In what order have you heard DT's discography?

[Killer123™]

I first listened to JP's Suspended Animation and loved it, then later discovered DT by learning JP's biography.
The first DT album I heard was Systematic Chaos and my fav songs were PoW and ITPoE (well, I still like them but they aren't my "most" fav songs anymore)

My order:
- Systematic Chaos
- Images and Words
- A Change of Seasons
- Black Clouds & Silver Linings
- Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes From A Memory
- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
- [Live] Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York
- Octavarium
- Falling Into Infinity
- [Live] Score
- Train of Thought
- [Live] Chaos in Motion
- Awake
- [Live] Live at Budokan
- When Dream and Day Unite

Now, I'm planning to get either "5 Years in a Livetime" or "Once in a LIVEtime"

[Dream Team]

Images & Words (Good thing this my 1st one)
Awake
Scenes From A Memory
A Change of Seasons
Six Degrees
Train of Thought
Falling into Infinity
When Dream and Day Unite
Octavarium
Systematic Chaos
Black Clouds

[Mladen]

This is tough, lets see...

Images and words
Octavarium
Systematic chaos
Awake
Scenes from a memory
Six degrees of inner turbulence
Train of thought
Falling into infinity
Black clouds & silver linings
When dream and day unite

I think it was something like this...

[RuRoRul]

I did know random songs like Pull Me Under, Panic Attack, As I Am first, and I picked up random songs like Metropolis, Beyond This Life, Home and The Mirror after getting my first few albums. But in terms of full albums:

Train Of Thought
Systematic Chaos
Octavarium
Black Clouds And Silver Linings
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Metropolis Pt. II: Scenes From A Memory
Images And Words
Awake
Falling Into Infinity
When Dream And Day Unite

[MajorMatt]

I&W
SFAM
Awake
ACoS EP
FII
SDOIT
ToT
WDADU
8V
SC
BC&SL

Roughly in the right order I think. My dad bought I&W, SFAM & Spock's Beard's V & Snow all at the same time and I heard I&W whilst in the car. First time I heard PMU I was hooked .

[robwebster]

Yeah, I was sent songs by an enthusiastic friend at first, but when I started to get albums, it went something like this...

Train of Thought
Images and Words
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Awake
Scenes from a Memory
Falling Into Infinity
When Dream & Day Unite
Octavarium
Systematic Chaos
Black Clouds & Silver Linings

I got into them in 2004. Fell head over heels. Still am! Happy story.

[ReaperKK]

Six Degrees
Image & Words
Awake
ACOS
Falling Into Infinity
Train of Thought
Octavarium
Systematic Chaos
WDADU
Black Clouds

[Tsev Eyd Ecaps]

Ive only been listening to em for a few years now.  I saw them on the Chaos in motion tour before i even had any cd's.  So here it goes:
Systematic Chaos
Images and words
Scenes From A Memory
Train Of Thought
Octavarium
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulance
Falling Into Infinity
Awake
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
When Dream And Day Unite

[bodiesinflight]

Octavarium (heard for the first time in early '07 i think)
Awake
Images & Words
Metropolis
Systematic Chaos
Train of Thought
6DOIT
FII
WDADU
BC&SL

Think that's the right order

[icarus4321]

Scenes From a Memory
Images & Words
Falling Into Infinity
Awake
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Train of Thought
Octavarium
When Dream and Day Unite
Systematic Chaos
Black Clouds and Silver Linings

[BRGM]

Octavarium!
L@B DVD
WDADU
Score CD
ToT
SFAM
SC
SDOIT
LSFNY DVD
I&W/Awake/Acos/FII for xmas                      Somewhere here I also got Score DVD
LSFNY CD
CiM 5 disc thingy
BC&SL
Live at Bucharest

[Dublagent66]

I've been a fan since I&W

Same here, but I had a break in between where I heard some bits and pieces, but hadn't bought albums.  I liked DT from '92 on, but didn't really dig deeply into them after I&W until 1999, so mine goes something like this:

I&W
SFAM
LSFNY

Then I really started digging into the back catalog and ordered Awake and FII at the same time.  A little while later, I got the ACOS EP and 5YIALT not too long after that. 

Starting with SDOIT, I got the rest of the discog in order, buying every release just as it came out.  Sometime during the SDIOT-TOT timeframe, I also picked up WDADU and LATM, but I don't recall exactly when.  I might have even gotten WDADU around the time 8VM was out.  I also picked up a second copy of LATM around the time 8VM was out because I wanted the import version with alternate track listing. 

Interesting.  I'm curious about the alt track listing.  There's a regular import version (the one I have) and a Japan import.  Is that the one you're talking about and what is that track listing?


Also, a little back history on what led me to find out about WDADU.  I thought I&W was their debut album for about 4 or 5 years until I saw a copy of the LATM import in a Sam Goody music store.  Picked it up and saw 2 songs I didn't recognize (A Fortune in Lies, Another Hand - The killing Hand).  Somwhow, I managed to find a copy of WDADU.

[Elsydeon]

I believe it went
Six degrees
Train of Thought
Awake
Scenes from a memory
Images and Words
Falling into Infinity
When dream and day unite
Octavarium
Systematic Chaos
Black Clouds

[The Letter M]

I've been a fan since I&W

Same here, but I had a break in between where I heard some bits and pieces, but hadn't bought albums.  I liked DT from '92 on, but didn't really dig deeply into them after I&W until 1999, so mine goes something like this:

I&W
SFAM
LSFNY

Then I really started digging into the back catalog and ordered Awake and FII at the same time.  A little while later, I got the ACOS EP and 5YIALT not too long after that. 

Starting with SDOIT, I got the rest of the discog in order, buying every release just as it came out.  Sometime during the SDIOT-TOT timeframe, I also picked up WDADU and LATM, but I don't recall exactly when.  I might have even gotten WDADU around the time 8VM was out.  I also picked up a second copy of LATM around the time 8VM was out because I wanted the import version with alternate track listing. 

Interesting.  I'm curious about the alt track listing.  There's a regular import version (the one I have) and a Japan import.  Is that the one you're talking about and what is that track listing?


Also, a little back history on what led me to find out about WDADU.  I thought I&W was their debut album for about 4 or 5 years until I saw a copy of the LATM import in a Sam Goody music store.  Picked it up and saw 2 songs I didn't recognize (A Fortune in Lies, Another Hand - The killing Hand).  Somwhow, I managed to find a copy of WDADU.

AFAIK - The European version has "Surrounded" while the Japanese version has "Another Day", which completes the sequence of AD-AH-TKH.

-Marc.

[Dublagent66]

^gotcha, thanks M.

[GuinnessSteve]

Once in a Live Time got me into these guys, it was my dad's. Then came
A Change of Seasons EP
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (I figured at this point that the title track was their magnum opus)
Scenes From a Memory (Now, IMHO, their true magnum opus)

I dunno what came after, but I think that hearing these first are what enabled me to get into them and their solo work. IDK if I would have if I had heard others first.

I think hearing music live (and well done) really gets me into the music. My dad bought Different Stages and that was the pebbles that started the avalanche that made me a humongous Rush fan for over ten years now. He also had Live Art by Bela Fleck & the Flecktones that got me into that group (and their respective solo careers).

[AwakeFromOctavarium]

Systematic Chaos
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Scenes From a Memory
Images & Words
Awake
When Day and Dream Unite
Falling Into Infinity
Train of Thoughts
Octavarium
Black Clouds and Silver Lining

[Plasmastrike]

2003
Train Of Thought
(I was a freshman in high school when I heard about this coming out while on the Megadeth forums)

2005
Octavarium
(Dream Theater came out with a new album? I've heard of them. I like their one album I have. Let's give it a shot. HOLY SHIT A 24 MIN SONG?)

2006
Gigantour DVD (FUCKING GLASS PRISON) This is the performance that made me hooked.

2007 (Summer)
Systematic Chaos

2007 (Christmas)
Images & Words
Scenes From A Memory
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
(These were gifts)

2008 (January)
Awake
A Change Of Seasons
Falling Into Infinity
(Batch purchase from Amazon after realizing DT is an amazing band)

2008 (Christmas)
When Dream And Day Unite

2009 (Summer)
Black Clouds & Silver Linings

EDIT: Some of you may remember this
Me forcing the mailman to "present to me" the BC&SL box set

[Dublagent66]

^Awesome! 

[ZBomber]

Some of you may remember this
Me forcing the mailman to "present to me" the BC&SL box set

Somehow I missed that before.

[TheSoylentMan]

I&W/Awake/Acos/FII for xmas

Wow, best Christmas ever.

Mine were mostly chronological starting with I&W. A friend loaned it to me somewhere around 1994, and I was hooked ever since. Got WDADU when the infamous re-release came out.

[Nick]

Train of Thought

Scenes From a Memory
Awake
A Change of Seasons

When Dream and Day Unite
Images and Words


Falling Into Infinity
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Octavarium

Systematic Chaos

Black Clouds and Silver Lining

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The spaces indicate a break in time. I started with ToT and then proceeded to get the next three not too long after that. Then for whatever reason I took a break for a little bit, ended up getting REALLY into DT again and bought WDaDU and Images around the same time, and I specifically remember receiving FII and Six Degrees in the same amazon order to finish off my collection at the time.

I checked my amazon account and those shipped to me in the last week of 2004, and from there I've bought every album since before release day. Not pre-ordered, I've had a physical copy of the last three albums the Friday or Saturday before release.

[Kosmo]

I'm a newer fan but i have known that DT exists for quite some time.

Octavarium (I got this album as a gift from my dad, wasn't a fan back then but this is what pretty much light it up)
Images and Words
Awake
Train of Thought
Metropolis pt2
Falling into Infinity
Six degrees
When dream and day unite
Systematic Chaos
BCSL