SIGNALS FROM MARS | QUEENSRYCHE ALBUMS COUNTDOWN
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CHECK OUT THE COMPLETE ALBUMS COUNTDOWN HERE:
Spoiler - Open For Complete Album Countdown 1Operation: Mindcrime2Empire3Rage For Order4The Warning5Queensryche EP6Promised Land7Digital Noise Alliance8Hear In The Now Frontier9Q2K10Condition Human11The Verdict12Operation: Livecrime13Queensryche (2013)14Tribe15Frequency Unknown16Dedicated To Chaos17American Soldier18Operation: Mindcrime II19Take Cover
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Welcome one and all to episode 401 of Signals from Mars. I’m your host Victor.
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This episode I have Jeremy Weltman and Brad Dahl as my co-hosts and I also have
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a really cool albums countdown from the band Queensryche. You guys have voted,
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have tallied up the score and this episode gives you the complete rundown of
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what you guys voted on.
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Alright for all the boys and girls and gentlemen at sea and millions around the
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world listening to this episode, one could only hope. Anyway so for those that
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are checking this episode out for the first time maybe you’re a Queensryche
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fan you want to see how this countdown shakes out. The way that this works is
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that I ask people to submit their 10 favorite albums by a band or from a
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genre or from a year. We do these types of countdowns on a monthly basis and I
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apologize for being a pain in the ass to some people reaching out continuously
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and and saying hey how about you vote on this but I’m trying to be a little bit
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more proactive on that level so that these so that we get some cool episodes
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we get some cool countdowns and some different things. I have to be honest
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with you Queensryche is a band that I have for the most part always enjoyed. It
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was cool to go back and revisit their catalog because for me there are certain
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albums that I do listen to quite frequently but others that I completely
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forgot about and that’s not exclusive to Queensryche that’s you know a lot of
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other bands as well. I mean there are bands that I absolutely love but yeah
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there’s just so much music that sometimes you just don’t get around to
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listening to all the stuff that they’ve released and you forget because you’ve
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got other things that you’re listening to. Oh yeah that album, oh wow this track
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you know so ultimately 19 albums made this countdown. There’s an EP in there
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and usually I don’t allow for live albums and a greatest hits albums but I
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kind of let it slide this time around. When people submit their lists and even
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if they say well no particular order well whatever’s your first on your list
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it’s gonna be your number one my friend. So number one gets ten points, number two
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gets nine points, number three eight points, you get the idea all the way down
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to ten which gets one point. I tally all of those points up and that’s how these
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countdowns come together. It’s fun discussing this with everyone else with
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in this case we had both Brad and Jeremy on the show, we had Edgar in the chat, we
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had John from Hooligan Nation in the chat as well live while we were doing the
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show so it’s cool to have that type of feedback and give and take and because
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not everyone’s gonna agree with you and that’s kind of what makes this fun as
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well it makes it a discussion. This isn’t a totalitarian state where it’s just
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black and white where just this album is the greatest and the rest suck. Some
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artists would make you think that way but I don’t feel that’s the case because
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I think Queens Direct throughout their career has put out quality music even if
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I don’t appreciate every album or if they’ve lost me on some of these albums.
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I did have the pleasure of interviewing Michael Wilton a while back this is
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episode 401 I interviewed him on episode 303 so you can find that and you could
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hear my discussion with him when Digital Noise Alliance came out which is a
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little while ago at this point but yeah a lot of fun chatting with him and again
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a lot of fun chatting about Queens Direct. Thanks everyone that voted thank
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you to my Patreons to my Patrons excuse me on Patreon and let’s get on with the
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show!
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I have to say that the new setup with the restream absolutely sucks. Just to
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kick off the show just so you guys know I have to reset everything every time I
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do a new show. The settings for the resolution aren’t right since we
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see it live I can’t adjust it the mic usually resets the background resets
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anyway welcome to the latest episode of Signals from Mars I’m your host Victor
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joined by Jeremy joined by Brad we’re gonna be doing our QueensRike special
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here we had people vote on their favorite QueensRike albums and they’ve
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released 19 no well 18 studio albums now 17 studio out plus an EP live albums and
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people have voted for almost everything almost this is the first band that we’ve
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done where there have been albums left off the list so what we’re gonna do is
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we’re gonna kick things off here with an honorable mention no not Kansas it is
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damn it is take cover the album came out November 13th 2007 released on Rhino it
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is produced by Jason Slater, Mike Stone, Michael Wilton and Kenny Nemes so
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technically four members of the band at that point if I’m not mistaken
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I don’t know Nemes no Jason Slater Mike Stone no I guess Mike Stone was in the
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band yeah and so was Jason Slater was in the band at one point as well if I’m not
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mistaken could be wrong anyway yeah you got me though this is a covers album
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where they’re covering Pink Floyd, Jesus Christ Superstar, Crosby Stills Nation
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Young, Buffalo Springfield, the OJs, Queen, Black Sabbath, The Police, Peter Gabriel
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Marcelo Alvarez and Sal Torre, Le Tichra and you too now no no no blue
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Saraceno no blue Saraceno no Kansas no Kansas here’s here’s the thing they
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covered Welcome to the Machine which was done like a few years before that by
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Shadow’s Fall which was kind of like their big introduction to a lot of
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people so to me that made no no sense some songs that I wouldn’t give a shit
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about hearing covered again for the love of money who the Bullet Boys had been
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known for doing Queens in New Wendo which fell flat neon nights which was
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kind of cool synchronicity which was eh Red Rain do we really want to hear them
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do a Peter Gabriel ballad and Bullet the Blue Sky which has been covered by POD
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and Sepultura and I don’t know how many other bands you know honestly you know
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the worst thing about that song is that they actually played it live did they
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and and they played it it felt like it lasted 20 minutes it was probably more
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like seven or eight but it felt like 20 it was just like you guys could be
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playing one of your songs you know no you had to play this awful rendition of
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a song that probably somebody likes we’re gonna play we’re gonna play a song
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off of our Nathan’s Nathan’s gonna say hi hi boys hey Nate hi yeah good
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greetings from Idaho I see it Nate’s Nate’s early for the Travis Scott
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countdown oh really what’s that about
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that’s pulling your leg I am here the people that I like oh yeah fair enough
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all right what does he say he said no cool so as as hey and there is Edgar
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Winterson he’s already predicting Empire at number one
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he’s either predicting it or he’s hoping for it you got to see them live and we’re gonna play a new song off of our new album you to cover go ahead Brad yeah that was awful I was gonna say since we know that there is how many albums didn’t make the list our list of this is the that’s the only one that was not voted on take cover with us
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the okay I was gonna say let’s try to guess what the what the other one was it didn’t make it but somebody voted for American Soldier Wow I’ll drink to that cheers so anyway coming in at number we number these so I don’t mess this up also 16 no 18
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coming in at number 18 the I said that they’ve they’ve released 17 studio albums full-length but oh there’s a little I’ll just leave me the wheel all right so next album was recorded from February 28th to December 3rd
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2005 Wow it took them almost a fucking year to record this hunk of shit oh my god produced by Jason Slater somebody earlier today said that it possibly has the worst production that they’ve ever heard on an album
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roast yeah he turds Jason but but but oh damn it I need to scroll I need to scroll I need to scroll Jeff Tate owns the rights to this it is operation mindcrime to
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this was such a letdown when it came out oh yeah and and I will pinpoint one specific moment one specific moment which I have always talked about and that is the fact that they have Ronnie James Dio on here playing Dr. X duetting with
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Jeff Tate Ronnie James Dio known for his like devious vocal like evil vocal at times that he can do you know and he’s just singing clean on this and I’m thinking what’s this such a missed opportunity Brad who would you like to have heard do Dr. X
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no that’s fine he could have done Dr. X okay all right you’re right he could have he could have been he could have played the part better rather than but I think he was just brought in and told okay this is what I want you to do or either that or similar to what we’ve been saying about Maiden for years where
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Kevin Shirley just oh we’ve got deal we can’t say anything to him just in case we don’t want to piss him off you know that type of a deal so I don’t know
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Jeremy anything about operation mindcrime to
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yeah well obviously it just wasn’t anywhere near operation mindcrime I mean it was just a mistake really I think it’s you know concept albums for me have to be there to be you know they have to be done very well and we know the very well concept albums that are out there and we know the ones that are crap we don’t like Judas Priest one we don’t like this one and we don’t like that one and this is one of those that you just you know why would why would you buy it you’re not going to listen to it
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all the way through and you have to be forced to listen to a concept album all the way through and the worst thing about it is that he’s thinking of doing number three he’s actually planning to do the third one so yeah yeah he’s just announced it recently so but I mean coming back to number two which is what we’re talking about
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number two yes yeah yeah yeah definitely number two I mean just really just something I think I just find it boring I just find it boring and I don’t the songs are not and not classic songs whereas obviously what we’re going to talk I’m sure later on we might start talking a little bit about operation mindcrime possibly towards towards the end of the show and there’s a big difference isn’t it between the two
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it’s just it’s just not it’s just not an album I would ever buy or listen to really right I bought it even even worse I went and saw them on a tour where they did all of operation mindcrime and then all of this album and they had actors they had it set up like a play the band was often
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the side not even you know just like not part of the actual stage they’re up kind of off to the side of the stage and and so these guys you know that I guess there was a script that went on between songs and stuff and they acted out all this stuff during the songs and it was it just it was awful it was
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even they ruined operation mindcrime for me I mean it was like you wanted you want to see the band out there doing their thing you know you don’t want to see a bunch of actors running around pretending to be the characters and operation mindcrime it was just it was just awful and then you had to sit through all of operation mindcrime too
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yeah it was were the tracks better live than they were on the album
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you know that’s a great question and I kind of really wonder how I mean I’m sure they were playing most of that stuff but there was so many backing tracks and because of the actors and stuff being on on having to be on spot and everything I’m sure they were playing to a tape through the whole thing
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but you just didn’t feel it you didn’t feel like you read a concert at all. It just didn’t feel like a concert. And so yeah I can’t say that the songs are better live because they really weren’t it didn’t feel live.
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