As promised, opening the Big Finals match, please everybody stand for our threadtional anthem, performed by lonestar, as cool as Marvin Gaye in his immortal rendition during the 1983 NBA All-Star Game:
Silent Memorial – Retrospective:0:00 – 0:16: You hear that watery sound? Let's pretend it's 2009 (when this beauty came out): it's the sound of my tears, mourning DT at their rock bottom. I was also divorcing, but BC&SL hit me harder than losing a shitload of money, a house, and a cat.
0:16 – 0:35: If the fictionalised
Experiment is subbing for ailing and full of
Tension DT, starting out with Acid Rain after the
Liquid sound of my tears is nothing but appropriate.
0:35 – 0:47: Big focking epic progression, right from the start, 12 seconds of it, never to return. I, as well as Orson Wells in his wonderful The Third Man monologue, didn't know Swiss people could be so bold.
0:47 – 0:59: A sip from the Glass Prison, s'il vous plait.
0:59 – 1:17: Is it me, or this is a ACOS copycat sound?
1:17 – 1:25: No, it isn't me.
1:25 – 1:36: It only lacks that little ride bell hit at the end, signing the beginning of The Inevitable Summer.
1:36 – 1:51: Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone … sorry, couldn't help it.
1:51 – 2:08: You know those power chords at the beginning of Voices? Same feeling. I love these guys, what they're doing, and why they're doing it.
2:08 – 2:40: I Remember a time, my frail virgin mind ... Sorry, I couldn't help it.
2:40 – 2:56: The snow has now fallen, and my sun's not so bright ... Sorry, THEY couldn't help it.
2:56 – 3:13: Ok, I'm not joking anymore. This is actually ACOS 2: Carpe Another Diem.
3:13 – 3:30: We skipped album!
Young child won't you tell me why I'm here?” I may mail this song to Wife #1 with a note: “Sorry for being a selfish asshole, and for not listening to these guys back then. Maybe we would be still together. How's the cat?”
3:30 – 4:02: I have to specify I'm not accusing these guys of plagiarism whatsoever. I'm in fact amazed by their ability to mimic impossible beautiful music. This chorus is all theirs, and it's gorgeous. Ok, it's a bit on the Queensryche side, but still!
4:02 – 4:26: This is richer and richer. Raise your hand if you expected Myung's LTL line after that last chord. Thought so.
4:26 – 5:08: Tears keep being a theme here. A whole Trial of them.
5:08 – 5:22: Well, that's tasty and full of personality. Are we really sure they're Swiss?
5:22 – 5:38: DOWN IN A HOOOOOOLE! FEELING SO SMAAAAAAAL!
5:38 – 6:14: And how come you don't understand me? And how come I don't understand you? This is focking amazing.
6:14 – 6:51: I am speechless. The great riffs to minutes ratio is 3/1 so far. Pantheon stats.
6:51 – 8:00: Same pre-chorus & chorus, hence time for some considerations. All silly jokes aside, this is DT songwriting when they don't rush the songwriting, i.e. Nothing I've had the pleasure to consistantly listen to between 2002 and 2011, with the exception of a couple of tunes per album. There, I said it [/chrisrock]
8:00 – 9:10: Ladies and gentlemen, the LTL KevMo/Johnny P solo trade off on a different time signature, disguised by SLIGHTLY different notes.
9:10 – 9:50: I'm focking going crazy or this is Metropolis crazy instrumental's launch stage played a bunch of bpms slower. Or both.
9:50 – 10:17: IT IS! Slowed down solo, focking verbatim! I'm having so much fun I could ask my ex out!
10:17 – 10:37: Back to LTL! I'm literally dialing her number right now ...
10:37 – 11:08: “Hello?”
“Hi, it's Aless...”
“Fock you lurid piece of shit die in a fire I focking hate you if I could make you catch cancer by sacrificing an eye I would gladly spend the rest of my life as a blind bitter bitch. Goodbye.”
“How's the cat?”
11:08 – 11:35: Ok, first half of the song spent in wonderful homage, the second one starts with their own personal brand of instrumental madness. They should be playing arenas by now. Please tell me they are.
11:35 – 12:03: Jumping between TDOE and BTL, for nostalgia's sake, anyway.
12:03 – 12:40: MINISTRY!
12:40 – 13:10: Now I'm a bit worried for my cat.
13:10 – 13:28: SYMPHONY X!
13:28 – 13:42: 
13:42 – 14:00:
14:00 – 14:30: My cat is focking toast.
14:30 – 14:38: Creeping Focking Death? Retrospective indeed.
14:38 – 15:12: We're back into Acid Rain territory apparently ...
15:12 – 15:32: … Forecasting Illumination Theory, even ...
15:32 – 16:00: … Killing every hope to see my dear ex cat in this life.
16:00 – 17:15: This just reeks of Aqua Net, glorious Aqua Net.
17:15 – 17:32: Out of the focking blue, the second best album of the nineties: Angel Dust.
17:32 – 18:03: STRATOVARIUS!
18:03 – 19:17: Back to the “usual” bigass chorus. Some more considerations: There are tunes that seem just made to be Timestamp Scenes Thread fodder. This one I suspect was even born as a Timestamp Scenes Thread chart. I should cross the Alps just to investigate.
19:17 – 19:49: We focking overkill with yet another bigass new chorus right at the end, because we make kickass clocks, cheese, chocolate, and tax-evading financial consulting!
19:49 – 20:05: MEGADETH!
20:05 – 20:25: No, it can't be true ...
20:25 – 21:13: BUT IT IS! Last time I heard this same epic outro, Michael Jordan had just brazenly covered the Reebok logo on his jacket, standing on the Olympic podium.
21:13 – 22:19: We added a different outro riff because, you know, we'd hate to give the impression we're quoting Dream Theater …
Great song, lonestar. Like Ocean Airlines 815 castaways , you've been focked by voices from the fuselage, but this one is a winner, and a joy to recap. Chapeau.
Dear people from Switzerland and dear ex-wife, I was just kidding.
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