AFTERNOON LISTENING PARTY: QUEENSRYCHE
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 at 3:22pm by Vince NeilsteinKind of like those Amazon CD recommendations, YouTube’s recommendation engine nailed it again this afternoon when it suggested Queensryche’s “Eyes of a Stranger” for my viewing pleasure (how do they know???!!). Somehow I’d never seen this video before, but it’s got everything you’d want out of a Queensryche video; Geoff Tate’s poofy mullet, cymbals hanging from chains, and a song from Operation fucking Mindcrime! Hey Judas Priest; you watching? This is how you do a concept album.
-VN
actually, this is how you do a concept album
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qj_rC_3AMVY
Oh, prog metal and your goddamn concept albums. Not that I’m defending Nostradamus, which is a bit of a let down for this Priest fan, but come on, Operation: Mindcrime? If I were to write a book, or even a paragraph about how to do a concept album, Queensryche would easily fall into the “Don’t” category. This is likely due to the fact that I fucking hate Queensryche, but really, it’s the fact that it’s so literal. If I wanted the story like that, I’d read a book. Or just the lyrics. And I’d get to skip out on all the Queensryche cheesedickery.
With all due respect to Pick Nose Bobby, Operation:Mindcrime is Desert Fucking Island Five material.
DUUUUUR, good one, Sammy.
Gotta agree with Sammy here, Mindcrime would definitely get some pretty strong consideration for desert island 5. Bobby’s book not so much.
Oh, if only more Queensryche fans would actually get marooned on an island and rid the world of more copies of Operation: Mindcrime.
Are you fucking kidding me? I like listening to Operation: Manchurian Candidate every now and then, but desert island five? I could have a desert island fifty, and it isn’t even getting near consideration.
I guess you have to have started listening to music before 2001 to like it.
Hell, I’ll go so far as to say it isn’t even in the top five concept albums of the last twenty years. Off the top of my head, I offer:
Mastodon-Leviathan
Mastodon-Blood Mountain
Fantomas-Delerium Cordia
Fantomas-Suspended Animation
Iron Maiden-Seventh Son
@ Sammy
Thank you for explaining the popularity of Slipknot.
Hahaha, whoh another doozy of a burn from Sammy!
Even though I already outed myself as a Priest fan, I suppose it’s possible that I only started listening to them after the arbitrary year of 2001. Sammy, you are so astute.
But allow me to propose an alternate reason for not liking Queensryche: it’s pretentious wankery.
JTL “Hell, I’ll go so far as to say it isn’t even in the top five concept albums of the last twenty years.”
Damn straight it ain’t, because it’s over 20 years old. Top five concept album of the last twenty one years though, ain’t it?
@ Jim
Allow me to amend, as I didn’t realize that it had just passed the twenty-year mark.
My comment should have read: “Hell, I’ll go so far as to say it isn’t even in the top five concept albums of the last twenty-one years.”
All apologies for any confusion.
One man’s pretentious wankery is another man’s DI5. I think in general calling prog pretentious wankery is dumbass – you like it or you don’t. Unless you run Metalsucks, your opinion is pretty much like your asshole.
I think you’ll figure that out for yourself.
Personally, I’ve loved Queensryche from the first listen of this CD back in…87? 88? Whatever. Among my favorite bands…
…but I admit that Operation Mindcrime II was a letdown.
Well Robert, I don’t believe I called prog pretentious wankery, I called Queensryche pretentious wankery. I like a good deal of prog actually, but seeing as how our opinions are like the proverbial asshole, we’re all wasting our time here, aren’t we?
In fact, let’s petition to have the comments field totally removed from the site. That should fix the pesky “people expressing their opinion” problem we’ve got going on here.
Well if the comments can create a good dialogue beyond X Sucks! No X rules! they might be worth something.
So, tell me – what prog bands do you like that can’t be accused of pretentious wankery?
Perhaps I’ll learn about some good bands that I’ve overlooked while playing O:M over and over again.
queensryche are gods, and there music is amazing, so is operation mindcrime…bamds today are garbage