Top 5 Dream Theater Albums

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Top 5 update with Progmind's votes added:- 1. Images & Words (39 points) 2. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (31 points) 2. Awake (31 points) 4. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (29 points) 5. Octavarium (22 points) 6. Systematic Chaos (13 points) 7. A Change of Seasons (12 points)* 8. Train of Thought (11 points) * New entry!

Cristi wrote: I agree about The Astonishing.  I've always liked Octavarium though.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Cristi wrote: ^ Surprised to see Systematic Chaos so high at number 6. I don't get it, I always struggled with this album, I don't understand why it gets so appreciated.  I like Systematic Chaos. I always struggled with Octavarium and The Astonishing, I never listen to either album anymore.

Deadwing wrote: Cristi wrote: ^ Surprised to see Systematic Chaos so high at number 6. I don't get it, I always struggled with this album, I don't understand why it gets so appreciated.  Not a big fan of this one or Black Clouds either haha

Deadwing wrote: Cristi wrote: ^ Surprised to see Systematic Chaos so high at number 6. I don't get it, I always struggled with this album, I don't understand why it gets so appreciated.  Not a big fan of this one or Black Clouds either haha TBH the reason why I like so much Distance Over Time is because it is a shorter album and the band focus on song-writing instead of endless instrumental passages that lends nowhere (it's kinda of a crime to complain about this in a progressive board though lol). Same for Images and Words.

nick_h_nz wrote: Deadwing wrote: Distance Over Time Images & Worlds Train of Thoughts Octavarium A View From The Top of the World Notable for three things: The first vote for Distance, and only the second vote for View; and if one vote = one point, rather than using Paul’s method, then your vote for Octavarium pushes it out of first equal, and into outright first position!

Deadwing wrote: Distance Over Time Images & Worlds Train of Thoughts Octavarium A View From The Top of the World

Distance Over Time

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Dellinger wrote: I love this band, and it's among my favourite 5 ones. Yet, somehow I don't happen to love almost any whole album, they always have a few weaker songs (though if I put together all the songs that I like from each album together, most of them would make a good over 50 min album anyway... at least up to the point in which Portnoy left, for I find a good decrease in their quality from that point on). However, I can try to put my favourite albums. First, Train of Thought. Then, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (CD 1 for me is the best disc they have released, but unfortunatley it's a double album, and I don't really enjoy so much the title suite). And then Octavarium, Images and Words, and Metropolis II. I'd recommend the double album "Dream Theater's Greatest Hit (and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)" if you want to hear the best of all of their songs, including Dream Theater's one and only genuine greatest hit, "Pull Me Under".

Not really... it seems to be just like their studio albums, it's got some songs that I love and some others I don't really care about... though surely I could make a complete album out of the songs that I do like. Also, having many of the songs edited doesn't really help (though I have not actually heard the album, so I don't really know how they are edited out... yet I can guess what is it they cut).