Explain to me the Queensryche

In both cases grudgingly, I think. My most detailed invocation (in my response to the thread-starting post).

Yeah, in my case too. Basically I'd call them "not as bad as you might think." I find Geoff Tate's operatics more bearable than Bruce Dickenson's operatics, for whatever that's worth. And I like Queensryche's song called "Sign Of The Times" better than Prince's song of the same name, and maybe even the Belle Stars' or Night Ranger's. But I'm not nearly a fan, per se'. And if Operation Mindcrime has a concept, I've never connected with it (their best-of album is better), though I could say the same about OK Computer which is supposed to have the same concept, as near as I can tell (and both band seemed Pink Floyd-inspired, etc etc etc.)

Hot-selling up and coming rock bands in 1990 and early 1991, the year before Nirvana hit: Living Color, Faith No More, Midnight Oil, King's X, Queensryche, Jane's Addiction, Ugly Kid Joe, hell let's throw in Sinead O'Connor, too....(And I know there's something a little weird about calling Queensryche "alternative rock." But they weren't hair metal, either; they were artsy conceptualists from Seattle, marketed as music for, uh, smart people.)

I heard "Silent Lucidity" in the off-license (liquor store) and it flipped my lid. I couldn't understand why the hell they would be playing something that sounded so goth in there, and then when the DJ told what it was, I couldn't believe it. I used to have a friend who's fave band was Queensryche but I just totally thought "oh big deal another crap heavy metal band". I'm quite sorry, Silent Lucidity deserves some heavy praise, I think.

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Queensryche sucks but covers albums are funny. I'd love/hate to hear the O'Jays cover.

Track Listing
"Welcome to the Machine" (Pink Floyd)
"Heaven on Their Minds" (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice)
"Almost Cut My Hair" (Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young)
"For What It's Worth" (Buffalo Springfield)
"For the Love of Money" (The O'Jays)
"Innuendo" (Queen)
"Neon Knights" (Black Sabbath)
"Synchronicity II" (The Police)
"Red Rain" (Peter Gabriel)
"Odissea" (Carlo Marrale & Cheope)
"Bullet the Blue Sky (Live)" (U2)

For the record, I've NEVER liked Queensryche. Saw them open for Iron Maiden once and was appalled. Idiots.

That said, I did once get in a somewhat heated argument with some dink for wearing a Queensryche shirt ironically. I need to get over my hang-ups.

i can understand that argument, u need to defend your boys!

That covers album is so dreadful. The liners say the bass player loved the O'Jays track for its bassline and, um, guess what? The bassline is played by the guitar player.

i just listened to clips on amazon, it is soooooooo bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5ZX49hKXic

Anybody with half a fucking clue (or who watches Metal Mania) should not be knocked out by the fact that some 80s metal band is covering "For Love Of Money")

Vile band.

granted there's a positive side to not saying "ah, but what about the BULLETBOYS?" in public

there's a great New Orleans brass band version of that tune but it's not online

Queensryche keeps the roads clean (at least on the way into Roswell, NM)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/34729254_e30fedef04.jpg

... I've never defended them on here, but I am quite a big Queensryche fan. Love pretty much everything from that first EP through Empire, parts of Promised Land, and the aforementioned "Sign of the Times." After that, there are a few individual songs that are OK, but I never really listen to anything past Promised Land. The EP/Warning are great Iron Maiden tributes, Rage for Order is a fantastic synth-metal album, Operation Mind Crime, admittedly, does have its bloated parts, but the great songs are really great, and the same goes for Empire. I don't really see them going over big with the punk crowd, but I would say they're probably in my top 100.

"Odissea" (Carlo Marrale & Cheope)

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I never "got" this either. In fact I have never "gotten" prog metal at all. Or, my record store here i Norway will usually put CDs by Spock's Beard and Flower Kings in the metal section, but I surely don't see them as metal. Certainly no more metal than Def Leppard (who have been put on the "rock & pop" section)

I was such a huge Queensryche fan from 84-88, but Empire kind of lost me, and subsequent albums just got worse. Mindcrime II was a good return to form, though. Haven't heard the covers disc.

Operation: Mindcrime is perfect (I could go on, but it's late), and Rage For Order is hugely underappreciated. Any metal band with the audacity to cover Dalbello is ace in my books.

In 2013, lead singer Geoff Tate explained the band's dissatisfaction with the album's mix: "The only time I ever experienced [a record label restricting creative freedom] was during the recording of Queensrÿche's first album, The Warning. We went $300,000 over budget and the label took the record out of our hands and gave it to someone else to mix. ... "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warning_(Queensr%C3%BFche_album)

Good lord, got to wonder what the budget for the record might have been. I'd imagine someones boss probably popped a vein when that number hit his dome, no f'n wonder they gave it to someone else to finish.

If they were 30% over budget, they were spending a million to get 'The Warning'?

if only the label had stepped in and actually given their last few Tate records to someone else to write and record