What if you played Dream Theater backwards?

[Lucien]

This is what happens when you play the entire ALBUM 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) Scenes from Amnesia-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 Tree of All Goodness Dimension Without Intervals
14) Scoreless (or 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) Nightmare Cinema

[Jamesman42]

This is what happens when you play the entire ALBUM 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) Scenes from Amnesia-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 Tree of All Goodness
14) Scoreless (or 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) Nightmare Cinema

Which of their albums has 19 songs?

[ThatOneGuy2112]

18) A Comedic Series of Non-Events

inb4 that's ADTOE forwards

[Hourglass Prison]

Derek takes over for Jordan, and is then demoted to hired gun after one album. Then Jordan comes back, but only for one show.

[Grizz]

The vast majority of shows feature unreleased content.

[hefdaddy42]

They decide that Raise The Knife shouldn't be a song about a former manager and Kevin Moore, so they change it up a little, remove the lyrics and produce an instrumental called Showdown.

[chaossystem]

In response to jamesman42: you asked which of their albums had 19 songs on it? My list is actually a parody of ALL of their album TITLES, not (with the exception of "The Root of All Evil") individual songs. And it was supposed to be 20, not 19. So just to clarify the titles I was satirising are as follows:

1) When Dream and Day Unite-1989
2) Images and Words=1992
3) Live at the Marquee-1993
4) Awake-1994
5) A Change of Seasons-1995
6) Falling Into Infinity-1997
7) Once in a LiveTime-1998
8) Scenes from a Memory-1999
9) Live Scenes From New York-2001
10) Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence-2002
11) Train of Thought-2003
12) Live at Budokan-2004
13) Octavarium-2005
14) Score-2006
15) Systematic Chaos-2007
16) Chaos in Motion-2008
17) Black Clouds & Silver Linings-2009
18) A Dramatic Series of Events-2011
19) Live at Luna Park-2013
20) Dream Theater-2013

[Jamesman42]

Thank you for clarifying that. I figured you made a mistake in what you said, and your response has reassured me that you were talking about album titles, not song titles. I really do appreciate the response!!!

[TheGreatPretender]

Okay, I guess I understand the concept, but... I don't think I've ever seen anyone do something like that. I'd think a U turn would be more commonplace, no?

[commanderbob]

Illumination Theory becomes depressing as shit.

Always know
Always know
Always know
You'll always know
Always know
Always know

Until you breeze through the light's spark
You'll always know that you're not alive.
Apathy grows within your heart
Like a glacier cold as fright
On those hot and short daylights
You will always be alone
If you close both your eyes
And lose your trust in love
When you resist all forms of light
You can flee the brightest days
To really numb the hopelessness in life
You must relish all the pain

[TheGreatPretender]

Illumination Theory becomes depressing as shit.

Always know
Always know
Always know
You'll always know
Always know
Always know

Until you breeze through the light's spark
You'll always know that you're not alive.
Apathy grows within your heart
Like a glacier cold as fright
On those hot and short daylights
You will always be alone
If you close both your eyes
And lose your trust in love
When you resist all forms of light
You can flee the brightest days
To really numb the hopelessness in life
You must relish all the pain

Sounds like something Kevin Moore would write.

[GasparXR]

Their best album is STILL their 6th album.

Uhhh. backwards that's Train of Thought.

[XB0BX]

You forget who the reviving hand is

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Their best album is STILL their 6th album.

Uhhh. backwards that's Train of Thought.

Oh. Shit.

[TheGreatPretender]

I actually listened to DT backwards today. Weirdest shit ever!

[XB0BX]

You forget who the reviving hand is

EDIT:

i am the reviving HAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNDDD

[chaossystem]

I've got one for Octavarium! Since Musically it's a tribute to Genesis, and lyrically it's based on the the movie "Awakenings": Robin Williams discovers the cure for encephalitis while reading the Book of Revelation and listening to the band Exodus doing a cover of the Metallica song "The Four Horsemen!"

[SuperTaco]

Illumination Theory becomes depressing as shit.

Always know
Always know
Always know
You'll always know
Always know
Always know

Until you breeze through the light's spark
You'll always know that you're not alive.
Apathy grows within your heart
Like a glacier cold as fright
On those hot and short daylights
You will always be alone
If you close both your eyes
And lose your trust in love
When you resist all forms of light
You can flee the brightest days
To really numb the hopelessness in life
You must relish all the pain

That.... is actually really nice

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

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

Ouch!  Coz, say it isn't so.   

It's so.  Although, that's probably not fair.  Train of Thought and Octavarium, in particular, I didn't listen to very much.  They were starting to get away from the original Dream Theater that I fell in love with - I&W and Awake - and moving more into longer songs that were structured in such a way that they weren't holding my attention.  Contrast that with long songs from previously - Scarred is the longest song on Awake and it feels like it's over too soon.  Every second of that song has my attention.  Same with LtL and Metropolis from I&W.  I don't know what it was about ToT and 8vm, but they just didn't really grab me like others.

Now I will say that I initially didn't like M2SFAM.  When I first got it, I listened to it once and put it away. Never touched it again.  Didn't care for it at all.  About 8 years later, I joined up here, and continued to read about the love for the album and how, at the time it came out, MP and others continually referred to it as the album that really defined who DT is.  So with that I said "Maybe I was too harsh or short sighted".  I listened to it again.

It was like a completely brand new album that I'd never heard before and I was instantly in love with it.  I don't know what changed, but it was something.  I'm glad.

So with that, maybe I should give ToT and 8vm another chance.  I can't guarantee I'll have the same change of heart, but I suppose it can't hurt to try.

[bl5150]

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

Ouch!  Coz, say it isn't so.   

It's so.  Although, that's probably not fair.  Train of Thought and Octavarium, in particular, I didn't listen to very much.  They were starting to get away from the original Dream Theater that I fell in love with - I&W and Awake - and moving more into longer songs that were structured in such a way that they weren't holding my attention.  Contrast that with long songs from previously - Scarred is the longest song on Awake and it feels like it's over too soon.  Every second of that song has my attention.  Same with LtL and Metropolis from I&W.  I don't know what it was about ToT and 8vm, but they just didn't really grab me like others.

Now I will say that I initially didn't like M2SFAM.  When I first got it, I listened to it once and put it away. Never touched it again.  Didn't care for it at all.  About 8 years later, I joined up here, and continued to read about the love for the album and how, at the time it came out, MP and others continually referred to it as the album that really defined who DT is.  So with that I said "Maybe I was too harsh or short sighted".  I listened to it again.

It was like a completely brand new album that I'd never heard before and I was instantly in love with it.  I don't know what changed, but it was something.  I'm glad.

So with that, maybe I should give ToT and 8vm another chance.  I can't guarantee I'll have the same change of heart, but I suppose it can't hurt to try.

I can relate to almost every word of that.............except I still only listen to 3 songs off SFAM (Overture, Fatal Tragedy, Strange Deja Vu).  Listening to it "as an album/story" doesn't save the songs for my ears. 

[ThatOneGuy2112]

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

Ouch!  Coz, say it isn't so.   

It's so.  Although, that's probably not fair.  Train of Thought and Octavarium, in particular, I didn't listen to very much.  They were starting to get away from the original Dream Theater that I fell in love with - I&W and Awake - and moving more into longer songs that were structured in such a way that they weren't holding my attention.  Contrast that with long songs from previously - Scarred is the longest song on Awake and it feels like it's over too soon.  Every second of that song has my attention.  Same with LtL and Metropolis from I&W.  I don't know what it was about ToT and 8vm, but they just didn't really grab me like others.

Now I will say that I initially didn't like M2SFAM.  When I first got it, I listened to it once and put it away. Never touched it again.  Didn't care for it at all.  About 8 years later, I joined up here, and continued to read about the love for the album and how, at the time it came out, MP and others continually referred to it as the album that really defined who DT is.  So with that I said "Maybe I was too harsh or short sighted".  I listened to it again.

It was like a completely brand new album that I'd never heard before and I was instantly in love with it.  I don't know what changed, but it was something.  I'm glad.

So with that, maybe I should give ToT and 8vm another chance.  I can't guarantee I'll have the same change of heart, but I suppose it can't hurt to try.

I can relate to almost every word of that.............except I still only listen to 3 songs off SFAM (Overture, Fatal Tragedy, Strange Deja Vu).  Listening to it "as an album/story" doesn't save the songs for my ears. 

Back! Back to the controversial DT opinions thread with you! Back I say!

[TheCountOfNYC]

Burnt Cat.

[TheAtliator]

Mike Portnoy becomes decreasingly explicit toward his step father.

[TheAtliator]

You forget who the reviving hand is

[hefdaddy42]

Death is the last dance eternal.

[Grizz]

Eternal love, then deceit, then death, just like real life.

[TheGreatPretender]

Eternal love, then deceit, then death, just like real life.

Well that's depressing.