brilliant with some flaws and the flawed with moments of brilliance (for the record, #4's flaw is how safe it is) the rest are just random songs - which I don't listen to that often anyway. ------------- 42 |
Posted By: StargazerSlave
Date Posted: 21 Nov 2014 at 12:14pm
| I would go with Metropolis II followed by Six Degrees. |
Posted By: Gabimm
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2014 at 3:41pm
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My favorite album for all the time is Metropolis Part 2 - Scenes From A Memory! The Metropolis is a very intense album, very well composed and his story is incredible. No way, it's exciting! GENIUS! But I like the Train of Thought (powerfull!¹), Images & Words (powerfull!²) and Falling Into Infinity (very beautiful). |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2014 at 4:34pm
You have your opinions but I happen to think that it is overrated ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: StargazerSlave
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2014 at 9:33am
| My next three favorite Dream Theater albums would be Images, Awake, and Train of Thought. Also, I don't despise the debut like some seem to. |
Posted By: Gabimm
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2014 at 7:58am
Okay, maybe, but I read about the measures and the form of SFAM composition, thought fantastic. The sound of this album is not something you can change every day. Regarding the other two may have overestimated, but I like this old school. The new ones are good too, I like the band as a whole, but more of that I quoted. Good thing is just my humble opinion and that all the wonders there. ;) |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2014 at 9:40pm
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^^ It's a ridiculously ludicrous album in my opinion and this is not a compliment
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Posted By: Sleeper
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2014 at 8:14am
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For me it's Awake, that's the one I keep coming back too most. 1. Awake 2. Scenes 3. Images and Words 4. Train of Thought 5. When Dream and Day Unite 6. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Can't say I really care for the rest at all these days. And to think they used to be my favourite band. |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2014 at 1:18pm
------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2014 at 1:40pm
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Dream Theater is getting absolutely crushed by Caravan in the battle of the bands poll over on PA. I'm not having any luck with stirring up their avid fan boy supporters. I guess I am the last of 'em to still be on PA. ------------- 
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2014 at 5:11pm
No offense but they deserve to get crushed  ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: Gabimm
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2014 at 7:49pm
Why? |
Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2014 at 11:14pm
Not by Caravan. But Dream Theater is still overrated even though I really like them. ------------- If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2014 at 11:17pm
The music makes no sense to me but that's me. I don't like it at all really but again that's me. You can like it if you want ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2014 at 11:17pm
Yes by Caravan ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2014 at 11:20pm
I'm not the biggest fan of Caravan, I think Rush, Gentle Giant or Yes would be more fitting for crushing Dream Theater. ------------- If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2014 at 11:24pm
They all are ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2014 at 10:56am
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Caravan are a good band but nothing special. DT are a special band. They are a main reason for half of the bands on PA. And most of the bands started after 1990. Canterbury is just a tiny little niche. -------------
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2014 at 2:08pm
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^^Scott, to each his own ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2014 at 2:50pm
Maybe, but your each is wrong!!!   -------------
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2014 at 2:58pm
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------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: Gabimm
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2014 at 12:09pm
Oh yeah, no problems. ;) I just wanted to know even his reason. As to what you were saying, it may be that, on the one hand, Dream Theater is an overrated band. But are versatile, in my view. I like Yes, King Crimson, Caravan, but are different bands with each other, each with its single biggest quality. And that is lovely in prog rock. |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2014 at 8:09pm
------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2015 at 4:43am
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Awake got my vote. |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2015 at 4:58am
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Still Scenes from a Memory for me. ------------- 
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Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2015 at 9:27am
never saw that poll I'm not surprised considering that progressive metal is one of the least popular subgenres on PA; people complain about LaBrie, some even make fun of him. He may not be a great vocalist but still...
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Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2015 at 10:57am
I feel like I'm the only one who actually really likes LaBrie's vocals. ------------- If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2015 at 12:52pm
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^ You are!
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Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2015 at 12:58pm
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^I thought so. ------------- If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2015 at 6:02am
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^^ Lol ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |