Dream Theater Create-a-Setlist Game

[ReaPsTA]

The Setup

Lots of threads suggest you create a dream setlist of some kind.  Maybe it's epic, maybe it's really long, or maybe it's supposed to be intentionally bad.  Because I love to do the same things as other people (he said without irony), I present yet another thread where you make up a setlist, but with a twist.

The basic premise is simple, choose at most three Dream Theater studio albums to draw the songs from (or the closet, see below).  Did you always want to imagine a DT concert that begins with A Nightmare to Remember (BCSL), closes out the first set with The Spirit Carries on (SFAM), ends the second set with Octavarium (8vm), and has Metropolis (I&W) as the encore?  Well too bad, this thread clearly isn't for you, because those songs come from four different albums.

You might be asking an obvious question now:  "What if I want to put Raw Dog into my set?  Since it's not on any of the studio albums, does that mean I can't?"  Er...oh... wait, I'm still the only one who likes Raw Dog?  Okay, well some of you probably want to use ACOS, right?  Okay, now I have your attention back.  All the songs not on the main ten DT studio albums are in another group I'm calling "The Closet":

A Change of Seasons
You Or Me
Don't Look Past Me
To Live Forever
Eve
Raise the Knife
Where Are You Now
The Way it Used to Be
Cover My Eyes
Speak to Me
Raw Dog
Another Won
Your Majesty
A Vision
Two Far
Vital Star
March of the Tyrant

The Closet presents a conundrum.  Most of the songs are at least semi-obscure, but you have so many choices.  What is one to do?  You decide!

Other rules:

- 2 hour 40 minute max running time.  Basically this is a three hour show with 20 minutes of intermission.

- You can use live or demo versions of any song from any album you choose.  So, for example, if you choose FII as one of your albums; you can use the Budokan Hollow Years, or the Making of FII TAMP.  But not Raise the Knife, because that's in The Closet.

My Concert

Albums:
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Falling Into Infinity
Images and Words

Set 1
The Glass Prison
The Great Debate
Hollow Years (Budokan length)/
War Inside My Head/
The Test that Stumped Them All
Surrounded
Just Let Me Breathe
Trial of Tears

Set 2
New Millennium
Under a Glass Moon
Peruvian Skies
Hell's Kitchen/
Lines in the Sand (Chaos in Motion version)
Misunderstood (Truncated outro)
Disappear
Take the Time

Encore
Wait for Sleep (with extended intro)
Learning to Live (with extended middle jam)

FOCUS:  Come up with your own setlist using only three albums.  Or, talk about the ones already in the thread.

[skydivingninja]

Cool idea Reap!

Albums:
Falling Into Infinity
Images and Words
Octavarium

Set 1 (About 1:15)
New Millennium
These Walls
Just Let Me Breathe
Hollow Years (Extended)
Under a Glass Moon
Surrounded '07
Hell's Kitchen
Lines in the Sand

Set 2 (about 1:00)
Trial of Tears
I Walk Beside You
Peruvian Skies
Sacrificed Sons
Octavarium

Encore: (about 14 minutes)
Wait for Sleep
Learning to Live

My original plan was to have Sacrificed Sons close the first set and Trial of Tears close out the second and forget Octavarium as a challenge, but I couldn't do that to myself 

[TAC]

I&W
Scenes From A Memory
Awake

Set 1
Regression
Overture 1928
Strange Deja Vu
Under A Glass Moon
Erotomania
Voices
The Silent Man
Surrounded
Space Vest

Set 2
Metropolis Pt1
Through My Words
Fatal Tragedy
Scarred
Raise The Knife (Score version)
Take The Time
Finally Free

Encore 1
The Spirit Carries On

Encore 2
Wait For Sleep
Learning To Live

[Jamesman42]

Albums:

Images and Words
SDOIT
8VM

Set 1:

The Glass Prison
Panic Attack
Take the Time (at this point, they should be warmed up)
Eve
Misunderstood
Surrounded
The Great Debate
Learning to Live

Set 2:

Wait for Sleep (ending is a very short solo on the left side of the keyboard into the low F of TROAE)
The Root of All Evil
About to Crash
War Inside My Head
The Test That Stumped Them All
These Walls
Solitary Shell
About to Crash (Reprise)
Losing Time/Grand Finale


Encore:

Octavarium
Metropolis

Around 2 hours and 40 minutes I believe.

[Ben_Jamin]

Is the closet counted as an album?

[ricky]

the big nasty's orgasm of greatness

albums - six images awake

set 1
pmu
uagm
mind beside
blind faith


set 2
scarred
ttt
solitary
surrounded
6:00
ciaw
SPACE DYE VEST <3


encore metropolis

i didn't check for time, so yeah. i don't really like the fact you are restricted to three albums but it's all good




edit oops i put blind faith twice. ill throw in ttt instead.

[Jamesman42]

Wow, that yellow is horrible. I use the Lite theme, though.

[ricky]

Wow, that yellow is horrible. I use the Lite theme, though.

i tried lime green, but yellow was brighter. i liked the lime green, too.

edit

[tjanuranus]

Albums
Images
Awake
Octavarium

Set 1

Root of All Evil
Panic Attack
Pull Me Under
Under A Glass Moon
Erotomania
Voices
Lifting Shadows off A Dream
Innocence Faded
Take The Time
Learning To Live

Set 2

Scarred
These Walls
Surrounded
Wait For Sleep
6:00
The Mirror
Lie
Octavarium
Metropolis part 1.

Both Sets are 1.3 hours.

[monk]

Albums
8vm
Awake
BC&SL

Set 1
Octavarium - I Someone Like Him
Caught in a Web
Wither
Best of Times
Octavarium - Medicate

Set 2
Octavarium - Full Circle
A Nightmare to Remember
Panic Attack
The Mirror w/ reprise
The Root of All Evil
Octavarium - Intervals

Encore
The Count of Tuscany w/ Razor's Edge Intro

[Ħ]

Albums
Scenes From a Memory
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Octavarium

Set 1 [74 minutes]
Regression
Overture 1928
Strange Deja Vu
Blind Faith
Disappear
Octavarium: I. Someone Like Him (4:22-8:45)
Through My Words
Fatal Tragedy
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: VI. Solitary Shell
Beyond This Life
Misunderstood
Octavarium: II. Medicate (Awakening) (8:45-12:16)
Through Her Eyes

INTERMISSION [20 minutes]

Set 2 [67 minutes]
The Root of All Evil
Home (PN09 Edit, start at 1:44)
The Dance of Eternity
One Last Time
These Walls
Panic Attack
The Answer Lies Within
The Spirit Carries On
Finally Free
Octavarium: V. Razor's Edge (19:54-24:00)

Encore [14 minutes]
The Glass Prison

[180 total minutes]

Apologies to light-theme users.

[wolfking]

Albums
Train of Thought
Octavarium
Awake

Set 1
As I Am
This Dying Soul
The Mirror
Lie
These Walls
Caught in a Web
Innocence Faded
Endless Sacrifice

Approx - 62 min

Set 2
6:00
Honor Thy Father
I Walk Beside You
Erotomania
The Root of All Evil
Lifting Shadows off A Dream
Scarred
In The Name of God

Approx - 65 min

Encore
Octavarium

Approx - 25 minutes

Approx Total = 2.5 hours.

[Ben_Jamin]

Albums:
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
The Closet

Set 1:
A Nightmare To Remember
Blind Faith
Wither
Don't Look Past Me
A Rite of Passage
The Great Debate

Set 2:
To Live Forever
Goodnight Kiss
Solitary Shell
About To Crash(Reprise)
Losing Time/Grand Finale
Eve
The Best of Times

Encore:
A Change of Seasons

2nd Encore:
The Count of Tuscany

[Zantera]

Sounds like a cool idea, I'll give it a go!  

Albums:
Awake
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Images & Words

First set: (~60 mins)
1. Under a Glass Moon
2. The Mirror
3. Lie
4. Space Dye-Vest
5. War Inside My Head
6. The Test That Stumped Them All
7. Scarred
8. Wait For Sleep
9. Learning to Live

Second set: (~60 mins)
1. Caught In a Web
2. Innocence Faded
3. Misunderstood
4. Pull Me Under
5. Erotomania
6. Voices
7. The Silent Man
8. The Great Debate

Encores: (~23 mins)
1. 6.00
2. Metropolis
3. Disappear 

Something like that.  

[wasteland]

Albums: Scenes, SDOIT; Images

Set 1
Metropolis Pt.1
Blind Faith
Surrounded
Beyond This Life (with 2004 Jam)
Through Her Eyes
Take The Time
Disappear
Finally Free

Set 2
Overture
About To Crash
Under A Glass Moon
War Inside My Head
The Test That Stumped Them All
The Dance Of Eternity
One Last Time
Goodnight Kiss
Home (w/out last chord)
About To Crash (Reprise)
Losing Time / Grand Finale

Encore
(The Spirit Carries On) / (Wait For Sleep)
Learning To Live

The second set is supposed to be played as a whole (I was a bit inspired by the standard setlist of the DT-YES tour), as I tried to match songs that could flow into each others. I would love to see the transition from TTTSTA and TDOE, or from Home to ATC(R).

[JayOctavarium]

I love the idea of splitting 8vrm.

Im gonna have to think on this one

[wasteland]

I love the idea of splitting 8vrm.

Im gonna have to think on this one

Me too. It has been with ACOS (with rather poor results IMO), with SDOIT (and went much better). The time has come to cut Octavarium into little pieces 

[tri.ad]

I really like this idea, Reap. I guess I'm going with Images And Words, Awake and SDOIT. However, I'll have to think about the songs a bit. I'll check back later.

[Lotion]

I&W, Awake & BCSL

A Nightmare to Remember
Caught in A Web
Under A Glass Moon
Wither
Erotomania
Voices
A Silent Man
Pull Me Under
Surrounded
Wait For Sleep
Learning to Live
----------------
Another Day
Space Dye Vest
Scarred
The Mirror
Lie
Take The Time
Lifting Shadows of a Dream

Encore
---------------
The Count of Tuscany
Metropolis

[?]

I&W, Awake and Scenes

Set 1:
Scenes in its entirety

Set 2:
Metropolis Pt. 1
The Mirror
Lie
A Mind Beside Itself
Scarred

Encore 1:
Take the Time

Encore 2:
Wait for Sleep
Learning to Live

[Lotion]

I&W, Awake and Scenes

Set 1:
Scenes in its entirety

Set 2:
Metropolis Pt. 1
The Mirror
Lie
A Mind Beside Itself
Scarred

Encore 1:
Take the Time

Encore 2:
Wait for Sleep
Learning to Live

you must have loved LSFNY

[ResultsMayVary]

Albums
Awake
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Octavarium

Setlist 1
The Glass Prison
Panic Attack
Lifting Shadows Off A Dream
Disappear
The Answer Lies Within
The Mirror
Lie
Caught In A Web
Scarred

Setlist 2
The Root of All Evil
I Walk Beside You
Blind Faith
Innocence Faded
The Great Debate
Erotomania
Voices
The Silent Man

Encore
These Walls
Octavarium

[Dream Team]

My albums: I & W, SFAM, 6DOiT

Set 1:
Metropolis
Surrounded
Overture 1928
Strange Deja-Vu
Through My Words
Fatal Tragedy
Beyond This Life
The Great Debate
Home

Set 2:
Under a Glass Moon
Blind Faith
Disappear
The Dance of Eternity
One Last Time
The Spirit Carries On
Finally Free
The Glass Prison

Encore:
Wait for Sleep
Learning to Live

[skydivingninja]

I'm pleasantly surprised there are lots of people picking Octavarium...but Reap and I are still the only ones to pick FII?

[Mladen]

I'll go with When dream and day unite, Images and words and Awake, because I kinda wanted to have a concept. Since Iron Maiden did ''The Early days'' tour, here's my take on what the setlist would look like if Dream Theater ever decides to go on a similar tour.

1. Pull me under
2. A Fortune in lies
3. Caught in a web
4. Lifting shadows of a dream
5. Afterlife
6. Light fuse and get away
7. Under a glass moon
8. Scarred
9. Only a matter of time
10. Erotomania
11. Voices
12. The Silent man
13. Wait for sleep
14. Learning to live
- - - - -
15. Metropolis

[wasteland]

My second shot, this time using the most obscure material:

FII, WDADU, The Closet

A Fortune In Lies
Another Won
Lines In The Sand
Afterlife
Where Are You Now?
Peruvian Skies
Speak To Me
Only A Matter Of Time

The Killing Hand (96- version)
Don't Look Past Me (!!)
You Or Me
Hollow Years (budokan onwards version)
The Ytse Jam
To Live Forever (outro Jam)
Status Seeker
Cover My Eyes
Raise The Knife
Eve
Trial Of Tears

A Change Of Seasons


Would you like that?

[Global Laziness]

Similar to Mladen's "Early Days" set, but without When Dream and Day Unite. My setlist uses songs from Awake, Images and Words, and "The Closet".

First Set (77:04):
1) Metropolis - 9:34
2) Don't Look Past Me - 6:24
3) The Mirror - 6:44
4) Lie - 6:33
5) To Live Forever (Extended Outro) - 12:19
6) Under a Glass Moon - 7:05
7) Speak to Me - 6:10
8) Lifting Shadows Off a Dream - 6:04
9) Scarred - 11:00
10) Eve - 5:11

Second Set (52:22):
11) Take the Time (Extended Outro)- 11:52
12) Jordan Rudess Keyboard Solo - 4:45
13) Erotomania - 6:43
14) Voices - 9:53
15) The Silent Man (Electric) - 5:09
16) Wait for Sleep - 2:30
17) Learning to Live - 11:30

Encore (23:07):
18) A Change of Seasons - 23:07

Total Time: 152:33

[ReaPsTA]

Two uses of The Closet in a row.  Very nice.

[Global Laziness]

Two uses of The Closet in a row.  Very nice.

I happen to really like The Closet. Or at least, I like A Change of Seasons, the Images and Words sessions songs, and Speak to Me. There's a big drop-off after those songs.

[John94]

Albums

Black Clouds
Train of Thought
Falling Into Infinity

Setlist One

1. A Nightmare to Remember
2. A Rite of Passage
3. Stream of Consciousness
4. Wither
5. Hollow Years (extended but goes into LitS)
6. Lines in the Sand
7. Peruvian Skies
8. Just Let Me Breathe (outro into a crazy vocal and band improve with James tailing off at the end of "Breatthhhe..")

Setlist Two

1. New Millenium
2. Anna Lee
3. Vacant
4. Hell's Kitchen (segways into next song)
5. As I Am

Setlist Three

1. Trial of Tears
2. In the Name of God
3. The Count of Tuscany

[Global Laziness]

Hollow Years segues into Lines in the Sand? Hell's Kitchen segues into As I Am? 

[Ben_Jamin]

I'm realy enjoying my set a lot. Can you handle the emotion at the end?

[wasteland]

Hollow Years segues into Lines in the Sand? Hell's Kitchen segues into As I Am? 

That would almost be as weird as Wait For Sleep flowing into This Dying Soul 

[The Presence of Frenemies]

Damn! This is tough!

The biggest difficulty with it is that you have to use basically 50+ mins from each album you choose. That means that, for me, stuff like Octavarium can't work, because I'm not a big fan of the rest of the album beyond the title track. Also rules out FII, BCSL, and WDADU for me right off the bat. ToT doesn't have much to choose from either, esp. since JP tends to screw up the Endless Sacrifice solos live, and I wouldn't want to see that. I'm not a huge Awake fanboy either, so that's out

So I guess I'm going Images...Scenes...and either Six Degrees or SC. Guess I'll go with 6DOIT, because the two songs I'd take from there are the title track and TGP, whereas with SC, I'd take ITPOE and TMOLS. With ITPOE and TMOLS, they both scream "Set 2" to me, and it would suck to just alternate between Images and Scenes songs for an entire set. Plus, the 6DOIT songs take up more time.

Set 1:
Metropolis (approx. 9 min)
Fatal Tragedy (7)
Another Day (5)
The Glass Prison (13)
Under A Glass Moon (8)
Beyond This Life--LaB version (20)
Take The Time (extended JP solo) (13)

Intermission

Set 2:
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (42)
Home (12)
Pull Me Under (original demo version with Erotomania in the middle, just for variety) (10)
The Spirit Carries On (7)

Encore: Learning to Live (12)

[krands85]

Cool game, I love things like this 

Album choices are quite easy for me:
Images and Words
Train of Thought
Octavarium

I managed to get the running time down to 2hours44 minutes without losing anything too vital, but if the 2hour40m limit is strict, then it's a bit tougher. I wanted to have I&W in it's entirety, but I guess I've got to remove 1 song to get it below 2hr40. Plus that allows me to play around with the position of I&W songs, rather than having it flow like on the album version.

Set 1:
1.The Root of All Evil
2.Panic Attack
3.Pull Me Under
4.Endless Sacrifice
5.Another Day
6.Stream of Consciousness
7.In the Name of God
8.Wait for Sleep
9.Learning to Live


~~~~~Intermission~~~~~

Set 2:
10.As I Am
11.This Dying Soul
12.Under a Glass Moon
13.Sacrificed Sons
14.Take the Time

Encore:
15.Octavarium

Encore 2:
16.Metropolis Part 1

Total length:
2hours39m (Start to intermission - 1hour20m. Beginning of second set to end - 1hour19m.)

Images and Words - 7 songs - 51m
Train of Thought - 5 songs - 56m
Octavarium - 4 songs - 51m