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  • This album is so incredibly underrated. This song + Peruvian Skies, Lines In The Sand, Anna Lee, and Trial Of Tears are some of DT's best material.

  • @psyoptica This album's title refers to coitus with your mother.

  • I think song son is about dream theater turning over a new leaf...getting to start over again, with a clean slate...

  • Here comes some creativity.

    One of the best DT songs, out of one of their best albums.

    To deeply understand Falling Into Infinity you have to listen to its demo version, much longer and differently edited, though I personally agree with some choices of the actual album, and mostly I like the sound of it more than any other DT album.

    I definitely think that they wouldn't have had to dismiss Derek Sherinian.

  • top five DT song. always reminds me of early evning 99.

  • thats what popped in my head :) good call!

  • Portnoy makes this song. I only listen to it anymore to hear his drum parts.

  • Only wish DT were still this groovy and melodic. Anyway, the new album is a step in the right direction, we can only hope.

  • I'm listening to this song on new years ;)

  • I hear a lot of meows from 5:45 onwards... xD

  • why is this so good? if there is a god he love this guys, for giving them such a big talent.

  • Turn off advertising please!

  • As i said before....I don't see this album like "the worst".... in certain points is less amazing than others...but it was more melodic album they had written, too commercial? maybe..but, in long terms, became the base to 6DoIT, Octavarium and BCaSL.(which were released with a Heavy Album between each other...wierd) :)

  • Why is this seen as a 'commercial album'? Sounds more experimental than anything else this band has done

  • @BinaryPill This album has a more mainstream feel because that's the way the record company wanted it. The record company had a lot control over the production and even conception of this album, rather than letting the guys handle it themselves as they had before. It really stifled and upset Portnoy, especially, and after that he vowed not to let the record company control things too much because they don't know what the Dream Theater fans want like the actual members of Dream Theater do.

  • haha gotta love the chapman stick john myung is genius. and well the rest goes without saying

  • The reason I personally don't embrace this song or this album as "one of Dream Theater's best" is because this really doesn't embody their talent or their creative capabilities at all, not to mention the song structure is boring, and the lyrics are... mainstream and boring too. The previews for this album were much better, and there's a reason many of these songs aren't played live, and why they themselves don't embrace this album openly much. It's not "bad", but not Dream Theater.

  • This is a close second to Images & Words, much better than Awake. Not sure why the hardcore fans didn't embrace it.

  • Dream Theater's best album right here :) 

  • Len did it better...

  • really good song

    

  • John Myung is always great and a true god in Bass (In this case he uses a Chapman Stick) but... in this song he really does a GREAT job... !Obviously the rest of the band also does an amazong job!

    I Just have to say: "¡¡DAT BASS!!"

  •  Reminds me of "Tool - Vicarious"

  • @ilhadosmacacos

    Or the other way around since this song came out about a decade earlier.

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  • @ilhadosmacacos Not really, just the intro...

  • Mike Portnoy you Kick-ass! Rock on brother!

  • Fuck yah, the music is awesome, but how the two man climb on those floating table ?

  • @MrPloopy83 Magic!

  • @MrPloopy83 clearly those 2 men were paratroopers from easy company... that's how xD

  • This song is good! I have the impression that it contains some U2-like elements or something; ¿anyone else has the same feeling?

  • @neoctopusos One can tell you speak spanish by that comment. :P

    But no, not U2 for me, just a small amount of kick-ass.

  • @neoctopusos @neoctopusos Yah, But i hear Ozzys Bark at the moon. Bass. They've always done a good job at be a year or so late on the trends.

  • @neoctopusos FYI OZZY'S Bark at the moon came out in 1995.

  • This album had some really crappy moments on. It's a shame though. The few songs on this that sound like Dream Theater were allowed to really do their thing are some of my favourite DT songs. This, Hell's Kitchen, Lines in the Sand etc. Raise the Knife shouldn't have been left off either.

    Could have been their best album. Or at least up there.

  • @thresholdXCI Eh, i just think that You Not Me is bad, something about that song just makes it sound like shit...i think its just that negative feel to it...i dont really know.

  • This album is so different from other DT's albums...and great.Derek Sherinian inspiration works!

  • No hate here, love the music!

  • i kind of get the feeling that dream theater fans dont like this particular songs. funny that its one of the few that i do like xD im more of a PT person.

  • If anemones listened to the Ghost In The Shell OST I can really see Yoko Kanno getting inspiration from this :P

  • favorite DT album. Im not the biggest DT fan, but im all in here.

    How come some DT fans, hate towards this album? DT is known for being pretty progressive right? so whats the big deal with difference towards that fact..

  • @zajac1661 This album had a lot of questionable influence.

  • @zajac1661 Because this was Dream Theater's (failed) attempt at a mainstream, radio-friendly album. Songs like Peruvian Skies and Hollow Years are neither Prog nor pop, neither techincal nor mainstream. So it's sort of the bastard child of DT during an uninspired period where selling records was the primary goal, not staying true to the music. Had 'Scenes From A Memory' not been released, it's believed this would have been DT's Waterloo.

  • @FirstTurnKill what do you mean DT's "waterloo"??

  • @JThrashYT Their last hurrah. Their final battle. Basically, it's a euphemism for a momentous downfall a la Napoleon. History 101, dude!

  • @FirstTurnKill Don't insult my intelligence... I was asking because OBVIOUSLY had SFAM not been released FII would've been their last record, and yes this was their most mainstream album. After falling into infinity, they could've continued moving towards mainstream or they could've gone back to the prog metal and become self-produced (which is what they chose to do). I think what you meant to say was that had DT not decided to become self produced, then FII wouldve been their "waterloo".

  • @JThrashYT Actually, their most mainstream album was 'Images and Words'. But I think we're saying the same thing here: that while this was a wholly underappreciated work back in 97, it still didn't live up to the standards of what DT is known for. SFAM and every album which followed is solid proof of their capabilities without outside interference.

  • @FirstTurnKill Agreed.

  • @FirstTurnKill Peruvian skies is my favorite song on this album next to the song above.

  • @musicmonkeyboard It really is a masterpiece from a keyboardist's perspective. But like I was saying before, the album fails to properly address any particular audience. I mean, is it prog or is it rock? Is it mainstream or is it underground? It tried being both and, in the eyes of many (including the band members themselves), it failed MISERABLY.

  • @FirstTurnKill I can see what you mean, it's not any specific style. It wasn't really their most succesfull album. But I dont feel that its necessary to be able to put a specific mark on this album. I mean, if you think the songs are good you will listen to them no matter if its mainstream rock or whatever (I for one find this whole mainstream discussion redicoulus, a band does what it wants). Though I will not tell you that you are wrong, you are just as right as anybody else.

  • Living out a constant deja vu Keep your head up Please be patient we will get to you Keep your head up Just have some faith and you can see it Through Keep your head up But faith don't pay the rent that's overdue Keep your head up All that's glittering is turning blue Keep your head up What they want from me ain't gotta clue Keep your head up Swallow pride before it swallows you Keep your head up Don't dare bite the hand that's starving you Keep your head up
  • A single star behind me

    A red sky burns ahead

    A lonely light below me

    Awake among the dead

    An overwhelming feeling

    Leaves me numband strange

    A sense of new beginning

    I sense a wind of change

  • Dat Bass!

  • bum bum bum buUum bumbumbumbumbum

  • I cry whenever I hear Labrie sing "the tide is turning now, baby".

    Canadians are not allowed to sing the word "baby" unless the context is "Guess what I had for lunch yesterday?"

  • JM is badass in this song

  • @gangsterthomas1000 what do you mean ?

  • @lsmartin96 That John Myung is awesome in this song? :P

  • i dont like DT that much but i like this album lol

  • after 15 years of intensive listening of a lot of different things, this song, the mid part instrumental in particular, could be the best shit I have ever heard.

  • BOOM BOOM DUN DUN 1:51

  • Tool's Vicarious intro is similar, and The Pot's bass solo is also similar to the ending of this; they were probably listening to DT a lot for their 00s albums.

  • I wonder how much were those guys payed to stay there, in the middle of the sea or where ever they are.

  • @ZioLennucciO facepalm...

  • @ZioLennucciO hahaha

  • king Grimson

  • best album ever

  • Best album ever

  • Dream Theater have like 1 million fans world wide and this is getting 20,044 views? seem strange...NO because everyone who truly loves this shit is listening to the album. I've Had Falling Into infinity for 4 Years and i still love it it's an all-time classic, ppl say the albums condensed...perhaps but the CD still clocks in at 78 minutes and change.

  • oh the age old DT fan war. Fans Who Hate This Album. Fans Who Hate James LaBrie, fans that think KM was the best part of DT, Fans who hate shit not with Ruddess, fact is: im a dream theater fan i have all studio albums on CD (except when Dream And Day Unite' [on a an old promo Vinyl] live scenes from NY DVD, Once In A Livetime CD, Budokan DVD. Score DVD, Chaos In Motion 07-08 DVD, Live In Tokyo DVD/5 yrs in a livetime DVD, some bootleg series stuff like made in japan. theyre a great band period

  • @RichRockerN9NE27

    left off my fave album....Metropolis Part 2 & the accompanying 3CD Live from New York

  • when the singer comes in the awesome vibe of the song is ruined... I really dislike this singer... this band should be just instrumental

  • @ryandrums1001 You know what's a great idea? Go listen to another band. This one's not for you.

  • @ryandrums1001 thats unfair, labrie has a fantastic range going all the way up to a G#, he had a food poisoning accident which damaged his vocals for almost 10 years and he still sang on albums and performed in concerts which lasted over 3 hours

  • I love this Song, It's a DT classic

  • That album cover plays with your mind, man. The water starts moving and the stands start tilting if you stare at it long enough...

  • Agreed! This is one of the best album of DT! Just because the songs are shorter and simpler in structure, it doesn't mean they not good. These shows the songwriting capabilities and the melodic sense of these amazing musicians. Hail DT!!!

  • 7:10 Ooooooooooo Yeahhhhhhh

  • good band, but I can't really say that I like this song.

  • II will stop to listen this song in next millennium.See ya

  • @Rodjeni1991 that will take forever

  • looks lot alike the intro and feeling of tool in vicarious... who had that impression when hearing this song?

  • im not comparing but vicarious(tool) is really alike in the beggining of this song.

  • @gintoclopus that's true man

  • @gintoclopus See what you mean! The thing is that it´s not an appegio style you hear THAT often, Tool was very inspired by Robert Fripp and King Crimson which did those kind of appegio things a lot, where you play the same pattern over and over in a pentatonic pattern which i think this AND Vicarious is just with some extra "Add" notes maybe!

  • @SkeksisBestSongEver Yea the beginning of this song is a bit similar to King Crimson's "Discipline".

  • @Jzmt77 Yeah, both Vicarious and Dicipline a bit, but again it sound nothing alike! 

  • @vashclone. Now that is just stupid. IF you don't like an album, you cannot be a true fan? That means liking for the sake of liking, making you no more better than those who like albums because they are popular. Sensible fans decide what they like themselves, and don't like anything for the sake of liking it nor because it is popular.

    That said, this is a good song.

  • 2 people fell into infinity

  • nearly a masterpiece.

  • @RikimaruBR oh. HAHA!!!! no. I'm sure he's a good kid and loves his mother but I hate everything about him and his music.

  • @RikimaruBR ... huh?

  • best dream theater song

  • @cliffordodelljones2

    I love Peruvian Skies not only when I listen to it but also when I don't listen to it...It's one of my favorite songs along with the New Millennium...

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  • alright. Who's the retard that didn't like it?

  • Dream Theater is one of my favorite bands...I don't know why they are so underrated...Only for making most of the voiceless,only instrumental music based songs??...I don't think it is a criteria...Who think so they are nothing but retards...The position of this band should be above AC/DC for sure...& this song is fabulous beside the Peruvian Skies...<3

  • @ElectricallyInduced Peruvian skies is one of those songs that I want to make love to. Not make love while listening to it, make love to the song itself. <3

  • DT didn't even especially want the album to turn out like this. They originally wanted to make it a double album but their label said it wasnt marketable and watered it down to the most commercial album they ever made.

    They ended up getting back at them with SDoIT

  • my favorite album ever from DT.

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  • Dream Theater est un des meilleurs groupes que le metal est connu! Et le berceau du metal progressif!!!!!

  • @Jynnea13 Mais oui, ils sont fantastiques. DT is absolutely exceptional, doesn't matter what album.

  • Dream Theater was my favorite band UNTIL I found Porcupine Tree!

    Great song though~

  • @usmcsdi69

    ,,,after reading your comment i vent to hear Porcupine Tree and "fall in love"with that band,,,,thank you!!!cheers from Croatia

  • @usmcsdi69 Haha, I had that same thing, only then with Symphony X XD

  • Fuck yeah!

  • justin bieber is here

  • This song is so funky and refreshing ^^

  • I love this album just because of this song, Hell´s Kitchen lines in the sand and trialof tears and sherinian on keyboards its DTs best album

  • This song reminds me of U2. "Achtung Baby" era maybe. Specifically this line:

    "I've got this feeling

    The tide is turning now baby

    Funny feeling everything's gonna be alright now."

  • Underrated band. Underrated album. Underrated song.

    Why the hate from DT fans on this album? underated albums from bands show the true fans from the kiss asses who like only there popular CDs everyone agrees with. 

  • @VashClone Underrated band? Please. They're overrated.

  • @deadpisser88 They're practically unknown, have only produced one major hit single in their entire career, and are only just now producing albums that break the Top 20 in American music. They're only overrated if you use the same definition for the word so many people apparently do; "I don't like it, so it's overrated."

    Lady Gaga is overrated. Most Top 40 artists are overrated. Every bit of cred Dream Theater has, they earned. The fact that you dislike them doesn't invalidate this.

  • @outlier1985 They're overrated in the prog-metal/rock world. Great fucking musicians, and they do deserve credit for generally being the first of its kind, but imo a great deal of the songs aren't as impressive as they make them out to be. Their are better (prog/metal/rock) artists out there, some arguably better musicians then DT that don't get enough coverage (in the metal/rock world). Plus, I don't like Labrie.

    More important than Lady Gaga being overrated, Lady Gaga fucking sucks.

  • @outlier1985 practically unknown? i wouldn't say that mate!

  • @allmetaliswelcome Walk up to a random person on the street, ask them if they've heard of Metallica. Most people will say yes. Ask those same people if they've heard of Dream Theater. I guarantee most of them will say no.

    Ergo, they are unknown. Even if they've been more popular in recent years.

  • @outlier1985 but they are not TOTALLY unknown. still a very big band in the METAL genre.

  • @outlier1985 yeah i agree, most people dont know what you're talking about if you ask them :P

  • @VashClone "underated albums from bands show the true fans from the kiss asses who like only there popular CDs everyone agrees with."

    This album is disliked by fans because it is the product of an attempt by the label to interfere with Dream Theater's work. They pushed for them to adopt a more 'mainstream' sound in order to sell more record, and even hired a songwriter(Desmond Child) to actually rewrite a couple of the songs.

    It doesn't matter if it still sounds good, it's the principle of it.

  • @VashClone There are alot of people that do hate the album, yes. Is it warranted? It's a matter of personal taste! I own the album and quite a few others. In my own personal opinion and taste I like ALL of what DT has written but this album is my least favorite. I like it, but as a whole it just doesn't do what the other albums do in terms of prog, depth, technicality, and orchestration of the instruments. Every artist has a dull album and I feel this is DT's.

  • @vashclone Also the synopsis behind the album is fairly correct by outlier1985.

  • @VashClone Unfortunately this is one of the weakest DT-works. quite commercial and straight. no edges

  • @VashClone Dream Theater is my favourite band but I think this is their worst album. But I love it more than how I love most of the albums of my second favourite band, Annihilator...

  • @VashClone I totally agree! i'm a die hard DT fan (own everything including bootlegs!) and i LOVE this album!

  • @VashClone Yeah! It's a war out there, and you have to FIGHT AND DIE for your underrated Dream Theater album! That will show what kind of a fan you are... jeez ;)

  • @VashClone

    YES I TOTALLY AGREE , even if this isnt my favourite band , my band is underrated too man

  • @VashClone DT underrated???yeaaaah yure....

  • @VashClone DT is nowhere near underrated in the prog community.

  • AMAZING track! wow.

  • 3:35 to 4:02 reminds me of Burn by NIN

  • Even if some people insist saying that this is the worst DT album, I'm still loving it!!!

    Long Live DREAM THEATER

  • @Metalpupett why the worst?? it has plenty of awesome songs in it

  • @Fanis753 That's exactly what I mean!!! All DT's music kick ass =D

  • @Metalpupett cheers!

  • @Fanis753 pay attention to what people say.

  • @motormanaz uh... what for?

  • may people had may critics o this albim but I thik this is the most origial

  • @pianoprog Then you have clearly not heard Scenes from a Memory.

  • @Xenorex247 You're not wrong but it is too hard to say which one ''wins'' concerning originality. Falling is definitely more mysterious if you ask me.

  • This is one of my favorite DT songs.

  • I'm glad DT never hit mainstream, the world cannot contain their awesomeness as it is, let alone mass quantities of it.

  • @thepalmetto Actually, they are becoming more mainstream now than after this album was produced. Notice lately that after the score concert and systematic chaos, they become rock stars. I think YouTube is also partly to blame. Now, they join mainstream artists from concerts such as Download.com, composed a song for god of war 3. Maybe you'll see them do soundtracks from movies. They do this to grow their fan base but sadly, their music is becoming less prog these days. It's all business...

  • @kigawman they were really never really very prog imo. not sure why they're often labeled as such. a lot of their songs dont follow the standard verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus model but i still say they are not prog.

  • @kingcrimson234 On the contrary, they are. Oh! i'm sorry, they were. That's your opinion that they never really prog. But judging to the last 5 albums, most people will agree that they were a prog-rock group (including some prog-rock bands like Marillion and Yes.). In terms of following the standard song model, I think they follow the standard. The only difference is that they give more extra variety on their composition like other prog-rock groups do.

  • @kigawman I think you're right, but I would call their style "progressive metal". They have a lot of elements from the prog rock, but you can't deny that they have an heavier sound like heavy metal, and honestly, I love it. That's because they're called as the ones who created the prog metal, their style was unique, at times.

  • One of the best DT hits!

    Thanks for uploading!

  • great song ^^

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