Favourite Dream Theater Epic?

dtguitarfan wrote: So...you actually care about the lyrics?  Haha, kind of kidding there - lyrics are important, but for me they've always been the whipped cream on the sundae.  More important to me is the music itself - the vocals, the harmonies, the instrumentals, etc.

The music is the most important aspect, for sure.   However, if you are going to have lyrics at all, they should, at the very least, not be totally ridiculous.  Which they are on The Count of Tuscany.  I still listen to it, because the music is great, but it does sort of take away from the grandness when I find myself giggling uncontrollably at certain points.  Maybe if they didn't seem so serious about the silly lyrics, I would feel differently (I'm a Zappa fan, so I can appreciate deliberately silly lyrics). 

JS19 wrote: Horizons wrote: zeqexes wrote: Alitare wrote: The shortest one because it is over quicker.  ...cannot...compute... It is an opinion that is shared throughout PA. It's also kind of annoying. Yeah lots of people don't like DT, I get it. It's not that funny any more. Doesn't help that a lot of the fans are a bit crazy about them, but still, it's a bit pretentious to have a go at DT every single time they are mentioned... I still enjoy them from time to time, even if they are a little silly sometimes  In answer to the question, I think my favourite would have to be In The Presence Of Enemies. Not a popular opinion because of the dumb lyrics, but I honestly don't expect a lyrical masterpiece when I listen to a DT track

DREAM THEATER are easy one of the most brilliant, technically complex bands in prog and easily the world. People, I feel, make fun of DREAM THEATER because they are just so incredibly technical and some people just don't get it. It is my experience that people often fear and belittle what they don't understand. I call those people closet case idiots.
Anyway, just ignor those morons who actually have the audacity to make fun of them.

Zeqexes, on these Archives many people think D.Theater are a hugely defining, technical, impressive and very important modern progressive band, while just as many find them to be the most tedious, overwrought, unemotional and clinical bore!

I fall right in between those two, and can completely understand both arguments! I totally sit on the fence with this band!

Alitare wrote: The shortest one because it is over quicker.

Hmmm, this is a tough one! In no particular order...

Octavarium
The Count of Tuscany
A Change of Seasons
The Ministry of Lost Souls (Seriously, how hasn't this been mentioned yet. Wonderful track!)

dtguitarfan wrote: So...you actually care about the lyrics?  Haha, kind of kidding there - lyrics are important, but for me they've always been the whipped cream on the sundae.  More important to me is the music itself - the vocals, the harmonies, the instrumentals, etc.

Metropolis Part 1

Ytse_Jam wrote: ^ Agreed for The Count of Tuscany. Lyrics and music are just like black and white..

Everything about this place
Just doesn't feel right
I
I don't want to die
Suddenly I'm frightened for my life"I felt the warm wind blow
I must explore the boundaries
Transcend the depth of winter's snow
Innocence caressing me
I never felt so young before
There was so much life in me
Still I longed to search for more
But those days are gone now
Changed like a leaf on a tree
Blown away forever
into the cool autumn breeze"

I wouldn't label Voices as an epic. One of their best, though...

Ytse_Jam wrote: I've never been able to realize which one is the best between these masterpieces: - A Change of Season - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Octavarium I mean.. I'm only human.. This is too tough...

dude this are also  my  best  songs from DT  

six degrees of inner turbulence is my number 10 song from progressive rock sounds <3