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I thought it would be cool to get everyones opinion for their favorite stratovarius song and album. Mine are Infinite for the album and Infinity for the song. Plz post.

I'm going to give the answer that everyone is expecting from me, I like all the Strato albums for different reasons.

thats cool. i respect that. its just that i like infinity more than the rest.

nothing wrong with that

It is hard to choose!
But, Ill say: VISIONS for album, and BLACK DIAMOND for song.

Destiny - Destiny

Yet there are many albums that come close.
Song is unmatched.

Visions and Tomorrow.

Episode - Speed of light, then Eternity.

Episode - Speed of light

(Visions -Forever free,its hard to choose one)

I never seem to decide whether I like Episode or Visions the most, but I still tend to say Visions, so let it go that way in here, too. As for the song, both Visions and Destiny are in my top 5 when you count every single song I've ever heard! Epics, masterpieces. It was the song Destiny that brought me into metal in the first place. Or the first half of it, which I'd listened to very much, until I got my mom to buy me the album just to be utterly amuzed that the song actually lasts for over 10 minutes - how could any song last?! - and it was the best song, by far, I'd ever heard. I was 13 then. The feelings Destiny brought me, still bring, were and are amazing. My (insignificant) arm hair goes up and I get goose bumps in several parts of the song. It's even worse in Visions, since the goose bumps might even last from "That's the price we pay for our selfishness" to the very end, non stop. :I So, actually Visions might be even better than my early favorite. Unreal songs, these two, absolutely amazing.

Song: Destiny
Album: Destiny

This better...

Fright Night - Black Night
Twilight Time - Lead us into the Light
Dreamspace - Chasing Shadows
4th Dimention - Against the Wind
Episode - Speed of Light (Or Forever)
Visions - Forever Free
Destiny - S.O.S.
Infinite - Millenium (Or Hunting High and Low)
Intermission - Will My soul Ever Rest in Peace
Elements Pt. 1 - Find Your Own Voice
Elements Pt. 2 - I'm Still Alive
Stratovarius - The Land of Ice and Snow
(RR Demo - Last Night on Earth or Heroes)
Polaris - Deep Unknown

Album - Infinite or Elements Pt. 1

I'm sticking purely to the studio albums.

Fright Night - Future Shock
Twilight Time - Hands of Time
Dreamspace - Chasing Shadows
4th Dimension - Lord of the Wasteland
Episode - Father Time
Visions - Visions
Destiny - Destiny
Infinite - Infinity
Elements Pt. 1 - Find Your Own Voice
Elements Pt. 2 - Alpha & Omega
Stratovarius - Back to Madness
Polaris - Winter Skies


There were some pretty difficult choices in there.

My fav album's Visions,"Abyss of Your Eyes" is my fav song.

Of albums I have: (Bolded are the out of all favourites at the moment (Changed a bit)

Twlight Time - Hands of Time
Fourth Dimension - Against the Wind
Episode - Father Time
Visions - Visions
Destiny - Destiny
Infinte - Hunting High and Low
Polaris - Forever is Today/Higher We Go (equal in their own fields)

Fourth Dimension - We hold the Key
& Destiny - Destiny

This list will most likely change in a week but here are my current favorite songs from each album

Fright night-Future shock
Twilight Time-Hands of time
Dreamspace-Wings of tomorrow
Fourth Dimension-Distant skies
Episode-Father Time
Visions-Black Diamond
Destiny-4000 rainy nights
Infinite-Hunting high and low
Intermission-Why are we here?
Elements pt. 1-elements
Elements pt. 2-Know the Difference
Stratovarius-Fight
Polaris-Winter Skies

Honarary mention as it's only on a single-Run away

Fright Night: Darkness
Twilight Time: The Hands Of Time
Dreamspace: 4th Reich
Fourth Dimension: Twilight Symphony
Episode: Night Time Eclipse
Visions: Visions
Destiny: Anthem Of The World
Infinite: Glory Of The World
Elements I: Soul Of A Vagabond
Elements II: Alpha & Omega
Stratovarius: Back To Madness
Polaris: Deep Unknown

RR-demos: Last Night On Earth
b-sides: When The Night Meets The Day

Edit: Added RR-demos.

Fright night - Fright night
Twilight time - Twilight time
Dreamspace - Hold on to your dream
4th Dimension - Lord of the wasteland - Twilight Symphony
Episode - Speed of light - Eternity
Visions - Forever Free - Visions
Destiny - S.O.S - Destiny
Infinite - Infinity
Elements pt1 - Eagleheart
Elements pt2 - I walk to my own song
Stratovarius - Gipsy in me
Revolution Renaissance - We are magic
Polaris - Winter skies

Favorite Album: Visions

Fave song by album:

Fright Night: Future Shock
Twilight Time: Out of the Shadows
Dreamspace: Chasing Shadows, Hold On to your Dream
Fourth Dimension: Twilight Symphony
Episode: Father Time, WTSR, Forever
Visions: Black Diamond, Coming Home
Destiny: Anthem Of The World
Infinite: Mother Gaia
Elements I: Learning to Fly
Elements II: Know the Difference
Stratovarius: Fight / TLoIaS
RR: Glorious and Divine
Polaris: Forever is Today

Favorite Bonus: Cold Winter Nights

Fright Night: Future Shock
Twilight Time: Hands of Time
Dreamspace: Dreamspace
The Fourth Dimension: Twilight Symphony
Episode: Tomorrow
Visions: Black Diamond
Destiny: S.O.S.
Infinite: Hunting High and Low
Elements: Find Your Own Voice
Elements II: Walk to My Own Song
Stratovarius: Fight/Zenith of Power
Polaris: King of Nothing

Ok favorite from each album

Fright night- Black Night
Twilight Time- Break The Ice
Dreamspace- Dreamspace
Fourth Dimension- Against The Wind
Episode- Night Time Eclipse
Visions- Legions
Destiny- Destiny
Infinite- Glory Of The World
Intermission- Will My Soul Ever Rest In Peace?
Elements pt. 1- Fantasia
Elements pt. 2- Dreamweaver
Stratovarius- Just Carry On
Polaris- Still deciding between Higher We Go, Blind and Falling Star

I will do it too

So:

Fright night: future shock
Twilight time: Break the ice/Hands of time
Dreamspace: Chasing shadows
4th dimension: Twilight symphony/Against the wind
Episode: Will the sun rise?
Visions: Black diamond
Destiny: SOS
Infinite: Why are we here?
Elements I: Learning to fly/Find your own voice
Elements II: Alpha and Omega
Stratovarius: Maniac dance
Polaris: Forever is today/ King of nothing

That's my optinion and it was really hard

Well, okay.

Fright Night: Black Night
- The youthful attitude comes out best on this song, and on Future Shock which is about as good but just not quite. Other very good ones are Fright Night and Darkness; couldn't decide whether to choose Black Night or Darkness to be the best on the album. Fright Night would be, although it's too close to Helloween - Halloween. A plagiarism, even.

Twilight Time: Out of the Shadows
- Pretty clear choise for me, although The Hands of Time is the other really good song on the album and pretty close to OotS in my book.

Dreamspace: Hold on to Your Dream
- A great, uplifting song which I think somehow is like created to Kotipelto's voice. I'd wish to hear it live someday... again. Also We Are the Future and why not Chasing Shadows are extremely good, too.

Fourth Dimension: We Hold the Key
- My clear favorite off the album. Very bombastic. Also Against the Wind and Twilight Symphony rock.

Episode: Babylon
- Again, surprisingly clear favorite. It's a very Rainbow-ish song, but anyway it stands on its own and I like it very much. The "I'm free!" part followed with solos are one of those best moments in Stratovarius music. Other really good ones are of course Father Time, Night Time Eclipse and Forever. A great album - maybe the greatest?

Visions: Visions (Southern Cross)
- And maybe not since this baby was born the next year. Spectacular! The title track might quite possibly be the best song there is! The first and the last three tracks are all masterpieces, especially Coming Home.

(Visions of Europe: Twilight Symphony)
- The guitar solos! <3 Oh and the drum solo ain't bad in Holo Solos either.

Destiny: Destiny
- "The title track might quite possibly be the best song there is!" is true here as well. A great album, Anthem of the World could also make it to Strato top 10.

Infinite: Mother Gaia
- This epic easily takes the moniker of the best song in Infinite album. Other very great ones are Infinity and Celestial Dream.

(Intermission: Falling into Fantasy)
- Pretty hard to decide. No super songs here. Will My Soul Ever Rest in Peace? could as well be the best.

Elements, Pt. 1: Elements
- Elements is my fave, one of the most epic songs there are. Also kudos to their greatest instrumental IMO, Stratofortress, as well as to the sickly high Find Your Own Voice and those other epics, Soul of a Vagabond and Fantasia.

Elements, Pt. 2: Liberty
- This and Alpha & Omega are clearly the best tracks on the album. Also Season of Faith's Perfection and I'm Still Alive are great - I'd love to hear the latter live!

Stratovarius: United
- The most superior winner of them all. Other great ones? Fight!!! and The Land of Ice and Snow. Also Back to Madness and Götterdämmerung (Zenith of Power) are masterpieces in their own, scary way.

(Revolution Renaissance: Last Night on Earth)
- 'Twas a hard choise. A solid album overally, but no very great songs. Born Upon the Cross, Angel and Glorious Divine come close at least. Remember: this is just an imaginary review because this music DON'T EXIST! Errm... well, Kiske vocals on the actual album. o/

Polaris: Emancipation Suite (Part I: Dusk)
- Masterpiece. This, the second part, King of Nothing and Forever Is Today are the peak of three (four).

Two bolded songs because I absolutely can't decide. :music:

I can't choose an Album and a song, and i'm too lazy to write all songs from all albums ... but not the Stratovarius(2005).

Anyway.. I still can't Install the Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction =(, I want to play it.

lets see...

Elements - Elements

(Also Infinity and Anthem of the world are incredible too.)

(I don't have Dreamspace yet.)

My favorite album is Episode at the moment and I'd say that my favorite song is Destiny.

If i had to choose just one I had to say Infinite and Glory of the world.

But also:

Visions - Visions
Destiny - Anthem of the world

Heck, that's tough. Maybe Visions and Night Time Eclipse or S.O.S., but this changes all the time. I've loved so many different Stratovarius songs in different ways over the years.

Fright Night: Fright Night
Twilight Time: The Hands of Time
Dreamspace: Abyss
Fourth Dimension: Distant Skies/Lord of the Wasteland
Episode: Season of Change
Visions: Black Diamond/Visions/Coming Home
Destiny: Destiny
Infinite: Infinity
Intermission: Falling into Fantasy
Elements I: Eagleheart
Elements II: I walk to my Own Song
Stratovarius: Just Carry On
RR: We are Magic
Polaris: King of Nothing

Favourite album: Visions