Musician Reacts to Dream Theater - Octavarium
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
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0:00 - Intro
2:40 - Reaction
35:32 - Final Thoughts
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Another Day Reaction:
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I recommend you watch them play this live.
One thing I love about this song is every line is specific to their musical career, yet anyone can connect by interpreting any of the lyrics into their own life experiences! That happens a LOT with their lyrics.
I highly recommend checking out more Porcupine Tree, Anesthetize live in Tilburg is insane. The drummer, Gavin Harrison, is one of the best drummers of all time.
That was actually the next up on the queue! Gonna try to get it recorded and uploaded today
OF COURSE !!!!!
i Concur
Probably my favorite live performance ever!!!!!
Been Fan of Pink Floyd since the age of 12. Until last year there wasn't much music that fascinated me as much as Floyd. Then I hot introduced to Octavarium and it blew me away. My introduction to Progressive Metal and I'm so glad to finally move on. Concerning Dream Theater I highly recommend Count of Tuscany and Breaking all Illusions. They also have elements of Pink Floyd and they get me emotional every single time.
Then there's The Odyssey by Symphony X and the Greatest show of all by Nightwish.
Check out Seventh Wonder. Swedish prog metal band. Either "Mercy Falls" (Concept album) or "The Great Escape" is a great place to start. "Tiara" and their new album "The Testament" are also awesome.
You're so chill, and I really like your input. Keep it up !
Thanks, will do! 👍🏽
The "medicate me, infiltrate me" is like a chorus to octavarium.
This theme repeats several times on the other songs from octavarium album and all choruses are similar or just a repetition from "medicate me, infiltrate me" part.
Sweet! DT is my favorite band in history! Love that they can do such heavy detailed technical stuff but also mix in some gorgeous melodies and they are known for their epic larger than life orchestral finishes to songs like this, along with their insane unison runs where the guitar keyboard and bass all play together like the middle section in this song. Sometimes they have backing orchestra, like they had for the live version of this, but it's usually just the tech genius of Jordan, the keyboardist.
In their newest album from 2 months ago they have a 20 minute epic track "A View From the Top of the World", where Jordan has samples of roomfuls of various brass instruments that sounds giant.
I love all their stuff, heavy, and soft.
A good example of heavy would be "The Glass Prison". Song 1 of a 5 song suite about the original drummer's battle with alcohol in the 12 step program.
One of my favorite softer pretty songs would be "Lifting Shadows Off a Dream".
And yes, this song is a tribute to their past influences, and is directly about their own career and the trials and tribulations they went through to find their own sound, and now that they finally found it, they're trapped inside their own genre that they created and are known for.
In the beginning Jordan Rudess uses a Continuum. Also, James LaBrie does all the singing except Mike Portnoy doing backing vocals toward the back half of the song. Good review so far...
I see. I think I got confused since it lists (Lyrics: Petrucci) in the beginning, but maybe he just wrote them and not sang?
@@samuraikaito of course
This popped up on my feed. Instant subscription!!! Huge Dream Theater fan!!!!
DT, the MASTERS!🤟🏻🙏🏻
Since you like prog and longer songs, and you’ve checked out Dream Theater and Nightwish, I think you’ll like Ayreon. Start with The Day That The World Breaks Down ua-cam.com/video/oFuMKdrzPqU/v-deo.html
Ayreon is a prog metal project by Arjen Anthony Lucassen. Every album is a rock opera and most of the albums are connected. He uses many guest musicians/singers on each album.
Also! The "intervals" lyrics were a single line describing what each song is about, in order, on the actual album "Octavarium" where this song was the 8th and final song on the album.
An example, interval 7 "innocent victims of merciless crimes fall pray to madman impulsive design." Song 7 is Sacrificed Sons, a tribute to 9/11.
That makes a lot of sense. Definitely makes me want to listen to the whole album even more
@Samurai Kaito I think you'd love every song, they run the full gambit. There's really crazy fast songs like Panic Attack (about well. What panic attacks are Ike to live wifh) to really soft gentle melodies like track 5, I Walk Beside You, a love song, which was my wife and I's first dance hehe!
This song consist of basically early musical influences for the band then in part 1 declaration of independence from those bands and proclamation of their own path from established influencers created their “mark” and getting comfortable album after album producing quality but predictable material. In the end of first part however After sometime trying this and that they realise that “mark” of quality is what they really actually want themselves..
Part 2 I think it’s 30 years into their career when they become numb in producing material suddenly awakening happening And they kind of like a patient who was in catatonic sleep looking around and telling doctor (producer?) that they ready to experiment to be reborn as a creative unit.
Part 3 tribute to the influencers
Part 4 Description of every song of the album “octavarium” ( 8th is explanation of Octavarium itself) 1st song called “Root of all evil” he calls it “Root”. This album actually has a lot of encoded messages. for example every song starts from following note as previous song1:F,2:G,etc and 8: Octavarum is in F again. Full circle :) also it was the eighth album fifth studio, 3 live on one of the posters they placed birds in between those silver balls in exact corner as a piano keys :)
Finally, from 2000 Metropolis part two every following album was beginning from the ending note or sound of previous album. This one ends it it starts from the sounds similar to welcome to machine of Pink Floyd. First song ends with a motive of Octavarium and Octavarium ends with the beginning sounds of first song…
5 Razor’s Edge. Conclusion.
In this song I’ve heard “Shine on you crazy Diamond”, “Supper’s Ready”, “bohemian Rhapsody” “Jingle Bells” Hints of Jetro Tull and Iron Maiden. that’s what I caught a pretty sure there is more. Hate to say those things in general but I truly believe that this is the greatest song Dream Theater created
Thanks for this
Incredible. Yes, I agree, that sums it up. It means what it means to each of us, yet we all feel it.
Not a guitar at the beginning it's his finger piano thingy pretty cool instrument he's got a program he made that runs on a iPad device now you just slide your fingers on a digital keyboard it's incredible
Actually, Rudess is playing a Continuum fingerboard here. The iPad thingy is an app created by Rudess himself, I think it's called G-Shred, but this came later, I think in 2009-2010.
Oh yes, pausing a min here
In the 'intervals' section, what you heard as a heavily effected 2nd voices, were actually sbippets of all the previous tracks of the album, from first to seventh. Not coincidentally, the main themes of those songs are referred to in the lyrics of this section.
If you want the full experience, check out their live performance from Score.
Love to see people can enjoy this song.
Yes …the opening is inspired from “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”
also with Marty Friedman's Scenes, and Queen's "Bijou".
The ending outro is inspired from “Welcome To The Machine” song and it is the intro of the first song in that album.
I would say Dream Theater is the bridge between prog rock and prog metal.
Actually they are one of band that defined progressive metal as new genre in 90’s.
With heavily influenced by prog band like Rush, Yes, Camel, Pink Floyd etc they escalate it into metal with Metallica or Pantera’s vibes etc and became progressive metal.
By the way
Here is the list for their “homage” in full circle song :
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- Sailing on the seven seize the day tripper, diem's ready
...sailing on the seven seas: OMD song
...seize the day: famous DT line from A Change of Seasons
...day tripper: Beatles song
...diem's ready: Carpe Diem from A Change of Seasons
-Jack the ripper, Owen's Wilson Phillips and my supper's ready
...jack the ripper: Judas Priest song
...……
...supper's ready: Genesis song
-Lucy in the sky with diamond, Dave's not here ive come to save the day
...lucy in the sky with diamonds: Beatles song
...daves not here: Yes song
-For nightmare cinema show me the way to get back home again
...nightmare cinema: antonym to Dream Theater, and also a joke band they made with Derek Sherinian (former DT keyboardist)
… cinema show: Genesis song
...home: Dream Theater song
-Eugene Gene the dance machine messiah, light my fire, gabba gabba hey hey
...gene gene the dance machine: TV character from the 70-80s
...machine messiah: Yes song
...light my fire: Doors song
...gabba gabba hey: Ramones song
-Hey hey my my generation's home again
...hey hey my my: Neill Young song
...my generation: The Who song
...home again: Dream Theater song again
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Thanks for the breakdown! Hahah I said Welcome to the Machine at the end just playing around but that's cool that it was actually the inspiration for it.
I'm pretty sure you know this by now, but in the 3rd part Mike Portnoy did reference a lot bands, songs and artist that inspired him in some way. Here's the list of references:
The first line we hear is "Isn't This Where We Came In?" which is from Pink Floyd's The Wall.
First verse
"Sailing on the Seven Seas" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
"Seize the Day" is the theme of the album, A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater.
"Day Tripper" - The Beatles
Jack the Ripper - English serial killer
Ripper Owens - Former singer of Judas Priest who took his nickname from the song "The Ripper"
Owen Wilson - actor
Wilson Phillips - band
"Supper's Ready" - Genesis
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - The Beatles
"Diamond Dave" - David Lee Roth's nickname and a song from his 2003 album of the same name
Dave’s Not Here - Famous line from Cheech and Chong's self-titled album
"Here I Come to Save the Day" - Mighty Mouse theme song and refrain
Day for Night - Spock's Beard
"The Cinema Show" - Genesis
"Show Me The Way" - Styx
"Get Back" - The Beatles
Home Again - Pink Floyd's "Breathe (Reprise)"
Second verse
"Flying off the Handle" - Peter Blegvad, King Strut
"Handle with Care" - Traveling Wilburys
"Careful with That Axe, Eugene" - Pink Floyd
"Gene Gene the Dance Machine" - The Gong Show
"Machine Messiah" - Yes
"Light My Fire" - The Doors
"Pinhead (Gabba Gabba Hey)" - The Ramones
"Hey Hey, My My" - Neil Young
"My Generation" - The Who
Home Again - Pink Floyd's "Breathe (Reprise)"
In between 'Day For Night' and 'The Cinema Show': 'Nightmare Cinema', Dream Theater's alter ego when they changed instruments at live shows back during the Sherenian era...
@@VideoDarc true that
that's actually a Keyboard in the intro. He's using a continuum.
React to Dream Theater - Illumination Theory
Should hear this live...Massey hall Toronto 2008 I believe blew me away 🙌🙏🏼🔥
Must be about time you revisited Dream Theater, you should watch them live. Try ‘Illumination Theory’ from the Opera house in Boston or ‘Breaking all illusions’ from the same 2014 show.
James Labrie does the vocals on this song and most all others.
First I want to say my bro was in the music business for decades and has worked with countless famous artists. That being said, he got all the musical talent in the family. I have absolutely no idea what your talking about musically,(I do but you get the idea) but I just love watching people that know what they are talking about react to things like this. It just brings an extra layer of entertainment to the reaction for me.
Oh, please watch them live. there are tons of songs too choose from on you tube.
22:11 jordan plays something that reminds me show me the way - styx.
Octavarium is also a play of the word octave. They're pretty much trapped or limited with creating music with so many notes within those octaves.
Would be cool to see them experiment with eastern scales & stepping out of the octave
The "medicate me infiltrate me" section was referring to the record labels they battled with early in their career. They were forced into a pop rock box and their 4th album flopped because they gave up all creative power.
Very interesting. I would've never guessed it had to do with record labels but I see it now that you mention it
@Samurai Kaito there's a pretty new 21 minute UA-cam Documentary on the start of their career which is a pretty good watch! I forgot the name of the video but I bet you could find it! There's also a good biography book called Lifting Shadows, if you're interested!
none of their albums flopped or were pop
Definitely check out Procupine Tree if you're a fan of Floyd, especially some of their earlier material. They were really heavily inspired by them, I'd recommend songs like The Sky Moves Sideways and Russia On Ice
Already got a couple of their reactions up! Really liked the 2 songs I've heard. Check it out if you'd like
Like Pink Floyd, Dream Theater is an album band. If you want to hear their Pinnacle album, listen/react to Dream Theater's Metropolis Pt 2, Scenes From a Memory. If you'd like to hear another good progressive group, Symphony X - Odyssey. Opeth - Ghost of Perdition.
I think it's about time I gave a full album a listen
I kinda wish we had the time for me to explain this. I'm too lazy to type more than this. Keep up the good stuff
This has a theme and variations structure. Definitly not something you'd hear in typical rock songs. Still DT's best prog epic in my opinion.
Something you should find interesting, DT linked a few albums together by starting the following album with the final sound of the previous work. For example, Metropolis Pt. 2 ends with the sound of an LP on the inner track after all the music, and it fades out. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence was the next album, and it starts with that same sound. In turn it ends on an orchestral hold on a chord that fades out. Train of Thought was the next album and it started with a fade in of the same sound.
However, the band decided to stop the practice with the album Octavarium. The song Octavarium that we just went over with you ends on the same sounds the album starts with. In other words, it loops back to its own beginning. This also displays a theme of the album itself, and lyrics at the end of the song, 'we move in circles'.
There's a lot of easter eggs like this on Octavarium as an album, but it can be thoroughly enjoyed without knowing them all. Love the reaction, keep up the great work.
That's dope, I've always thought about doing that myself when I begin working on albums. But I'll have to check out a full album soon.
At 28:38 it reminds me a lot of the work that Jeff Beck did with Jan Hammer.
You should check out A Change of Seasons, probably their best song and their best epic, it's amazing from beginning to end.
Is there a Best DT song? LOL. I mean for me there are levels of amazing. And your in one level or another and all the levels have many songs in them. However, i do agree that A change of Seasons would be in the top level.
You're great man. You are frequently wrong about really small things, like who is singing or what is/isn't a guitar. You nail a lot of the larger ideas tho. I wish you had checked out a live performance on this one. That not my usual preference but i wonder how differently you would experience it
Cool, thanks!
Correction my friend when you said I kike the guitar it's a fingerboard but sounds very much like a guitar
In 3:37 when u said I like the guitar so just wanted to mention it isn’t a guitar it’s and instrument called continuum and the keyboardist Jordan rudess is playing it
WHAT AUDIO INTERFACE ARE YOU USING BRO?
UAD Apollo Twin X 👌🏽
The opening is not guitar play, it's Haken Continuum Fingerboard
Definitely had to look up what that was lol
Rudess also plays lapsteel guitar at the beginning.
On 23:47 all band appear to play like genesis did in 70's.
Don't know too many Genesis songs but from what I know, I can definitely hear that
I would recommend the genesis song firth of fifth from their 1973 selling England by the pound album
Not sure if you're aware but Dream Theater did a live cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. IT'S PHENOMENAL!!
I'll have to peep that for sure
@@samuraikaito Here you go! ua-cam.com/video/WUoUim7WGwo/v-deo.html
It was kinda disappointing though
Easily the best band on the planet!!
Can’t stand when commenters say nothing about the piece being listened to but have to assert their personal preferences
I don't know if the pitch correction equipment was around when this song was made. I highly doubt they used anything like that. They're too good. The singers' voice was injured at one point years ago, and the newer albums you can tell.. IMHO, and being a very accomplished guitarist myself, you may be listening to one of the most incredible bands there are. This song isn't very representative of what they are capable of. Keep listening, try their later albums.I think you'll be surprised. Pink floyd doesn't hold a candle to these guys.
I don't think there's no reason to compare bands like Pink Floyd and Dream Theater. Both are great bands in their own ways. Music isn't competition and having lots of time signature changes and fast complicated playing doesn't make one band better than other. I'm a big fan of both bands.
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Hi, greetings from the Netherlands. This was another interesting reaction. Almost 2 weeks ago, I recommended Nightwish to you (in the comments of your 'JINJER - Perennial' video). You said that they sound like your kind of band and that you'd add them to the list. Any idea when you'll do a reaction?
I recommended their 10 min. epic song 'Ghost Love Score', but did you know that they also recorded a wonderful tribute to Pink Floyd's 'High Hopes'? ua-cam.com/video/4oEDnVeYYyM/v-deo.html
Yep, I remember Martine! I've been inactive for a while due to being sick for a few days but I'm back up and running now so I'll try to get this one done by next week! I'll also check out the HH cover 👍🏽
@@samuraikaito Wonderful. Good to hear you're feeling better. I'm really looking forward to your reaction and I'm curious to know what you think of these songs. Be well!
@@martine3293 It's up and running 😎ua-cam.com/video/zV4U12p2Kps/v-deo.html
@@samuraikaito Thanks! I'm going to have a look in a minute. I'll get back to you in the comments.
thats not guitar at the beginning
Pitch correction is for pop and rap artists, sir.
Haha not always!
This is definitely an homage to progressive rock, not progressive metal.
Thought so! But Genius stated otherwise
@@samuraikaito I'd like to state that what I said isn't quite correct. It's an homage to their influences and inspirations and also a declaration that they have made their own mark.
Its a homage to prog rock in prog metal
THE END OF THE ALBUM IS THE BEGINING OF THE NEXT ALBUM
Not in this case. They did it before this album for several albums, but this one ends to note where the album started. Kind of going back where it began which goes for the theme of the song and album.
@@ManWithoutThePants The meta album cycle (also known as the album cycle or meta album concept) is a continuous stream of albums when each album starts with the same note or sound that the previous album ended. Dream Theater implemented this with 4 albums starting with their 5th album Scenes From a Memory followed by Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and Train of Thought and ending with their 8th album Octavarium.
@@ace2guitar Yes, that was what I meant to say that they did it before this album, but ended it in Octavarium which starts and stops on same note. So I guess we are talking about the same thing :)
Nope. John not singing.
For me the lead singer is weak...
Sorry DT fan's but he's not appealing to me at all...
He was insanely good on DT’s second album (Images and Words) but didn’t take care of his voice and food poisoning destroyed his cords. I don’t particularly love his vocals after that but instrumentals make up for it.
@@Retseadog Also the reason the Excellent Dream Theater Drummer "Mike Portnoy" left the band too...
@@lkeslinke So Mike P decided to leave after 15 years after James' voice was damaged because of FP? Why wouldn't he just get rid of James and get another Lead?
@@lkeslinke That's not true at all. MP left for a multitude of reasons, one being his relationship with James, but it was never because of his vocals.
@@bvq330 unfortunately we agree to disagree!