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Posted: 6/28/15 at 12:55am

I've unfortunately never seen the musical & I've never gotten into the score but I feel like the only person who wasn't completely obsessed with this show when it opened. I want to buy the album but before I do what are the best songs on the album that I should listen to first?

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Updated On: 6/28/15 at 12:55 AM

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Posted: 6/28/15 at 1:01am

The whole score is pretty amazing and strong. My favorites are: I am the one, Superboy and the invisble girl, light in the dark, Why Stay/A promise, Catch me I'm falling, How could I ever forget, light and I miss the mountains.

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Posted: 6/28/15 at 1:01am

"I've unfortunately never seen the musical & I've never gotten into the score but I feel like the only person who was completely obsessed with this show when it opened. "

Wait. What?

For a first listen, I would start from the beginning.

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Posted: 6/28/15 at 1:36am

Typo sorry !:/

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Posted: 6/28/15 at 2:37am

If I were listening to a truncated version of Next to Normal, I'd select the following songs (if you're looking for an even briefer selection, I've "**" my four favourite)

Prelude/Just Another Day**

My Psychopharmacologist and I

I Miss the Mountains**

You Don't Know/I Am the One**

I'm Alive

I Dreamed a Dream/There's a World

How Could I Ever Forget

Maybe (Next to Normal)

So Anyway**

Light

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Posted: 6/28/15 at 7:27pm

I saw it 4 times on Broadway and again in Brooklyn last summer. The whole thing is amazing.

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Posted: 6/28/15 at 7:33pm

" I Dreamed a Dream/There's a World"

I think you meant, "I Dreamed a Dance", not "I Dreamed a Dream" :)

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Posted: 6/28/15 at 10:52pm

Huge fan here, my favorites are:

I'll mark my favs like the other poster

- Just Another Day*

- Everything Else

- You Don't Know / I Am the One* (Segue)

- Super Boy & the Invisible Girl

- I'm Alive*

- Catch Me, I'm Falling

- I've Been

- Didn't I See This Movie

- A Light in the Dark

- Wish I Were Here*

- Better Than Before

- After Shocks

- I'm Alive / The Break (they segue into eachother so it's really cool)

- I Am the One (Reprise)*

- Light *

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Posted: 6/28/15 at 11:46pm

To be honest? The whole album is a must-listen.

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Posted: 9/6/16 at 8:52pm

The crime of the cast recording of this breathtaking musical is that they stripped out all of the dialogue from the recording. The dialogue interspersed throughout the songs is critical for a person to understand what is going on. Because I've seen the show numerous times I know that when Gabe is singing There's a World, that he's essentially encouraging his mother to commit to suicide, which she then tries to do. There is no way for somebody who hasn't seen the show to know that that is what is happening. It pulls the emotional core out of the recording.

This show begs for a full on live concert performance and recording.

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Posted: 9/6/16 at 10:11pm

My favorites:

- Just Another Day
- Perfect For You
- I Am the One
- Superboy and the Invisible Girl
- I'm Alive
- Hey #1
- Hey #2
- Maybe
- Hey #3/Perfect For You (Reprise)
- I Am the One (Reprise)
- Light

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Posted: 9/6/16 at 10:35pm

I love song Next to Normal. When being normal cannot be achieved

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Posted: 9/6/16 at 10:36pm

Sally Durant Plummer said: "" I Dreamed a Dream/There's a World"

I think you meant, "I Dreamed a Dance", not "I Dreamed a Dream" :)

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hahaha yes.

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Posted: 9/7/16 at 3:55pm

"You Don't Know / I Am The One"

The Tony performance was a nightmare, don't go by that performance, everything went wrong that night.

Stephanatic

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Posted: 9/7/16 at 4:57pm

South Florida said: "The Tony performance was a nightmare, don't go by that performance, everything went wrong that night."

It did?!?

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Posted: 9/7/16 at 5:00pm

NTN remains my favorite musical. However, the Tony performance was not remotely good...

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Posted: 9/7/16 at 7:01pm

Confusing response hate.

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Posted: 9/7/16 at 11:15pm

I love that performance. She totally disregards the tempo at certain points but I think that adds to the rawness of the song and it makes it really powerful. Plus I love the vibrato in J. Robert Spencer's voice.. he's just great to listen to.

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