Dream Theater

This may be a delicate subject (even one that may have already been posted), but what is your least favorite Dream Theater album or albums? Let's include studio and live albums.

For me studio would be When Dream and Day Unite, live would be Once in a LiveTime.

When Dream and Day Unite is an Awesome Album, the singing ain't too great but the music is sensational. If DT were to rerecord that Album with the current members, I reckon it would be one hot sounding Album.

No worst Album for me, all are Awesome, least listened to however would be Falling to Infinity. Once in a Livetime has some good moments but doesn't have the give me another listen value to it as a whole, only some songs.

DT if you are reading, Blu-Ray Audio as an option for the next Album release, imagine uncompressed, pure music with full dynamic range. Don't care how much it would be retailed at, would still buy it.

Edit: wow I read back and I realise I sound like Barney from How I Met Your Mother, hmmmmm.

Least favorite album... For me, maybe Systematic Chaos or Train of Thought. Don't get me wrong, both albums have great songs, like In the Prescence of Enemies (both parts are amazing) for SC and In the Name of God for ToT. It's just at times I feel, in the case of ToT, it suffers because of the influence from modern metal genres, and in the case of SC there's songs that are mostly irrelevant (in my opinion, of course).

Least favorite live album, Once in a LIVEtime. I just didn't enjoy the performance. LaBrie had obvious issues because of the throat injuries he had, I didn't enjoy what they did with Metropolis and Learning to Live or the fact only instrumental parts of A Change of Seasons were played.

When Dream & Day Unite is an excellent album for its time...given that the vocals are weak and the production is low-end. It gives me a good nostalgic '80s feeling whenever I listen to it though (definitely my least played).

Other than that, it's really hard to pick a least favorite. Least listened to would be Train of Thought (listened to it this morning on the ride to work) but I still love it. A couple of weeks ago, it would have been Octavarium, but it's been in heavy rotation on my iPod and it's grown on me.

I would have to say Falling Into Infinity for studio,live it would probably be Once in a LIVEtime. FII is still a great album, just weakest imo. As for the latter, I have no particular reason, I just never listen to it.

When Dream and Day Unite for studio; Once In A LIVEtime for live.

The songs are good on WDADU, it's just that I came to the band long after LaBrie had joined, and it's very jarring hearing Dominici singing instead. And the production sounds low budget. Hearing the songs performed live, with the more recent lineup, on the When Dream And Day Reunite DVD made it sound a hell of a lot better.

OIALT is a decent live album, but you can tell LaBrie was having serious throat issues. He has terrible trouble hitting the notes sometimes on this one. I think he normally does well live (on Score, he's fantastic)

WDADU is my least favorite because of Charlie's vocals. I still haven't listened to the whole thing and haven't heard some of the other older material yet, like Falling Into Infinity and A Change of Seasons, but what I have heard it's better. I'll pick em' up some day along with a few live albums I need to get.

This is MM's rookie year so I can't wait to hear the next album with MM. After ADToE, it seems the best is yet to come!

I love all albums) it's amazing, all of them have its own speciality from When dream & day unite to A Dramatic turn of events can't wait a new record) Good luck guys I'm paraying for you!

@comment: WDADU is a seed of what DT will become. You are correct, Charlie just isn't the right vocalist, but the music is worth the listen, especially YTSE jam. Get all of their cd's, as you will hear them grow. The jumped after they became their own producer. Nothing they ever did is slack, but every cd has it's own flavor. Score is amazing, but not everone will like it. Some like the heavy, some like the prog, some like the light. I love it all. DT is Led Zeppelin + Yes + Rush +The Scorpions + Metallica + Uriah Heep + Iron Butterfly all rolled up into one great band, only with world class chops and the best in the world on each point of sound. And yes, James LaBrie is the best. I have stood 5 feet in front of Geoff Tate (the Moon in Tallahassee) and I have stood 5 feet in front of James LaBrie (the Masquerade in Atlanta) and James is better. Geoff is awesome and the ultimate frontman, but James is a better vocalist and doesn't need to be a frontman, as the entire band that is Dream Theater is the frontman. And I saw James perform through the vocal ills that he had when most would have rested, and he was still amazing. DT is the best ever and you need to see them live all you can and get all of their cd's while you can, so you can tell your friends and grandkids in fifty years about how you are a fan of the best band ever!

@RuskyTheaterBear: They did rerelease WDaDU as a live album under Portnoy's label "Ytse jam Records." also I heard about Blu Ray audio but have never seen it yet. are there Blu Ray Audio players too?

Bad DT cd? I don't think so. Some not as amazing as others. How quickly we as DT fans have become jaded to the sublime skill level put forth by this band. No one else EVER has shit this great each and every cd. So we bitch that "this one was not quite as fucking awesomwe as that one". WDADU is the first, charlie was not the right singer, the band hadn't got their footing yet, some person NOT a member of DT producing, so it's the target cd. But when it came out, I heard YTSE Jam and thought, holy shit that's kick ass. IAW, even with all the production sounds not being perfect and they had to work with a dick producer, showed great growth, as did each and every cd since. You can never put on any DT that I won't listen to.