Octavarium (track)
by Dream Theater
Octavarium appears on the following album(s) by Dream Theater:
- Octavarium (track #8) (this album) (2005)
- Score (20th Anniversary World Tour) (track #13) (2006)
- Quarantième: Live À Paris (track #16) (2025)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/06/2026 16:19 | Exist-en-ciel | 167,855 | 71/100 |
| ! | 05/14/2025 09:40 |  luigybetis | 13,330 | 89/100 |
| ! | 02/05/2025 00:35 | SethGunde | 2,438 | 69/100 |
| ! | 11/19/2024 16:42 | spinout | 41,120 | 83/100 |
| ! | 09/11/2024 20:12 | VINYLGUY7788 | 2,091 | 95/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 89.1/100, a mean average of 87.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 90.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 19.6.
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AAL2014 06/25/2016 00:06 | #169665
Arguably one of the greatest prog songs ever written, and one of the best songs in Dream Theater's incredible 30 years.
Their best song.
sageamagoo 11/05/2012 17:27 | #54287
Probably the greatest song ever written.
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