Operation Mindcrime Week - Queensryche - I Remember Now / Anarchy X / Revolution Calling - REACTION
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- *NO SPOILERS PLEASE GUYS*
Tonight we kick off Operation Mindcrime week with tracks 1, 2 and 3 - I remember now, Anarchy X and Revolution Calling. Ill listen to a few tracks each night and along the way, try to understand what's happening.
#Queensryche #OperationMindcrime
I have literally listened to this album over the thousand times. It was on repeat for months, I couldn't get enough of it. On the tour for the album Empire, the next one, they performed this album in it's entirety. A video called Operation Livecrime is out for all to enjoy. It is still truly one of the greatest concerts I've ever seen. I'm over 50 now and been watching concerts since I was 16 so I've seen a lot of them.
I love this album...every single track, in my opinion, has been composed using passion and deliberate precision...no fillers. I've always been a huge fan of concept albums, and Operation: Mindcrime delivers the goods as far as I'm concerned...feeling, perhaps, even more relatable today than ever giving the current state of unrest. Happy to join you on your journey of experiencing it for the first time. Keep rockin', brother 🤘
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I'd love to see you react to more conceptual albums in their entirety. I Am Abomination's Passion Of The Heist 2 is one record I'd be very interested in seeing you react to.
I would suggest NOT READING the comments til u listen to the entire album so you have no outside influenced preconceived notions and can truly enjoy the experience of this album. And I would suggest to everyone please no comments about the songs or ur favs or of course the story. All I can say is that everyone that has or will view or comment on any of the videos for Mindcrime are excited to watch your reaction. Great start. Take care everyone.
So glad you're reacting to this album, one of the best metal concept albums ever! Every song is great, I wore out my cassette of this in high school.
You'll not find a bad song on this album.
Great album. Glad to hear this getting its due now a days. Was an awesome concert as well.
You will love this album in its entirety Tommy, I saw this tour and it was incredible.
Me too, I saw them on the Empire tour in Nottinham in 1991ish, they played the whole Operation Mindcrime album start to finish, it was incredible
Mindcrime was my 1st of many times seeing Queensryche. They opened for a little band called Metallica on the And Justice For All tour. Top 5 concerts ever for me 🍻🤟🏼
my first time seeing them too ... blew Metallica away!
I saw the same show
This was my introduction to Queensryche. Like everyone else who listened to them for the first time heard a great band but above the band was the lead singer Geoff Tate.
I saw the show in November of 1988 at the San Diego Sports Arena
My first major concert was a few months before on June 10th 1988.
Walking home from school with my best friend, we get home and his sister's friend Jamie, looks over his front yard fence and says to us -"you guys aren't seeing Guns and Roses tonight". She told us that it had something to do with Axle Rose. Obviously the first of his many control antics before they were to perform.
She says -"you guys are getting L.A. Guns instead"
I looked at her and said this...."Fuck Guns and Rose!! I'm going to see IRON MAIDEN!!"!!!
They remained my favorite band up until I saw RUSH for the first time on the 96-97 Test For Echo tour
Anyways that's one of my favorite memories as young teen
I saw that same tour in Portland ME, USA in 1988 (I think? Hazy....). That was probably the best time I saw Metallica of the 8 times I've seen them through the years. Queensryche totally blew me away and I bought the album the next day. Operation: Mindcrime is my personal favorite album from the 80's.
Re communism and everybody being "equal", that certainly doesn't sound like a bad thing on its face...the problem becomes what you have to do to MAKE everybody equal - it quickly becomes an end justifies the means scenario, and not only does the road to this imagined utopia quickly become paved with abuse and authoritarian control of the population you're supposed to help, but it also becomes necessary to continue committing more and more abuse and exercising more and more control to preserve the system that's been established. And then the controllers inevitably stray from the vision of true equality and grant themselves privileges not available to the masses, and you end up with even worse inequality that was present under capitalism.
@NorthernEar If you ever get a chance, they have a live version of them in concert playing this whole album with video playing in the background, check them out if you find the time, the concert was incredible.
That'll be Operation Livecrime, then ..... ;)
@@chrisbanks6659 Yes, Thank You!
Got a copy of that right here
@@leeharperphoto I wish they would release the VHS on DVD or BluRay.
@@leeharperphoto after some more research, looks like they did have a dvd version of the video, but seems to be out of print now.
You need to see the video to appreciate the talent of these musicians. It's excellent and shows the energy of the band.
Saw them on tour with this album in a tiny venue in Leeds (I think). They played this album from start to finish and it was awesome. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. I wore this tape out on my walk-man in three months.
There is a great live video of the whole thing, Operation Livecrime. Well worth a watch but the original album is where it’s at. A proper headphone album.
Tommy, Tommy. Another LBW. Great that you're taking the time out to do the whole album - which is the ONLY way to run it. Saw them twice on this tour - at the Old Town & Country in that London and at the old Hammersmith Odeon a few months later. They didn't disappoint. And will always be the DEFINITIVE Queensryche to me. Still reckon their best album is Rage For Order tho. LOL. You're getting good at this....
Am I in some sort of mental hospital..... HA. Sort of, Lad.
It's scary how relevant this album still is today after so many years since it came out.
So, so glad to cross a reactor doing this whole LP from start to finish. I think that's awesome. Such gives context, meaning, and an understanding that "concept" albums arguably, are meant to be looked at as one whole piece (just my opinion) instead of being broken down into seperate pieces that just breed confusion for the listener. At least, for those music fans that care enough to dig into the lyrics of a song, looking for it's "message," or "meaning." A tip of the cap to you my friend. You've just garnered another "sub." But, I personally consider this LP to be a musical/art masterpiece.
Hell. Yes.
You are on the right track, as the story continues it will become clearer, the communist reference is more about the news of the day when this was originally recorded,( Reagan years)
the communist reference is still relevant today, All I heard for the last 4 - 5 years was Russia this, Russia that...It is still relevant as the media keeps pushing their agenda
@@allisterfiend_2112 You heard Russia, Russia because it was the Fascist liar in the White House trying to destroy Democracy meeting with Russians tied to Putin 250 times while Russia was hacking/attacking our elections. Confirmed in both Mueller report AND bi-partisan Senate report. That's not media spin. It's fact.
@@carlgibbons5777 Not you again. you fail to realize just how f up'd you are. I told you already, I have no political party, I realized it's all a lie, a long time ago, you should too. I simply stated a true fact and you went all political zealot on here. Your god seems to be a certain political party and one day you will realize their promises are all lies, just like every other political party. Turn off the news carl, it is slowly killing you.
Shit guys, I didn’t mean to start a debate, just offering a opinion on a album from the 80’s.😎
@@allisterfiend_2112 Ah yes, the stupid "both sides" argument. You are the only one believing the big lie. Both sides are not even remotely the same. One side going their best to help struggling Americans during a pandemic/recession(every single Dem voted for Covid relief bill and every single GOP against). Only one side attempted a Coup to destroy Democracy and other side trying to strengthen voting rights. Inform yourself. Quit listening to right wing media.
Communism, as a philosophy, is meant to be the ultimate in equity and fairness to all. Everyone is on an equal playing field for all aspects of life: wages, cost of living, health care, etc and it's all controlled and regulated 100% by the government; a completely Classless society. The problem, as is the problem with any and all forms of government on this planet, there are always those who want more than their share. Leading to corruption and mistreatment of others.
Capitalism is also a philosophy, some have characterized as the opposite end of the spectrum from Communism. Interestingly, it has the same inherent potential flaws as Communism, and it all boils down to greed and the hunger for political power and control.
As you listen to this album, you'll hear things that remind you of the events of today's world, but from the perspective of the mid-Eighties. Which just shows that, it's the same basic game with different players. Nicky's story (as played by Geoff Tate) is sad, but all too common to varying degrees. I'll be interested to hear your take on the other characters and singer on this album.
Dude wrote this song in 1988, and I'll be damned if "Revolution calling" doesn't describe our current world, especially the USA and the need that's even more needed now than in 88.
Nice to see someone finally react to the whole album start to finish enjoy the ride
😁😁😁😁😁
Purposely not saying anything, as every response I've got to ur questions and/or assumptions will give away something about the story. Figuring out something later in the album is part of the ride. The "ohhhh" moment 🤔...😁
Really happy ur finally doing this Tommy!!! Very cool 🤘😎🤘
great point at 3:20, Ive rocked this album since it came out and never listened that closely.
Gr8 reaction tommy as usual. Mindcrime just gets better no weak track on the album its stunning
Very excited you are starting this one. Saw them on this tour and it was incredible.
Still remember how blown away I was on the production quality of this album when it came out. Still a great album!
Bro, you pulled off amazing transitions between the 3 songs, mad props.
Saw them twice on this tour. FANTASTIC show!!! Maybe you should watch the official vids as you go through this. Of course watch "Live crime" after you're all through.
One of my favorite concept albums!! Wont give any spoilers just a great album!
There’s no bad bits to pick out. This and Dream Theater’s Images & Words are my favourite albums of all time. Looking forward to this Tommy.from another northern ear!
Empire is also awesome album. 😉😁
wow the amount of times i have listened to this album im getting old sigh
So this is happening!?
At work but can’t wait to watch in a couple of hours! 👍
YES YES YES! The first time I heard this album I sat mesmerized, and after 100,000 replays, I still LOVE it
album is a masterpiece
Tommy.. I've seen the original band more times than i remember.(lack of memory was self induced at times. Today i watched Operation Livecrime on the CZcamss. I learned something whilst watching that ive never noticed. Backing harmonies included rhythm Micheal Wilton and bassist Eddie Jackson along with lead guitar Chris Degarmo. Ive always thought Chris DeGarmo was the only backing vocals. Ugh learning hurts my brain. Time for a nap.
Hey look! My favorite concept album!
I remember when this album came out, I was about a Freshman in high school I think and I just remember listening to this album over and over and reading the lyrics thinking how crazy relevant that album was.. But going back and relistening and reading the lyrics here to Revolution Calling.. It's never been more relevant.. This album I sadly feel will always stay relevant
Yes! Finally. 😁
Best. Album. Ever.
I loved this album growing up... I remember listening to it relentlessly one summer while working on a farm... I have loved it ever since. It's not the mystery the DT Scenes was but it is a concept album that's story will take you along for a ride. Enjoy, and as always, thank you for letting us accompany you on this journey!
No matter how much, or how little you work you get the same pay. Everything is owned and operated by the government that's said to be the people.
If you like your personal rights then it's not for you
Easily one of my favourite albums.
OK man, back after getting off work and being able to watch the first bit of this album. I’m so glad you didn’t give up on Queensryche after the live that hold of the flame review and silent lucidity. Both songs that don’t really give you the full Queensryche. This album most certainly will! Glad you’re enjoying it so far but whether you do or not, just glad that you’re reviewing it 👍
You're bang on with your synopsis so far mate. Enjoy the rest of it, because this album is a classic.
Good catch on the news report - not bad for a first listen, Tommy my boy! Tate’s vocals are phenomenal, and Wilton and DeGarmo are a great guitar duo - lots of harmonizing leads. There are so many great tracks, but I’m excited for the next vid - track 5 (Speak) is a personal favorite. It may not be one of the more popular tracks, but I love the way the rhythm riff blends into the start of the solo. I got to see the entire album performed live on two occasions, and they sound just as good live. Cheers!
After the DT week I learnt I need to listen to EVERYTHING! 😂
So excited to experience this through new eyes...been a favorite album since it's release.
This album = 💯❤
Awesome! Such an epic album. :) As someone who grew up a rightwinger and is now a democratic socialist, the problem with Communism was that it has only ever been used as a slogan by people who want to seize power, for its own sake. Similarly, one of the most influential critics of Communism was George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, who was a literally militant democratic socialist who fought on the side of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
As for those who say "blah blah bread lines blah blah" that has nothing to do with Communism - that's lack of democracy and a free press as a curb against corruption and an out of control military-industrial complex. The former Soviet Union was spending 20% of their GDP on the military. It doesn't matter if you have a capitalist or communist nation, wasting that much on the military during peacetime will cause massive shortages.
In the next one there is a reference to "seven years of power...the rich control the government, the media, the law" which is a reference to this coming out near the end of the Reagan admin with Reagan's grip on the establishment media thanks to his Hollywood contacts. Though I used to support the right, looking back it is all too clear Reagan was setting the stage for the resurgence of fascism that produced the Trump administration.
Best album ever! Best band ever!
Two quick points: First, I think my favorite part about 'Revolution Calling' is with every chorus, the backing vocals grow in number, representing the growing "revolution." Secondly, a piece of useless trivia: the music for 'Anarchy X' was originally written as the title track for their previous album, "Rage For Order," but was never used. In fact, you can go on CZcams and search for 'Rage For Order Demo' and hear the low-production demo of the song. Personally, I wish QR would go in and remaster it because it's a GREAT song, but I won't complain how things turned out ;)
Definitely cool stuff. Geoff Tate's vocals are insane and the two guitar players (don't recall their names, apologies) both play really tasty harmonies and solos.
Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton...legendary guitar performances throughout their catalogue
@@travisharvey7911 thanks, they deserve recognition.
If I had to choose 0nly 1 group and its off-shoot acts for listening to for a couple of years, this would be the frontrunner among all of the greatest bands of all-time in my consideration. My name is Lance. 😁
My thoughts (and feelings i am sure) are completely aligned with yours. The way you absorbed that was very healthy. When I was younger, I was more like you, emotionally wise. Try to stay that way. You are more effective in teaching & learning by being curious & humble... along with being honestly excited from stimulating sounds which appropriately accommodate provoking and/or stirring lyrics.
i was 19 and in the U.S. Army, stationed in what was then... West Germany (87-90). I saw The Berlin Wall come down (mostly metaphorically) in One Marvelous Short Day... with no warnings that everything was going to suddenly change for the better. Suddenly, those of whom i was told to be Pinko Commies in every action movie released in my teen years (the 80's)... Red Dawn, Rocky IV, Rambo.
That R-sound of the 80's was to sound like a Ready, growling dog.... Ready for the Rooskies. That was back when Reagan was president.
I will share my ideas about communism with you later (soon hopefully). I got to get to my Saturday. I subscribed to your channel. In anycase, i hope God blesses your heart today.
Please try not to listen to anymore Queensrÿche for this week. I might have a good surprise for you.
I’m so excited I can’t wait for you to really get into the meat of the story tomorrow
Unlike Dream Theater, you should have no issues banging your head to this. :-) Still great stuff!
I would like to give an extra shout out to Scott Rockenfield (don't know if that's spelled correctly), who does some unbelievable work on the drums for this underrated band.
This was one of my favorite records back in the day and it's been awhile since I have listened to this record all the way through so I am here for your entire journey. Can you hear the Neil Peart influence in Scott Rockenfield's drumming? I sure can. Also, Queensryche used Rush's producer Peter Collins on this record and Rush's engineers Jimbo Barton and Paul Northfield. I don't think that's an accident:)
According to Engels in The Principles of Communism : 1) Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.
2)The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor - hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition. The proletariat, or the class of proletarians, is, in a word, the working class.
As Marx put it, “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces in society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or,-what is but a legal expression for the same thing-with the property relationships within which they have been at work before. From forms of development of the productive forces, these relationships turn into their fetters. Then comes the period of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed.”
The fetters of capitalism could be broken only by the class representing the new technique; such a class was the proletariat. It was the destiny of this class to erect a new system of production, Communism, of which the first transitional phase was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is a transition regime whose sole function is to destroy the ruling classes under capitalism throughout the world. It is, therefore, a regime fitted to meet the stress and strain of international civil war. When the exigencies of the civil war are over, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat will give way to socialism, which is the first and lower stage of communism.
Under socialism, there are no longer a market, commodities, values, prices, wages, in the old sense of the terms. The workers, through their representatives, guide their own destinies and organize themselves so that international production may be purposefully controlled and planfully managed. The allocation of material and workers to a particular industry is made, not according to the hectic fluctuations of the market, through bankruptcy and frenetic successes, but by social analysis of the needs of man, of the productivity of the workers, and of how much strength is needed to fulfill these needs. For the first time, society rises from the domain of necessity into the realm of freedom.
In the higher stage of social life to which socialism is a transition and which we can call communism in the narrow sense of the term, the transformation is entirely complete. Society has become regenerated. No longer does the rule prevail, “to each according to what he does,” but rather the precept, “from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs. The tremendously increased productivity of mankind will have reduced to a bare minimum the amount of time necessary for each to produce the wants of life.
glorious album
One of the greatest albums ever! I'm actually wearing my Operation Mindcrime shirt now. Keep listening.
Not gonna spoil, but you almost got it 100% right
Couldn't find operation live crime the whole album live with video and actors on stage, bummer
At this point he is looking back on his life and revolution calling is how he felt and meets Dr. X
So far, so good...you've got the story pretty much nailed so far. There are a few details that you've either misread or missed, but I will say no more. You'll be glad to know that the plot for this concept album is much easier to follow than "Scenes From A Memory" was...this album isn't written in a way that keeps you in the dark. Instead, it's more like you're watching the story unfold as a flashback, as the first song suggests.
Communism (and it's precurser, socialism) is a Utopian political theory where there is supposedly no government, and everything is owned equally by everyone. Unfortunately, every attempt to implement this worldview has resulted in the deaths of large groups of people, most notably the over 10 million people who died under Josef Stalin in the USSR. Rather than give you an extended political lesson, let me sum up by stating that communism and capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. China has come the closest to merging the two systems, but their government is still ultimately in control of everything, and its people still live in fear and oppression.
I'm glad you're enjoying this so far...looking forward to reliving my first exposure to this amazing album through your eyes!
God bless!!
And you will hear the more melodic mastery of Tate’s voice later. QR is like Rush, me and my buds told everyone to listen to them before they got attention.
Utopian Communism is about everyone getting an equal share. Communism as Marx wrote about it was economics - the workers owning the factories and farms rather than oligarchs or the state. It's a nice idea, and you can see it in worker owned businesses, but politically it always turns into an authoritarian state where freedoms are curtailed. The song is more the manifesto of someone who thinks everything he's been told is B.S.
But, hey, he's heard of Dr. X! The man with the cure! Nothing can go wrong.
Such a great album which you, preferably, have to listen in one go. I bought it in the early nineties.
Eyes of a stranger, is my favorite song.
Live Evolution is a great live concert.
Promised land. Empire. Are great albums too but not as good as this one; mainly because this is a concept album.
Geoff Tate and Ronnie Dio sing together on a song . It's somewhere on this site live ,and quite good. This is an amazing album It really is one of the best albums of the time.
Can't wait till you listen to the whole album, but especially suite sister Mary. Just a pity you had to split the videos up. But enjoy the ride..
@2:50 the nurse is whistling the song Operation:Mindcrime
Oh, I thought it was the guitar riff from The Mission chorus
@@ThomasJ_Music you’re right. I wonder if her mission was to kill Nikki
Everybody's not equal some people work harder than others some are more ambitious than others who take risks to start businesses,for better lives so it doesn't make sense for the less hard working and ambitious to get equal benefits and pay as of the harder working.
Marx never explained how his version of communism should work AND that some people will always take advantage. Capitalism (original capitalism) bakes it into the cake.
You should delve into the true definition of communism but in a nutshell I personally think what is so negative is that you don't get to choose what you do to make that equal pay is that a lot of your freedoms of choice are made for you
Did you skip the song "Operation Mindcrime?"
Nope. It’s the next video on the playlist
@@ThomasJ_Music okay thanks,
@@ThomasJ_Music Also, I had suggested yesterday you listen to "The Warning" album by Queensryche as well as "Rage for Order". You won't be sorry. Personally I think both are better than "Operation Mindcrime".
Oh mercy, lol. Read up on communism. China, North Korea, Soviet Union, Cuba, and so on, and what happens and has happened to their people.