03 April, 2009
Dream Theater - Once in a LIVEtime (Live album, 1998)
Album: Once in a LIVEtime
Genre: Progressive metal
Released: October 27 1998
Genre: Progressive metal
Released: October 27 1998
Once in a LIVEtime is a 2CD live album by progressive metal band Dream Theater, and their second live release, which featured most of the songs from the 1997 album Falling Into Infinity recorded at the Bataclan, France and released in 1998.
Covers and Tributes
Dream Theater have often placed riffs or parts of other band's songs into their songs when playing live. On this album, there are several examples of this.
Covers and Tributes
Dream Theater have often placed riffs or parts of other band's songs into their songs when playing live. On this album, there are several examples of this.
- Before the beginning of "Trial of Tears", John Petrucci plays the famous five tone motif from the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
- The opening of "Trial of Tears" also contains portions of the Rush songs "Xanadu" and "The Trees".
- "Peruvian Skies" contains portions of Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" and Metallica's "Enter Sandman".
- The end of "Take the Time" contains the outro solo from Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" and the guitar riff from Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick".
- John Petrucci's guitar solo is composed almost entirely of Liquid Tension Experiment's "Acid Rain" and parts of "Paradigm Shift". It also contains a portion of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" and The Godfather's Tarantella.The segue from "Just Let Me Breathe" into "Voices" features John Petrucci playing the first half of the Force Theme from "Star Wars".
| Disc 1 | ||
| 1. | The Crimson Sunrise (A Change of Seasons Part I) | Download |
| 2. | Innocence (A Change of Seasons Part II) | Download |
| 3. | Puppies on Acid | Download |
| 4. | Just Let Me Breathe | Download |
| 5. | Voices | Download |
| 6. | Take the Time | Download |
| 7. | Derek Sherinian Piano Solo | Download |
| 8. | Lines in the Sand | Download |
| 9. | Scarred | Download |
| 10. | The Darkest Of Winters (A Change of Seasons Part IV) | Download |
| 11. | The Ytse Jam | Download |
| 12. | Mike Portnoy Drum Solo | Download |
| Disc 2 | ||
| 1. | Trial of Tears | Download |
| 2. | Hollow Years | Download |
| 3. | Take Away My Pain | Download |
| 4. | Caught in a Web | Download |
| 5. | Lie | Download |
| 6. | Peruvian Skies | Download |
| 7. | John Petrucci Guitar Solo | Download |
| 8. | Pull Me Under | Download |
| 9. | Metropolis Pt. 1 (medley) | Download |
| 10. | Learning to Live (medley) | Download |
| 11. | The Crimson Sunset (A Change of Seasons Part VII) (medley) | Download |
| Total playing time | 02:34:18 | |
Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity (Full-length, 1997)
Released: September 23, 1997
Recorded: June 2 - July 30, 1997 - Avatar Studios, New York
Genre: Progressive metal
Producer: Kevin Shirley
Recorded: June 2 - July 30, 1997 - Avatar Studios, New York
Genre: Progressive metal
Producer: Kevin Shirley
| 1. New Millennium | Download |
| 2. You Not Me | Download |
| 3. Peruvian Skies | Download |
| 4. Hollow Years | Download |
| 5. Burning My Soul | Download |
| 6. Hell's Kitchen | Download |
| 7. Lines in the Sand | Download |
| 8. Take Away My Pain | Download |
| 9. Just Let Me Breathe | Download |
| 10. Anna Lee | Download |
11. Trial of Tears
| Download |
James LaBrie: vocals
John Myung: bass
John Petrucci: guitar
Mike Portnoy: drums
Derek Sherinian: keyboards
Backing vocals on "Lines In The Sand" by Doug Pinnick of King's X.
Additional info for the notes on the Japanese edition: On the 1st pressing of
the Japanese edition, the two bonus tracks are featured on a separate 3-inch
bonus disc.
The japanese version has two bonus tracks:
12) Take Away My Pain (demo)
13) Speak To Me (demo)
Falling into Infinity is the fourth studio album by influential American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released in 1997. It was recorded in 1997 at Avatar Studios in New York, a return from their previous album, which was recorded in England. It continued the more progressive metal sound Awake started, but to much less critical and commercial acclaim. It is also the last studio album to feature keyboardist Derek Sherinian. LaBrie's limited vocal range after rupturing his vocal cords is shown on the album, with most of the vocals being in the lower range, in contrast to earlier releases, which were often high-pitched.
History
Despite Awake's relative success, the band was not quite happy with its darker sound, which resulted in the band going back to New York to record their new album. The record label pressured the band to write a more commercial album, much to the band's dismay. It was originally intended to be a 140-minute double album, but the record label refused to release such an album and even recruited Desmond Child to help the band re-write "You Not Me", which was originally titled "You Or Me", to make it more commercial.
Unhappy with the record label's meddling, this would be the last album to feature a traditional producer. Later albums would be produced from within due to the band's unhappy result of Falling Into Infinity. The album is also only one of the few Dream Theater albums to not feature the band's iconic font, as a result of graphic artist Storm Thorgeson's refusal to work with fonts other artists had made.[citation needed] The only other Dream Theater album to contain a different font is their debut When Dream and Day Unite.
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