I thought that their new album was their best since A Dramatic Turn of Events. Aside from the bottom two in my ranking, I think every other album ranges from okay to amazing: 15. The Astonishing 14. When Dream and Day Unite 13. Falling into Infinity 12. Dream Theater 11. Distance Over Time 10. A View from the Top of the World 9. A Dramatic Turn of Events 8. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 7. Black Clouds & Silver Linings 6. Train of Thought 5. Octavarium 4. Systematic Chaos 3. Metropolis Pt. 2, Scenes from a Memory 2. Awake 1. Images and Words
Damn buddy, you pushed all my albums to the very end) train of thought! Dream theater, imagine and words! I think it's on purpose) but also Awake which I don't like at the end too😄
Wow! That's some shocking ranking. Personally, I absolutely love Awake. "Voices" might be my favorite DT song. But also, "Scarred", "Lifting Shadows Off A Dream","Space Dye Vest", etc. I adore that album. Not a big fan of the stuff the band released after Portnoy left though (with the exception of "A Dramatic Turn Of Events"). I still need to listen to their new album
Probably in the minority here but The Astonishing is actually one of my favorites from them lol. It's the outlier in their discography and I understand a lot of its criticisms (too long, too many ballads, the fact it's almost two hours in length) but idk, it just resonated with me I guess haha. I love how ambitious and musically rich it is (Rudess' piano playing here is beautiful), which makes the ballads more digestible IMO. And the best songs are some of my favorite songs from the band, like The Path That Divides, The Gift of Music, A New Beginning, Three Days, etc. And LaBrie kills it here, he really pushed himself with his vocals. Then again I love literally all of their albums (except the debut probably). Anyways, your ranking is really cool. 15. When Dream And Day Unite 14. Falling Into Infinity 13. Self Titled 12. Distance Over Time 11. A Dramatic Turn of Events (love the songs here, but the mixing holds it back) 10. A View From The Top Of The World 9. Awake 8. Train Of Thought 7. Black Clouds And Silver Linings 6. Systematic Chaos 5. The Astonishing 4. Images And Words 3. Octavarium 2. Scenes From a Memory 1. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Cool ranking, pretty different than mine but respect! 15. When Dream and Day Unite 14. The Astonishing 13. Self-titled 12. A View from the Top of the World (need to listen to it more though) 11. Black Clouds and Silver Linings 10. Falling into Infinity 9. Distance over Time 8. Systematic Chaos 7. Octavarium 6. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 5. A Dramatic Turn of Events 4. Train of Thought 3. Awake (almost put this 2nd....) 2. Metropolis Pt. 2 1. Images and Words But if I could put A Change of Seasons as #1, I would
1.- Metropolis, Pt.2: Scenes from a Memory 2.- Awake 3.- Images & Words 4.- Black Clous & Silver Linings 5.- Systematic Chaos 6.- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance 7.- A Dramatic Turn of Events 8.- Train of Thought 9.- Dream Theater 10.- A View from the Top of the World 11.- Octavarium 12.- Distance Over Time 13.- Falling into Infinity 14.- When Dream and Day Unite 15.- The Astonishing
Cool video, I haven’t heard all of their albums so I’ll have to check out some more of them. Are you a fan of Porcupine Tree? Would be super cool to see a ranking for them.
This video made my head explode by ranking Awake and Images and Words as low as you did. Maybe it's because I'm a bit older but those records top tier for me. Really looking forward to going through the new one over the weekend.
My Ranks: 1. Images and Words 2. Scenes from a Memory 3. Awake 4. Octavarium 5. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 6. Black Clouds and Silver Linings 7. Dramatic Turn of Events 8. Distance Over Time 9. Systematic Chaos 10. Train of Thought 11. Falling Into Infinity 12. The Astonishing 13. When Dream and Day Unite 14. S/T
1. Images And Words 2. Metropolis Part 2:Scenes From A Memory 3. Octavarium 4. Awake 5. Black Clouds And Silver Linings 6. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence 7. Train Of Thought 8. A View From The Top Of The World 9. Distance Over Time 10. A Dramatic Turn Of Events 11. Falling Into Infinity 12. When Dream And Day Unite 13. Dream Theater 14. The Astonishing 15. Systematic Chaos
my personal ranking is pretty similar too yours but here it is (I will include my favorite songs off each record too) 15.) The Astonishing: Dystopian Overture 14.) When Dream And Day Unite: The Ytse Jam 13.) Falling Into Infinity: Peruvian Skies 12.) Awake: Space Dye-Vest 11.) Dream Theater: Illumination Theory 10.) A Dramatic Turn Of Events: Lost Not Forgotten 9.) Images And Words: Metropolis Pt 1 The Miracle And The Sleeper 8.) Distance Over Time: S2N 7.) Systematic Chaos: In The Presence Of Enemies (Parts 1&2) 6.) Black Clouds & Silver Linings: Count Of Tuscany 5.) Octavarium: Octavarium 4.) A View From The Top Of The World: A View From The Top Of The World 3.) Metropolis Pt 2. Scenes From A Memory: Home 2. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence: Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence 1.) Train Of Thought: In The Name Of God
I got done listening to "When Dream And Day Unite" earlier, and I thought it was a pretty strong record. That was actually the first album by dream theater that I listened to in full just because I wanted to see whether it was good or not. I understand that some fans might not like it, and who knows? Maybe by the time I listen to their whole discography it might rank somewhere in the bottom few for me.
the new album really envigorated my love for dream theater. its my favorite from the mangini era. no songs stand out beyond the rest, yet no songs are skippable. it all flows together nicely. the production is excellent. myung is mixed loudly, and labrie sounds decent too. i love those heavy verse riffs and the keybords are strong in this album too
I wonder if the change in the mix has been a consequence of changing into InsideOut record label. There is now a similar sound to Haken for example which is under the same label. I like the new sound more than in the previous present albums.
Here’s my ranking: (Very tough obviously) 1. Metropolis Part 2: in my top 5 fav albums of all time, perfection. Fav track is Dance of Eternity. No least fav track. 2. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: perfect album, I just like metropolis slightly more. Fav track is either Disappear or Test That Stumped Them All. Least fav is Great Debate. 3. Awake: near perfect album, probably my least fav song is Voices. Everything else is fantastic. Fav song is either The Mirror or Erotamania. 4. Train of Thought: really great album, but not a lot of variety, and I do think In The Name of God is slightly overrated and slightly too long. Fav song is As I Am. 5. Images and Words: this album has really grown on me, it has a top 10 DT song for me, Under A Glass Moon. Least fav song Pull Me Under, even though it’s awesome, I’ve heard it too much at this point. 6. Distance Over Time: definitely my favorite Mangini era DT album, this one really surprised me. Fav track is Room 137, least fav is Out for Reach. 7. Black Clouds and Silver Linings: this one is hard to rank, it has a top 5 DT song, Count of Tuscany, but I also think Nightmare to Remember is slightly overrated, and it has my least favorite of the 5 step suite songs. 8. Dramatic Turn of Events: maybe their most underrated album? It’s just a solid album, no bad songs, no all time favorite songs, just a solid listening experience. Fav song, Lost Not Forgotten, least fav would be This is the life, even though it’s a good song. 9. A View From The Top Of The World: I’ve listened to this one a few times, it’s growing on me, lyrically it’s not great, musically it’s derivative of past DT, but what makes this album for me is the 20 minute closing track, one of their bests. It’s a fun album though. Least fav song might be Invisible Monster. 10. Octavarium: Possibly their most overrated album? Obviously some killer songs, but also I can’t stand I Walk Beside You (lol). Answer Lies Within I have to be in the right mood for. Fav song would be Panic Attack. 11. Falling Into Infinity: this one is a mixed bag, some awesome songs, but also a handful of my least favorite DT songs ever, (You Not Me, Anna Lee, Take Away My Pain). Fav song would either be Hell’s Kitchen or Peruvian Skies. 12. Systematic Chaos: ITPOE is an amazing song, everything else is just fine IMO, nothing too stellar for me. I also think Ministry of Lost Souls is very overrated. I’m also not a fan of the verses in Dark Eternal Night. Portnoy should stick with drumming lol. I also don’t love prophets of war. 13. Dream Theater: mixed bag, some great songs like Looking Glass and Enigma Machine, but also forgettable songs like Bigger Picture and Along for the Ride. 14. The Astonishing: this honestly isn’t a bad album, it just suffers from being too damn long, and none of the songs stand on their own, in order for it to be good, you have to listen to it front to back, which nobody has time for haha 15. When Day and Dream Unite: I don’t like the vocal performance, production is bad, easily my least favorite DT album. I do like the instrumental track though.
Hey new subscriber here. Haven't seen a whole lot of Melodeath on your channel as I'm browsing, Maybe do an Amon Amarth ranking or DT or whatever you like.
So i remember falling in love with Dream Theater when i first got into them a couple of years back and despite not coming back to them as much as i used to, i still have fun memories of them, here's my personal rank: 1. Train of Thought 2. Images and Words 3. Metropolis Pt 2 4. Awake 5. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 6. Octavarium 7. Distance Over Time 8. Black Clouds and Silver Linings 9. A View From the Top of the World 10. A Dramatic Turn of Events 11. Systematic Chaos 12. Self titled 13. Falling Into Infinity 14. The Astonishing 15. When Dream and Day Unite
Although I don’t care about dream theater too much, this ranking is still good and well-put together. Completely unrelated but at my job I just shipped some packages to two people named chris barnes and john gallagher, I doubt they’re the actual guys but it was funny to see
Damn cool list! We are a little different though lol 15 When Dream and Day Unite 14 Falling Into Infinity 13 The Astonishing 12 Dream Theater 11 A View From the Top of the World 10 Systematic Chaos 9 Black Clouds and Silver Linings (bonus points for The Count of Tuscany) 8 Train of Thought 7 Octavarium (bonus points for title track) 6 Distance Over Time 5 A Dramatic Turn of Events 4 Awake 3 Images and Words 2 Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 1 Metropolis Pt. 2
Hey, so much agreement with you about Distance Over Time! I don't understand why people underrate it so much. It's the best album of mangini era IMO...
My personal top 1. Metropolis pt. 2 2. Octavarium 3. Six degrees of inner turbulence 4. Black clouds and silver lightnings 5. A view from the top of the world 6. Awake 7. A dramatic turn of events 8. Systematic Chaos 9. Images and words 10. Train of thought 11. The Astonishing 12. Distance over time 13. Dream Theater 14. When dream and day unite 15. Falling into infinity
Their new album really blew me away, definitely their best album post-portnoy era 1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002) 2. Awake (1994) 3. Images and Words (1992) 4. Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009) 5. Octavarium (2005) 6. Train of Thought (2003) 7. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999) 8. A View from the Top of the World (2021) 9. A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011) 10. Distance over Time (2019) 11. Systematic Chaos (2007) 12. Dream Theater (2013) 13. When Dream and Day Unite (1989) 14. Falling into Infinity (1997) 15. The Astonishing (2016)
Here’s my ranking for Dream Theater albums: S: Images and Words, Awake, Scenes From a Memory, Train of Thought A: A View From the Top of the World, Octavarium, Systematic Chaos, Black Clouds and Silver Linings B: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, A Dramatic Turn of Events, Self-Titled C: Distance Over Time, The Astonishing D: Falling Into Infinity F: When Dream And Day Unite And if I were to include A Change of Seasons, I would put that next to Images and Words since they originally intended it to be in that album and it is one of the greatest prog metal songs ever written. Also, I think absolutely none of Dream Theater’s albums is actually bad in any way, with the exception of When Dream and Day Unite and Falling into Infinity.
Ok, since writing this comment I actually thought really long and hard about it and this is my honest ranking of Dream Theater’s albums: 1. Train of Thought 2. Awake 3. Images and Words 4. Scenes From a Memory 5. Black Clouds and Silver Linings 6. Systematic Chaos 7. A View From the Top of The World 8. Octavarium 9. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 10. Distance Over Time 11. A Dramatic Turn of Events 12. Self-Titled 13. The Astonishing 14. Falling Into Infinity 15. When Dream and Day Unite Also, looking at Scenes from a Memory just as a piece of art and a concept album, I think it’s actually one of the best concept albums ever written. I would rank it even higher than Pink Floyd’s The Wall or anything like that. But just personally for me, I don’t like listening to concept albums all the time.
15) The Astonishing 14) When Dream And Day Unite 13) A View From The Top Of The World 12) Black Clouds And Silver Linings 11) S/T 10) Falling Into Infinity 9) Distance Over Time 8) Systematic Chaos 7) Octavarium 6) Train Of Thought 5) A Dramatic Turn Of Events 4) Awake 3) Images And Words 2) Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence 1) Metropolis 2 - Scenes From A Memory
Dude!!!... With all my respect. You should review all dream theater discography again. I can accept that a lot of Dream Theater album rankings, put Images And Words and Awake like second or even third, but 6 Images And Words, and don't remember Awake exactly, but like 9 or 10 if I don't make a mistake... You gotta be kidding me!!! I know it's your opinion, but I think that you have to listen all the albums again, very carefully.
I find that it matters when a person became a fan. I started my fandom right after Awake was released and that is still #1 for me. But someone who started with Metropolis pt2, or later may not be so enamored with the first 3 albums as much as I am. I have seen many of these lists. I find quite a few fans that started with ADTOE and who think that is the greatest.
15. The Astonishingly Awful 14. The Self Titled 13. Distance Over Time 12. A View From the Top of the World 11. When Dream and day Unite 10. Falling Into Infinity 9. Octavarium 8. Scenes From a Memory 7. Awake 6. Images and Words 5. A Dramatic Turn of Events 4. Black Clouds 3. Systematic Chaos 2. Six Degrees 1. Train of Thought Maybe the new album will go up with more time, but for now it ranks pretty low for me. My 3 and 4 switch around constantly, so I have Systematic at #3 for now. And yes, I know my list is hipster and "wrong," but I've loved this band for a long time now. So some albums end up in "odd" places because I've heard a lot of them so many times, they hit different for me as opposed to other people...
1) train of thought 2) six degrees of inner turbulence 3) scenes from a memory 4) images and words 5) black clouds and silver linings 6) a dramatic turn of events 7) systematic chaos 8 ) octivarium 9) a view from the top of the world 10) self titled 11) awake 12) distance over time 13) when day and dream unite 14) falling into infinity 15) the astonishing This is just how I would rank em :3 . I absolutely love every album. Tho the astonishing IS too long lol
@@pairofjeansreviews2034 like, I absolutely love some songs on it. Especially " moment of betrayal" but it's hard to sit through it. Because of the length for me xD
1. Six degrees of inner turbulence (10/10) 2. Scenes from a memory (10/10) 3. Images and words (9/10) 4. Train of thought (8/10) 5. A dramatic turn of events (8/10) 6. Systematic chaos (7.5/10) 7. Octavarium (7/10) 8. Awake (7/10) 9. Black clouds and silver linings (6/10) 10. Falling into infinity (5.5/10) 11. The astonishing (5/10) 12. A view from the top of the world (5/10) 13. Distance over time (5/10) 14. Dream Theater (5/10) 15. When dream and day unite (5/10)
I can’t rank all 15 albums, but I know that the most listened album for me is Black Clouds And Silver Linings. IMO their absolutely best blend of accessability and their progressive madness!
My ranking: 1. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory 2. Train of Thought 3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 4. Awake 5. Distance Over Time 6. Falling into Infinity 7. A View from the Top of the World 8. Octavarium 9. Black Clouds and Silver Lining 10. Images and Words 11. Systematic Chaos 12. A Dramatic Turn of Events 13. Self-titled 14. When Dream and Day Unite 15. The Astonishing *[FUCK THIS ALBUM!]*
I always love it when people have very different tastes and opinions from my own. It challenges my views and makes me go back and relisten to these albums. Awake has always been my favorite album of theirs, and I was never a fan of Images and Words or Metropolis Part 2, which are fan favorites.
@@pairofjeansreviews2034 But I do share your bottom 4. The Astonishing has so much potential. Some great melodies and riffing going on, but as you say, the rock opera thing really destroys anything good on this album. I even saw two shows on that tour which were performed in a small concert house. Everything was perfect, except the stupid story of "the music tyranny".
Awake has always been my #1. But my fandom started in 1995 so I am probably partial to that era. Hearing that Kevin was leaving the group was devastating to me. I still love most of Falling into Infinity. Some of the demos are better than what ended up on the album. Look for You or Me and the demo of Take Away My Pain is amazing. But I really enjoy most of their discography. So it isn't just Awake for me, but it is the most complete album for me. Just perfect from start to finish.
@@pairofjeansreviews2034 Yeah, I just dislike everything they've made after Octavarium. Prefer Moore over Rudess on keyboards, so the fact that those classic albums where so low made me faceplam lol.
I thought that their new album was their best since A Dramatic Turn of Events. Aside from the bottom two in my ranking, I think every other album ranges from okay to amazing:
15. The Astonishing
14. When Dream and Day Unite
13. Falling into Infinity
12. Dream Theater
11. Distance Over Time
10. A View from the Top of the World
9. A Dramatic Turn of Events
8. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
7. Black Clouds & Silver Linings
6. Train of Thought
5. Octavarium
4. Systematic Chaos
3. Metropolis Pt. 2, Scenes from a Memory
2. Awake
1. Images and Words
Very solid!
Damn buddy, you pushed all my albums to the very end) train of thought! Dream theater, imagine and words! I think it's on purpose) but also Awake which I don't like at the end too😄
I love your number 2 pick. So underrated that album. People rarely rank it high
Wow! That's some shocking ranking. Personally, I absolutely love Awake. "Voices" might be my favorite DT song. But also, "Scarred", "Lifting Shadows Off A Dream","Space Dye Vest", etc. I adore that album.
Not a big fan of the stuff the band released after Portnoy left though (with the exception of "A Dramatic Turn Of Events"). I still need to listen to their new album
I know a lot of people who ONLY like Awake so I get t lol
Probably in the minority here but The Astonishing is actually one of my favorites from them lol. It's the outlier in their discography and I understand a lot of its criticisms (too long, too many ballads, the fact it's almost two hours in length) but idk, it just resonated with me I guess haha. I love how ambitious and musically rich it is (Rudess' piano playing here is beautiful), which makes the ballads more digestible IMO. And the best songs are some of my favorite songs from the band, like The Path That Divides, The Gift of Music, A New Beginning, Three Days, etc. And LaBrie kills it here, he really pushed himself with his vocals. Then again I love literally all of their albums (except the debut probably). Anyways, your ranking is really cool.
15. When Dream And Day Unite
14. Falling Into Infinity
13. Self Titled
12. Distance Over Time
11. A Dramatic Turn of Events (love the songs here, but the mixing holds it back)
10. A View From The Top Of The World
9. Awake
8. Train Of Thought
7. Black Clouds And Silver Linings
6. Systematic Chaos
5. The Astonishing
4. Images And Words
3. Octavarium
2. Scenes From a Memory
1. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Yeah I dunno the Astonishing just never worked for me lol
Cool ranking, pretty different than mine but respect!
15. When Dream and Day Unite
14. The Astonishing
13. Self-titled
12. A View from the Top of the World (need to listen to it more though)
11. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
10. Falling into Infinity
9. Distance over Time
8. Systematic Chaos
7. Octavarium
6. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
5. A Dramatic Turn of Events
4. Train of Thought
3. Awake (almost put this 2nd....)
2. Metropolis Pt. 2
1. Images and Words
But if I could put A Change of Seasons as #1, I would
Pretty solid ranking!
1.- Metropolis, Pt.2: Scenes from a Memory
2.- Awake
3.- Images & Words
4.- Black Clous & Silver Linings
5.- Systematic Chaos
6.- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance
7.- A Dramatic Turn of Events
8.- Train of Thought
9.- Dream Theater
10.- A View from the Top of the World
11.- Octavarium
12.- Distance Over Time
13.- Falling into Infinity
14.- When Dream and Day Unite
15.- The Astonishing
Cool video, I haven’t heard all of their albums so I’ll have to check out some more of them. Are you a fan of Porcupine Tree? Would be super cool to see a ranking for them.
Oooh that’d be fun I am a fan of PT
Great vid as usual! I haven’t gotten into DTs albums since systematic chaos but this ranking makes me want to give them another listen - thanks!
You should definitely check them out!
This video made my head explode by ranking Awake and Images and Words as low as you did. Maybe it's because I'm a bit older but those records top tier for me. Really looking forward to going through the new one over the weekend.
My Ranks:
1. Images and Words
2. Scenes from a Memory
3. Awake
4. Octavarium
5. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
6. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
7. Dramatic Turn of Events
8. Distance Over Time
9. Systematic Chaos
10. Train of Thought
11. Falling Into Infinity
12. The Astonishing
13. When Dream and Day Unite
14. S/T
Nah I know images and words is a really important album and I do love it, but not as much as some of the others
1. Images And Words
2. Metropolis Part 2:Scenes From A Memory
3. Octavarium
4. Awake
5. Black Clouds And Silver Linings
6. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
7. Train Of Thought
8. A View From The Top Of The World
9. Distance Over Time
10. A Dramatic Turn Of Events
11. Falling Into Infinity
12. When Dream And Day Unite
13. Dream Theater
14. The Astonishing
15. Systematic Chaos
Dang no systematic love :(
my personal ranking is pretty similar too yours but here it is (I will include my favorite songs off each record too)
15.) The Astonishing: Dystopian Overture
14.) When Dream And Day Unite: The Ytse Jam
13.) Falling Into Infinity: Peruvian Skies
12.) Awake: Space Dye-Vest
11.) Dream Theater: Illumination Theory
10.) A Dramatic Turn Of Events: Lost Not Forgotten
9.) Images And Words: Metropolis Pt 1 The Miracle And The Sleeper
8.) Distance Over Time: S2N
7.) Systematic Chaos: In The Presence Of Enemies (Parts 1&2)
6.) Black Clouds & Silver Linings: Count Of Tuscany
5.) Octavarium: Octavarium
4.) A View From The Top Of The World: A View From The Top Of The World
3.) Metropolis Pt 2. Scenes From A Memory: Home
2. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence: Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
1.) Train Of Thought: In The Name Of God
I got done listening to "When Dream And Day Unite" earlier, and I thought it was a pretty strong record. That was actually the first album by dream theater that I listened to in full just because I wanted to see whether it was good or not. I understand that some fans might not like it, and who knows? Maybe by the time I listen to their whole discography it might rank somewhere in the bottom few for me.
It’s a cool record but just not very Dream Theatery for me lol
@@pairofjeansreviews2034 in my opinion I like to think it's the predecessor to images and words. Images and words however is leagues better.
the new album really envigorated my love for dream theater. its my favorite from the mangini era. no songs stand out beyond the rest, yet no songs are skippable. it all flows together nicely. the production is excellent. myung is mixed loudly, and labrie sounds decent too. i love those heavy verse riffs and the keybords are strong in this album too
Yeah the mix is so good!
I wonder if the change in the mix has been a consequence of changing into InsideOut record label. There is now a similar sound to Haken for example which is under the same label. I like the new sound more than in the previous present albums.
Here’s my ranking: (Very tough obviously)
1. Metropolis Part 2: in my top 5 fav albums of all time, perfection. Fav track is Dance of Eternity. No least fav track.
2. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: perfect album, I just like metropolis slightly more. Fav track is either Disappear or Test That Stumped Them All. Least fav is Great Debate.
3. Awake: near perfect album, probably my least fav song is Voices. Everything else is fantastic. Fav song is either The Mirror or Erotamania.
4. Train of Thought: really great album, but not a lot of variety, and I do think In The Name of God is slightly overrated and slightly too long. Fav song is As I Am.
5. Images and Words: this album has really grown on me, it has a top 10 DT song for me, Under A Glass Moon. Least fav song Pull Me Under, even though it’s awesome, I’ve heard it too much at this point.
6. Distance Over Time: definitely my favorite Mangini era DT album, this one really surprised me. Fav track is Room 137, least fav is Out for Reach.
7. Black Clouds and Silver Linings: this one is hard to rank, it has a top 5 DT song, Count of Tuscany, but I also think Nightmare to Remember is slightly overrated, and it has my least favorite of the 5 step suite songs.
8. Dramatic Turn of Events: maybe their most underrated album? It’s just a solid album, no bad songs, no all time favorite songs, just a solid listening experience. Fav song, Lost Not Forgotten, least fav would be This is the life, even though it’s a good song.
9. A View From The Top Of The World: I’ve listened to this one a few times, it’s growing on me, lyrically it’s not great, musically it’s derivative of past DT, but what makes this album for me is the 20 minute closing track, one of their bests. It’s a fun album though. Least fav song might be Invisible Monster.
10. Octavarium: Possibly their most overrated album? Obviously some killer songs, but also I can’t stand I Walk Beside You (lol). Answer Lies Within I have to be in the right mood for. Fav song would be Panic Attack.
11. Falling Into Infinity: this one is a mixed bag, some awesome songs, but also a handful of my least favorite DT songs ever, (You Not Me, Anna Lee, Take Away My Pain). Fav song would either be Hell’s Kitchen or Peruvian Skies.
12. Systematic Chaos: ITPOE is an amazing song, everything else is just fine IMO, nothing too stellar for me. I also think Ministry of Lost Souls is very overrated. I’m also not a fan of the verses in Dark Eternal Night. Portnoy should stick with drumming lol. I also don’t love prophets of war.
13. Dream Theater: mixed bag, some great songs like Looking Glass and Enigma Machine, but also forgettable songs like Bigger Picture and Along for the Ride.
14. The Astonishing: this honestly isn’t a bad album, it just suffers from being too damn long, and none of the songs stand on their own, in order for it to be good, you have to listen to it front to back, which nobody has time for haha
15. When Day and Dream Unite: I don’t like the vocal performance, production is bad, easily my least favorite DT album. I do like the instrumental track though.
Hey new subscriber here. Haven't seen a whole lot of Melodeath on your channel as I'm browsing, Maybe do an Amon Amarth ranking or DT or whatever you like.
Oooh those would be fun! Thanks for subscribing
So i remember falling in love with Dream Theater when i first got into them a couple of years back and despite not coming back to them as much as i used to, i still have fun memories of them, here's my personal rank:
1. Train of Thought
2. Images and Words
3. Metropolis Pt 2
4. Awake
5. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
6. Octavarium
7. Distance Over Time
8. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
9. A View From the Top of the World
10. A Dramatic Turn of Events
11. Systematic Chaos
12. Self titled
13. Falling Into Infinity
14. The Astonishing
15. When Dream and Day Unite
Very solid! Train of thought definitely the heaviest
Although I don’t care about dream theater too much, this ranking is still good and well-put together. Completely unrelated but at my job I just shipped some packages to two people named chris barnes and john gallagher, I doubt they’re the actual guys but it was funny to see
Lol I hope it is them!
I thought I was alone in thinking there was a lot of Muse influence on Octavarium. I hear some Pink Floyd too
When Dream and Day Unite is on Spotify. That doesn't make it any better an album, but it's there.
i looked, i dont see it there
Huh, maybe it's a New Zealand thing then 🤷♂️
Yeah not in the US
Damn cool list! We are a little different though lol
15 When Dream and Day Unite
14 Falling Into Infinity
13 The Astonishing
12 Dream Theater
11 A View From the Top of the World
10 Systematic Chaos
9 Black Clouds and Silver Linings (bonus points for The Count of Tuscany)
8 Train of Thought
7 Octavarium (bonus points for title track)
6 Distance Over Time
5 A Dramatic Turn of Events
4 Awake
3 Images and Words
2 Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
1 Metropolis Pt. 2
Hell yes!! Scenes better still be number 1 hehe
Also we have the exact same top 2
Lol nice!
If train of thought and distance over time we re switched that would be basically my list.
Nice!
Hey, so much agreement with you about Distance Over Time! I don't understand why people underrate it so much. It's the best album of mangini era IMO...
It’s so good! I don’t see the hate at all
@@pairofjeansreviews2034the drums
My personal top
1. Metropolis pt. 2
2. Octavarium
3. Six degrees of inner turbulence
4. Black clouds and silver lightnings
5. A view from the top of the world
6. Awake
7. A dramatic turn of events
8. Systematic Chaos
9. Images and words
10. Train of thought
11. The Astonishing
12. Distance over time
13. Dream Theater
14. When dream and day unite
15. Falling into infinity
Damn lots of love for the new album!
Lost me when you said that “Unthethered Angel” was your favorite track from DoT. And Systematic Chaos as the second best DT album!?! No, no, no!!!
Their new album really blew me away, definitely their best album post-portnoy era
1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)
2. Awake (1994)
3. Images and Words (1992)
4. Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009)
5. Octavarium (2005)
6. Train of Thought (2003)
7. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)
8. A View from the Top of the World (2021)
9. A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)
10. Distance over Time (2019)
11. Systematic Chaos (2007)
12. Dream Theater (2013)
13. When Dream and Day Unite (1989)
14. Falling into Infinity (1997)
15. The Astonishing (2016)
Metropolis is so low qwq
Solid!
@@mr.krinkle952 Metropolis I still think is a masterpiece, top 7 albums are 10/10 to me
Awake at 11: *I riot*
Systematic Chaos up there: *mah man*
Here’s my ranking for Dream Theater albums:
S: Images and Words, Awake, Scenes From a Memory, Train of Thought
A: A View From the Top of the World, Octavarium, Systematic Chaos, Black Clouds and Silver Linings
B: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, A Dramatic Turn of Events, Self-Titled
C: Distance Over Time, The Astonishing
D: Falling Into Infinity
F: When Dream And Day Unite
And if I were to include A Change of Seasons, I would put that next to Images and Words since they originally intended it to be in that album and it is one of the greatest prog metal songs ever written.
Also, I think absolutely none of Dream Theater’s albums is actually bad in any way, with the exception of When Dream and Day Unite and Falling into Infinity.
Ok, since writing this comment I actually thought really long and hard about it and this is my honest ranking of Dream Theater’s albums:
1. Train of Thought
2. Awake
3. Images and Words
4. Scenes From a Memory
5. Black Clouds and Silver Linings
6. Systematic Chaos
7. A View From the Top of The World
8. Octavarium
9. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
10. Distance Over Time
11. A Dramatic Turn of Events
12. Self-Titled
13. The Astonishing
14. Falling Into Infinity
15. When Dream and Day Unite
Also, looking at Scenes from a Memory just as a piece of art and a concept album, I think it’s actually one of the best concept albums ever written. I would rank it even higher than Pink Floyd’s The Wall or anything like that. But just personally for me, I don’t like listening to concept albums all the time.
15) The Astonishing
14) When Dream And Day Unite
13) A View From The Top Of The World
12) Black Clouds And Silver Linings
11) S/T
10) Falling Into Infinity
9) Distance Over Time
8) Systematic Chaos
7) Octavarium
6) Train Of Thought
5) A Dramatic Turn Of Events
4) Awake
3) Images And Words
2) Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
1) Metropolis 2 - Scenes From A Memory
Very solid!
Dude!!!... With all my respect. You should review all dream theater discography again. I can accept that a lot of Dream Theater album rankings, put Images And Words and Awake like second or even third, but 6 Images And Words, and don't remember Awake exactly, but like 9 or 10 if I don't make a mistake... You gotta be kidding me!!! I know it's your opinion, but I think that you have to listen all the albums again, very carefully.
I've been listening to all these albums for years so... I'm very sure about where i placed them... like you said its all opinion dude
I find that it matters when a person became a fan. I started my fandom right after Awake was released and that is still #1 for me. But someone who started with Metropolis pt2, or later may not be so enamored with the first 3 albums as much as I am.
I have seen many of these lists. I find quite a few fans that started with ADTOE and who think that is the greatest.
I did my top on my channel 😮
But I can. Tell you my top 3
Images and words
Awake
Metropolis part 2 : scenes from a memory
15. The Astonishingly Awful
14. The Self Titled
13. Distance Over Time
12. A View From the Top of the World
11. When Dream and day Unite
10. Falling Into Infinity
9. Octavarium
8. Scenes From a Memory
7. Awake
6. Images and Words
5. A Dramatic Turn of Events
4. Black Clouds
3. Systematic Chaos
2. Six Degrees
1. Train of Thought
Maybe the new album will go up with more time, but for now it ranks pretty low for me. My 3 and 4 switch around constantly, so I have Systematic at #3 for now. And yes, I know my list is hipster and "wrong," but I've loved this band for a long time now. So some albums end up in "odd" places because I've heard a lot of them so many times, they hit different for me as opposed to other people...
This list actually looks closer to what mine would’ve been when I first started getting into them
@@pairofjeansreviews2034 sick dude, I do appreciate you ranking Systematic Chaos so high. Too many people rank it very low and I don't understand why
Agree! It’s such a rager of a record for them
1) train of thought
2) six degrees of inner turbulence
3) scenes from a memory
4) images and words
5) black clouds and silver linings
6) a dramatic turn of events
7) systematic chaos
8 ) octivarium
9) a view from the top of the world
10) self titled
11) awake
12) distance over time
13) when day and dream unite
14) falling into infinity
15) the astonishing
This is just how I would rank em :3 . I absolutely love every album. Tho the astonishing IS too long lol
The astonishing is just long and lame lol
@@pairofjeansreviews2034 like, I absolutely love some songs on it. Especially " moment of betrayal" but it's hard to sit through it. Because of the length for me xD
Where would you put Change of seasons on this list?
Ooooh the SONG change of seasons is one of the bands best songs ever but the other tracks are reeeally skippable
1. Six degrees of inner turbulence (10/10)
2. Scenes from a memory (10/10)
3. Images and words (9/10)
4. Train of thought (8/10)
5. A dramatic turn of events (8/10)
6. Systematic chaos (7.5/10)
7. Octavarium (7/10)
8. Awake (7/10)
9. Black clouds and silver linings (6/10)
10. Falling into infinity (5.5/10)
11. The astonishing (5/10)
12. A view from the top of the world (5/10)
13. Distance over time (5/10)
14. Dream Theater (5/10)
15. When dream and day unite (5/10)
Six degrees was my favorite for quite awhile!
#11 Awake???? Are you serious? Falling into infinity even lower???? What the hell?
Yeah its insane
I can’t rank all 15 albums, but I know that the most listened album for me is Black Clouds And Silver Linings.
IMO their absolutely best blend of accessability and their progressive madness!
I agree it’s a good blend!
My ranking:
1. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
2. Train of Thought
3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
4. Awake
5. Distance Over Time
6. Falling into Infinity
7. A View from the Top of the World
8. Octavarium
9. Black Clouds and Silver Lining
10. Images and Words
11. Systematic Chaos
12. A Dramatic Turn of Events
13. Self-titled
14. When Dream and Day Unite
15. The Astonishing *[FUCK THIS ALBUM!]*
Solid!
1. Systematic
2. Metropolis
3. Octavarium
4. Black clouds
5. Train of thought
6. 6 degrees
Top 6 albums howboutit?
YES love seeing systematic chaos at the top!
@@pairofjeansreviews2034 good x3
Oh man Awake is too low in the ranking.
awake Number 11 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????
I knew I’d get a lot of Shit for that loo
I always love it when people have very different tastes and opinions from my own. It challenges my views and makes me go back and relisten to these albums. Awake has always been my favorite album of theirs, and I was never a fan of Images and Words or Metropolis Part 2, which are fan favorites.
I know some people who ONLY like Awake so I get it!
@@pairofjeansreviews2034 But I do share your bottom 4. The Astonishing has so much potential. Some great melodies and riffing going on, but as you say, the rock opera thing really destroys anything good on this album. I even saw two shows on that tour which were performed in a small concert house. Everything was perfect, except the stupid story of "the music tyranny".
Awake has always been my #1. But my fandom started in 1995 so I am probably partial to that era. Hearing that Kevin was leaving the group was devastating to me.
I still love most of Falling into Infinity. Some of the demos are better than what ended up on the album. Look for You or Me and the demo of Take Away My Pain is amazing.
But I really enjoy most of their discography. So it isn't just Awake for me, but it is the most complete album for me. Just perfect from start to finish.
For me A View From The Top Of The World is the second weakest other than the self titled, didn’t enjoy it too much
I liked it, some some cool songs I’m goin back to
@@pairofjeansreviews2034 awaken the master is a banger!
Terrible list
thanks :)
@@pairofjeansreviews2034 Yeah, I just dislike everything they've made after Octavarium. Prefer Moore over Rudess on keyboards, so the fact that those classic albums where so low made me faceplam lol.
So... Dude I wish the best for you and your channel... This list is a fucking joke.