"Octavarium" by Dream Theater -- Drummer reacts! (Christmas Special!)
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Merry Christmas everyone! Welcome to our first annual Dream Theater Christmas special!
I thought it would be a cool tradition to do a certain band for certain holidays. So I gave Opeth, Halloween (which was an amazing choice lol) and I am choosing Dream Theater for Christmas. And wow what a track!
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Now to the track…. Wow. That’s all I have to say. Just an absolute tour de force of a song that had over 12 MINUTES OF BUILD UP…. Absolutely crazy choice to make for a 24 minute song and wow does it absolutely blow you away or what? When it starts to pick up towards the end…. WOW. Just WOW. These guys are on the Mt.Rushmore of prog…. Hands down.
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Man this jingle is probably my favorite song of all time, at least the best crafted one IMO. Glad to see you had fun with it! BTW the last piano note is in F, which is what the first note of the album also is. It's all about stories ending where they begin, there are legit too many easter eggs in this song and album to fit in one comment. Like all the songs on the album are in different keys, first F, then G, A, B, C, D, E and then this song back in F again. It's truly a masterpiece!
So this is the last track I knew it 😂😂 awesome. I totally am going to listen to the whole album soon because this was awesome and I want to know the story lol like how does Jack the ripper fit into it 😂😂glad you enjoyed the video!
@@L33Reacts hahaha Jack the Ripper is from the verses with like a million references (he says Owens right after, referencing Ripper Owens from Judas Priest etc.) wayyyy too many secrets in one song/album lol
@@anypsotis7976 ahhhhh I missed the other ones I’m going to listen carefully when it comes to this song on the album reaction 🙂
Octavarium is indeed a concept album but it's not one that tells a story like a Rock Opera, but rather it's conceptual in its composition. Each of the 8 songs is built differently, the most notable differences being the 8 notes in an octave. The first track The Root Of All Evil is in the key of F, then the 2nd is G, 3rd is A, 4th is B, et cetera until it comes back to Octavarium, the last track, which is in F again. It comes full circle, which is very much the theme of the album, that everything comes full circle.
Another notable difference is the uses of time signatures and other related timing elements. The Root Of All Evil, track 1, begins with a single prolonging note (the ending of Octavarium is referencing the beginning of track 1), The Answer Lies Within, track 2, uses single-note intervals in the piano, trading between 2 notes, These Walls, track 3, is in 3/4 time, I Walk Beside You, track 4, utilises the Perfect 4th interval for a very Poppy love song feel, Panic Attack, track 5, is in 5/4 for most of the first verse, Never Enough, track 6, is just 6 minutes long (excluding the interlude and extended fade), Sacrificed Sons, track 7, has meters in 7/8 and 7/4 throughout, and Octavarium, track 8, of course meets back on the octave and pretty much means 8.
Along with this, the artwork for the album is very much riddled with 8's and 5's (referencing the 8 white notes and 5 black notes in a piano octave) and even the band at this point had 8 albums and 5 members (8 overall members who've appeared on studio albums, including former keyboardists Kevin Moore & Derek Sherinian, and former vocalist Charlie Dominici). The gatefolded album cover organises the birds and the newton's cradle in a piano white/black key order. This was their 8th studio album and they had 5 additional live albums before this too.
One last thing I'll mention is something called Dream Theater's Meta Album. This is pretty much 4 Dream Theater albums that were all connected by the first and last notes of each. This started with Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory in 1999 which ends with static on a record player. That static begins their 6th album, Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (which had 6 six full songs on two discs, the first disc having 5 and the second having the 40+ minute title track which had 8 parts), and that album ends with a big keyboard chord that fades out, and fades back in on their 7th studio album Train Of Thought (which has 7 songs). That album ends with a single note played on the piano (by Jordan Rudess' nose in fact) and that is the same note that begins their 8th album Octavarium (which, you guessed it, has 8 songs). Octavarium ends the metal album by simply repeating the intro to the first track of Octavarium, rather than what I would have suggested, being the clock ticking from the beginning of Metropolis Pt 2, but still wonderful nonetheless!
Thank you so much for the info! I will have to go and listen to the full album to get the whole picture. This was such a fun and creative track. Dream Theater are just geniuses. Blows my mind every time :D
@@L33Reacts A full Octavarium album reaction would be the best thing! Hope we can see it someday!
Octavarium (album) isn't conceptual, but Octavarium (music) kinda is.
The "story" can be about the quest of Dream Theater (and other bands) to produce their original songs, trying to escape from musical references (the first 3 intervals are about this) but ending up finding even themselves as an inspiration to make music (4th interval) and, eventually, giving up on "true originality" and embracing again their musical idols and roots (5th interval).
As this band likes to do, this song has no "real meaning", it can be about the cicle of our daily lives (hence the 24 minutes lenght), about society being cyclical as a whole, etc... But one thing that is true is that the story is about cycles (and is one as well).
Jingle (hit that bell icon 😂). I loooooove this song man, I’m so glad to see people reacting to this song after all these years 🤩🥹 I was reading through the comments a little and totally forgot that each song is ascending in key and returning to F for this song, but I recognised that very, very last part of the song as the start of the first, ‘The Root of All Evil’, and then heard the riff from that song - I’m playing this entire album again now because I fuckin’ LOVE it haha!!! Also, thank you for saying about the ASMR bit lmfao - it shows I’m not the only one that’s been having those thoughts for like 15+ years 😂😂😂👌🏼
Haha thanks for watching all the way through! This was a hell of a song. It was perfect for Christmas lol and yeah perfect drumming is pure ASMR for me. There’s just something about it 🤩😂
@@L33Reacts Mike’s drumming is very intuitive and playful man, it follows the song beautifully - dude can throw down when he really wants to, but he plays in such a way that it just drives the song forward 🤩 He’s in Sons of Apollo now 🤯
Thank you man! I obviously haven't even watched this yet (as it is premiering tomorrow morning), but this is an amazing Christmas gift that I'll look forward to when I wake up
Thanks for the great request bro!! It was amazing. Merry Christmas!
@@L33Reacts Yessir man, any time. Just finally got the time to watch, awesome! I will donate in the near future for some more DT. Happy holidays!
Lmao this little jingle is one of my favorite DT songs, so seeing someone else enjoy it as much I do is always a good reaction. Also, not sure if anyone mentioned it (sorry if they did) but that lyric passage in Intervals are references to the rest of the longs on the album, all starting with Mike Portnoy counting down to the 8th, the octave, hence the Octavariun
Don't you dar Jingle call octavarium!!!
It was fun to watch
Imo the closing part is the best closing to an epic song ever!!!
P. S.
Not so many bands have the ability to do live performances as good as their studio songs, dream theater is one of them, definitely watch octavarium on SCORE Live
It's magnificent and your eyes will be blown as well as your mind
They are all perfect along side a whole orchestra
4:00 that’s not a guitar at all, it’s the keyboard player using a continuum keypad, basically a touch activated pressure sensitive surface laid out like a keyboard. Basically it is to keyboards what a slide guitar is to guitars.
6:00 you seem like a low-brass type of guy to me. I’m guessing… trombone. (I was a french horn player, and I always hung out with the low brass guys :p )
20:00 jingle all the way, baby!
21:00 don’t feel too bad. This song takes multiple listens through and some research to even get the basics of what they’re doing and what it’s about. I can’t really pretend to understand it much myself because it goes so far beyond my understanding of music theory that I feel like a child trying to understand quantum cosmology. You could literally write college level research papers on this song, there’s so much going on, and still find new and interesting things each time you listen to it.
Merry jingle christmas! Who wouldn't watch until the end of this legendary song?
That last note you heard is very a crazy concept that they did with this album. It all boils down to eight. It’s the eighth studio album. Octavarium is the eighth song on the album. Every song has a specific no into it. It’s really crazy. You have to look it up on Wikipedia to get the explanation.
Yooo dude, i love your reaction! I hope your channel grows big
Love from Indonesia
Thank you so much bro! I really appreciate it. I hope it does too 🤞
I was going to point out the brief, not overly obvious Jingle Bells reference anyway, shortly after the fast guitar / keyboard noodling where they cover each other right at 19:09 - 19:13 or so
Epic Song 🤘💯🔥
You just reminded me that I bought this CD as a christmas gift for my at the timne best friend in 2005. I can't believe that was 17 years ago, my brain just can not compute it lol. Thanks!
24 minutes yeah, but it flows like a classical piece of music so you don't even realize it's that long - it even leaves me wanting for more. and then on the other hand, i can't listen to more than 2 minutes of some regular music - even metal. dream theater has set my musical expectations very high.
6:45 that's a 12-string guitar
10:10 the hardest try not to make a stank-face challenge in the universe
when the album came out i hate this, now it makes me tear
One video I recommend, if you haven’t already, is mike mangini’s untethered angel drum play through 😁
EDIT: Or “The Alien” Drum cam
Merry Christmas. Great jingle reaction!
Jingle merry christmas🙃
Jingle .... Bells
I’m a little late to the party, but jingle. Loved the video. Been a DT fan since the late 80’s. This is a masterpiece of music.
Better late then never, nice to have you! I’m glad you enjoyed it. It definitely is a masterpiece!!
Merry Christmas man and thanks for doing Octavarium
Merry Christmas bro! Thank you for watching 🙏🙏
Amazing bro, jingle all the way!
I listened to this jingle just the other day. I had to prove to my friends certain long songs can't really be shortened because where could you. This one I'd say the first 3 minutes of octvaruim could be shortened
🙏🤘you are absolutely right. You needed that 12 minute buildup to make the other 12 so special.
Ps I got you today stay tuned 😅
Jingle !
Jingle baby!
This is the final album in Dream Theater's "meta album" that began with Scenes from a Memory. For each album in the cycle the final note/sound of one was the same as the first note/sound in the next. This being the final one, and also the band's 8th studio album, they decided to have the final note you hear instead be the same note as the first note of this record. Which is really cool, because actually this whole track has a lot of musical references to each of the other seven tracks on the record.
I really wanna go and listen to the whole album now! This was an amazing track. I need more! 🤘😂
@@L33Reacts It just gets crazier from there :D The first track of this record, titled The Root of All Evil, is the third song of 5-part (12 movements) epic called The Twelve-Step Suite. Each of the five songs come from a different one of their records, and the final track in that - The Shattered Fortress - also has call backs to all of the previous tracks that comprise it. Enjoy!
turn it the Jingle Up!!
Maybe you should have listened to your mom back in the fucking roaring 20s to not stand so fucking close to the amps at whatever Grateful Dead concert you NEVER missed obviously 😂
@@L33Reacts I hate the dead!
Watch the live versión
2:00
... balls ... heheh
This is the best Dream Theater song imo :)
It's ironic that you release this on Christmas and ask us to use "jingle" in the comments when the lick from Jingle Bells is embedded in the song at 19:10. Since you were lying on the floor laughing at the time, I'm not sure if you caught it or not. 🤣
Yeah, that made my crack up
if you enjoyed this and you do enjoy concept albums, you should definitely give a listen to their masterpiece "Metropolis part 2 Scenes from a Memory" album, its considered to be their magnum opus jingle
Tuba. Jingle.
jingle all de wey l
Ironic that you picked the word Jingle because they actually referenced the Jingle Bells melody right before you did
are you serious? thats hilarious. i had no idea haha.
turn it the fudge up ask hold!!!! you NEVER do this right!!
Why don’t you turn it the fuck up then you old fuck 😂 get the fuck outta here 😂
@@L33Reacts because when we turn it up all we hear is YOU... obviously you Don't know what your doing. You ruin all your reactions, ask whip!
@@michaelpebbles6243 if you don’t fucking like it go somewhere the fuck else then 😂 nobody cares and no one’s asking you to be here 😂 it’s not my fault your hearing is shot 😂😢 I don’t know who whip is but I will ask him why your such an entitled asshole 😂
@@michaelpebbles6243 BECAUSE ITS A REACTION GO LISTEN TO THE SONG IF THATS WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR lmao 😂😂
@@L33Reacts whatever dude..