Awake (Dream Theater Album)

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Awake
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Publication
(s)

September 30, 1994

Label (s) EastWest Records

Format (s)

CD, MC

Genre (s)

Progressive metal

Title (number)

11

running time

75:01

occupation

production

John Purdell, Duane Baron

Studio (s)

  • One On One Studios, Los Angeles (USA)
  • Devonshire Studios, Los Angeles (USA)
chronology
Live at the Marquee
(1993) 		Awake A Change of Seasons
(1995)

Awake (English for: " Wach ") is the third studio album by the American progressive metal band Dream Theater . It was released on September 30, 1994. The album wasranked 390 of the “strongest rock and metal records” by Rock Hard magazinein 2007. Only the two previous Dream Theater albums could place better on this list.

Music genre

Awake is much harder than the previous albums When Dream and Day Unite and Images and Words . The album also sounds darker than its predecessors. The song structures are very complex. In particular, the three parts of “A Mind Beside Itself” show the different influences of the band. Part 1 is an instrumental piece that goes in the direction of ambient , but also contains heavy metal passages. Part 2 is harder again, while Part 3 is more in the moderate rock direction.

Moore's exit

After Dream Theater recorded the album, Kevin Moore announced that he wanted to leave the band, which, according to guitarist John Petrucci, was unexpected. For this reason Moore was of course excluded from the further processes for completing the album (such as mixing) and he was accordingly not seen in the two music videos by Awake .

Because of Moore's departure, the band never played the song "Space-Dye Vest" live until January 15, 2014. Mike Portnoy said Dream Theater will never play the song without Kevin Moore as it is considered his farewell song. It is the last song that Moore wrote. Portnoy also said that Dream Theater would have taken the song off the album even if they had known Moore was leaving the band. However, it was played live for the first time in Portugal on January 15, 2014. Moore has received many offers from Dream Theater to play again with the band, but has turned down every offer so far.

Track list

  1. 6:00 (Dream Theater / Kevin Moore) - 5:31
  2. Caught in a Web (Dream Theater / John Petrucci, James LaBrie) - 5:28
  3. Innocence Faded (Dream Theater / John Petrucci) - 5:43
  4. A Mind Beside Itself: I. Erotomania (Dream Theater) - 6:45 (Instrumental)
  5. A Mind Beside Itself: II. Voices (Dream Theater / John Petrucci) - 9:53
  6. A Mind Beside Itself: III. The Silent Man (John Petrucci) - 3:48
  7. The Mirror (Dream Theater / Mike Portnoy) - 6:45
  8. Lie - 6:34 (Dream Theater / Kevin Moore)
  9. Lifting Shadows Off a Dream (Dream Theater / John Myung) - 6:05
  10. Scarred (Dream Theater / John Petrucci) - 11:00
  11. Space-Dye Vest (Kevin Moore) - 7:29

Japan Special Edition

  1. Eve (Bonus 3 "CD)

"A Mind Beside Itself"

Songs 4–6 together make up the series “A Mind Beside Itself”. In the CD booklet for Awake , the three songs are listed as such a series, but the songs are listed individually on the back of the CD without mentioning the title “A Mind Beside Itself”. Each of these three songs is also written down in the booklet as a separate song and at concerts the songs are played individually. At the live concert Live Scenes from New York , all three songs were played together as "A Mind Beside Itself". They are titled there as "A Mind Beside Itself Part I", "II" and "III".

Demo version

In the demo version mentioned in the liner notes of the Ytsejam Records release, the songs have different names:

  • "6:00" means "Beachhouse Reality"
  • "Caught in a Web" was called "Squid"
  • "Innocence Faded" was called "Fresca"
  • "The Mirror" was called "Puppies on Acid" (the original version was also played live and published on both VHS Live in Tokyo and Once in a Livetime )
  • "Lie" means "Kittens on Crack"
  • "Lifting Shadows Off a Dream" was called "Blowfish"
  • "Scarred" was called "The Keymaster"

Chart placements

album
Charts placement
Billboard 200 32
UK top 75 65
Germany 15th
United States 32
Singles
single Charts placement
"Lie" Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 38

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Awake at Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ Why did Kevin leave the band? in dtfaq.com ( Memento from October 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Mike Portnoy FAQ ( Memento of October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Mike Portnoy FAQ ( Memento of October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dream-theater/2014/coliseu-do-porto-oporto-portugal-3bc58c50.html
  6. ↑ musicmight.com: Discography  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.musicmight.com  
Dream theater
Studio albums

When Dream and Day Unite  (1989) • Images and Words  (1992) • Awake  (1994) • Falling into Infinity  (1997) • Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory  (1999) • Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence  (2002) • Train of Thought  (2003) • Octavarium  (2005) • Systematic Chaos  (2007) • Black Clouds & Silver Linings  (2009) • A Dramatic Turn of Events  (2011) • Dream Theater  (2013) • The Astonishing  (2015) • Distance over Time  (2019)

Extended plays

A Change of Seasons  (1995)

Live albums

Live at the Marquee  (1993) • Once in a LIVEtime  (1998) • Live Scenes from New York  (2001) • Live at Budokan  (2004) • SCORE (20th Anniversary World Tour)  (2006)