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Toto je citanie na dlhe zimne vecery a tyka sa titulnej skladby nam dobre znameho albumu nam dobre znamej znamej kapelky :)) posielam to vam dvom, lebo nikto iny by to urcite necital :) ide o ten rozhovor s LaBriem v Sparku, kde sa ho pytali preco su citacie Pink Floydu a Beatles v texte Octavaria. Je to kravina, pretoze to nie su citacie, ale cela treta cast Octavaria je akysi Portnoyov tribute kapelam a hudobnikom, ktorych ma rad. Vec sa ma nasledovne:

na zaciatku zaznie slovom povedane "Isn't this is where we came in" toto je dost haluska, dream sa nechyta na pinkfloyd. totiz ked si zapnes The Wall a vyhulis to na plne prdy, tak zacujes uplne na zaciatku "...we came in?" a takisto ked uz konci druhy disk a znie tam ta melodia zo zaciatku, tak posledne dve-tri sekundy to vyhul a budes pocut "Isn't this where...", co spojene a prelozene znamena asi tolko "Nie je toto to, kde sme zacali?"... takze to je prva veta portnoyovej casti octavaria...

sailing on the seven seize the day tripper diem's ready - "Sailing On The Seven Seas" je song od Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark, a to 'seize' bude asi kvoli zvratu seize-the-day (OMD nepoznam, tu je biografia: http://www.omd.uk.com/html/biography.html ), "Day Tripper" je Beatles, nahral ju aj Hendrix
jack the ripper owens wilson phillips and my supper's ready - toto celkom nechapem. "The Ripper" je song od Judas Priest o Jackovi Rozparovacovi a "The Ripper Owens" bola prezyvka spevaka, ktory nahradil Halforda po jeho odchode z Judasu v 90-tych rokoch. Wilson Phillips je zenske vokalne trio zalozene v 90-tom roku dcerami hudobnikov z Mamas & Papas a Beach Boys, co sa mi tiez nezda ako suvisiace... "Supper's Ready" je song od Genesis
lucy in the sky with diamond daves not here I come to save the - Lucy In The Sky With Diamond je piesen od Beatles, "Dave's Not Here" vyzera byt nejaky divny osial. skus si to zadat do Google, ja som to nepochopil, ale tych linkov je mrte
day for nightmare cinema show me the way to get back home again - "Cinema Show" je zase od Genesis, "Show me the way" sa spomina v doleuvedenom clanku.

[Running forward / Falling back]
Spinning round and round
[Looking outward / Reaching in]
Scream without a sound

[Leaning over / Crawling up]
Stumbling all around
[Losing my place / Only to]
Find I've come full circle

flying off the handle with careful with - to-fly-of-the-handle (zvrat) znamena vybuchnut / uletiet, "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" - Pink Floyd (album Relics) je dost ulet :)
that axe eugene gene the dance machine - Film Torch Song z roku 1953, obsadenie : Eugene Loring ... Gene, the Dance Director. Sranda, ne?
messiah light my fire gabba gabba - "Machine Messiah" je piesen od Yes, "Light My Fire" poznas, to je Doors, "Gabba Gabba Hey" poznam zase ja, to je od Ramones
hey hey my my generation's home again - "My Generation" je od The Who zase...

[Running forward / Falling back]
Spinning round and round
[Looking outward / Reaching in]
Scream without a sound

[Leaning over / Crawling up]
Stumbling all around
[Losing my place / Only to]
Find I've come full circle

co ma celkom zaujalo, je nasledovny clanok:

The third section of the song is called Full Circle and this is literally Mike Portnoy's ode to prog as the lyrics consist of nothing but word-jokes listing his favourite songs, bands and more. If you listen closely you can make out Beatles tracks like Day Tripper, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Get Back, Genesis' Supper's Ready and Cinema Show, Floyd's Careful With That Axe Eugene and Yes' Machine Messiah, as well as My Generation (The Who), Show Me The Way (Pete Frampton), Light My Fire (The Doors) and much, much more. "Jack The Ripper Owens Wilson Phillips" - geddit? (ne, mne to teda velmi nedoslo) Musically this section is another page straight out of the book of Genesis.

A nice little touch is that the song finishes with the opening notes of The Root Of All Evil, so the album literally comes full circle. - tomuto vobec nerozumiem, pretoze som si vobec nevsimol zhodu konca Octavaria so zaciatkom The Root Of All Evil, aj ked som sa teda dost snazil. Ak by to tak bolo, bola by to ta myslienka z Pink Floydu (Isn't this, where we came in?).
(tu iba doplnim, ze autor mailu mal inu verziu albumu Octavarium, kde tato zhoda nebola. V bezne dostupnej verzii je to presne tak ako to popisuju)

a pacil sa mi aj zbytok toho clanku:

Special mention must go to the artwork of the album, created by one Hugh Syme (of Rush fame). The booklet is also full of references to the number 8: an eight-ball, an octagon with an eight-legged spider, an octopus and an octave on a piano. Though the exact same thing has already been done by Spock's Beard when they released their eighth album earlier this year, it is a nice gimmick.
The album is a lot more logical successor to Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence than Train Of Thought was. Overall you could say it is a mix of the more poppy, song-based material of Falling Into Infinity and the symphonic approach of Scenes From A Memory and the title track of Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence.
The album is surprisingly light on guitar (solos). John Petrucci limits himself mainly to playing rhythm guitar and only occasionally breaks out into a solo. In fact, the long steel-guitar intro to Octavarium is played by Jordan Rudess! That doesn't mean that fans of Petrucci will be disappointed, as the music still retains a very definitive Dream Theater sound.
The album is also a lot more vocal than previous albums. It is the first album since Images And Words that doesn't contain an instrumental. Furthermore, it is a slightly unbalanced album, with the second half being far more interesting than the first half. The songs on the first half of the album aren't bad at all, but they often sound like stuff the band has done before, and are completely overshadowed by the title track. As far as I'm concerned the album is definitely a leap back into the right direction after the disappointment of Train Of Thought. - nemozem inak, nez s autorom suhlasit ;)))