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| | Images and Words | | | Music Artist : | | Dream Theater | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Atlantic / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1992-07-07 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Pull Me Under
2. Another Day
3. Take the Time
4. Surrounded
5. Metropolis, Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper
6. Under a Glass Moon
7. Wait for Sleep
8. Learning to Live
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Best Dream Theater recording!!
Submitted on: 2009-11-02 |
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Dream Theater is my favourite band and this is the first progressive album I ever listened to. So the equation is resolved, this is the best metal album for me, as I am a true progressive fan.. What can I say? A masterpiece in his genre for sure, and a very great album to listen whatever you appreciate progressive style.
Higly and deeply recommended to all! |
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One of my top 10 favorite cds ever made
Submitted on: 2009-10-07 |
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| First let me start by saying that I'm not a huge fan of this band. I've bought several of their albums since I first purchased Images and Words, their first cd, and didn't care much for any of them. They now sit at the bottom of my 600 cd collection. I purchased this cd the week it came out after seeing them on headbanger's ball, the only time they ever played them on that show and fell in love with it. Pull Me Under is one of my favorite songs, it is dark and beautiful, mysterious and excellent. The rest of the cd isn't as good as the first track but still every song is well done. Track 5 is my 2nd favorite song. This cd is also very long, well over an hour, so you get your monies worth there too. If you have any interest in checking this band out, get this cd, it is their best work. |
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DT's best
Submitted on: 2009-09-25 |
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This album is DT's best.
"Pull Me Under" is a great opening number, and perhaps the best constructed song in their whole catalog.
"Surrounded" is my favorite on this album, with its optimistic yet edgy flavor, with a mellow opening and closing. Other standouts are "Metropolis, Pt. 1" & "Learning to Live".
Also, LaBrie really sings this album well, probably his best DT performance, as he shows off his range without taking away from the songs. The real quality of his voice, though, can be heard and felt on the mellow "Wait for Sleep".
The only song I can't really get into is "Take the Time" ... not a bad song, just didn't click with me.
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 Primarily an instructional CD
Submitted on: 2009-07-05 |
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I just didn't get it. Primarily a display of technique with little musical content. The score of this music would be good technique development material for students of the various instruments used on this album.
After a few listens I gave this CD away. |
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Progressive Metal masterpiece
Submitted on: 2009-06-22 |
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What can I write that hasn't already been written on this album, here on Amazon? This 8-track album is nothing short of excellent that is the complete opposite of sophomore slump. I state somphomore because this album is the follow up to their 1989 debut, When Dream and Day Unite.
James Labrie makes his uncanny debut here, since his departure from former Canadian glam band, Winter Rose. His voice is nothing short of great, following in the steps of vocal greats, Geoff Tate, Bruce Dickenson, Ronnie James Dio, and even Rob Halford. Images & Words has much better production than When Dream and Day Unite, and a set direction in which the band was looking to move into. Like with WD&DU, this album has an 80s vibe to it, especially apparant on tracks 2, 4, and 7.
Pull Me Under is their breakthrough track, the only track to this day receiving MTV airplay circa 1992 (when MTV was good) making it their number 1 hit. Unique how this was, since the subject of the song is dying. Excellent song structure, vocals and guitar work.
Another Day was their next single considered to be the ballad of the album. It's a wonder why this got zero radio & MTV airplay back then, but maybe not so much since "hair" ballads were quickly replaced with the grunge movement during this time. --I'm not insinuating Dream Theater was a hair band. They are not. Anyway, great song, excellent vocals, beautiful solo...one of Petrucci's best, played with such emotion (proving he is more than just a "shredder")
Take the Time was their third single, cut down (like Pull Me Under) for time purposes...and also never recieved the airplay it deserved. Another staple for the band, with some of Labrie's best vocals again, and killer guitar/keyboard solos from Petrucci and Moore.
Surrounded, I must admit, is the track I occasionally skip when I don't listen the album in it's entirety. It's a good song, it's just if I HAD to rank them in order, this one would have the misfortune of being at the bottom. In my opinion, this has a heavy 80s pop feel very evident especially during the opening keyboard intro. This is another ballad as well, and the combination is probably the reason why I would put this one at the bottom of the barrel. But it's a shallow barrel, because c'mon... it's Dream Theater.
Metropolis Pt. 1 is Dream Theater's signature song according to most DT fans, including myself. Audiences go nuts when the first notes are played in DT's concerts. Absolutely the perfect prog rock song and band could ever put out. The song's beat is one you will not grow weary of. Though the solos and drumming in this song are great, they are not intricate, which definately compliments the song. This song serves as the backbone to a future album they will release.
Under A Glass Moon is another great track, heavy like Pull Me Under. Interestingly, the guitar solo for this song was featured in Guitar Magazine's Top 100 back in 2002. I also have to admit, excellent back to back solos by Petrucci and Moore.
Waiting For Sleep is a soothing track that gives listeners a little breather from the previous track, and acts as the "bridge" between that track and the following one. A nice little quiet piano piece written by Moore, fronted by the soothing vocals of Labrie.
Learning to Live is the album's closer, which is another staple not only on this album, but for Dream Theater in general. Written by bassist Myung, his lyrics focus on a problem that was high priority at the time of its release, AIDS. As a staple, it is considered an epic track very well written, lyrically and musically. I love this track, especially for the way it concludes...wrapping up the album.
Images & Words is THE album to start with, when getting into Dream Theater. Pretty much all of the 4 and 5 star reviewers here will agree. This is a must buy, so order or go out and buy this album NOW!!! |
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