IMAGES AND WORDS

5 Stars <<---- huh?... The second best album from this great band. I've seen some really bad reviews about this album, giving poor opinions about an album with 8 incredible tracks each one improvised. I'm a Rudess fan, but i think Kevin Moore really gave dream theater a melodic side that i enjoy a lot, hes compositions in dream theater were always accurate, and necessary, i just wish he had done another album with dream theater. The notorious song in this album is Metropolis part. 1, this one for me its not the best song they ever made, i cant actually qualify a 1 best DT song, but it gathers what dream theater means, great lyrics, excelente orchestration, unique drums, hard compositions, keyboard and guitar mastery, and great vocals in this album. Learning To live is an excellent piece, wrote by John Myung, he should write more songs, some of the best songs were writen by him(Trial to Tears, Lifting Shadows of a Dream...).

This album is the one with "Personality" from Dream theaters albums, in my opinion. I've lost some of my objective eye , but im sure if every song is evaluated including instrumental and lyrics this albums reachs 5 stars, no doubt about it. I hope more people can appreciate and enjoy masterpieces such as these one instead of comparing and trying to find weak points.