I didn't think there would be so many negative responses to this idea. I thought more people would want something like this. Especially after the way so many people have raved about how much they love When Dream and Day Reunite, and how great and wonderful most of you thought the second set of the Along for the Ride tour was.
-It seems that the word "arbitrary" got thrown around a lot, like I just pulled the numbers for these anniversary years out of my ass. The idea was to commemorate anniversaries only if they are divisible by five, starting with the album being at least ten years old. And let's not forget that the band celebrated the 15th anniversaries of BOTH of their first two albums by playing them in their entirety. I think they should have done it on the 10th and/or 20th anniversaries instead.
-I don't really have a "big four" best or favorite DT albums. I think there are strengths and weaknesses in ALL of them. So to say that only the "big 4" can be commemorated on any given anniversary is just as wrong as saying that EVERY album MUST be commemorated on it's 5TH anniversary, which is what some of you are at least implying that I am saying.
-I agree with Blob that the "Ride" set-list left a lot to be desired, and could have been a lot better. They should have picked a few songs each from Awake, SfaM, and WDaDU, since it 2014 was it's 25th anniversary as well, and mixed up the order instead of shoving the whole thing down our throats all at once. I would have kept Space-Dye Vest and Scarred, and maybe added a couple of other songs such as Voices and Innocence Faded, instead of ALL of the rest of "Side Two." As for SFaM, Did we REALLY need BOTH of the instrumentals from SAME album in the SAME encore? There are SO many ways they could have done the "SFaM 15th" better! Songs like Home, Fatal Tragedy and/or Beyond This Life, One Last Time, etc. You get the idea.