Dream Theater Top 100 countdown - 2024 Version!

[KevShmev]

Okay, the Dream Theater top 100 countdown is back!

I will count down the top 100 songs songs in order, and they will be taken from lists of anyone who wants to send me theirs via PM. Do not post them on the forum here. Send them to me via PM.  I will take all of the lists and come up with a top 100 based off all lists cumulatively and count the songs down from 100 to 1.

The rules (READ CAREFULLY!!!)
-Songs must be listed from 100 to 1 in order (or 1 to 100 works as well), with no ties.  No having three songs at number 1 or anything like that. 100 songs, listed from 100 to 1. DO NOT list your songs with the points total.  List them in your order (I will figure out the points on my end).  Any list submitted with the songs not numbered will be ignored.
-Anyone wanting to submit a list must do so by the end of day, Friday, December 29th.  That will give us all plenty of time to get in any new listens and make a list.  I will then begin at the countdown right around the new year.
-The list will be tallied numerically in a simple way. On each list, whatever song is at number 1 gets 100 points, number 2 gets 99 points, number 3 gets 98 points, etc.
-PROOFREAD YOUR LISTS BEFORE SENDING THEM.  Any list with the same song mentioned twice or any errors will not be counted, and I am extremely unlikely to let anyone know if their list is invalid.  Doing these are fun, but a top 100 makes inputting each list a bit more time-consuming, so if you send an invalid list, you have wasted my time (since I might have spent time inputting your list before I realized there was an error) and thus are not getting the courtesy of me letting you know to fix it.   Proofread it yourself first before sending it. 
-DO NOT send your list until you are 100% good with it; sending a new one with any revisions will not be acknowledged or used.

Feel free to post in this thread as well that you have PM'd me, if for no other reason than to bump this back up for others who may want to participate who may not have seen the thread yet.

This ranking engine link below works great. You can input all of the songs, and then you pick your favorite of every 1 on 1 matchup and then it spits out your list.

https://rankingengine.pubmeeple.com/

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2285 Entr'acte
A Better Life
A Change of Seasons
A Fortune in Lies
A Life Left Behind
A New Beginning
A Nightmare To Remember
A Rite of Passage
A Savior In The Square
A Tempting Offer
A View from the Top of the World
A Vision
Act of Faythe
Afterlife
Along For the Ride
Anna Lee
Another Day
Another Hand
Another Won
Answering the Call
As I Am
Astonishing
At Wit's End
Awake Jam
Awaken the Master
Barfbag
Barstool Warrior
Begin Again
Behind the Veil
Beneath the Surface
Beyond This Life
Blind Faith
Bombay Vindaloo
Breaking All Illusions
Bridges In the Sky
Brother, Can You Hear Me?
Build Me Up, Break Me Down
Burning My Soul
Caught In a Web
Chosen
Constant Motion
Cover My Eyes
Cry for Freedom
Descent of the NOMACS
Digital Discord
Disappear
Don't Look Past Me
Dystopian Overture
Endless Sacrifice
Enigma Machine
Erotomania
Eve
Fall Into The Light
False Awakening Suite
Far From Heaven
Fatal Tragedy
Finally Free
Forsaken
Gladiator Theme
Heaven's Cove
Hell's Kitchen
Hollow Years
Home
Honor Thy Father
Hymn of A Thousand Voices
I Walk Beside You
Illumination Theory
In the Name of God
In the Presence of Enemies
Innocence Faded
Invisible Monster
Just Let Me Breathe
Learning To Live
Lie
Lifting Shadows Off a Dream
Light Fuse and Get Away
Lines In the Sand
Lord Nafaryus
Losing Faythe
Lost Not Forgotten
Machine Chatter
March of the Tyrant
Metropolis, Pt. 1: the Miracle and the Sleeper
Misunderstood
Moment of Betrayal
Moon Bubbles
My Last Farewell
Never Enough
New Millennium
Octavarium
On the Backs of Angels
One Last Time
Only a Matter of Time
Our New World
Out Of Reach
Outcry
Overture 1928
Pale Blue Dot
Panic Attack
Paralyzed
Peruvian Skies
Power Down
Prophets of War
Pull Me Under
Raise The Knife
Ravenskill
Raw Dog
Regression
Repentance
Room 137
S2N
Sacrificed Sons
Scarred
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Sleeping Giant
Slow Motion
Space-Dye Vest
Speak To Me
Status Seeker
Strange Deja Vu
Stream of Consciousness
Surrender To Reason
Surrounded
Take Away My Pain
Take the Time
The Alien
The Answer
The Answer Lies Within
The Best of Times
The Bigger Picture
The Count of Tuscany
The Dance of Eternity
The Dark Eternal Night
The Enemy Inside
The Gift of Music
The Glass Prison
The Great Debate
The Holiday Spirit Carries On
The Hovering Sojourn
The Killing Hand
The Looking Glass
The Ministry of Lost Souls
The Mirror
The One Who Helps to Set the Sun
The Path That Divides
The Road To Revolution
The Root of All Evil
The Shattered Fortress
The Silent Man
The Spirit Carries On
The Walking Shadow
The Way It Used to Be
The X Aspect
These Walls
This Dying Soul
This is the Life
Three Days
Through Her Eyes
Through My Words
To Live Forever
Transcending Time
Trial of Tears
Two Far
Under a Glass Moon
Untethered Angel
Vacant
Viper King
Vital Star
Voices
Wait For Sleep
When Your Time Has Come
Where Are You Now
Whispers On The Wind
Wither
Your Majesty
You Not Me
Ytse Jam

[Trav]

First of all, thanks Kev for doing this!
Secondly, can we petition the band to never title a song with "The" at the beginning ever again?

[hefdaddy42]

Aw yeah

[Zydar]

Alright, it's on! Oh and deadline day is on my birthday, that must be a sign

[Dream Team]

First of all, thanks Kev for doing this!
Secondly, can we petition the band to never title a song with "The" at the beginning ever again?

I second that. Maiden does it way too often also. I never really watched Friends, but didn't every episode title begin with "The"?

[Trav]

First of all, thanks Kev for doing this!
Secondly, can we petition the band to never title a song with "The" at the beginning ever again?

I second that. Maiden does it way too often also. I never really watched Friends, but didn't every episode title begin with "The"?

I know that's how Seinfeld episodes were titled.

[hefdaddy42]

Sent!

[Zydar]

Sent!

Dang, you're done already?




(That's what she said)

[Cool Chris]

Looks like it is time again to get reaquainted with all the song titles from TA.

[Mladen]

Oh, man, this would be a trip. I'll try to come up with a list. 

[Cool Chris]

You(r) Majesty?

[MirrorMask]

LOL at some of the random pairings - he asked me wether I prefer Metropolis or Raw Dog  and also, Breaking All Illusions vs Learning to Live, the sister songs....

[Puppies_On_Acid]

Definitely in on this one. I missed the last one, so this will be interesting.

[KevShmev]

What's really wild is that the band only has two songs where the first letter of the first word is 'n.' 

[Jamesman42]

What is "The Holiday Spirit Carries On"? Or is that not a thing?

[Zydar]

What is "The Holiday Spirit Carries On"? Or is that not a thing?

A Christmas thing they did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uNdcqTFjI8

[Jamesman42]

Whoa, this is really cool.

I did think it was some sort of typo that snuck onto the list

[gzarruk]

I'm in! This will be my first time doing this, so I'm excited about crafting my list

[Metro]

Sent!

[Setlist Scotty]

I'm in! This will be my first time doing this, so I'm excited about crafting my list

Have fun Gabriel! It's gonna be harder and take more time than you think!!   

[TAC]

For some damn reason, it doesn't seem like I saved my last list..

[Setlist Scotty]

For some damn reason, it doesn't seem like I saved my last list..

That's a bummer! So glad I found my list or at least a version of it that I believe was close to what I submitted. Already have a preliminary version to submit to Kev, although I'm gonna sit on it for a bit to see how I feel. I couldn't believe it but somehow I missed including ACoS in my last list (if it is in fact the one I submitted)!

[MirrorMask]

I did something like 740 matches only to realize at the end that, if this was meant to be a top 100, I could have just skipped all the Nomacs tracks, the live stuff like "Awake Jam" and the Majesty Demos which were not gonna make the cut anyway.

Still, it was a lot of fun!

[Setlist Scotty]

Being that not everyone is super familiar with some of the more obscure DT tracks in their catalog, here are links to all the live-only and non-album tracks that are included in the list. This way those of you not familiar with the songs can hear them before making an informed decision on whether they'll end up on your list or not. And at the very least, perhaps it will introduce you to some new songs that you might not have heard before!   

Moon Bubbles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vqatqBETec

Slow Motion (note: only recordings are all from the audience):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7b0su9mY9o

Bombay Vindaloo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZhlbP8CGMM

Barfbag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJqM1p82AA&t=3839s

Awake Jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzsNZmxX64g&t=2687s

The Gladiator Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGRDo8bUljo&t=2583s

Another Won:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN8-OwdX6aE&list=OLAK5uy_l7Htu8vsqmVCHMDc7zD9CUDrOfObFp1yo&index=18

Your Majesty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mXY8OjPEs&list=OLAK5uy_l7Htu8vsqmVCHMDc7zD9CUDrOfObFp1yo&index=19

A Vision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVnyQrZF7S0&list=OLAK5uy_l7Htu8vsqmVCHMDc7zD9CUDrOfObFp1yo&index=20

Two Far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwK26gTPeIU&list=OLAK5uy_l7Htu8vsqmVCHMDc7zD9CUDrOfObFp1yo&index=21

Vital Star:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDJ1P-99cA8&list=OLAK5uy_l7Htu8vsqmVCHMDc7zD9CUDrOfObFp1yo&index=22

March of the Tyrant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8bgMDSdYl0&list=OLAK5uy_l7Htu8vsqmVCHMDc7zD9CUDrOfObFp1yo&index=23

Cry for Freedom (instrumental demo - a demo with vocals was never done):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXu76cJDZsk

Cry for Freedom (live with Chris Collins on vocals):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoJ6-MSRx8o

To Live Forever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_KWl5hFp7s

Don't Look Past Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1zUHIZDsfI

Eve:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiayUWUhZSQ

Raise the Knife:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCobA896mU&list=OLAK5uy_l5hTdIRhdTXP8zm558lxjjuGCjdFbLa-8&index=1

Where Are You Now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXQGhKQLQ-Q&list=OLAK5uy_l5hTdIRhdTXP8zm558lxjjuGCjdFbLa-8&index=2

The Way It Used to Be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wth0sfxz6Gw&list=OLAK5uy_l5hTdIRhdTXP8zm558lxjjuGCjdFbLa-8&index=7

Cover My Eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCMGvxVENpc&list=OLAK5uy_l5hTdIRhdTXP8zm558lxjjuGCjdFbLa-8&index=12

Speak to Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQSBIVcCgmk&list=OLAK5uy_l5hTdIRhdTXP8zm558lxjjuGCjdFbLa-8&index=15

Raw Dog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6OfqGvliyw

[MirrorMask]

Almost all of these songs for me ended up at the bottom, mixed with the Nomacs tracks.

Anyway, one of these made my top 25! and three others made the top 100 (actually top 90, to stay vague).

[Jamesman42]

When we send you our lists, is this format good?

1 Forsaken
2 A Rite of Passage
3 Regression
.
.
100 The Ministry of Lost Souls

[Stadler]

Anywhere from a quarter to a third of those will be on my list, I'm pretty sure.

[KevShmev]

When we send you our lists, is this format good?

1 Forsaken
2 A Rite of Passage
3 Regression
.
.
100 The Ministry of Lost Souls

Yes, although I reverse the right to laugh at anyone who has Forsaken at number 1. 

[Indiscipline]

Thank you Kev for the good work.

Not to spoil the fun and nothing major, but could it be possibile to differentiate between Hollow Years and Hollow Years Budokan?

There's at least a 50 ranks difference between the two versions.

[KevShmev]

Thank you Kev for the good work.

Not to spoil the fun and nothing major, but could it be possibile to differentiate between Hollow Years and Hollow Years Budokan?

There's at least a 50 ranks difference between the two versions.

No.  A vote for the song (or any song) is a vote for the song (regardless of the version).  Just list the song, there is no need to say what version.

Let's not complicate this. 

[Jamesman42]

When we send you our lists, is this format good?

1 Forsaken
2 A Rite of Passage
3 Regression
.
.
100 The Ministry of Lost Souls

Yes, although I reverse the right to laugh at anyone who has Forsaken at number 1. 

No, my favorite song is Through My Words.

[Indiscipline]

Thank you Kev for the good work.

Not to spoil the fun and nothing major, but could it be possibile to differentiate between Hollow Years and Hollow Years Budokan?

There's at least a 50 ranks difference between the two versions.

No.  A vote for the song (or any song) is a vote for the song (regardless of the version).  Just list the song, there is no need to say what version.

Let's not complicate this. 

Gotcha, thank you!

[Trav]

So we can send in the list counting 1-100? We don't have to reverse and send it to you going 100-1?

[gzarruk]

I'm in! This will be my first time doing this, so I'm excited about crafting my list

Have fun Gabriel! It's gonna be harder and take more time than you think!!   

At first I thought it was going to be "oh I'll just make a playlist with 100 and then rank them, no big deal", but now I'm starting to worry a little bit, specially since the next couple weeks my wife and I are moving to another apartment while still trying to do everything else. Should be an interesting month

[TAC]

Thank you Kev for the good work.

Not to spoil the fun and nothing major, but could it be possibile to differentiate between Hollow Years and Hollow Years Budokan?

There's at least a 50 ranks difference between the two versions.

At least!