Ī companion of sorts to Through My Words, you'll want to watch out for a nasty feedback screech in the first few seconds. A great break after the madness in Beyond This Life. Theresa Thompson's voice soars and recedes throughout. Some of Petrucci's most emotional playing is featured here, as well as his trademark triplet noodling.
This track is exactly what its title implies. There really isn't much to say, just listen and rock out. Aside from The Dance of Eternity, this is the height of musical insanity from SFAM. This song runs the gamut from Radiohead-style choruses, Kansas-inspired grooves, and mind-bending Zappa unisons. A couple flubs committed by Petrucci in the vocal and solo departments detract ever-so-slightly from this one. The Megadeth-inspired background riff is awesome, but the leads thrown down by Petrucci and Rudess easily overshadow it. The solo section, known to the more seasoned DT listener as the "Shrink n' Grow" section will melt your face.
Featuring an Inspector-Gadgetesque verse, the first half of the song poorly foreshadows the musical madness in the second, although the riff is still pretty badass. One of my favorite songs of the SFAM album, this one is definitely another rocker. And, of course, this track contains one of the most famous lyrical flubs in DT history. The lyrics 'Alone at night.' and onward actually belong in the next song. The great pace set by the last two tracks settles down for this quick piano/vox duet. The interlude, preceded by some upper-register arpreggiating by Myung, is the highlight of the song with a great old-school hard rock riff, also generated by Myung. Ĭontinuing directly from Overture, this is one hell of a rocker, with a great chorus. Being an overture, you'll notice several themes from this track reoccur in proceeding songs. With a chugging intro riff, this instrumental blasts away, leaving no doubt of the collective technical talent of Dream Theater. Mike Portnoy - drums/percussion, backing voxĪlthough nothing more than introductory filler, it does set the stage for the enthralling story told in Scenes From a Memory. The first set consisted entirely of the band's definitive concept-album Metropolis Part II: Scenes From a Memory. Live Scenes From New York, released in 2001, is considered to be Dream Theater's quintessential live album by some, however some vocal and sound issues keep an otherwise mind blowing performance from attaining perfection.
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