Glad you are doing more Dream Theater. This is the song that put them on the map. It actually got radio play in 1992. Their catalogue is so deep and diverse that they should keep you busy for a long time. There are so many to choose from I don't even know where to begin. Maybe something like "Scarred" from 1994 to show off their range. If you like Dream Theater also check out the band Pain of Salvation. They are awesome too and are very unique. "Beyond the Pale" would be a good track to check out
This song changed things in life for me. It led to many a great discoveries in my musical journey. Just like the word “progressive” DT’s sound has evolved or Progressed if you will to categories for me. The first three albums plus an EP... -When Dream and Day Unite -Images and Words -Awake -A Change Of Seasons (EP) In my opinion are the foundation to understanding this band. All their influences are in the music even if you don’t pick up on the nuances at first. They are there. Images and Words is a very special album to me but Awake is the shit. Beautiful, Dark, Complex, Curious, Mysterious, and, Elated. (No, I’m not describing Tasha, lol). It’s a brilliant album start to finish. One I recommend listening to in its entirety and not chopped up. It was the last album to feature Kevin Moore. The Change Of Seasons EP is great. It features some really killer LIVE cover tunes and the best live vocals from James LaBrie I’ve ever heard. Sadly, shellfish messed things up. -Falling Into Infinity A great album and turning point. This album was the record company’s attempt to create a polished commercial version of DT. If you really want to hear the album as the Band intended you have to listen to the Official Bootleg version. -Metropolis II: Scenes From A Memory Considered one of the greatest concept albums of all time. The first album to feature Jordan Rudess. Dream Theater’s EMAAB to the record company and back in control. -Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. An album centered more towards DT’s love of Prog. It still has some very heavy tracks to appease the Metal crowd. For me it shows a change in direction with a glimpse of what is to become for DT. -Train Of Thought A DT All Metal album except for Vacant. That ones a take a break moment before you explode in the middle of the album track. -Octavarium -Systematic Chaos These two albums highlight current (at the time) musical influences for the band and some attempts at writing an actual song versus the complex arrangements usually written. -Black Clouds and Silver Linings The last album to feature Mike Portnoy. The last Heavy album. The beginning of... So to End the best era and the MP era here’s a quick album summary. *The Backbone Albums -WDADU -Images and Words -M2: Scenes From A Memory *The Heavy Albums -Awake -Train Of Thought -Black Clouds and Silver Linings -Systematic Chaos *The Heavy, The Prog, and The Beautiful -Octavarium -Falling Into Infinity -Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence Post MP and the new Era -A Dramatic Turn Of Events -Dream Theater (Self Titled) -The Astonishing -Distance Over Time --The Following Content is my Opinion only- ADTOE was a solid album and the best they have made post MP. If you go back to BCASL and focus on the arrangements you’ll see a pattern. At least I did and it makes me feel like something is missing has changed the course for me. -Dream Theater (Self Titled) I consider this album the not as successful sequel to BCASL. Solid follow up but not as good as the first movie kind of thing. There are some really good songs sandwiched with a bunch of commercial, straight to the point, radio single kind of songs. I’m not saying they are bad songs, they are just not something I think of when I think of DT. -The Astonishing -Distance Over Time Here comes some controversy... I’m not going to mince words here. Biggest disappointments ever. I absolutely do not like either of these albums. The are garbage to me. Believe me I’ve tried and tried. That pattern I mentioned earlier from BCASL is all over Distance Over Time and it literally ruins everything about it. Let’s start a song off really heavy and then move onto some weak ass Chorus sections. Rinse and repeat. Every song. It’s basically the same songs from the self titled album with different lyrics. Not exactly the same but you get the idea. The Astonishing is just way to long for one. There are to many things about this concept album that I don’t like. I pretend like it doesn’t exist. I cannot name one song that stands out. Apparently this one can only be appreciated if you have seen it live. Obviously I have not. It was unfortunate that I didn’t have the opportunity to do so cause I would love to have my mind changed. Dream Theater will always be special to me. I hold them in the highest regard. What they mean to me cannot be put into words. I’ve been a fan since 92. As soon as I first heard PMU. That’s a fact.
I think I agree with 99% of what you said, with the exception of Distance Over Time. To me, that album is their best since MP departed. And it's the only album where Mangini had full creative input with the rest of the band. A Dramatic Turn was written entirely without a drummer, and I think it shows in that the drums are relatively boring in that album. Not bad, but not up to the normal DT standard. The Self Titled album had much better drum composition, and it would have been a stellar album if they had gotten a good mix on it, but honestly its the album I listen to the least because of how it sounds. The songs are good but the mix is not so good. And Mangini has stated that he felt he didn't have much creative input on that record. The Astonishing is the other outlier album alongside A Dramatic Turn in that ONLY JORDAN RUDESS AND JOHN PETRUCCI WROTE IT, which is the only album in their discography that was written without the other members contributing creatively to the writing process. And while it's not terrible, I rarely come back to it. Distance Over Time finally has the creative input from everyone that should have been there since Mangini joined the band, and it definitely shows IMO. S2N, At Wit's End, and Pale Blue Dot are all stellar DT songs, just as good as anything else they've written in their career. And the mix is by far the best they've had since Six Degrees. John Myung is up front in the mix (the album was engineered by a Bass Player) and Mangini sounds like thunder. It's a fantastic record IMO
@@matijagrguric6490 no need to get excited. He did say "in his opinion". As a huge fan theater fan, I would say his opinion is valid. Same as yours. I personally agree on both sides. I'll tell you one thing though, I sure would love for Portnoy to regroup with John, Jordan and Tony for a part 3 of LTE!
This is their masterpiece. One of the best songs ever recorded in the history of music from an iconic group of musicians. I recommend On The Backs Of Angels and Mike Mangini's Drum Solo at Luna Park.
YES YES YES! T I've waited like forever for you to do this song! I did request it in another comment but I'm so glad you finally did Pull Me Under! This is the song that introduced me to the brilliance of Dream Theater! This isnsuch an amazing tune and the sheer power of the drums and vocals would be enough but they add so much more with the great mix of other instruments also! This was in fact thel last concert I saw before the covid started! As always I really enjoy taking this musical enlightenment journey with you and Tasha! You make it seem like I'm right with you discovering this music for the first time! Keep up the great videos! ✌ from Nebraska!!
New follower here. I love Dream theater. I know I’m new but check out Charlotte Wessels, formerly front woman of Delain. Her song Soft Revolution is simply hypnotic and perfect. 👍👍
If yo want to cry listen to Illumination theory Live from the Boston Opera house. If you want variety in 1 track listen to Outcry. If you want heavy, listen to This Dying Soul. But just keep listening!!!
More DT please!! Some of my favorites: Under a Glass Moon, Learning to Live, Scarred, Lie, Miss understood.... They're old stuff was simply the best!! Great channel!!
I've seen Dream Theater many times with Queensryche. That's how it ends on purpose. They stopped playing it live. Almost 30 yrs old. When there songs get popular they stop playing it live. The ending is the most perfect ending, He got pulled under. Death.
Great vid! Most people's introduction to DT years ago was this song. If you listen to the lyrics, this song is about Shakespeare's "Hamlet", and the passion of a young man to right a tremendous wrong, no matter the cost. Note the line, "I'll take seven lives for one, and then my ONLY father's son, as much as I did ever love him, I am not afraid." Tremendous capture of the brooding anger and fury of that play in a musical piece. Now do "The Dark Eternal Night", "Endless Sacrifice", or "Breaking All Illusions"! :)
Rush is a great progrock band they were really popular in the seventies check out their first album just listen to it all the way through. Also their album 2112 is an awesome concept album that tells a really cool story
I'm a long time prog fan and I'm really happy to see new people appreciating prog metal, good reaction. May I suggest a very underrated power/prog metal band from Norway (way ahead of time in early 90s and I believe that's way they were never appreciated as they deserved.), they are Conception and I suggest the song "Among the Gods" from the album The last sunset and absolute masterpiece from late 1991 just few months before Images and Words by DT.
These guys are musical geniuses, their bassist plays six string basses and their drummer helped a7x finish the drums on nightmare after the rev passed away. John Petrucci is phenomenal I love his progressive way of playing his solo stuff is amazing to listen to
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 you're really doing yourself a disservice by not checking them out :D will keep you interested learning about them for a very long time
Try the song As I Am, or Constant Motion by them if you want more Metallica-prog vibes! As I Am is a pretty straighforward song, but it's very heavy, has a great groove to it and the solo is pretty nuts as well. Constant Motion is very inspired by Metallica, but with a big prog twist in the sections with the solos.
You really need to experience their live videos.......a whole other experience seeing the talent visually......definitely makes you appreciate the immense talent generated by these masters of their craft
T, some other Dream Theater songs you might like are Panic Attack, Metropolis Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, and The Enemy Inside. And those sweet guitar riffs are courtesy of John Petrucci.
Hey T... I'll put it this way, I know you're a big fan of Megadeth, and Dave Mustaine thinks Dream Theater is fantastic. He invited them on his Gigantour in 2005. Also, DT did a live cover performance of "Master of Puppets" by Metallica. The whole album from front to back. That right there makes them totally legit...
@@TheAdventuresofTNT I actually saw Megadeth and Dream Theater at Gigantour. Two of my favorite bands. It was awesome. Love your reactions man. Keep up the great work!
@@TheAdventuresofTNT It's unfortunate that this song seems to be the only one that people react to from this album, I assume because it just happened to be a radio hit. No doubt, it's a good track, I just think there are a couple of others that stand out more, like Take the Time and Under a Glass Moon.
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. I warn you!!! DONT lisen to a "single" song from that album if its not in order. Start from the very beginning and pay deep ateintion to the lyrics as you go through the whole thing. The album is a story where the songs are connected lyricly. ITS INSANE. Story and the music is 10/10. Its a god damn TREAT. I go through that album once a week
Would love to see you react to Metropolis Part 1 off the Same Album. Or if you're willing to strap in and go the extra mile Octavarium & or Illumination Theory both are long but masterful pieces
For whatever it's worth, my 3 favorite METAL bands are... Megadeth, Dream Theater and Rings Of Saturn. Like the reaction. Try some Ne Obliviscarus, Oceans Of Slumber, Fates Warning... Queensryche is always the top of my Prog Metal lists.... Peace!
If you want to embark on a true musical journey I would recommend the song "The Odyssey" by the band Symphony X. Stylistically they are like more orchestral and free flowing dream theater. I'm certain you would enjoy that mammoth of a piece :D
Heh, no, actually it doesn't go into another song. It really does end that abruptly, mid-phrase, mid-measure, even mid-note. I imagine to illustrate that he was finally pulled under. I love that you're reacting to Dream Theater! And I love that now you've done tracks from three different eras. "Pull Me Under" is old-school, with their (almost) original lineup, when they were very concept-based, telling intricate stories with each album. The Glass Prison was their middle years, when the drummer Mike Portnoy was deep into AA and they did a lot of albums exploring (almost ad-nauseum) themes of addiction, abuse, and insanity. And then Barstool Warrior is from their latest album, with the current lineup (Mike Portnoy, the original drummer, quit in the early 2010's; the band held a very exclusive round of auditions (broadcast on CZcams!) and picked Mike Mangini, a former professor of percussion at Berklee, to fill his spot). For three songs, I don't think you could've picked (or been recommended) a much broader and more representative sampling. As you go down the rabbit hole, I'm afraid you'll find that there's quite a schism that formed among the DT fanbase when Portnoy left. A lot of us realized that he left the band, not the other way around, stuck with them, gave Mangini a chance, and have come to appreciate him for the very different but equally amazing drummer that he is (he's more technically precise and can match any drummer in the world for four-limb coordination and single hand speed, where Portnoy is more melodic and feel-based with a better groove and IMO better synergy with John Myung, the bassist). Unfortunately, a fairly large portion of the fan base decided to hate them for "getting rid of Portnoy" and just pine for the "good ole' days" so to speak. I can only surmise that they just haven't bothered to check in with reality or something.
Every Dream Theater song is a journey, and often the longest ones are the most life-changing. My personal favorite is "The Count of Tuscany," but you really can't go wrong with any of their songs. Enjoy the journey, and dive in deep! The ending of this song is deliberately abrupt, and does NOT flow into another song. It's meant to signify how life can change or end in a moment, which is the message of the song as a whole.
Pull Me Under is a great song for fans of mainstream rock. I see you did The Glass Prison already which is definitely a really good one. If you want masterpieces, the shorter ones would be Learning to Live and Breaking All Illusions. If you want the epics, then I'd recommend A Change of Seasons, Octavarium, and the Count of Tuscany. If you really have time though, sit down and listen to the Metropolis Pt2: Scenes From a Memory album from start to finish . It's a concept album so not many of the songs will hold a lot of meaning standing on their own, but if you consider the album to be one enormous song, then cover to cover it is the masterpiece of all masterpieces. It just won a ProgReports's March Madness style bracket for best prog album of all time: progreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/prog-madness-albums-finals-lg-scaled.jpg
Enjoyed the reaction. Probably my fave band. It dosn't realy transition to the next song on the album, it does end very abruptly. Might be reading too much in to it but it may be thematic of being "pulled under" and suddenly cut off from the world. They do theme music and production around the lyrics like in this song he sings about rising and falling as the riff rises and falls. On the 2nd chorus he sings about cycles while the riff cycles up and down a scale so I don't think my theroy is too far fetched.
Wanna shit a brick?! Check out Panic Attack! With a name like that for a song you know it’s intense. These guys always deliver. They are Prog. Metal. Other greats are In the name of God, Endless Sacrifice, this dying soul, the dance of eternity, the glass Prison, the Root of all evil, A Nightmare to remember, As I Am, in the presence of the enemy parts 1&2 , forsaken, constant motion, the dark eternal night.
The comparison to Metallica is bang on. When I&W came out I likened it to Metallica meets Yes, with Geoff Tate style vocals on top. They've scaled some incredible heights over the years.
Nice to see that slipped disc isn't keeping you from rocking! This is their best song by far! You should check out QUEENSRYCHE EYES OF A STRANGER! You like the pull me under you will like that one!
Dream Theater seriously rocks. Check out the "The Big Medley" or better yet their cover of Elton John's "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding". They f*cking KILL IT!! I almost prefer it to the original!
I always wish I had the cash to hire some professional dancers and see what they could come up with for dream theater. As soon as they get the beat they switch it up then you have 5 seconds and shit something new. And on top of that you have the weird musical counts.
This is my favorite song (so far) but I absolutely hate the abrupt ending (no, it does not go into another track - it just ends like that). If they at least applied some reverb or something, it would have been better. Abrupt endings like that just sound cheap, like they ran out of tape on the reel and couldn't be arsed to correct/prevent that. It's sloppy in my opinion. I hated this abrupt ending so much that I did some editing and re-engineering and extended the outro and applied a proper fade-out, and now the song clocks in closer to 9 minutes (and sounds a hell of a lot better!)...
The reason for abrupt ending in Pull Me Under is intentional. It's to signal how sudden and unexpected the death of a loved one can be. That's why the ending catches everyone who listens off guard.
@@DarkDruid7 I really don't care what the "reason" is. They could have still added a touch of reverb, or a disruptive sound (slam, crash, bang, etc), or something to convey that "sudden loss" thing. Same impact, but definitive clarity to the listener that the song is over, not "cut off" or part of the next track. I come from the days of cassettes, specifically "mix tapes", and running out of tape when trying to squeeze on one last song to fill the side only to lose the ending is something that still haunts me, so I loathe those deliberate "sudden cut-off" endings, regardless of whatever "artistic creative vision" is intended.
I know that you play songs from patreon because they "pay" you, but I recommeded this song long time ago and got ignored until now, for new D.T listeners this should be be the hook song. Now React to Annihilator-Welcome to your death and Annihilator-Allison Hell.
I remember you requesting it. The thing is , we've become so far behind on our patreon request that we have no time to do the videos we want to do. I think for the past 2 months I've done nothing but patron request. I would love to take the time to do a full dream theater album review but I dont think thats gonna happen anytime soon.
Glad you are doing more Dream Theater. This is the song that put them on the map. It actually got radio play in 1992. Their catalogue is so deep and diverse that they should keep you busy for a long time. There are so many to choose from I don't even know where to begin. Maybe something like "Scarred" from 1994 to show off their range. If you like Dream Theater also check out the band Pain of Salvation. They are awesome too and are very unique. "Beyond the Pale" would be a good track to check out
"Scarred" is definitely worth listening to. I second that.
Hans Gruber yes, Pain of Salvation is criminally underrated in my opinion, they are AMAZING
I'd really recommend "Forsaken" it's the song that got me into them. "As I am" is also a banger.
I highly recommend you react to The Count of Tuscany! It will make you cry
I consider this song, one of their "Masterpieces"!👍✌
Perhaps the most beautiful piece I've ever heard. On par with Moonlight Sonata
Yeah🙏🙏
@@scottp.2024 AGREED!!!
Watching this video, I was thinking the same thing.
This song changed things in life for me.
It led to many a great discoveries in my musical journey.
Just like the word “progressive” DT’s sound has evolved or Progressed if you will to categories for me. The first three albums plus an EP...
-When Dream and Day Unite
-Images and Words
-Awake
-A Change Of Seasons (EP)
In my opinion are the foundation to understanding this band. All their influences are in the music even if you don’t pick up on the nuances at first. They are there. Images and Words is a very special album to me but Awake is the shit. Beautiful, Dark, Complex, Curious, Mysterious, and, Elated. (No, I’m not describing Tasha, lol). It’s a brilliant album start to finish. One I recommend listening to in its entirety and not chopped up. It was the last album to feature Kevin Moore.
The Change Of Seasons EP is great. It features some really killer LIVE cover tunes and the best live vocals from James LaBrie I’ve ever heard. Sadly, shellfish messed things up.
-Falling Into Infinity
A great album and turning point. This album was the record company’s attempt to create a polished commercial version of DT. If you really want to hear the album as the Band intended you have to listen to the Official Bootleg version.
-Metropolis II: Scenes From A Memory
Considered one of the greatest concept albums of all time. The first album to feature Jordan Rudess. Dream Theater’s EMAAB to the record company and back in control.
-Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence.
An album centered more towards DT’s love of Prog. It still has some very heavy tracks to appease the Metal crowd. For me it shows a change in direction with a glimpse of what is to become for DT.
-Train Of Thought
A DT All Metal album except for Vacant. That ones a take a break moment before you explode in the middle of the album track.
-Octavarium
-Systematic Chaos
These two albums highlight current (at the time) musical influences for the band and some attempts at writing an actual song versus the complex arrangements usually written.
-Black Clouds and Silver Linings
The last album to feature Mike Portnoy.
The last Heavy album.
The beginning of...
So to End the best era and the MP era here’s a quick album summary.
*The Backbone Albums
-WDADU
-Images and Words
-M2: Scenes From A Memory
*The Heavy Albums
-Awake
-Train Of Thought
-Black Clouds and Silver Linings
-Systematic Chaos
*The Heavy, The Prog, and The Beautiful
-Octavarium
-Falling Into Infinity
-Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Post MP and the new Era
-A Dramatic Turn Of Events
-Dream Theater (Self Titled)
-The Astonishing
-Distance Over Time
--The Following Content is my Opinion only-
ADTOE was a solid album and the best they have made post MP.
If you go back to BCASL and focus on the arrangements you’ll see a pattern. At least I did and it makes me feel like something is missing has changed the course for me.
-Dream Theater (Self Titled)
I consider this album the not as successful sequel to BCASL. Solid follow up but not as good as the first movie kind of thing. There are some really good songs sandwiched with a bunch of commercial, straight to the point, radio single kind of songs. I’m not saying they are bad songs, they are just not something I think of when I think of DT.
-The Astonishing
-Distance Over Time
Here comes some controversy...
I’m not going to mince words here. Biggest disappointments ever. I absolutely do not like either of these albums. The are garbage to me.
Believe me I’ve tried and tried.
That pattern I mentioned earlier from BCASL is all over Distance Over Time and it literally ruins everything about it. Let’s start a song off really heavy and then move onto some weak ass Chorus sections. Rinse and repeat. Every song. It’s basically the same songs from the self titled album with different lyrics. Not exactly the same but you get the idea.
The Astonishing is just way to long for one. There are to many things about this concept album that I don’t like. I pretend like it doesn’t exist. I cannot name one song that stands out. Apparently this one can only be appreciated if you have seen it live. Obviously I have not. It was unfortunate that I didn’t have the opportunity to do so cause I would love to have my mind changed.
Dream Theater will always be special to me. I hold them in the highest regard. What they mean to me cannot be put into words. I’ve been a fan since 92. As soon as I first heard PMU. That’s a fact.
I think I agree with 99% of what you said, with the exception of Distance Over Time. To me, that album is their best since MP departed. And it's the only album where Mangini had full creative input with the rest of the band.
A Dramatic Turn was written entirely without a drummer, and I think it shows in that the drums are relatively boring in that album. Not bad, but not up to the normal DT standard.
The Self Titled album had much better drum composition, and it would have been a stellar album if they had gotten a good mix on it, but honestly its the album I listen to the least because of how it sounds. The songs are good but the mix is not so good. And Mangini has stated that he felt he didn't have much creative input on that record.
The Astonishing is the other outlier album alongside A Dramatic Turn in that ONLY JORDAN RUDESS AND JOHN PETRUCCI WROTE IT, which is the only album in their discography that was written without the other members contributing creatively to the writing process. And while it's not terrible, I rarely come back to it.
Distance Over Time finally has the creative input from everyone that should have been there since Mangini joined the band, and it definitely shows IMO.
S2N, At Wit's End, and Pale Blue Dot are all stellar DT songs, just as good as anything else they've written in their career. And the mix is by far the best they've had since Six Degrees. John Myung is up front in the mix (the album was engineered by a Bass Player) and Mangini sounds like thunder. It's a fantastic record IMO
Lots of bullshit there. Many memorable Astonishing songs and things started to suck with MP still in the band
@@matijagrguric6490 no need to get excited. He did say "in his opinion". As a huge fan theater fan, I would say his opinion is valid. Same as yours. I personally agree on both sides.
I'll tell you one thing though, I sure would love for Portnoy to regroup with John, Jordan and Tony for a part 3 of LTE!
One of my favorites! Dream theater is one of my favorite bands of all time with so many amazing songs
This is their masterpiece. One of the best songs ever recorded in the history of music from an iconic group of musicians. I recommend On The Backs Of Angels and Mike Mangini's Drum Solo at Luna Park.
Now that's creepy... I was just listening to this... And I received this notification 😂😂😂😂😁😁😁😁
hahahahhahaha.... hell yea!!!!
Google is ALWAYS listening!
There are songs and artists that change what you listen to. This was that song and artist for me in 1992.
James wearing the Napalm Death t-shirt in the video was cool as hell. And knowing Mark Greenway loved this band was a plus.
We need more Dream Theater reactions😀, I suggest This Dying Soul next 🤘🏻
Already enjoy your reactions, but really enjoyed this one to one my favorite bands.
YES YES YES! T I've waited like forever for you to do this song! I did request it in another comment but I'm so glad you finally did Pull Me Under! This is the song that introduced me to the brilliance of Dream Theater! This isnsuch an amazing tune and the sheer power of the drums and vocals would be enough but they add so much more with the great mix of other instruments also! This was in fact thel last concert I saw before the covid started! As always I really enjoy taking this musical enlightenment journey with you and Tasha! You make it seem like I'm right with you discovering this music for the first time! Keep up the great videos! ✌ from Nebraska!!
New follower here. I love Dream theater. I know I’m new but check out Charlotte Wessels, formerly front woman of Delain. Her song Soft Revolution is simply hypnotic and perfect. 👍👍
loved the reaction to an amazing song. it's actually my ringtone, hehe
The first time I heard this I was a young man it was great than and now it's even better I appreciate it more now that I am older .
Probably one of Labrie's best performances
If yo want to cry listen to Illumination theory Live from the Boston Opera house. If you want variety in 1 track listen to Outcry. If you want heavy, listen to This Dying Soul. But just keep listening!!!
Illumination Theory, live from the Boston Opera House! Amazing sound! Like most DT songs! 👍✌👏🎸
Bad ass song T! Backs of Angels!
I've got to see them a couple times. With their original lineup. In Pittsburgh and then Buffalo. Each one of them mastered their instrument. Amazing
All amazing mußicians. Great reaction!
No doubt one of the greatest dream theater songs! Gives me chills from the start to the end \m/
More DT please!! Some of my favorites: Under a Glass Moon, Learning to Live, Scarred, Lie, Miss understood.... They're old stuff was simply the best!! Great channel!!
I’ve yet to take a deep- dive into this band. It’s like a Christmas present you’ve been saving.
All this album is great. Great reaction too. I`ve always described them as Rush meets Metallica
They're way more than Rush or Metallica could ever be:)
I've seen Dream Theater many times with Queensryche.
That's how it ends on purpose.
They stopped playing it live. Almost 30 yrs old. When there songs get popular they stop playing it live.
The ending is the most perfect ending,
He got pulled under. Death.
I saw them play this song live in London around 8 years ago.
The syncopation in this song is amazing. Thanks for the reaction!
Great vid! Most people's introduction to DT years ago was this song.
If you listen to the lyrics, this song is about Shakespeare's "Hamlet", and the passion of a young man to right a tremendous wrong, no matter the cost.
Note the line, "I'll take seven lives for one, and then my ONLY father's son, as much as I did ever love him, I am not afraid."
Tremendous capture of the brooding anger and fury of that play in a musical piece.
Now do "The Dark Eternal Night", "Endless Sacrifice", or "Breaking All Illusions"! :)
Rush is a great progrock band they were really popular in the seventies check out their first album just listen to it all the way through. Also their album 2112 is an awesome concept album that tells a really cool story
Mike Portenoy is one the top 10 drummers in the WORLD!
Proficient disection of an intricate concoction.
I'm a long time prog fan and I'm really happy to see new people appreciating prog metal, good reaction. May I suggest a very underrated power/prog metal band from Norway (way ahead of time in early 90s and I believe that's way they were never appreciated as they deserved.), they are Conception and I suggest the song "Among the Gods" from the album The last sunset and absolute masterpiece from late 1991 just few months before Images and Words by DT.
Here for the reaction to the ending
Great reaction! I agree, in the early days (with Kevin) they were like the prog version of Metallica
These guys are musical geniuses, their bassist plays six string basses and their drummer helped a7x finish the drums on nightmare after the rev passed away. John Petrucci is phenomenal I love his progressive way of playing his solo stuff is amazing to listen to
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
you're really doing yourself a disservice by not checking them out :D will keep you interested learning about them for a very long time
Awesome reaction!
Another good song to react to is
dream theater take me as I am
Solid lyrics
Try the song As I Am, or Constant Motion by them if you want more Metallica-prog vibes! As I Am is a pretty straighforward song, but it's very heavy, has a great groove to it and the solo is pretty nuts as well. Constant Motion is very inspired by Metallica, but with a big prog twist in the sections with the solos.
You really need to experience their live videos.......a whole other experience seeing the talent visually......definitely makes you appreciate the immense talent generated by these masters of their craft
T, some other Dream Theater songs you might like are Panic Attack, Metropolis Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, and The Enemy Inside. And those sweet guitar riffs are courtesy of John Petrucci.
Epic album
This song is epic perfection.
Song was so sick when it came out.
More DT, TnT!!!!!!🙏🏻🤟🏻
freakin awesome song owwwwwww !!!!
Hey T... I'll put it this way, I know you're a big fan of Megadeth, and Dave Mustaine thinks Dream Theater is fantastic. He invited them on his Gigantour in 2005. Also, DT did a live cover performance of "Master of Puppets" by Metallica. The whole album from front to back. That right there makes them totally legit...
In fuckn sane!
@@TheAdventuresofTNT I actually saw Megadeth and Dream Theater at Gigantour. Two of my favorite bands. It was awesome. Love your reactions man. Keep up the great work!
Very cool! They also did a live cover of "Highway Star" live. By Deep Purple!
@@TheAdventuresofTNT It's unfortunate that this song seems to be the only
one that people react to from this album, I assume because it just happened to
be a radio hit. No doubt, it's a good track, I just think there are a couple of
others that stand out more, like Take the Time and Under a Glass Moon.
That Gigantour line up was INSANITY. DT, Megadeth, Symphony X, Nevermore, Fear Factory?! Absolute elite.
The Change of Season!!!!
I hope like hell you do Riot City - In The Dark, these guys are new and deserve a shout out
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory.
I warn you!!!
DONT lisen to a "single" song from that album if its not in order. Start from the very beginning and pay deep ateintion to the lyrics as you go through the whole thing.
The album is a story where the songs are connected lyricly. ITS INSANE. Story and the music is 10/10. Its a god damn TREAT. I go through that album once a week
Would love to see you react to Metropolis Part 1 off the Same Album. Or if you're willing to strap in and go the extra mile Octavarium & or Illumination Theory both are long but masterful pieces
You gotta react to Dream Theater’s Metropolis Part 1!
Try "the mirror" from the album awake.
Yes but dont forget to include Lie because its basically one long song
Do reaction to anything from their Awake album... Their greatest album in my opinion...
I love this guy...
For whatever it's worth, my 3 favorite METAL bands are... Megadeth, Dream Theater and Rings Of Saturn. Like the reaction. Try some Ne Obliviscarus, Oceans Of Slumber, Fates Warning... Queensryche is always the top of my Prog Metal lists.... Peace!
If you want to embark on a true musical journey I would recommend the song "The Odyssey" by the band Symphony X. Stylistically they are like more orchestral and free flowing dream theater. I'm certain you would enjoy that mammoth of a piece :D
Heh, no, actually it doesn't go into another song. It really does end that abruptly, mid-phrase, mid-measure, even mid-note. I imagine to illustrate that he was finally pulled under.
I love that you're reacting to Dream Theater! And I love that now you've done tracks from three different eras. "Pull Me Under" is old-school, with their (almost) original lineup, when they were very concept-based, telling intricate stories with each album. The Glass Prison was their middle years, when the drummer Mike Portnoy was deep into AA and they did a lot of albums exploring (almost ad-nauseum) themes of addiction, abuse, and insanity. And then Barstool Warrior is from their latest album, with the current lineup (Mike Portnoy, the original drummer, quit in the early 2010's; the band held a very exclusive round of auditions (broadcast on CZcams!) and picked Mike Mangini, a former professor of percussion at Berklee, to fill his spot). For three songs, I don't think you could've picked (or been recommended) a much broader and more representative sampling.
As you go down the rabbit hole, I'm afraid you'll find that there's quite a schism that formed among the DT fanbase when Portnoy left. A lot of us realized that he left the band, not the other way around, stuck with them, gave Mangini a chance, and have come to appreciate him for the very different but equally amazing drummer that he is (he's more technically precise and can match any drummer in the world for four-limb coordination and single hand speed, where Portnoy is more melodic and feel-based with a better groove and IMO better synergy with John Myung, the bassist).
Unfortunately, a fairly large portion of the fan base decided to hate them for "getting rid of Portnoy" and just pine for the "good ole' days" so to speak. I can only surmise that they just haven't bothered to check in with reality or something.
Best song from them :)
Listen the last project aegis song the rest is a mystery
Octavarium will blow you away,it is 23 minutes long though but every minute is amazing
The Masters!
Every Dream Theater song is a journey, and often the longest ones are the most life-changing. My personal favorite is "The Count of Tuscany," but you really can't go wrong with any of their songs. Enjoy the journey, and dive in deep!
The ending of this song is deliberately abrupt, and does NOT flow into another song. It's meant to signify how life can change or end in a moment, which is the message of the song as a whole.
You should check out "Epica" "Unleashed"
Pull Me Under is a great song for fans of mainstream rock. I see you did The Glass Prison already which is definitely a really good one. If you want masterpieces, the shorter ones would be Learning to Live and Breaking All Illusions. If you want the epics, then I'd recommend A Change of Seasons, Octavarium, and the Count of Tuscany. If you really have time though, sit down and listen to the Metropolis Pt2: Scenes From a Memory album from start to finish . It's a concept album so not many of the songs will hold a lot of meaning standing on their own, but if you consider the album to be one enormous song, then cover to cover it is the masterpiece of all masterpieces. It just won a ProgReports's March Madness style bracket for best prog album of all time: progreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/prog-madness-albums-finals-lg-scaled.jpg
Please do Bad Wolves- Remember When and some Five Finger Death Punch - Jeckyll and Hyde , I Apologize or Wash it all away
Please, try Illumination Theory by Dream Theater
Enjoyed the reaction. Probably my fave band. It dosn't realy transition to the next song on the album, it does end very abruptly. Might be reading too much in to it but it may be thematic of being "pulled under" and suddenly cut off from the world. They do theme music and production around the lyrics like in this song he sings about rising and falling as the riff rises and falls. On the 2nd chorus he sings about cycles while the riff cycles up and down a scale so I don't think my theroy is too far fetched.
Wanna shit a brick?! Check out Panic Attack! With a name like that for a song you know it’s intense. These guys always deliver. They are Prog. Metal. Other greats are In the name of God, Endless Sacrifice, this dying soul, the dance of eternity, the glass Prison, the Root of all evil, A Nightmare to remember, As I Am, in the presence of the enemy parts 1&2 , forsaken, constant motion, the dark eternal night.
If you like this, pick any random track from the Metal Church Blessing In Disguise record and review that. Suggestion: Anthem to the Estranged
Yes do "Count of Tuscany " by them
Better start reacting to the whole Metropolis 2 album
Great reaction ^m^ you should check out Metal Church "Badlands"
definitely....feelin.....it
Follow up this song with Change Of Seasons. Make sure you have some beer its 23 minutes long.
Thanks for heads up! I think I'll do a night time jam session.
The comparison to Metallica is bang on. When I&W came out I likened it to Metallica meets Yes, with Geoff Tate style vocals on top. They've scaled some incredible heights over the years.
Nice to see that slipped disc isn't keeping you from rocking! This is their best song by far! You should check out QUEENSRYCHE EYES OF A STRANGER! You like the pull me under you will like that one!
They did a full Master of puppets album cover
Try do the live version of change of season 2000 Scenes New York
when kevin moore left the band, so did the song writing.
Why did you delete Barstool Warrior???
Dream Theater - In the Name of God (Live At Budokan)
Great song 👌. When you doin some more
Hell🎃ween??????
Dream Theater seriously rocks. Check out the "The Big Medley" or better yet their cover of Elton John's "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding". They f*cking KILL IT!! I almost prefer it to the original!
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Nope, it just ends like that, doesn't lead into anything 😂 It's supposed to represent a feeling of death, if I remember correctly
Do you happen to know if thats the case with Afterlife as well? Thats interesting
@@kevinmaurer3562 I believe so, but am not 100% with that one
I always wish I had the cash to hire some professional dancers and see what they could come up with for dream theater. As soon as they get the beat they switch it up then you have 5 seconds and shit something new. And on top of that you have the weird musical counts.
Or react to "The best of times" this is emotional
They put prog metal on the map.
This is my favorite song (so far) but I absolutely hate the abrupt ending (no, it does not go into another track - it just ends like that). If they at least applied some reverb or something, it would have been better. Abrupt endings like that just sound cheap, like they ran out of tape on the reel and couldn't be arsed to correct/prevent that. It's sloppy in my opinion. I hated this abrupt ending so much that I did some editing and re-engineering and extended the outro and applied a proper fade-out, and now the song clocks in closer to 9 minutes (and sounds a hell of a lot better!)...
The reason for abrupt ending in Pull Me Under is intentional. It's to signal how sudden and unexpected the death of a loved one can be. That's why the ending catches everyone who listens off guard.
@@DarkDruid7
I really don't care what the "reason" is.
They could have still added a touch of reverb, or a disruptive sound (slam, crash, bang, etc), or something to convey that "sudden loss" thing.
Same impact, but definitive clarity to the listener that the song is over, not "cut off" or part of the next track.
I come from the days of cassettes, specifically "mix tapes", and running out of tape when trying to squeeze on one last song to fill the side only to lose the ending is something that still haunts me, so I loathe those deliberate "sudden cut-off" endings, regardless of whatever "artistic creative vision" is intended.
Drum sequence 7:00
Try Burning My Soul
Yes it’s supposed to end like that
Yep! Dream Theater is from plant insane crazy shit!
Queensrych
I know that you play songs from patreon because they "pay" you, but I recommeded this song long time ago and got ignored until now, for new D.T listeners this should be be the hook song.
Now React to Annihilator-Welcome to your death and Annihilator-Allison Hell.
I remember you requesting it. The thing is , we've become so far behind on our patreon request that we have no time to do the videos we want to do. I think for the past 2 months I've done nothing but patron request. I would love to take the time to do a full dream theater album review but I dont think thats gonna happen anytime soon.
Just saying Hi to make the 100th comment.. good reaction though..
This is a great mainstream DT song but I consider it fairly disrespectful to every member of DT to compare them in any way to Metallica.
I got something to say to you.
Here's the official video. czcams.com/video/mipc-JxrhRk/video.html
No need at all to say gd..that's a 10 commandment sin.
The live version is better
Try God of the Sun by Sons of Apollo
Hollow Years live at Budokan. NOW! 😂
Early DT wipes the floor with current DT. None of the albums past 2011 are interesting to me. They have a few good songs here and there.