What if you played Dream Theater backwards?

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

You know the old joke about how if you play a country music album backwards, you get your woman back and you get your house back and you get your truck back, etc.  Well, it got me to thinking - what happens if you played Dream Theater backwards?

[Tick]

If you play Dream Theater backwards it becomes a 4, 4 time signature! Its pure evil!

[Mindflux]

You get story about not being trapped in the Octavarium.

[ZKX-2099]

Learning To Live backwards cured my AIDS.

[TAC]

Words And Images.

[ZKX-2099]

A Dramatic J-turn of Events

[rumborak]

First a noticeable step down in drumming skill, then later it gets awesome. And at some point some guy is open again.

[Cool Chris]

The vice on the lead singer's testicles gets tightened.

[The Letter M]

"Why does my copy of 'Pull Me Under' begin so suddenly?"

-Marc.

[TheGreatPretender]

A Dramatic J-turn of Events

You mean a U turn? Or is it calle a J turn where you're from?


Umm... If you play DT backwards, you'd get such great songs as:

Maj esty
The Birthing Foot
Push Me Over
The Babbling Woman (aren't they all? Am I right, fellas?)
Truth
Me Not You
Freezing My Body
Heaven's Washroom
Underture 8291
Understood
Appear
Dishonor Thy Mother
Occupied
In The Name Of Science
The Question Stands Outside
I Stand Far Away From You
Always Too Much
In The Absence of Friends
Occasional Inertia
Bloom
On The Bellies of Demons
Break Me Down, Build Me Up
Found Not Remembered
Tunnels Under Ground
Close To Hell
Above The Depths
True Slumber Suite
The Friend Outside
Thumbnail
Behind The Loin Cloth

Among others!

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

It would be the proggiest music ever.

[Lucien]

In The Name Of Science

[rumborak]

I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet:

If you play DT backwards, you get the backwards Backwards song!

[King Postwhore]

A Palindrome.






Or a Larch.

[SuperTaco]

Dishonor Thy Mother
In The Name Of Science
I Stand Far Away From You
Found Not Remembered
Close To Hell

Among others!

Those are my favorites xD So much lol

If you play DT backwards, JLB seems to deteriorate, until he miraculously discovers food that heals his voice before the "Asleep" album. They also change singers when he's at his best.

[Setlist Scotty]

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!   

[Sir Walrus Cauliflower]

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!   

But they do that played forward

[Grizz]

The guitar solo in Misunderstood sounds normal.

The story begins where it ended.

A hypnotherapist brings a patient to life, just as he did in a previous life in 1928, but this patient gradually forgets about that.

Edward brings Victoria to life, who gets together with Julian, then splits up, fucks Edward, and gets back together with Julian all amidst their marriage and Julian's spiral into alcoholism.

Mike Portnoy spirals into a descent of drug use and alcoholism.

This happens, and then he changes his name to Kevin.

John Petrucci is rushed out of the hospital, gets into a car crash as the other driver did not ever see the red light, and then goes to a wedding.

The lights turn off.

[Mosh]

JLB leaves Dream Theater after 11 studio albums and is replaced by some UFO watching guy. The results are not good.

[Jamesman42]

you become an alcoholic over the course of 5 albums

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Their best album is STILL their 6th album.

[JiM-Xtreme]

The band's original name is Ytse Jam, and they have a song on their first album called Majesty 

[Zyzzyva17]

At some point, the previously bald keyboardist miraculously grows a full head of hair.

[Onno]

A Palindrome.






Or a Larch.

[puppyonacid]

John Myungs input culminates in him feeling "kinda spooky"

[?]

A Palindrome.

What about anagrams?

Retreated Ham is the best one

[Zydar]

A Palindrome.

What about anagrams?

Retreated Ham is the best one

A Hatred Meter

[YtseJamittaja]

Well, You get a few seconds of metropolis pt.1 if you play TDOE backwards....

[hefdaddy42]

Chris Collins.

[YtseJamittaja]

Mike Portnoy left the band first because of musical differences.

[ZKX-2099]

A Dramatic J-turn of Events

You mean a U turn? Or is it calle a J turn where you're from?

[Lucien]

Mike Portnoy Mangini left the band first because of musical differences.

[YtseJamittaja]

^^ My mistake! 

[vtgrad]

A Palindrome.

What about anagrams?

Retreated Ham is the best one

A Hatred Meter

How about "Reamed Threat" or "Retard Ate Hem" ?

[KevShmev]

Metropolis Part 1 becomes a prequel.