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Another power album from the band that everybody's talking about. With
the mighty "Images & Words" in the backpack, and of course high demands,
Awake sold platinum in Japan. I guess Dream Theater is the kind of band
that never will produced one weak album.
It's only the introducing track that I really don't find very
interesting, but the rest of the album is really good. It's alot
different that Images... of course, but still with the same quality.
What John petrucci did on this one was that he brought a 7-string Ibanez
to the sound. This of course made the sound deeper and heavier. The most
important tracks to remember from Awake are "Innocence Faded", "Voices",
"The Silent Man", which is a acoustic guitar thing, "The Mirror", "Lie"
and "Space-Dye-Vest". The last mentioned is Kevin Moores' solo
contribution to the album, just like he did with "Wait for Sleep" on
Images and Words. I count "Space-Dye Vest" as one of the most sensitive
and emotionable songs ever written. This album was also the last album
for Kevin to appear on. He voluntarily steeped out of Dream Theater
becasue of musical differences and started working on his solo project,
Chroma Key. Replaced by Derek Sherinian.
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