Images and Words
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Images and Words is the second album by progressive metal band Dream Theater.
It is the first album on which Dream Theater's current singer, James LaBrie, appears; and is a seminal release in the progressive metal genre.
"Pull Me Under" received substantial airplay on radio stations and MTV, and to this day remains the band's biggest hit. The album itself is also the most commercially successful of all Dream Theater's albums, attaining gold record certification in the U.S. and platinum in Japan.
Track listing
- "Pull Me Under" – 8:11 (music by Dream Theater, lyrics by Moore)
- "Another Day" – 4:22 (Dream Theater and Jay Beckenstein, Petrucci)
- "Take the Time" – 8:21 (Dream Theater)
- "Surrounded" – 5:20 (Dream Theater, Moore)
- "Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper" – 9:30 (Dream Theater, Petrucci)
- "Under a Glass Moon" – 7:02 (Dream Theater, Petrucci)
- "Wait for Sleep" – 2:31 (Moore)
- "Learning to Live" – 11:30 (Dream Theater, Myung)
Personnel
- James LaBrie – vocals
- Kevin Moore – keyboards
- John Myung – bass
- John Petrucci – guitars
- Mike Portnoy – drums
- Jay Beckenstein – saxophone on "Another Day"
Chart performance
Billboard 200:- Images and Words - #61
- Images and Words - #2
- "Pull Me Under" - #10
- "Take the Time" - #22
- "Another Day" - #29
Dream Theater
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| James LaBrie | John Myung | John Petrucci | Mike Portnoy | Jordan Rudess |
| Chris Collins | Charlie Dominici | Kevin Moore | Derek Sherinian |
| Discography |
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| 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 |
| Related articles |
| Jelly Jam | Liquid Tension Experiment | MullMuzzler | OSI | Platypus | Transatlantic | YtseJam Records |
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