[QUOTE=Shattered_Future]What I really don't understand is why everybody makes such a big deal out of Pull Me Under.

What is so special about it? It's really boring and irritating to me...

Images And Words is a great album, even though I keep falling asleep during it... :([/QUOTE]
I don't know, it was played by MTV a lot so maybe it was their most successful song commercially?

hmmm....what a lame video that was though.

I really like Pull Me Under. It mainly has to do with the fact that it was the first Dream Theater song I ever heard.

[QUOTE=Happy]I don't know, it was played by MTV a lot so maybe it was their most successful song commercially?[/QUOTE]

On that subject, DT has had little luck with singles getting played on MTV and the radio, but personally I think one of the reasons is they never picked their best songs. And they always tried to cut them down in the videos to 3-4 minutes which often just ruins the songs. The following songs have videos:

Pull Me Under
Another Day
Take The Time
Lie
The Silent Man
Hollow Years

3 of those are pop rock ballads, which isn't going to attract any attention from fans of metal music (I think I'm correct in saying that the majority of DT fans are more likely to watch shows on TV playing metal videos, headbangers ball etc oppsed to when pop videos are being shown).

Pull Me Under and Lie were the most successful singles even though they are average DT songs, and obviously attracted fans through the metal side of their sound.

Take the Time is a superb song but the song is destroyed when its edited video makes them look stupid.

SO if DT stuck to releasing their heavier songs rather than their most commercial ones they could potentailly have become a lot bigger. Recently songs like TGP, As I Am and Panic Attack I think could have done well. But MP has said the band aren't going to make any more videos, because it costs too much money, and they'd prefer to sepnd that money on something the fans would appreciate more, like a live DVD.

I really cannot stand Another Day. It irritates me to no end.

Every other song on the album is pure gold though.

Nowitzki - Touché

I love another day...but NOTHING is as pure class as surrounded.

And the "pop rock ballads" are my favourite kind of DT songs :p

all DT is quality stuff really. I&W and TOT are completely different, but they do the job incredibly well.

Yeah, they're actually my 2 favourite DT albums.

[QUOTE=Lord Abortion]Yeah, they're actually my 2 favourite DT albums.[/QUOTE]


They are mine as well.

[QUOTE=Happy]I don't know, it was played by MTV a lot so maybe it was their most successful song commercially?[/QUOTE]

Dream Theater, on MTV? I had know idea...

[QUOTE=Shattered_Future]What I really don't understand is why everybody makes such a big deal out of Pull Me Under.

What is so special about it? It's really boring and irritating to me...

Images And Words is a great album, even though I keep falling asleep during it... :([/QUOTE]
i love that song im actually trying to learn it as we speak.

I agree with whoever was saying that some songs/albums you grow to dislike and some you end up liking.
Take the Time for a while was my favorite song (and it's actually the song that ended up getting me to listen to more of DT's stuff) but now I don't have the patience for it. Really the only songs off of I&W I like now are Metropolis, Under a Glass Moon, and LtL.
And Awake I hated for the longest time, but as most frequenters of this thread will tell you, it's now one of my favorite DT albums (there's honestly not a single bad track on there).
A Change of Seasons I've always liked, but it's only because of the title track. (now that I think about it, I don't think I've listened to the covers at all)
FII I HATED with a passion, but lately I've found that I enjoy the majority of the tracks on it.
Metropolis 2 has always been one of my favorite albums, but eventually after listening to it constantly I only had the patience for 5 or 6 of the songs.
I only liked TGP, TGD, and Blind Faith off of 6DOIT Disc 1 at first, but now the entire disc is probably my favorite DT Disc.
Like with FII or Awake, I could only stand War Inside My Head and TTTSTA off of Disc 2 at first. Now I don't really have a problem with any of the tracks (even the ballads, which are normally the DT tracks I hate).
I was immediately attracted to ToT, but after listening to that constantly I got tired of the intro/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/really-long-solo-part/bridge/chorus structure of the songs.
Octavarium so far, I like TROAE, These Walls, Panic Attack, Never Enough, and the title track, but absolutely HATE the others. So I don't know, hopefully that one will grow on me.

Long story short, I don't usually like the ballads, but some of them eventually grow on me. Oh, and I didn't mention When Dream And Day Unite because it's not a real DT album. :p

I need to pick up 6DOIT. Then I just need FII to complete the collection.

I just thought about it today and I realized how close I am to getting all their albums. I did it without noticing.

Hey Laihoistheman, i wish i was as talented as you, learning Pull Me Under and typing on here at the same time

[QUOTE=horseman]Hey Laihoistheman, i wish i was as talented as you, learning Pull Me Under and typing on here at the same time[/QUOTE]
I'm learning it too. It's really cool, espicially when the distortion kicks in. :evil:

[QUOTE=horseman]Hey Laihoistheman, i wish i was as talented as you, learning Pull Me Under and typing on here at the same time[/QUOTE]
What, you don't have a guitar?
I'm sure heaps of people play guitar while surfing MX...

[QUOTE]Long story short, I don't usually like the ballads, but some of them eventually grow on me. Oh, and I didn't mention When Dream And Day Unite because it's not a real DT album[/QUOTE]
You may well be my DT opposite...

How can some1 hate Pull Me Under? One of my favorite intros!

I don't hate it but I just think it's that good, now i've heard all of DTs stuff

What's your favorite song/album?

definatly scenes from a memory and images and words are my favourite albums. I've been listening to Six degrees lately so thats probably my favourite song...or maybe Metropolis pt.1

I just got 6DOIT a week ago and have been listening to it quite a bit. It sorta turned out to be the opposite of what I was expecting.

On here I have heard much praise for The Glass Prison and The Great Debate, but they are my two least favorite tracks on the entire album. TGD is growing on me a little bit though, and the intro on TGP is alright, plus the chorus is catchy, but the rest of it is too blah to me.

I already had Live at Budokan, so I already knew most of the 2nd CD plus disappear of the 1st disk, so I already liked those songs. My guess is TGP and TGD will both grow on me, as a lot of DT fans consider them great songs?

My favorite album so far is SFAM, which is still after having listened to it at least 100 times from start to finish in the past 2 months. (I have a 50 minute drive to college and 50 minutes back throughout the week, give me lots of listening time, hah)

I can't find I&W ANYWHERE! Have you guys all been able to find yours at typical CD stores like Sam Goody or FYE? Or is it a CD you basically have to order online?

i got I&W off ebay for £2.50.....bargain....it has no front sleeve though

and also, the glass prison is one of the best DT songs IMO

[QUOTE=chaseharrell]I just got 6DOIT a week ago and have been listening to it quite a bit. It sorta turned out to be the opposite of what I was expecting.

On here I have heard much praise for The Glass Prison and The Great Debate, but they are my two least favorite tracks on the entire album. TGD is growing on me a little bit though, and the intro on TGP is alright, plus the chorus is catchy, but the rest of it is too blah to me.

I already had Live at Budokan, so I already knew most of the 2nd CD plus disappear of the 1st disk, so I already liked those songs. My guess is TGP and TGD will both grow on me, as a lot of DT fans consider them great songs?[/QUOTE]

If you don't like TGP immediately, you may end up never liking it, but who knows.

[quote=Lord Abortion]You may well be my DT opposite...[/quote]

WE SHOULD COMBINE OUR POWERS!!11111ONE

TGP is awsome, definatly the best of the AA trinity, but This Dying Soul is so awsome aswell.

[QUOTE=chaseharrell]
I can't find I&W ANYWHERE! Have you guys all been able to find yours at typical CD stores like Sam Goody or FYE? Or is it a CD you basically have to order online?[/QUOTE]
Weird. I found it in a Skate shop, it wasn't that hard to find.

...get it off ebay...

[QUOTE=scenesfromatheater]...get it off ebay...[/QUOTE]
Ebay delivers my Cds all cracked.

ah well, you're buying off the wrong people then...i've got so many bargains off ebay its unbelievable.