The Cassette Chronicles

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The Cassette Chronicles #217 - Queensryche - The Warning

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The Cassette Chronicles #218 - Tesla - Mechanical Resonance

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The Cassette Chronicles #219 - Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part 1

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The Cassette Chronicles #220 - Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II

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The Cassette Chronicles #221 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Odyssey

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The Cassette Chronicles #222 - Judas Priest - Painkiller

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The Cassette Chronicles #223 - Dio - The Last in Line

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The Cassette Chronicles #224 - Genesis - Invisible Touch

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The Cassette Chronicles #217 - Queensryche - The Warning

The Warning sounds just as incendiary nearly forty years later! For a bunch of young dudes, they sound like seasoned pros. Geoff Tate's a vocal freak of nature all throughout the '80s. The songs are all kickers and, honestly, much better than what many of their peers of the time were putting out. Queensrÿche was more or less our answer to Iron Maiden and those guys got their asses handed to them by a quintet from the city that also produced Heart, Soundgarden and Jimi Hendrix.

The Warning is a 5-star classic debut.

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The Cassette Chronicles #223 - Dio - The Last in Line

R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio, the Greatest Rock Vocalist of All Time.

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The Cassette Chronicles #217 - Queensryche - The Warning

The Warning sounds just as incendiary nearly forty years later! For a bunch of young dudes, they sound like seasoned pros. Geoff Tate's a vocal freak of nature all throughout the '80s. The songs are all kickers and, honestly, much better than what many of their peers of the time were putting out. Queensrÿche was more or less our answer to Iron Maiden and those guys got their asses handed to them by a quintet from the city that also produced Heart, Soundgarden and Jimi Hendrix.

The Warning is a 5-star classic debut.

I wish the band had been able to stay the course with their material over the years. There was a downturn in quality for sure, though fans tend to disagree with where exactly that downturn began. I do know that since Todd La Torre became the vocalist, the material has taken an album by album turn for the better. At first I was judging the new stuff harder because it seemed like La Torre was trying to sound too much like early Geoff Tate but as each new album was released, he got more and more of his own "voice" and the material kept getting better. The Digital Noise Alliance album that is their latest release turned out to be excellent overall.

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The Cassette Chronicles #223 - Dio - The Last in Line

R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio, the Greatest Rock Vocalist of All Time.

verslibre, I just wanted to say thanks for reading and responding to these two posts I did.

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verslibre, I just wanted to say thanks for reading and responding to these two posts I did.

You bet, 'Tage! I do check out your posts and I'll try to chime in more often.

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The Cassette Chronicles #217 - Queensryche - The Warning

The Warning sounds just as incendiary nearly forty years later! For a bunch of young dudes, they sound like seasoned pros. Geoff Tate's a vocal freak of nature all throughout the '80s. The songs are all kickers and, honestly, much better than what many of their peers of the time were putting out. Queensrÿche was more or less our answer to Iron Maiden and those guys got their asses handed to them by a quintet from the city that also produced Heart, Soundgarden and Jimi Hendrix.

The Warning is a 5-star classic debut.

I wish the band had been able to stay the course with their material over the years. There was a downturn in quality for sure, though fans tend to disagree with where exactly that downturn began. I do know that since Todd La Torre became the vocalist, the material has taken an album by album turn for the better. At first I was judging the new stuff harder because it seemed like La Torre was trying to sound too much like early Geoff Tate but as each new album was released, he got more and more of his own "voice" and the material kept getting better. The Digital Noise Alliance album that is their latest release turned out to be excellent overall.

While Empire was their most commercial effort to date at the time, I still loved it and the concerts were amazing, some of the best I've seen. They really had it all.

After Promised Land, QR enters a dead zone for a while. What they were releasing wasn't up to par. While it's sad to see Tate and company part ways, it's for the better. The new album's material isn't grabbing me like the ones that directly precede it, and it sucks that Scott is no longer drumming, but QR made a fine comeback and it's pretty astounding they found a guy like Todd.

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I wish the band had been able to stay the course with their material over the years. There was a downturn in quality for sure, though fans tend to disagree with where exactly that downturn began. I do know that since Todd La Torre became the vocalist, the material has taken an album by album turn for the better. At first I was judging the new stuff harder because it seemed like La Torre was trying to sound too much like early Geoff Tate but as each new album was released, he got more and more of his own "voice" and the material kept getting better. The Digital Noise Alliance album that is their latest release turned out to be excellent overall.

While Empire was their most commercial effort to date at the time, I still loved it and the concerts were amazing, some of the best I've seen. They really had it all.

After Promised Land, QR enters a dead zone for a while. What they were releasing wasn't up to par. While it's sad to see Tate and company part ways, it's for the better. The new album's material isn't grabbing me like the ones that directly precede it, and it sucks that Scott is no longer drumming, but QR made a fine comeback and it's pretty astounding they found a guy like Todd.[/quote]

I actually liked the Queensryche albums through Hear in the Now Frontier. After that is when I thought the material went downhill. Have you heard Todd La Torre's solo album? Very different but really amazing.

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I actually liked the Queensryche albums through Hear in the Now Frontier. After that is when I thought the material went downhill. Have you heard Todd La Torre's solo album? Very different but really amazing.

The other day (before this thread), I was thinking about HitNF and how I may give that another spin.

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I actually liked the Queensryche albums through Hear in the Now Frontier. After that is when I thought the material went downhill. Have you heard Todd La Torre's solo album? Very different but really amazing.

The other day (before this thread), I was thinking about HitNF and how I may give that another spin.

Did you check out the HITNF album again? I know it was different and if I recall not a lot of people liked it. But I thought it was pretty darn good myself.

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The Cassette Chronicles #225 - Don Henley - The End of the Innocence

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The Cassette Chronicles #226 - Heretic - Breaking Point

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The Cassette Chronicles #227 - Survivor - When Seconds Count

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The Cassette Chronicles #228 - Junkyard - S/T