History YMMV / TheDillingerEscapePlan

* EarWorm:
** Their cover of "[[Music/BlackSabbath Paranoid]]" almost certainly qualifies.
** Hell, a lot of their songs do. Every single song on ''Irony Is a Dead Scene'' qualifies as well. Their music may be complex as hell, but it's also damn catchy.

** NarmCharm: On the other hand, a lot of folks also love it and some even name it as one of their favourite songs by the band. It's very much a LoveItOrHateIt song.

* SweetDreamsFuel: "Mouth of Ghosts" again, despite the [[BigRockEnding Big Metal Ending]]. You could probably sleep to it.

* MostWonderfulSound: Just "Mouth of Ghosts" as a whole, really. The piano solo on "Widower" may also qualify depending on one's tastes.

* AwesomeMusic: Arguably everything they've recorded. Some particularly prime moments include ''Irony Is a Dead Scene''; their frenetic, radically different cover of "Paranoid"; and "Mouth of Ghosts", which is just one of the most flat-out ''beautiful'' songs in the metal genre (though arguably, about three quarters of it has nothing to do with metal whatsoever, fitting more appropriately under jazz or progressive rock).

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome:
%% Their performance at the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGIK5qhjdb4 Golden Gods 2013 Award Show.]]
** Their final three shows in NYC. Highlights include playing ''Irony Is a Dead Scene'' in its entirety with Creator/MikePatton, bringing Dmitri out to do all of ''Under The Running Board'', Greg repeatedly jumping off of the second floor of the venue, and their final song being "Dissociation" with Seven Suns coming out to do strings. The band pulled out all the stops and gave it their all, bringing their career to an epic close

* FandomRivalry: With fellow Canadian mathcore band Ion Dissonance. It's all a matter of musical heaviness: ID fans say that TDEP is not heavy enough, while TDEP fans say that ID sacrifices too much musicianship to reach high levels of heaviness.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Their performance at the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGIK5qhjdb4 Golden Gods 2013 Award Show.]]
** Their final three shows in NYC. Highlights include playing Irony Is A Dead Scene in its entirety with Mike Patton, bringing Dmitri out to do all of Under The Running Board, Greg repeatedly jumping off of the second floor of the venue, and their final song was "Dissociation" with Seven Suns coming out to do strings. The band pulled out all the stops and gave it their all, bringing their career to an epic close
* EarWorm: Their cover of "[[Music/BlackSabbath Paranoid]]" almost certainly qualifies.

* BrokenBase: Fans are split between those who appreciate more or less everything they've recorded, and those who think everything they've done since the EP with MikePatton has been an artistic failure.

-->'''Pitchfork review:''' But sudden eruptions of emotive crooning feel out of place. The icky mix of cocktail piano and emo melodrama on "Widower" is a major offender. It's not just that the inevitable math-y freakout derails the song's sense of momentum. It's also that DEP's notion of what constitutes "pop" is so damn corny. Forget Music/FaithNoMore, the most frequent point of comparison. Without Creator/MikePatton's sense of the absurd to undercut the pomp, this shit sounds like Music/{{Foreigner}} with an affinity for blast beats. DEP don't need to worry about "softening up" or (gack) "selling out." They need to worry about the fact that 3/4ths of Option Paralysis is astounding and 1/4th is plain cringeworthy.

-->'''Music/{{Pitchfork}} review:''' But sudden eruptions of emotive crooning feel out of place. The icky mix of cocktail piano and emo melodrama on "Widower" is a major offender. It's not just that the inevitable math-y freakout derails the song's sense of momentum. It's also that DEP's notion of what constitutes "pop" is so damn corny. Forget Music/FaithNoMore, the most frequent point of comparison. Without Creator/MikePatton's sense of the absurd to undercut the pomp, this shit sounds like Music/{{Foreigner}} with an affinity for blast beats. DEP don't need to worry about "softening up" or (gack) "selling out." They need to worry about the fact that 3/4ths of Option Paralysis is astounding and 1/4th is plain cringeworthy.

* MagnumOpus: ''Calculating Infinity'' is generally considered this, or at least, it's the first and arguably the only full-length Dillinger album that ''all'' of their fans agree is good. It's also undeniably the most influential. The EP ''Irony Is a Dead Scene'' also sometimes gets this, because of the presence of Music/MikePatton (and it's probably worth pointing out that Greg Puciato's vocals, especially on the next two releases, were pretty obviously influenced by Patton). Professional critics, however, agree that ''One of Us Is the Killer'' is this together with ''Calculating Infinity''.
** MagnumOpusDissonance: ''Calculating Infinity'' also fell prey to this, partly due to a combination of CriticalDissonance (it wasn't really well-received when it first came out) and SeinfeldIsUnfunny (it has been copied ''so many times'' that almost no one would notice how groundbreaking the album was).

* MemeticSexGod: Greg Puciato, if him scoring with famed pornstar Jenna Haze is of any indication.

* NauseaFuel/NightmareFuel: The videos for "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeBFEanVsp4 When I Lost My Bet]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-FKM3eZTO8 One of Us Is the Killer]]", both by [[http://www.mitchmassie.com/ Mitch Massie]], feature violent, gory imagery and are quite horrific.

* NauseaFuel: The video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeBFEanVsp4 When I Lost My Bet.]]

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Fans were not pleased with the announcement that Greg Puciato was to be the band's full-time singer, especially given his "meathead" appearance and decidedly obnoxious persona, but he's gradually earned a lot of respect over the years.

** MagnumOpusDissonance: The abovementioned album also fell prey to this, partly due to a combination of CriticalDissonance (it wasn't really well-received when it first came out) and SeinfeldIsUnfunny (it has been copied ''so many times'' that almost no one would notice how groundbreaking the album was).

* MagnumOpus: ''Calculating Infinity'' is generally considered this, or at least, it's the first and arguably the only Dillinger album that ''all'' of their fans agree is good. It's also undeniably the most influential. Professional critics, however, agree that ''One Of Us Is the Killer'' is this together with ''Calculating Infinity''.

* MagnumOpus: ''Calculating Infinity'' is generally considered this, or at least, it's the first and arguably the only Dillinger album that ''all'' of their fans agree is good. It's also undeniably the most influential.

* SerialEscalation: Their live shows. Improvisational pyrotechnics (which have resulted in band members being set alight), singer defecating onstage, thousands of dollars' worth of instruments destroyed, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-lxwlgyhhA singer running across the audience's heads]], teeth getting knocked out and feet getting broken by flying guitars, [[http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Weinman-upside-down1.jpg guitarist playing parts of a song upside-down while hanging by his legs]], [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/The_Dillinger_Escape_Plan-1.jpg/518px-The_Dillinger_Escape_Plan-1.jpg singer doing likewise]], Greg Puciato ending up having a bleeding wound... the list goes on. Bassist Liam Wilson once jokingly dubbed the band "The Dillinger Insurance Plan" because of all the injuries the members have sustained and the massive amounts of property damage they have caused because of this.

* SignatureSong: "43% Burnt" for the Minakakis era, "Prancer" for the Puciato era.