I started Friday I think. I listen to multiple albums per day. For example, I had no school yesterday so I did Once in a Livetime, Metropolis, Scenes from New York, and Six Degrees. Today I only did ToT and Budokan. Tomorrow is Octavrarium and Score. Thursday will be Systematic Chaos and the DVD that comes with it. Friday will be Black Clouds. And perfect timing because Saturday is A Dramatic Turn of Events.
Nice. I did something like that back before the release of BC&SL, but it included every officially released CD and DVD, including YtseJam Records stuff too, all in chronological order.
I figured it would be way too much for me to try and fit all that in with my hectic work schedule this year, but maybe for DT12 I will do the massive marathon again. Here's what I did last time, for the curious (plus a few new things that have come out since BC&SL and things I've added):
- 1985-1989
-The Majesty Demos
-When Dream And Day Unite
-When Dream And Day Reunite (DVD and CD) [Overnight Listening]
- 1991-1993
-Images And Words Demos
-Images And Words (plus "To Live Forever '91" and "Don't Look Past Me")
-Live At The Marquee
-New York City, NY 3/4/93 [Overnight Listening]
-Images And Words: Live In Tokyo DVD
-Taste The Memories
-Images And Words Live: 15th Anniversary
- 1994-1995
-Awake Demos
-Awake (plus "To Live Forever '94" and "Eve")
-A Change Of Seasons EP
-Tokyo, Japan 10/28/95 [Overnight Listening]
- 1996-1998
-Old Bridge, NJ 12/14/96 [Overnight Listening]
-Falling Into Infinity Demos
-The Making of Falling Into Infinity
-Falling Into Infinity (w/Cleaning Out The Closet)
-Los Angeles, CA 5/18/98
-Once In A LIVEtime
-Once In A LIVEtime Outtakes
-Five Years In A LIVEtime DVD
- 1999-2001
-The Making of Scenes From A Memory: Behind The Scenes & Alternate Mixes
-Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
-Live Scenes From New York (DVD and 3CD) [Overnight Listening]
-Through Her Eyes (Single)
-Scenes From A World Tour
- 2002
-Ten Degrees of Turbulent Drumming
-Four Degrees of Radio Edits
-Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence [Overnight Listening]
-Bucharest, Romania 7/4/02 DVD
-Graspop Festival 2002
-Uncovered: 2003-2005 (Live Covers)
- 2003-2004
-Drums of Thought
-Train of Thought Instrumental Demos
-The Making of Train of Thought (videos)
-Train of Thought
-Live At Budokan (2DVD and 3CD) [Overnight Listening]
-A Sort of Homecoming
- 2005-2006
-Drumavarium
-Octavarium
-Santiago, Chile 12/6/05
-Romavarium
-A Walk Beside The Band (DVD)
-Score (2DVD and 3CD) [Overnight Listening]
- 2007-2008
-SysDRUMatic Chaos
-Chaos In Progress (The Making of Systematic Chaos DVD)
-Systematic Chaos
-Chaos In Motion (2DVD and 3CD) [Overnight Listening]
-Progressive Nation '08
- 2009-2010
-Black Clouds & Silver Drumming
-Black Clouds & Silver Linings (Album, Covers and Instrumental Mixes)
-"Raw Dog" from the God Of War EP
Every chunk of material was done in about a day, if I had time. Otherwise, it was spread over two days, especially the IAW-era, FII-era, and TOT-era stuff. Where ti says [Overnight Listening], I played those albums on my iPod over night as I slept, and would finish it in the morning depending on where in the tracklist it was when I woke up (I always play music when I sleep).
I'll definitely have to do this again to gear-up for DT12, but I hope it's release date is in the winter or summer when I'm not so busy with work and I actually have the time to watch/listen to all of this!!!
-Marc.