Queensr?che - Queensryche - Greatest Hits
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Artist: Queensr?cheEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-06-25
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Queen Of The Reich
- The Lady Wore Black
- Warning
- Take Hold Of The Flame
- Walk In The Shadows
- I Dream In Infrared
- I Don't Believe In Love
- Eyes Of A Stranger
- Jet City Woman
- Empire
- Silent Lucidity
- I Am I
- Bridge
- Sign Of The Times
- Chasing Blue Sky
- Someone Else?
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Free Music Review: Circa 2000 best of collection
Hit: 4 Stars
Queensryche putting out a greatest hits is an interesting proposition much as it is for almost every band because unless your the Stones, The Beatles, U2 or some solo artist like Madonna just how many hit singles does any band really have. That's why I always prefer the term `best of'.
But that quibble aside the mighty Ryche did have a few bona fide mainstream hits and their footprint on the hard rock and metal universe was more considerable - sort of the player who is great in the second division but never quite gets to play in the premier leagues.
All the biggies are here from the transcendent Silent Lucidity - Geoff Tate has said in interviews he still doesn't know how it was a hit. - to the harmony vocal heavy Jet City Woman through to the heavy rockin' lamentation on social ills that is Empire. But this compilation is more than just a few choice cuts from the Empire album and an otherwise ill thought out rogues gallery. Instead it cherry picks from the gamut of Queensryche releases and, joy of joys, is actually set out in chronological order kicking off with Queen of the Reich and The Lady Wore Black from their debut EP before flowing into numbers from The Warning and Rage for Order as well as a couple of tunes from Operation Mindcrime.
Alas for some reason the numbers from Operation Mindcrime that have been chosen here are fairly mellow in several ways and personally I'd have preferred to see some of the nastier, really metallic cuts here to better show the variation this band was capable of. A couple of songs from Promised Land are also here in the form of I Am I , Bridge and Sign of the Times is chipped in by Hear In The Now Frontier. Tacked onto the end of the release are two bonus style tracks, one is Chasing Blue Sky (also featured as a bonus track on the remastered Hear in the Now Frontier album) and a full band version of Someone Else (also on the remastered version of Promised Land) and it could be argued that these songs add little to the overall package.
Released at the same time as the entire Queensryche catalogue up to that point was reissued in 24 bit digitally remastered form with bonus tracks (all these songs are the remastered versions) this selection of `Ryche moments is for the most part pretty spot on and indicative of the bands clearly produced and technically played take on heavy music genre, wriggling on the cusp of metal and hard rock for much of their existence. And like all the reissued/remastered albums this has liner notes from Paul Sutter, once of Kerrang magazine. If you can pick it up reasonably priced this is a quality buy for the casual fan who wants the hits they remember from the bands most successful period along with some stuff from pretty much all their pre 2000 albums. Recommended release from a recommended band.
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It doesn't take very many fingers to enumerate the number of American heavy-metal bands who traversed the treacherously shifting musical tastes of the 1980s and '90s intact and prosperous. And though their multiplatinum days peaked well before contemporaries like Metallica, Queensryche soldiered on, their sound evolving and maturing in remarkably similar fashion; one might argue they lead the way in that regard. Greatest-hits collections are suspect affairs, but this one presents a taut history lesson, documenting the evolution of one of America's most consistently underrated metal outfits from the Judas Priest-clone days of their self-released debut to the heights of Operation: Mindcrime and Empire, and into their equally rewarding '90s output. Along the way, the band managed to pick up an often artsy social conscience as well as an impressive musical range (the quiet dynamics of "Silent Lucidity" being light-years away from singer Geoff Tate's original Halford-esque howl) and a catchy pop sensibility ("Jet City Woman," "Sign of the Times"). Fans will also welcome two bonus tracks, the bluesy "Chasing Blue Sky" and an alternate, full-band version of "Someone Else?" --Jerry McCulleyPop Music CDs
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