Dream Theater (Official Thread)

[JethroZepFloyd]

http://www.dreamtheater.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Theater

Current Members:

John Petrucci
John Myung
James LaBrie
Jordan Rudess
Mike Mangini

Discography:

When Dream and Day Unite (1989)
Images and Words (1992)
Awake (1994)
A Change of Seasons (EP) (1995)
Falling into Infinity (1997)
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)
Train of Thought (2003)
Octavarium (2005)
Systematic Chaos (2007)
Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009)
A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)

Discuss Dream Theater. They are truly a talented band that formed in 1985 in the USA. My favorite Dream Theater album is "metropolis part 2: scenes from a memory" I also love "awake" and "six degrees of inner turbulence" how about you guys?

[Lord Grendel]

My favorite DT album is definitely "Metropolis Pt. 2, Scenes of a Memory."

One thing I wish they would do is more studio albums and less live albums. I have their whole discography and it seems that they have gone overboard on the live stuff and not written enough new material in my opinion.

I still don't get why so many people dig DT. I mean, to each his own, but I could never get into their music. Pull Me Under is my most hated part of Guitar Hero.

[Magic]

has anyone listened to this album yet? I really like this album.

Wither

A Rite of Passage

The Count of Tuscany

A Nightmare to Remember

[Salmacis]

Dream Theater have been consistently producing great music since the 80's and have 10 albums to choose hits from. They're one of the frontrunning progressive metal bands, and show no signs of stopping!

[METALPRIEST]

5 bows to 5 talented guys! Love DT!

[Lord Grendel]

^^I have everything they ever recorded, even all of their Live stuff.

Just letting you know Sal we already have a thread for this band in the Progressive section...so it might get merged.

[Soot and Stars]

I checked these guys out and High School and remember thinking it was pretty good. I think it deserves a revisiting!

[Salmacis]

Originally Posted by Lord Grendel ^^I have everything they ever recorded, even all of their Live stuff. Just letting you know Sal we already have a thread for this band in the Progressive section...so it might get merged.

Fair enough. They are a progressive metal band, so I flipped a coin as to what section to put them in

[Lord Grendel]

There will be times when we archive old threads and encourage completely new ones to start from scratch, usually when a big fan arrives and the old thread is dead in the water I will archive it and let the new one take it's place, in this case Magic and I are both active in the DT thread so we kept it.

You are right they could go in either section, but I feel they are more Prog than Metal, but regardless they are an Awesome band....I like them alot.

[Oblivion]

when I first heard this concept album I was pretty mad about the money it cost me... it was my first DT album and I bought it because it was on sale... but after a while it grew on me and now I just love it... Anyone else that hate-loves this album??

[Lord Grendel]

That's my Favorite album of Dream Theater's catalog. I enjoy the entire Concept format, when done properly it becomes more like a Sonic Art Form than just a CD.

[METALPRIEST]

Originally Posted by Lord Grendel ^^I have everything they ever recorded, even all of their Live stuff. Just letting you know Sal we already have a thread for this band in the Progressive section...so it might get merged.

Me too...I see you like Scenes From A Memory...I really like Six Degrees!! I still get choked up during Solitary Shell.

I agree with Magic too that the new CD is fab!! Wither is a great song and the rest of it just flat out rocks!!!

[Lord Grendel]

Yeah and Who Else but DT would release a 3 CD set.

[Magic]

Originally Posted by FoxyPage I still don't get why so many people dig DT. I mean, to each his own, but I could never get into their music. Pull Me Under is my most hated part of Guitar Hero.

I dont use Guitar hero as a means to judge music, Foxy. Who knows why that particular song was a part of the game, but to give any artist a fair shake, I always listen to at least one full album in its entirety before I send it to the "circle 13" (the trash)

I appreciate what Guitar Hero is doing by exposing a vast variety of music to young people, but that doesn't mean the song choices are the best offered by that particular artist. And I might add the musical quility of Guitar Hero is just terrible. It is intended to be a game, not a place to hear music.

Dream Theater is one of those bands that is very complex in music composition, you sometimes have to listen several times to pick up all the sounds and moods the music is creating. To put this analogy to something that would seem more logical to you, let me use some death metal as an example: I am not fond of growling/squealing vocals, but I can look beyond what is negative in the music and listen for positives, like the guitarists, the keyboardists, etc. I have found alot of death/doom metal that has fantastic music orchestration, but the vocals can sometimes overshadow or ruin things for me.

I hope you see where I am coming from