Nuggets on Octavarium

the message goes like a circle around the booklet. balanced are the balls on the cover. spheres are the balls in the cover . these balls collide. and the story ends where it began: the message ends where the booklet starts. thats gotta be related to the thing of TROAE being actually the last song if you listen 8V in a row

I was listening to the song before coming here and thought of that too. It really makes sense!

of course it does, im GOD

Someone should compile all the nuggets and post them in a new thread. 

ORIGINAL: mesaofrio

Someone should compile all the nuggets and post them in a new thread. 

 
someone should read the 20 posts in this thread that already said this

ORIGINAL: mesaofrio

Someone should compile all the nuggets and post them in a new thread. 

Read my post just three or four posts up.... That's exactly what I am doing. :)

Oh, sorry. Didn't see it. 

I have all the musical nuggets in order so section one is complete. Now working on the artwork section. I got my phonecall so I had to stop for a while. Back on track now. 

i will say this again when you post that: SICK

ORIGINAL: blu4ea

I'm still wondering what the deal is w/ those "footstep" sounds at the beginning of TROAE.
Any ideas??

 
No timmy (t3h AVATAR)...Actually I started to ask myself the same thing....what it would be

Artwork section is now done. I'll have to do the other two sections later (not nearly as much work with them). The new thread will probably not be up until tomorrow as I want to coordinate this with faizoff since he started this thread and probably didn't forsee the mess it became. 

U guys notice the sounds clips of the previous songs on Octavarium?  Not sure if it was posted before,too lazy to check.   Probably was.

Anyone remember what Mr Portnoy says on the Birthday video?
 
he says something like "this is the beginning of the end", what was he refering to?

Hi! I'm newbie in this forum, but after listening many times Octavarium I must say a couple of things.
The album is great, not awesome in my opinion, but finally this album has pushed me to appreciate DT more than ever, specially the epic Octavarium song.
I've been discovering some details about the influences of the album.
Maybe it's been already said, sorry it's not my intention to repeat it again, but has anyone notice the intro bassline in Panic Attack is really similar to the one played by Geddy Lee in his Driven song solo?

I have also noticed in the middle of the song Octavarium, there's a point where LaBrie sings, This is were we came in, or something like that. Man! this is taken from Pink Floyd's album the Wall!
I admire the huge quantity of references to other groups Octavarium has

ORIGINAL: metalgod80

Anyone remember what Mr Portnoy says on the Birthday video?

he says something like "this is the beginning of the end", what was he refering to?

"You're kidding me, right?

You're not kidding me?

Motha Fuckkuh." 

ORIGINAL:drumpreist
By the way...the piano exit of TRoAE and entrance on TALW with the birds chirping had hints of the beginning of Disappear from 6DOIT. Just my hearing, maybe?

TALW totally reminded me of Disappear because of that.
 
All the OV nuggets I found have already been posted so I wont repeat any.
 
BTW, this is not an OV nugget but has anyone noticed that SFAM ends how SDOIT begins (static) and how SDOIT ends TOT begins (that kind of long keybord note thingy).

On my copy of I&W, Pull Me Under just cuts off at the end.  Is this a nugget?
 
Oh, and who's better, Kevin or Derek?
 
 
 

mesavox: Please post here when you create the new thread. Thanks for doing this!

Hey mesavox, just post it whenever you're ready man. No holding back from my side. This isnt really my thread, had the idea to make one mega post as well but like I said I'm musically retarded wouldnt recognize time signatures of a fart.

If ya need any help just ask.

Does anyone know if Wey is willing to lock this thread when this is done? I have finished it but we would need future comments to be in that thread or it will turn into a mess agian...

Anyway, here it is.... Hopefully people will work with it.

http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=898674&mpage=1&key=&#898674

ORIGINAL: mesavox

Does anyone know if Wey is willing to lock this thread when this is done? I have finished it but we would need future comments to be in that thread or it will turn into a mess agian...

 
PM/email him and ask!!

ORIGINAL: Bogie

ORIGINAL: Dutch Beard
else has this --> Octavarium 9:45, it reminds me of "shores of Avalon, (Mullmuzzler)"

I'm reminded of Shores as well during this part.

Thats the first thing I thought of when I heard it.

Has anyone mentioned that 8V is a spiral?
 
8:5 is along the series of ratios which approaches phi.

HOLY THREAD BUMPS BATMAN!!!!!!!!!!1

Well I'm not gonna start a new one!

I don't know if you posted that already, but in "The Glass Prison" the bells are repeated for 8 times.

Octavarium has the word octa in its title.... octa means 8

i hate this thread

ok..this might be the Resurection Thread that we never expected, and also..we never wanted, but still it's ok

The Myung thread needs to be resurrected

It's EASY not to click on a thread. EASY. I just did it to like 20 threads on page one.

Sorry for bumping this tread. I just realized golden spiral ratio on the bus and thought I'd throw it in here.

i'm suscribed to this thread

I created this thread and now wish I hadnt 

I want to marry this thread

ya

ORIGINAL: Honma

Jesus... you people have too much fucking time on your hands. All I heard on the new album was far, far too much rehashing of riffs, melodies and phrasing. I for one, am sick of it. I don't care how "cool" some people think it is, it's tired, and dull now. DT obviously have the ability to write new shit, I just wish they would.

Call it "call back" or call TSD a "sequel" to TGP, that's fine, but for me, I'm sick of hearing the same little "nuggets" over and over again.

That said, I'm disappointed with this album. It's got it's moments, but on a whole, this would've fit perfectly after FII... and I hate FII.

<waits for the backlash>

Oh man, i totally agree.
however, i kinda noticed one day while looking at the liner notes of the album that the first two songs are parts 6 and 7 of the song octavarium. i think

ORIGINAL: BiGG_Perm

ORIGINAL: Honma

Jesus... you people have too much fucking time on your hands. All I heard on the new album was far, far too much rehashing of riffs, melodies and phrasing. I for one, am sick of it. I don't care how "cool" some people think it is, it's tired, and dull now. DT obviously have the ability to write new shit, I just wish they would.

Call it "call back" or call TSD a "sequel" to TGP, that's fine, but for me, I'm sick of hearing the same little "nuggets" over and over again.

That said, I'm disappointed with this album. It's got it's moments, but on a whole, this would've fit perfectly after FII... and I hate FII.

<waits for the backlash>

Oh man, i totally agree.
however, i kinda noticed one day while looking at the liner notes of the album that the first two songs are parts 6 and 7 of the song octavarium. i think

I'm gonna shorten my point of view about this "rehashing" argument to two words: I dissagree.

moving on.


The Root of All Evil is not movements VI and VII of Octavarium, it's movements VI and VII of the AA saga (found on 6 Degrees in Glass Prison, and on ToT in This Dying Soul).

They obviously intended (or at least recognized) that this would happen though, because it fits so well with the theme of looping found throughout the album.

haha oh man theres alot of number games in this one, man its just insane they can think of this stuff

i have posted this for about 5 times and nobody ever wanted to answer me... don't u also have the impression that the jp riff of troa starting at 1:00 is very similar to the beginning of burning my soul? with the difference that bms is not as fast and played firstly as a jm bass line and then in power chords by jp...
please give me ur opinion on that!!!