Awake is still better than every other Dream Theater record

[KevShmev]

Fact.

[BlobVanDam]

citation needed

[Ruba]

That's right.

[KevShmev]

citation needed

Listen to the album.  If you can do this and not come to the same conclusion, well, then we can't help you.

[BlobVanDam]

citation needed

Listen to the album.  If you can do this and not come to the same conclusion, well, then we can't help you.

This is my listening experience of Awake from start to finish, represented in graph form.


It would be a pretty good album if you lopped off the half hour of waste at the end.

[?]

My answer to the thread title: yes.

[wasteland]

  (disagreeing) at Bolb's chart.

And as for the OP, my copy of Images asked me to told you that you will hear from his lawyers. 

[MoraWintersoul]

This graph is the best thing I've ever thoroughly disagreed with.

And as for the OP, my copy of Images asked me to told you that you will hear from his lawyers. 

Huh, so it won't even talk to Awake in person? Sorry fans, we tried, the ball is in Images' court now.

[theseoafs]

Compared to most of DT's work, Awake is a pretty mediocre album -- a few filler pieces (6:00, CIAW, LSOAD) drag it down.

[?]

And as for the OP, my copy of Images asked me to told you that you will hear from his lawyers. 

Huh, so it won't even talk to Awake in person? Sorry fans, we tried, the ball is in Images' court now.

Yeah, Awake has stayed classy all the time and hasn't taken unnecessary jabs at I&W.

[BlobVanDam]

And as for the OP, my copy of Images asked me to told you that you will hear from his lawyers. 

I think my copy of IaW called to say the same thing, but the call cut off early.

But my copy of SDOIT and SFAM both scoff and chuckle at this thread's dubious claim.

[wasteland]

And as for the OP, my copy of Images asked me to told you that you will hear from his lawyers. 

Huh, so it won't even talk to Awake in person? Sorry fans, we tried, the ball is in Images' court now.

Dream Theater was IAW's baby, and...

[MoraWintersoul]

Oh my god we're awful

Blob, do you prefer Scenes or Degrees? I don't think I've ever asked this question.

[wasteland]

I am positive that Blob values SDOIT above his cutting edge metal stealth PC workstation. 

[BlobVanDam]

Oh my god we're awful

Blob, do you prefer Scenes or Degrees? I don't think I've ever asked this question.

SDOIT will always be the best to me. SFAM is the ultimate whole album DT experience, but SDOIT is the ultimate DT album as a collection of stellar songs. There's not much separating them though. 

[MoraWintersoul]

Oh my god we're awful

Blob, do you prefer Scenes or Degrees? I don't think I've ever asked this question.

SDOIT will always be the best to me. SFAM is the ultimate whole album DT experience, but SDOIT is the ultimate DT album as a collection of stellar songs. There's not much separating them though. 

Yeah, I prefer SDOIT too. Whenever I talk to a new DT fan and when I mention that fact to them, they get awfully confused, and then they re-listen to SDOIT and go "holy fuck Milena you are 100% right about this album."
Well, okay, that happened only three times but that's enough to make a case!

[KevShmev]

[BlobVanDam]

That was really funny and clever. You know, how you just took the same joke that was already on my image, and simply reiterated it from the opposite side in meme form over the top of the image, as if it negates it. Bonus points for originality.

[King Postwhore]

My answer is simple.




No.

[Perpetual Change]

I'm torn. I haven't really listened to Dream Theater much in the last few months, but when I got the Images & Words vinyl a few weeks ago I did really start to notice some of the small problems with the album. I'd say Awake is slightly better than Images & Words, 'cause it doesn't have "Another Day" or "Under a Glass Moon" or any other songs I find skippable.

I think I might put SDoIT above it, though. I can't say for sure.

Anyway, top 3 is definitely Images, Awake, and SDoIT. The ordering can vary but each have a pretty solid lead over ADTOE and SFaM, which are the best of the next level down-- the merely "very good" albums. 

[tedy]

Awake is great but not the best for me.
I&W & SDOIT are my favorite albums followed by
SFAM, ADTOE and AWAKE. 

[Tomislav95]

Fact.

[DebraKadabra]

If I make anything other than an oblique comment, I'll spoil another part of my (as of yet) uncompleted Top 50 album list so

[champbassist]

Fact.

[Full Speed]

Scarred, Space Dye Vest, and The Mirror are some of my favorite DT songs. Those 3 alone make the album one of my favorites. The rest of the album ranges from awesome to meh for me, but I still find the vast majority of it enjoyable.

[Zydar]

OP: God no.

And I love you, Blob

[WDADU]

Agreed. Awake is still my favourite Dream Theater record.

[goo-goo]

citation needed

Listen to the album.  If you can do this and not come to the same conclusion, well, then we can't help you.

This is my listening experience of Awake from start to finish, represented in graph form.


It would be a pretty good album if you lopped off the half hour of waste at the end.

my opinion is the opposite. I think the first half of the album is kind of weak but from Erotomania onward is just magical, specially Scarred (probably my favorite DT track of all)

[Glass Moonlight]

So good, a classic.

[bosk1]

Fact.

Awake is such an incredibly amazing album that it's not even worth pointing out that you are objectively wrong.

[SeRoX]

This is why I love you, Kev.

This album is better in any way possible than others.

[The Stray Seed]

It's on top of my chart together with Images and Words. The two greatest DT albums of all times, in my humble opinion.

[rumborak]

So good, a classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4dP-pm7Frws#t=6s

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Love the: Fuck........hschaaa! 

[TheGreatPretender]

Half the songs on Awake are amazing (6:00, Caught In a Web, Voices, Lie, Scarred).
The other half are pretty okay, but have their draw backs. Definitely not their best album. I think most people who worship it have a little too much Nostalgia Goggles going on.