― Matt Riedl (veal), Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
operation: mindcrime is excellent overall. the lyrics happen to be great. if they were bad, i'd probably have a lot of trouble stomaching the whole project
search that album.
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 03:52 (fifteen years ago) link
this band is underrated by ilm
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
But not by me.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
OK, I only really know Operation: Mindcrime and Empire but I like them fine. Just put on Mindcrime.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
saw recent footage of them on...one of these cable stations that shows a fair amount of live music, I forget its name. They were doing "I Don't Believe In Love" on a big outdoor stage, and they were killing it - dude is still in great voice, and the overall presentation of the song was so smart - really musical, subtly dynamic, just so grand. First time since childhood that I've seen live footage of a band and thought "I'd really like to hear a live album by these guys."
xpost we are listening to the same album right now!!
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
the spoken/rapped? interlude in "spreading the disease" is so over the top & great
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
The first three albums and the s/t EP are all pretty much perfect in my opinion. And the social commentary on Mindcrime ("Spreading the Disease" a prime example) was leagues sharper than any metal band at the time.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
i loved operation mindcrime when i was in maybe 5th or 6th grade? it seemed like a cool sci-fi comic book or something. i dont remember much about it. i just remember doing what they told me...told me... told me...told me...
― how's life, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
Another rave for O:M here. Would recommend Mindcrime II to anyone who hasn't heard it. Much better than skeptical preconceptions would have suggested.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Davis, telephone please.
― how's life, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
Uh.
http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blogpost.aspx?post=7d3b6b99-9471-430d-9605-5f83afef8d16
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Even more uh.
http://legacy.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=175296&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
And further!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-q-a-geoff-tate-on-queensryches-ugly-split-backstage-brawl-in-brazil-20120626
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
that's an awful lot of talking for a guy who just filed a lawsuit!
― the dave cool channel you are supposed to watch (how's life), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
Goin' full Sandusky!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
I had forgotten how awful the album cover for Empire was. W/r/t the break-up...seems oddly late in the game for dudes to hand-wringing about "musical direction". Like, yr already in Queensryche, dude that ship has sailed.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
"I write 81% of the music and the lyrics. Of the 144 songs that Queensryche has released, I've written 116 of those."
He only comes across as 81% douche, too. Who has those stats at the front of their mind, even if you did probably put them in the lawsuit?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
They do not believe in love, it seems.
http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blogpost.aspx?post=9394a27e-a1bd-4b83-9961-56973f85c561
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
The punch also hit my right eye which had a contact lens in it. My contact jostled and I was trying to get it back in place so I could see. I told him to get away from me, but he kept pushing his chest into me calling me 'Pussy, f**king pussy! What, are you going to cry?' My eye was watering from my contact, I couldn't see clearly, and I pushed him away. Then Scott Rockenfield (our drummer) came down and told him to get away from me. Geoff Tate then threw another punch at me, but I ducked and it hit Scott Rockenfield right in the face (his mouth area). Scott Rockenfield told him to back off and then Geoff Tate punched Scott Rockenfield again in the face. At this point our tour manager, Fozzy O'Hare, pulled Geoff Tate away and one of our guitar technicians, Kenny Bender, helped me by getting a cold water bottle on my face to stop any swelling or redness. Geoff Tate came back over and called me a 'pussy' and a 'crybaby' again. I told everyone I needed a minute until I was able to get my vision back and I was moved to the other side of the stage until the crew felt they could get the situation under control. I then told my guitar technician, Gino Bishop, to get a towel to wipe off all the spit on my guitar that kept coming from Geoff Tate.
every single name in this passage is made up, right?
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
How dare you doubt Fozzy's existence.
https://www.facebook.com/orlando.s.ohare
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://scottrockenfield.com/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/kenny.bender.7
*Nelson laugh*
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/579876_484411814905374_1760679355_n.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
ned for real i think you should try to sell some publication on letting you do a long-form piece on this breakup, getting interviews with everyone etc
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
I thank you for the compliment! But surely there are better writers for the job.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChZ-QSinSF8
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
"Insania"
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
”wait watch this...”
*clip of Geoff Tate jumping onstage*
”love that”
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
that was the exact point where I had to tap out
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
Is this an EPK for an album or just Geoff Tate the person?
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
Geoff Tate...the LEGEND.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
And if you really want it:
http://www.threeriverswinery.com/GeoffTate?orderby=PXPC.DisplayOrder%20Asc,%20P.ProductName%20ASC&startrow=1
Damn $35 a bottle is steep
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
Btw...that was a lot to process so I just now realized....he plays saxophone?
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 November 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
With his butt, probably.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 November 2012 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
Hey, it's made number two:
http://www.reddit.com/r/cringe
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 November 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, poor bastard:
King-Diamond 4 points 1 hour agoNever thought I would see this here. Queensryche has been a bit of a household legend in my immediate family. In fact, I'm actually named after Geoff Tate.
Never thought I would see this here. Queensryche has been a bit of a household legend in my immediate family. In fact, I'm actually named after Geoff Tate.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 November 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
Meantime, today
http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/03/05/best-video-ever-day-geoff-tate-covers-lola-wearing-wig/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
I haven't listened to Operation Mindcrime since I had it on cassette, and I dumped off nearly all of my cassettes pre-2000. Listening to it now, expecting the worst, it's actually not as awful as I'd thought it might be. I feel less like as goofball listening to this right now than I would any Rush concept album.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
these guys have released 14 studio albums now
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
http://media.mtvne.com/manual/intl/warner/2009/USRH10901776_640x480_01.jpg
tate really used to have a tommy wiseau thing going.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
he was a big fan of the t-shirt/sportcoat look
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
I am fortunate enough to have the "Revolution Calling" boxset which has the debut EP and first six albums with a ton of bonus stuff (and a CD-ROM game I never played). I am unfortunate enough to have a commute that is usually more than an hour long each way to my job. So I broke out the box for my commute and I came to two conclusions:
1) The debut EP might be the best metal Extended Play ever released. All four songs are amazing. And they would never sound like that again.
2) Don't sleep on "Rage For Order." The heshers love the earlier stuff and "Mindcrime" was of course a game-changer but "Rage" was the transitional album between the two ideas that has some of the brawn of the earlier stuff but also saw them taping into more heady ideas (including "Gonna Get Close To You," a cover from Candaian diva Dalbello, the original of which I never heard until very recently thanks to YouTube).
Everything after "Mindcrime" is at best spotty, but through and including that, this band was a force.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 18 October 2014 06:01 (nine years ago) link
Mindcrime RULES.
When I lived in Seattle, I did a lot of volunteer work for both JAMPAC (Krist Novoselic's music political action committee) and No Vote Left Behind (a Vote for John Kerry organization run by Steve Mack from That Petrol Emotion). Queensryche helped us out with a lot of fundraising stuff. Geoff Tate is an enormous asshole, the rest of the guys are very cool.
They lost the plot when Chris De Garmo quit.
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Saturday, 18 October 2014 06:56 (nine years ago) link
Geoff is an enormous asshole? You don't say...
http://www.youtube.com/v/ChZ-QSinSF8&fs=1&hl=en― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:03 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― how's life, Saturday, 18 October 2014 12:34 (nine years ago) link
i totally forgot how awesome Operation: Buttcream is.
those triumphant harmonized leads in "Revolution Calling" plus Geoff ratcheting in intensity in the pre-chorus.
even the rap bit in Spreading the Disease is dope.
but lately for me it's all about the EP. Queen of the REiiiiiccccchhhh
― Neanderthal, Friday, 15 July 2016 12:21 (seven years ago) link
God it's a shame that Tate sounds like a vivisected muppet now.
Actually it's more funny than sad
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 03:40 (five years ago) link
Really? That's a shame. I had a good karaoke experience with "Silent Lucidity" last time.
― oh, shut up and listen, will you? (Sund4r), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 03:52 (five years ago) link
Lol i sing that one often
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 03:59 (five years ago) link
I really like Condition Human. it's a pretty inspired return to Queensryche form and new vocalist La Torre is a much better singer than Tate at this point.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 04:42 (five years ago) link
I should listen. I was sceptical regarding Tate-less Queensryche.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
Did someone say he sounded like a Muppet?
http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/tate_bert.jpg
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
the new one is...also pretty good? and also metal like the last one?
they should never ever reconsider a Tate reunion if it is offered even if they mend fences.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
I’ll rep for “speak” with its awesome riffs
― calstars, Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Also the OM cover is great
Now who will come to wash away my sins, clean my room, fix my meals, wipe my ass, walk my dogs, clean my shoes, wash my car, clean my other rooms, BE MY FRIEND?!!!
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 03:55 (three years ago) link
Had a Bert for a hair-do, yeah you looked pretty cool
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
About to see them again.
I'm usually a purist with lineups but IMO this band came back to life after they fired that abusive bald muppet that used to be their singer
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 March 2023 02:49 (one year ago) link
And replaced him with a Crimson Glory vocalist who wrote a love song to his wife on his first album with the band
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 March 2023 02:51 (one year ago) link
No Silent Lucidity.
They did quite a few off of Warning though. A good thing
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 March 2023 04:56 (one year ago) link
And "Spreading the Disease"
Terrible crowd. Nobody knew shit
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 March 2023 05:11 (one year ago) link
Breaking news: apparently I do actually like SOME queensryche whereas before i thought i hated all of itSearch: Queensryche EP and The WarningIt sounds like Maiden!Big hair! Geoff singing like an awesome air raid siren! Totally coolI start getting off the boat on Rage to Order and am firmly on land by MindcrimeOnce they start “exploring” “time signatures” and he starts using the creep-voice i am O U T
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 December 2023 06:06 (five months ago) link
right now they're touring both of those releases with current vocalist Todd La Torre.
I'm probably going to go because EP and Warning rule
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 December 2023 15:46 (five months ago) link