Best Queensryche albums?
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Topic: Best Queensryche albums?
Posted By: activetopics
Subject: Best Queensryche albums?
Date Posted: September 20 2007 at 17:18
| Trying to get into them, haven't heard a single thing so which album would you suggest getting that describes them as a band musically? Oh, and are they progressive at all? I heard they were sort of generic metalish, but I really haven't a clue as to what they sound like. |
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 20 2007 at 17:22
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the best, by some margin are:
Rage For Order 4/5
Operation Mindcrime 5/5
Empire 4.5/5
Promised Land 4.5/5
I wouldn't bother with the rest....  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: September 20 2007 at 17:22
| Operation Mindcrime, Promised Land, and Empire. From there get Rage For Order, Warning, the debut EP, and Tribe. |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: September 20 2007 at 17:30
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1 - Operation : Mindcrime
2 - Promised Land
3 - Empire
4 - The Warning
5 - Mindcrime II
6 - Rage for Order
7 - Queensryche E.P.
8 - Tribe
Please do not, I repeat DO NOT buy Hear in the Now Frontier and Q2K...
------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: activetopics
Date Posted: September 20 2007 at 17:48
| ok thanks a lot! |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: September 20 2007 at 17:53
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Queensryche are kind of a proto-prog metal band. They are sometimes credited as being the first progressive metal band and their main influences seem to be Rush and Pink Floyd. Operation: Mindcrime is their best known album. It is also a concept album with a really good story. If you like Mindcrime, then you would probably like their follow-up Operation: Mindcrime II, which was released in 2006, and is a sequel to the original story. This is my currently most frequently played album.
Promise Land is considered to be their "proggiest" album and might be a good starting point also. I think that Melomaniac's above list is a pretty good ranking system. I actually like Hear in the Now Frontier and Q2K, but they aren't essential listening.
Empire is also a really good album. It contains the ballad "Silent Lucidity", which at the time that it came out people thought that it was Pink Floyd song. Personally, I hear some Pink Floyd influence, but never thought it was a Pink Floyd song. ------------- 
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: September 21 2007 at 03:06
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Promised Land. ------------- 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: September 21 2007 at 03:22
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I think their best album is easily Operation:Mind-Crime, but it's not very progressive. I'd make this recommendation: Non-Prog/Prog-Related: - Operation: Mind-Crime - Empire Prog: - Promised Land - The Warning  ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: September 21 2007 at 14:30
Ehhhh.... If we have Queensryche listed on the Archives as PROG-METAL, why is this thread in the "non-prog music" section??? 
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: September 21 2007 at 14:34
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T, it was probably incorrectly placed here by the topic starter. Do you have the special super powers required to move it with your new title? -------------
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: September 21 2007 at 14:40
Oh, with my new super power I can do anything............... except moving threads, correcting errors in bios and discographies, etc...
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rushfan4 wrote:Posted By: activetopics
Date Posted: September 22 2007 at 09:00
| Heh, sorry guys. Didn't realize they were prog. Won't happen again ;D |
Posted By: MatthewM
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 18:50
| I may get burned for this, but I actually enjoy Hear in the Now Frontier and Q2K. Still listen to them frequently. |
Posted By: SolariS
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 13:06
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i dont think theyre really prog, but i like their album empire the best. then maybe operation mindcrim and promised land.
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 13:30
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After hearing O:M, Empire, and Promised Land, I think Queensryche are only somewhat prog metal, but still a very good band. All are about equally good in different ways. About 4 stars all around.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 30 2008 at 01:31
don't worry, i like them too.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 30 2008 at 06:26
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This should be moved to one of the Prog Lounges... Queensryche have been in PA for ages! Anyway, I love the band (prog or not), and my favourite albums are Rage for Order and Operation: Mindcrime. Empire and Promised Land are also very good. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: January 30 2008 at 13:59
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Operation Mindcrime and Rage for Order are very good albums, Empire is rather good but not overly memorable (too much of a polished, radio friendly feel to it IMO). OMII is just plain terrible, I just cant sit through the whole thing. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: January 31 2008 at 09:16
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Queenryche, good music even if not always progressive.
Operation:Mindcrime is a classic on its own right, Promised Land and Empire are good albums, too.
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 02 2008 at 20:28
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Warning, Rage for Order, O:M, Empire and Promised land are all good albums (with Empire as the most commercial of the 5). One curiousity on Rage for Order is the cover of Dalbello's song "close to you".
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 12:11
| Love Operatin Mindcrime (though OM II is patchy) and Empire. Rage for Order is also pretty good and i can even find stuff to enjoy on The Warning. |