Released August 29, 2006 Producer Ethan Mesmer Release date 29 August 2006 Director Mike Portnoy | Length 157:08 Artist Dream Theater Label Rhino Entertainment | |
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Recorded April 1, 2006 - Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York Score
(2006) Systematic Chaos
(2007) Genres Progressive metal, Symphonic metal Similar Dream Theater albums, Progressive metal albums | ||
Score is a live album and DVD by progressive metal band Dream Theater. It was recorded on April 1, 2006 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The concert was the last of their 20th Anniversary Tour, labeled "A Very Special Evening with Dream Theater". The entire second half of the concert features a complete symphonic orchestra, dubbed "The Octavarium Orchestra", conducted by Jamshied Sharifi.
Contents
The album was released on August 29, 2006 and contains the entire concert setlist, including the encore. A condensed version of the concert was aired on VH1 Classic on August 25, 2006, 4 days before the release of the album and DVD. It was released on September 2, 2006 in Australia.
The title of the album comes from the word "score", meaning the number twenty, in reference to the band's 20th anniversary. It can also refer to a conductor's musical score, which is seen on the album cover.
Two of the songs recorded on this album were previously unreleased: "Another Won," a song written by the band in their earlier years, when they were known as Majesty; and "Raise The Knife", a song recorded for but omitted from Falling Into Infinity.
In Australia, the three-disc version of the album was released on September 2, 2006.
CD
All music composed by Dream Theater except where noted.
DVD
Tracks 1 through 8 feature Dream Theater alone. Tracks 9 through 14 feature Dream Theater and The Octavarium Orchestra.
Disc one
- "The Root of All Evil" – 9:32
- "I Walk Beside You" – 4:10
- "Another Won" – 5:40
- "Afterlife" – 7:28
- "Under a Glass Moon" – 7:27
- "Innocence Faded" – 6:16
- "Raise the Knife" – 11:51
- "The Spirit Carries On" – 9:37
- "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" – 41:26
- "Vacant" – 3:03
- "The Answer Lies Within" – 5:36
- "Sacrificed Sons" – 10:36
- "Octavarium" – 27:29
- "Metropolis" – 11:16
- Credits – 2:53
Disc two
Personnel
Octavarium Orchestra
RIAA Certifications
These statistics were compiled from the RIAA certification online database. They only apply to the DVD.
Songs
1The Root of All Evil8:22
2I Walk Beside You4:11
3Another Won5:22