Dream Theater - Awake
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Artist: Dream TheaterEdition: Music CD
Published: 1994
CD Release Date: 1994-10-04
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- 6:00
- Caught in a Web
- Innocence Faded
- Erotomania [Instrumental]
- Voices
- Silent Man
- Mirror
- Lie
- Lifting Shadows off a Dream
- Scarred
- Space-Dye Vest
Free Music Notes for Awake
Free Music Review: Not much to say.
Hit: 5 Stars
If you like progressive rock, if you like heavy metal, just buy this record. It speaks for itself. I do recommend the purchase of Images and Words first, just so you can survey the transition and evolution of this remarkable band.
I'd be remiss, however, not to give the album's single hiccup a mention, namely, The Mirror. For me, if lyrics are atrocious enough, they can break a song completely. "Temptation, why don't you leave me alone?"??? Sorry-- Not feeling it. No disrespect intended. Dream Theater IS one of the greatest bands of all time.
Awake Poster
Japanese only SHM Pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players. Warner. 2009.Some rock & roll purists consider the term "progressive rock" an oxymoron. After all, rock & roll is supposed to be about feeling, not thinking. Prog rock bands miss the point by taking the soul out of a musical form that's purposely crass and anti-intellectual. All the precise, long-winded arrangements, keyboard flourishes, wailing vocals, and overorchestration of groups like Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, and, to a degree, Rush suck the soul out of something that should be less head and more body. Dream Theater, though they possess many of the same characteristics as these bands, still manage to maintain a human element in their music. Awake is at times self-indulgent and pompous, but songs like "Lie," a passionate crusher that finds guitarist John Petrucci launching riff after thunderous riff in a cacophonous volley of crunch, ring true with real passion and base emotion. It's the depth and tonality his guitar brings to the music that keeps Dream Theater from falling into the Styx-isms they often veer dangerously close to. A very solid record for those who don't mind thinking while rocking. --Adem Tepedelen
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