Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Opener live is THE JAM

Album Rating: 4.0

This fucking rips. Don't think I dig it as much as the previous 2 but its not far off.

Album Rating: 4.0

WITH FEAR AS MY FRIEND I WALK THE THIN LINE

ONE MORE TIME

FOR YOU



my old man followed them around for a bit on the Building Empires tour, he was a sad man but his eyes lit up like I’ve never seen when he would talk about that. Mindcrime in full and most if not all of this too. Fucking wild, I would kill to have been around for that

Album Rating: 5.0

BUT NOW MY TAKE-OUT FOOD IS GROWING COLD

AND THE CANDLE'S BURNED A HOLE IN THE FLOOR....

Album Rating: 5.0

Wildcard dude your old man was on-point. The Promised Land tour was one of my all-time favorite shows.

Album Rating: 5.0

9:28 A.M.

I Am I

Damaged

Bridge

Screaming in Digital

NM 156

My Global Mind

Neue Regel

I Remember Now

Anarchy-X

Revolution Calling

Operation: Mindcrime

Spreading the Disease

The Mission

I Don't Believe in Love

Waiting for 22

My Empty Room

Real World

Eyes of a Stranger

Empire

Promised Land

Jet City Woman

Disconnected

Lady Jane

Out of Mind

One More Time



Encore:



Silent Lucidity

Take Hold of the Flame

Someone Else?

Album Rating: 4.0

god fucking damn man. I kinda wanna cry rn

Album Rating: 5.0

there's a warm wind from the south

hoist the sail

and we'll be gone

by morning this will all seem like a dream

Album Rating: 4.0

Damaged is such an underrated track. I love that song

Album Rating: 5.0

PICKING UP

THE PIECES OF MY LIIIIFE



WITH NO DIRECTIONS

FOR REASSEMB-AL-AYYY

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Empire main riff is just god-tier. Whip was cooking.

Alright, can he go the extra mile. Will he listen to Promised Land?

Album Rating: 5.0

"DRINKS, FOR ALL MY FRIENDS!"

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

TEAR IT ALL DOWN WE'LL BUILD IT UP AGAIN

Album Rating: 4.0

Bumping to 4.5 this just has some unreal anthems. It’s not my favorite record of theirs but Geoff was really on point with the choruses here

Album Rating: 4.0

Bumping back down to a 4 because I just jammed it in full for the first time in a while at work tonight and god damn this thing falls off a fucking cliff after the title track. Resistance - Silent Lucidity - Hand On Heart is the most dire stretch of music of their career up to that point, it gets slightly better with One and Only and really finishes strong with Anybody Listening? but god damn that little three song stretch… they should’ve cut AT LEAST one of those three, honestly you could take Silent Lucidity and either one of the others and this immediately becomes a better record. Shave 10 mins off that hour+ runtime.



Gotta say tho, out of all the metal bands around this time that were trying to find more mainstream success… this is one of the better records to come from that era.

Album Rating: 5.0

Silent Lucidity served its purpose and earned them great success which they obviously deserve

Album Rating: 4.0

You know what, fair enough. I wasn’t around to see how huge it was, I’ve just always hated that song.

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah bro, the huge video on MTV, airplay, etc.....not very typical for Queensryche so it definitely gave them a boost

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

It's super low on my list but there's a magic to it that is undeniable.



Resistance isn't the greatest, but bangs still. The god-level tracks in the front half keep this a five for me even if the second half collectively is probably the weakest point of the classic era.