MONDAY MARATHON! Queensryche - Walk in the Shadows + I Will Remember | COUPLE REACTION 

No one here mentions Degarmo! Chris Degarmo was the true genius here!

A MUST experience is to listen to the Operation: Mindcrime album in its entirety. A rock opera surpassing Tommy and the Wall imho.

Geoff Tate (pronounced "Jeff") and Chris DeGarmo were at the top of the mountain in their heyday. DeGarmo is criminally underrated as a guitarist and songwriter! For me, the standout song on this album is "Screaming in Digital"...it's like nothing else you have ever heard. This album seems so much tamer after all these years...it's hard to understand how groundbreaking it was in its day. Without "Rage for Order," there would never have been an "Operation: Mindcrime." God bless!!

Queensrÿche, they turned metal into art with this album. Killing Words and I Will Remember live on MTV Unplugged will make you appreciate his vocals even more.

Screaming in Digital is the best song from this album! 🤘🏻

I Will Remember has such a beautiful, ethereal feel to it!

Absolute stunner of a song. The MTV Unplugged performance is transcendently good.

I love Queensryche and R for order is awesome

Greatest band ever! Love everyone of their songs. Ryche rules

My favorite Queensrÿche album... the music, the lyrics... a masterpiece, start to finish.

ahh the mighty queeensryche rage for order they were really experimenting and created a great album

Neue Regel , The Killing Words - Unplugged on MTV

the warning and rage for order have an other worldly vibe to them .........a creepy coolness.

Such a great album, my favorites are probably Neue Regel and Chemical Youth. The music for Neue Regel is downright creepy, it’d fit in any horror movie. Queensryche and Fates Warning, the godfathers of prog metal.

Empire and Operation Mind Crime are both excellent albums to listen to. Geoff Tate is another one of those awesome vocalists! Also, there is an amazing acoustic version of I will remember you on youtube!

awesome reaction and song choices! more queensryche!

How cool! I wasn't expecting you to get down with some Queensryche. Shortly after I arrived at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, in 1986, I heard a guy jamming this album and I had to go out and buy it immediately. Operation: Mindcrime is a masterpiece. Empire is a hit machine. But Rage For Order is still my favorite. Criminally underated in my book. Thank you, Nick N lex!

I Will Remember is one of my favorite Queensryche songs. Lyrically intriguing as well.

It makes me so happy to see someone finally listed to Queensryche tracks from other albums besides Mindcrime and Empire. All of their albums are awesome and the earlier ones usually get neglected. Thank you.

Rage is my favorite Ryche album, love it!

"Roads to Madness." Epic.

This is a brilliant album. Every track is sooo good. You are going to be blown away by this group. Stunning guitar solo's - superb bass and thunderous drums ...but ...it's Geoff Tates vocals that takes this group to another level.....& singing live this guy delivers his amazing vocal range to perfection.....Btw, Geoff is pronounced Jeff. No idea where it came from. So happy you are finally onto this brilliant band. I look forward to more. Great reactions thankyou..... - You do put me just in the mood for music I've not played in a while - Time to get this one off the shelf again. X

Hi Nick&Lex. glad you liked Queensryche want more Try, Take hold of the flame "Live" And "Best i can" + "Hand on Heart" off their Empire Album. Enjoy

Rage for Order is my go to QR album. When Operation Mindcrime came out I was all over that and listened to it for a solid year or more 24/7 and thought that was thier peak and it might have been from a purely production and listening standpoint, but looking back more recently, Rage was the best example of what this band was ever about from a writing, technical, talent, and stylistic measurement. Geoff never sounded better and the musicianship was at it's best.

Rage For Order is a watershed moment for the band and is unique in the catalog. The song, Walk In The Shadows to me is a love song for someone becoming and falling in love with the vampire who turned them. Then, I Will Remember is just a haunting metaphor for everyone who feels list in the world.

'The Warning' is an early Queensryche masterpiece album. Check it out when you get a chance. 'Take Hold Of The Flame' really showcases Geoff Tate's range.

The Ryche ruled for a while. Nobody could touch them at their peak! They combined old school heavy metal like Maiden or Priest, especially with the guitar harmonies and high rang clear powerful vocals. Add prog with influences of Rush and Floyd. All songs have a good storyline, not just rhyming lines with mo content. You cant get any better than that! 🤘

Now this is what i'm talking about!!!. I love this amazing song!. (I0m talking about "walk in the shadows").

Rage For Order is definitely a listening experience. The entire album is amazing!

Rage is my favorite Queensryche album then operation🤘🤪🤘 Thanks for the great reaction. Listening to these songs again takes me back.

Queensryche fan since 1982 and I highly recommend the first 5 or 6 Queensryche LP's studio. Blow your mind... Progressive Metal Pink Floyd.

If it hasn't already been mentioned, that guitar "solo" you were so impressed with in Walk in the Shadows was technically a duet (they have dual leads, sometimes they play different melodies, sometimes they mirror one another).

Haunting song off of this album, "Gonna get close to you" which is actually a cover song, but it is spectacular , check that out!!!!!

Big Rush fan here, the Queensryche album 'Rage For Order' is my favorite album from any group. I hated it at first...but after about 3 listens (always apply the 3 listen rule before dismissing a song), it became my favorite. The subject matter was way ahead of its time and the production of the album were top tier. Also, Geoff Tate is the best 80's metal singer, or in the top 5 (give a listen to 'take hold of the flame', live in tokyo early 80's.). Their concept album 'Operation: Mindcrime' is a must listen, also one of the best concept albums of the 80's with a topic that is still relevant today.

And I always thought it was pronounced “Jeff.” ✨🤪

I love Queensryche! Great job as usual guys. If you really want to hear the full range of Geoff Tate’s voice, you must listen to Take Hold Of The Flame.

Neue Regal is worth a listen.

Hi guys!! This band is amazing !! especially the first 4 albums !! In the era dominated by glam metal bands, they broke stereotypes and laid the foundations for progressive metal !! Operation: Mindcrime is a masterpiece! And Geoff Tate an extraordinary singer! Keep analyzing more of them! greetings from Argentina!!

My personal favorite from their catalog.

Queensryche is my favorite band (Dream Theater is ALSO my favorite band), and the Rage For Order lp is probably my favorite Ryche album. Thanks for the reaction. Peace!

I especially loved the second song I will Remember. That voice! That guitar! Beautiful!!!! 💖 I agree that it is like a metal ELP!

There is so much to explore with this band. If you listen to their first album you’ll see a different side to them, which is pretty true for everything they did.

Oh Yeah. Not just a favorite Queensryche song. But one of my all time favorite songs. 🤘👍

Give it up for Chris Degarmo on that fucking kick ass guitar solo!! Underrated af ☄️

Nice....👍 You never see anyone doing Walk In The Shadows...such a good song.

Also check out I Dream in Infra Red & everything on the Empire album ; )😁 I love Walk in the Shadows Love that double tracked guitar solo part

Always up for some classic Queensryche, and you're in for a real musical treat as you explore more of their catalogue (anything from their early works up to and including 1994's Promised Land album is musical GOLD). Enjoy!

Also check out "Anybody Listening" off of their album Empire

Queensryche might be the king (queen??) of power ballads. Check out any and all of the following (from their first five albums; I never went past those): Take Hold of the Flame Roads to Madness London The Mission Eyes of a Stranger Anybody Listening? Promised Land Somebody Else? (piano/vocal only track) And their epic prog metal masterpiece: Suite Sister Mary

I have to 2nd Operation: Mindcrime in it's entirety. It's so deep and such a great story and his voice is incredible. Many hits on that album.

Oh yeah...awesome LP. And these cuts are STOOPID great "live."

You should try "The Killing Words" from the same CD. Amazing vocal performance (the entire CD is, but the melodies on that one are top-tier).

Great reaction Nick and Lex! Queensryche were one of my favourite bands in the 80's and their magnus opus for me was Operation Mindcrime. Another band/song to check out is Extreme - Everything Under the Sun (Lyric Video). This combines three songs that were on their 3 sides to every story album. Fantastic piece which runs the gamut in styles. You will really enjoy it.

Degarmo Degarmo Degarmo !!!

Personally my fav QR album, what an opening track!

Queensryche is one of the best places to start if you're going to get into metal because it is very intellectual listen to the lyrics understand how it coalesces with the music the way the music changes revolves around the emotion in the song and that is why they call it progressive rock or metal

London and I Dream in Infrared are my faves from this album.

I love Queensryche!! Anybody Listening is a great song from their Empire album. You should check out Nightwish now! More modern but with a phenomenal singer named Floor Jansen.

Happy Birthday Nick !!! Hope you are having an awesome day

Great album and great tour! The I Will Remember acoustic solo is the first acoustic solo that I learned to play on my own...so that song holds a really special place for me ❤

Imagine a Pink Floyd type concept album put to heavy metal - that is their album Operation Mindcrime. The album should be listened to in it's entirety to truly appreciate it. You guys should give it a go - think you would really enjoy it

I got the bands autograph and seen them 3 times in concert and let me tell yall they sounded like the studio album Live! Ky older brother got me into them with my all time fav album by them " The Warning " Yall gotta check it out !

Yay, Tony! That care package was amazing and I’m glad to hear this marathon. Thanks, mv! Great reaction, N&L! Hope you’re enjoying your vacay and birthday week! ✨🤪

OMG!! My very favorite 80's band and vocalist!! Rage is my 2nd favorite album. Operation Mindcrime is #1, but it is a concept album with a great story!! So so glad you have dipped into more QR. They are considered progressive metal. Loved your reaction and how much Lex enjoyed them. Makes me happy ❤❤❤

QUEENSRYCHE!! My all time favorite band!! Also, JONI MITCHELL….my favorite female singer/artist of allllll time. Both artist are incredible and near and dear to my heart. So cool to see your reactions to each :)

Geoff Tate ...simply one of the best in the business ....More Queesnsryche please

Good reaction!! I like how both of you could appreciate some of the finer points of the music and vocals, etc. Lyrically, Walk in the Shadows was about vampires, and I Will Remember is about surveillance satellites. Their subject matter is always interesting and several cuts above the usual! QR is exactly the kind of metal I love!! They really are in a category by themselves. Very versatile. I love their INTENSITY, and perfectly crafted &.executed songs! Try live in Tokyo "Take Hold of the Flame", MTV 1991 Unplugged "The Killing Words", Oh heck, just ALL of their songs! And of COURSE the HIGHLY regarded "Operation: Mindcrime"!! Whole album, in order. It's a concept album. One long story. I look forward to more QR reactions from both of you!

You'll have to check other tracks from this album, like Neue Regal. I'm the same age as these guys and we grew up in the same area. Occasionally went to the same parties and hung out back in the early 80's. Chris, Michael and Scott were pretty cool, humble dudes.

My absolute favourite tune from them, loved seeing you guys do this one today!

Well this a surprise! I actually owned this album and 4 others of these guys! I had totally forgot about them for many years. I always respected their music and love tate! Thanks so much for reminding me of them! I need to start listening to them again! Lex im glad you really loved these songs! You seemed really excited and a little shocked at how much you liked them both! Thanks for this video! Love you guys! Hope you are enjoying your trip!

Chris and Whip were magical on twin lead breaks. Rage For Order is where it's at! An amazing LP

You guys should really check out the Queensryche live MTV unplugged video from 1991 version of I Will Remember. It is really, REALLY great!

First time seeing you guys, everything I see in the room is prog.... there's no way you won't love the first 5 or 6 QRyche albums

Killing Words unplugged is a must, as is the Mindcrime album in it's entirety. Queensryche is one of my favorite bands.

Thank you so much for doing this band! So glad you liked them! Saw them many times and it makes me sad because they are so underrated. For my money, very few bands can compare. I'll leave you with an old anthem....Ryche n Roll 🎶

First soni ever heard from them. I caught that last half of the song on the rw radio....was blown away by the sound. There wws nothing like them. Excellent tracks on this awesome album, considered by many to be their best.

You probably remember me from commenting a lot of your Rush reviews and I'm glad you have finally found Queensryche. They have so many great albums and songs through the decades of the 80s and 90s before they split the band. I hope you will start doing some reviews of their stuff regularly...here's a few you might want to review: Queen of the Reich The lady wore Black Take hold of the flame Anything off of Operation Mindcrime, especially I don't believe in love, Suite Sister Mary, eyes of a stranger, the mission, Breaking the Silence. If you can youtube the official videos for these songs from the Operation Livecrime DVD that is the best way to review these songs from Operation Mindcrime because they sound exactly like the studio versions and watching them play them Live is fantastic. I was actually at the Columbus, Ohio show for this tour about 10 days before they recorded the same concert at their Madison Wisconsin show which is where operation livecrime video was shot. That album was followed by their biggest album ever Empire, containing a ton of great songs: Best I Can Jet City Woman Another Rainy Night Resistance Silent Lucidity Hand on Heart Anybody listening?

Rage is my favorite album, just squeaking by Mindcrime.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Tokyo live vid of Take Hold of the Flame..

An interesting note: Warning was QRs' first attempt at a concept album. Released in 1984 about a technocratic Big Brother like society, inspired by George Orwells' 1984. Val Garay, mix engineer messed the song order up. Thus the angry title of the next album!

Tate was such an admired vocalist. Has a Dickinson vibrato. I think his strength is his range.

Give Promised Land a try, very dark, introspective with a Pink Floyd vibe. It's my favorite Queensryche album.

Absolutely love

Loved them for 30 years….at this point they were just starting to find their sound. By the next album they had found their true sound. Operation Mindcrime is a masterpiece

Aguante Queensryche, Geoff Tate es un animal, de los mejores vocalistas de la historia del Rock en general. Operaton Mindcrime es una obra de arte.❤ Chicos, , arranquen con las segundas/terceras escuchas siguiendo con Serú Giran y la canción Eiti Leda, Invisible 74 de Spinetta con la misma formación q escucharon de Pappo'''Blues y la cancion Suspensión, Divididos con Ala Delta, Sumo con Estallando desde el océano, Los Redondos con Rock Yugular o salando las heridas y otras bandas q nada tienen que envidiarleva los gringos..... seguiremos esperando, abrazo a ambos🤘❤👍😷

You guys definitely need to do more Queensryche.... especially so many great songs off of Empire or Operation Mindcrime

Walk In The Shadows is intended to have a vampire feel to it.

my top 3 rush ironmaiden and queensryche

Operation Mindcrime must be listened to in one sitting. It is a rock opera, a story, so basically it’s one long song. It is absolutely the best heavy metal/rock album ever made, a perfect masterpiece. Enjoy!

You guys should do the complete Tokyo 1984 concert it's next level. I enjoy sharing my time with yall watching your reactions. ❤

If you were real lucky and had cool DJ's, (back in those days they'd even take song requests) they would play "Queen of the Reich" or "The Lady Wore Black" on the radio in the early 80's. Made me love Geoff's voice immediately. Another band that I completely regret not seeing live. I don't know why my phone won't allow the placement of the umlaut over the y in their name.

You shoudl try NM-156 by these guys. If you thought that dual guitar solo was impressive...

Got this in HS when it came out, I love it. I'd say as a complete album Operation: Mindcrime is more impressive, but Rage For Order is really underrated and has some very mature compositions and playing. Even their first LP 'The Warning' is impressive. Definitely a great band in that era. Thanks much for the reaction.

Great album… other great songs from this album are Whisper and London.

😎👍R4O is my favorite Queensrÿche release!

Check out their song “ Suite Sister Mary “ live crime version- it’s a must

I love booth queensryche the geoff solo and the queensryche solo😊

Thanks for tackling Queensryche, one of my favorite hard rock / heavy metal bands ever. The have a bunch of good albums but their initial EP and first full album - Warning, along with Operation Mindcrime, were the best from the original band. Please do Take Hold of the Flame (live 1984 is the best version), Queen of the Ryche, The Lady Wore Black and On the Roads to Madness. As for Operation Mindcrime, like a Pink Floyd album it is best heard all the way through as it is a concept album of the 1st order. Enjoy! Rock On. 😎

Rage is my fav album of all time. Great choice

*Well, where do I begin with this wonderful reaction . . .* Wow! You guys make me feel pretty dang special on my B-Day (The day original bassist for Metallica "Cliff Burton" died, which I always remember on this day: A 2 Fisted Salute yet again Cliff! m m ). Oh YOU get the credit Nick for getting Alexi into Metal, my friend :D But I'm glad I helped, that is really awesome that you (Lexi) liked it. You guys were really getting into "Walk in the Shadows" and the awesome dueling guitars of Michael Wilton and Chris DeGarmo, and then a totally different mood, that you both immersed yourselves in the ethereal tone of "I Will Remember" and as Lexi picked-up, that Spanish timbre in the duel solo. Note that the _Discography_ I sent you guys, is basically the BEST years of the _original_ line-up, and musically at the top of their game. They have "10 albums" _after_ that, including the last 3 with their replacement of Tate with Todd La Torre, and back to their original sound (though, for unknown reasons, Scott Rockenfield did not drum on the last album). 1st, its been awhile to hear the whole album in one go (I usually hear various tracks from their discography these days), and my eyes welled-up, partly because you guys were getting into 2 of my fave tracks from this album, and I too was getting "goose bumps" and also remembering what it was like to buy the "Lp", which I still have, and for all the albums up to Promised Land (and later, on CD), and putting the album onto my then, Pioneer PL-4 direct-drive turntable. One of those happy memories just diving into it all under headphones, and listening to it in cars with my friends at that time in West Covina California (including adding tracks to various Mix or "Concept Tapes" on cassette). I soon saw the Tour, which was my 1st Queensrÿche Concert, at the Santa Monica Civic Center (which decades later I would live and work near-by, seeing it practically everyday :). *The Album . . .* So, this being technically their "3rd" (the 1st was actually an Ep, that you also have) album, this is the album that I would hear (read) a music reviewer in a Heavy Metal magazine, first use the term "Prog Metal". This made very much sense to me, I had started off as a Progressive Rocker at 14 in 1977 with Kansas - Point of Know Return, and slowly discovered all the famous British bands who invented it from 1968, and thru the 1980's, when I began to delve into Hard/Heavy Rock that would become Heavy Metal circa 1981/85. This was Metal that was more polished, yet kept the heaviness, but with sophistication, a bit more complexity and layers. With a more dense production/engineering. To hear exactly how they _evolved_ up to this point, it is a MUST to hear next: 1. The Self-Titled Ep from 1983 (that would have you think they would turn into a Thrash band, from the outstanding _Speed Metal_ opener "Queen of the Reich"); But all "4" tracks on it are so unreal, professional and well-thought out, for a band that from a "Demo", and 1 time club/live performance, got them a major record deal. THAT is how good they were to the record execs of EMI/Capitol Records. 2. "The Warning" (1984); Here even more improved are the lyrical content, compositions, and the chops of each member shine. The tracks that would show signs of where they were headed in this new subgenre of Metal; NM156 (my 1st to 2nd personal fave), EN Force, Take Hold of the Flame (a fan fave, and the epitome and power of Geoff Tate's vocal abilities), Before the Storm, and the EPIC; Roads to Madness (This track shows off their compositional prowess, creativity, and where they were headed for "Rage for Order"). This track also added an orchestra, conducted by the late-Soundtrack Score composer "Michael Kamen" who would work again with them in the future. For future tracks from "Rage"; Neue Regel, Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion), The Killing Words, Screaming in Digital. But again, the whole album is solid. "Walk in the Shadows" was a great opener. I admit, from QR becoming my fave band, slightly more than that era of "Metallica" who I also admired ("Master of Puppets" 1986), but when I saw the band photo on the back of Lp, they were dressed-up in a Gothic-like/New Romantic . . . God forbid, "Glamm" look, and I can remember fearing that they had moved into a more commercial direction. But was very relieved that they were still heavy, yet this new sound ("Progressing forward") was very intriguing (albeit 2 tracks that were touching on the commercial; London, Gonna' Get Close to You - which was a cover, almost to a T, of Canadian Female vocalist; "Dalbello", who at the time I never heard of). Their Wiki page _claims_ they were also called Glamm, but their sound and especially lyrical content to me were far-from being that. Even a track like "I Will Remember", it may be a power-ballad, but this was on another level of composition, all that you guys touched-on in the reaction makes it very special. If its the crisp, lush sound of the Acoustic Guitars (of Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton), how they are Mic'd, to the Drums (the VERY underrated Scott Rockenfield) that were quite heavy for this type of song, yet it fit perfectly to give it that _edge,_ the Bass you can feel in the room (Eddie Jackson). And the outstanding vocals of Geoff ("Jeffrey Wayne Tate") backed up by the underrated back-up vocals from DeGarmo. The "Whistles" could be mistaken for a Synth (Tate) at 1st, but perfectly mic'd to give it that ethereal element to push the track even further. Tate whistles on the 1st/Ep track "The Lady Wore Black" (another fan fave). But in the credits of their 5th and most commercially successful album; "Empire" (1990), where it listed the band members, it stated; Geoff Tate - vocals, keyboards (no whistles) :p. Maybe he was sort-of embarrassed using that in the past? Too bad because that was a very unique element. Apparently, somewhere I had heard/read that the song wasn't (what I thought) about the "loss" of someone, but seeing a "Satellite" passing far-off in the night sky, and imagining it being a "Spy Satellite" with the ability to infiltrate your mind: "There's a cold wind out tonight The chill of distant eyes An orbit survey finds... your mind" "There's a thought that fills your mind A vision of the time When knowledge was confined And we wonder how machines Can steal each other's dreams From points that are unseen... It's real" They (and many other bands of the time) were writing about the intrusion of "Big Brother" even back then. Which is reflected in that dark, foreboding synthesizer opening, with that lower register "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh" (and other synth sounds behind it). Its an amazing piece that you can take apart to find its _beyond_ a simple power ballad. Also, this was yet another "Chris DeGarmo" piece (lyrically and compositionally). He was just as important as Tate's writing. This made a powerhouse team. So when DeGarmo surprisingly left the band after their 7th album "Hear in the Now Frontier" (1997), the magic left the band (imo), which is a whole 'nuther story of in-fights, lawsuits and more (though DeGarmo quietly left before all that, and became a "Commercial Airline Pilot"). Also drummer Scott, came-up with the various "Soundscapes" and ideas for dialogue effects that happen between and within most of the tracks (and on the following albums), another element that set them apart from other Metal bands. *Live Rage* The Tour apparently included them "opening" for bands like Ratt, AC/DC, Bon Jovi and Ozzy Osbourne, which they probably blew the doors off of, but as said on the wiki-page: "although their music was not quite compatible". When I saw them at the Santa Monica Civic, they were the headliner, and "Keel" opened for them (Yngwie Malmsteen played with Ron Keel, for the band "Steeler"). It was amazing to see them in a small arena, and sounding exactly like their albums. Though they had an "instrumental" piece that they'd never play again (apparently some of it was used later for "Operation Mindcrime"). And Scott's drumkit was really weird, with various tubing emerging from it (as his kits always became more elaborate for each tour). Also at our particular show, the band members did not dress in overtly "Glamm" clothing or make-up :p. Though there is no "official" release of Live footage, there is this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rPBIs2Aop2g.html And a great performance of "Walk in the Shadows" from the Empire Tour: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zilmYuinQm0.html And, I can remember how this gave me shivers, from MTV's Unplugged series (which I don't really care for, but the QR performance was beyond incredible), which happened within their extensive International tour of "Empire". A VERY moving rendition of "I Will Remember" (breakout the tissues N&L) from the "Building Empire's" VHS/DVD Documentary of the band up to that tour: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1pxMrlzslHA.html (Everytime I watch this, I "whistle" the parts :). You can see Chris DeGarmo can't help to crack a smile during the Solo, because they are feeding off the energy of the room, watching _them_ perform this beautiful music. They were not just doing an acoustic version of many tracks, they were re-inventing them (other than I Will Remember), as if they were alternate versions that were _written_ for the acoustic guitars. I look at this video for the hundredth time, and I have mentioned this to friends, even their "dress style" (in the video) influenced a LOT of Prog Metal bands that were coming up and were peers of QR at that time. Along with the dueling guitars, and Tate's amazing voice and vocal ranges. More about the album: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_for_Order I am excited to see you dive into their early history, all the tracks/albums many of us have lived with, and the talents we've admired, from the *Fathers of Prog Metal* . . . . . . . But there is *Another* :o