Dream Theater - Awake

MikeEnRegalia wrote: BePinkTheater wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: hiddenpath wrote: for me awake has a unique vibe to it, not present in any of the opther DT albums. That´s why I consider it so good. It´s difficult comparing between albums cause they are different from on e another. for me the best is Scenes, then I guess that Images, Awake and Scenes are all valid candidates for "best DT album". It depends on your background which on you choose as your favorite. and 6DOIT isnt?! The Second disc is PURE GENIUS! You said it yourself - the second disc is great. The first contains a lot of filler though.

Disagree! I think the first disc is perfect, but the second disc contains filler, IMO.

True, the second disc has a very bad flow.

Actually what ruins it is the intro to the great debate, it takes too long

The glass prison is a great openerand a great song.

Then Blind faith Brings it even higher!

Missunderstood bringes it lower for a while but would be fine IF the great debate brough it up again

but sadly, for the first 2 minutes...its boring and i rarely get to the rest of the song, Which is GREAT!

then dissapear is a sad ending to it, that would work if the album had a better flow..but The Great debate's intro ruins it all

MikeEnRegalia wrote: hiddenpath wrote: for me awake has a unique vibe to it, not present in any of the opther DT albums. That´s why I consider it so good. It´s difficult comparing between albums cause they are different from on e another. for me the best is Scenes, then I guess that Images, Awake and Scenes are all valid candidates for "best DT album". It depends on your background which on you choose as your favorite.

and 6DOIT isnt?!

The Second disc is PURE GENIUS!

Bj-1 wrote: It is my personal favorite DT album, and is probably the last "classic" DT album. I love it. It features some of the best songwriting from DT ever IMO. It makes SFAM look average. 4.9 stars

i cuncur

The whole Album is fiilled with a lot of emotion, which is really missing form the rest of their stuff. 

Its brilliant

Fantastic album. 6.00 still remains one of my fave DT songs because of that amazing bassline that just leaps out at you. Great track. I have always been a casual observer of DT as I simply find the instrumentation very bland and overwrought. Brilliant certainly but I only got interested again after Train Of Thought. Probably says volumes about my taste in more direct metal.

Me wrote: It is my personal favorite DT album, and is probably the last "classic" DT album. I love it. It features some of the best songwriting from DT ever IMO. It makes SFAM look average. 4.9 stars

I upgraded it to 5 stars about a month ago

DolphinFan wrote: Bj-1 wrote: Cygnus wrote: OVERATED ALBUM. GREAT ALBUM BUT NOT A MASTERPIECE.                                       I think it's rather underrated. It's overshadowed by SFAM, IMHO. Yes, underrated by some of the newer DT fans converted by SFAM or newer work.  And Cygnus, don't use the death-face  for great albums!

I WOULDN´T BE A GREAT DIRECTOR AFTER ALL. 

BUT REALY AWAKE CONTAINS SOME JUST OK SONGS(LIE, INOCENCE FADED) NEXT TO MASTERPIECES (EROTOMNIA, SPACE-DYE VEST)

DONT SHOOT

Cygnus wrote: OVERATED ALBUM. GREAT ALBUM BUT NOT A MASTERPIECE.

I think it's rather underrated. It's overshadowed by SFAM, IMHO.

Awake was a great album, relatively speaking. Clearly, it represents Dream Theater at their best. The band's slow but painful descent into lackluster, almost laughable songwriting and shameless emulation of other bands leaves a bad taste in my mouth with the recent albums.  

I still listen to DT when I need a slight tech fix but often can't get over their current direction. A prime example of excellent musicians with increasingly poor application.