Your favourite 3 Dream Theater/Petrucci albums

[gus74]

1. Images and Words
2. Awake
3. Scenes From a Memory.

 

[Gitguru]

1. Images and words - My first DT album. This one will always be special because i was the record that introduced me to the prog-genre

2. Octavarium - I like this one because it's so diverse, it got ballads, pop-songs, heavy tunes, proggy tunes and even and epic masterpiece

3. Suspended Animation - This is a great instrumental album, I agree that it's one dimentional, but hey if its the dimention you like, how can it be bad?

 

[GoKart_MoZart]

Scenes From A Memory
(I will never forget experiencing "Dance of Eternity" and "The Spirit Carries On" live for the first time. DT was opening for Satriani, would have been a better concert overall if they had switched.)

Awake
(I heard "The Mirror" on the local high school radio station, that was my intro to DT.)

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
(Especially the second disk.)

 

[ashman]

1. Falling into Infinity (oooh, controversial first choice) - Why doesn't John M. write more lyrics? Trial of Tears could well be my favourite DT song.

2. Awake - What else can I say, absolutely brilliant.

3. A Change of Seasons - Brilliant title track and cool covers.

 

[RobertS]

Without any particular order:

DT Systematic Chaos
JP Suspended Animation
LaBrie Elements Of Persuasion

The last one has "seized" my last days.
The rhytm tone of Marco Sfogli is for me as close to perfect one as it gets

 

[hardrockdude]

1. 6DoIT
2. I&W, especially love the guitar tone, fat and "shiny"
3. ToT, soo heavyy... damn.. this album gave me a pretty bad recto GAS

 

[slukather]

Scenes from a memory - What an album, great playing, great story line.
Images and Words - The album that launched DT career, some of their greatest work on this album.
Falling Into Infinity - Most DT fans hate it, l love it, great melodic songs like Take Away My Pain and Hollow Years. And one of their best songs on this album, and mostly written by John M. Trail Of Tears.

Scott.

 

[matragon]

ONLY THREE ... ???

1. CHANGE OF SEASONS - only because it was my FiRST DT album
2. LiVE AT BUDOKAN - I love it ... I love live albums ...
3. iMAGES AND WORDS - no comments ... one of the most important hard rock albums ever made

 

[MikeGGuitars]

The Three songs on JP's solo album are: Damage

I sometimes don't like Labrie's singing but I've learned to ignore that if I feel that's getting over me...

Anyone who can say they dont like James' singing is not a DT fan. He is and always will be a key element, and I am a guitar player and JP super fan but no one with an ear can criticize James ever, ridiculous

 

[dwells]

1. Awake- well it was the album that inspired me to play guitar properly and its just classic
2. Systematic Chaos- i cant stop listening to it so it has to be good i think
3. Scenes from a memory- just amazing

 

[budalash]

My favourites are:
Images and Words (a masterpiece, innovative, melodic and technical playing)
A Change of Seasons (again, I love the melodies)
Awake (amazing sound, heavy, powerful)

As you can see, mostly older stuff. I don't care about DT anymore, it has become sports more than music, it sounds like they have forgotten how to write good music and lately they have been complicating stuff just for the sake of it, and not because it fits the song, like in Metropolis and Take the Time for example. Just my opinion off course, and I would like to emphasize that John Petrucci must be one of the best players around. In my books at least

Cheers everyone!

 

[MikeGGuitars]

My favourites are:
Images and Words (a masterpiece, innovative, melodic and technical playing)
A Change of Seasons (again, I love the melodies)
Awake (amazing sound, heavy, powerful)

As you can see, mostly older stuff. I don't care about DT anymore, it has become sports more than music, it sounds like they have forgotten how to write good music and lately they have been complicating stuff just for the sake of it, and not because it fits the song, like in Metropolis and Take the Time for example. Just my opinion off course, and I would like to emphasize that John Petrucci must be one of the best players around. In my books at least

Cheers everyone!

YIKES

 

[budalash]

@MikeGGuitars

No need for that, seriously, it's just my opinion.

 

[MikeGGuitars]

no need for what? a yikes? really...

 

[rlarino]

Anyone who can say they dont like James' singing is not a DT fan. He is and always will be a key element, and I am a guitar player and JP super fan but no one with an ear can criticize James ever, ridiculous

i love dream theater, but i do realize that james labrie is an acquired taste... i can definitely understand how someone would not like his voice... i think he sounds annoying at times... especially when he gets gritty and tries to sound like dave mustaine


...if they fired JL and JR and hired claudio from coheed and cambria, and got kevin moore back in the band i think dt would be the best band ever LOL

 

[rlarino]

YIKES

i've been listening to dream theater for a LONG TIME and unfortunately i have to agree with budalash here (i wish i didn't because i wish the current dt material was something i could love just as much as i do the old) like i said in other posts... the awesome dt that i loved started to die when jordan rudess entered the band...

and i don't really understand why because jordan rudess is an amazingly talented player and writer (LTE is, to this day, my favorite CD ever)...


but hey, that's just my opinion... there will always be an oldschool vs newschool argument over everything, not just dt...


i'm just curious though:


all of the guys who like the latest material better than the old stuff... a lot of you just recently started listening to dream theater right?

and the guys who prefer the old stuff... we've all been listening to dt for a long time right (well over 10 years)?

 

[budalash]

I started listening to DT in 1994, and John Petrucci has been one of my biggest my influences ever since.

I struggled to like SDOIT, ToT did nothing for me and I gave up after buying SC, after 3 weeks of forcing myself to start loving their songwriting again I gave up and gave the CD to a friend who just discovered them and thinks SC is the best album ever.
Again, this has nothing to do with John Petrucci's amazing guitar skills, he excels in all aspects..

This is my last post in this thread as I think it's pointless to discuss something that is obviously just a matter of taste

 

[rlarino]

I struggled to like SDOIT, ToT did nothing for me and I gave up after buying SC, after 3 weeks of forcing myself to start loving their songwriting again I gave up and gave the CD to a friend who just discovered them and thinks SC is the best album ever.

i feel the exact same way... though i'll always buy everything they release due to loyalty (but also in the hope that they return to that masterful, perfectly melodic, and catchy from start to finish style that they hooked me on with IAW, Awake, ACOS, and FII)

anyway, i'm not trying to put down what they do now, i just loved what they used to do so much that i wish they hadn't taken this little change of direction


come to think of it... these changes started to happen right about the same time that JP switched over to Ernie Ball... it's all their fault! LOL JK

 

[Junior]

Scenes From New York (live DVD, does that count?)
Images & Words
Scenes From a Memory