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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Atlantic / Wea
Salesrank: 28965
Released: October 5, 2004 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Live at Budokan Track Listing:
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Disc 2:
Editorial Review:
Renowned worldwide for their innovative metal/progressive rock and masterful musicianship, Dream Theater first rose to major fame in the '90s with such hits as "Pull Me Under"- an MTV breakthrough-"Another Day," and "Lie." Their legendary stage prowess and intensely dramatic, high-energy live shows have further built a passionately loyal global fan-base. The sonic punch of this stellar concert from Tokyo's acclaimed Budokan arena-recorded during their 2004 World Tour-proves why.
Live at Budokan Reviews:
Phenomenal sound quality; Awsome set list 
2008-11-29 - I love this live album. Dream Theater always sounds awsome in concert (i've seen 'em 5 times live). I prefer to listen to my D.T. live albums (there's five of them) rather then the studio records.
If you have never heard Dream Theater before, this would be a perfect place to start. You can't even imagine how incredibly John Petrucci plays guitar (or for that matter, Portnoy on the Drums).
Put on disk 3, skip to the last track: "In The Name Of God" (one of their heaviest and best songs), Turn your volume to 10, and go completely insane! The two opening guitar riffs in that song are among the best metal riffs ever.
Of course I am a bit biased; I consider Dream Theater to be the greatest rock band of all time!
Soon a Dream Theater concert CD will require an entire shelf for all its discs... 
2007-12-03 - There's virtually NO concert by any artist in musical history in existence that was recorded in Japan that was not good... except this one... it wasn't good... it was FAN-FREAKIN-TASTIC!
I made a slight error in odering this disc - I unwittingly ordered and received the DVD. But that was a good thing, cos the DVD allowed me to really appreciate the visual aspect of the concert, which made the audio version even more enjoyable (if that makes sense?).
The only real issue I have with Dream Theater's live albums of late, is not so much that they are so long that they require 3 CDs (or more if this trend continues), but that the CDs are not "filled up" enough to truly justify it.
Three CDs with just under an hour of music each (54-55 minutes) could have (theoretically anyway) been squeezed onto a pair of standard 80-minute CDs ; that is if one was so inclined to do a little remixing to make it fit... which I was, and I *almost* did - but even with a little bit of track shuffling and other parlor tricks to make things fit better while maintaining a natural continuity, I was left with 6 minutes worth of too much content on one disc. Well, too much for a programme of two 80-minute discs, as it turned out ; I could have used a 90-minute disc and been alright, but I really wanted to avoid that option for player-compatibility issues.
If the METROPOLIS Part II track (BEYOND THIS LIFE) was not extended with a long instrumental break in between (as cool as it is!), then everything would have fit perfectly, and allowed me to have the same concert on TWO discs, rather than 3, thereby eliminating the extra "concert interruptus" of fading in and out as it goes from one disc to the next... and to the next.
But that's just me. If the number of CDs and duration of each disc matters not to you, then you will love this concert. I highly recommend the DVD as well - while what you hear on the 3-CD audio set is outstanding, the sights & visuals from the DVD concert give it a whole new life of its own (and no "concert-interruptus"! Haha).
WTW
Hummmmmmmm 
2007-04-06 - I truly admire the instrumental musicianship of Dream Theater. But, I cannot belive they would release a recording with such shoddy vocals. Far too many times the vocalist's intonation was absloutely horrible! Normally I rate the band's work 4 or 5 stars. This time I am generous with 3.
AMAZING Live album
2006-11-02 - This is an absolutely amazing live album. Budokan in Japan is the equivalent to Carnegie Hall or others like it in the history and culture of the arena. The live cd set is amazing but to really enjoy this cd set even more, buy the DVD as well. When you watch the live DVD and see the amazing show that's being put on it seems to augment the enjoyment of listening to it as well.
Excellent live record from the legendary Budokan...
2006-08-29 - ....by this legendary band! Live at Budokan was recorded in on DT's Train of Thought tour in Tokyo and is 3CDs (the entire show!) of prog/metal greatness. The concert contains most of the tracks from the Train of Thought album, excellent versions of This Dying Soul, As I Am, Stream of Conciousness, Endless Sacrfice, and In the Name of God. It also contains some real gems: an incredible version of Hollow Years with an extended guitar intro, Trial of Tears, New Millennium (one of the best songs from 1997's Falling Into Inifinity), a 20-minute Beyond This Life which includes a fun keyboard/drum duel between Jordan Rudess and Mike Portnoy, Instrumedley, which contains portions of: Ytse Jam, A Change of Seasons, Paradigm Shift, Hell's Kitchen, Erotomania, The Dance of Eternity, and other bits I'm probably leaving out. Also included are 4 parts from the song Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, as well as the rarely played Disappear. All in all, from beginning to end, this is an incredible live document of the band. And James' voice sounds almost back to full power, and for the most part sounds really good, although not as good as it did on Live at the Marquee or Live Scenes From New York. An essential live DT album (they all are!)
