Sorry to post another thread so soon. I get the feeling that that sort of thing is frowned upon here, but this is the last one I'm doing in this particular vein, and the question, I feel, is genuinely interesting and not at all spammy. Plus, gotta keep the boards occupied 'till the 13th, right?
Anyway, this is a sequel to my other thread, Black Chaos and Systematic Linings, though it should be more challenging because the consensus on these albums is far more consistent and positive. The concept is the same: you must re-cut Images and Words and Awake into one single-disc album, Images and 'Wakes. Take any of the tracks from the two albums and combine them in any order into a playlist whose length may not exceed eighty minutes. The songs you do not preserve are fed to Mike Portnoy, as before, and are lost forever. You may NOT edit the songs in any way, and you may not use pre-existing radio edits or any tracks not on the two original studio albums. If it helps, think of yourself as using an iTunes library to burn the single-disc playlist, which library has only Images and Words and Awake burnt directly from the CD's, without access to Audacity or any other program. Good? Good.
Here's mine:
Images and 'Wakes
1. Pull Me Under
2. Under a Glass Moon
3. Surrounded
4. Take the Time
5. Voices
6. Metropolis
7. Scarred
8. Space Dye Vest
9. Learning to Live
Total runtime: 1:18:31
I hated doing this, because Wait for Sleep was originally on my disc, but I had to let it die so that Space Dye Vest could live. Also, it pains me to turn two great albums into this disjointed mess.