Recommend me Dream Theater

[ggonza43]

I'm just addicted to Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence! Perfect album.

+1, "The Glass Prision" is along with "Hot For Teacher" by Van Halen, one of the songs with the best intro in the whole hard rock/heavy metal history!

[Rebel]

Again, that is WAY too big of a list. You pretty much just went through and chose half of every album.

Allow me to sum it up in 10 songs

First, let's take the setlist from their latest tour opening for Iron Maiden

As I Am
A Rite of Passage
Home
Constant Motion
Panic Attack
Pull Me Under
(Then we'll add their quintessential song)
Metropolis Pt. I
(The best of the AA Suite)
The Glass Prison
(A song from their best album, Awake)
The Mirror
(And one of the great Dream Theater Epics)
A Change of Seasons


Those ten songs should give you a general idea of whether or not you'll enjoy the band long term.

You forgot some of their lightest material, like "Another Day", "Hollow Years", "Solitary Shell", "Forsaken", and some others. But you were right, and sorry about the long list, it's only that I couldn't think of just a few songs to start listening for a beginner

I'm really not going to call any of those tracks essential for a beginner. Sure, they're great to listen to once you get into the band more, but it's like telling a new stratovarius fan that they really need to hear Fantasia, We Hold the Key, Blind, and Forever Free.

No, you start them with the entirety of Episode, Against the Wind, Black Diamond, and Phoenix.


And to the other comment, I really wish their newer albums were as innovative and creative as 6DOIT, but at this point, they are somewhere between Power Metal, Heavy Metal, and absurdly long instrumentation sections. It's a real shame.

[mayhem-for-all]

Also, you could try their latest compilation

Hope it helped

As I said in my first post I am planning to gte the compilation first.

[icecab21]

best way to know what you will enjoy is to listen to everything. there are a lot of bands where i really like a couple songs and don't like anything else from them and i would not have found those songs if i had given up after hearing a lot that i did not like.

here are some i like from the band


wither
forsaken
the spirit carries on
through her eyes
finally free
ministry of lost souls
another day
nightmare to remember
solo stuff in concerts such as jordan rudess and john & theresa in live scenes in new york

[RazielSR]

best way to know what you will enjoy is to listen to everything. there are a lot of bands where i really like a couple songs and don't like anything else from them and i would not have found those songs if i had given up after hearing a lot that i did not like.

here are some i like from the band


wither
forsaken
the spirit carries on
through her eyes
finally free
ministry of lost souls
another day
nightmare to remember
solo stuff in concerts such as jordan rudess and john & theresa in live scenes in new york

I think that The spirit carries on live performance from Score DVD is one of the best moments I have had in my life seeing a band playing. The part of the solo by Petrucci is just...INCREDIBLY B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. And listening to The Best of times for example and that absolutely emotional solo at the end...damn, it makes me cry.

Well, all the songs you are posting are just incredible, but I would add all the songs that gonza says and all the songs I said. I think there isn't any song I don't like in the whole DT discography. Something similar like happens to me with Strato (In spite of the apparent differences and knowing that there's no band for me like Stratovarius).

[ggonza43]

I'm really not going to call any of those tracks essential for a beginner. Sure, they're great to listen to once you get into the band more, but it's like telling a new stratovarius fan that they really need to hear Fantasia, We Hold the Key, Blind, and Forever Free.

Are you telling me he doesn't need to listen to "Another Day" and "Hollow Years"?! Those are 2 of the most representative songs they have! Unless he wants some heavy material, and in that case your choice is right

[mayhem-for-all]

I got the compilation s few days ago and it's good stuff.

Comparing to SX for example I would say I am getting mor eof these songs on the first listen but after that they grow slower.
Some of the songs have not yet opened and some have already grown to meet tehir potential.

I will most likely go for Images and Words or/and Metropolis pt.2 next.

[Kosmo]

I heard that Train of thought was written (or even completely made, don't remember..) in just three weeks? Is this true?

[Rebel]

I heard that Train of thought was written (or even completely made, don't remember..) in just three weeks? Is this true?

Tolkki wrote new era in like, one week. It's easier with a band, once you have creative chemistry going (That and Train of Thought was basically the same song 6 times, with an instrumental and a shorter song thrown in, great songs all of them, and they're incredible live, but, they didn't stretch themselves)

[ggonza43]

I will most likely go for Images and Words or/and Metropolis pt.2 next.

You won't regret it, especially with SFAM !

[pneumonia]

definetely start with Metropolis Part II or 6DoIT. The first one is a masterpiece. ToT is very good but i prefer Octavarium!

Don't start from Falling into infinity. Images and Words is a great one, but they are far away from those times now

[Mormegil]

I will most likely go for Images and Words or/and Metropolis pt.2 next.

Do it!

[rikkertje]

definetely start with Metropolis Part II or 6DoIT. The first one is a masterpiece. ToT is very good but i prefer Octavarium!

Couldn't agree more. I will never, never, never get tired of listening to Metropolis Pt. 2, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and Octavarium!

[ggonza43]

ToT is very good but i prefer Octavarium!

Well, on the contrary I prefer TOT more than Octavarium...I think it's the heaviest record they've released

[mayhem-for-all]

Got Metropolis pt2

[ggonza43]

Got Metropolis pt2

Cool! Whenever you finish listening it tell us what do you think

[mayhem-for-all]

I will have to give it a few more spins before opinnions.

[ggonza43]

I will have to give it a few more spins before opinnions.

But so far, you might have a least 1 song that caught your attention

[mayhem-for-all]

Well all I can say is like the whole album. Great stuff especially instrumentally. I have found no weak songs well maybe exept the closer but that is mostly for carrying the story to an end (for now)

[Rage1979]

I just love their latest effort"Black clouds % silver linings"

amazing melodies here

[mayhem-for-all]

I just love their latest effort"Black clouds % silver linings"

amazing melodies here

%?
Are you trying to say &?

[icecab21]

%is the lesser known of two they put out at the same time along with &

[ggonza43]

One is #5 and the other is #6, close . Anyway, back to topic: Now are you gonna listen to it many times so you can get on those songs, or would you start listening to other records?

[Mormegil]

I have found no weak songs well maybe exept the closer but that is mostly for carrying the story to an end (for now)

You can't seriously mean Finally Free? That's like my favourite song from DT.

[mayhem-for-all]

I have found no weak songs well maybe exept the closer but that is mostly for carrying the story to an end (for now)

You can't seriously mean Finally Free? That's like my favourite song from DT.

I said maybe and I bought other ecords too so I just can't listen to this every other minute.

Yet as an album very good stuff but I believe it will take some time before I will spend any more money on records for now.

Yet the next one might be Images and Words or maybe Train of Thought since I really really like Endless Sacrifice on the compilation. Or it might be 6DoIT or Octavarium if I find one of them for a good price.

[icecab21]

all the songs are on youtube if you want to test that way then move to better qualty for your favorites

[mayhem-for-all]

I really don't use youtube that much these days.
I just listento samples and trust.

I don't think I have ever done a really bad purchase of a record.

[ggonza43]

If you are looking for their heaviest material, try "Train Of Thought". Otherwise, if you feel like listening their roots, go and try "Images & Words". And, if you fell like beign impressed by a great masterpiece, listen to "Six Degrees Of Innner Turbulence"

[Rage1979]

I just love their latest effort"Black clouds % silver linings"

amazing melodies here

%?
Are you trying to say &?

Yes ofcourse... Just check out what the latest album is called

[Rage1979]

I just love their latest effort"Black clouds % silver linings"

amazing melodies here

%?
Are you trying to say &?

Yes ofcourse... Just check out what the latest album is called

"The count of Tuscany" is one of their best songs ever.