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Poll Question: and your favorite is...
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8 [19.05%]
4 [9.52%]
1 [2.38%]
3 [7.14%]
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I went for ToT - I'm not much in the way of a metal head, but I really love that album. 

The poll results suggest that DT is trailing off. 

IMHO, the quality of their releases remains very high when viewed in isolation, but there seams to be a general lack of new ideas - IMHO, their sound has become rather stale and I'm not hearing too much in the way of fresh musical ideas in their newer releases. I purchased most everything from Scenes from a Memory on shortly after release, but I found myself starting to lose interest after Systematic Chaos and haven't even bothered with the latest album.
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Originally posted by RockHound RockHound wrote:

I went for ToT - I'm not much in the way of a metal head, but I really love that album. 

The poll results suggest that DT is trailing off. 

IMHO, the quality of their releases remains very high when viewed in isolation, but there seams to be a general lack of new ideas - IMHO, their sound has become rather stale and I'm not hearing too much in the way of fresh musical ideas in their newer releases. I purchased most everything from Scenes from a Memory on shortly after release, but I found myself starting to lose interest after Systematic Chaos and haven't even bothered with the latest album.


Well, I guess the last album would be worth getting for Ilumination Theory alone. Not really anything new yet, though, but by far my favourite track since Portnoy left, and perhaps the only one that doesn't leave me wishing he was still with the band.
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Dream Theater!
Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus
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Octavarium
SDoIT
ToT
ADTOE
BC&SL
SC
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Octavarium just hits home for me, as well as having a lot of emotional attachment to it and the time when it was the newest album. Six Degrees is the best album, and Train of Thought is intense all the way through, but Octavarium is the exclamation point on Dream Theater's career up to that point, and the title track may be the best composition of the last 35 years

"Dream Theater" didn't do much for me, and I've only slightly warmed up to it. At least Systematic Chaos hooked me on first listen, and I still enjoy it, though I think it's the weakest album since their first album, it was still the, now "classic", lineup of Rudess, Petrucci, Portnoy, Myung, and Labrie, and the album is much, much stronger album to me than the self titled Dream Theater album. I was on board with ADTOE, but something felt a little off. DT is the only Dream Theater album I never crave to listen to.
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