Images and Words

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Images and Words

Studio album by Dream Theater
Released	July 7 1992
Recorded	December, 1991 - BearTracks Studios, New York (additional recordings at The Hit Factory, NY)
Genre	Progressive Metal Progressive Rock
Length	57:07
Label	ATCO Records
Producer(s)	David Prater
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Dream Theater chronology
When Dream and Day Unite (1989)	Images and Words (1992)	Live at the Marquee (1993)

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 considered 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.

The album is also notable as being the only studio album by the group (until Octavarium, almost 15 years later) not to include at least one instrumental track.

[edit] 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" – 5:30 (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)

[edit] Personnel

James LaBrie – vocals
Kevin Moore – keyboards
John Myung – bass
John Petrucci – guitars
Mike Portnoy – drums
Jay Beckenstein – saxophone on "Another Day"

[edit] Chart performance

Billboard 200:

Images and Words - #61

Heatseekers:

Images and Words - #2

Billboard Singles:

"Pull Me Under" - #10
"Take the Time" - #22
"Another Day" - #29

Discography
Dream Theater
James LaBrie \| John Myung \| John Petrucci \| Mike Portnoy \| Jordan Rudess
Chris Collins \| Charlie Dominici \| Kevin Moore \| Derek Sherinian
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: Images and Words: Live in Tokyo \| 5 Years in a Livetime \| Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York \| Live at Budokan \| Score
Songs: Pull Me Under \| Another Day \| A Mind Beside Itself \| The Glass Prison \| Stream of Consciousness \| Instrumedley
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