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"I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« on: July 11, 2012, 04:21:04 AM »
So, have you ever woken up at six o'clock to 6:00 (or a full Awake listen starting with 6:00) on a Christmas morning? Would you like to?

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2012, 04:37:23 AM »
I used to have a CD player with an alarm clock function, with an option to play whatever album's in the disc tray to wake you up.

The disc would generally change day to day, and the time week to week, but 25th December? 6AM on the alarm, Awake in the tray, every time. That drum fill is a brilliant wake-up at the best of times, it's so driven, but that music on a cold winter's morning... it's a wintry album anyway, but ohh, magical. Ace stuff.

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2012, 04:49:42 AM »
I don't like having music as wake up alarm, because I'll grow to hate those songs within a week. I always play 6:00 when I get home in the morning after partying all night though.   :hat


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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2012, 05:11:08 AM »
I don't like having music as wake up alarm, because I'll grow to hate those songs within a week.
This. Old phone ringing wakes me up and I hate that sound. Few weeks ago I heard that sound on TV and I had strange feeling :(
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2012, 05:25:28 AM »
I used to have a CD player with an alarm clock function, with an option to play whatever album's in the disc tray to wake you up.

The disc would generally change day to day, and the time week to week, but 25th December? 6AM on the alarm, Awake in the tray, every time. That drum fill is a brilliant wake-up at the best of times, it's so driven, but that music on a cold winter's morning... it's a wintry album anyway, but ohh, magical. Ace stuff.

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2012, 05:36:00 AM »
I need to do this.
I want to do it too, but as I share a room with my brother and sister, I'm going to have to do it with headphones. No dancing across the room in the early morning to Awake until I get older, sadly. Was just curious about you guys, and whether anyone is going to do it this year :)

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2012, 05:37:55 AM »
If I get round to getting an alarm clock...

...and find where my copy of Awake is, probably in my mother's car... Again.

Edit: this thread has now made me go and listen to Awake.
« Last Edit: July 11, 2012, 05:43:36 AM by Sketchy »
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2012, 05:55:39 AM »
I usually wake up at about 7 on Christmas morning, and that's brutal enough for me! :lol
I don't know what would be worse - being woken up at 6am, or having to endure SIX O CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING SIX A CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING SIX A CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING SIX O CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING. It's a cool song, but that intro..
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2012, 07:09:40 AM »
Edit: this thread has now made me go and listen to Awake.
Yay I did a good deed today then :)

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2012, 07:38:46 AM »
I set my alarm every year.

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2012, 07:49:59 AM »
Aye, that you did, Mora, that you most certainly did.

And now: for the first time in I don't know how long, I'm on a DT binge.
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2012, 08:45:01 AM »
Edit: this thread has now made me go and listen to Awake.
Yay I did a good deed today then :)

Yes, because Awake is amazing.
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2012, 09:47:36 AM »
I'm usually up before 6 on Christmas morning, but I have listened to that song at 6 before.
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2012, 09:51:07 AM »
I don't want to wake up that early on Christmas and besides, 6:00 is a great song for every day of the year.

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #14 on: July 11, 2012, 09:56:11 AM »
ive done it. immediately went back to sleep for a couple hours after, but ive done it

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #15 on: July 11, 2012, 09:58:57 AM »
I should clarify. By "set my alarm" I mean that I set my alarm to play 6:00 at 6am. I wake up, listen to the song while posting "6:00 on a Christmas morning" on all the social networking sites, then I go back to bed.

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2012, 10:03:08 AM »
I am not a morning person. I know it is Christmas, but with regards to 0600, in the words of Adrian Cronauer, the 0 stands for “Oh my god, it’s early!” The presents aren’t going anywhere.

I don't know what would be worse - being woken up at 6am, or having to endure SIX O CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING SIX A CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING SIX A CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING SIX O CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING. It's a cool song, but that intro..

This. If I woke up to that sample, my alarm clock would be defenestrated.
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #17 on: July 11, 2012, 10:03:45 AM »
Hey. I like that intro.

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #18 on: July 11, 2012, 10:49:29 AM »
I like it too. I'm going to do it this year, definitely, even if I can't dance across the goddamn room. Who's with me?

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2012, 10:51:33 AM »
I love the song, but there's no way in hell I'm waking up at 6:00 on Christmas. It's likely I'll be partying until 4 or 5.
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« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2012, 11:44:27 AM »
Yup. That song alone got me to change my sleeping habit from waking up at 10 to waking up at 6.
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2012, 11:54:58 AM »
I usually wake up every year at around 6:00am on Christmas anyway, before I ever heard a note of Dream Theater's music, so it's kind of a habit the band validated.  :lol
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #22 on: July 11, 2012, 12:25:07 PM »
Past few years I have had an alarm set on xmas to go off at 6am playing 6:00... I then send a text to my few DT head friends... and then pass out
I just don't understand what they were trying to achieve with any part of the song, either individually or as a whole. You know what? It's the Platypus of Dream Theater songs. That bill doesn't go with that tail, or that strange little furry body, or those webbed feet, and oh god why does it have venomous spurs!? And then you find out it lays eggs too. The difference is that the Platypus is somehow functional despite being a crazy mishmash or leftover animal pieces

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #23 on: July 11, 2012, 12:56:25 PM »
I usually wake up at about 7 on Christmas morning, and that's brutal enough for me! :lol
I don't know what would be worse - being woken up at 6am, or having to endure SIX O CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING SIX A CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING SIX A CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING SIX O CLOCK ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING. It's a cool song, but that intro..
And considering that I wouldn't want to be woken up at 6 am, the "And for what?" would be fitting.

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2012, 12:58:20 PM »
It's a cool song, but that intro..

...is a cool intro.

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2012, 12:59:34 PM »
It's a cool song, but that intro..

...is a cool intro.

GOSH DARNIT, THAT'S NOT HOW I WOULD HAVE FINISHED THAT SENTENCE AT ALL! :P


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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #26 on: July 11, 2012, 01:01:06 PM »
I much prefer these samples to the ones in Space-Dye Vest.
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #27 on: July 11, 2012, 02:09:48 PM »
I much prefer these samples to the ones in Space-Dye Vest.

Go. There's nothing wrong with the samples in Space-Dye Vest :(
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #28 on: July 11, 2012, 03:03:36 PM »
So, have you ever woken up at six o'clock to 6:00 (or a full Awake listen starting with 6:00) on a Christmas morning? Would you like to?

No.  2 reasons.

1.  I wake up at 5:30am on work days and after 8:00am on weekends.
2.  Christmas morning is like a weekend.

Besides, your mind isn't fully alert and that time of day.  The best time to listen to it would be between 8:30 & 10:30am.
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #29 on: July 11, 2012, 03:12:52 PM »
What if you listened to the first verse at 6:00am, and the second at 9:00am in your car?

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« Reply #30 on: July 11, 2012, 05:21:06 PM »
Planning on it! Just look below my picture  :P

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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #31 on: July 11, 2012, 06:19:41 PM »
ITT Blob shits on Awake for the 9,785th time.
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #32 on: July 11, 2012, 10:04:21 PM »
ITT Blob shits on Awake for the 9,785th time.

I'm so sorry for expressing an opinion. I'll be sure to call out everyone else for the billionth time they constantly shit on everything DT's done in the past decade. But god forbid I say something ever so marginally negative about Awake! If calling 6:00 a cool song is shitting on it, then that's pretty damn sad.
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Re: "I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane"
« Reply #33 on: July 12, 2012, 07:15:03 AM »
But god forbid I say something ever so marginally negative about Awake!


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