This album is really not a full length from Dream Theater. It's just one new song, depending on how you look at it. The first track "A Change of Season", a 23 minute long song divided into seven parts. So, with some kind of Theater imagination you can see more than one song in here. The rest of the album is live performances of Dream Theater doing covers of their favourites. Quite entertaining.

"A Change of Seasons" is divided into seven parts, and three of them are instumental. It starts out with an 7-string (or is it downtuned?) acoustic intro thing by John Petrucci. It grows into something massive where the whole band appears, except for LaBrie. This part is called "The Crimson Sunrise" and has the length of a regular song. Then James LaBrie enters, in part two. I really like the sound of this track and album. Great guitars and bass sound, along with Mike Portnoys' eternal drumming. The wild percussionist has chosen a little strange sound for his snare. It's the kind that some death-metal bands use. The tiny weak one, you know, that sound just like hammering on a barrel or somehing. Real good though.

When it comes to the live perfomance, I must say that Dream Theater has really succeded with this one. They're doing Elton John, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, Kansas, Journey, Genesis and Dixie Dregs. The last mentioned must have been a choice of John Petrucci, since I know that he's a big fan of Steve Morse, the guitarist of Dregs. I can't blame him, for that idolization, since I too really enjoy the music of Steve Morse. Another favourite of these live things is Deep Purples' "Perfect Strangers". One can't say that James LaBrie has that unique Rock' n' Roll voice, but I think he does this song quite good too. It's always hard to beat the original though.

The live stuff on this album is really only excerpts from a much longer concert, where they did songs like "Damage Inc." (Metallica), "Happiness is A Warm Gun" (The Beatles), "Easter" (Marillion) and a Yes-medley with Steve Howe as guest guitarist.