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nightflameauto wrote:Wife and I have fought CONTINUOUSLY for YEARS about where to put Serenity and Firefly in our DVD collections. Sci-fi or Westerns. She likes Westerns and doesn't want to admit it's a sci-fi.

Westworld. SciFi? Western? Horror?

Cowboys Vs Aliens. Pure Garbage? Western? SciFi?

Short Circuit. SciFi? Comedy?

Hahahahaha, this thread is a lot better than I expected it to be.

Also, I'm definitely going to check out the other bands mentions.

Loop, I'm listening to your album again and I have to say I think I like it better than Animals As Leaders - Weightless. I'm not even remotely joking. Great stuff fo sho!

Orbis_Mortis wrote:Loop, I'm listening to your album again and I have to say I think I like it better than Animals As Leaders - Weightless. I'm not even remotely joking. Great stuff fo sho!

Holy shit.

You must be crazy, but I'll take it! You just made my day. Thank you SO much!!!!!

nightflameauto wrote:Oh hey, if we're handing out recommendations, TesseracT's full-length album is what Dream Theater would be if they took the clamps of their nuts and slapped their keyboard player around when he got out of hand.

I have Perspective, which I like. I'll have to check out their other stuff

That depends. Do you like sex with women? Then the correct answer is none of them.

If you don't, then all of them are must haves.

Loop wrote:

Orbis_Mortis wrote:Loop, I'm listening to your album again and I have to say I think I like it better than Animals As Leaders - Weightless. I'm not even remotely joking. Great stuff fo sho!

Holy shit.

You must be crazy, but I'll take it! You just made my day. Thank you SO much!!!!!

Both are great, but I think yours catches my attention more

Orbis_Mortis wrote:

Loop wrote:

Orbis_Mortis wrote:Loop, I'm listening to your album again and I have to say I think I like it better than Animals As Leaders - Weightless. I'm not even remotely joking. Great stuff fo sho!

Holy shit.

You must be crazy, but I'll take it! You just made my day. Thank you SO much!!!!!

Both are great, but I think yours catches my attention more

Dude. To even be compared makes my head asplode. Thank you.

Feel free to burn copies for your friends!

I think most of the Symphony X / Dream Theater debates really go back to people who wish Russell Allen(or someone like him) sang for Dream Theater vs LaBrie.
I like both bands fairly well for different reasons. I think Russell Allen has a better vocal presence by far, but usually prefer Petrucci's tone over Michael Romeo's and Portnoy/Mangini on drums over the drummers Symphony X has had, but to each their own.

As far as the original question on which DT albums: Images and Words, Awake, Scenes from a Memory are my favorite 3,but I enjoy all of them up through Train of Thought. I also liked the newest one a lot, but everything after ToT until the new one did very little for me. I actually liked John Petrucci's solo album and James Labrie's two solo albums(Marco Sfogli on guitar FTW) much more than Octovarium, Systematic Chaos and Black Clouds.

I don't own any of their albums, but I remember someone posting up this song and it's definitely badass

[video]http://youtu.be/J0PQ6GC6KYc[/video]


Their singer usually bothers the hell out of me but I don't mind him in that tune, at least. Maybe I should pick up that album

nightflameauto wrote:In all honesty, Loop, your album grooves a bit more so it tends to stick with me more. That's to say, I get why he says that.

AAL is awesome, no doubt, but it tends to burn me out by the time I finish an album of it.

Exactly!!

Loop wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:It pisses you off that sci-fi, horror and fantasy are on the same racks in book stores, doesn't it?

So much so. They are not the same thing.

That said, My DVD/BluRay movie collection is huge, and arranged by genre. I get really pissed when I can't figure out where to put the SciFi/Fantasy crossover stuff. Thor (Marvel) is a good example. So it just went in the trash.


Event Horizon is another. Alien is another. DAMMIT. They get to stay though. Because they're awesome.

I came in here to say 'none' which I still stand by, but this had me rolling

'63-Strat wrote:That depends. Do you like sex with women? Then the correct answer is none of them.

If you don't, then all of them are must haves.

Bwahahahahaha I love this thread. Continues to deliver

'63-Strat wrote:That depends. Do you like sex with women? Then the correct answer is none of them.

If you don't, then all of them are must haves.

Well, I've got that covered since I'm married

Images & Words, Awake, and IMO, FII.

FII has some fairly rubbish songs on there, but it also has some properly fantastic stuff on there. Some of their best songs even.

Yarbicus wrote:I saw DT with Big Wreck in a tiny club on the FiI tour. Great show but LaBrie kept complaining about how small the place was.

My people!

No way!

I thought I was the only one who remembered that show. We saw them in New Haven, CT. The lead singer of Big Wreck kept telling everyone they were going to "do some stuff to impress the guitar players in the audience." They got booed off stage after their 5th song... I know Big Wreck used to get some major love, but they didn't really speak to me at the time. Maybe I should give them another listen...

On topic (horror!), I think the best DT albums are Awake, Images, and Metropolis Pt. II, in that order. The production on Awake is, in my ears, the absolute perfect prog metal album. If I got into mixing full time and every song I did just sounded like it would belong on Awake, I'd die a happy man...


Oh, and Joss Wheedon, kicks butt!!!