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When Dream & Day Unite: 7.5

Images And Words: 9

Awake: 9.5

A Change of Seasons: 7.5

Falling Into Infinity: 6.5

Scenes From A Memory: 9.5

Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence: 9

Train Of Thought: 8.5

Octavarium: 7.5

Systematic Chaos: 9

 
 
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1: A Change of Season (Coz it's my Fave DT song)
2: Train of Thought {The Real Prog Metal)
3: Awake
4: Scenes from a Memory
5: Images and Words
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1. Systematic Chaos (simply brilliant, conformation of huge class)
2. Six degrees of inner turbulence (title-track !)
3. Images and words (essential break-through for the band and start of a new genre !)
4. Awake (emotion !)
5. Scenes from a memory (same, but in a different way)
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Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

I sense a real pattern beginning to emerge the top picks are obvious
 
Awake, Dreams and Images, Octavarium, Scenes from a memory, 6dOI and Train of Thought are very popular so far!!!!
 
Keep the lists coming please

I'm not surprised about that, Awake, Scenes and Images and Words are all classics of the genre by most Prog metal fans reckoning, and Octavarium and ToT are very much love or hate albums, I hate Octavarium and love ToT but some people are the other way round.

What does surprise me is the love for Falling Into Infinity, such a poor album for them.
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Awake
Images & Words
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Train of Thought
Scenes From a Memory
 
 
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What does surprise me is the love for Falling Into Infinity, such a poor album for them.
 
Andy, didn't they say that they were going to try and rework FII and release it in the manner they had originally wanted to, without record company pressure?...Smile
 
 
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:


What does surprise me is the love for Falling Into Infinity, such a poor album for them.
 
Andy, didn't they say that they were going to try and rework FII and release it in the manner they had originally wanted to, without record company pressure?...Smile
 
 


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Geezus, I hope not.
I honestly think they couldn't just go back to a 11 year old album and do that, it really doesn't seem right.

Love it, hate it or in between, FII is what it is... because it written and released as it was in 1997.

Dream Theater are a lot better off working on making the next studio album better... the last two weren't great (although I would at least give SC 3 stars) and if the next album isn't anything less than amazing I don't see myself having anymore faith in them making anything exciting and fresh after that and that would be a shame, because they were one of the bands that really got me into prog.

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Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:


What does surprise me is the love for Falling Into Infinity, such a poor album for them.
 
Andy, didn't they say that they were going to try and rework FII and release it in the manner they had originally wanted to, without record company pressure?...Smile
 
 


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Geezus, I hope not.
I honestly think they couldn't just go back to a 11 year old album and do that, it really doesn't seem right.

Love it, hate it or in between, FII is what it is... because it written and released as it was in 1997.

Dream Theater are a lot better off working on making the next studio album better... the last two weren't great (although I would at least give SC 3 stars) and if the next album isn't anything less than amazing I don't see myself having anymore faith in them making anything exciting and fresh after that and that would be a shame, because they were one of the bands that really got me into prog.

/thread derailment/rant over

In a way, they have already: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=16878

This is effectevely how the album looked before the record company hacked it to pieces.
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^^thanks Andy, that must have been what I was thinking of...Embarrassed
 
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Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
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Scenes from a Memory
Images and Words
Six Degrees of Inner Turbluence


Systematic Chaos
Octavarium
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

I sense a real pattern beginning to emerge the top picks are obvious
 
Awake, Dreams and Images, Octavarium, Scenes from a memory, 6dOI and Train of Thought are very popular so far!!!!
 
Keep the lists coming please

I'm not surprised about that, Awake, Scenes and Images and Words are all classics of the genre by most Prog metal fans reckoning, and Octavarium and ToT are very much love or hate albums, I hate Octavarium and love ToT but some people are the other way round.

What does surprise me is the love for Falling Into Infinity, such a poor album for them.
 
Yea. As inconsistent as the album is, it still has some great tracks, though.
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- Scenes
- Awake
- Six Degrees
- Train
- Octavarium
 
Budokan and Score are comewhere between these five
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1. When Dream and Day unite
2. Images and Words
3. Scenes from a Memory
4. Awake
5. Octavarium - or A Change of Season, if the live version from "Taste the Memories" counts, I hate the studio version :-)
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SDOIT
Scenes From A Memory
Images And Words
Awake
Train Of Thought
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In no particular order
 
SFAM
SDoIT
Octavarium
Images and Words
Awake
 
Plus my usual dig at the crap drumming which, without it - or at least without the crap snare and cymbals, would improve all DTs albums no end. When is someone going to tell them? This drummer's ability to screw up fantastic music should be legendary!
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1  Systematic Chaos
2  SFAM
3  Images and words
4  Octavarium
5  Falling into Infinity
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1. Images and Words
2. Disk 2 of SDoiT (Disk 1 never happened. Stern%20Smile)
3/4/5: Falling into Infinity, Awake, Train of Thought
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

1. Images and Words
2. Disk 2 of SDoiT (Disk 1 never happened. Stern%20Smile)
3/4/5: Falling into Infinity, Awake, Train of Thought
 
thx for the list
 
I dont agree tho that disk one of 6DoIT never happened as i loved some of the stuff on that Cd particularly
 
The Glass Prison, Blind Faith and The Great Debate
 
They are great songs and worthy of note, tho CD2 is the piece de resistance of courseBig%20smile 
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Easily,
1) Images and Words
2) Scenes From A Memory
3) Awake
4) 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence
5) Change Of Seasons
 
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