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Influenced by: Rush, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Kansas, Queen, Genesis, Iron Maiden, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, U2, Journey, Pantera, Muse, Metallica, WatchtowerDream Theater is a prog-metal band founded in 1985 by John Myung, John Petrucci, and Mike Portnoy under the name Majesty. They changed the name, but their logo is still known as the Majesty symbol. While not entirely mainstream, they are widely considered the face of the progressive metal genre. The inclusion of their songs in the Guitar Hero and Rock Band series have made them more recognizable to the general public, but they have still had only one song ("Pull Me Under") chart well enough to qualify as a "hit".They are known for the extreme technical difficulty and complexity of their music, which often includes long instrumental interludes to showcase the skills of the band members. As such, much of it veers heavily into Epic Rocking territory. They are also known for their live shows, which are often really long and suitably epic.There's a kind of Spin-Off of the band, called Liquid Tension Experiment, which started as a solo project of Mike Portnoy, but eventually ended with 3 out of 4 members of the band, as Jordan Rudess was later incorporated into Dream Theater. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Awake. Due to various reasons such as a decision to take a more metallic approach and especially the growing rift between the band and then-keyboardist Kevin Moore, it's probably the band's second heaviest album after ToT and is definitely the most haunting and darkly atmospheric. This is especially notable considering the general optimism and focus on prog-rock and melodic elements on Images and Words, its predecessor. Train of Thought, probably even moreso. Not only are the lyrical themes much darker, but the music itself is much much heavier than that of Six Degrees, the previous album. "The Glass Prison" (from Six Degrees) was written after Mike and John went to a Pantera concert. The self-titled album, while not dark thematically, is quite a bit heavier than "A Dramatic Turn of Events" note which, to be fair, was their lightest album in quite some time, featuring an unusual abundance of 7-string guitars. | |
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Protest Song: They don't delve into this much, and they studiously avoid being Anvilicious about it when they do, but they do have a few examples. "Prophets of War", without actually espousing conspiracy theories, questions whether the motives for the 2003 Iraq war were pure. Per Word of God, the title is a pun on "profits". "The Enemy Inside" is a protest against the treatment of war veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and the band has worked closely with the charity Save a Warrior, which advocates for veterans with PTSD. "The Great Debate" is a song about the then-divisive issue of stem cell research, although the band avoids taking a stance on it. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Also present in the backing vocals to the Title Drop section of "Build Me Up, Break Me Down." They get more prominent each time the section repeats. | |
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Theremin | |
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Theremin: Briefly in "A Nightmare to Remember". | |
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Power Ballad | |
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Power Ballad: Quite a few, the best known being "Another Day", "Hollow Years" and "The Spirit Carries On". | |
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Long-Runners: They've existed in one form or another since 1986, which makes them one of the longest running Progressive Metal bands. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Though they started experimenting with a more modern and hard-edged sound on Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence, Train Of Thought was the album that officially heralded "Dream Theater 2.0." The songs were much heavier than in the 90's, the modern metal influences were much more prevalentnote there was even rapping on the song "Honor Thy Father", the lyrical themes were darker, and the songwriting (though still very complex and technical) was slightly simpler. This style more-or-less continued on the following four records. And then "Dream Theater 3.0" came about with A Dramatic Turn Of Events, an album that dialed back on the heaviness of the previous four records and found a happy medium between DT 1.0 and DT 2.0. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: "Take the Time" has the line "Just close your eyes; you can find all you need with your mind." "Just Let Me Breathe", as a Take That! at MTV (and, more broadly, the entire music industry - it's worth noting they were being subjected to quite a lot of Executive Meddling at this point), ironically inverts it: "Just close your mind; you can find all you need with your eyes." | |
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Age-Progression Song | |
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Age-Progression Song: "A Change of Seasons" tells the narrator's attitude towards life and others throughout their life, bookended by "The Crimson Sunrise" and "The Crimson Sunset", two movements and lines within those movements. | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The ending to Metropolis, Pt. 2: after Nicholas uncovers his past life and comes to a state of acceptance with it, he's murdered by the Hypnotherapist, who apparently becomes a Karma Houdini just like his past self. | |
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Easter Egg | |
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Easter Egg: "In The Name of God" has a hidden Morse Code message that translates to "Eat my ass and balls". "S2N" has a voice clip of Owen Wilson saying "Wow" that can faintly be heard in the dead space before the final chorus. | |
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Longest Song Goes Last | |
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Longest Song Goes Last: Images and Words closes with "Learning To Live" (11:30). Falling Into Infinity closes with "Trial of Tears" (13:07). Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence closed with the eponymous song (42:02). Train of Thought closes with "In The Name of God" (14:15). Octavarium closes with the eponymous song (24:00). Systematic Chaos closes with "In The Presence of Enemies (Part II)" (16:38). Black Clouds & Silver Linings closes with "The Count of Tuscany" (19:16). Dream Theater closes with "Illumination Theory" (22:17). A View From the Top of the World has the eponymous song (20:24) as its closer. | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art: Their Self-Titled Album. | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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Tomato in the Mirror: "The Killing Hand" ends with the narrator coming back from the past only to discover that in destroying the Killing Hand, he ended up killing another version of himself. | |
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Concept Album | |
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Almost the entirety of Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory by being a Concept Album, both between the songs and the song "Metropolis Part 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper", from Images and Words. | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: The band loves using odd time signatures in their songs, especially during instrumental sections. "The Dance of Eternity" is particularly infamous for this with over a hundred time signature changes in just over six minutes. The page image for the trope is Mike going over the many time signature changes in the second half of the song. Other songs that use this very heavily include "Learning to Live", "Erotomania", "A Change of Seasons", "Hell's Kitchen", "Blind Faith", "The Test That Stumped Them All", "Honor Thy Father", "Stream of Consciousness", "Octavarium", "In the Presence of Enemies", "The Dark Eternal Night", "A Nightmare to Remember", "Lost Not Forgotten", "Outcry", "Breaking All Illusions", "Behind the Veil", and "Surrender to Reason". "6:00" subverts this. The main riff is in 4/4, but it's syncopated in such a way that makes it sound like alternating bars of 7/8 and 9/8. | |
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Trope Codifier | |
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Trope Codifier: They are very strong candidates for being the codifiers of Progressive Metal as a whole. Most subsequent bands in the genre have been influenced by them in one fashion or another, even if that's simply in trying not to imitate them. They could also count as Genre Popularizers, as they are one of the most commercially successful acts in the genre, despite having only had one major hit (then again, prog has not generally been focused on hit singles in the first place). | |
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Chronological Album Title | |
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Chronological Album Title: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is Dream Theater's sixth album, while Octavarium is their eighth. | |
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Everyone Knows Morse | |
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Everyone Knows Morse: "In The Name of God" has Morse code hidden during one of the instrumental breaks. Decoded, it literally translates to "Eat my ass and balls." | |
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Genre Roulette | |
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Genre Roulette: Frequently, as befitting a Progressive Metal band. A good example is the ragtime break in "The Dance of Eternity". | |
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Changing Chorus | |
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Changing Chorus: "Honor Thy Father": First verse: Second verse: Third verse: | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Awake has one with "Space-Dye Vest" and Scenes from a Memory has a Sudden Downer Ending, though it might not be obvious at first listen, but it's confirmed by Word of God. Some of their other albums could also qualify, with "In the Name of God" from Train of Thought being a heart-wrenching response to the Branch Davidian siege in Waco. | |
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Sampling: They're quite fond of sampling films and television shows in their songs. Kevin Moore and Mike Portnoy's songs in particular featured liberal use of this. | |
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Album Intro Track | |
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Album Intro Track: "Regression" for Scenes from a Memory and "False Awakening Suite" for Dream Theater. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The first song of the Alcoholics Anonymous Suite, "The Glass Prison", begins with the sound of static, followed by the sound of a church bell, then the actual music starts. The last song in the suite, "The Shattered Fortress", ends with the song fading out to the sound of a church bell, followed by static. "The Great Debate" begins with a keyboard riff. Soon, bass is added, followed by drums, then guitar. At the end of the song, these instruments are taken away in reverse order, until only the keyboard riff remains. Octavarium ends with the same piano note and sound effects that it began with on "The Root of All Evil". "A Change of Seasons" begins with a section called "The Crimson Sunrise" and ends with "The Crimson Sunset", and opens and closes with the same melody. "In the Presence of Enemies" was split up to bookend Systematic Chaos because Mike felt it was too long to start the album and didn't want to end another album with an epic-length piece. | |
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"In the Presence of Enemies" Bookends Systematic Chaos in much the same way "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" bookends Wish You Were Here (1975), fades in and out with wind sounds, and opens its second segment with a bass line. The long instrumental opening to "Octavarium" also seems like a tribute to "Shine On", which opens much the same way. | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out: "Misunderstood", which fades out...and then back in. As does "At Wit's End". | |
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Religion Rant Song | |
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Religion Rant Song: While they have several song that qualify as Ambiguously Christian, they also have several anti-religious songs, such as "In the Name of God" (which generally protests religious war and terrorism, though it's specifically about the Branch Davidian siege in Waco in the early '90s) and "Blind Faith" (which protests the use of religious faith as an excuse for ignoring terrestrial suffering). | |
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Audience Participation Song | |
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Audience Participation Song: "Take the Time" was this in early tours. "On the Backs of Angels" is starting to fill this mold now, with James LaBrie encouraging audiences to sing along to the main keyboard melody of the song. | |
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Echoing Acoustics | |
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Echoing Acoustics: The electronically-triggered snare and kick Mike Portnoy was forced to use on Images and Words by producer David Prater. | |
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Nintendo Hard | |
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Nintendo Hard: Playing any of this band's music in real life, which is why most of the actual covers and tributes don't make true justice to the originals. John Petrucci said in an interview that one of the ways he keeps himself motivated to improve as a musician is by writing parts he can't actually play. Considering he's a gamer himself, this makes a lot of sense. | |
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Drone of Dread | |
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Drone of Dread: At the beginning of "The Dance of Eternity." | |
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We Really Do Care | |
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We Really Do Care: James LaBrie contemplated quitting the band after he got really bad food poisoning, which led to him vomiting his guts out, which led to damage to his vocal cords that were never quite the same. The rest of the band talked him out of it. | |
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Supergroup: Each of the members has been involved with one at some point. For fun, look up any of the members on That Other Wiki and check the "Associated Acts" section of the info-box. To list a few (there are a lot): James LaBrie has provided vocals for Ayreon. John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, and Jordan Rudess are Liquid Tension Experiment, along with Tony Levin, who's no slouch himself and played with King Crimson and members of Yes and Genesis. | |
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Punny Name | |
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"Ytse Jam" is really just the band's first name written backwards. Doubles as Punny Name. | |
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Fake Band | |
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Fake Band: During their live shows in the Derek Sherinian era, they occasionally exchange instruments with each other and perform some Cover Versions as "Nightmare Cinema". Referenced in the "Full Circle" part of the song "Octavarium" with "Day for Nightmare Cinema" in the lyrics. | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener: The band does this a lot. If a song achieves Epic Rocking lengths (see below), it is guaranteed to begin this way. | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
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Anti-Love Song: "Light the Fuse and Get Away" is about a cynical man who has been dumped so many times that he considers relationships a waste of time. "Honor Thy Father" is a "hate song" variant of this trope written about Mike Portnoy's step-father. | |
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Car Song | |
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Car Song: The Distance Over Time bonus track "Viper King", which is about the Dodge Viper. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: A feature of both this band and its spinoff Liquid Tension Experiment, being Progressive Metal bands, of course. The only albums to date not featuring a track longer than 10 minutes are the debut (When Dream and Day Unite), The Astonishing note which is ironic since The Astonishing is their longest album to date , and Distance Over Time, and the average song length is just under 10 minutes. On the extreme end, there're the following songs: While broken up into three tracks, the "A Mind Beside Itself" suite from Awake lasts for 20:26. "A Change of Seasons", from the A Change of Seasons EP. (23:06) "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence", from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. (42:04, was on its own disc, and was split over 8 tracks) "Octavarium", from Octavarium. (24:00) "In the Presence of Enemies", from Systematic Chaos. (25:38 if both parts are considered a single song, which is usually true during concerts) "The Count of Tuscany", from Black Clouds & Silver Linings. (19:16) "Illumination Theory", from Dream Theater. (22:18, technically closer to 19:17 as the track also includes a secret 2:30 track, but still impressive) The five songs of the "Twelve-Step Suite" add up to 57:16. Add another 6:47 if you count "The Mirror", which is also about Mike's struggle with addiction. Most tracks on The Astonishing are relatively short, especially by Dream Theater standards, but the album itself is a colossal two-hour-plus narrative that tells a single continuous story, and has been crafted as a single cogent piece. Strap in! | |
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Instrumentals | |
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Instrumentals: Aside of Liquid Tension Experiment, the band has, only counting official studio album recordings: "The Ytse Jam", from When Dream and Day Unite "Erotomania", from Awake "Hell's Kitchen", from Falling into Infinity "Scene Two, Part I: Overture 1928" and "Scene Seven, Part I: The Dance of Eternity", from Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory "Overture", from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence "Stream of Consciousness", from Train of Thought. The Special Edition of Black Clouds & Silver Linings includes a disc with instrumentals of all the songs. "Enigma Machine" and "False Awakening Suite", from Dream Theater. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Charlie Dominici and Derek Sherinian. Although both of them returned as guests for the anniversary concert of When Dream and Day Unite in 2004. Their first vocalist, Chris Collins, got this treatment as well. The band were already pissed at him for his poor vocal range, inconsistent live performances, and bad behaviour on stage, which culminated in an incident where Collins was introducing the band and insulted Myung, referring to him as being "from the jungles of Korea". The band ultimately forced him to leave, and ended up replacing him with Charlie Dominici. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Dream Theater have touched on the subject of soldiers with PTSD a few times. "War Inside My Head" from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is about a soldier who is haunted by the things he experienced during wartime (implied to be The Vietnam War). "The Enemy Inside" is also about PTSD in soldiers, this time focused more on The War on Terror. The music video follows a veteran through his daily life, which is constantly interrupted by flashbacks and hallucinations. To hammer the point in, the video, which was filmed in partnership with the Save A Warrior foundation, contains interviews with Iraq War veterans. | |
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ShoutOutToShakespeare | |
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Shout-Out to Shakespeare: "Pull Me Under" ends with a direct quote from Hamlet and the whole song is sung from the title character's perspective. | |
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Siamese Twin Songs | |
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Siamese Twin Songs: There are a few examples in their discography, such as "Wait for Sleep"-"Learning to Live", "The Mirror"-"Lie", "War Inside My Head"-"The Test that Stumped Them All", and "Vacant"-"Stream of Consciousness". These pairs of songs are sometimes played together live, but sometimes not. "A Mind Beside Itself" also counts if you consider it to be three songs rather than a single song divided into three tracks; the first two movements are almost always played live together, but sometimes they finish off the suite with another song rather than "The Silent Man". | |
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Sdrawkcab Name | |
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Sdrawkcab Name: "Ytse Jam" is really just the band's first name written backwards. Doubles as Punny Name. The "Majesty Demos" bootleg actually has a track on it called "Gnos Sdrawkcab", which is just a reversed recording of John Petrucci shredding for a few seconds. | |
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Breather Episode | |
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Breather Episode: On Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, the soft ballad "Through Her Eyes" is placed between the extemely heavy epics "Beyond This Life" and "Home". | |
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Star Wars (Franchise) | |
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"Voices" opens with John Petrucci playing "Binary Sunset". | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Dysfunction Junction: "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" is, as its title suggests, about six individuals who have their lives negatively affected by mental disorders such as PTSD, autism, and dissociative identity disorder. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: The whole band, really, except Myung (whose performances still could be considered fairly hammy, but he himself is quite shy and reserved). It's part of the reason their music is such a polarizing affair. Amongst all of them, though, LaBrie is probably the hammiest. As for a musical example, the Black Clouds & Silver Linings album treats us to thunder, dissonant piano, heavy guitars, choirs, and organs. Oh, and that's just in the first minute of over an hour of music. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Their Greatest Hit album. Only one of those songs ("Pull Me Under", from Images & Words) became a hit. All of the others were released singles and re-recordings. | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: Featured heavily. Notable songs include "Take the Time", "6:00", "Voices", "Space Dye Vest", "A Change of Seasons", "Regression", "Finally Free", "The Great Debate", "Goodnight Kiss", "Honor Thy Father", "Sacrificed Sons", "Repentence", and "Breaking All Illusions". | |
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I Am the Band | |
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I Am the Band: Myung and Petrucci are the only original members of the band who've been there throughout its entire history. It's fair to say that Dream Theater is their band. | |
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Arc Number | |
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Arc Number: "Octavarium" uses the idea that everything ends where it began and uses the number 8 and the octave as examples. It's the eighth track on their eighth album and its length in minutes (twenty-four) is divisible by 8. Various other elements in the song also allude to cycles and/or the number 8. According to ex-drummer Portnoy, the album's concept stemmed from his realising that (a), Octavarium was to be their eighth studio release, and (b), they had just released their fifth live release (Live at Budokan). | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change: The final chorus of "Moment of Betrayal" is played three semitones higher than the rest of the song prior. The final chorus and outro of "I Walk Beside You" is played two semitones higher than everything else in the song. | |
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Greatest Hits Album | |
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2008 - Greatest Hit (...And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) | |
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Seven Deadly Sins | |
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Seven Deadly Sins: All seven are brought up in “The Root of All Evil�. | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
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Careful with That Axe: Most present before James experienced his vocal injury, like the scream during the build up of "Learning to Live". That scream is the F♯ just below soprano C, and is one of the highest notes James has ever reached in his entire singing career. The entire Live at the Marquee album, especially the Charlie Dominici songs, which he sings a whole lot higher just because he can, apparently. This YTMND. Listening to it right before or after Live at the Marquee is hilarious. Referenced in the lyrics to "Octavarium" as a Shout-Out to Pink Floyd, in step 3, "Full Circle". Then Played Straight in the last stanza of step 4, "Intervals". Also present in the backing vocals to the Title Drop section of "Build Me Up, Break Me Down." They get more prominent each time the section repeats. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Every song from the Twelve-Step suite,note "The Glass Prison", from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence; "This Dying Soul", from Train of Thought; "The Root of All Evil", from Octavarium; "Repentance", from Systematic Chaos and "The Shattered Fortress", from Black Clouds & Silver Linings barring "The Glass Prison" for being the first, is referenced in the other songs of said suite. The suite itself is a direct sequel to "The Mirror" from Awake, and several of its songs contain nods to that song as well. "Wait for Sleep"-"Learning to Live", from Images and Words. Almost the entirety of Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory by being a Concept Album, both between the songs and the song "Metropolis Part 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper", from Images and Words. The tandems "Vacant"-"Stream of Consciousness", from Train of Thought Each of the lines in the "Intervals" step of "Octavarium", from Octavarium, refer back to the previous tracks on the album. "The Best of Times", from Black Clouds & Silver Linings has "Remember, seize the day". This song was written by Mike Portnoy about the death of a relative... and the previous song that was written by him about the death of a relative, "A Change of Seasons", from the A Change of Seasons EP, contained the words "Seize the day" quite a few times. "The Bigger Picture" from the Self-Titled Album makes a reference to "The Ministry of Lost Souls", with the line 'And I’ll reach the water’s edge'. A very famous example is how some of their albums start with a sound that ended the previous album. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence begins with static, which Scenes from a Memory ended with. The next album, Train of Thought, begins by fading in with the same chord that Six Degrees fades out with in its ending. To cap that off, the last note on Train of Thought is the same one that starts and ends Octavarium - making a "lasso" of those four albums. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: TIME! FOR! CHANGE! FIGHT! THE! FEAR! FIND! THE! TRUTH!note From "Prophets of War". "I! Am! The! LAST!"note From "The Dark Eternal Night". "I! WILL! LIVE ON! LIVE ON!"note From "A Change of Seasons". "TRAPPED INSIDE! THIS! OCTAVA! RI! UM!"note From "Octavarium". "BUILD! ME! UP! BREAK! ME! DOWN!"note From "Build Me Up, Break Me Down", natch. | |
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Left the Background Music On | |
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Left the Background Music On: At the end of "Finally Free" the outro vamp is revealed to be playing on Nicholas' car radio. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: The band has been known to cover entire classic rock and metal albums at certain concerts, such as The Number of the Beast, Master of Puppets, Made in Japan and The Dark Side of the Moon. John Petrucci has admitted that "In the Presence of Enemies" is inspired by the Korean comic book Priest. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: On Awake, the serene acoustic "The Silent Man" abruptly transitions to the chugging opening riff of "The Mirror", which was the heaviest thing the band had done up to that point. (For that matter, "The Silent Man" directly follows "Voices", a harrowing portrayal of schizophrenia; there's a brief segue between them that prevents the transition from being too abrupt, but it probably lasts about half a minute.) In "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence", the extremely manic and heavy "The Test That Stumped Them All" fades into the depressing and ridiculously soft-sounding "Goodnight Kiss". On Octavarium, the uplifting U2-esque "I Walk Beside You" is followed by the heaviest song on the album, "Panic Attack". On Systematic Chaos, the over-the-top fantasy-themed "The Dark Eternal Night" is followed by the somber, reflective "Repentance", part of the AA saga. "Repentance" is also this in the context of the AA suite, as it's the only ballad in the suite and is followed by "The Shattered Fortress", possibly the heaviest song in the whole suite since "The Glass Prison". In "Illumination Theory", the end of the serene string section cuts abrubtly to a very dry bass and drum riff. | |
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Loudness War | |
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Loudness War: Most of the material since Awake has been pretty badly clipped. The Official Bootlegs on Ytsejam Records are generally better about this (they're still fairly loud, but generally don't clip much), possibly because erstwhile drummer Mike Portnoy manages the label and the loudness war generally affects drums particularly badly. | |
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Animated Music Video | |
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Animated Music Video: "Forsaken", from Systematic Chaos. | |
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Big Rock Ending | |
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Big Rock Ending: "Endless Sacrifice", "In the Presence of Enemies Pt. 2", and "Erotomania". | |
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Evil Sounds Raspy | |
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Evil Sounds Raspy: During the verses of "The Dark Eternal Night" from Systematic Chaos, James and Mike portray an Egyptian God with this kind of voice by singing the melody with heavy distortion on their vocals. "My soul is yours, dark master. I will fight for you." note From "In the Presence of Enemies Part 2" | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: "The smell of stale sweat and shit steaming throught the night" from "The Test That Stumped Them All" The twelve parts of the Twelve-Step Suite all start with "R": Reflection, Restoration, Revelation, Reflections of Reality (Revisited), Release, Ready, Remove, Regret, Restitution, Restraint, Receive and Responsible. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: "As I Am", wrote by John Petrucci, is directed to Queensrÿche's Mike Stone. Specifically, it was written after Mike tried to give John some tips on playing guitar (hence the line "Don't...tell me how to write"). "Honor Thy Father" is basically 10 minutes of Calling The Step-Old Man Out, from Mike Portnoy's part. "Never Enough" was wrote by Portnoy as one towards their Unpleasable Fanbase. Kevin Moore wrote "6:00", which was about being sick of working with the band. The unreleased "Raise the Knife" is a bitter rant from Portnoy about Moore leaving the band before Awake was released. | |
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Cover Album | |
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Cover Album: A Change of Seasons, aside from the title track, consists of a selection of live covers. A special edition of Black Clouds & Silver Linings comes with a disc with six covers. There're also two "official bootlegs" composed of covers called "Uncovered". They've also recorded live versions of several classic prog and metal albums in their entirety. Examples include Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, Metallica's Master of Puppets, and Deep Purple's Made in Japan. These have been released in the band's "Official Bootleg" series (there's also a DVD of the Dark Side cover). | |
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Low Count Gag | |
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Low Count Gag: They titled their greatest hits album "Greatest Hit (...And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)", joking about how most of their songs have never charted. This is likely due to them being too long, complex and unsuitable for mainstream radio play. Typical greatest hits albums have more than one hit. | |
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Celebrity Is Overrated | |
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Celebrity Is Overrated: "Build Me Up, Break Me Down" is about how the media intrudes the private lives of celebrities. "The Looking Glass" can also be interpreted as this, though it's more criticizing people's desire for fame than it is criticizing fame itself. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Generally, the band avoid swearing in their songs, which makes the line "I wish I weren't so fucked" in "As I Am" a classic example of this trope, made even better with the emphasis James LaBrie puts on "fucked". "Honour Thy Father" also has the lines "And have the balls to blame this shit on me" and "So fucking blind to the damage he has done", as well as a borderline Cluster F-Bomb in the spoken word section in the middle of the song (though slightly muffled by the music in parts). LaBrie has been known to throw in occasional uses of profanity during live performances in cases where there wasn't any in the studio versions. For instance, the line "I don't need your sympathy to get me through the day" (from "A Change of Seasons") has sometimes been sung as "I don't need your mercy fuck to get me through the day" and sometimes as "I don't need your fucking shit to get me through the day". | |
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Last Note Nightmare | |
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Last Note Nightmare: Some songs have really weird segues at the end of songs: "Misunderstood" from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is notable due to the last third or so of the song fitting under this. Octavarium has several for symbolism—the weird endings are separately-indexed hidden tracks that represent the black notes on a keyboard. Scenes from a Memory ends with the protagonist, Nicholas, going home, pouring himself a drink and listening to some calming music, before the hypnotherapist promptly murders him to the sound of a surprised yelp, the record being dislodged from the player, and static which leads off to.... "The Glass Prison", which starts Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence immediately where "Finally Free" left off—with gramophone static. Jordan's response to Mike leaving the band is in the form of a nice, quiet piano and vocal improv...until he pulls a "Her Majesty" type Scare Chord in the last 10 seconds. | |
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Self-Referential Track Placement | |
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Self-Referential Track Placement: "Octavarium" is the eighth track on its namesake album, closing the whole album and its theme of fives and eights. | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls: "The Glass Prison" opens with a sinister-sounding bell being repeatedly rung. | |
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One-Woman Wail | |
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One-Woman Wail: The intro to Through Her Eyes on Metropolis, Pt. 2. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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"Full Circle", the third step of "Octavarium", from the namesake album, its basically a countdown of Shout Outs to every kind of stuff which influenced DT in one way or another. | |
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Music Is Politics | |
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Music Is Politics: Most of Portnoy's lyrics from Falling into Infinity are about his disgust with record industry politics. After this album, the band would carefully negotiate contracts to ensure they had complete creative control over their recording process. | |
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Self-Titled Album | |
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Self-Titled Album: Their 12th studio album is titled Dream Theater. | |
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The Band Minus the Face | |
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The Band Minus the Face: Mike Portnoy founded the band alongside Petrucci and Myung, co-produced their albums with Petrucci, and did most of the interviews - not to mention maintaining and curating a vast back-catalog of official bootlegs. | |
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Dramatic Curtain Toss | |
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Dramatic Curtain Toss: They've opened many of their 2009 shows with "A Nightmare to Remember," often starting with a black curtain and pulling it down when the guitar enters. It's quite dramatic. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: "Wither" is about writer's block, of all things. The album cover for Octavarium features a giant Newton's cradle, with one of the balls having the Majesty symbol on it. | |
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Rock Opera | |
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Rock Opera: Metropolis, Pt. 2 and The Astonishing. | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: The only exceptions to this are Falling into Infinity, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Train of Thought, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, A Dramatic Turn of Events and Distance Over Time, whose titles do not appear anywhere in the albums. Otherwise: When Dream and Day Unite is a part of "Only a Matter of Time". Images and Words: from "Wait for Sleep". Awake: from a line in "Innocence Faded". The working title for the Falling into Infinity album, "Stream of Consciousness", does show up in "Lines in the Sand". Scenes from a Memory: from "Scene Six: Home" (and "Metropolis Pt. 1", from Images and Words). Octavarium: from, well, "Octavarium". Systematic Chaos: The second half of it anyway, from a line in "The Dark Eternal Night"; though the title may reference a line from "Constant Motion". The Astonishing: from the last line on the album. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: They've used this a few times. The lyrics to "Scarred" close on a hopeful note, but the music underlying the lines continues the gloomy mood of the rest of the song, and then transitions to a fairly dissonant instrumental fadeout. Meanwhile, "Take Away My Pain", an elegy for Petrucci's father, is given a cheerful major key melody. | |
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Start My Own | |
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Start My Own: Charlie Dominici, former vocalist (though only hardcore fans even know they had a vocalist other than James), started his own band called Dominici in the early 2000s. | |
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Audience Participation | |
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Audience Participation: In concerts leading up to the release of The Astonishing, the band allowed fans to chose between being members of The Great Northern Empire or the Ravenskill Rebel Militia. | |
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Long-Runner Line-up | |
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Long-Runner Line-up: Type two; the LaBrie/Myung/Petrucci/Portnoy/Rudess lineup lasted for just over eleven years. The LaBrie/Mangini/Myung/Petrucci/Rudess lineup lasted 13 years, until Portnoy's return in 2023. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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Everything Is an Instrument: Jordan Rudess has been known to experiment with some interesting instruments, including keyboards that sound like sitars and turntables, keyboard guitars, a Haken Continuumnote a keyboard with no actual keys but a single flat strip that is played by touching with the fingers and even the iPhone and the iPad. He surely has a lot of toys. John Myung has also been known to play with a Chapman Stick instead of an ordinary bass from time to time. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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Whole-Plot Reference: "Pull Me Under" to Hamlet, "In the Presence of Enemies" to Priest, The Astonishing to "2112". The first two are confirmed as intentional by Word of God. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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"Honor Thy Father" is basically 10 minutes of Calling The Step-Old Man Out, from Mike Portnoy's part. | |
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Grief Song | |
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Grief Song: "A Change of Seasons", from the eponymous EP, is partially drummer Mike Portnoy's way to cope with the death of his mother. "Take Away My Pain", from Falling into Infinity, is about the death of guitarist John Petrucci's father. "Disappear", from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, is about the death of a loved one. According to James LaBrie, the lyrics were inspired by observing a young couple and wondering what would happen when one of them died. "Goodnight Kiss", also from Six Degrees..., is about a mother who lost her child. "Sacrificed Sons", from Octavarium, is dedicated to the victims of 9/11. "The Best of Times", from Black Clouds and Silver Linings, is Portnoy's way to cope with the death of his father. | |
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The Plan | |
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The Plan: In Metropolis, Pt. 2, Edward kills Victoria and Julian, then leaves a suicide note in Julian's pocket, making it appear as if Julian shot Victoria and killed himself. In other words, Edward literally gets away with murder. And it's not over yet! When Edward finally dies, he is reincarnated as the Hypnotherapist; at the end of the album, he murders Nicholas, the reincarnation of Victoria! | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: "Pull Me Under" cuts off abruptly without fading or having a coda. According to Mike Portnoy, it happened because they tried to build up a climactic ending but had no idea how to cap it off. | |
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Ode to Sobriety | |
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Ode to Sobriety: The Twelve-Step Suite ("The Glass Prison", "This Dying Soul", "The Root of All Evil", "Repentance", and "The Shattered Fortress") collectively deal with Mike Portnoy overcoming his alcoholism. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Both averted and enforced. John Petrucci and John Myung were founding members of the band, breaking the limit. However, when Kevin James LaBrie joined the band before Images and Words, he used his middle name as his stage name to avoid confusion with Kevin Moore. Mike Portnoy got replaced by Mike Mangini, so you still have to use a last name to describe Dream Theater's drummer when the context doesn't clear up which one you're talking about. | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
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Sanity Slippage Song: An awful lot of their songs. Possibly up to half of them on some of their albums, honestly. In particular, "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence", "A Mind Beside Itself", and "Octavarium" have this as overarching concerns of the whole song or at least of specific subsections. And of course "Panic Attack" kind of speaks for itself; it even sounds like a panic attack. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: Jordan played a single show with the band right before Sherinian was hired, and Mike Mangini played a drum duet with Portnoy during a show in 2002. | |
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Soprano and Gravel | |
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Soprano and Gravel: Mike Portnoy sometimes used a deeper voice than James LaBrie on songs such as "A Nightmare to Remember" and "Prophets of War". The version of "The Spirit Carries On" on both Live Scenes from New York and Score features vocals from Theresa Thomason, and also in their version of "The Great Gig in the Sky". | |
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Hidden Track | |
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Octavarium has several for symbolism—the weird endings are separately-indexed hidden tracks that represent the black notes on a keyboard. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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The Astonishing: The story takes place in 2285 in the Maineland of the American Northwest, now called "The Great Northern Empire of the Americas", when devices known as NOMACS became corrupted and basically supply all of the country's entertainment, mainly music and the country became a Dystopia. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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In "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence", the extremely manic and heavy "The Test That Stumped Them All" fades into the depressing and ridiculously soft-sounding "Goodnight Kiss". | |
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Heavy Mithril | |
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On Systematic Chaos, the over-the-top fantasy-themed "The Dark Eternal Night" is followed by the somber, reflective "Repentance", part of the AA saga. "Repentance" is also this in the context of the AA suite, as it's the only ballad in the suite and is followed by "The Shattered Fortress", possibly the heaviest song in the whole suite since "The Glass Prison". | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Their depictions of psychological disorders, which are plentiful in their lyrics, are quite detailed, accurate, and respectful. Some of the lyrics ("Constant Motion", for example) are written from personal experience, while the band members did research for some of the others (such as "Voices"). It shows. The depiction of recovery from alcoholism in the Twelve-Step Suite is also an example, which is also a case of Write What You Know. | |
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