Ayreon - The Theory of Everything (Album Lyric Video)
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2017
- Full-length lyric video for Ayreon's album, "The Theory of Everything".
Includes character highlights and story information.
All music and image assets belong to Arjen Lucassen, the creator of Ayreon.
Note: There is a LOT of story text for this album. It's all taken directly from the CD booklet.
Sorry if some of it goes by too quickly.
---- SONGS ----
PHASE I: SINGULARITY
The Blackboard - 0:03
The Theory of Everything, Part 1 - 1:58
Patterns - 5:00
The Prodigy's World - 6:04
The Teacher's Discovery - 7:35
Love and Envy - 10:34
Progressive Waves - 13:13
The Gift - 16:30
The Eleventh Dimension - 19:08
Inertia - 20:54
The Theory of Everything, Part 2 - 21:39
PHASE II: SYMMETRY
The consultation - 23:30
Diagnosis - 27:19
The Argument 1 - 30:08
The Rival's Dilemma - 30:33
Surface Tension - 32:55
A Reason to Live - 33:52
Potential - 34:38
Quantum Chaos - 37:52
Dark Medicine - 40:02
Alive! - 41:25
The Prediction - 43:55
PHASE III: ENTANGLEMENT
Fluctuation - 45:00
Transformation - 46:01
Collision - 49:15
Side Effects - 52:42
Frequency Modulation - 55:41
Magnetism - 57:25
Quid Pro Quo - 1:01:19
String Theory - 1:04:28
Fortune? - 1:05:57
PHASE IV: UNIFICATION
Mirror of Dreams - 1:07:34
The Lighthouse - 1:10:05
The Argument 2 - 1:13:21
The Parting - 1:14:10
The Visitation - 1:17:37
The Breakthrough - 1:21:04
The Note - 1:23:04
The Uncertainty Principle - 1:24:16
Dark Energy - 1:26:26
The Theory of Everything, Part 3 - 1:27:10
The Blackboard (reprise) - 1:28:40
---- VOCALISTS ----
Prodigy - Tommy Karevik (Kamelot)
Rival - Marco Hietala (Nightwish)
Father - Mike Mills (Toehider)
Mother - Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil)
Girl - Sara Squadrani (Ancient Bards)
Teacher - JB (Grand Magus)
Psychiatrist - John Wetton (King Crimson)
After 4 years from its release I definitely can say that this album is a masterpiece of Progressive Rock.
pretty much everything Ayreon does feel like that to me. They definitely are amazing at making music.
Karevik could sing from an encyclopedia and it would be fantastic.
Do you guys think the father had a “Who the hell are you?” moment with Simone after he committed suicide and he somehow managed to convince her to listen to his story and that’s how he appeared to the Prodigy.
Haha, I like this Theory.
OSHIT
Oh wow 😲
However I wont lie after thinking about it I doubt the angles would have had any sympathy for him due to neglecting his family and drugging his son 🤣
Well after all, they want to solve the Human "Equation"
and got turned into a dumb piece of rock
This is amazing! Feels like I just attended a theatre play with metal arrangement.
0:00 PHASE I - SINGULARITY
23:30 PHASE II - SYMMETRY
45:02 PHASE III - ENTANGLEMENT
1:07:35 PHASE IV - UNIFICATION
ik like how the lighthouse is a spine. I can stare at the artwork almost everyday and see new things each time
Amazing job! You could even show this to Arjen himself, he will be absolutely glad and grateful to see this!
Thanks! I did show these to Arjen when I asked for his permission to post them.
I know that he at least saw my video for The Source and he said he enjoyed it :)
Holy moly! You deserve a UA-cam Achievement Award or something like that for your job regarding Ayreon! Outstanding once again! A big hooray from Argentina! :)
Wow, that's really nice of you to say, thank you!
Keep an eye out for my next video for 01 too...
It's gonna take a bit longer than the last two took, due to how frequently vocalists overlap, but it's coming along nicely :)
My god, Arjen himself or his record company should offer you a steady job based on this, bro! :)
For those who don't have a physical copy of his albums, your work is the best way of enjoy them through a device, hands down! You're absolutely reviving the (almost) lost art of listening to an album reading the lyrics from start to finish for those who want to immerse themselves in the story.
I definitely look forward to enjoying also both 01 and Electric Castle! Many thanks once again for your job!
You are very welcome, this means a lot to hear!
I ran into a bit of trouble with 01, as the record company for that album wasn't too happy when I posted it, but I'm working on getting it back up with Arjen's help.
In the mean time, check out my cover photo for a sneak peek at Electric Castle :)
Damn record companies, always in the middle and with more power than artists themselves! Hope Arjen can help you through the process.
Saw your image regarding the Electric Castle... You know how to develop an interest, hehe! :)
Lokomiusek Great music, Thank you for sharing!
yes - thank you @Ayreon for the real music, real musicians playing instruments, vocalists that can actually sing and not processed or in-audible crap we are exposed to claiming to be music... how can RAP be more popular than this this creative expression of real music???? I don't get it!!!!
@Ramsmeat
I concur a masterpiece of Progressive / Symphonic Rock / Metal.... what ever label you want to put on it... bottom line it is music and it will live on with the greats, such as Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, etc....
@Taycott - good job you are the reason I discovered this and purchased my first @Ayreon album and with no regrets...
Back to the music....
Simple minds are satisfied by simple music. Some people don't really like music, they just get hooked on catchy blips and call it music.
Thank you Arjen for creating real music...
i know a bit of quantum mechanics and physics (i mean, im no expert but i do have had read the original works: from Dirac, Bohr, Einstein, Hawkins, Fermi, and so on) and this album is MARVELOUS. Simply the chapters: singularity, symmetry, entanglement and unification... we could talk hours about each one of these topics. Bravo, Ayreon!
Simply put, this is extremely sad and beautiful. A work of art indeed. Music can touch us in ways that no other media can.
Incredible! Your video is without a doubt the best way to enjoy this album on UA-cam! Keep up the good work!
So glad to hear that! Will do :P
Thanks so much for this. It's so much easier to follow the story with the video.
I'm glad to enjoyed it, and yeah, I totally agree. Ayreon albums are often tough to follow if you're not reading along, haha!
My favorite Ayreon album till date.
Because of this video i bought the album and The Source as well. Thanks mate!!
These albums are absolutely great! Not a single bad song on them...
This is the next best thing after seeing the whole album performed live, as in the Theater Equation. Man, I really wish Arjen contacts you in order to make an official release of past and future Ayreon records in this format.
That would be amazing if he did :)
This album literally changed how I see music and I love it for that.
Hearing Ayreon´s complete work for the first time, with your videos.
Amazing music, amazing experience because of you. Thank you sooo much, I'm enjoying this a lot.
Ana Citlalli Glad to hear it!
The best way to listen to Ayreon music in my opinion is just to sit down for a full album and become as immersed as possible in his universe in my opinion, so it's great to hear that I could help you with that :)
Think about buying some of their albums, too ! It's important to support music when it's THIS good
I found music again by listening this
Awesome!
That album cover artwork is outstanding!
This interactive story hits so close to home... Arjen did an excellent job with all his work and many projects.
Amazing job man... This is one of the best albums ever.
I would love to see this in the theater as show they did with Human Equations
I'm at a loss for words. This was my first time hearing Ayreon and I am blown away! Thank you for putting this together like this, you made it really enjoyable with the character highlights and storyline. I am now on the hunt for more!!
Don't worry, there's plenty more Ayreon to enjoy :)
What a way to be introduced to this album! Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together!
Thank you so much for this video, it's amazingly done. Finally able to follow the whole story I got chills at the end!
That's the best thing about Ayreon... not only does the music give you chills, but the stories do too!
I love how you were able to highlight who was singing when, nice
Mills, damnit, everytime he hits those insane high notes I get goosebumps like a plucked turkey on a cold winter morning.
I'm glad I have a vpn so I can watch this amazing video:)
This is the album that get me into Ayreon! In 2014, I was looking for a new band to listen to and this album was recommended to me by amazon. I then proceeded to do some research on this album/Arjen and it sounded like something I would enjoy. So, I decided to go on UA-cam to listen to it and I immediately fell in love with it!! I spent all day listening to the album on a constant loop. In the proceeding days/weeks I explored the rest of Arjen's work!
JB's voice is the MVP of this masterpiece.
Came here after listenling to SoulSecret (worth checking out if you are into ProgressiveMetal).
Was playing Civ5, having Autoplay on, Heard James LaBrie singing after SoulSecrets album "4" faded out, taped out of the game to look up wich band i was listening to, saw it was Ayreon`s "The Source", wikipedia`ed it, got curious and decided to give it a closer, second look.
Got Excited and listend to this Album, without the game running, just greedily reading the discription and Lyrics to catch up with the storry.
Thanks @Taycott for your effort you put into to showing us, what is is going on. Please keep it up.Ayreon really is an enriching musical experience.
In conclusion, Ayreon is an aweseome project, with really good ideas and musical conversion of the storries intended to tell.
Really one great piece of musicianship!
PS: Never heard of Toehider, but the Singer forking hits it!
Excellent job with the highlights!! It helps a lot to follow the history of each disc. Congrats!
Putting aside the seminal masterpiece that is "The Human Equation", this is the best Ayreon/Lucassen album bar none.
Awesome video! Thanks for your hard work. I'll definitely watch this many, many times in the future.
Sounds good, thanks :)
Hope you're a fan of 01011001 as well... I've got one song left to edit for that album, but it's "the big one".
Hey, do you know why your 01011001 video was blocked while these other ones weren't? That sucks that you made the whole thing only to have it blocked :/
Well, when Mr. L first made his albums he licensed them to different record companies over the years.
Those record companies have the ability to put restrictions on UA-cam to either allow or block certain songs. Some of the record companies allowed their albums on UA-cam, while others blocked them.
The thing is though, Arjen has recently re-licensed all his albums (except ToE) to Mascot Label Group, but the old record labels are still blocking songs from 01 and Electric Castle. They shouldn't be able to do this obviously because they no longer own the rights to those albums, but alas, they have done it.
So I've just been shooting e-mails around trying to update these album licenses on UA-cam, but I think it's going to take awhile. I'm still working on Electric Castle rn though hoping that I'll get things sorted out before I'm finished. So there ya go, massive message over :)
Duuuude! You are AWESOME!!! Congratulations for your amazing work, and thank you!
I LOVE how this makes me feel like I'm in a C-RPG. Great work on this video, mad props for the editing and feel behind it!
This is a grossly overlooked album in the Ayreon catalog. And fabulous work setting it up this way, cheers!
I really think the choice of release it as 42 tracks instead of only 4 (the "phases") has held it back a bit. If it's ever rereleased for some reason it should definitely be in the four-giant-tracks format.
@@CloudMountainJuror Really I think the 42 tracks was a key part of the album. If I understand things correctly it's a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
This is a brilliant video, great co-ordination of lyrics to imagery
Wow the way you did the video is amazing, all the ayreon projects should follow this video structure, its amazing, congratulations!
Well it doesnt matter if you made this or not, I thank you so much for posting it and making it available for our delight!
Taycott - this is amazing. It really adds to the experience! Thanks.
This is absolutely brilliant. great work, loved the album
Now this is some serious story telling!
I have been famished for music that could make me cry out of its own beauty, found it by accident... I have easily heard this 30 times since I discovered it, gets better every time. Thanks for uploading this video. :')
Arjen has such talent for composition!
Dude, this is awesome. Big thanks!
Great album and great video work!!! Awesome!
Dude! Nice job putting this together. Well done.
I wish I could hear all the whispers at the very end, so ominous. "[...] from zero to infinity. Help me!"
this album is a piece of ART..thanks for the video it made me understand the plot very well!
Thanks for this, just an unbelievable work! MASTERPIECE!
great Album! Thanx for uploading 👍
keep the good things coming!
Listen to the Father in the Parting at 1:15:35
Mike Mills is a fucking beastly singer. Might be the best there ever was to be honest :)
I've been singing since I was a teenage, though not professionally. I can hit those notes, but not nearly with that kind of power. I can hit a lot of notes but my comfort zone isn't very large tbh.
That is so cool the way you did this. Thank you so much.
Amazing job man! Fantastic: Thank you!
incredible.... awesome work!
Fantastic job, bro! Thanks!
MAN THIS IS MY WHOLE LIFE I KNOW YOU SOMEWHERE THERE AND FEEL ME LIKE I DO!! YOU ARE THE BEST!
Outstanding work👍👌
masterpiece! congratulations for the video!
This is dope man, good job!
A masterpiece, as always!
I don't know how someone give dislike in this work, it's so beautiful
This is where my two favorite bands accidentally cross. Well...members. Nightwish-Asia. I miss you John!
The Music of Space.. That's got quite a couple of definitions to it
Is this your work? Be honest now, how did you do it?
I'm sorry sir, I can't explain... :)
Taycott hahahh good one dude:)
Don't believe him no! He is envious!
I'm so close to the answer!
Don't let him deceive you!
No matter how many times I replay this album, 1:58 always gives me chills. Absolutely wonderful music!
Precious lyric video now im a fan of ayreon
Some of the breaks between tracks are a bit noticeable, but that's more the fault of the person who decided it would be 42 tracks, but I will forgive him!!! I mixed mine in Audacity, it came out fine. Fantastic job though, well done!
There's a version with four 20ish mins tracks instead, it was on Spotify before but got replaced by the 42 tracks one, no idea why
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!
This is AWESOME!
Dude. Epic . Thank you very much
Super cool post. Thanks man.
Wow!!!! great work!!!!!
Great job for this music piece of art. My hat off !
Overwhelming. Fantastic mood.
fantastic work !!!!
14:45 Always puts a smile on my face... it's too good
I think there is a bug with the view count cause its only showing my views
I find that hard to believe.
Your post is 1 year old, so the views maybe were near 145000 (give or take). The albums lasts for 1,5 hours, so that's 217500 total hours. It means that (considering 16 hours a day listening to the album, 'cause you have to sleep), it would be almost 14000 days listening, or 37 years.
You must consider that the album was released on 2013, so when you wrote the comment it was 6 years old. Hence it's not possible that you could have so many views... unless you are a time traveler... are you?... if so, were you sent by the Forever?... or are we in the Dream Sequencer simulation?
Best regards
Rodrigo Solís Hernández lol :)))
@@rodrigosolishernandez but if he have played the album in more than one device at the same time?
@@rodrigosolishernandez r/woooosh
@@jonatasfernandespimenta8566 stfu, even if woosh wasnt the most fucking cringe thing, he didnt miss shit, he understood perfectly
YOU are a UA-cam legend!!
excellent work!
EUR-EEEE-KAAAA~! god damn those harmonies
The Music Genius ! a bow to you
Your video it's amazing with that design
Please keep doing this awesome job!
I've got 2 more videos finished and ready to go, now I'm just working with the record company to get them unblocked. Should be no more than a day or two until they're available :)
But a month has passed and no dice...?
What an emotional journey! I am torn between this, the Universal migrator pt 2, 01 and the Source as to what the best Ayreon album is. It´s so damn close!
Nah, the solution is simple: Ayreon is the best albums. ;)
Didn't know christina was in an ayreon album but I like it a lot.
The Consultation is so damn groovy. I can't help but bob my head every time I hear it.
Okay, I guess I could help it, but why would I want to?
THIS Line up is just crazy !
43:06
1:14:58
My bones got goosebumps.
truly a masterpiece.
Fantastic album.
Such a great masterpiece!
Fuck I know everyone's saying this but you arranged the story book so perfectly. Great way to follow all of Arjens brilliant ideas/stories.
Is the mother Christina Scabbia? Nevermind; I just read that it is her! One of the best female Metal vocalists going! Heaven's A Lie!
Subscribed 💙
Keep it coming 🤘🏻
Will do :)
I won't be able to work on any videos for about a month :(
But eventually I will make a video for Human Equation, and possibly some Star One albums, or albums from other artists.
Thank you thank you so much
Sempre surpreendente. I love Cristina!!!
UA-cam suggested this video to me, never heard of this band/project (I know several of the artists signing). As a metal and prog fan, this is a great find, pretty amazing.. Basically a prog/metal musical, who would have thought! The video is pretty amazing work too. 10/10 all over :)
I'm happy I could help to introduce Ayreon to you :)
Easily one of my top 3 favorite musical artists.
You should check out his other albums too. I love this one, but a lot of people would place is pretty low compared to other Ayreon albums.
@@TAYLOR22211 Funny, after listening to all of them, this is still my favorite. It's less rock, more progressive, bit smoother, lots of emotion. To each his own I guess! They are all great... The Star One albums are also absolute bomb! Really happy to have discovered Arjen, I got you to thank in part!
THANK YOU