| Cleaning Out the Closet | ||||
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| Fan Club CD by Dream Theater | ||||
| Released | 1999 | |||
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| Genre | Progressive metal, progressive rock | |||
| Length | 61:02 | |||
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Cleaning Out the Closet is the fourth fan club CD released by Dream Theater, which was released in 1999. The album is ostensibly a collection of rare tracks and b-sides, chronicling the songs that did not make it onto Images and Words, Awake and Falling Into Infinity. It also has the earliest footage of Jordan Rudess as a member of Dream Theater, as part of a CD-ROM extra.
Personnel[]
- Mike Portnoy - Drums
- John Petrucci - Guitar
- John Myung - Bass
- Kevin Moore - Keyboards on first four tracks
- James LaBrie - Vocals
- Derek Sherinian - Keyboards on last five tracks
- Jordan Rudess - Appears in video footage
Tracklist[]
- Don't Look Past Me (Moore) 6:23 - February 1990, with overdubs recorded in 1999 for this CD.
- To Live Forever '91 (Petrucci) 4:36 - May 1991
- To Live Forever '94 (Petrucci, Moore) 4:55 - Summer 1994
- Eve (Instrumental) 5:10 - Summer 1994
- Raise the Knife (Portnoy) 11:35 - March 1996
- Where Are You Now? (Petrucci) 7:26 - March 1996
- The Way It Used to Be (LaBrie) 7:47 - July 1996
- Cover My Eyes (Petrucci) 3:21 - January 1997
- Speak to Me (LaBrie) 6:10 - February 1997
Original Appearances[]
Don't Look Past Me and To Live Forever '91 were recorded during the Images and Words sessions.
- The instruments on Don't Look Past Me come from an audition tape with John Hendricks, and James LaBrie recorded overdubs for this release
- To Live Forever '91 comes from the ATCO Demos made for the label
- Both songs were later included on the Images and Words Demos official bootleg
To Live Forever '94 and Eve were recorded during the Awake sessions
- To Live Forever '94 was included on the Lie single and later on Greatest Hit.
- Eve was included on the single for The Silent Man and on a bonus disc on Awake's Japanese version
Raise the Knife, Where Are You Now?, The Way It Used to Be, Cover My Eyes, and Speak to Me were recorded during the Falling Into Infinity sessions.
- The Way it Used to Be was included on the Hollow Years single
- Cover My Eyes was included on a bonus disc on Falling Into Infinity's Japanese version.
- All these songs were later included on the Falling Into Infinity Demos official bootleg