Musical Analysis/Reaction of AYREON - The Day That The World Breaks Down
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Just re-watched your reaction a year later. So much fun watching you experience Arjen's music for the 1st time. I have also kept up with your music, it is now part of my Spotify mix. Looking forward to more Ayreon reactions, and more pieces from yourself, in 2023
Thank you very much, Robyn! I'm working on a million things, but let's hope I can release some stuff this year 😃🤘
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Wow.. thanks so much for your kind words, John! So many fans recommended me to watch this. I’m totally honored... this is really good for my ego I have to say :-) Glad you enjoy it so much! This is certainly one of the most interesting reaction videos I’ve seen so far. Very genuine. And you definitely have great musical knowledge, unfortunately you also know where I stole stuff :-) Ask me anything, man. Thanks again and please keep up the good work! Big smile here :-)
Man, I'm the one who is honoured! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment on my channel. People like you have inspired me to continue to make music my whole life. Making reaction videos is something I've only started doing recently for a bit of fun, and also to help expose some of my own original music to more people. Having someone of your stature and prestige in the music industry dropping by to leave me a comment has made my day, my week, my year! Thank you so much, man. And I look forward to hearing more of your amazing work! 😁🤘👍
Thx a lot for your awesome masterpiece! Loved your explanations and comments! Introduces me to many new vocalists and their bands! Stay well! 💕
You guys should meet each other !!!
@@leeblack3335 This ^^
wow, the master in person 😮
Keep talking as much as you want! I've heard this song quite a few times now and you mentioned several things I hadn't really noticed before. I really appreciate hearing commentary coming from someone with extensive musical knowledge.
Appreciate that, man. Thanks very much! 👍🤘
@@JWSoundworks2 just keep doing what you're doing. I thought I knew this song pretty well, I listen to the entire album regularly because for a prog fan like me, it's one of the best releases of the past 5 years. I've also watched tons of reaction videos of it here on TH-cam. You still managed to point out some stuff that I hadn't noticed before, so thanks for that!
btw Arjen Lucassen is pretty is pretty active on social media, so don't be surprised if he drops in with a comment once this video gathers some views and likes and gets recommended to a wide audience. Also, if you do more reactions of his music but get copyright strikes on them, try to get in touch with him because he often helps out with those through his label. He really does appreciate the reaction community.
@@RudyBleeker that's awesome to hear, man. He sounds like one seriously cool dude! 🤘😊
Totally agree, best reaction on this song sofar, Arjen sure will appreciate it too!
The people who bitch about the person reacting stopping and talking don't seem to grasp that this is a REACTION video. You want to hear it uninterrupted, go watch or listen to the normal copy. Getting someone's reactions, impressions, and thoughts is the entire purpose of videos like this.
As he said at the end about people who gave it thumbs-down, "I don't get it".
And it's always fair game if you back it up a bit after commenting. Oh noes, we have to listen to part of something we love over again. The horrors.
Arjen Lucassen and Floor Jansen go way back. Arjen was one of the first to recognize the enormous potential of Floor. She and her sister Irene Jansen appeared in several of his projects throughout the years. So many rabbit holes he was (and still is) digging for us.
Wouldn't surprise me if Arjen shows up to comment. He's a great dude.
Are you a prophet 5 analog fortuneteller? :-)
Next Ayreon: Everybody Dies Live!
For sure... the live version is awesome!
welcome to the wonderful musical world of the genius, Arjen Lucassen
Thanks Marco!
Man, I have seen quite a few Ayreon Reactions. Especially to this song. There were many good and ok ones but you geeking out over it was so much fun. It is fun, seeing vocal coaches reacting to this because, well, 11 singers, lots to talk about. But this one is especially interesting with ppl. who play instruments and/or write songs. Arjen is doing a good job with his annotations and in know them by heart but as I am no musician, some of it goes over my head. Rly nice to get even more insight. I am halfway through the video now and am rly looking forward to the end and the conclusive thoughts.
Ayreon has been around since the '90s, initially starting off as a kind of passion project for the tall hippie dude playing guitar, keys and bass, Arjen Anthony Lucassen. He's a compositional genius first and foremost, and generally eschews performing live (with a few exceptions), though he is an accomplished guitarist (and plays several other instruments too...plus he sings on some of his projects). The joy for him is in writing, arranging and producing the best music he can (usually concept albums - he actually reminds me a lot of Daniel Gildenlöw from Pain of Salvation, who also favours concept albums...and actually, he has had Gildenlöw sing on one of his albums, so there is a connection there too). And over the years he's managed to both discover and recruit so many instrumentalists and vocalists for his projects (Ayreon is the main one, but there've been a few others, bands like Star One, The Guilt Machine and Stream of Passion). The list of people he's worked with is a who's who of prog and metal royalty. In addition to the impressive list in this very song (people like Blind Guardian's Hansi Kürsch and Kamelot's Tommy Karevik - both great singers, though I'm not surprised you haven't heard of them, having not really explored power metal), he's had luminaries like Neal Morse, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Devin Townsend, Dee Snider, Marko Hietala (Nightwish's former bassist/singer), Fish (yes, THAT Fish), *Bruce Dickenson* (I know, right) and Ty Tabor (King's X)...and that's just the vocalists (incidentally, since 2004, all of Ayreon's studio albums have been sort of rock opera-type entities, having characters played by individual singers; Arjen always tries to find the right voices for the roles he's written, and he must have some pretty great connections to get the people he gets). As for instrumentalists, on this very album, Paul Gilbert contributes a guitar solo...and so does Marcel Coenen (from the disbanded Dutch prog metal band Sun Caged - check them out if you've not heard of them, they're amazing; Coenen also played lead guitar in one of the very few live productions of Ayreon music)...and in the past, Steve Hackett, Joe Satriani, Derek Sherinian, Jordan Rudess and even KEITH EMERSON (RIP) and RICK WAKEMAN have played solos for him as well.
Arjen has a reputation as a consummate professional and perfectionist, and people sign on to his projects because of the crossover appeal (i.e. fans come to it from all sorts of previous fandoms, knowing one or two of the guest musicians, but get EXPOSED to a bunch of artists they've never heard of, playing/singing in a genre they already love) - I only discovered Ayreon because back when I was a massive Dream Theater fan (the Portnoy era), James LaBrie had a major role on the album "The Human Equation" (and I also knew Mikael Åkerfeldt, who had a large role as well, plus Devin Townsend who played a smaller role). But because of "The Human Equation" I discovered Shadow Gallery (since their singer Mike Baker had a small part) and Elfonía (a great Mexican prog/experimental/ambient metal band...they sort of defy description actually, so it's hard to pick a subgenre...but their singer also had a large part on this album). And I started to buy more Ayreon music from before "The Human Equation" and kept up with Arjen as he released more albums. I knew Floor Jansen from Ayreon before I'd ever heard of After Forever or Nightwish (and her sister Irene is on a couple Ayreon albums too). And since I heard "The Source" I have started to listen to bands like Circus Maximus (Michael Erikson - The Diplomat, i.e. the really clean singer after Russell Allen's parts, is their vocalist), Pagan's Mind (whose singer is Nils Per - The Prophet) and most awesomely, Toehider (Michael Mills - TH-1 ftw...that guy is just...jawdroppingly amazing...like a reincarnated Freddie Mercury).
Anyway, I was pretty sure you'd LOVE this (when I saw the name of the song you were reacting to, today)...and there's just SO much more to discover from Ayreon. He's definitely one of the greatest prog composers of the 21st century so far, and you get the additional bonus of discovering incredible musicians in Ayreon music, and going on to become fans of them and their bands.
Great info there. Thanks very much! You were correct, indeed. This blew me away! 🤘👍
I think John mentioned he didn't want to know all there is to know in the video ;-) Kudos though for the comprehensive post there! Pretty much sums it up.
I'd recommend Mr. Wilson reacting to some live performances, particularly Guilt Machine's - Twisted Coil: th-cam.com/video/gcHn0kCgmAs/w-d-xo.html
Or Ayreon - Welcome To The New Dimension & Isis and Osiris (this one's good for your dad too):
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Ayreon is the ultimate rabbit hole for discovering new music. Arjen Lucassen is pure genius. Anything he produces is GOLD.
True for most, I was familiar with most of the bands these singers represent, but definitely need to check more toehider and circa survive(right?) I've seen kahn kamelot, wanna see Tommy tho. Seen symphony x, epica, nightwish(not w floor unfortunately)....
@@jamestalkington6306 (Tommy) Kamelot isn't that special - go for Seventh Wonder. I recommend "The Great Escape" (2010) and "Mercy Falls" (2008)
Arjen Anthony Lucassen is the "mastermind" behind this project. He did several interviews where he describes how he selects the vocalists and so on. Check it out, it is on YT
Good shout. Must do that, cheers!
Ayreon is like an amazing assorted box of chocolates. So many talented and incredible musicians collaborating to make something special with each album. I can see that you are an immediate fan, so enjoy this rabbit hole. Arjen is a very special composer/architect of grand themes and ideas while giving enough freedom to the musicians to let them add their own genius to each song. Its great that you didn't recognize most of the singers and musicians because they represent quite a few great bands to explore as well eventually. I can honestly say that I added quite a few excellent bands to my list after first hearing their amazing singer on an Ayreon song. The live performances on YT for the Ayreon Universe show are highly recommended to continue your exploration of them.
Excellent points. One door opens another door, and another, and so on... Loved this!!
Same by me!👍😀
I would say to listen to the studio versions before the live performances in most cases, just because a number of the live ones are abridged (significantly in some cases). As you can tell, Arjen's songs tend to have a lot of parts, and not all the parts were able to be adapted to the live performances, despite the incredible talent and production on display in all of them. I will say, though, that "Electric Castle Live" is pretty darned close to album perfect. But still listen to the album first :). Even if you can only do reaction videos for the live shows (not sure if that's true, other people have done studio tracks here and there), listen to the original version first, IMO.
That may be the best reaction to this song I've ever seen. And I've seen a lot. The fact that you're not so impressed by the outer layer of 11 singers only makes it better. Your music knowledge is very impressive. I'm definitely subscribing.
Thank you, Juan. Glad you enjoyed it, man! 🤘👍
The singers in order of appearance are:
James LaBrie from Dream Theater
Tommy Karevik from Kamelot, Seventh Wonder
Tommy Rogers from Between the Buried and Me
Simone Simons from th most epic Epica
Nils K. Rue from Pagan's Mind and Eidolon
Tobias Sammet from Edguy and here mentioned Avantasia
Hansi Kürsch the „Bard from Walhalla“ from Blind Guardian
Mike Mills playing a computer and singing binary from Toehider
Russell Allen from Symphony X
Michael Eriksen from Circus Maximus
and last but not least the incredible Valkyrie Goddess Floor Jansen from Nightwish
This is a good guide for other listening/reaction videos. Any number of music from the above artists.. Will likely be right up your alley too buddy.
I have heard this over a hundred times mainly in reactions. What a joy it is to watch a reaction by someone who knows what music is all about.. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind words, Born! 😊🤘👍
Hi something you might like to check out Simone simons band called epica it's a symphonic metal band from Holland 🇳🇱
Epica unleashed live retrospect show (full orchestra on stage with the band)
Ps Simone and floor jansen from Nightwish are good friends
How Arjen recruits musicians: Hey its Arjen. I´m on to make a new Album, here is a sample""..Do u want to be part on it? Musician: Oh hell yes, yes, please...... :D
Ayreon is the (main) project of Dutch composer, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen. He does scifi concept albums. He has had over 80 different singers on his 9 (double)albums. Most albums are part of the bigger story called the Ayreon Universe.
He has not done many live-shows but the ones he did are all killer. The 4 main shows are: 1.) Star One - live on earth (actually starone is a side project, but they did play some Ayreon songs) 2002-dvd2003
2.) The Theater Equation (a playthrough of the cd human equation, this is more a broadway-theater show) 2105-dvd2016
3.) Ayreon Universe (a best of full on prog-rock-metal show) 2017-dvd2018
4.) Ayreon - Electric castle live and other tales (a playtrough of the cd Into the electric castle, and 1 song of each side-project) 2019-dvd2020
The Theater Equation was _technically_ an unofficial production that did not involve Arjen. However, it did have most of the original singers and musicians reprising their roles from the album and it was done with Arjen's blessing, so it might as well have been an official Arjen production.
"... and all 11 main singers are featured"
*later* "I did not think there would be so many singers"
Sleeping 4 hours a night for 2 years will do that to you.
@@JWSoundworks2 Yeah this is true. ... ask me how I know.
You are only the 2nd person (that I have seen) that picked up on the Hey Joe riff...
That riff took me way back to like 12 years old and learning those Jimi riffs on the guitar! Took me a few seconds to access that far back lol. Cheers!
Arjen is a genius and he has always so fantastic musicians around him
I'm new to your channel. Love your thoughts! Need to check out your music
Thanks Brendo. Thanks for saying hello! :)
The fact that you're talking about the music is the reason we are here. If we wanted to listen to the song uninterrupted we would click on the link to the original video
Got some hate early on in these vids from a few people telling me to shut up lol. I really appreciate anyone taking the time to say they enjoy my commentary. Thank you.
@@JWSoundworks2 It doesn't matter what someone does, there will always be someone getting upset because they didn't get exactly what they expected.
For some reason for some humans it's easier to say what they don't like instead of what they like, and the more they do it, the more normal it becomes.
There's simply too much to explore in one lifetime, and everyone does it from their own perspective. Sharing what we have discovered is one of the super powers that we have. I'd like that tradition to survive the battle with the Ego.
Thank you for choosing to spend your time sharing some of your perspective
@@sjeses some very valid points there, and I totally agree. I am a piano teacher by day and so "constructive" criticism is often necessary to help allow people to improve. It's only useful, though, if you can offer advice and suggestions as to how the individual may improve. But nastiness in any form is something I have no time for (I try to just ignore it). Understanding, first-hand, the amount of time and effort people dedicate to their art, it shows a real lack of empathy for someone to just tear it apart for their own strange pleasure. I have come to think that nastiness is a cycle that was probably bestowed upon those individuals who seem to perpetuate it. Fortunately the VAST majority of comments here are indicative of how nice and friendly most people are out there. And most of the professional musicians I've worked with are highly supportive people and not ego-centric.
@@JWSoundworks2 it's hard to understand how much work and perseverance is required to create something that other people see as "talent". How many times someone has been frustrated but kept trying anyway. How many new problems kept popping up when they thought they had finally solved all of them. And how hard it is to after all of that not only to want to create something for other people to enjoy, but to actually do it.
Superb reaction. All of the ones and zeros in the lyrics are a "Binary Code". Also, the other female singer is Simone Simons from Epica. Both she and Floor Jansen are close friends. Floor is featured on Epica's song Sancta Terra. A must see video.
When it comes to the vocalists, most of these people are either legends or legends in the making. Singers from some of the most prominent metal bands of the past 3 decades. As someone raised on prog rock myself, the closest thing that I can liken Ayreon to is The Alan Parsons Project. Arjen is a bloody genius as evidenced by the calibre of musicians who appear on his work.
On a sidenote, that sound of the distorted guitars and Hammond is something straight out of the 70s and will NEVER get old.
Vulture Culture is one of my favourite albums from the 80s. Something about that album just ticks so many boxes for me.
Arjen himself may leave a comment for your reaction... I've seen it many times.
😯 That'd be amazing! 🤘😊
@@JWSoundworks2 and so he did :-)))
Great video! It would be also interesting to hear your analysis of this song after you listened it a few times.
Nice and profound reaction! Until now I considered the reaction of “the Charismatic Voice” on this as the best (she seeked help from Sean Daniel for the instrumental part), but your knowledge on the instrumentals is amazing, you noticed even the Jimy Hendrix part.
There are a lot of connections between the performers: Floor and pianist Joost van den Broek were both Member of Floor’s first band After Forever and he is producer of the band Epica where Simone Simons is the singer.
There are so many new bands and artists that spawn out from just this single video! Gonna be hard to keep up lol. But looking forward to more!
@@JWSoundworks2 As you seem to have high regards for the classical composers, you may want to check out a performance from the Epica 10 year retrospective. Since they have a full classical orchestra on stage anyway, Simone Simons took the opportunity to sing one of her favourite classical pieces together with her former room mate and best friend Floor Jansen: Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater Dolorosa" (1736).
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NEVER, EVER apologize for speaking during your reactions! I absolutely love hearing your comments - it is musically educational - which is why I've come to love your reactions. I have learned Sooo much about music listening to your comments. You, dude, know more about music than I have ever known, and I grew up with music. Both my parents were professional musicians, and I'm a multi instrumentalist. I don't know how to play guitar, but if I wanted to learn I would hope to find an instructor like you. At 70, that will never happen, but I WILL learn how to play the violin before I die - it is one of my bucket list items. In this medley/story I have been opened up to Kamelot hearing Tommy Karevik. I am an avid fan of Simone Simons (Epica) and Floor Jansen (Nightwish) - both of which I learned about listening to reactions such as yours.
🎵🎸One-man-band prog? 👇
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And yes, keep talking, that's the point X
The binary part translates into 'trust TH1'. Great reaction! Congrats on spotting that Arjen is playing guitar, bass and synths. Most reactors miss it. I really liked your comments and perspective. I think Ayreon's first album is from the mid 90's. I reccommend 'Age of shadows', 'Intergalactic space crusader', 'The eye of Ra' and 'The valley of the Queens' if you want to react to more Ayreon songs. You've quite a bit of catching up in front of you! ;)
Here is a list of the composer and singers in order of appearance:
Arjen Lucassen - Composer - Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. Also FYI he has been in the music biz since 1980, so a lot of the influence that are brought up about his music, he was there before those bands, so anything from the 70s may have influenced him, but later on and he may have been the one influencing. 😀
James Labrie - Lead singer for Dream Theatre.
Tommy Karevik - Lead singer of Kamelot and Seventh Wonder.
Tommy Rodgers - Lead singer of Between the Buried and Me.
Simone Simmons - Lead singer of Epica.
Nils K. Rue - Lead singer of Pagan's Mind and also worked with Eidolon.
Tobias Sammet - Lead singer of Edguy & Avantasia.
Hansi Kürsch - Lead singer of Blind Guardian and Demons & Wizards.
Mike Mills - Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and main songwriter for Toehider.
Russell Allen - Lead singer of Symphony X and Allen/Lande.
Michael Eriksen - Lead singer of Circus Maximus.
Floor Jansen - Lead singer of After Forever, ReVamp & now Nightwish.
Next I would suggest reacting to the performances at Ayreon Universe concert, especially the following Intergalactic Space Crusaders, River of Time, Merlin's Will, Valley of the Queens, Ride the Comet, Star of Sirrah, And the Druids Turn to Stone, Age of Shadows & Everybody Dies.
I agree with the recommendations, but Age of Shadows is much much better with the studio version. Amazing song that couldn't be captured in the live setting. Anekke's 0-1 bit is the true precursor to the Mike mills bit in this song, and that's totally missing in the live version (for obvious reasons).
Arjen was also part of the rockband Vengeance
So glad you decided to move this up your list of reactions. Great reaction and analysis. Stay safe 🤘✌
Thank you, Brian. Loved it!
Fantastic reaction! That bass riff can be heard on Status Quo's 'Black Veils of Melancholy' recorded in 1968. It is available on youtube and comes in at 1.09'. Give it a listen and tell me what you think? Cheers, Kev from Wilts
Cheers Kevin! I'll check that out. If that's the case, that would also help provide credence to the "Hey Joe" Jimi Hendrix riff I picked up on!
Arjen is a great and humble (my kind of) guy and appreciates the genuine comments on his projects and I told you to expect to hear from him. He is very busy with a new project which will be "done" and released early 2022 (so he told me).
Hansi Kursh is vocalist of Blind Guardian, one of my favorites bands.
Man, first time watching your channel and absolutely loved you breakdown. Also, I'm pretty confident you will love the Ayreon rabbit hole. This son is just a glance of what Arjen is capable of composing. the Ayreon Universe is huge! You will love every single album, specially if you are intro 70s prog and the newer prog metal. Ayreon is a nice mix of both worlds.
Yeah, got to th part you say you cant believe you missed this... that was my first thought...how could this guy miss Ayreon if he likes prog!
Thank you, I will definitely be checking out more from him! 👍🤘
Great you reacted to Ayreon - so much good music - Arjen Lucassen himself says, he's not a great guitarist, but great at finding great singers and musicians, and have them combine their talents together. Earlier, he had difficulties getting the people he wanted on his albums. Now, it's easier, people know him. He's really humble. Floor Jansen, Floor's sister Irene, Russell Allen, Damian Wilson, Joost van den Broek and Ed Warby have also played with Arjan in another project of his: Star One.
I rly enjoyed it. Did you do Epica already? I ll check, nevermind. No, you did not xd Maybe go for Consign to Oblivion live from Paris (zenith) if you want to check them out. I would be interested in what you have to say about them.
Thanks for the feedback and suggestion, Chris. I'll add Epica to my list! 👍🤘
@@JWSoundworks2 The female (lead) singer from Epica is Simone Simons, she was also in this song as 'the Councilor' .
As a guitarist I suggest you try Unleash the Archers Awakening, full band playthrough. Modern power metal at its best.
here is a link: th-cam.com/video/gqUPGa15Oto/w-d-xo.html
Ayreon isn't a band it's a project by Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Check out Nightwish symphonic metal & their metal Queen vocalist Floor Jansen she is the last vocalist.
Checked them out a few weeks back. Have two reaction videos to them on my channel. 🤘
Classical pianist listens to Aryeon for the first time and says, “that’s it! I need to have a lie down.” He gets it. Arjen is really an opera composer and he is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Thanks for the reaction vid!
Thank you so much for this reaction 🙂👍
I'm always amazed by your musical knowledge and I learn a lot.
Please don't hesitate to stop the videos to add some commentaries. I absolutely like them.
Tommy Karevik is, I think, the lead singer of Kamelot.
Simone Simons is the lead singer of Epica, a symphonic metal band from the Netherlands.
If I may, I would suggest you to react to Epica "Sancta Terra" (feat. Floor Jansen) live Retrospect show, "Design your Universe" live (Retrospect) and "Consign to Oblivion" live at the Zenith, someday.
Continue this good, thanks again and take care 🙂🤘
That's very kind of you to say. Appreciate the suggestions, too. Thank you. 😊🤘
I've watched a lot of reactions to this vid, this is the best. Great work, great insight. 🤘
Wow, dude. That's nice of you to say so. Thanks a lot! 😊👍🤘
You're very welcome fella. I watched Aryeon off the back of watching Nightwish reactions, Floor's appearance was a bonus but I now have a love for Aryeon but also Blind Guardian (Hansi Kürsch), power metal! 😉
You should check out Mike Mills in his own band Toehider.
On and On playthrough,
How do Ghosts work, and
Whatever makes you feel Superior are good places to start. 🤘
Yay, you did it! Such an amazing song, i can't recommend it enough 😁 first song on a concept album. I had a feeling you might like this one.
And, i must add, i liked your intro-music on this one 👍👍
I guess you get tons of requests for reactions, but i'll throw a suggestion in anyways; Ne Obliviscaris - and plague flowers the caleidoscope. Another one where a lot happens 😁 album version is awesome, but there is also a good live version from 2016 out there ( but personally i think the live video distracts from the music a bit).
Cheers, have a great weekend!
Thanks very much! 😊 I've listened to some of their music before and loved it. Can't rememeber if that was one I've heard already, though.
@@JWSoundworks2 "too much" good music out there, hard to remember the name of every artist and/or song 🙈
great reaction, subbed!
Ah bliss. I've been hoping you'd provide your commentary on this. So grateful you took the time to do this - even though you didn't know what you were getting yourself into, haha :)
He has many albums so welcome to a rabbit hole ;) and he has some famous vocalist in those albums.
Man, this is gonna be an absolute god send. Cannot wait to get my teeth into more of his work!
Great reaction! Thanks! That is a HUGE wall of sound as an intro though.. particularly if you just woke up. Can almost skip my coffee now... But I always really like your reactions! Your on the top side of the spectrum 🙂 Thanks for that!
I'm jealous of the fact that you have this much music education and experience under your belt and are just now getting into Ayreon and Nightwish. What a journey you're about to go on!
Just came here via the Prescient reaction.. I am also a huge fan of the C64/Amiga era. Especially that little SID chip that was in the C64, it blew the Nintendo chiptunes out of the water back then. People like Jeroen Tel, Edwin van Santen (gone way too soon) and Rob hubbard were and still are my chiptune heroes. But I also love the times of the mod tracking on the amiga :). Arjen doesn't play on a headless guitar afaik, but Haken's Richard henshall does always play on headless guitars. Dunno what's the advantage of that though, I don't play guitar myself :)
Loved this reaction!
a lot of insightful comments I haven't heard before despite watching dozens of people react to this..
I hope the man himself, Arjen Lucassen, stops by to respond!
Thank you! :)
21:15 The Queen cover by Toehider / Michael Mills is worth checking out, too:
QUEEN COVER - The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (from "Queen II")
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Great video again, i really enjoy knowing your point of view about the music. Don't worry about the people complaining about the pauses or the long comments, that's what made your channel special.
Appreciate that! Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it! 👍🤘
This was great! I thoroughly enjoyed the video. I had already heard the song and watched its video and I knew you'd like it. This was the first one I watched from you and I immediately subscribed.
I checked out your music. I clicked on few of the links and ended up on Soundcloud. I used to go there often to check out some music. I followed you of course and clicked like to a couple of your tracks. The last thing I listened to was "Apertures". You don't often hear such high quality music! This was a very positive surprise.
If there's someone who's reading this and likes Ayreon. Check out the song Apertures, which I mentioned before. I think you might like it.
I'm very passionate about music and I could write for hours... I definitely know what you mean when you mentioned The March of the Black Queen. I love the whole Queen II album. I also noticed your Novation X-Station synthesizer, which I have as well. I really like Novation synths, especially my Supernova II.
Well, I just wanted to quickly write something. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos and hearing more of your music. Take care and have a fantastic day. evening or night.
Thank you for the comments, dude. Sounds like we could chat for hours, indeed! Queen, synths etc. Nice! If you liked Apertures I have a playthrough video of it here on youtube. Thanks for checking out my music and taking the time to comment. Appreciate it! 😊
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@@JWSoundworks2 You're very welcome. I definitely enjoyed the video as well.
Mike Mills of Toehider sings the role of the android TH1 (named after Toehider, maybe?) helping mankind against the computers. The binary text says "trust th1".
Oh, oh, you're set for Wintersun and their Sonic Pump studios live rehearsal (3 videos), they are even more stuffed with things and solidly difficult to analyze ;-) I suggest this order - "Sons off winter and stars, "Time", "Land of snow and sorrow".
BTW, even though Arjen didn't think a lot of his music would be possible live, they did an "Ayreon Universe" live, stellar! Should check some of them, like "Everybody Dies", "Star of Sirrah" or "Age of Shadows".
If you liked this, the entire album is just as good if not better.
This song just keeps getting better every time
As soon as I saw this notification, I thought "Oh yes, 100% he should listen to this." Also, there's nearly a 100% chance that Arjen Lucassen will show up in the comments at some point. He seems to be very interactive with reactors. Cheers! I'm so glad you liked this as much as you did. You'll have to let us know how many times you went back to listen to it.
Thanks very much! 😊👍🤘
Thank you sir. Proud Dutchie here. Ofcourse also Floor and Simone, our Dutch Metal Godesses. The other singers are freaking good too wow wow wow. ❤
Ayreon is the name of Arjen's projects (guitar, bass and hammond here). He's a phenominal musiscian and composer and was on stage with Floor a lot. He saw the potential Floor has and worked with her band After Forever.
To get some idea of how highly regarded Arjen is, think about him having Bruce Dickinson doing vocals for him in 2000 and Floor Jansen, James LaBrie and Simone Simons in 2010s.
When it comes to technical metal it's quite difficult to be on higher league than that.
Really enjoyed this video. Your passion and insight into music shines through. This is probably the song i have listened the most to the last 3-4 years, and I could relate to your reaction. Good watch. Thank you.
I like your shirt. I made the exact same shirt in art class in my freshman year in highschool doing silkscreen printing. 65 years old now. Keep rocking.🤘🔥😜
What an album, though, right ? Nice one, man. Cheers! 😊🤘
Hey I think i suggested that. Nice. I guessed you would like it. Great reaction. Didnt disappoint (understatement)!
Thanks Ron! Superb choice!
Singers and their bands from this video James LaBrie (Dream Theater)Tobias Sammet(Avantasia) Tommy Karevik (Kamelot) Tommy Rogers (Between the buried and me) Simone Simons (Epica) Nils K Rue (Pagan's Mind) Michael Mills (Toehider) Hansi Kursch (Blind Guardian) Russell Allen (Symphony X) Michael Eriksen (Circus Maximus) Floor Jansen (Nightwish)
Did anyone answer your question? Michael Mills binary code decoded was "Trust TH-1"
Hansi Kursch -Blind Guardian, Tobias Sammet - Avantasia , and many others (not so) random lead singers from big metal bands. xD
Thank you for mentioning Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix - to my knowledge, nobody else caught that before.
I hear a lot of 1970s prog like Kansas as you mentioned. The lyrics seem kind of vague and general to me. I think if they put in a lot more scientific and socio-political details like in science fiction novels they could have made several songs, or even explored several different scenarios for the end of the world. But maybe that would have narrowed their audience. Or it might have attracted even more attention. Who knows. Here are some other artists that combine classical music and metal and prog in different ways: Isyana Sarasvati "Unlock the Key"; Unlucky Morpheus "Angreifer"; Sitar Metal "When time stands still" (Indian classical, not European)
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Can I just point out that everything people say reminds them of Queen really should be reminding them of "Because" by the Beatles, which is what most Queen reminds me of ;-)
If you look closely you can see that Tommy Karevik sings with his hands..
Falling in this rabbit hole is a must for symphonic/progressive rock/metal fan.
See Wikipedia for everything you want to know about Ayreon and other bands, musicians, albums, songs.
The albums are great; they’re all concept albums.
The best to start with is : Into the electric castle.
There are two epic live concerts:
Ayreon Universe live
The electric castle live and other tales
And there a theatrical performance of the album: the human equation
Bruce Dickinson worked for Ayreon too
The binary code says Trust TH1
Lul is Dutch slang for dick
Thanks for the info! Looking forward to hearing more from Ayreon!
I'm not shure anyone has reacted about the binairy stuff: the 01110100 01110010,etc is a binairy code called 'BCD code'. You can calculated and convert this code using a 'ASCI table' into text and it translates as: 'Trust TH1' Th1 is a character on the album. and is played in the live version by Michael Mills (Toe Hider)
As soon as your video started and I heard you playing I thought you had heard them before 😂😂 then when you said you hadn’t I was like he’s going to lose his mind when he hears this 😂😂I’ve seen many reactions to this song. Your insight into all the aspects you actually heard on the first run through it’s top notch compared to others. Don’t ever apologize for your enthusiasm for music and speaking your thoughts. I absolutely love that he typed all his thoughts for us to read as well. The musicians he gets to work with him I feel shows what kind of person he is, because there’s a lot of who’s who going on here. And to organize the live shows must be mind blowing!! I’ve listened to this song so many times and it’s like it’s the first time every time. I still get that charge that reminds me how amazingly talented some people are in this world. Like you said for all of this to come together at this caliber is pretty rare. Arjen seems to be the chillest most humble person too. I actually just bought the limited ed of a live concert/project that he did called into the electric castle in 2019. I can’t wait to watch it. There’s very limited footage on the live shows he puts together because he asks people to put their phones away and enjoy the show, and out of respect they seem to do so. I love music but am not a musician so I always love the insight given by people like you that aren’t just sitting tHere watching a video and saying well that was great at the end. I watch maybe five reaction channels and just added you to the list. Looking forward to hearing more of your own stuff too. 🤘🤘
Dang, I love that intro!
Thank you! :)
I would love to see a reaction to any song on the album ¨The Human Equation¨, another masterpiece by Ayreon
Since you're a classical pianist, allow me to recommend a band with another classically-trained pianist. The band is called *LOVEBITES* and are from Japan. They're usually power metal but incorporate elements of thrash, prog, hard rock, etc. Their instrumentalists are Midori on guitar, Miyako on guitar and piano/keyboards, Miho on bass guitar, and Haruna on drums. Their vocalist, Asami, has a background in R&B and soul music but has performed rock as a backup dancer. She has a background in ballet, too. All of them are fantastic musicians with gorgeous lyrics and wonderful melodies. Normally I'd recommend a live version of their song called "Swan Song," but I can't find the version that's preceded by Miyako playing Chopin. In its stead, I recommend one of their more mellow songs, the gorgeous "Empty Daydream," the live version of it showing off Miyako's wonderful piano skills.
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Ok, lets keep it simple.
1. Arjen is a musical genius, and to all appearances a really nice person.
2. You could spend years exploring the bands and solo projects of the 11 singers in this video and never come up for air. They are all top performers in their own rights.
great reaction, suspected you might like it :D loved another world on the amiga, was frigging hard tho
Cheers man. One of my favourite games as a kid! That last gun battle after crashing into the swimming pool was nails!
Michel Mills is TH-1, the computer. That is why he sings with zeroes and ones.
"I've never heard any of these singers", buckle up then my man, you have years of content for reactions by the singers of Ayreon alone xD
Very Nice reaction, whitin the Prog-family 👍🏻
I hope by now you have checked all the names of the vocalists and checked wikipedia for the bands they sing in ;-) lots to discover
Nobody warned you about the 11 vocalists?lol😀 it s metal scenes who is who. Appreciate your comments! Arjens albums are sifi based concept albums. Tobias Samet s are more fantasy based with diverse guest vocalists!😀👍 A mind blowing masterpiece and a new rabbithole for you!
hmmm, i dont really know about music, i just listened to what my dad listened to and when you said that you dont know the singers, i realized that we probably listened to pure power metal coz i know most of them haha
Man, i hope you don`t feel offended, but i know no better way to put it.... You know your shit. Respect.
Can't wait for Everybody dies (Live) reaction :) and here we go you will be introduced to some more vocalists that played @ Wacken as highlighters like Hansi (from Blind Guardian) highly suggest checking out "Bard's song" live @ Wacken 2016 of theirs might not be very much instrumental but i'm quite sure you will love the magnitude of performance :) 🙌💯🎶🎸
Loved you opening musical composition. Great T-shirt as well. I was actually a young man when that record was released. Ayreon and all of the compositions of Arjen Anthony Lucassen are very much like prog metal operas. He is the prog genius of The Netherlands. They usually involve sci fi stories and character roles played by many different vocalist. All of these vocalist are from big bands. Simone is from Epica. Tommy Karevik is from Kamelot. Hansi is from Blind Guardian. Yes, that is a Hendricks style riff. I think you find that you will love the music of Arjen. He is able to recruit very high level vocalists and musicians for his projects. Wait until you see and hear some of their live performances. Check out "Star of Sirrah" or Everybody Dies" from the Ayreon Universe show. Loved you reaction to this amazing composer. See you soon I hope. Peace.
Very kind comments there. I appreciate that. Thank you! 👍😊🤘
the bass riff is a simple walking bass ... and yes, Hendrix use it too :)
React to this one too. It tops "The day that.." in my opinion: th-cam.com/video/Z6YFbgMzkZY/w-d-xo.html Ayreon live !
what a nice reaction and analysis from this song. You definitely should react to this project on live, with their song ''Everybody Dies (Live)" and "The Eye of Ra (Live)", but Arjen Lucassen, the genius who composes this music, has a lot of masterful pieces to hearing
Thank you, Juda! 🤘👍
What a great reaction vid. So good that Arjen himself paid you a visit. You have made me hear things I had missed like "March of the Black Queen" although it was sort of there in my mind. My first intro into Ayreon was "Into the Electric Castle" A fantastic album, well worth a listen as are all of the other albums. Thanks again and take care
Thanks for the comment, Lee!
John: I’m gonna go have a lie down
Me: same mate....same 😵 🤯
Great reaction. I have seen a lot of reactions about this song and you are the first to mention the Jimi Hendrix riff.
Are you sure your not saying that!!!arjen Lucassen is a genius