The Big 3

Metal master Number of posts : 920 Age : 30

I thought I would help further inundate the board with polls, so here you go.

Which prog-powerhouse is your favorite? Also, here's some videos.

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None of the above.

Metal, Movies, Beer Number of posts : 37869 Age : 54

Write-in vote for Crimson Glory.

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Heart of Metal Number of posts : 1698 Age : 37

1. Fates Warning
2. Queensryche
3. Dream Theater

Bukkake Tsunami Number of posts : 25557 Age : 53

Queensryche by a long shot. I've owned and listened to more of their albums than the other 2 bands in the poll. Been a fan since I first heard Mindcrime on a friend's borrowed cassette.

Dream Theater is kinda hit-n-miss with me. The few albums I have I enjoy, but there are lots of gaps in my collection with no immediate plans to remedy that.

Fates Warning has been relegated to the lone Chasing Time compilation. Always said someday I'll get more. Just haven't gotten around to it I guess.

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Metal is my Life Number of posts : 40553 Age : 56

Queensryche for me. They were phenomenal up to Empire.

I have the Fates Warning comp Chasing Time and that's really all I need from them.

I bought Dream Theater's Images And Words on the strength of Pull Me Under. I thought the rest of the album was ok but everything else I've heard from them has come across as rather boring.

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 19229 Age : 53

Fates Warning

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 9939 Age : 49

went with Queensryche. but I love all three bands.

Metal master Number of posts : 657 Age : 45

I went with Dream Theater, who are the only one of the three for which I have all their studio albums.

Although who you go for really depends on which end of the spectrum you prefer. Dream Theater are prog because of their lengthy songs with complex instrumental passages, Queensryche are prog more because of their concepts and lyrics, and Fates Warning lie somewhere between the two.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 6377 Age : 44

I expected actual music videos.

Boo.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 9428 Age : 50

This one was tough for me as I really love all 3 groups. So, I approached it from stand point of "if I could only listen to one for the rest of time and not the other two" rather than "how long I have been a fan and how certain songs move me." I chose Fates Warning b/c I feel there is more variety and quality in their catalog overall.

Subject: Re: The Big 3 Wed Dec 23, 2015 8:44 pm

Fates Warning. Awaken the Guardian is unbeatable.

Metal master Number of posts : 920 Age : 30

Lari wrote:: I expected actual music videos.

Boo.

There's an unspeakably corny video for "Queen of the Reich", but I thought I'd spare everyone that abomination. As for Dream Theater, you can watch James LaBrie be fat on your own time The Big 3 19976

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 5014 Age : 55

Hmmmmmm.............

I like QR from Ep to PL
I like DT from WDADU to about TOT
I like FW from PS to the current album. Though I REALLY like them from APSOG to DIADL

Tough one..........

Subject: Re: The Big 3 Wed Dec 23, 2015 11:57 pm

This song made me a fan of FW. That Lead intro and the chorus just nail it!

Dinky Do Number of posts : 4830 Age : 43

Out of these 3, Dream Theater.

My Top 3 would be..

Pagan's Mind
Andromeda
Spocks Beard

Scurvy Skalliwag Number of posts : 12763 Age : 60

I would call them the "Big 3 disappointments" (IMHO)

Dig both Queensryche & Fates Warning out the gate till about 3 or 4 albums in. Then it's scratch

Dream Theater has never been able to keep my interest and on paper they should, but they don't.

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Metal is my Life Number of posts : 15680 Age : 51

Queensrÿche.

Never liked Dream Theatre. Fate's Warning, so-so.

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 26449 Age : 55

Fates Warning. Queensryche was a very very close second.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 5704 Age : 49

Crimson glory aren't progressive! Even less so than queensryche, who in my mind don't qualify.

But they're an amazing underrated band.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 5704 Age : 49

Some other faves :

Watchtower
Voivod
Cynic
Depressive age
Holocaust
Mercury rising
Antithesis

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 9428 Age : 50

Thrasher73 wrote:: This song made me a fan of FW. That Lead intro and the chorus just nail it!

My fave Fates tune! Followed closely by "Apparition"

Heart of Metal Number of posts : 2096 Age : 61

Theocracy!

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 12811 Age : 55

Dream Theater. Queensryche would have been number 1, but they had a run of crap albums post promised land until they fired the vest. Fates Warning is just behind, always been a big fan of Fates.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 5067 Age : 27

Fates Warning. I love Queensryche too, especially the Warning and Rage for Order, but nothing beats Fates in my eyes.

And I'm only a fan of Images and Words & Awake by Dream Theater, so I couldn't in good conscience choose them. Though, I have been jamming the hell out of I&W recently. The lyrics have been hitting me hard this time around, I usually don't pay any mind to lyrics in prog-metal unless they stick out especially.