Dream Theater Dream Set
Wow, it's been forever since I've done anything in here. But I had a little extra time on my hands so I thought "what the hell." I found out that my favorite band, Dream Theater, is having a grand finale concert in New York (their last tour stop of the 05/06 tour) to celebrate their 20th year of being in existance. The best part is that they're gonna record it and release the concert as a CD/DVD hopefully later in the year. From what I've read, Dream Theater are "going to make fans dream sets come true." I was so damn excited that I felt like a little school girl lol I mean, I already have the CD of when they played my favorite album of all time, Metropolis II: Scenes from A Memory, entirely and my favorite song of all time, A Change of Seasons (this song is 24 minutes long, you better believe it's amazing), not to mention a few other favorites. Then I got to thinking, it would be a dream come true if they would play my dream set:
Metropolis pt 1 (9:32)
Metropolis pt II: Scenes From A Memory (whole album) (77:12)
----Regression (2:06)
----Overture 1928 (3:37)
----Strange Deja Vu (5:13)
----Through My Words (1:02)
----Fatal Trajedy (6:49)
----Beyond This Life (11:22)
----Through Her Eyes (5:29)
----Home (12:53)
----Dance of Eternity (6:13)
----One Last Time (3:47)
----The Spirit Carries On (6:38)
----Finally Free (12:00)
The Glass Prison (13:52)
This Dying Soul (11:27)
Octavarium (whole album) (75:58)
----The Root of All Evil (8:25)
----The Answer Lies Within (5:33)
----These Walls (7:36)
----I Walk Beside You (4:29)
----Panic Attack (8:13)
----Never Enough (6:46)
----Sacrificed Sons (10:42)
----Octavarium (24:00)
Six Degress of Inner Turbulence (42:02) (The 2nd Disk)
----Overture
----About to Crash
----War Inside My Head
----The Test That Stumped Them All
----Goodnight Kiss
----Solitary Shell
----About To Crash (reprise)
----Losing Time/Grand Finale
A Mind Beside Itself (19:46)
----Erotomania (6:45)
----Voices (9:53)
----The Silent Man (3:48)
Learning To Live (11:30)
Pull Me Under (8:12)
A Change of Seasons (23:06)
A little thought to it is Metropolis Pt I starts it off because it has that kind of beginning that'll pump up the crowd, followed by part II (for obvious reasons, DUH!!). The songs Glass Prison, Dying Soul, and the Root of All Evil (first song off Octavarium) are a part of Mike Portnoy's (drummer) AA saga dealing with the 12 steps to recovering from alcoholism, even though these songs only deal with parts 1-7 (so far, the other parts will come in future Dream Theater albums) it would be cool to play all three parts in order. If you were to listen to the albums Metropolis pt II, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Train of Thought, and Octavarium, the last song of previous album flows into the first song of the next album, so the ending of Finally Free (which is nothing but static) starts off on The Glass Prison of Six Degrees, this is why I have The Glass Prison after Metropolis pt II to keep the flow going :) Of course since The Root of All Evil is the start of the album Octavarium and Octavarium is the album they're touring for, why not do the whole album (they have done this before in another concert)? After that maybe an intermission because the rest of the set doesnt really have a flow. Then to kick things off again they play the entire Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (the title track of its respected album) which is a whopping 42 minutes. After they finish that then they do another intermission and have an encore that consists of the final material. A Mind Beside Itself is actually a 3 part song just like Six Degrees is an 8 part song. Then you have the classic Learning to Live followed by the song that started it all, Pull Me Under (every band has "their" song). Then you have the epic of epics, A Change of Seasons, a song the band spend 5 years writing and probably (along with Pull Me Under) they're most popular, but diffinitly my all time favorite song :) But there you have it, as you can tell I believe that concert would be around 5 hours in length but it would be the concert of a lifetime, for me anyway :) If only I could get tickets to go :(
Metropolis pt 1 (9:32)
Metropolis pt II: Scenes From A Memory (whole album) (77:12)
----Regression (2:06)
----Overture 1928 (3:37)
----Strange Deja Vu (5:13)
----Through My Words (1:02)
----Fatal Trajedy (6:49)
----Beyond This Life (11:22)
----Through Her Eyes (5:29)
----Home (12:53)
----Dance of Eternity (6:13)
----One Last Time (3:47)
----The Spirit Carries On (6:38)
----Finally Free (12:00)
The Glass Prison (13:52)
This Dying Soul (11:27)
Octavarium (whole album) (75:58)
----The Root of All Evil (8:25)
----The Answer Lies Within (5:33)
----These Walls (7:36)
----I Walk Beside You (4:29)
----Panic Attack (8:13)
----Never Enough (6:46)
----Sacrificed Sons (10:42)
----Octavarium (24:00)
Six Degress of Inner Turbulence (42:02) (The 2nd Disk)
----Overture
----About to Crash
----War Inside My Head
----The Test That Stumped Them All
----Goodnight Kiss
----Solitary Shell
----About To Crash (reprise)
----Losing Time/Grand Finale
A Mind Beside Itself (19:46)
----Erotomania (6:45)
----Voices (9:53)
----The Silent Man (3:48)
Learning To Live (11:30)
Pull Me Under (8:12)
A Change of Seasons (23:06)
A little thought to it is Metropolis Pt I starts it off because it has that kind of beginning that'll pump up the crowd, followed by part II (for obvious reasons, DUH!!). The songs Glass Prison, Dying Soul, and the Root of All Evil (first song off Octavarium) are a part of Mike Portnoy's (drummer) AA saga dealing with the 12 steps to recovering from alcoholism, even though these songs only deal with parts 1-7 (so far, the other parts will come in future Dream Theater albums) it would be cool to play all three parts in order. If you were to listen to the albums Metropolis pt II, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Train of Thought, and Octavarium, the last song of previous album flows into the first song of the next album, so the ending of Finally Free (which is nothing but static) starts off on The Glass Prison of Six Degrees, this is why I have The Glass Prison after Metropolis pt II to keep the flow going :) Of course since The Root of All Evil is the start of the album Octavarium and Octavarium is the album they're touring for, why not do the whole album (they have done this before in another concert)? After that maybe an intermission because the rest of the set doesnt really have a flow. Then to kick things off again they play the entire Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (the title track of its respected album) which is a whopping 42 minutes. After they finish that then they do another intermission and have an encore that consists of the final material. A Mind Beside Itself is actually a 3 part song just like Six Degrees is an 8 part song. Then you have the classic Learning to Live followed by the song that started it all, Pull Me Under (every band has "their" song). Then you have the epic of epics, A Change of Seasons, a song the band spend 5 years writing and probably (along with Pull Me Under) they're most popular, but diffinitly my all time favorite song :) But there you have it, as you can tell I believe that concert would be around 5 hours in length but it would be the concert of a lifetime, for me anyway :) If only I could get tickets to go :(