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* ActingForTwo: Most guide vocals for Theory of Everything were sung by Wilmer Waarbroek so, in a way, he played every character before they were actually cast. Quite gloriously, on Wilmer's [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-5SyS7z2Febhh4gb84RgA/videos youtube channel]], you can listen to a version of the ''entire'' album (four parts/phases) sung by him.
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* [[TalkingToHimself Singing to Himself]]: Most guide vocals for Theory of Everything were sung by Wilmer Waarbroek so, in a way, he played every character before they were actually cast. Quite gloriously, on Wilmer's [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-5SyS7z2Febhh4gb84RgA/videos youtube channel]], you can listen to a version of the ''entire'' album (four parts/phases) sung by him.
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Not trivia.
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* CastingGag: Hoo, boy.
** ''01011001'' has its [[https://en.metal-tracker.com/torrents/images/2012170.jpg symbols]] for [[Music/{{AfterForever}} Floor Jansen]] and [[Music/{{Katatonia}} Jonas Renkse]] modeled after logos of their respective bands. Floor kept the omega symbol for Music/{{ReVamp}} and even used to sport it on her official website.
*** Floor comes back to ''The Source'' as the Biologist, which was incidentally her childhood ambition. Her role as "omega" also resurfaces as she is the ''last'' voice you hear in several songs throughout the album. ''Especially'' the ending.
** Fans have speculated that casting Music/{{Tommy}} Karevik as the Prodigy in ''The Theory of Everything'' was a [[ShoutOut possible reference]] to the Swede sharing his name with that rock opera by Music/TheWho that also features a disabled protagonist who gets "cured" at one point.
*** Tommy was cast as the Opposition Leader for ''The Source''; ''Haven'', his second Music/{{Kamelot}} album released two years before, had themes of rebellion.
*** Since 2001, Tommy has also worked as a [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/42efe33a24c0d2733db15ca729318e54/tumblr_n1nvy9MKrJ1qewmbio1_1280.jpg firefighter]]. His ''Transitus'' character Daniel [[{{Irony}} perishes in a conflagration]].
** In ''The Source'' Mike Mills's robot is aptly named [[Music/{{Toehider}} TH]]-1.
*** Mike is put through this again when he replaces the late Mike Baker as Me's Father for ''Music/TheTheaterEquation'', having played another bad father in ''The Theory of Everything''.
*** And again when he voices the Statue, Mike's second nonhuman role after TH-1, in ''Transitus''.
** One of the Furies in ''Transitus'' is voiced by Caroline Westendorp, who used to [[SopranoAndGravel sing and growl]] in a band called The Charm The '''Fury'''.
** In perhaps the most ironic casting choice possible, [[Music/{{TwistedSister}} Dee Snider]] was chosen to play the role of Daniel's strict, overbearing father on ''Transitus''. This, despite his own band being most famous for songs and music videos CallingTheOldManOut. Completing the gag, Tommy Karevik as Daniel explicitly refers to him as "twisted" during his response bridge in "Get Out! Now!".
** ''01011001'' has its [[https://en.metal-tracker.com/torrents/images/2012170.jpg symbols]] for [[Music/{{AfterForever}} Floor Jansen]] and [[Music/{{Katatonia}} Jonas Renkse]] modeled after logos of their respective bands. Floor kept the omega symbol for Music/{{ReVamp}} and even used to sport it on her official website.
*** Floor comes back to ''The Source'' as the Biologist, which was incidentally her childhood ambition. Her role as "omega" also resurfaces as she is the ''last'' voice you hear in several songs throughout the album. ''Especially'' the ending.
** Fans have speculated that casting Music/{{Tommy}} Karevik as the Prodigy in ''The Theory of Everything'' was a [[ShoutOut possible reference]] to the Swede sharing his name with that rock opera by Music/TheWho that also features a disabled protagonist who gets "cured" at one point.
*** Tommy was cast as the Opposition Leader for ''The Source''; ''Haven'', his second Music/{{Kamelot}} album released two years before, had themes of rebellion.
*** Since 2001, Tommy has also worked as a [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/42efe33a24c0d2733db15ca729318e54/tumblr_n1nvy9MKrJ1qewmbio1_1280.jpg firefighter]]. His ''Transitus'' character Daniel [[{{Irony}} perishes in a conflagration]].
** In ''The Source'' Mike Mills's robot is aptly named [[Music/{{Toehider}} TH]]-1.
*** Mike is put through this again when he replaces the late Mike Baker as Me's Father for ''Music/TheTheaterEquation'', having played another bad father in ''The Theory of Everything''.
*** And again when he voices the Statue, Mike's second nonhuman role after TH-1, in ''Transitus''.
** One of the Furies in ''Transitus'' is voiced by Caroline Westendorp, who used to [[SopranoAndGravel sing and growl]] in a band called The Charm The '''Fury'''.
** In perhaps the most ironic casting choice possible, [[Music/{{TwistedSister}} Dee Snider]] was chosen to play the role of Daniel's strict, overbearing father on ''Transitus''. This, despite his own band being most famous for songs and music videos CallingTheOldManOut. Completing the gag, Tommy Karevik as Daniel explicitly refers to him as "twisted" during his response bridge in "Get Out! Now!".
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** According to [[WordOfGod Word of God]], [[Music/StevenWilson Steven]] [[Music/PorcupineTree Wilson]] was offered a spot on an album, but turned down the offer.
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** According to [[WordOfGod Word of God]], [[Music/StevenWilson Steven]] [[Music/PorcupineTree Wilson]] was offered a spot on an album, but turned down the offer.offer.
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** In perhaps the most ironic casting choice possible, [[Music/{{TwistedSister}} Dee Snider]] was chosen to play the role of Daniel's strict, overbearing father on ''Transitus''. This, despite his own band being most famous for songs and music videos CallingTheOldManOut. Completing the gag, Tommy Karevik as Daniel explicitly refers to him as "twisted" during his response bridge in "Get Out! Now!".
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casting gags, some of them confirmed by Arjen and others pointed out by the Ayreonauts ^_^
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* CastingGag: Hoo, boy.
** ''01011001'' has its [[https://en.metal-tracker.com/torrents/images/2012170.jpg symbols]] for [[Music/{{AfterForever}} Floor Jansen]] and [[Music/{{Katatonia}} Jonas Renkse]] modeled after logos of their respective bands. Floor kept the omega symbol for Music/{{ReVamp}} and even used to sport it on her official website.
*** Floor comes back to ''The Source'' as the Biologist, which was incidentally her childhood ambition. Her role as "omega" also resurfaces as she is the ''last'' voice you hear in several songs throughout the album. ''Especially'' the ending.
** Fans have speculated that casting Music/{{Tommy}} Karevik as the Prodigy in ''The Theory of Everything'' was a [[ShoutOut possible reference]] to the Swede sharing his name with that rock opera by Music/TheWho that also features a disabled protagonist who gets "cured" at one point.
*** Tommy was cast as the Opposition Leader for ''The Source''; ''Haven'', his second Music/{{Kamelot}} album released two years before, had themes of rebellion.
*** Since 2001, Tommy has also worked as a [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/42efe33a24c0d2733db15ca729318e54/tumblr_n1nvy9MKrJ1qewmbio1_1280.jpg firefighter]]. His ''Transitus'' character Daniel [[{{Irony}} perishes in a conflagration]].
** In ''The Source'' Mike Mills's robot is aptly named [[Music/{{Toehider}} TH]]-1.
*** Mike is put through this again when he replaces the late Mike Baker as Me's Father for ''Music/TheTheaterEquation'', having played another bad father in ''The Theory of Everything''.
*** And again when he voices the Statue, Mike's second nonhuman role after TH-1, in ''Transitus''.
** One of the Furies in ''Transitus'' is voiced by Caroline Westendorp, who used to [[SopranoAndGravel sing and growl]] in a band called The Charm The '''Fury'''.
** ''01011001'' has its [[https://en.metal-tracker.com/torrents/images/2012170.jpg symbols]] for [[Music/{{AfterForever}} Floor Jansen]] and [[Music/{{Katatonia}} Jonas Renkse]] modeled after logos of their respective bands. Floor kept the omega symbol for Music/{{ReVamp}} and even used to sport it on her official website.
*** Floor comes back to ''The Source'' as the Biologist, which was incidentally her childhood ambition. Her role as "omega" also resurfaces as she is the ''last'' voice you hear in several songs throughout the album. ''Especially'' the ending.
** Fans have speculated that casting Music/{{Tommy}} Karevik as the Prodigy in ''The Theory of Everything'' was a [[ShoutOut possible reference]] to the Swede sharing his name with that rock opera by Music/TheWho that also features a disabled protagonist who gets "cured" at one point.
*** Tommy was cast as the Opposition Leader for ''The Source''; ''Haven'', his second Music/{{Kamelot}} album released two years before, had themes of rebellion.
*** Since 2001, Tommy has also worked as a [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/42efe33a24c0d2733db15ca729318e54/tumblr_n1nvy9MKrJ1qewmbio1_1280.jpg firefighter]]. His ''Transitus'' character Daniel [[{{Irony}} perishes in a conflagration]].
** In ''The Source'' Mike Mills's robot is aptly named [[Music/{{Toehider}} TH]]-1.
*** Mike is put through this again when he replaces the late Mike Baker as Me's Father for ''Music/TheTheaterEquation'', having played another bad father in ''The Theory of Everything''.
*** And again when he voices the Statue, Mike's second nonhuman role after TH-1, in ''Transitus''.
** One of the Furies in ''Transitus'' is voiced by Caroline Westendorp, who used to [[SopranoAndGravel sing and growl]] in a band called The Charm The '''Fury'''.
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* CreatorBreakdown: After Arjen lost his senses of taste and smell, the poor man went into a depression for some time. Hence the DarkerAndEdgier sound of ''01''.
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* OutOfOrder: Listening to the albums out of order won't spoil anything. Listening to the storyline from beginning to end, however, requires some skipping around between the albums. The timeline of events in the Ayreon universe is described on [[http://img15.nnm.me/c/f/8/4/7/606ff7d8f46f1c3f6fbe571953a.jpg a poster]] that came with the ''Timeline'' compilation. With this in mind, plus updates, the chronological order of the albums and songs goes something like this:
** ''The Source''
** The first disc of ''01011001'' (excluding "Connect the Dots" and "Web of Lies"), "The Fifth Extinction," "Waking Dreams," "Unnatural Selection," "Connect the Dots," and "Web of Lies"
** ''Into the Electric Castle''
** "The Truth is in Here," "River of Time," and "E=MC^2" from ''01011001''
** ''The Final Experiment''
** "The Sixth Extinction" from ''01011001''
** ''The Human Equation''
** ''Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer''
** ''Universal Migrator Part II: Flight of the Migrator''
** "Epilogue: The Memory Remains" from ''Timeline''
** ''The Source''
** The first disc of ''01011001'' (excluding "Connect the Dots" and "Web of Lies"), "The Fifth Extinction," "Waking Dreams," "Unnatural Selection," "Connect the Dots," and "Web of Lies"
** ''Into the Electric Castle''
** "The Truth is in Here," "River of Time," and "E=MC^2" from ''01011001''
** ''The Final Experiment''
** "The Sixth Extinction" from ''01011001''
** ''The Human Equation''
** ''Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer''
** ''Universal Migrator Part II: Flight of the Migrator''
** "Epilogue: The Memory Remains" from ''Timeline''
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Is that (fill in the blank) from (insert name of band here) singing about black holes? [[spoiler:Probably.]]
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* [[TalkingToHimself Singing to Himself]]: Most guide vocals for Theory of Everything were sung by Wilmer Waarbroek so, in a way, he played every character before they were actually cast. Quite gloriously, on Wilmer's [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-5SyS7z2Febhh4gb84RgA/videos youtube channel]], you can listen to a version of the ''entire'' album (four parts/phases) sung by him.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Is that (fill in the blank) from (insert name of band here) singing about black holes? [[spoiler:Probably.]]
* [[TalkingToHimself Singing to Himself]]: Most guide vocals for Theory of Everything were sung by Wilmer Waarbroek so, in a way, he played every character before they were actually cast. Quite gloriously, on Wilmer's [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-5SyS7z2Febhh4gb84RgA/videos youtube channel]], you can listen to a version of the ''entire'' album (four parts/phases) sung byhim.him.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[Music/{{Kamelot}} Roy Khan]] had initially accepted an invitation to be a guest vocalist, but had to back out due to a minor throat injury that he did not want to agitate.
** According to [[WordOfGod Word of God]], [[Music/StevenWilson Steven]] [[Music/PorcupineTree Wilson]] was offered a spot on an album, but turned down the offer.
* [[TalkingToHimself Singing to Himself]]: Most guide vocals for Theory of Everything were sung by Wilmer Waarbroek so, in a way, he played every character before they were actually cast. Quite gloriously, on Wilmer's [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-5SyS7z2Febhh4gb84RgA/videos youtube channel]], you can listen to a version of the ''entire'' album (four parts/phases) sung by
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[Music/{{Kamelot}} Roy Khan]] had initially accepted an invitation to be a guest vocalist, but had to back out due to a minor throat injury that he did not want to agitate.
** According to [[WordOfGod Word of God]], [[Music/StevenWilson Steven]] [[Music/PorcupineTree Wilson]] was offered a spot on an album, but turned down the offer.
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* [[TalkingToHimself Singing to Himself]]: Most guide vocals for Theory of Everything were sung by Wilmer Waarbroek so, in a way, he played every character before they were actually cast. Quite gloriously, on Wilmer's [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-5SyS7z2Febhh4gb84RgA/videos youtube channel]], you can listen to a version of the ''entire'' album (four parts/phases) sung by him.
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*[[TalkingToHimself Singing to Himself]]: Most guide vocals for Theory of Everything were sung by Wilmer Waarbroek so, in a way, he played character before they were actually cast. Quite gloriously, on Wilmer's [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-5SyS7z2Febhh4gb84RgA/videos youtube channel]], you can listen to a version of the ''entire'' album (four parts/phases) sung by him.
