I could go on for hours as to why Rage is not only my favorite Queensryche album, but one of my all time favorites full stop. It's just an aural assault on the senses. Amidst all the sound clips (such as a few from the TV mini series Helter Skelter in The Whisper), layered synths, guitar melodies, and thumping rythyms, there is almost an organized chaos to it. Although Mindcrime is often considered their masterpiece, Rage For Order is the album that made Queensryche stand out and be genre defying. It's metal, industrial, pop, alternative, synthwave in one meticulously crafted collection of songs.
I LOVE QUEENSRYCHE!! (original lineup). Your comments and articulate descriptions of your favorite parts of each song was very satisfying for me to hear! So many times I feel that people just don't GET how TALENTED and EPIC this entire band was! And NO ONE can sing with the complete abandon that Geoff does. The emotion he brings to the lyrics are unreal. And he doesn't dish it out indiscriminately. The words are appropriately emphasized with the right emotion. He has such control over his entire vocal output, there are hardly words to describe how good he is. And Chris, Michael, Eddie, and Scott! The musicianship and songwriting are several levels above the norm! They aren't afraid to let the music breathe, and go for unusual melodies and rhythms. Rage for Order is a masterpiece! It's interesting that I NEVER get tired of listening to Queensryche songs. They always seem fresh and vital! Thank you for your insightful and incisive thoughts! I will remember. OH, P.S. Have you seen them on the 1992 MTV Unplugged? Check out The Killing Words. Right after the guitar solo, Geoff makes a slight change in his delivery (from the album), and it's super powerful! He's a fearless singer!
I loved every note of this album and love the band imagery as well. Saw them on this tour with Ozzy. My buddy and I were losing our minds…one can only imagine what those around us were thinking as they waited for Crazy Train. ps: Ozzy was great too!
Rage For Order is an absolute masterpiece! Operation Mindcrime was recognized immediately as a masterpiece, but the songs on RFO are truly incredible and the album seems to just get better and better with repeated listenings. "Walk In The Shadows", "Gonna Get Close To You" and the rest just boom like cannons! The albums music and its themes resonate even stronger today than they did when it was released in 1986.
I first heard them when the "Gonna Get Close to You" video was on MTV, but I didn't really get into them until Mindcrime. That was an odd choice for a single, and didn't represent them very well, especially since it turned out to be a cover I think. So I didn't hear the album until after Mindcrime made me a fan. Definitely my second favorite after Mindcrime, and if it wasn't for the excellent story aspect of Mindcrime, this might be my favorite on a musical level.
This album is so far ahead of its time. Not only are the political themes relevant today, but there are so many things that were prophetic in 1986. The one that is so precise and oddly specific is from The Killing Words: “Now the wireless in my hand keeps ringing, the distance of our lives keeps spreading, the pounding I hear in my heart, I’m not listening, your voice from far away, screaming it’s oooooover” I mean really! A reference to mobile devices in 1986, and how they’re meant to bring us together but are driving us apart.
Queensrÿche are my favourite band together with another underestimated pop band Talk Talk. Rage for Order is the album that paved the progressive genre in metal music in a decade full of copycats this was extremely unique and well recorded and combined with lyrics that talked about technology, human relationships was way ahead of its time and still needs an analysis for each song to understand the concept of RfO. Talk Talk also had a similar path in pop music because every album they released was totally different from the previous one as Queensrÿche's
Regarding the Vampire themes though out...London is a good example...they are heavily influenced by Annie Rice first two books of the Vampire Chronicles which were popular undergroundish books at the time.
la 4 cancion de album y sencillo parece haber sido hecho por muse antes que ELLOS EXISTAN POR 15 AÑOS. un album no avant ni proggy, sino un fundamental album de heavy metal
I love this album. The older I get the better it gets. Some days it’s my favorites Queensryche album.
Geoff the absolute goat
I could go on for hours as to why Rage is not only my favorite Queensryche album, but one of my all time favorites full stop.
It's just an aural assault on the senses. Amidst all the sound clips (such as a few from the TV mini series Helter Skelter in The Whisper), layered synths, guitar melodies, and thumping rythyms, there is almost an organized chaos to it.
Although Mindcrime is often considered their masterpiece, Rage For Order is the album that made Queensryche stand out and be genre defying. It's metal, industrial, pop, alternative, synthwave in one meticulously crafted collection of songs.
This album is so fucking good from beginning to end!!
This is the one. First QR album I was introduced to, and then quickly bought The Warning and the EP right after falling in love with this band.
The Warning was also a great!
I LOVE QUEENSRYCHE!! (original lineup). Your comments and articulate descriptions of your favorite parts of each song was very satisfying for me to hear! So many times I feel that people just don't GET how TALENTED and EPIC this entire band was!
And NO ONE can sing with the complete abandon that Geoff does. The emotion he brings to the lyrics are unreal. And he doesn't dish it out indiscriminately. The words are appropriately emphasized with the right emotion. He has such control over his entire vocal output, there are hardly words to describe how good he is.
And Chris, Michael, Eddie, and Scott! The musicianship and songwriting are several levels above the norm!
They aren't afraid to let the music breathe, and go for unusual melodies and rhythms.
Rage for Order is a masterpiece!
It's interesting that I NEVER get tired of listening to Queensryche songs. They always seem fresh and vital!
Thank you for your insightful and incisive thoughts! I will remember.
OH, P.S. Have you seen them on the 1992 MTV Unplugged?
Check out The Killing Words. Right after the guitar solo, Geoff makes a slight change in his delivery (from the album), and it's super powerful! He's a fearless singer!
Those two songs on Unplugged are amazing. As is Anybody Listening? I wish that set would get a proper release.
It was released on June 27th, 1986.
Best QR album. Way ahead of its time. All of its concepts are more relevant today than in 1986.
This is truly an amazing album
I loved every note of this album and love the band imagery as well. Saw them on this tour with Ozzy. My buddy and I were losing our minds…one can only imagine what those around us were thinking as they waited for Crazy Train. ps: Ozzy was great too!
RAGE ON ALL YOU "RYCHE-N-ROLLER'S!!!! 🤘🤘🎸🎸 Love this album ❤️
Rage For Order is an absolute masterpiece! Operation Mindcrime was recognized immediately as a masterpiece, but the songs on RFO are truly incredible and the album seems to just get better and better with repeated listenings. "Walk In The Shadows", "Gonna Get Close To You" and the rest just boom like cannons! The albums music and its themes resonate even stronger today than they did when it was released in 1986.
It is always & definitely badass.
I first heard them when the "Gonna Get Close to You" video was on MTV, but I didn't really get into them until Mindcrime. That was an odd choice for a single, and didn't represent them very well, especially since it turned out to be a cover I think. So I didn't hear the album until after Mindcrime made me a fan. Definitely my second favorite after Mindcrime, and if it wasn't for the excellent story aspect of Mindcrime, this might be my favorite on a musical level.
This album is great but often overlooked in favor of OMC, which is also great but slightly below RFO IMHO. Thanks for the upload.
This album is so far ahead of its time. Not only are the political themes relevant today, but there are so many things that were prophetic in 1986. The one that is so precise and oddly specific is from The Killing Words:
“Now the wireless in my hand keeps ringing, the distance of our lives keeps spreading, the pounding I hear in my heart, I’m not listening, your voice from far away, screaming it’s oooooover”
I mean really! A reference to mobile devices in 1986, and how they’re meant to bring us together but are driving us apart.
I hated this album when it came and now I love it!! So ahead of its time
Queensrÿche are my favourite band together with another underestimated pop band Talk Talk. Rage for Order is the album that paved the progressive genre in metal music in a decade full of copycats this was extremely unique and well recorded and combined with lyrics that talked about technology, human relationships was way ahead of its time and still needs an analysis for each song to understand the concept of RfO.
Talk Talk also had a similar path in pop music because every album they released was totally different from the previous one as Queensrÿche's
Regarding the Vampire themes though out...London is a good example...they are heavily influenced by Annie Rice first two books of the Vampire Chronicles which were popular undergroundish books at the time.
la 4 cancion de album y sencillo parece haber sido hecho por muse antes que ELLOS EXISTAN POR 15 AÑOS. un album no avant ni proggy, sino un fundamental album de heavy metal
My fav 'ryche album, alongside Mindcrime and Empire. Afterwards it was downhill for them.
Their 2nd best album, after Mindcrime. It always gets overlooked in favor of Empire, which I'll never understand
For me RFO is the best album of them, The Warning is really close too.
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