I Am Listening To Every Queensryche Album In Chronological Order

[la szum]

Yup. There are a few songs with those samples/talk interwoven. Guess Geoff did a bunch of real-time
interviews with Veterans and some of that made the album.

This is so far the biggest surprise for me. I really enjoyed listening to the whole thing. Wilton did all
the guitars and Eddie and Scott were once again the Rhythm Section. Definitely a shocker that I
dug it so much. I feel like I earned it.

 

[DrewJD82]

Yup. There are a few songs with those samples/talk interwoven. Guess Geoff did a bunch of real-time
interviews with Veterans and some of that made the album.

This is so far the biggest surprise for me. I really enjoyed listening to the whole thing. Wilton did all
the guitars and Eddie and Scott were once again the Rhythm Section. Definitely a shocker that I
dug it so much. I feel like I earned it.

Maybe I’ll give it a lesson again. I just felt like they were pandering pretty hard with that one as I’d never heard them take a pro-soldier approach previously and it was right when bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Godsmack and Disturbed were gaining steam as the guys who were big into supporting the troops. I know Ryche went over there and played for them and had to be escorted out because the base came under attack.

 

[la szum]

Starting Dedicated To Chaos now. Treading cautiously.

Right off the bat the guitar tones are not very Ryche-ian.

 

[JT]

There was thing way back. I don't even know where it came from. Where Soulja Boy was out with some terrible precursor to the garbage rap that exists today song. Then there was this huge online backlash "Soulja Boy doesn't support the troops" or something equally wtf

 

[la szum]

Maybe I’ll give it a lesson again. I just felt like they were pandering pretty hard with that one as I’d never heard them take a pro-soldier approach previously and it was right when bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Godsmack and Disturbed were gaining steam as the guys who were big into supporting the troops. I know Ryche went over there and played for them and had to be escorted out because the base came under attack.

If I ever listened to American Soldier back in the day I don't remember it. OMII burnt me that bad.

 

[la szum]

Did someone ask, "What does Queensryche sound like doing their best U2 impersonation?"

Here you go. And you're welcome.

 

[la szum]

On to the 1st Album without Geoff Tate and featuring Todd LaTorre on vocals.

Queensryche: Queensryche.

Glad to have heavy-handed Jason Slater/Geoff Tate influence over and done with.

 

[la szum]

Not going to include the Geoof Tate solo albums or the album of cover songs they did. No thanks!

 

[la szum]

Pretty short Album. Songs are really tight and to the point.

}}I like hearing some fire in the rhythm section after them being put on the shelf
off and on on previous albums. Rockenfeld is one of the great drummers of the era,
with a really unique style.

The tones are spot on! Can tell this is a sort of return to the roots of QR release. I don't
think they had yet locked in with one another. There are some cool moments and this
Album and it is way easier on the ears than those last few Tate-controlled releases.

 

[TSJMajesty]

but WHAT IS THAT?!?!

There's a chord in there that even after hearing it come around the final time, my ear wants to go in another direction. It's like something doesn't fit.

 

[DrewJD82]

Pretty short Album. Songs are really tight and to the point.

}}I like hearing some fire in the rhythm section after them being put on the shelf
off and on on previous albums. Rockenfeld is one of the great drummers of the era,
with a really unique style.

The tones are spot on! Can tell this is a sort of return to the roots of QR release. I don't
think they had yet locked in with one another. There are some cool moments and this
Album and it is way easier on the ears than those last few Tate-controlled releases.

It’s been been a while since I’ve listened to it, I just popped it on. I remember they had a little teaser and the intro of “Where Dreams Go To Die” was on it, that was enough to get me excited because it sounded like Queensryche. Jimbo produced that one and that was a good idea going with him for their first album back, aside from the benefit of simply having a good sounding album for the first time in over a decade.

Man, as I go song to song I‘m remembering more how much I listened to this when it came out. Aside from some lyrical stuff I didn’t dig (no song should EVER use the words “break the chains” again, retire it, please) and some vocals that were a little more power metal than Ryche-metal, it did a great job at giving a long-starved Ryche fan something for the belly. Lots of Easter eggs in there.

 

[DrewJD82]

There's a chord in there that even after hearing it come around the final time, my ear wants to go in another direction. It's like something doesn't fit.

That’s called a shitpuzzle, none of the pieces fit because they’re all shitty.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Aside from some lyrical stuff I didn’t dig

If I can finish a sentence in a song I'm hearing for the first time, I don't like it.

 

[la szum]

This is just a great fucking song.

 

[la szum]

Condition Human, for me, is their best and most cohesive Album since Empire.

 

[JT]

Toddryche is the first example of something where people could ask "why they are calling it that" (beyond the obvious monetary answer) and asking out respect of what they created with vs. Bobby Blotzers Ratt Experience and all the connotations applied to that type of arrangement.

 

[DrewJD82]

Condition Human, for me, is their best and most cohesive Album since Empire.

The next one is my favorite of the Toddryche era!

 

[la szum]

Yup. Onto what is, arguably, Queensryche's heaviest Album. Not that they are a Metal band, per se, but
they have had some Metal sensibilities. The Verdict is a banger, though. Just an outstanding
Album where the singer is like, "Yeah, I can play and record all the Drums on this Album, too. No biggie."

I have to be honest and admit I have listened to this Album a bunch in the 3 or 4 years since it has been
released. It just slams.

 

[la szum]

Has it all. Slams out of the gate. Great bass lines. Atmospherics. Hooky chorus.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Has it all. Slams out of the gate. Great bass lines. Atmospherics. Hooky chorus.

That was great! An entirely different sound from the Empire days. Doesn't even sound like the same band to me. Great guitar solo too! (I only listened to the first track.)