Search and Destroy: Queensryche

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.

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.

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

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

God it's a shame that Tate sounds like a vivisected muppet now.

Actually it's more funny than sad

Really? That's a shame. I had a good karaoke experience with "Silent Lucidity" last time.

Lol i sing that one often

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.

I should listen. I was sceptical regarding Tate-less Queensryche.

Did someone say he sounded like a Muppet?

http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/tate_bert.jpg

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.

I’ll rep for “speak” with its awesome riffs

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?!!!

Had a Bert for a hair-do, yeah you looked pretty cool

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

And replaced him with a Crimson Glory vocalist who wrote a love song to his wife on his first album with the band

No Silent Lucidity.

They did quite a few off of Warning though. A good thing

And "Spreading the Disease"

Terrible crowd. Nobody knew shit

Breaking news: apparently I do actually like SOME queensryche whereas before i thought i hated all of it

Search: Queensryche EP and The Warning
It sounds like Maiden!
Big hair! Geoff singing like an awesome air raid siren! Totally cool

I start getting off the boat on Rage to Order and am firmly on land by Mindcrime
Once they start “exploring” “time signatures” and he starts using the creep-voice i am O U T

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