Younique

Infobox Album
Name = Younique
Type = Album
Artist = Superior


Background = Orange
Released = May 1998
Recorded = March - May 1998, Roko Soundstudios
Genre = Progressive metal
Length = 59:45
Label = Noise Records
Last album = "Behind"
(1995)
This album = "Younique"
(1998)
Next album = "Ultima Ratio"
(2002)

Younique is the second full-length Superior studio album, released in May 1998.

The music of the album is characterized by heavy guitar riffing, diverse keyboard arrangements and sounds, very complex and individual instrumentation, acoustic guitars, sitar-sounds, brass arrangements and saxophone solos. The influences can be tracked from Latin music, Funk, Classical music and Jazz.

Many worldwide magazines celebrated “Younique” as a milestone in progressive music, but the album divided fans into two camps, one being fascinated and the other one shocked.

Track listing

# "Not with Me" - 3:37
# "God's Funeral" - 8:10
# "Nothing" - 9:32
# "Think" - 4:05
# "Stop" - 6:12
# "Be Mine" - 5:09
# "Amok" - 4:29
# "Free Minded" - 6:03
# "Detect: Myself" - 7:24
# "This promise" - 5:04
# "Sweet Pretence" (bonus track)

Confusion with "Train of Thought"

Around 2003, in many file sharing networks, "Younique" was released as Dream Theater's album "Train of Thought", causing many confusions between Dream Theater fans. "Younique"'s music is very similar to Dream Theater's, and this fact helped the confusion to get bigger. And because "Train of Thought" has only seven tracks, "Younique" was cut between tracks 7 and 8, resulting in a release with 7 tracks. Unfortunately, many Dream Theater fans that have downloaded "wrongful Train of Thought" album think to this day that "Younique" is actually "Train of Thought".

Extra links

Pages in Greek [http://www.younique.gr Greek fans' pages for this album]