Favorite Dream Theater, Images and Words song?
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Topic: Favorite Dream Theater, Images and Words song?
Posted By: KimberlyPierre
Subject: Favorite Dream Theater, Images and Words song?
Date Posted: April 14 2016 at 17:48
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What is your favorite Dream Theater song from Images and Words? Mine would personally have to be Metropolis Part 1 or Learning to Live...it's so hard!!!!!!!!
------------- "There is a sacredness in tears. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." -Washington Irving |
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: April 14 2016 at 18:02
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Metropolis, for sure. ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: KimberlyPierre
Date Posted: April 14 2016 at 18:05
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It was a tough decision! What gave Metropolis the edge over Learning to Live? Both are really fantastic songs. Labrie with that F# though on Learning to Live. ------------- "There is a sacredness in tears. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." -Washington Irving |
Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: April 14 2016 at 18:22
| Pull Me Under, it's easy to understand why it was really popular. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: April 14 2016 at 20:30
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Metro ------------- |
Posted By: KimberlyPierre
Date Posted: April 14 2016 at 20:31
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Technical w**kery ftw! ------------- "There is a sacredness in tears. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." -Washington Irving |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 14 2016 at 21:04
Blank #2  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 14 2016 at 21:08
+1   ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Man With Hat wrote:Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 14 2016 at 22:09
| Not sure... it's rather difficult for me to choose between Metropolis, Learning to Live, and Pull me Under itself. |
Posted By: KimberlyPierre
Date Posted: April 14 2016 at 22:39
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Oh crud.... :( And yeah, it's hard to choose from those two. I don't have a connection to Pull Me Under. Actually, PMU is not even on my top 50. I just dislike it so much....it might as well be my least favorite on the album. ------------- "There is a sacredness in tears. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." -Washington Irving |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: April 14 2016 at 23:40
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voted Under a Glass Moon -------------  
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 15 2016 at 03:52
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Learning to Live. ------------- 
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Posted By: Cookie13
Date Posted: April 15 2016 at 04:31
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Under A Glass Moon.
------------- "Clipside of the pinkeye flight I'm not the percent you think survives I need sanctuary in the pages of this book." Son Et Lumiere - The Mars Volta |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: April 15 2016 at 09:59
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Metro for me ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: April 15 2016 at 18:09
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None of these. In the Name of God from Train of Thought would be my fave. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: twalsh
Date Posted: April 15 2016 at 20:47
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Metropolis today. Tough because I like every song here except Another Day. ------------- More heavy prog, please! |
Posted By: Upbeat Tango Monday
Date Posted: April 15 2016 at 21:51
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Under a Glass Moon ------------- Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 15 2016 at 22:14
Yeah, I understand that many of the progger fans of the band may not be so fond of Pull me Under, but it is still a song I really enjoy. I still remember buying this album first of them all, and listening to this song for the first time... it was really cool, and it still is for me. |
Posted By: KimberlyPierre
Date Posted: April 15 2016 at 22:27
That's great! May I then, have your opinion on other songs of this album? I'm interested to know your opinion of Metropolis Part 1, Learning to Live, and Wait for Sleep. ------------- "There is a sacredness in tears. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." -Washington Irving |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 16 2016 at 06:02
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I don't know what those two blank spaces in the poll are supposed to be, but there are two songs from the I & W sessions that never made it on the album. First one is a ballad called To Live Forever. It was recorded in 1991 and latter even re-worked in 1994 (never made it on Awake ). The 1994 version is better than the first one IMO. The second one is a song called Don't Walk Past Me, and this one is a really great song. It was on one of those fan club releases in the end (Cleaning Out the Closet - 1999). |
Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: April 16 2016 at 12:07
I think the blank spaces were for people like Micky.
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Posted By: KimberlyPierre
Date Posted: April 16 2016 at 12:14
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:) That was totally my fault. ------------- "There is a sacredness in tears. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." -Washington Irving |
Posted By: black_diamond
Date Posted: April 16 2016 at 20:56
Really hard to choose, this album is a masterpiece 
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 16 2016 at 22:36
I really love those three songs. Metropolis was perhaps the one that took me the longest to warm up to, but now I believe it is actually Dream Theater's signature songs... at least as far as the prog fans are concerned... for more metal fans or whatever, it would still have to be Pull me Under (at least that's my impression). Wait for Sleep has one of those magical melodies from Kevin Moore (at least I understand that one is his baby), though I wish it was longer; this is perhaps one of the few non-metal DT songs that I truly love (in general I believe they were not very good at doing non-metal songs). And Learning to Live is also wonderful all along... and that wait for sleep reference is really great too (so that I don't miss Wait for Sleep being so short). |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: April 18 2016 at 02:56
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Metropolis |