Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

Twilightning

I'd never given this album a proper listen until recently and I'm damn well really enjoying it. It's rare an album will keep my interest and make me want to listen from start to finish with more than just its music, the storytelling's brilliant. Had a 4 hour bus ride to Cork recently from Dublin and this really helped things along! I fell asleep around 'I Don't Believe in Love' so I'm giving it another spin now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAI2QOBMlTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNdOsL4Xe7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG3qgH_3E_k

GhostInTheRuins

Indeed, absolute quailty album. Don't bother with Mindcrime 2 though, it's muck.

Twilightning

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

Indeed, absolute quailty album. Don't bother with Mindcrime 2 though, it's muck.

Awww really? I thought anything with Dio playing a guy named Dr. X would be awesome!

mike65

Cracking 80s metal concept maddess. With Anthony Valentine as Dr X. Cool.

MingulayJohnny

Great album , perfect for bus\train journeys. You can really get lost in it. Geoff Tate is a great vocalist. Same with Sabbath's 'The mob rules' , just let it run from start to finish.

GhostInTheRuins

Twilightning wrote: »

Awww really? I thought anything with Dio playing a guy named Dr. X would be awesome!

No not really! One or two okay songs and that's about it.

RayCon

Operation Mindcrime is a masterpiece and will forever be in my Top 10 albums of all time.

Oral Slang

Favourite band, favourite album! Got to see them do Operation Mindcrime 1 & 2 in the O2 Indigo a few years ago. Outstanding gig.
While 2 obviously doesn't compare to 1, it wasn't bad live I have to say. Regardless of the dodgy content of some of their recent albums, their live gigs are amazing.

slavetothegrind

get empire next and enjoy. i have done for years..;)

buck65

Great album alright. One of those that you have to listen to at one sitting as each track bleeds into the other. Have a live version of this too Operation:Livecrime and tbh the singing and music are just as good as the original.
Nothing Queensryche did before or after comes close to this album.

Zerroth

Excellent album from start to finish. Singing "Spreading the Disease" while drunk is always fun. Everything by Queensryche as far as empire is awesome. Anything after doesn't interest me.

poundhound

Always loved this album.
Seen them play in the SFX in 1990 and the set included operation mindcrime in its entirety.
They havent played here since then, 20 years is way too long.

Passenger

Aye, suppose it was one of the archetypal Rock/Metal concept albums wasn't it. You can hear the influence on many albums but Kamelot's The Black Halo always reminds me of it more so.

RayCon

poundhound wrote: »

Always loved this album.
Seen them play in the SFX in 1990 and the set included operation mindcrime in its entirety.
They havent played here since then, 20 years is way too long.

Ditto ..

sham69

great album , great band.
They finished for me when Chris De Garmo left.
All the albums up till then were great.
Never got to see them live though:(

Longchamp

poundhound wrote: »

Always loved this album.
Seen them play in the SFX in 1990 and the set included operation mindcrime in its entirety.
They havent played here since then, 20 years is way too long.

was at that gig me self really good that night still listen to the album regularly

Kess73

Twilightning wrote: »

Awww really? I thought anything with Dio playing a guy named Dr. X would be awesome!

Part 2 is awful, best to skip it and buy Empire or their most recent album, American Soldier which is quite good.

adox

Yeah fantastic album. I have it on vinyl and cd.

Saw them live in the SFX in 1984 with Accept. What a gig that was.


Edit: actually not too sure it was Accept that played with them?

Oral Slang

Kess73 wrote: »

Part 2 is awful, best to skip it and buy Empire or their most recent album, American Soldier which is quite good.

God, American Soldier is the only album by them I just can't listen to at all. Some of the others aren't great, but I just hate American Soldier & hope they don't play too much of it the next time I see them!

Very jealous of you all that got to see them in Ireland, was only 13 when they played here & only got into them when I was 16! I only saw them for the 1st time in 2000, so a long wait, but definitely worth it.

HomeBrewPlease

adox wrote: »

Yeah fantastic album. I have it on vinyl and cd.

Saw them live in the SFX in 1984 with Accept. What a gig that was.


Edit: actually not too sure it was Accept that played with them?

Saw them back around then in the SFX supporting Dio. Would that have been the gig?

adox

HomeBrewPlease wrote: »

Saw them back around then in the SFX supporting Dio. Would that have been the gig?

Ah yeah I think you're right.
It was Dokken I saw supporting Accept in the same venue, probably around 86.

Wolfe Tone

Just bought this the other day, and soon after "acquired" the live version. Simply epic.


Is Empire as good?

DazMarz

Easily my favourite Queensryche album; just superior on so many levels and truly a masterpiece. The live version they released is just so awesome too.

''Empire'' is also a very superior album, and well worth a look. Unfortunately after this album, things slid downhill rapidly and never truly recovered.

GhostInTheRuins

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Is Empire as good?

Decent enough!

mike65

I loved Empire I have to say, now it sounds very 80s indeed. That decade has proved to be a rather cruel one for hard rock in terms of production technique.