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1. Images and Words (best non-conceptual album)//Metropolis pt.2 (best conceptual album) 2. Awake 3. Six Degrees... 4. Octavarium 5. Train of Thought 6. Black Clouds And Silver Linings 7. Distance Over Time 8. Systematic chaos 9. A view 10. A dramatic turn... 11. Self-titled 12. Falling into Infinity 13. When day... 14. Astonishing

On a live bootleg I have, James LaBrie introduced Yste Jam live as "Yitsee Jam".

1.- Awake 2.- Images and words 3.- Six Degress 4.- Scenes from a memory 5.- Astonishing 6.- Distance over time

1: Images and Words 2: Metropolis part 2 3: Awake 4: A change of seasons 5: Systematic chaos My top 5. Nice video! And I think their most underrated is When dream and day Unite

15. When Dream And Day Unite 14. Dream Theater 13. The Astonishing 12. Falling Into Infinity 11. Distance Over Time 10. A View From the Top of the World 9. Black Clouds and Silver Linings 8. A Dramatic Turn of Events 7. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 6. Systematic Chaos 5. Train of Thought 4. Octavarium 3. Awake 2. Scenes From a Memory 1. Images and Words

Glad to see A Dramatic Turn of Events get love. That album is so underated is sad. Its just really really good

15. Distance over time 14. When day and dream unite 13. Astonishing 12. Dream theater 11. A view from the top of the world 10. Falling into infinity 9. Systematic Chaos 8. Train of thought 7. Black clouds and silver linings 6. Octavarium 5. Awake 4. A dramatic turn of events 3. Six degrees of inner turbulence 2. Scenes from a memory 1. Images and words

My top is 1. Scenes From a Memory 2. A Dramatic Turn of Events 3. Images and Words 4. Awake 5. Distance Over Time 6. Systematic Chaos 7. The Astonishing 8. Octavarium 9. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 10. Train of Thought 11. Dream Theater 12. Black Clouds and Silver Linings 13. A View From The Top Of The World 14. When Dream and Day Unite 15. Falling into Infinity

15. The Astonishing 14. Distance over time 13. Dream Theater 12. A view from the top of the world 11. When dream and day unite 10. Systematic Chaos 09. Falling into infinity 08. Black clouds and silver linings 07. Train of Thought 06. Octavarium 05. A dramatic turn of events 04. Images and words 03. Six degrees of inner turbulence 02. Awake 01. Scenes from a memory

15.- The Astonishing (the only one I don't like) 14.- A View From the Top of the World 13.- Distance Over Time 12.- Dream Theater 11.- When Dream and Day Unite 10.- Falling into Infinity 9.- Octavarium 8.- Train of Thought 7.- A Dramatic Turn of Events 6.- Systematic Chaos 5.- Images & Words 4.- Black Clouds & Silver Linings 3.- Metropolis, Pt.2: Scenes from a Memory 2.- Awake 1.- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

A noble effort at an impossible task. I found your (Corey) remarks about Images vs Scenes interesting, mostly because I would say much the same when comparing Images with Awake. I've always viewed those albums as related, with Images being the choice for a "song by song" listen while Awake is my preference for a "beginning to end" experience. I think my own list looks more like your drummer's list, with Octavarium being much higher.

My top 5: 1: Images And Words 2: A Dramatic Turn Of Events 3: Metropolis PII 4: Six Degrees 5: Awake I feel like DT since after A Dramatic Turn has been much less about great songs and more about 32nd note unison runs and virtuosity. I feel it should always be about the songs and less about the wanking.

OK. Just finished. Great video! Lots of fun yelling at you guys for where you put each album ;) It's a little sad how the top albums on your lists are older ones though. I will say that every Surreal album for me has topped the last one, so keep trending that way with yours please! I can't wait to get my pre-ordered cd! It's also not lost on me that all three of our lists are dominated by Portnoy albums at the top (no I don't want to start a drummer debate, I like Mike Mangini but I do feel like Portnoy plays with more feeling/passion than Mangini, but I think Mangini may be the nicer guy....) Wouldn't it be great if the next Dream Theater Album was all of our new number one on this list? Here's hoping... I do have the newest one at number 7 though, so that's pretty good. It speaks to me most out of all the Manigini era albums.... I hope they keep going! What a hard band to do a list like this with! Anyway, here's my list (probably different than most and also, unlike you guys, I was 22 when I first heard Pull Me Under and bought Images and Words, so I've been listening a bit longer than you and I'm also not as musically trained as you, so my rankings are based on how each album speaks to me and I did it as if I was on a desert island and I had to pick one each time - ie: which ONE DT album would you want if you could only have one, that's number one, now take that one away and then which one would you want if you could only have one, that's number two etc.) I assume that's how you did it too, but for some reason felt I needed to say it. Sorry! OK, here it is. 1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 2. Octavarium 3. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory 4. Images & Words 5. Falling Into Infinity 6. Awake 7. A View from the Top of the World 8. When Dream & Day Unite 9. Black Clouds & Silver Linings 10. Train of Thought 11. Systematic Chaos 12. Distance Over Time 13. Dream Theater 14. A Dramatic Turn of Events 15. The Astonishing And as mentioned, even the lower albums on the list are still great albums! One song I'd like to call out because the album was low on all of our lists and because I don't think you mentioned the song when discussing the album is "Forsaken" this is one of my favorite and most aggressive/raw feeling of all the DT songs ever written. i love, love, love the guitars and the way the piano interplays with the guitars in this song! Thanks again and have a great day! Oh, and what band is next? Spock's Beard?... Coheed and Cambria?.... Frost*?.....

I wish I didn't have to inclde The Astonishing anywhere on this list but 🤷🏼‍♂🤷🏼‍♂... I rather trade it for A Change Of Seasons but that was an EP, however if it was possible it would be somewhere in between 5 or 6. 01.- Images & Words 02.- Metropolis, Pt.2: Scenes from a Memory 03.- Awake 04.- Octavarium 05.- Train of Thought 06.- Falling into Infinity 07.- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 08.- A View From the Top of the World 09.- Systematic Chaos 10.- Distance Over Time 11.- Dream Theater 12.- Black Clouds & Silver Linings 13.- When Dream and Day Unite 14.- A Dramatic Turn of Events 15.- The Astonishing

My top 5 is easy: 1. Metropolis part 2 2. Images and Words 3. 6DOIT 4. Awake (I think I would put Awake equal to 6DOIT but it's just the concept of the title track of 6DOIT is great but the music are equal) 5.Octavarium (it got my favorite song so it's 5 but if it didn't it would probably be seventh)

Corey, you forgot to mention Take Away My Pain when talking about Falling Into Infinity, another great track on that album. Plus that's the only album with Sherinian. I saw them at The Chance theater in Poughkeepsie NY on that tour and Sherinian was the most entertaining keyboard player they've had in my opinion. Jordan and Kevin are both great, but Derek was the best showman in my opinion. PLUS! you get a guest appearance by Dug Pinnick.... I mean come on! I rank that album even higher than you did. I can't see that one being last on anyone's list... Sorry Jeff. I disagree. I'm only half way through... can't wait to see which albums are on top! Great video guys!

I think rather than saying "Best to Worst" perhaps it should be "Favorite to Least Favorite"... as any of us would be pleased have ever played on the "worst album" by Dream Theater. Ha!

I love most of their albums. But the one I don't "love" is "The Astonishing".

Systematic chaos is underrated. It's at least top 5

Also, watch this with the captions on. Hilarious! I didn't know Jeff liked "a Wig"! :)

Systematic Chaos is my favorite, but its unbalanced. It hits super hard or not at all. But that was the album that got me into the band so im biased

Lines in the Sand is my least favorite of James LaBrie DT songs. Desmond Child completely ruined that song. Otherwise I enjoy FII. I&W and Metropolis Pt2 are probably 1&2 with BCSL and ToT vying for a close #3 for me. I don’t know, gotta put Octavarium at least in the top 5!. My main complaint about VFTTOTW is the very narrow vocal range that James brings. Very disappointing vocals for such great musical songs.

I definitely put SFAM #1 (by a mile - Live Scenes from New York is maybe better), Awake #2, Images & Words #3. I put When Dream and Day Unite #15 (I wish I could rank it lower; I utterly despise the vocals - not because of "not Labrie", because they're beyond awful) and Falling into Infinity #14. I actually like The Astonishing a lot, for the pure "we wish we could do 2112" cheesiness of it. I doubt I could really rank the rest; while there are standout tracks on each album, to me, they largely all sound the same.

I stopped listening to DT with Mike P left. I bought the self titled and stopped one minute into the opening track. Drum production SUCKED! I tossed it into the trash and that’s it.

'Promosm' 😬