Dream Theater - Awake

MikeEnRegalia wrote: The Accolade wrote: Great album, much better than their muse orientated new album 'Octavarium' It's just the 7th track. But Awake is really much better than Octavarium, that's a given.

Yea I would agree with you, the only two tracks I really loved on Awake were The Answer Lies Within and the awesome title track, but other than that, it really was not that great for me. On Awake, Dream Theater becomes a huge innovator within themselves and changes their sound into the more modern DT sound that we know. Like it or not, Awake is one of those discs that contains some of the best instrumentation that a Progressive artist has ever done.

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.

Bj-1 wrote: Discuss!!!

when I first heard it back in 1994, I had already got Images & Words, but I had never heard anything like it...I just couldn't get 'Caught In A Web', 'Mirror' & 'Lie' out of my head for MONTHS.  I would be standing by the photocopier, completely oblivious that a colleague was talking to me, because the riffs would be going round & round...mesmerising!

as an aside, there is a theme from 6:00 taken from James Joyce's Dubliners, and from 'Space Dye Vest' taken from EM Forster's A Room With A View...thought you might be interested..

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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