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In the Dream Theater song "Octavarium" there are tons... this first that comes to mind is you can hear a reference to Pink Floyd right before "Full Circle"... So this is where we came in?

Awesome, I thought I was the only one who hated Fur Elise

I'm not saying that counterpoint is dead in all modern music, but the majority of it is completely lacking.

Do you smoke weed? Not 'have' you, do you?

Either Night Elf or Wood Elf.

Music is defined by Dream Theater. However close a song is to Dream Theater, that's how musical it is. The real birth of music was during the Classical Greek age. Pythagorous, along with being a mathematician, was a musician. (Hence the names of the scales: Aeolian, Dorian, Ionian, etc). He...

Imperial March, no doubt. But the Banjo Kazooie theme song was pretty catchy as well.

For all the rumors about Halo being made into a movie, its true. Released 2007. There were rumors that it was to be directed by Peter Jackson, but he's actually the executive producer. Possibly to be directed by Guillermo del Toro (most notably director of Blade II and Hellboy).

Dream Theater, because of their amazing musicality and strangly profound lyrics. I eat, drink, and sleep Dream Theater. When I'm not in the mood for Dream Theater (which is very uncommon) I usually listen to either Iron and Wine or Death Cab for Cutie.

The Allegro from Vivaldi's Spring.

What's the best bass solo ever in the general Rock genre?

You guys are missing the best Dream Theater guitar solo of all time-- "In The Name of God". Wicked awesome. Also, best Bass solo of all time is definately "Metropolis Pt. 1"

I was wondering if anyone had some good progressive metal bands to suggest, something along the lines of Dream Theater and Savatage.

'Naked as We Came' Iron and Wine

25, but I spent a long time on it. (I have a picture, but its in .bmp file, and the site won't upload it.)