6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence: 1 or 2 ?

Which disc is better? I prefer the second disc ...

Edited by MikeEnRegalia

The first disc doesn't have any weak tracks on, but all except the last drag on a bit too long. The second is less overly long but I don't like about half of the songs so the first disc has it (Misunderstood and Disappear are brilliant )

For me Disc 2 is one of the best pieces by Dt, better even than ACOS. At about 40 minutes its really like a concept album on its own.

I have to say the first disc by a mile. Granted, the first four tracks do drag on just a little bit but in this album they were experimenting with moveing there sound closer to heavy metal and on the second disc they just tried to fuse that with there earlier sound and it just comes up as a mess IMO. 

I slightly prefer Disc 1 over 2.

Disc 1 - The Glass Prison Yah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ROCK

goose wrote: Actually, come to think of it, I'm not keen on either the second or fourth track of the first disc... I don't have it with me so I can't remember which one's which.

It's the fourth track I don't like. But four out of five ain't bad, I guess.

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.

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.

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.