LIVE SCENES FROM NEW YORK

I cant get enough of it! I have listened to it so many times, and each time i enjoy it like the first time, so this is that kind of albums that you`ll always love , because it is simply lovable, and look that its not a studio album, is a LIVE album, so it`s really great to have this kind of live albums which make our body shake and make you feel with more power.

Live Scenes From new York, as the title says, the most of this album was inspired in their latest album of then, "Scenes From a Memory" which is one of the best progressive metal albums ever created ( of course IMO), and the concert was in New York. IMPORTANT: This is a 3 CD album, so if you dont tolerate Dream Theater, or Prog Metal, you wont get this album, maybe you will get tired after the first or maybe the second album. For me it`s great, 3 albums, 3 live albums, one concert, wow! amazing, and they performanced their best songs, if you dont know "SFAM", here you can listen to it entirely,some songs from "Images and Words", "Awake" and "A Change of Seasons".

CD 1: A Very emotional one, this first live album is SFAM, from "Regression " to "Dance of Eternity", so you can imagine, all the audience very excited, and of course we the listeners, because they play like in the studio album ( or even better) , telling the story, making great music, amazing changes in the songs and a great concept, but im not reviewing SFAM, so first live album its great.

CD 2: The last three songs from SFAM, ending with the great and emotional "Finally Free", after that, they started playing "Metropolis PT: 1 ", wow!, its perfect after SFAM, i mena, i think the sequence of the songs is great , each song in the best place, something which makes the album so amazing. IN this second CD, we can find a mix of the albums, like "The Mirror" from "Awake", "Another Day" from "Images and Words" and even a Liquid Tension Experiment track "Acid Rain", all these songs are great, well-known and of course enjoyable for any DT fan, this album ends with an awesome solo from Jordan Rudess, showing us his unique style and great skill.

CD 3: Pobably, and personally this is my favorite of them , its the perfect end of the concert, only 5 songs, but... what a songs. I said it si my favorite, maybe emotionally because Awake was my first DT album, and "Erotomania" my first love, so when i listen to this ,i really got shocked and so excited, nice to hear that song live. So it`s first 3 songs are "A Mind Beside Itself" from Awake, Erotomania, an incredible and great instrumental song," Voices" a very spectacular song, great music, so emotional and beautiful lyrics, and " The Silent Man" maybe a hymn of DT. Next, my favorite DT song (actually), i have the luck to see and listen to it in their last concert in Mexico City, that song is simply amazing, great changes, excellent musicianship, vocals , keyboards, all gathered together making excellent music. And the last song, is that special over 20 minute epic from their self titled EP " A Change of Seasons", after too much time performing, they also did this, its awesome, the longer song to the end, and believe me, its a superb performance.

So after all, im sure this album deserves 5 stars, its really great, one of the best live albums i have listened, i know the most of you know it, but if dont, run and buy it.

Over 3 hours of pure and powrful DT

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