Almost COULDN'T HANDLE This!! | Dream Theater - "The Alien" REACTION
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"They switched it up three times in 30 seconds" "Oh my God, that's beautiful" - Welcome to Dream Theater.
There is no band on Earth, or in the Universe that can touch them instrumentally. They are the Aliens.
Symphony-X can
Angra, galneryus...there are few
@@smanzoli No way. DT's songs are much more complex.
@@jan7362 I’m a big fan of both… and no, they are technically in the same level.
@@smanzoli But not instrumentally
They finally won their first Grammy with this song!! Well deserved imo.
Dream Theater just constantly puts out bangers, and I feel you'd like a lot of their more underappreciated music, some I think you'd like are:
Bridges In The Sky
Endless Sacrifice
A Nightmare To Remember
and if you want to eventually try your hand at some of the longer tracks, I think you'd like A Change of Seasons, Illumination Theory, and The Count Of Tuscany the most. Love your videos, hope this comment helps!
I could agree more on your point about The Count Of Tuscany that song is one of the best in their entire catalog please Alex go check out The Count Of Tuscany
i dont like their vocals either but i like his vocals on a change of seasons
Amen!
@@deathgrinderb3284 A demo version of A Change of Seasons is on youtube. Look up the 'Two Kevins" demo
If you listen to enough Dream Theater, You'll come to Love James' Voice. I felt the same when I started listening to them back in the late 90's
For me it's opposite. At first I really liked his singing. The more I listened it, the more I got bored and my ears got tired for that tone. Same happened to me with Bruce Dickinson, sadly. I used to listen a lot of Maiden and DT. :(
But, when I heard The Dark Eternal Night, I really liked it. It was something I hadn't heard from James before and it gave me hope. For both of those two singers I like the most when they sing low notes.
As a DT fan, sorry to say, but I can't stand James' vibrato.
I can appreciate the skill in his voice and singing, I’ve just never cared for the tone. Some songs it works, others I don’t care for it. But the guy is definitely a great singer nonetheless.
@@markgoguen8698 thanks for not being an asshole about it, I love james labrie, but obviously I have no problem with someone disliking his voice. Unfortunately a lot of people think disliking someone's vocals means they can be an asshole and constantly talk shit about the guy.
I think Dark Eternal Night and Constant Motion sort of eased me into it coming from more of a speed metal background myself.
Please check out the glass prison by dream theater! I really think you would love that song. They all show their wizardry on their respected instruments and the song has great meaning behind it too! Would love to see you react to that one
Glass Prison is the best!
Agreed! Then maybe he can do Honor Thy Father or This Dying Soul after!
@@larsulrich7413 Lars? Is that you? xD
Even better, he should check out the entire 12 step suite!
What he said
James Labrie is something to get used to. Many people don't take to his vocals at first, but it's what sets them apart from other bands. Besides the phenomenal instrumentation.
Love his voice!
Yes he has a classic 80s yell and he can belt
He might not be the strongest live singer. But the band and most of all his incredible personality makes him and DT my all time favorite artists
Couldn't imagine DT without James LaBrie honestly.
His voice, at least live has taken a huge downward spiral as of late. Can't hold pitch and off key all the time.
Dude, you should check out one of DT’s epic songs like “The Count of Tuscany” or “Octavarium!” 🤘🏻
I second this!
I third this
Count of Tuscany is such a beautiful song
Also A Nightmare To Remember is a roller coaster and a tear jerker!
Saw DT a few days ago in London and they closed their set with The Count Of Tuscany and omg it was an experience like no other. It was a completely stated event but everyone stood for TCOT. Awesome night 🤘🏻
The "I am the alien" line completes the song. DT always delivers.
That bass and tone doesn’t get talked about enough!!
They’re honestly one of the greatest talents to walk the Earth. There are so many incredible songs to check out by them.. Breaking All Illusions is a personal favourite!
i have been a huge Dream Theater fan since '92 when Images & Words dropped! i have met them and seen them live 5 times. They were never a disappointment when live. Since Mangini has taken over for Portnoy their albums have got better each time. This is their best so far with Mangini and I am so stoked!
Totally 👍🏽
Mangini make DT music to next level...
Best band on the planet been seeing them live for 20 years never get tired of it.
React to Dream Theater - Hollow Years live in Budokan. Legendary live performance
You need to check out another band nominated in that category, Between The Buried And Me. They're a ludicrously talented band with that's all over the genre spectrum. From death metal to Floyd to blue grass to prog
and sometimes all in the same song
Yes dude. He needs to check out the live studio videos
This!! This is beautiful, dude! I love watching your reactions to my favorite band of all times! Please do more Dream Theater. They've been only a few, but I've enjoyed them thoroughly ♥️ I've just watched them perform The Alien, live, one week ago. They opened with this song. It was EPIC!!! ❤️
Amazing band and music, that said, Rush had a HUGE influence on this band, so when your ready, giving Rush a little love is not only well deserved, but you may be surprised and see/hear the influence on many of their tunes!
A Change of Seasons. That is all. Mind blowing.
Don't think of James Labrie as a singer but more an instrument to accompany the band and the mood of the song.
If this song blows your mind, you have to listen to their album Metropolis pt 2 Scenes from a memory... it can't even be compared to this song. I'm glad you bring us another DT song. Looking forward to see you reacting them in the future.
i absolutely agree!
Love seeing you react to DT, reminds me of my first time listening to them and being blown away by their musicianship. Please keep it up and would love to see you react to more of their discography!
"This song is in 17/8...try tapping your foot to that." - John Petrucci, Grammy award speech 2022
Yup…. That’s a John petrucci guitargasm. Man they are so good. Their entire catalog is just a joy to go through. Especially with mike portnoy which I recommend any album or song in the mike portnoy era. Specifically glass prison, endless sacrifice, these walls, or a change of season if haven’t done so.
And to think that John Petrucci taught himself how to play the guitar. No formal lessons. Amazing.
@@TheMidgardViking He attended Berklee College of Music.
Saw them in 2019 at a VERY small venue.. we were in 5th row.. it was amazing. They are absolute beasts.
These guys are freaken awesome. Their live shows touch you!!+
First song by them I ever heard was A Change Of Seasons. Cold, dark night high on top of a mountain (literally and figuratively )with a few good buddies and I’ve been a fan since. Much love and respect for this band 🤙🏼
Sounds like a great time man
This is amazing! What a video and songs to react too! This is a journey of amazing sound and visuals. Yep there is definitely aliens out there.
The first time a ear this song… I xplot on tear! This song raising on my a strong emocional feeling! I love it!!!❤️
Take the Time live in Tokyo is my favourite DT performance.
Agree.. especially the vocals for me
“The Wizardry” during a Rudess solo. Lol Yes, he IS the wizard.
Alex, if you reacted to "In The Presence Of Enemies" (part 1 AND 2), that would be the absolute dopest of all dope ass days!!!
Dude! New Motionless In White. Masterpiece! Totally epic!
My favorite dream theater song is panic attack, u should definitely listen to it. The lyrics are a really accurate description of what a panic attack really feels like (in my opinion)
One of my favorite bands. They can take you from stank face headbanging to tearjerking emotional pieces within moments, and it sounds amazing.
The Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance is an award presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for works (songs or albums) containing quality performances in the heavy metal music genre.
it's big commercial bull-shit
Yes dude! More Dream Theater !!! Love your content bro
Saw these guys live a a few days ago in London and they killed it 🤘🏻 amazing show
Alex, I see 1 million subscribers on your horizon and see you getting there in due time ⏲️ . Love what you do and your reactions are priceless. You deserve all the success 🙌 in the world.
jajajaajaj dude your reaction to this song is SPOT ON!
So glad that you finally react to my favorite Band! As for the Alien question: there is no chance that we are alone in this big - big world. Who knows, maybe is they even discovered us a long time ago but they realized how fucked up are we, like "dude, these humans are killing each other just because their leaders can't have an agreement about something, and some are killing each other just for fun, and they eating all their animals and plants cause that's how they work", so they put a massive red flag of their own on us and decided to never encounter with us, because if we discover that we are not alone, there will be the chance to conquer them and behave fucked up with them.
The song that grabbed me years ago was Constant Motion, then Forsaken, then Take Me As I Am. Great band.
The 2 latest dream theater shows I’ve been to they opened with this song. It’s always amazing, no wonder they won a Grammy with it lol
This is the opener on their new album A View From The Top Of The World which is also the title of the closing song on the album and runs at a cool 20 minutes 24 seconds !!!
They have came back with a massive bang on my opinion, production, songwriting quality etc etc has all been jacked up.
If that wasn’t enough then Mr John Petrucci introduced us to his new 8 string custom guitar & the 7th track Awaken The Master has this new bad boy all over it. Taking John to a point where Tosin Abasi from Animals As Leaders was the first guitarist I heard with the 8 string and his ability is right up with the greatest shredders, Eddie VannHalen, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, John of course and many others but Tosin was the king of the 8 string…… I think now he’s been schooled by John Petrucci and the song was written specifically to show off the incredible range and speed, tapping, sweep work etc etc etc and all packed into 9 mins 47 secs !!! This album may only have 8 tracks, each one is a masterclass in its own right but Awaken The Master is a MUST as your next Dream Theater listen !!!!! The album still rocks in at over 71 minutes !!! Hold on this is going to be an awesome looooooooong wild ride !!!!!
I hope he doesn't use the 8-string ever again
You gotta react to more Dream Theater: In The Name Of God, Dance of Eternity, Root of All Evil, Glass Prison, Etc.
Alex's reaction to this is how I still react to Dream Theater songs I've heard hundreds of times lol this is why they're in my top 3
Went to high school with these boys. They rocked back in 1985 also
I saw them live on Thursday and this is an epic song but so was most of the rest of the set, the whole sound is just fantastic, for those who don't normally do it, I would recommend either good headphones or IEMs then you really hear everything in the layers of sound that is just produced to perfection to give you an all round amazing soundstage, this sounds unreal on a good stereo at high volume. Dream Theater did win the Grammy for this song.
As a huge DT fan, I enjoyed your journey today!
I've watched many reactors react to this song, and you were the first to get the point. Good on you :) Kinda wish you hadn't cut out parts of the song, though. I hope you react to more DT in the future.
You need to see them live its crazy
They have been putting out epic music for 30 years. I'm suprised that it has won an award. Usually the Grammy's are only based on pop radio and armchair revieiwer comments.
Great song! Well deserved, 100%
Inspiration for this song partly came from the gentleman taking a hit of weed in the picture behind you 😆
One of your best reactions! Dream Theater #1
One of the best bands in the world, total professional musicians. 😊🤘
Another Dream Theater song that stands on this level is "In The Presence of Enemies". Listen to parts 1 and 2 back to back and be mind blown more than this one.
Alex you exude charisma!
Yes you made it onto Dream Theater!! My Favourite Band!!!
You gotta check out Carpenter Brut's new stuff! Widowmaker and Imaginary Fire, both guest vocals and are absolutely amazing! I think you'd appreciate the underlying messages in both songs!
Im surprised i didnt see you at the show when they were here in austin!
Your Elon Musk pic was the influence for the lyrics.
Inspiration for the lyrics of the award-winning song came from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's appearance in The Joe Rogan podcast where he discussed terraforming other planets.
Finally you react to a good DT song!!!
Please react to This Dying Soul or Instrumedley Live at Budokan DVD, pure gold!!! Others jewels: The Glass Prison - Metropolis PT1 - The Count of Tuscany - Breaking All Illusions - Panic Attack - A Nightmare to Remember - In The Name of God - In The Presence of Enemy PT1+PT2 - The Dance of Eternity - Octavarium
DT fan here! FInally you listened to their true virtuosity that Pull Me Under and Wither doesn't quite have much (although those songs are so great too emotionally)!
You should do METROPOLIS Part 1(the quintessential DT virtuoso piece), THE DANCE OF ETERNITY, STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS, UNDER A GLASS MOON and their huge epics OCTAVARIUM and 6 DEGREES OF INNER TURBULENCE! Dream Theater is known for virtuosity and changing time signatures! They are Julliard and Berklee virtuoso students and just decided to start a band and pushed each instrument to its limits. Each one of them, Portnoy, Petrucci, Myung Rudess, Moore, Sherinan and now Mangini are the Masters and their names are always included in the Best of all Time in their respective instruments! Also, John Petrucci's solos are the most beautiful I've ever heard and definitely one of the best melodic guitarists to walk on earth. If you can, listen to his solo work, Wishful Thinking (the 7min version), you'll be blown away!
Scene from a memory :)
This is the most "dream theater" sound theyve had since mike portnoy left.
One of the best reaction
yes! more DT!!!
If you're enjoying DT, you DEFINITELY need to check out Haken. Try Pareidolia, 1985, or Carousel for starters.
Alex during the keyboard solo - The wizardry! '
Jordan Rudess (keyboardist) - known as The Wizard... 😂
Dream Theater is MASTERY!!! THE BEST THERE WILL EVER BE FOR A LONG TIME!!!!
Da best band ever 😎🤝🏻😎 Dream Theater
Alex Hefner, what is the book on charisma, you were talking about? What is it called????
That timing Petrucci revealed at the grammy's......17/8 timing.......pure nuts
When he said we are the aliens, I had the same reaction. It's a great message
Saw this one live
You should check out Glass Prison, S2N, and a truck load of others, but those are some of my faves.
What’s that book you are on about Charisma? I need more of it in my teaching profession.
They do not have a bad song. My rule of thumb with DT is the longer the song, the better it is. Octavarium, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Illumination Theory, the Count of Tuscany, and a lot more. THIS song is the real Dream Theater. Wither and Pull Me Under are good but they don't capture the essence of what the band is really about. Very much looking forward to more DT reactions!
Oh finally someone who make reaction get the lyrics on point. We are the alien it self.
Owesome idea,,, they're right we're the only beings in universe
Under the Knife by Icon for Hire is an awesome song
Check out Between The Buried and Me next!
The drummer is like IDGF if the rest of the band slows down, lets go.
10:00 yes, give 'em the Grammy for next year too!
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know who does Alex's intro/outro theme song? I've tried searching by a few means but nothing comes up.
Finally found it: _Mushroom_ by Slight Chance.
Give them the Grammy for basically everything they did in the last 30 years. It took way too long
Also check out The Dark Eternal Night
Answering the Call 🤘
MOOOOOORE Dream Theater!!!!
Finally. Atonement for reacting to only Wither. I've waited years for this.
One song Illumination Theory. Period
many bands have same level with dt, but when you talk about complex at music,vibes,instruments and lyric. dream theater are number 1.
You gotta revisit bloody wood man! Dana Dan is a banger
Carry me to the shoreline
Bury me in the sand
Walk me across the water
And maybe you'll understand
Once the stone you′re crawling under
Is lifted off your shoulders
Once the cloud that's raining over your head disappears
The noise that you'll hear is the crashing down of hollow years
Loved this reaction. Lot of enthusiasm. And, yah the whole concept, we're the aliens ... Petrucci would have been a fantasy novelist of not a guitarist.
Check out their song Forsaken. Thats a jam
The Birthday massacre… looking glass
Definitely deserved the grammy. Would be impossible to come up with a reason not to have it win.
I need to listen to more Dream Theater
Listen to their pre-Mangini songs. Mangini does his job yes and more... but Portnoy brought DT to life, and had uniqueness. The long songs had flow. Now long DT songs feels pieced together. Very few pieces actually hit after 2008.
Those were the fastest 9 and a half minutes of my life - holy sh!t