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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #35 on: July 30, 2014, 10:06:40 AM »
WDADU becomes their farewell album.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #36 on: July 30, 2014, 10:32:40 AM »
Their self-titled album becomes their first, thus making more sense than a lazy decision.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #37 on: July 30, 2014, 10:41:32 AM »
Illumination Theory becomes depressing as shit.

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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #38 on: July 30, 2014, 10:44:24 AM »
JP's family, stuck in a hospital, undergoes an emergency car crash to resume their normal lives.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #39 on: July 30, 2014, 10:47:51 AM »
JP's family, stuck in a hospital, undergoes an emergency car crash to resume their normal lives.

I'm pretty sure there's also now a divorce in there somewhere too.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #40 on: July 30, 2014, 10:54:36 AM »
That's OK, because survived everyone.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #41 on: July 30, 2014, 11:41:29 PM »
John Myung returns home from a depressing NYC trip.

God War.

Mike Portnoy becomes decreasingly explicit toward his step father.

Me, not You. (Sounds like glam metal).

Leaves fall, we lock the doors, make love, deception occurs...

Kevin Moore's friend finds love.

It was dry once they hit the swimming pool.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #42 on: July 30, 2014, 11:45:26 PM »
So then, would Moore run up to the bomb and defuse it?
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #43 on: July 31, 2014, 05:04:04 AM »
That's OK, because survived everyone.

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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #44 on: July 31, 2014, 05:29:28 AM »
Considering that DT is not a Satanic band (who's backward masking encourages worshiping Satan and doing drugs), I would imagine the messages in DT's backward lyrics include going to church and eating your vegetables!   :biggrin:

But they do that played forward
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #45 on: July 31, 2014, 12:13:16 PM »
The Dance of Eternity would still be all over the place.

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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #46 on: July 31, 2014, 12:23:21 PM »
 :omg: oh my fuck....


Reading this thread inspired me as a joke to listen to the entirety of the song " Octavarium " played backwards ( in Logic ).



Guys.....




It's STILL 24 minutes long even in reverse.  :o

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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #47 on: July 31, 2014, 12:27:32 PM »
Yet another one of those clever hidden nuggets DT put into that album. Amazing!
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #48 on: July 31, 2014, 12:29:43 PM »
Boggles my ( admittedly awesome ) brain how they managed to do that.

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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #49 on: July 31, 2014, 01:01:12 PM »
If I played Octavarium backwards, it would still be 24 minutes I'd wish I had back.

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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #50 on: July 31, 2014, 01:56:34 PM »
Illumination Theory becomes depressing as shit.

I thought IT already was.  :biggrin:

Dream Theater played backwards is Nightmare Cinema.  Everybody knows that.   :justjen


If I played Octavarium backwards, it would still be 24 minutes I'd wish I had back.

Ouch!  Coz, say it isn't so.   :(
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #51 on: July 31, 2014, 02:02:10 PM »
After you listen to ADTOE backwards, Mike Portnoy rejoins the band.

James LaBrie quits the band after their 11th album, Images and Words. He's replaced by Charlie Dominici, but it doesn't work out. Bizarrely, JLB quits at the absolute peak of his vocal powers.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #52 on: July 31, 2014, 02:19:45 PM »
They release Images & Words which Mangini points out has similarities to his album " A Dramatic Turn Of Events " but nobody cares because it's much better anyways.

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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #53 on: July 31, 2014, 02:47:04 PM »
Some Italian guy rambles about being sorry, which in turn freaks out another guy, who then goes home.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #54 on: July 31, 2014, 03:47:52 PM »
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #55 on: July 31, 2014, 03:50:02 PM »
Terrorists use burning planes to build two large towers in New York City.

...


Too far?
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #56 on: July 31, 2014, 04:21:06 PM »
Terrorists use burning planes to build two large towers in New York City.

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Two far?

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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #57 on: July 31, 2014, 04:34:25 PM »
Yeah, I realized that as soon as I posted. I was gonna change it, but eh... Lazy.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #58 on: July 31, 2014, 04:49:12 PM »
This is what happens when you play all of Their ALBUMS backwards:

1) When Nightmare and Evening Divide
2) Blind and Mute
3) Dead at the Marquee
4) Asleep
5) Seasons Never Change (or Stay the Same)
6) Rising Out of Oblivion (or Nothingness)
7) Never (or Forever) in a DeadTime
8) Sounds Best Forgotten-Victoria Never Died!
9) Dead Sounds From New York
10) Six (or Negative Six) Degrees of Outer Harmony
11) Hand-Cart of Thoughtlessness
12) Pre-Recorded at Budokan
I Couldn't THINK of one for "Octavarium, so "The Root of All Evil" becomes:
13) The Leaves of All Goodness
14) UnSCored
15) Disorderly Harmony
16) Harmony Comes to a Dead Stop
17) Silver Clouds with Black Linings
18) A Comedic Series of Non-Events
19) Phoned-in at Luna Park
20) Nightmare Cinema
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #59 on: July 31, 2014, 04:51:25 PM »
I Forgot one:

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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #60 on: July 31, 2014, 04:56:20 PM »
2) Blind and Mute
I Couldn't THINK of one for "Octavarium, so "The Root of All Evil" becomes:
13) The Tree of All Goodness
14) Scoreless (or UnScored)
15) Disorderly Harmony

2) I would use "Sounds and Gestures"

13) First of all, with Octavarium, the story ends where it began, so I think by that definition, it's still Octavarium backwards and forwards.  :lol

Also, that just made me think... "You're the rotted root of all evil in the family tree of all goodness!"

14) I would go with "Strike Out"  :lol



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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #61 on: July 31, 2014, 05:10:27 PM »
Man TGP.   We've gotten to the point of critiquing other posts in a fun thread?!  Go see the world man.  You spend more time than I do on a damn computer! :lol
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #62 on: July 31, 2014, 05:13:55 PM »
Man TGP.   We've gotten to the point of critiquing other posts in a fun thread?!  Go see the world man.  You spend more time than I do on a damn computer! :lol

Lol, Not critiquing, just sharing what my choices would be.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #63 on: July 31, 2014, 05:17:43 PM »
I know just razzing you.  As you can see I'm on as well! :lol  Waiting for the boss to get out of work.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #64 on: July 31, 2014, 05:21:22 PM »
Besides, I'm sleep deprived and tired. It's too early to go to bed, but getting me off my chair is an impossible task right now. Must post on DTF!
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #65 on: July 31, 2014, 05:28:08 PM »
 :tup
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.” - Bob Newhart
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #66 on: July 31, 2014, 05:41:25 PM »
Hey TGP, it's all right. Your input is welcome. especially since you're not taking it too serious, thank GOD! I've been sleep-deprived as well, and just made kind of a spontaneous decision to compose and post my little "backwards list," and not wanting to spend/waste too much time on it, I did the best I could.
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #67 on: July 31, 2014, 06:10:28 PM »
Dream Theater backwards = Serious business
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #68 on: July 31, 2014, 06:57:21 PM »
I Forgot one:

Phoned-in at Luna Park
but that's it forwards
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Re: What if you played Dream Theater backwards?
« Reply #69 on: July 31, 2014, 07:00:35 PM »
Dead at Solar Urban Development Project?
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