DREAM THEATER Wins Rolling Stone's "Favorite Prog Rock Albums Of All Time" Readers Poll
July 26, 2012, 12 years ago
Rolling Stone conducted a readers' poll recently to determine the 10 greatest prog rock albums of all time, and DREAM TEHATER fans came out in force to vote for the band. Writer Andy Greene says in the intro to the poll, "We received thousands of votes, partially fueled by the fact that one band encouraged fans to vote by posting the link on their homepage. We won't name names, so let's just call them D. Theater. No, that's too obvious. Let's go with Dream T...."
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Dream Theater have issued the following statement: "All of us in Dream Theater are so grateful to our fans for their incredible support in voting our album Metropolis PT. 2 Scenes From A Memory as the #1 album in Rolling Stone's poll for Your Favorite Prog Rock Albums of All Time. The kind of support we have around the world is absolutely amazing and inspires us to keep making the best music that we possibly can for all of you!"
It was announced back in October 2011 that Scenes From A Memory was being issued on double vinyl thanks to the efforts of Karl Groeger, owner of the Brookvale Records in Long Island, NY. The album was released on Black Friday, November 25th, 2011. Details at this location.
Artisan News issued a report on the release:
