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DT15: A View From The Top Of The World (Timeline for DT15)

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evilasiojr

Quote from: devieira73 on July 23, 2021, 10:44:17 AM
IM - invisible monster.
Those glasses are the classic presentation of the Invisible Man.

I would say that's correct too.

It seems like there's a story telling here in the song titles, right? Perhaps the whole is based on the tale after all.

geeeemo

Quote from: geeeemo on July 23, 2021, 10:43:37 AM
Where did the icons come from?? Did I miss this in the video? I am pretty lame at this stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised.  :blush

NVM, I just looked at the DTWorld post again....like I said..... :blush

Lonk

I like some of the suggestions so far:

TA 09:32: The Alien
ATC 07:35: Answer The Call
IM 06:02: Invisible Monster/Man
SG 10:05: Sleeping Giant (A extended cover of Mastodon's song by the same name)
TT 6:25: Time Travel(er)
ATM 9:47: Alarm The Masses?
AVFTTOTW 20:24: A View from the Top of the World

The Letter M

Quote from: The Letter M on July 23, 2021, 10:17:03 AM
Alright. How can we match these -
👽🤙📞🕶🧟‍♂️💤💆🏻‍♂️🧍🏻‍♂️⌛️⏳⏰🚨🧛🏻‍♂️👁🧗‍♂️🌎
To these -
TA 09:32
ATC 07:35
IM 06:02
SG 10:05
TT 6:25
ATM 9:47
AVFTTOTW 20:24

-Marc.

👽 - TA - Terrestrial Aliens
🤙📞 - ATC - Answering The Call
🕶🧟‍♂️ - IM - Invisible Man
💤💆🏻‍♂️🧍🏻‍♂️- SG - Sleeping Giants
⌛️⏳⏰ - TT - Time Travelers
🚨🧛🏻‍♂️ - ATM - Alert The Master
👁🧗‍♂️🌎 - AVFTTOTW - A View From The Top Of The World

My guesses so far...

-Marc.

Trav

Quote from: The Letter M on July 23, 2021, 10:17:03 AM
Alright. How can we match these -
👽🤙📞🕶🧟‍♂️💤💆🏻‍♂️🧍🏻‍♂️⌛️⏳⏰🚨🧛🏻‍♂️👁🧗‍♂️🌎
To these -
TA 09:32
ATC 07:35
IM 06:02
SG 10:05
TT 6:25
ATM 9:47
AVFTTOTW 20:24

-Marc.

My guess
TA- The Alien
ATC- Answer the call. 🤙 looks like answer
IM- Invisible Monster
SG- S is sleeping. I don't see where they get Giant from. The phrase makes sense though.
TT- Time something. Time Traveler would make sense for the phrase.
ATM- Alarm something. I don't get the vampire emoji
A View From the Top of the World. Certain on that.

Edit. Just saw The Letter M's post with Alert the Master. Yeah, that makes sense. I hope it's not though. That's a dumb name for a song! 🤣

Revenge319

The "ATM" song is actually called "Alert the Master" and it's a sequel to In the Presence of Enemies, in which the Dark Master is alerted about... something. I'm not really sure why he's being alerted.  :o

Chino


gzarruk

Quote from: Revenge319 on July 23, 2021, 10:50:36 AM
I remember thinking some of the song titles on Distance Over Time were weird and unusual for what Dream Theater's song titles are usually like. If these emotes and song title guesses are anything to go by, this album could end up having even weirder names! Not that I consider it a bad thing, it just might take some getting used to them.

Nothing weirder than "Barstool Warrior" imo :rollin

MirrorMask

Quote from: gzarruk on July 23, 2021, 11:05:54 AM
Quote from: Revenge319 on July 23, 2021, 10:50:36 AM
I remember thinking some of the song titles on Distance Over Time were weird and unusual for what Dream Theater's song titles are usually like. If these emotes and song title guesses are anything to go by, this album could end up having even weirder names! Not that I consider it a bad thing, it just might take some getting used to them.

Nothing weirder than "Barstool Warrior" imo :rollin

Barstool Warrior is the classic title that, in a supposedly leaked tracklist, would make you call bullshit, "no way DT would make a song with that title"  :lol

devieira73


JRuless

As I said before, from the images it looks like a part of the album is about Tom Thumb & The Sleeping Giant

jonny108

Dream Theater - View from the Top of the World

1. The Alien - 9:32
2. Answer the Call - 7:35
3. Invisible Monster - 6:02
4. Sleeping Giant - 10:05
5. The Times - 6:25
6. Alert the Masses - 9:47
7. A View from the Top of the World - 20:24

JRuless

Can the vampire be related to Moon: Awaiting The Moon?

Dream Theater - View from the Top of the World

1. The Alien - 9:32
2. Answer the Call - 7:35
3. Invisible Monster - 6:02
4. Sleeping Giant - 10:05
5. Tom Thumb - 6:25
6. Awaiting The Moon - 9:47
7. A View from the Top of the World - 20:24

devieira73

The sand in the hourglass is rising, so I bet on TT- Time Traveler (there's a man at left);)

Another_Won

Here are the direct emoji translations.  Looks like some of them are slightly changed from the originals.  Are emoji sets specific to languages?
👽Alien
🤙Call Me
📞Telephone Receiver
🕶Sunglasses
🧟‍♂️Zombie
💤Sleeping
💆🏻‍♂️Massage
🧍🏻‍♂️Man Standing
⌛️Hourglass Empty
⏳Hourglass Full
⏰Alarm Clock
🚨Police Car Light
🧛🏻‍♂️Vampire
👁Eyes/View
🧗‍♂️Man Climbing/Mountain Climbing
🌎World

Dedalus


CirclesSquared

Quote from: Dedalus on July 23, 2021, 11:53:49 AM
1 second of drums

Dream Theater fan: I didn't like it.

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Some things never change, don't they?

Drums isolated from the rest of the album's audio, even.

Metro

TT - Time Traveler or TikTok Tick Tock

ATM - Awaken the Monster
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Mladen

I absolutely knew we were gonna raise hell over the drum sound in the second long snippet.  :rollin

Another_Won

Quote from: MustActFastToCoverUp on July 23, 2021, 10:34:34 AM
Most important: will they sell these red plastic look-through-thingies from the videos? I need one of those.

They are called "View-Master" and the inserts are "reels".  I had one when I was a kid. They were very cool.  I would TOTALLY buy the DT ViewMaster!

Another_Won

Quote from: jonny108 on July 23, 2021, 11:19:52 AM
Dream Theater - View from the Top of the World

1. The Alien - 9:32
2. Answer the Call - 7:35
3. Invisible Monster - 6:02
4. Sleeping Giant - 10:05
5. The Times - 6:25
6. Alert the Masses - 9:47
7. A View from the Top of the World - 20:24
I think this is the one.  Maybe something different for TT though, someone mentioned "Time Traveler"

fadetoblackdude7

I wonder if lyric duties were split up relatively even this time like on DoT or if JP did most of them again?

emtee

If the epic is A View From The Top Of The World, I wonder if there will be tie-ins to Pale Blue Dot?

geeeemo

Quote from: Another_Won on July 23, 2021, 12:41:03 PM
Quote from: MustActFastToCoverUp on July 23, 2021, 10:34:34 AM
Most important: will they sell these red plastic look-through-thingies from the videos? I need one of those.

They are called "View-Master" and the inserts are "reels".  I had one when I was a kid. They were very cool.  I would TOTALLY buy the DT ViewMaster!

Oh ya, so would I.  Can you imagine the possibilities here? I dare say, it could even be More cool than when I was a kid!

gzarruk

Quote from: fadetoblackdude7 on July 23, 2021, 12:56:13 PM
I wonder if lyric duties were split up relatively even this time like on DoT or if JP did most of them again?

I remember an interview (or short video) very early in the year where Jordan said "the guys are writing lyrics now". I expect to see lyric credits by all the other 4 members, just like last time :tup


lightbug

So SG has to be Sleeping Giant after all (the emoji makes no sense). In the first video you can clearly see a giant sleeping:

Trav

So how are you guys coming up with Alert the Masses.
I get the alert. But, how do you get "masses" from the vampire?

Ben_Jamin

Quote from: The Letter M on July 23, 2021, 10:17:03 AM
Alright. How can we match these -
👽🤙📞🕶🧟‍♂️💤💆🏻‍♂️🧍🏻‍♂️⌛️⏳⏰🚨🧛🏻‍♂️👁🧗‍♂️🌎
To these -
TA 09:32
ATC 07:35
IM 06:02
SG 10:05
TT 6:25
ATM 9:47
AVFTTOTW 20:24

-Marc.

TA: The Apparition
ATC: Answer The Call
TT: Time Traffic

Madman Shepherd

Quote from: CirclesSquared on July 23, 2021, 11:58:03 AM
Quote from: Dedalus on July 23, 2021, 11:53:49 AM
1 second of drums

Dream Theater fan: I didn't like it.

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Some things never change, don't they?

Drums isolated from the rest of the album's audio, even.

I think it was a joke. God, I hope it was. Green font shouldn't be necessary for all jokes. Kinda ruins it actually.

T-ski

This may have been answered already, but why is this being promoted on Dream Theater World instead of the official Dream Theater page? I've never heard of the Dream Theater World page before.

Seems a bit odd.

DreamerTV

Quote from: T-ski on July 23, 2021, 01:50:47 PM
This may have been answered already, but why is this being promoted on Dream Theater World instead of the official Dream Theater page? I've never heard of the Dream Theater World page before.

Seems a bit odd.


Dream Theater World is the official DT fanclub, which is run by Noxon.
As it happened with DOT, he's involved in these "Games", and i guess is mutual interest to give the page a little extra exposure.

YouMakeMeSick

Maybe TA is not as literal as the emoji and it stands for "The Abduction" or "The Arrival", etc... I'm getting super pumped about this album.

gzarruk

Quote from: DreamerTV on July 23, 2021, 01:59:57 PM
Quote from: T-ski on July 23, 2021, 01:50:47 PM
This may have been answered already, but why is this being promoted on Dream Theater World instead of the official Dream Theater page? I've never heard of the Dream Theater World page before.

Seems a bit odd.


Dream Theater World is the official DT fanclub, which is run by Noxon.
As it happened with DOT, he's involved in these "Games", and i guess is mutual interest to give the page a little extra exposure.

All of this + the fact that this way they can tease and reveal stuff to us without making "official" announcements that need to be run by/with the label and their promotion schedule.

devieira73

Quote from: YouMakeMeSick on July 23, 2021, 02:13:09 PM
Maybe TA is not as literal as the emoji and it stands for "The Abduction" or "The Arrival", etc... I'm getting super pumped about this album.
The Arrival was a very original movie about aliens and very deep.