From: pw15@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Subject: Re: Queenryche and Rush (was Re: Proposal for alt.music.queensryche)
Reply-To: pw15@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:13:39 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.002301.1505@leland.Stanford.EDU> jchokey@leland.Stanford.EDU (James Alexander Chokey) writes:
>In article <0095DFAD.EF7A6580@Msu.oscs.montana.edu> gjs8818@Msu.oscs.montana.edu (Jared Shockley) writes:
>>
>	Queensryche = speed metal???  That's one I've not heard before! I
>suppose it depends on your definition of speed metal though.  I suppose that 
>if you consider _Fly by Night_ and _2112_ to be speed metal, then you could
>call _Rage for Order_ and _Operation Mindcrime_ speed metal--  so long as 
>you don't expect anybody else to understand what you're talking about!  :-)

Well, if you stretch it, their EP before THE WARNING was very thrashy, 
particularly "Queen Of The Reich," "Nightrider," and "Blinded."
>
>>The roots of both bands are totally different. Neither band has the same 
>>begining nor the same style. The Queensryche style is a Pink Floyd sound 
>>whereas the RUSH sound cannot be pinned down because they change it every
>>album giving the listeners a chance to hear something new. Queensryche is 
>>starting down a road that RUSH travels daily. 

Queensryche only had a Pink Floyd sound on "Silent Lucidity." The rest of 
EMPIRE sounds really different. For some reason I find them very original on
this album, but yet the songs just have this irritating thing about it that
makes this originality seem commonplace and blase, but that is my opinion. It
has a strong melody, but maybe it's because it's no longer very guitar
oriented and more focused on Geoff Tate even more than in the past.
>
>	So now Queensryche sounds like Pink Floyd?!  Well, they do use a lot
>of sound/voice effects a la Pink Floyd, but I think you've been deceived from
>watching MTV too much--  "Silent Lucidity" is not the entirity of contemporary
>Queensryche.   

As I said above.

>	The "Rush sound" can't be pinned down?  If you were to drop the veil
>of reverence in which you have enshrouded the band, you would notice that
>there are plenty of continuities between one album and the next.  True,

<stuff about Queensryche's similarity / dissimilarity to Rush>

Now that's the first time I've heard about this correlation.

>>As for rush-fandom being just
>>clueless arrogance, tell me please all of the albums that Queensryche has
>>put out. I bet that not all of the people know of all of them. 
>		     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^	
Rush fandom isn't clueless arrogance. I happen to be a Rush fan but I don't
think I'm arrogant as you claim Rush fans to be. As for Queensryche 
discography, here it goes. Maybe I missed one, but I'll try anyway.

Queensryche (1983)
The Warning (1984)
Rage For Order (1986)
Queen Of The Reich (live album)
Operation: mindcrime (1988)
Empire (1990)
Operation: livecrime (1991)

I think that's it.

"Inside the power cage, I can feel the music call my rage
It's paranoid, first degree. It's telling me that I'm not free.
I've got heavy metal music in my blood and I like to get it to you if I could"
-Holocaust, "Heavy Metal Mania" ||||||||| pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |||||||||
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