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AVFTTOTW
AV
AVFTT
AVTW or VTW
(A) View(...)
(A) View From The Top
World
None of these
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Author Topic: How should we abbreviate/shorten the new album- A View From The Top Of The World  (Read 2859 times)

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Offline The Letter M

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As a fan of the band The Tangent, I have been used to long album titles with equally long album title abbreviations (TMTDA, TWTWDT, APITQ, NAGATB, DAOIPAL, ASITA, TSROFM), but I was surprised when the new DT album took its title from the epic closer, "A View From The Top Of The World", giving us one of the longest song and album titles in the band's history (rivaled only to the full title of their fifth album, Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory, which has more syllables, or MP2SFAM, which has less letters, unless you make it MPt2SFAM).

So I figured we'd take this great debate from the main/current DT15 thread and make a poll out of it here. I'm still undecided, and may just refer to the album as View for now, which is short and simple and easy to recognize within context, but I want to know what everyone else is thinking! How will you shorten and/or abbreviate the album title?

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Top of the World or TOTW

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I can actually see myself going with View as well.  That’s what I was thinking.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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Mostly I would like A View from the Top of the World, full spelled, but as abbreviations either AVftTotW or 'A View' would work for me. I'm thinking, once you've gone all the way to 'from the Top' you might as well join 'of the World' in also.
Wim pointed out something I don't see mentioned very often...

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I grew up hearing every metalhead talking about "Master" and "Justice". If we're talking DT and I tell you that I like Dramatic, you know what album I mean. Let's just call it View or Top of the World.
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I'd say: Let chaos reign and the darwinian survival of the fittest decide about the "right" abbreviation.

AVFTT and ATOP have a good flow though (when you think of them spoken out loud)

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Offline jayvee3

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If it really needs to be abbreviated, let’s be rebels and go with = 🌎

Offline Trav86

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View

For context…
WDADU
Images
Awake
ACOS
FII
Scenes or SFAM
SDOIT
TOT
8V
SC
BCSL
ADTOE
DT12
TA
D/T
View
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I’d be happy with View.

Offline pg1067

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I'll probably just call it "View."

WDADU
I&W
Awake
ACOS
FII
SFAM
SDOIT or 6DOIT
TOT
8VM
SC
BC&SL
ADTOE
DT12
TA
DOT
View
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VFTW

This one FTW.

I also liked a suggestion from the other thread, but figure V/W is a little too inscrutable.

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would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

Offline NoFred

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It’ll be “view” both when writing abbreviations and when saying full titles. Just can’t see myself giving the effort for the whole thing

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SDOIT or 6DOIT

I always go with 6D’s

I guess 5D's just weren't enough for ya?  ;) :lol

I'll probably just call it "View."

WDADU
I&W
Awake
ACOS
FII
SFAM
SDOIT or 6DOIT
TOT
8VM
SC
BC&SL
ADTOE
DT12
TA
DOT
View

Pretty much what I go for as well, except I use IAW instead of I&W given that the proper title is Images And Words, no ampersand. The only DT album to use an ampersand so far has been Black Clouds & Silver Linings.

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View!

Short and to the point. That's what I'll be calling the album from now on!

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Guess I'll just say View - glad to see others think the same.
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View!

Short and to the point. That's what I'll be calling the album from now on!

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AVFTTOTW

It's no big deal typing 8 letters.

I dislike abbreviations anyway. Maybe if i'm typing on my mobile but on a keyboard - A View From the Top of The World is easy to type...

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SDOIT or 6DOIT

I always go with 6D’s

We're talking about album TITLES not album TITTIES.   Get your glasses. 

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SDOIT or 6DOIT

I always go with 6D’s

I guess 5D's just weren't enough for ya?  ;) :lol

I'll probably just call it "View."

WDADU
I&W
Awake
ACOS
FII
SFAM
SDOIT or 6DOIT
TOT
8VM
SC
BC&SL
ADTOE
DT12
TA
DOT
View

Pretty much what I go for as well, except I use IAW instead of I&W given that the proper title is Images And Words, no ampersand. The only DT album to use an ampersand so far has been Black Clouds & Silver Linings.

-Marc.

Ah, a brother!  I hate the use of ampersands.   I'm with you. 

Offline JLa

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TNO - The New One  :biggrin:

I stopped learning these abbrevations after Octavarium or so ... when someone posts an abbrevation of a song from, say The Astonishing, I'm like "what ... is ... that ..."  :lol

Fine with "View".
« Last Edit: July 30, 2021, 07:52:02 AM by JLa »

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A View from the top works for me.  ;)

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SDOIT or 6DOIT

I always go with 6D’s

I guess 5D's just weren't enough for ya?  ;) :lol

I'll probably just call it "View."

WDADU
I&W
Awake
ACOS
FII
SFAM
SDOIT or 6DOIT
TOT
8VM
SC
BC&SL
ADTOE
DT12
TA
DOT
View

Pretty much what I go for as well, except I use IAW instead of I&W given that the proper title is Images And Words, no ampersand. The only DT album to use an ampersand so far has been Black Clouds & Silver Linings.

-Marc.

Well...if we're going to nitpick about an "a" versus an ampersand, then we also ought to nitpick about having apostrophes where they don't belong.   :)


AVFTTOTW

It's no big deal typing 8 letters.

TOWHTSTS probably agrees with you, but I always find it an annoying one to type, and "The Ones" doesn't quite sound right.
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