DREAM THEATER - Learning To Live | FIRST TIME COUPLE REACITON | Can she appreciate young LaBrie?

[@harrygr8641]

John Muyng wrote the lyrics to this masterpiece. The whole album should be taught in music schools around the world. The absolute best Dream Theater line-up. My fav album is Awake but I still believe Images and Words is their best. Cheers from Athens! 🤘

[@NicknLex]

100% agree with you

[@jhawkkw87]

Myung has only written the lyrics to 9 DT songs, but so many of them are among their best. Learning to Live, Trial of Tears, Fatal Tragedy, Breaking All Illusions, etc are all Myung classics.

[@scottanderson8420]

New to me and a great ride. Lots of creative changes, clever hooks, riffs, solos, and bass grooves with great lyrics. I love your sharing personal favorites with each other and with us. Some great staccato jams flowing into smooth musical currents and eddies. Loved it. ❤️

[@chriszilar3657]

When this album first came out…my mind was blown at the audacity of these musicians and I couldn’t get enough and I was sharing this with everyone I knew that was into complex rock!

[@TheAsphyx666]

Same for me. I owned their debut album, but this went so far beyond that. I've followed their career through the years, but to me they just never were the same after Kevin Moore left.

[@chriszilar3657]

I absolutely love Kevin Moores other projects…OSI and Chroma Key…his voice is fantastic

[@Rikrik1138]

@@chriszilar3657oh yeah, love me some OSI, just some brilliant stuff.

[@adam872]

100% the same here. I'd already heard a fair bit of prog by this stage, but even then I was taken by how daring they were and the fusing of metal and prog was genius for me.

[@TheAsphyx666]

@@chriszilar3657 Agreed.

[@stephencaruso760]

the intricacies are almost impossible for you to imagine how they remembered all their notes to play

[@michaelgray5100]

This album and this song is reason I started buying all of their albums. This album Images and Words is by far my favorite Dream Theater album and this song Learning to Live is my favorite Dream Theater song and one of my favorite songs of all time Period!!! Love this song!!!!

[@petervincent9489]

Theater!

[@michaelgray5100]

@@petervincent9489 Good catch! Fixed.

[@NiqoMartin]

Volvio Portnoy el mejor baterista del mundo ♥ 😍 Under the glass moon, the best sound

[@MarkSmith-rb5ep]

My favorite album and production of all time. Pity the band has never reproduced this style and sound again.

[@Cloudburzt]

I got to know Dream Theater almost by accident. I had started listening to Metallica and Iron Maiden around the end of 2002 (when I was 13) and about a year later I was in a record store looking to buy something. I'd occasionally just buy something that stood out. The cover of Images & Words clearly stood out amongst all the more darker "metal like" album covers. So I bought the album and I was immediately hooked, and Iron Maiden and Metallica, who'd I'd seen at Roskilde Festival in 2003, were... well, I barely listened to them again. Dream Theater, and especially Petrucci, Moore and Portnoy, has inspired me to play, practice, compose, even 20+ years later. They've been a great influence.

[@Ericmeredith3209]

This song is a journey! Thanks for sharing it with all of us Nick!❤

[@rudolfbecker4313]

Dream Theater is like a travelagency - they have lots of those journeys 😆🤘

[@Ericmeredith3209]

@@rudolfbecker4313 so very true!

[@drummerseb]

Thanks for showing this to Lex. This is my favorite DT song ever and the end gives me chills every goddamn Time. I saw them live in 1998 back here in France and they played this song and this was one of the best memories of my musical life. 🙏🏻🙂

[@thecentralscrutinizer5730]

Man you guys are taking it back! Images & Words! 1992 I Another band that influenced a whole generation and genre!🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@bbp551]

The opening lyrics are lifted almost verbatim from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” He had no time for pain, no energy for anger. Within a few weeks, it was over; the blinding stabs of hatred ceased and did not return. He was back in confident self-control on the evening when he telephoned Eddie Willers.

[@jima6545]

One of my faves, not just on the album, but from their catalog

[@Javisebas26]

Like I've always said: Images and Words is literature at its finest..... Don't get me wrong, I know we all love Jordan but this line up with Kevin Moore and the rest of the guys is like Poetry in motion by Shakespeare with steroids.... Don't forget that John Myung wrote the lyrics for this one.... For me is my third favorite song of this masterpiece. Big hugs to you guys.... I will be attending to the Movistar Arena here in Argentina on December to see DT once again 🔥🔥🔥🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@victorinod.g.3234]

Que infumable todas esas caras e instrumentos de aire que hace.. ¿por qué no la dejas escuchar tranquila, que aprecie por ella misma los instrumentos y por ende la canción? ¿Acaso no tiene la capacidad de hacerlo ella misma?

[@mavrick817]

i love this song so much! that ending section always gives me goosebumps, i remember the first time i listened to it as a teenager it made me tear up so i made it my ringtone for years i loved the reaction great job!

[@DanielGonzalez-eq4ow]

Amazing Kevin moore

[@johnnorman7180]

@@DanielGonzalez-eq4ow OSI

[@joschpotter07]

Dr. Kevin Moore

[@jc-uw5wt]

Kevin Moore quit DT to become doctor.... he still does music on the side... his latest was chrome key demos album... very impressive...

[@johnnorman7180]

@@jc-uw5wt he did chroma then OSI then Fates Warning for a few albums

[@Pirates_of_the_Underground_I]

So apparently after Portnoy's drums were done, the label (?) and/or Producer _added_ "Drum Triggers" to Portnoy's already recorded drums _without_ his permission. That is why his drums sound different (mainly the snare). There is a recording of the whole album without the triggers from the label Portnoy started where he featured Rare takes and extra tracks that didn't make it to finished albums. YIKES! Lexi "Shimmying"! 😮😍 During the "South American" part with the acoustic . . . Don't do that! 💓❤‍🔥🥰🙂 Yes, this album was VERY "Progressive ROCK" but . . . "Metropolis Part 1", that is the Prog Metal masterpiece. They have written some very motivational, moving lyrics. The older material is cleverly esoteric, but takes more time to understand. Moore was a special writer and keyboardist (his Solo, "Chroma Key" and "OSI" needs some reactions too! Ask me what tracks :D). I think Lex needs to hear more "Awake" (which _most_ songs are Heavier) because LaBrie's vocals get a bit rougher on the heavier parts or tracks, which he can't really do in that key anymore, sadly. You have heard "Lifting Shadows off a Dream" from my ethereal Marathon, and there is "Space Dye Vest" written by Moore. And again . . . you both need to hear "A Mind Beside Itself" (trilogy) in it's entirety, because you've only played the Instrumental intro. The whole piece is . . . i "Erotomania" ii "Voices" iii "The Silent Man" But the whole album is solid; "6:00", "Caught in a Web", "The Mirror/Lie", "Scarred", "Innocence Faded" . . . Its my 2nd fave album. Another that I KNOW will blow you guys away, is the Live "Score" version of "Octavarium" with the "Octavarium Orchestra". Not just to see them play this awesome piece, but to hear LaBrie's various vocal timbres (that night he was on top of his game), and to SEE Portnoy's "Drumkit" and watch Jordan Rudess at his best :). AND you need to play cuts from their debut "When Dream and Day Unite" :D. So now (again), one of these days you'll hear the band that came decades before; *Fates Warning* and their period with Ray Alder on vocals (especially the Epic "The Ivory Gate of Dreams"), and a VERY special track off their last album from 2023, that I think will really amaze the both of you. But their shorter tracks are just as impressive. Btw . . . take a shot 🍺😊. - I'm having a lousy week, so this really lifted my spirits guys 🥲. Glad Lexi is enjoying it. I really hope I can get together with you 2 for their next album tour with Portnoy (note, his late-Father came up with DT's name).

[@NicknLex]

Sorry to hear about your week, Tony! Sending big hug and hope it ends better than it started! 💗

[@Pirates_of_the_Underground_I]

@@NicknLex (( ( (❤) ) ))

[@rudolfbecker4313]

Hi Tony, I hope the louses don't follow you into the new week 🤣 and fortunately we have music, which many times helps us not to think about the bad sides of life. Last week I had a good and bad experience within hours. I had free tickets for Rammstein open air, where I went with my son. I'm not the biggest fan of Rammstein, but their pyro show is unique. On the way back to the parking lot, we all of a sudden heard a policecar and ambulance, and curious as we humans are, I turned my head while I continued walking ... and "kissed" a lamppost 😫 I bounced back and fell, I fell on the side and only my arm hurt ... and still is, but fortunately nothing broken 🤔 Concering Score I just read recently, that someone wrote the vocals were re-recorded .... possible ? maybe, but I don't care, I like this DVD ... only a little less than Budokan ... have a nice weekend ... Germany is in the football (soccer) fever: today starts the round of 16 and we play Denmark tonight. 🤘 PS: Awake is maybe my most heard CD with headphones, back in the 90s I almost listened to it daily, at times I almost knew all the lyrics 😆

[@Pirates_of_the_Underground_I]

@@rudolfbecker4313 OUCH! Hope you recover fast man.

[@Heathcoatman]

Music by John Williams? Sounds like a slam dunk blockbuster to me! This song reminds me a lot of Uriah Heep. Magician's Birthday kind of UH

[@seanbarker4610]

I love 'Surrounded' from this album, I have never seen any reactions to it though!

[@NicknLex]

I was going to show Alexia surrounded and then went for this. We will react to it eventually:)

[@seanbarker4610]

@@NicknLex thank you

James LaBrie is very underrated as a singer.

[@williamreiser3118]

Actually heard pull me under bought c.d saw them live same night orbit room Grand Rapids MI got c.d autographed

[@richardwoodhouse8404]

The band of all time, the best musicians of all time, the best song of all time and the best album of all time, can you tell I like this song and band ❤❤❤❤❤

[@micky470]

A great topic is this case of John Myung... I love Drean Theater, one of my favorite bands... I would ask for as many songs that make the reaction but they would be too many 😏 Maybe some suggestions for something live.."In the name of god" live at budokan 2004,"Breaking all illusions" from Breaking the fourth wall 2014. Greetings guys..!

[@raulgonzalezart6006]

this their best song by far . That Kevin Moore solo at the end ..... still my favorite. And Those Petrucci harmonics...COME ON.

[@mattrink2112]

To your point about it sounding less heavy here.... This early era was like a heavier Yes/Kansas/Rush/Genesis, while later they became more like a proggier Metallica*. I like the former much better! WDADU thru SFAM is absolutely legendary. (*Obviously, oversimplifying a little.)

[@rafaelleandrogomez5829]

Hello, how are you guys, the live version Learning To Live (Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York) is 100 times better than the studio version, please react to A Change Of Seasons (Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York). Greetings from Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina

[@markt.5003]

Between this and your Redemption reaction, it’s time you listen to Fates Warning’s “Still Remains”. Ray Alder, who sings on the Redemption song is the singer for Fates Warning, and Kevin Moore contributes keys on this particular Fates Warning album. Go straight for the title track.

[@stevenewcomer8837]

Images and Words is one of my all time favorite albums. I had/have a ticket to see Dream Theater in Wichita on June 17, 1993 on that tour. Sadly, I wasn’t able to make it. 😢 I’m really kicking myself for missing that. It was over 3 hours away and my work (self employed) kept me from feeling that I could get away. STUPID BOSS (Me 😂)!

[@TerryKrysinski]

I know you're a huge fan,Nick..but for me- DT lost me after this album. I missed the great melody along with the prog metal they presented here. My fav cut is still Surrounded..for exactly those reasons. They focued too much on metal moving forward. so glad Mike Portnoy hooked up with Neal Morse for all those amazing albums,starting with neal's very first solo album- Testimony. That's why NM and his various projects will always be my top fav music to listen to. Cheers, T

[@ctbhaley]

Mike Portnoy is not the main lyricist in Dream Theater, and he did not create the band. If you're going to discuss the history of a band or it's members please educate yourself first. John Petrucci, John Myung and Kevin Moore grew up together playing and writing together. After high school John and John went to Berklee College of Music and met Mike Portnoy while Kevin went to SUNY Fredonia and studied classical music. They all dropped out, moved back to Long Island and formed Majesty. They had a singer who wasn't very good before they found Charlie Dominici and signed their first record deal. Because there was another band who had trademarked the name Majesty they had to change the name. The name Dream Theater was suggested by Mike's father and that became the band name. Charlie wrote lyrics on 2 songs from the first album with James writing lyrics with Petrucci for Caught in a Web on Awake. Ironically on the first 3 albums Mike only wrote lyrics for Take the Time and The Mirror. How can you say he writes all or most of the lyrics when on the first 3 albums he is the sole lyricist on only 1 song. On most other albums he has writing credits on 2 to 3 songs whether it be just him or a collaboration with other members. If anything, Petrucci is the main lyricist writing the bulk of lyrics, but even that said it's a band effort and not just one of them.

[@daneng3641]

When I discovered Images and Words and Awake in the early 90s, "progressive music" was not a term I knew. I just loved these albums. They sounded like metal, but more melodic and sophisticated than any metal I knew. Like many 20-somethings it was at this point that I pretty much stopped listening to anything new. It wasn't until a few years ago that I found out that all the bands I was most enamoured with had been labeled "progressive" and that maybe I should delve deeper into their catalogues and listen to other bands sharing that moniker. Oddly enough Dream Theater is pretty much the only band whose extended catalogue has not excited me. The talent and sophistication are of course still present, but it seems to me they play fast and change time signatures just for the sake of it now. Every time I try to give them a chance I'm left cold.

[@RossanoMacchioni-gm4mg]

Images and words 1992 i had 20 y old first Dream theater lp masterpiece , for me world has changed. Prog metal new for those years..🇮🇹

[@johansjoberg8388]

Nope, that's wrong. John Myung wrote the lyrics for Learning to Live...

[@Shigawire]

I've seen Rush live twice in my life. I hope Geddy and Alex finds a drummer worthy, plus he needs to do lyrics really well.

[@АнтонЧернецов-з2б]

Check out Scenes from New York 2000 live version

[@johnpetrucci42]

My 7 year old daughter absolutely loves this song and she's not really into DT.

[@sergepepin1601]

great song btw why you have a lincence plate from montreal ? my city!

[@elpobrecito88]

Please react to take the time live in japan 1993 that version is so good and epic

[@johnnorman7180]

I was stunned all through this album when it came out, but this masterpiece at the end sealed it. I knew I had finally found a band that could live up to the great bands of rock. Nick Black Country Communion just released a new album (DS)

[@narvik9035]

Parts of the song reminded me of Hemispheres by Rush. The section right after the second chorus.

[@michaelgray5100]

In my opinion there is no way to grasp all of this song on just one listen. You must listen to this song a few more times. At least for me I had too.

[@Rikrik1138]

I love this song! Great reaction! Y’all are fans of Progressive music, but haven’t checked out Queensrÿche. Rage For Order is a prog rock masterpiece!

[@Pirates_of_the_Underground_I]

I bought them the 1st "6" albums (which includes a German "Box-set" of Operation Mindcrime), and they have reacted to 2 tracks off of Rage For Order :). They need to do more, I just haven't had the means to request tracks or include QR tracks on a Marathon "Theme".

[@williamosborne6866]

For all of their amazing output over the decades, they have never managed to surpass "Images and Words" as a complete front-to-back masterpiece. Here's a track that nobody thinks about, but is one of the sweetest ever recorded - "Wait For Sleep" - under 3 minutes of audio bliss: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5KxqaWld6uKeLc FYI, to this day, this is the only DT album to garner Gold status - and is by far their best seller. DT really put prog on the musical map here, but they somehow managed to drop the baton and have been passed by many other bands (you've reacted to my current favorite prog metal outfit - "Vanden Plas", but here are much, much more).

[@petervincent9489]

Passed by other bands? Who?

[@dalejohnson2047]

When Kevin left the band he joined Fates Warning I’m not sure why he left but I saw him playing with Fates at a show in Atlanta

[@bbp551]

He released three albums as “Chroma Key” after leaving DT. Great albums, especially “Dead Air for Radios.” He was also in OSI. I believe he’s a psychologist now.

[@professorofrhetoric1152]

Try using live footage

[@bmac1205]

I was lucky enough to see Dream Theater in 2004. They opened for Yes during Yes' 35th Anniversary Tour. The venue was the Allentown Fair in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I had no idea there was an opening act as the tickets were a present from my older sister and brother in-law. Although it is metal prog or prog metal I am so glad there are bands keeping Prog going.

[@Pirates_of_the_Underground_I]

That's when I saw them at the Universal Amphitheater in Hollywood! DT did an instrumental version of "Machine Messiah" and their rendition of "Diary of a Madman" :D. And bought my treasured "Yes 35th Anni 'Relayer' Long sleeve"! That I literally wore out :p. Yes were amazing! And for DT it was the "Train of Thought Tour", too bad I missed out on their beautiful Black long-sleeve shirt of the album cover. But bought the Tour Program which is rare from DT as they didn't do that for every tour.

[@paultremolieres7493]

Ça intéresse qui ce genre de vidéo ? Ça apporte quoi ?

[@kimchi2780]

John Myung penned song!

[@hasltisl]

101K! Nice!❤

[@윤희준-q9r]

Kevin Moore.. one top

[@cleversonluiz5839]

YESSSSSSS!

[@DanielGonzalez-eq4ow]

My fav album! I love it so much!

[@PJprog]

Crazy good this. I agree Nick. Best track on this album. 😍 Awesome 👍👍

[@rudolfbecker4313]

If I could play guitar, I surely could play (at least parts) of this song, having heard it so often. Just like both albums Images & Words and Awake. Hundreds of hours with my headphone. This was the best music for me in the early 90s, both albums are so unique, so original. Lots of great stuff came later, but this was the beginning and there was nothing like this before. Great reaction, all this "air-bass-guitar-keyboard-drum-singing" .... and all the faces 👍🤘

[@davehess1019]

I really like this, to me it sounds like a theatrical rock, very clean, my kinda music, sounds like Queensryche, the singer sound like Jeffrey Tate

[@ingovaneijden966]

Rush is my absolute favourite but dream theater is certainly high on my list as well. Complex compositions and really good

[@shupakiko]

Hey Nick ! it's also my favorite of the album. Great finisher ! My favorite part at 10:05 the break into Wait for sleep keys *chef's kiss* Thank you guys great video, happy Lex liked it. Definitely one of those so prog it grows on you the more you hear it.

[@adam872]

Images and Words was such a bolt out of the blue for me when I heard it for the first time. What a fantastic album and incredibly exciting and daring from a group of guys so young. Metal and prog together was right in my wheel house at that precise moment and I've been a fan ever since. BTW John Myung wrote the lyrics for this track, as he did for several bangers they've done.

[@normanottley1316]

I love you both, and it shows how much you love music. As an aside, I do like to play spot the difference with the background and see what's changed.🤩

[@DanielGonzalez-eq4ow]

For me is a BIG YES!

[@davidlawson7026]

The bonus live take from 'Scenes From New York' of this track is amazing

[@ianwood-zi7fh]

wow this is fantastic i have never listened to them before now I iove the lyrics the drums everything is so so good thank you nick I will be listening to dream theater more now

[@alanalanis2257]

@nicknlex You two made my day!! Thanks for another Dream Theater reaction. For the love of God, please react to In The Name of God. 🙏😁

[@rudolfbecker4313]

alanalanis - one of the handful of guys whose been around here longer than me ... what's your opinion on the return of MP ? and will you see them live ? 🤘

[@alanalanis2257]

​@@rudolfbecker4313Hey there!! Bro!! I'm super stoked about MPs return. I've been a fanboy since 1993 when I was a mere 20 years old. I promised my wife I wouldn't go to any more concerts ever since covid. But I've seen them about 20 times and met them 3 times. DT16 is going to be beyond epic!!!

[@rudolfbecker4313]

@@alanalanis2257 Hi Alan, thank you for your answere, I love the exchange with other DT fans. Being a bit older than you, born 1960, I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, I liked parts of the NWOBHM, in 1980 I discovered Rush. But when my older brother bought WDADU it was like the beginning of a new music era for me (knowing only a little Queensryche and no Fates Warning). Ever since than I'm a fan, I love the 90s albums (Falling... not so much...), was very critical with the 2000s, loving many songs but not all ( I walk beside you 😏 or Forsaken ☹) and was really sad, when MP left. I stayed with them, but no album pleased me as the ones with MP. Due to reasons I started my DT concert "career" in 2000, having seen them 18 times, DT in Oct will be no 19. Other than that, I saw Transatlantic 3 times live (twice in row #2 with my son and having our 1 second appearance on KaLiveoscope, which was filmed in Cologne) I saw Neal Morse Band 3 times, Winery Dogs once, Sons of Apollo once, and Mike's Shattered Fortress playing his suite in its entirety with the musicians of Haken plus Eric Gillette of NMB at Germany's biggest Prog Festival - Night of the prog - , which was awesome and many fans hope for on the next tour ... but I doubt it. As covid didn't hit Germany as hard as other countries and feeling "safe" after 3 vaccinations ( having Corona once with mild symptons and being put in quarantine by my family), I've been going to concerts whenever possible. In 2023 I even visited most concerts in a year than in any other year before : 11 ! incl Dream Theater, Australian Pink Floyd Show and many other bands, you might not know. My personal highlight was Midsummerprog in the Netherlands, where I saw my newest favourite band : Von Hertzen Brothers from Finnland ... pretty proggy, but no metal. Unfortunately almost unknown to the rest of the world. If you are interested you maybe just visit Jim Newsteads channel (who was recommended to me by Nick). He made 3 reactions to songs of VHB. Ok enough for today 😆 Germany is in football (soccer) fever - European Championships and we play Denmark tonight in the round of 16. Have a great weekend, greetings from Germany, Rudi 🤘

[@alanalanis2257]

Wow!! Thank you for your extended response. I just can't wait for DT16. The suspense is killing me. Even though I missed the chemistry with MP, I embraced the chemistry MM brought to DT because they were still composing music far more superior to anyone else. Every MM album was epic. I would have to say that Distance Over Time is my favorite MM album. That said, regardless of MM or MP at the kit, DT and their side projects will always be the soundtrack to my life.

[@JoseRomero-og6zx]

Creo que es la mejor canción del disco, además de la letra es lo mejor. Mi canción favorita, siento que Kevin le daba el lado más atmosférico a la Banda

[@Jeep52l]

Love it!!

[@NicknLex]

So glad!

[@bmac1205]

Alexia, Nice Shirt! Are you into older Chevy's?

[@NicknLex]

Yes I am!

[@Giovane38]

southern empire when? 🙏

[@윤희준-q9r]

That's kevin moore