30 Years Ago Today Queensryche Released "Operation: Mindcrime."

What an awesome album. I had it on cassette and wore it out. Then found it 10yrs later on CD for $1. Need to listen again.

Masterpiece

A true gem.

Absolutely fantastic album, but I got really burnt out on it.  It is usually the last album I go to when looking for something to listen to by the band.  I way over-played it (wore out two cassette tapes).  Still an amazing album.

I listened to this one back to back many times, too.

I also burned out on it but boy is it a great album.

Saw Queensryche live last night. The best songs in the set were the OM songs. The entire show was awesome (except for the weird “Screaming in Digital”) but songs like “The Mission”, “Breaking the Silence”, “I Don’t Believe in Love”, and “Eyes of a Stranger” are just head and shoulders above most other bands.  OM was indeed a masterpiece.

Follower of Jesus wrote: The entire show was awesome (except for the weird “Screaming in Digital”)

I love that song and would kill to see it live.  Was the performance weird or do you think the studio version is just plain weird too?

I like some of the songs on OM, but usually pull out Empire when I'm in the mood for some Queensryche.

Screaming In Digital is a great song. Did they change it up?

OM is great but personally I enjoyed Empire, Warning and Rage for Order just as much. Every bit of the creativity, musicianship, songmanship and hooks were on those albums as well. OM2 on the other hand....

OM2 was mostly painful. 

OM2 without Chris DeGarmo writing it is a joke!

I owned OM2 for about as long as it took to listen to it all the way through once.  Even Dio's guest appearance couldn't rescue the atrocity that album was. I'm only glad I didn't purchase the album new.

Superjuice wrote:

Follower of Jesus wrote: The entire show was awesome (except for the weird “Screaming in Digital”)

I love that song and would kill to see it live.  Was the performance weird or do you think the studio version is just plain weird too?

I hate the original song, and never listen to it. It's been years since I'd heard it. I have no idea if the live version stuck to the original or not, but I hated it live, so it probably did. 

I wouldn't have minded so much, but they were up against a curfew after Lynch Mob played a bit longer and they cut Walk In The Shadows, which happens to be my one of my very favorite Queensryche songs and kept Screaming in Digital. I was torqued.
 

For the record, the latest Queensryche album is amazing.

heck wrote:For the record, the latest Queensryche album is amazing.  

I agree.  IMO both "Condition Human" and 2013's "Queensryche" LP are both better than anything they have done since "Promised Land".  Firing Tate and bringing in La Torre was an excellent move.