Operation: Mindcrime (Queensrÿche) - Extended Play Lounge (Episode 23)
Added 2022-07-02 06:10:55 +0000 UTCI was pleased to see that Queensrÿche won our poll, because I've been itching to hear this epic concept album for a while. And, it didn't disappoint. Besides the top notch musical performances, the story was quite moving and thought provoking. I hope you enjoy!
Unlisted Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/726228904/4196c8ac11
Comments
Just joined the community. I am SO HAPPY to see this album in the EPL! This has long been a favorite of mine and not a lot of people in my circle even know it exists let alone enjoy it. Amazing story and powerful singing. Thanks for giving this one some love, Doug!
Dustin Johnston
2024-08-04 23:30:57 +0000 UTCBack in 2016 I put together a project to do some live shows, covering this album in its entirety. We did a little mini-tour with it in Ohio and had some really good turnouts. Our goal was to be as musically accurate to the album as possible so we spent hours working out all of the guitar parts and harmonies, etc. They always wrote their rhythm sections so that one guitar would be playing a lower root and fifth and the other would be doing a higher third and 7th or 9th. It was one of my favorite times performing live. We had to suddenly get a new drummer like a week before our bookings so the guy we got to fill in was AMAZING. Only two rehearsals and he nailed it. The bass player took the time to create a video background for the whole thing and even purchased an old CRT television and actually setup and filmed himself shooting it to bust the glass for the intro to Mission. Good times. We filmed a few of the shows and there’s one on YouTube if anyone wants to check it out. Link here - https://youtu.be/zPFd0KQ7h-M
Justin Humberger
2022-09-01 12:04:56 +0000 UTCI haven't listened to this one front to back in ages. Glad to do so with my buddy Doug! I remember loving the harder metal 'edge' of this album when it first came out -- i was much more "Genesis" than "Iron Maiden" in my teens. That snare drum you noticed has always been a favorite part of this album for me, although I'm not sure I realized it until you mentioned it. I remember feeling like they took a little TOO much from Pink Floyd, most notably The Wall - the opening of Eyes of a Stranger is practically a direct lift from Welcome to the Machine, and they've used it a bunch of other compositions too. When you got to the end, when Nicky's voice says "I remember now..." all I could think of was the end matching up to the beginning and wrapping around like a never ending cycle. Of course, this would be another hat-tip to The Wall, which ends and begins pratically the same way. I remember hearing this for the first time without the benefit of any liner notes and thinking "how did they make Geoff's voice sound so 'female' for the Mary parts, not realizing that there was another person involved in the production. haha. How on earth did they find a woman with nearly exactly the same vocal timbre as Geoff? I remember feeling a little foolish when I found out the truth, as it had been many months that I held this belief!
Prog Rock Piano Bar
2022-07-14 17:39:45 +0000 UTCMy joint favourite album of all time with Dream Theater’s Images & Words - another album desperate for the Doug love. Interestingly, in the video for Eyes Of A Stranger, Dr X works in the hospital Nikki is taken to.
Paul Lowder
2022-07-11 19:57:37 +0000 UTCOf course they said that publicly so as not to alienate fans. Geoff Tate has on several occasions described himself as a Socialist and descried Reagan era right-wing politics. Yes, it can be interpreted as about extremism on either side, but Geoff's take here is pretty clear I think.
David Granger
2022-07-11 05:36:20 +0000 UTCMy first exposure to Queensryche, though I'd heard of them from years back. Prog-metal isn't my thing though, so I couldn't get into it, musically or conceptually.
Ash Armstrong
2022-07-09 22:53:48 +0000 UTCSame here. No apologies though, just a matter of musical preference.
Frits van Voorst
2022-07-08 20:10:12 +0000 UTC^^ that seems a bit harsh, let's all remember to practice kindness here ❤️
EphesiansSix
2022-07-08 17:14:36 +0000 UTCI couldn’t disagree more. It’s a cautionary tale about;what happens when you go down any extremist path and drink the cool- aid. They only covered this in about a thousand interviews in the 80s and 90s. And your assumption that Geoff’s politics “caused a rift with his bandmates” is nothing more than you projecting your own feelings on a situation you know nothing about. .
Michael Magee
2022-07-07 05:48:07 +0000 UTCDon't miss all of the Communist revolution references and imagery here. Niki AND GEOFF are clearly sympathetic to the justification if not the communist "solution" with the revolution. The comparison to the inequalities in US in the 1980s is pretty clear too. I'm guessing Geoff's very overt politics were one of the things that caused a rift with his bandmates.
David Granger
2022-07-06 05:34:31 +0000 UTCOne of my favourite prog metal albums. Music is memorable – not too complicated, but performed very profesionally. Production is on point (especially drums, as Doug pointed out) and story is fascinating. Because of this album, Queensryche together with Dream Theater and Fates Warning are called "The Holy Trinity" of progressive metal. But Doug hasn't reacted to Fates Warning yet. Maybe the time has come?
Einaras Sipavičius
2022-07-05 20:27:48 +0000 UTCExcellent, Doug! This is one of my absolute favourite albums of all time. You did great. ;-) Cheers!
Benjamin van Geest
2022-07-05 08:48:19 +0000 UTCTime to do The Wall Now. It's the greatest concept album ever!
John B
2022-07-05 04:56:03 +0000 UTCApologies all, I just didn’t feel it, I tried but this stuff leaves me cold, explains why I don’t get dream theatre either
Itsfun2listen
2022-07-04 22:08:12 +0000 UTCYou know the album made an impression on Dough when it almost makes him say f*ck! Really enjoyed this reaction to one of my favorite albums. Growing up we often went on holiday by driving, and this album always was played in it's entirety.
Petter Dragland
2022-07-04 20:12:00 +0000 UTCHell yeah! Great birthday present for me! I've been wanting to see this! :D
Alexander Leimbeck
2022-07-04 00:30:35 +0000 UTCThat was exceedingly enjoyable... Nice to visit an old friend in good company.
M. Gideon Hoyle
2022-07-03 00:40:37 +0000 UTCSo glad you did this album. I was a QR fan from their very first EP and when O:M came out I was engrossed and it immediately became my all-time favorite album. The sound / production sounds dated but the ideas presented are timeless and have stood up amazingly well. QR released O:M II in 2006 and it's not as coherent or as good but it adds to the legacy of the original and is an underrated release IMO.
Michael Strawn
2022-07-03 00:25:22 +0000 UTCReally indeed one of the greatest albums of all time. There wouldn't be a metropolis pt1 or 2 without it.
j z
2022-07-02 23:18:44 +0000 UTCSaw them perform Mindcrime at the Baltimore Area November 1991. They played all the videos that were released on screen behind the band. There was talk/rumor of making a movie of Mindcrime at one point. I’m so glad you got to do a reaction to this, I knew this would be a great one!
David McCardell
2022-07-02 20:14:48 +0000 UTCRecorded at Kajem Studios in suburban Philadelphia... the studio where I did my first "serious" recordings. Prior to this album, I was not much into Queensryche, but on this and Empire, they really found something special.
Christopher Arters (relative timeworx - Mr.A)
2022-07-02 13:07:28 +0000 UTCAn evergreen masterpiece! One of my top fave albums. Thanks, Doug! 😊
Zsuzsanna Vázsonyi
2022-07-02 10:16:50 +0000 UTCThree decades later and I still firmly believe this is one of the best albums ever written, and the most coherent concept album.
James Miller
2022-07-02 08:20:12 +0000 UTCQueensryche, Fates Warning and Crimson Glory are the missing link between Iron Maiden and Dream Theater.
ctschwei
2022-07-02 08:17:25 +0000 UTCDoug is back and he is on a roll with these videos. You da man Doug.
Arrow2theACL
2022-07-02 06:24:42 +0000 UTCFirst comment first heart first listen!!!! So stokedddd.
EphesiansSix
2022-07-02 06:14:41 +0000 UTC
