The 8 songs on LTE3 are a mix of 4 fully composed tracks, 2 duets, 1 on-the-fly jam and 1 meticulously arranged cover. “We composed four songs. We realized that that was the same with the first 2 albums. So, this time around we did the same,” Portnoy explains. Jordan Rudess agrees, “It felt like a continuation, like we stopped recording LTE2 and walked in a week later we're doing LTE3. I know it's amazing to say, but time has passed in a moment, the blink of an eye, the chemistry is the chemistry, and it didn't change. It was great back then and it still is.” Petrucci comments: “Who would think that a bunch of guys our age would be playing like that? It's relentless. It's definitely like a statement, you know we're back. It follows in the Liquid Tension Experiment tradition absolutely, which is, that when you press play, it steamrolls you.”
LP 1:
Side A
- Hypersonic
- Beating the Odds
Side B
- Liquid Evolution
- The Passage of Time
LP 2:
Side C
- Chris & Kevin's Amazing Odyssey
- Rhapsody in Blue
Side D
- Shades of Hope
- Key to the Imagination
CD:
- Hypersonic
- Beating the Odds
- Liquid Evolution
- The Passage of Time
- Chris & Kevin's Amazing Odyssey
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Shades of Hope
- Key to the Imagination