Ayreon – Human Equation
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Recently discover the Ayreon project.. And I just love it!
The idea of having different singers for different characters its just GREAT!!!
This is my favorite album (and one of their best IMO) – The story is just great
All the singers do a magnificent job (James of Dt- shines as the protagonist)
I know that a full album maybe hard to get (or problems with different harmonies) but
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE make this happen
THANKS.
I can definitely agree with this post. I found the Ayreon project a couple years back and love pretty much everything from it, and The Human Equation is probably my favorite album from it too. Probably my favorite rock opera alongside Scenes From a Memory. I think I remember seeing something for Day Three: Pain in the old customs repository back before the database existed, but I don’t know much about that chart. That’s also the only Ayreon chart I saw in it, period. As for the database as it exists, there’s two guitar-only customs (beard216 converted FoF charts of My House on Mars and Chaos from the Universal Migrator albums) and the RBN release of Dawn of a Million Souls, also from the UM albums. It’s a shame, there’s plenty of Ayreon material begging to be made.
I’ll go ahead and add a short list of songs that I think need made in some capacity, starting with The Human Equation since this is the main topic but also including a few from other albums that I think deserve some consideration.
The Human Equation:
Day Two: Isolation
Day Five: Voices
Day Seven: Hope
Day Eleven: Love
Day Fourteen: Pride
Day Sixteen: Loser
Others (Album title in parentheses):
Eyes of Time (The Final Experiment)
Sail Away to Avalon (The Final Experiment)
Listen to the Waves (The Final Experiment)
Carried by the Wind (Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer)
Journey on the Waves of Time (Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator)
The New Migrator (Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator)
Age of Shadows/We Are Forever (01011001) (…Yes, I have that title memorized)
Liquid Eternity (01011001)
Ride the Comet (01011001)
Unnatural Selection (01011001) (No, it’s not the same as the Muse song from the same year with the same title.
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The Theory of Everything is a weird one to put in here because it’s made up of four seamless, twenty-odd-minute “phases” with nine to eleven separate tracks each. Given the seamless flow, separating out individual tracks would be impossible for some of the album. But charting the phases as units presents more issues… It’d probably be hard to chart the vocals out in a sensible manner, seeing how there’s so many different vocalists, but for those who don’t mind longer suite-type customs on the instruments it’d be a damn fine album to have.
…That probably wasn’t a short list, was it. Long story short I love Ayreon (along with Arjen Anthony Lucassen’s other projects like Star One and Guilt Machine) and they’re criminally underrepresented here, especially with how the customs community has plenty of prog rock/metal fans. If I get good enough at charting to handle as complex music as this, I’d definitely be willing to give it a crack, but I don’t think at present I can make any promises on such challenging music to chart.
Alright, this may be better as an edit to my previous post rather than as a separate one, but searching the forums I found that beard216 has at least a few more Ayreon conversions that aren’t on the database. This is because they were posted in his thread before the database was added to the site. They’re also all guitar-only from what I’ve seen, as per usual from him, but in any case they do exist. The search feature only takes me to the first “hit” in the thread, which is from late last May. I couldn’t page all the way through the thread (It’s pretty huge, it’s 53 pages and counting for me and the earliest hit is on page 11) but I found guitar-only charts of Day Three: Pain, Day Eight: School, and Day Sixteen: Loser. …I’m guessing he’s a Devin Townsend fan.
Here’s a link to the thread in question. http://customscreators.com/index.php?/topic/12749-beard216s-conversions-sk8er-boi-by-avril-lavigne-412/?view=findpost&p=114137&hl=ayreon
So there is hope!!!
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Indeed, full band charts would be nice, even for the songs that have guitar only charts. Day Sixteen: Loser has an organ solo performed by the organ player from Uriah Heep (no joke) that would be honestly pretty sick to have a keyboard part charted to play. Not to mention that the vocals would be pretty great for basically any and all Ayreon songs.
Also I realized a few things from my list. I somehow completely forgot about the songs from Into the Electric Castle, there’s some good stuff there to be charted. And unfortunately some of the songs I listed (mainly the We Are Forever section of Age of Shadows/We Are Forever) run into some serious multi-layer harmony vocals that would be impossible to properly chart for vocals, and difficult to condense in a sufficient manner. There’s one part of that song which has the same woman singing at least six separate vocal lines at once. A lot of it (probably the binary string spoken word vocals, which covers at least three of the tracks in and of itself) would probably have to be left off the vocal chart entirely.
Alright, this may be better as an edit to my previous post rather than as a separate one, but searching the forums I found that beard216 has at least a few more Ayreon conversions that aren’t on the database. This is because they were posted in his thread before the database was added to the site. They’re also all guitar-only from what I’ve seen, as per usual from him, but in any case they do exist. The search feature only takes me to the first “hit” in the thread, which is from late last May. I couldn’t page all the way through the thread (It’s pretty huge, it’s 53 pages and counting for me and the earliest hit is on page 11) but I found guitar-only charts of Day Three: Pain, Day Eight: School, and Day Sixteen: Loser. …I’m guessing he’s a Devin Townsend fan.
Here’s a link to the thread in question. http://customscreators.com/index.php?/topic/12749-beard216s-conversions-sk8er-boi-by-avril-lavigne-412/?view=findpost&p=114137&hl=ayreon
Lmao. The Dev is amazing. BUT those are legitimately the only ones I’ve found. And I’m a legitimate Ayreon fan. I’m down to reduce it if someone can chart “The Theory Of Everything”. I love that album! I have a Star One song waiting to be done too.
Lmao. The Dev is amazing. BUT those are legitimately the only ones I’ve found. And I’m a legitimate Ayreon fan. I’m down to reduce it if someone can chart “The Theory Of Everything”. I love that album! I have a Star One song waiting to be done too.
Alright then! Sorry if I seemed rude or anything, I didn’t mean to. And I’d definitely love to see more from Ayreon in the future, and like I said would chart a few of the songs if I felt like having some practice would help me do the music justice. And definitely more Star One as well, though the fact that they have four singers might make the vocal harmonies a bit tricky at times. But I’m sure there’s a way to get it to work.
(Also somewhat off topic but I’m definitely pumped for the new Haken album as well, if your picture is any indication. I may or may not have listened to the two singles nonstop when they came out…)
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