T.S.: "silent lucidity" vs "mama i'm coming home"

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These 2 songs were likely shooting for the same audience, and were released within a year of each other. Who wins?

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 12 August 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Queensryche seems more sincere.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 August 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure that I buy that it was exactly the same audience -- Mama I'm Coming Home equals typical power ballad fo the ladies, doesn't it? Whereas Silent Lucidity seems more like a play for the Pink Floyd-style pseudo-depth that both dudes and chicks meditate on but can also make out to.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 August 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

Silent Lucidity was the other song that got me into playing guitar.

the first? the "Pink Floyd-style pseudo-depth" of Wish You Were Here.

I only had an acoustic at the time, so it was perfect.

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Friday, 12 August 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

"Silence Lucidity" was a cringe-worthy stab at "Comfortably Numb" with a ridiculous narrative about mind-control. Just a wee bit too close to Dream Theatre and their awful ilk for my taste.

I'll go with Oz.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 August 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

"Silence Lucidity" was a cringe-worthy stab at "Comfortably Numb" with a ridiculous narrative about mind-control.

I thought it was about a child witnessing the murder of his mother??

― -vest, Friday, 12 August 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

"No More Tears" >> "Silent Lucidity" >>>>>>>>>>> "Mama I'm Coming Home"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 12 August 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

tho i confess that i liked the bridge to "Road To Nowhere" better than all the rest of the 'em

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Friday, 12 August 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

I've given it some thought, and Queensryche wins for me, mostly for that part in the middle with the slowed-down monologue.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 12 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

that there queensryche is thinkin' man's metal.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 12 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

i'm so pissed i missed out on their double-set "greatest hits"/"mindcrime in entirety" tour last year due to chronic brokeness.

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Friday, 12 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was about a child witnessing the murder of his mother??

Were it only that simple.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 August 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

silent lucdty seemed to be everywhere. and fuck it was horrible. i remeber walking by a televison at a Virsgin store or something and then on the way home in a cab and then on a soap opera. all in the same morning, christ

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 12 August 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I prefer Ozzie, I way prefer Ozzie. But I like "Silent Lucidity" more than "Mama." It reminds me of a 90s update of Zebra's "What's behind the Door?" That Gospel music mystical strain mostly absent from too much uptight white people pop and rock.

― Savoy Brown, Saturday, 13 August 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Silent Lucidity.

That was one of the last metal bands to have a hit without a DJ, rapper, or some stupid misspelled name. Definitely the end of an era.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 13 August 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Oddly enough "Silent Lucidity" completely passed me by at the time, I still don't think I've ever heard the song in full.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 August 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Ozzy, not least because I LOVE songs in which the expression "mama" plays a key role. E.g. Boston's "Let Me Take You Home Tonight".

― Euler, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

i vote for the ryche!

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Ozzy - funny howling mess trumps total bullshit worst song ever bullshit.

― Bob Standard, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

^OTM

― daavid, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

I don't remember starting this thread. Wait, maybe I do.. I must have been high.

I think I may switch my vote to "Mama" based on its Ozzy/Lemmy/Zak Wylde songwriting credit.. I'm pretty sure it's the only song in existance to have such a distinction. No wait.. there's actually a few others. But this is the most famous one.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

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