Dream Theater

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I have a soft spot for Octavarium. I like the atmosphere, even if there are weaker, less inspired songs among the rest.

And since The Dark Eternal Night was mentioned, that’s a kick-ass song. It’s so pleasantly heavy and catchy.
 
The Dark Eternal Night is a nice, heavy track. Far from my favorite though. Also thank heavens there aren't any death growls in it.
 
TDEN is so ruined by the vocals, more than any other DT song. Worse than "DAAYYYY AFTER DAAYYYY". It's an ok song other than that... I like the Chaos in Motion version more.
 
Mosh said:
I like Octavarium a lot and I have even come around a bit on Systematic Chaos recently (I may have posted about it on here even). While I think it contains some of their worst material, the best songs (In the Presence of Enemies, Constant Motion, Dark Eternal Night) have become top DT songs for me.

Distance Over Time is probably my least favorite DT album.
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Systematic Chaos was the first DT album I waited for. I will always like it for that reason.
 
Dream Theater played The Best of Times at Radio City Music Hall tonight. Now every studio album song (and most b sides) up to 2013 has been played live.

Still missing:
Surrender to Reason
Room 137
S2N
Out of Reach
Transcending Time

Plus a bunch of Parasomnia, but they’ve already said they will play the whole album live soon.

DT has to have one of the strongest ratios of songs played live to songs never played live in rock history.
 
Surrender to Reason would be my top choice as well. It’s tricky though because other than that I’m not really itching to hear the other songs, but I also want them to maintain their record. Room 137 might be the worst DT song, and it’s also a Mangini lyric, so it seems like it wouldn’t be a top choice for Portnoy but who knows. I also feel like the band got to this point partially because Portnoy had a fixation with making sure the whole catalog was represented live, I assume he still feels that way but not sure if he feels invested in Mangini era material, idk.

I guess the other problem is that when Space Dye Vest was the only song DT didn’t play live, a mythology around it built up. Then something similar developed with The Best of Times as MP’s “swan song” and the only song from that era never to be performed. I don’t see that same mythology building around any of the songs in that list. It’s kind of a bunch of nothing songs, and very filler-y.
 
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