What is your dream Dream Theater setlist?

[bosk1]

Tell me one person that wouldn't love that show. It would be epic

Eh.  Too many long songs.  Even though I like everything you put on your list, I wouldn't want to see that live.  And I have no desire to see any of the AMBI songs again.  I seem to have hit the rotation just right so that they've been played at just about every show I've been to.  I'd much rather see other things performed.  No desire to see Finally Free either.  The only thing I think I might be inclined to want to hear from SFAM would be Home.

[yorost]

I'll have to think about it, but for the one show I've been to everything after the intermission was my favourite piece off its respective album.

New Millennium 
The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun 
A Mind Beside Itself
In The Name Of God 
Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper

That was pretty ridiculously lucky for me I thought.

[Kartmaze]

In the Presence of Enemies
The Mirror
The Count of Tuscany
Hell's Kitchen
A Change of Seasons
--Intermission--
The Glass Prison
Blind Faith
Metropolis pt. 1
The Dance of Eternity
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (minus Overture)
--Encore--
Octavarium


Approx. 3 hours...

[YtseJamittaja]

AA-suite
A Nightmare To Remember
MP drum solo
A Change of Seasons
Octavarium

---intermission---
Endless Sacrifice
In The Presence Of Enemies
In the Name of God
The Count of Tuscany

---encore---
Learning to Live
Metropolis pt. 1 or pt.2 

and some crazy stuff between songs  

edited 

[SilentFox]

AA-suite
A Nightmare To Remember
MP drum solo
A Change of Seasons
Octavarium

---intermission---
Endless Sacrifice
In The Presence Of Enemies
In the Name of God
The Count of Tuscany

---encore---
Learning to Live
Metropolis pt. 2

and some crazy stuff between songs 

Your encore would be the entire SFAM album?

[MykeHavoc]

Haha best encore ever.

[bodiesinflight]

1. Overture 1928
2. The Glass Prison
3. The Mirror
4. Lie
5. Take The Time
6. Stream Of Consciousness
7. Lifting Shadows Off A Dream
8. The Count Of Tuscany
---Intermission---
9. A Nightmare To Remember
10. Fatal Tragedy
11. Home
12. Erotomania
13. Voices
14. Misunderstood
15. Metropolis Part 1
---Encore 1---
16. In The Presence Of Enemies Part 1
17. Learning To Live
---Encore 2---
18. A Change Of Seasons

[jcmistat]

How about an epic multi day event where they play all their albums in order?

But yeah limiting myself to 20 songs and these are it. It was hard to do but I managed

The Best of Times
Constant Motion
Voices
Under A Glass Moon
Scarred
Hollow Years (extended solo)
Lines in the Sand
The Great Debate
Overture 1928/Strange Deja Vu
Fatal Tragedy
Panic Attack
Wither
Take The Time
Ytse Jam
The Mirror+Lie
Erotomania
Stream of Consciousness
Never Enough
Solitary Shell
In The Presence of Enemies


One album only:
Awake


One Song from each album only:
Ytse Jam
Take The Time
Scarred
Hollow Years
Overture 1928
The Great Debate
Stream of Consciousness
Panic Attack
In The Presence of Enemies
The Best of Times

[yaz_man]

i thought i would bring this up again
my dream setlist...

A Change of Seasons
Sacrificed Sons
Peruvian Skies
Erotomania
Voices
Metropolis
The Shattered Fortress
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The Dance of Eternity
Constant Motion
Hollow Years (Budokan version)
Pull Me Under
Panic Attack
Take The Time
Caught In a Web
Lie
The Count of Tuscany
---Encore---
Stream of Consciousness
In the Name of God

not sure about how long it is but i think it would be about right

[Jamariquay]

1. Hell's Kitchen
2. Lines In The Sand
3. Strange Deja Vu
4. Through My Words
5. Fatal Tragedy
6. 6:00
8. Lifting Shadows Off A Dream
9. Octavarium
==intermission==
10. The Glass Prison
11. This Dying Soul
13. Surrounded '07
14. The Dark Eternal Night
15. The Spirit Carries On
16. The Count Of Tuscany
==encore break==
17. Wait For Sleep
18. Learning To Live

[Global Laziness]

I actually managed to fit my top 16 Dream Theater songs into a mostly logical setlist:

Act One - 1:18:00
1.   A Nightmare to Remember (16:10)
2.   Scarred (11:00)
3.   Hell’s Kitchen (4:16)
4.   Lines in the Sand (12:05)
5.   Innocence Faded (5:43)
6.   Eve (5:11)
7.   Metropolis (9:32)
8.   Wait for Sleep (2:32)
9.   Learning to Live (11:31)

Act Two - 1:15:24
10.   The Glass Prison (13:52)
11.   This Dying Soul (11:28)
12.   Blind Faith (10:21)
13.   The Dance of Eternity (6:13)
14.   In the Name of God (14:14)
15.   The Count of Tuscany (19:16)

Encore
16.   A Change of Seasons (23:06)

Total Time: 2:56:30

It would have been nice to get some representation from each album, but leaving out When Dream and Day Unite, Octavarium, and Systematic isn't a huge loss.

[Ben_Jamin]

A Nightmare to Remember
Burning My Soul
This Dying Soul/
The Root Of All Evil
Anna Lee
Peruvian Skies
Blind Faith
----------------
Regression
Overture 1928
Strange Deja-Vu
Through My Words
Fatal Tragedy
Beyond This Life
Through Her Eyes
Misunderstood
Scarred
Octavarium
-----------------
A Change of Seasons

[moffatt]

1. A Nightmare to Remember
2. The root of all evil
3. Constant Motion
4. Under a glass moon
5. Fatal tradgedy
6. War inside my head
7. The test that stumped them all
8. In the name of god
-----------------------------------
9. Pull me under
10. In the presence of enemies
11. Strange Deja-vu
12. Voices
13. Sacrificed sons
14. Finally Free
-----------------------------------
Encore
15. The count of Tuscany
16. Octavarium

Rounds up to about 3 hours, but fuck me that would be so epic.

[juice]

I'm gonna go with the LSFNY time(little less than 4 hours  )

A Nightmare to Remember
Erotomania
Voices
Misunderstood
Fatal Tragedy
Sacrificed Sons
As I Am
Take the Time
The Count of Tuscany
---INTERMISSION---
The Glass Prison
Metropolis Pt. 1
The Spirit Carries On
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
In the Name of God
Octavarium
---ENCORE 1---
A Change of Seasons
---ENCORE 2---
Learning to Live

highly unrealistic but it would be the best concert ever 

[cyberdrummer]

Finally Free outro (intro tape)
1.  The Glass Prison
2.  This Dying Soul
3.  The Root Of All Evil
4.  The Mirror
5.  Lie
6.  Eve
7.  Hell's Kitchen
8.  Lines In The Sand
9. The Spirit Carries On
10. Learning To Live
=======================
Dead Poets Society (intro tape)
11. A Change of Seasons
12. Take The Time
13. Strange Deja-Vu
14. Anna Lee
15. Blind Faith
16. Erotomania
17. Voices
18. About To Crash (Reprise)
19. Losing Time/Grand Finale
=======================
20. As I Am
21. In The Name Of God
22. Octavarium


Just about 3 and a half hours, so not out of the question for a one-off anniversary show or something.

[AwakeFromOctavarium]

1. In the Name of God
2. Honor Thy Father
3. The Mirror
4. Lie
5. Caught in a Web
6. Take the Time
7. Learning to Live
8. Surrounded
----------------------------------
1. Burning My Soul
2. Hell's Kitchen
3. Lines in the Sand
4. One Last Time
5. Spirit Carries On
6. Misunderstood
7. The Great Debate
8. Octavarium
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1. In the Presence of Enemies(Part 1)
2. The Dark Eternal Night
3. The Shattered Fortress
4. The Count of Tuscany
5. A Change of Seasons
----------------------------------
[Encore]
1. Another Won
2. Eve
3. Fortune in Lies
4. Metropolis Pt. 1

This pretty much covers the whole discography. It's gonna be a real long show though...

[BRGM]

I want them to film a DVD down in SOuth America that would look like THIS!

A nightmare to Remember
A rite of Passage
These Walls
Honor Thy Father
Wither
The Glass Prison
This Dying soul
The Root of All evil
Repentance
The shattered fortress
The Best of Times
Never Enough
Propthets of War
Hells Kitchen
Dance of Eternity
One Last Time
Misunderstood
RAW DOG!
The Count of Tuscany

That would be awesome!! best DVD ever! no old Dream Theater at all

[Jamariquay]

Yesssss someone bumped this thread so I can make another setlist! Again.

1. Metropolis, Pt. 1
2. The Mirror
3. Lie
4. Peruvian Skies
5. Fatal Tragedy
6. Under A Glass Moon
7. Lifting Shadows Off A Dream
8. Home
==intermission==
9. In The Presence Of Enemies, Pt. 1
10. The Glass Prison
11. This Dying Soul
12. Panic Attack
13. Solitary Shell
14. The Count Of Tuscany
==encore break==
15. Wait For Sleep
16. Learning To Live

Comes to about 2:30 or so, which would work fine for the "An Evening With..." format.