6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence: 1 or 2 ?

Pafnutij wrote: goose wrote: Pafnutij wrote: The first half of the second disc is really good, but gets ruined by [...]Solitary Shell ( ) and whatever comes after that. Ruined by its best songs ? The track that really pisses me off is "The Test That Stumps Them All". How many times do they need to play that damn riff?! I know most people love Solitary shell, but it always reminded me of some boyband crap. And the lyrics are super-cheesy. My fave would be War inside my Head - great riff and chorus on that one.

Funnily enough, when I said "The Test That Stumps Them All", not only did I get the title wrong, I also got the song wrong and actually meant "War Inside My Head". The chorus is alright but I could (and do ) live without DADADADADADADADA! DADADADADADADADA! DADADADADADADADA! DADADADADADADADA! every verse. That's a guitar riff, if it isn't immediately obvious

goose wrote: Pafnutij wrote: The first half of the second disc is really good, but gets ruined by [...]Solitary Shell ( ) and whatever comes after that. Ruined by its best songs ? The track that really pisses me off is "The Test That Stumps Them All". How many times do they need to play that damn riff?!

I know most people love Solitary shell, but it always reminded me of some boyband crap. And the lyrics are super-cheesy. My fave would be War inside my Head - great riff and chorus on that one.

Both of them are far from perfect. The first disc only has Glass Prison as a strong point, but the rest is nothing special. The first half of the second disc is really good, but gets ruined by Goodnight Kiss, Solitary Shell ( ) and whatever comes after that. Overall, I still vote Disc 2.

 I voted for both.I can't really decide...

Glass Prison and Blind Faith are excellent song, but CD2 is a wonderful musical flow.

6DOIT is my favourite DT-album from the Rudess-era.

Jeez, what a tough choice!!

I chose 2....it is SO complete!

I think that 'Blind Faith' weakens the first disk just a tad, it is still a good song, but the 2nd disk is perfect!

DEFINITLEY my favorite DT album and likely in my fave albums ever..

disc 1...not even a question for me.

agreed disappear is really really gooooood.

 

 

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Six Eight wrote: Disappear might be a little questionable on that claim.

Disappear is one of the best DT songs ever!

The 43-minute track is one of Dream Theater's greatest accomplishments, and is very symphonic and catchy. The "Overture/About to Crash" and "Losing Time/Grand Finale" are two of the best sections to any song DT has ever done.

First disc, by a decent margin. The second disc has the great flow, interesting stories and of course the great overall sound. But all five tracks on first disc could pretty much make an album good by themselves... though Disappear might be a little questionable on that claim.

I've been studying both discs on bass.  This is also my favorite Dream Theater album.  I'm going to ignore that this poll has a both option because it's way to easy for me to pick that.  I voted for the second disc, it is in my opinion, the most brilliantly composed piece of music i have ever heard.  The flow is remarkable for a a forty minute piece.  When Dream Theater plays these songs live, you want to hear the next track when they're starting the next song.  As far as my experience from studying both discs, the first disc has some great varietly and range to the matierial, the second disc is in a smaller range, but has more technical passages and needs to be played much more precise.  Musically both discs have their strong suit, but disc II seems to posses something (possibly emotion) that disc I does not have.