Awake (Dream Theater album)

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Awake is a 1994 album from progressive metal band Dream Theater. It is much darker and heavier than their previous studio album, and is the last album to feature keyboardist Kevin Moore.

Contents

1 Track listing
2 Credits
3 Trivia
4 Chart performance

Track listing

All music composed by Dream Theater except where noted.

"6:00" – 5:31 (lyrics by Moore)
"Caught In A Web" – 5:28 (Petrucci/LaBrie)
"Innocence Faded" – 5:43 (Petrucci)
"A Mind Beside Itself: i. Erotomania" – 6:45 (Dream Theater, instrumental)
"A Mind Beside Itself: ii. Voices" – 9:53 (Petrucci)
"A Mind Beside Itself: iii. The Silent Man" – 3:48 (music and lyrics by Petrucci)
"The Mirror" – 6:45 (Portnoy)
"Lie" – 6:34 (Moore)
"Lifting Shadows Off A Dream" – 6:05 (Myung)
"Scarred" – 11:00 (Petrucci)
"Space-Dye Vest" – 7:29 (music and lyrics by Moore)

Tracks 4-6 form a three-part suite titled A Mind Beside Itself. They are labelled as such inside the CD booklet; however, the back of the album cover lists them individually. Each song is a separate index on the CD, and Dream Theater treat them as individual songs at, for example, live concerts. They were, however, played together (back to back) and released on the live album Live Scenes from New York and are listed under the title "A Mind Beside Itself parts i, ii and iii" there.

Credits

Trivia

Kevin Moore announced his leaving of the band when the band was finishing the recording of the album, which, according to John Petrucci, was unexpected. [link] He was thus excluded from the rest of the album-making process (such as mixing) [link] and doesn't appear in the two music videos produced from the album.
The band has never performed Space-Dye Vest live. Mike Portnoy said that they're not willing to do it without Kevin Moore, as "it's his song" [link], and they would've left it off the album if they would've known that Moore wanted to leave the band. Moore has been offered several opportunies to perform the song with Dream Theater as a six-piece, but has declined so far.

Chart performance

Billboard 200:

Awake - #32

UK Top 75 Albums:

Awake - #65

Billboard Mainstream Rock Singles:

"Lie" - #38

Discography
[ v]·[ d]·[ e] Dream Theater
James LaBrie \| John Myung \| John Petrucci \| Mike Portnoy \| Jordan Rudess
Chris Collins \| Charlie Dominici \| Kevin Moore \| Derek Sherinian
Albums and extended plays: When Dream and Day Unite \| Images and Words \| Awake \| A Change of Seasons \| Falling into Infinity \| Scenes from a Memory \| Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence \| Train of Thought \| Octavarium
Live albums: Live at the Marquee \| Once in a LIVEtime \| Live Scenes from New York \| Live at Budokan \| SCORE
Videos and DVDs: *' \| 5 Years in a Livetime* \|** ' \| Live at Budokan \| SCORE
Songs: Pull Me Under \| Another Day \| A Mind Beside Itself \| The Glass Prison
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