I have nothing but unconditional love and unmitigated praise for Awake, it will always rank along with SFAM and the obvious I&W at the top of my favoritr DT albums
Awake contains the song that made me go "Hey, these guys aren't actually bad" - The Mirror. My cousin had tastes more developed by me at the end of the previous millennium and he sneaked DT songs to fill up cassette tapes he was doing for me, and The Mirror, 4 months after I thought it was a bad song, finally clicked and started the avalanche effect of me discovering DT.
The whole album is great from start to finish, I'm absolutely taken by every side of this record: the songs, the sound, James being a badass kickass singer with his raspy vocals
, EVERYTHING.
Voices also is one of my all time DT favorite songs, right there with Metropolis. I couldn't even offer a proper ranking 'cause I think all the songs are equally awesome, and I would never get tired of this album.
Hail and praise Awake!