And the backup vocals are no slouch, either. This band was criminally underrated. I feel like they got lost under the hype of mid-80s new wave and then bands like GnR, and Empire was released right when grunge was introduced to us in the 90s. Empire was one of my fave albums my freshman year of high school, but I was definitely paying more attention to Nirvana, RHCP, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins and the like.
Really? They are coming nearby and was wondering if they were worth seeing without Geoff Tate? I know they haven’t been together awhile but he’s who I always knew as the lead singer. @@josephmccaughey3486
Well, seems like you never try prog-rock. QR is just another heavymetal-like band, there is 1 million others. There is not many differences with all of them.
Vocalist has unique voice, yes, Chris DeGarmo is epic, but this band is mediocre at best, no one's remember their name in 2024. Cause there is no musical evolution the their history. This is not progressive band at all. Very commercial band.
@@yemahockThat's the great thing about music. You are entitled to your (wrong) opinion. Operation: Mindcrime is one of the greatest albums of all time, including the ancient builders of pyramids.
Geoff Tate is mesmerizing in this video. This is such a perfect song. No-one else could ever do this song justice. He's got the voice and the charisma to carry it off. What a beautiful space in time.
Sorry go back to great rock and roll if the 60’,s and 70s. Really love this song and his vocals along with a great guitar riff, but the bands then were the fathers of all the rock bands that followed. But man I love his voice. Oh and I’m a baby boomer, late 50’s when they could hold their audience with great music like Queensryche, no auto tune or back up dancers. Just one old dudes opinion
This guy is such a great singer. I am 41 and I am disabled . I have so much trouble with my mental health and everything else, too. This song is how I feel. I feel the music. I could listen to rock music 24/7!!! Rock on.
❤ I miss my c.d though...brothers - what can you do? I " borrow " a cassette, he" borrows" a c.d!😂😉 - at least I can still see the original video on TH-cam bcz I don't think Mtv is playing it anymore.❤
Can't believe it's been 32 years. Empire was the fantastic soundtrack to my life in the summer of 1991. The music of this superlative band will forever be burned into my consciousness and my soul.
This song is so good it sounds better and more powerful than back in the day..I never had this CD yet hearing it all summer long in "91 especially at the old Marquee in Garden Grove CA between bands blaring on the house PA...!
Well... Dream Theater was heavily influenced by Queensryche's' music. Now, I'm not saying they're the same as Queensryche, but they're in the same genre. And they're just as awesome.
Idnic Tsal Never said they were alike. I said that they're the same genre. Queensryche is progressive metal, which is a genre that they pioneered; Dream Theater's main influence is Queensryche. If you listen to Dream Theater's earlier songs you'll see. James Labrie's vocal style is quite similar to Geoff Tate's. Like I said, the bands aren't the same or alike, but they are similar considering they're the same genre. Listen to some of Dream Theater's interviews, you'll see.
Amen. Mindcrime warned us about the political turmoil unfolding today. Problem is, the textbook definition of anarchy apparently went right over some people's heads.
Art as definite as Van Goh's paintings ahh yes it's like an audiophonic genuine piece of art. They don't call signed bands recording artists for nothing....!
I think maybe it was just here in the U.S. that it was underrated. 🤨 According to Wikipedia, "Queensrÿche has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, including over 6 million albums in the United States." We bought less than a 1/3 of them? 🤨
@@swordmonkey6635 i was in 3rd grade when i first heard of queensryche. mtv debuted the video for empire and i was hooked. i bought the cassette tape and used to walk all over my town playing empire in my walkman. it's definitely one of my favorites!
The lyrics,the lyrics!!! Think!!! This song is soo important especially these days! "Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling!" "Think for yourself!" Absolutely beautiful ❤️🤟
This song is so hauntingly beautiful. Geoff Tate's vocal is absolutely amazing and the harmonies with DeGarmo are just as gorgeous!! CD was a superb songwriter. I miss the original Queensryche line up so much! They were fantastic!!
I was working on a frustrating job project in July of 2017 and spontaneously posted this song on a social media post. It was answered by the most beautiful woman in the world, and we have since had a beautiful baby boy ALL BECAUSE of this amazing song. Thank you Queensryche!!!
50 also... Do you remember reading George Orwell's "1984" in high school? We are living in his prediction. No one seems the transformation. Conditioned generation by generation...
I'm sure all Queensryche songs are relevant and everybody's life the whole life not just when they first heard the song but now so I think it's relevant completely in life least people can sing about how other people feel and that's pretty hard if you ask me but you're not on you? 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
1984 indeed! Seeing more truth drops in our generations music than ever. Where do songs come from? They're stream of conscious. We're living in a time where news is fake and movies are real. A small group of friends have COVID-1984 t-shirts!
I’m so happy my father had me listening to these guys before I could even walk. He told me that when I was a baby I couldn’t sleep at night unless he put on silent lucidity. I’m going to have my sons listen to this and keep this kind of music living on
Well I did the same thing My kids were baptized in music But these guys went deeper Giving us life lessons and wisdom of our human nature and the world at large
Silent Lucidity is an even more incredible song if you have the ability to lucid dream. I've done it. Not every day. What a thoughtful and insightful band!
Omg This Man Has One Of The Best Vocal Voice I've Ever Heard.. So Magical Beautiful Powerful WOW And The Song Is So Beautiful Touching Filled With Strong Power SUPER EXCELLENT
@@Qwerty789LLI have an idea who. But I could be wrong.maybe the same guy who said,"maybe out of all the people in the world someone out there cares about u and wants u. Time will tell. yes. Time will surely tell many things.
One things for sure. Is that I am truly loved. By who? I don't know. But I feel loved. I feel it strongly in my soul. I am not alone. Never was. 😅@@Qwerty789LL
I've listened to Is Anybody Listening...70 times in the past week and a half. I can't get enough of it. I go to bed singing it .wake up singing it. In Love!!
I'm 40 years old and I've been listening to Queensrhyce for just a year now, and I think how they make these songs more meaningful than what they sound like, not the lyrics, but the choice of tone and the way they set the tempo, is really interesting!!
LOVE..... Empire album! Sadly, Silent Lucidity reminds me of my 31 yr old brother, “Leaving the game of life” committing suicide due to depression. May, he Rip always and forever. 🙏🏻💕 He was a Wonderful person and brother - my “favorite brother” I miss him so much! 😢
I couldn't agree more. These guys had it ALL!! Nobody could touch them, the original lineup. They had a sound like no other. They were the best, ever. Miss them dearly.💔😪
This was the first Queensryche song I ever heard. I was stunned by it's beauty and power. From the Empire album I went backwards to their beginnings and was amazed at the quality of the music, vocals, and lyrics! Decades later I'm STILL amazed! And they're still my favorite band in the universe. I've seen then live and met them many times, and was so impressed every time!!
Yes, Geoff. Many have been listening, have seen what's going on. Continue to see the light. At all costs. Just know that some light can never be "seen".
This is a masterpiece!!! The lyrics are so powerful and Geoff Tate singing them makes it so easy to get lost in the song. I am a fan of Queensryche from way back and always will be.
I have never heard a vocalist better than Geoff Tate from any other mainstream artist. Queensryche was a band I could disappear to during my hard childhood. Thank you for sharing your art Queensryche. You'll never understand how you was there for me.
There are many great vocalist out there obviously robert plant and lead singer of white snake. David Riverdale. Lead singer for shine down. All amazing.
this song takes me back to my teenage years.... vividly..sitting in my room...shutting out all the crap and listening to queensryche..what a band they once were...
Saw these kids open up for Kiss in St Louis way back in the 80's, had no idea who they were, but when Geoff hit those notes that only a few have ever hit, I was blown away...the headline at the time for them was of course the legendary...TaKE HOLD OF THE FLAME! You just knew they were on their way to superstardom, and man they did not disappoint! My oh my...saw them 5 times over the next two decades and they never disappointed live, always exceeding expectations in the studio....Operation Mindcrime, and Empire have to be two of the best heavy metal albums I ever owned, and anyone who says this is not heavy metal, never sawed them live! Peace!
That's cool.....yeah I saw them open for AC/DC in Sacramento in 1986 and I was blown away. I became a fan instantly. Rage for Order became my "soundtrack" for my Senior year in high school. Operation Mindcrime became my soundtrack for my sophomore year in college, and Empire became the soundtrack for my Senior year in college. This particular song "Anybody Listening?" is a beautiful song.
Chris DeGarmo's sound, feel, and technique has always cut to my soul like no other guitarist. I'm not saying he is the best of all time, but he might well be my personal #1.
Geoff Tate, Jeff Kieth, Sebastian Bach, and Stephen Pearcy were, and still are, some of my favorite vocalists. Geoff Tate, of course, takes it to a whole new level!
Anybody still listening in 5/2024? Love this band, not the new 1.
5/11/24
Still listening in 2024. Agreed. It's only Queensryche with Geoff.
Stil gr8
5/15
\m/ (>
5/17/24
The man simply has one of the best vocal abilities I've ever heard in my life
Geoff Tate sings really well, too! 😉
NO ONE sounds like him! I've never heard anyone I like better than him!
And the backup vocals are no slouch, either. This band was criminally underrated. I feel like they got lost under the hype of mid-80s new wave and then bands like GnR, and Empire was released right when grunge was introduced to us in the 90s. Empire was one of my fave albums my freshman year of high school, but I was definitely paying more attention to Nirvana, RHCP, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins and the like.
I believe he’s opera trained
@@ericidzior8361 Yes, Geoff DID have opera training! I also believe his aunt was an opera singer. Genes and TALENT! A deadly duo!
nothing will ever beat the original Queensryche lineup.
I just saw them with the current lineup and was blown away
You know it! 🔥
Really? They are coming nearby and was wondering if they were worth seeing without Geoff Tate? I know they haven’t been together awhile but he’s who I always knew as the lead singer. @@josephmccaughey3486
@@josephmccaughey3486
Did you Queensryche fronted by Todd La Torre?
Or Geoff Tates Operation Mindcrime?
Geoff Tate will always be Queensryche
One of the most intelligent and important bands in music history.
Indeed..
Spread the word.
Well, seems like you never try prog-rock. QR is just another heavymetal-like band, there is 1 million others. There is not many differences with all of them.
Vocalist has unique voice, yes, Chris DeGarmo is epic, but this band is mediocre at best, no one's remember their name in 2024. Cause there is no musical evolution the their history. This is not progressive band at all. Very commercial band.
@@yemahockThat's the great thing about music. You are entitled to your (wrong) opinion. Operation: Mindcrime is one of the greatest albums of all time, including the ancient builders of pyramids.
Geoff Tate is mesmerizing in this video. This is such a perfect song. No-one else could ever do this song justice. He's got the voice and the charisma to carry it off. What a beautiful space in time.
Yes. Perfection all round
Here's a cover that blows away the original. th-cam.com/video/mdY4ZRAz_58/w-d-xo.html
Beautiful song! I love his voice!❤
Thumbs 👍🏻 up if you're listening in 2024
Such a message for this time as such 2024. Wish the whole world would listen to this song and open their eyes
Geoff's voice still gives me chills. This song is so hauntingly beautiful with a powerful message. Perfection. ❤
and he is such a beautiful man also
@@Taubenseele Anytime lyrics transcend time... Well, they're just great poetry. We just can't go wrong (if We listen).
@@robertakerman3570 th-cam.com/video/a7pd-TH-grI/w-d-xo.html
Better than la Torre ? 😌
@@arunsabherwal6256 for me? 100 times better.
Flawless.............music like this does not exist anymore
I completely agree!
Yea it doesnt it .. ughh..
@@benlawson458 Nice
It does but is rare
@@doomwolf7963 Doomwolf, Yes; all is not lost. Talent abounds.
33 years later and i still cant find a sound system loud enough to listen to this master piece on.
Is there any doubt that Gen X has THE best soundtrack of all time?
For me millenials still make a deal
Right!!!
Sorry go back to great rock and roll if the 60’,s and 70s. Really love this song and his vocals along with a great guitar riff, but the bands then were the fathers of all the rock bands that followed. But man I love his voice. Oh and I’m a baby boomer, late 50’s when they could hold their audience with great music like Queensryche, no auto tune or back up dancers. Just one old dudes opinion
Totally agree Gen X here 1966
All day long.
This guy is such a great singer. I am 41 and I am disabled . I have so much trouble with my mental health and everything else, too. This song is how I feel. I feel the music. I could listen to rock music 24/7!!! Rock on.
sending some love from Athens, Greece
I have always enjoyed his voice I wish he was able to continue singing
Hello Heather....I know some of your pain....🎼🎵🎶🏴💔🙏🌜
You are not alone ☮🎶
Omg YES❤❤❤❤
"Anybody listening?" Yes, me. Still... after so many years. Can't get enough
Anybody Listening?
Yes…. I am …. 2024.
Yes
Hell ya 🤘
🙂Yes
Eu matando a saudades de música boa ❤
❤ I miss my c.d though...brothers - what can you do? I " borrow " a cassette, he" borrows" a c.d!😂😉 - at least I can still see the original video on TH-cam bcz I don't think Mtv is playing it anymore.❤
Can't believe it's been 32 years. Empire was the fantastic soundtrack to my life in the summer of 1991. The music of this superlative band will forever be burned into my consciousness and my soul.
my thoughts exactly
Yes it was Eric Wood
Same here!
Same!!
Very well said. These guys brought such mind chilling vocals to my ears and gave me another way to listen to perfection! 💖
yes one of the greatest voices in rock history
apparently..there are plenty of us listening..rock on queensryche..love your music..love your voice Geoff
I'm still listening in 2024😂 ✌️
Love the verse " IS THERE ANYONE WHO SMILES WITHOUT A MASK "
Still listening too 🤘🤘🤘
Incredible. Absolutely incredible. The writing, the lyrics, the playing, the sounds, the voices. Stunning.
This song is highly underrated. I don’t understand how it didn’t gain more popularity in its time. My absolute favorite song from the album!!
You are right they have such a great songs they a awesome band
I'm definitely listening, 2024
CLASS ACT, WE NEED ' EM BACK, ALL OF THEM !!!!
If you do not like this, you are dead inside. These guys should have been HUGE! My fav band now and has always been.
This song is so good it sounds better and more powerful than back in the day..I never had this CD yet hearing it all summer long in "91 especially at the old Marquee in Garden Grove CA between bands blaring on the house PA...!
This album was huge. They were huge commercially for 2 years. Won a Grammy that year. Sold out shows.
They were huge in my book!💖😂😎
I can't get over how INCREDIBLE POIGNANT this song is for right now. Shocking how on point Queensryche is TODAY!!!
Queens today isn't nearly the same or as good as they were in the 80s
@@boobbutthole9537 they are not the same as in the 80s
@@boobbutthole9537 True, but the lyrics are timeless.
@@alfredom.antonio8812 Nope, and the new singer sings like an ass, however, this song and Geoff's voice are magic.
@@username-zj9id I don't remember, but I will find out.
hey..why don't you all stop arguing and just appreciate Queensryche.. there will never be another band like this!!!
SO TRUE :-)
Well... Dream Theater was heavily influenced by Queensryche's' music. Now, I'm not saying they're the same as Queensryche, but they're in the same genre. And they're just as awesome.
+DismalShadow please. Listened to a song of theirs and bro. No comparison to Geoff Tate.
DismalShadow and I also saw them twice at House of Blues-and in my opinion DT and QR sound nothing alike
Idnic Tsal Never said they were alike. I said that they're the same genre. Queensryche is progressive metal, which is a genre that they pioneered; Dream Theater's main influence is Queensryche. If you listen to Dream Theater's earlier songs you'll see. James Labrie's vocal style is quite similar to Geoff Tate's. Like I said, the bands aren't the same or alike, but they are similar considering they're the same genre. Listen to some of Dream Theater's interviews, you'll see.
It's time for people to wake up. It's amazing how many people listen but don't hear what these bands have been telling us all along.
Amen. Mindcrime warned us about the political turmoil unfolding today. Problem is, the textbook definition of anarchy apparently went right over some people's heads.
Amen Sister.........
@@Cale_Roy_Wusere Exactly people don`t listen to the lyrics,thats why i always listen carefully,QueensRyche is a uberband........
YES! "Read between the lines, and criticize the words they're saying" In other words, pay tf attention!
Agreed
Eddie’s bass on this is just fantastic! 👍🏿
Scott Rockenfield's drums are kicking a on this song. Powerful.
Chris’s tone in this song is phenomenal. The harmonies really make this one of the best Q-ryche vocal performance. and those lyrics!!
The absolutely most underrated band in rock history!! Greatest voice in rock ever!! Imho!!perfect group!!!
this band .....out of this world
litterally
Now this is what you call real music, perfection !!!
Music so clean, lyrics meaningful, great backup vocals, great lead vocals...truly ART!
Art as definite as Van Goh's paintings ahh yes it's like an audiophonic genuine piece of art. They don't call signed
bands recording artists for nothing....!
And this is why Geoff will always be the voice of Queensryche to me.
No band like Queensryche!
Never will be...
Every aspect a master piece. This is what bands used to be.
Still one of the most talented and under-rated vocalists ever. So much of his work is nearly timeless.
Underrated?
One of their best songs, this whole album is underrated
Even if Empire was voted Best Album of the 90s, I'd still consider it underrated. Not a bad song on the album.
One of the best album of all time. No shit!!!!!!!!###
I think maybe it was just here in the U.S. that it was underrated. 🤨 According to Wikipedia, "Queensrÿche has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, including over 6 million albums in the United States."
We bought less than a 1/3 of them? 🤨
No this album was NOT underrated
@@swordmonkey6635 i was in 3rd grade when i first heard of queensryche. mtv debuted the video for empire and i was hooked. i bought the cassette tape and used to walk all over my town playing empire in my walkman. it's definitely one of my favorites!
I’m late to the Queensryche party....damn, what I’ve missed out on all these years....brilliant band!
Never too late to get on board
Tracks like this is why I love Queensrÿche. Progressive metal and thought provoking lyrics.
🎯
Queensryche is what you get when record labels stay out of what a band does in the studio
Still here in 2024?? And I Guess I'm Just Honestly Awaiting for someone who is really listening??
🖤🖤🖤
I got your back
Just losing myself in the music
I was listening to this song when I was 16
The lyrics,the lyrics!!! Think!!!
This song is soo important especially these days!
"Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling!"
"Think for yourself!"
Absolutely beautiful ❤️🤟
TRUMP2024
@@markcaywood1461 Preach.
Cringe worthy even for a 12 year old.
💯✌️😎
I stopped listening to them after the fired him
This song is so hauntingly beautiful. Geoff Tate's vocal is absolutely amazing and the harmonies with DeGarmo are just as gorgeous!! CD was a superb songwriter. I miss the original Queensryche line up so much! They were fantastic!!
Yes he was. Tate actually wrote the lyrics for this one
I was working on a frustrating job project in July of 2017 and spontaneously posted this song on a social media post. It was answered by the most beautiful woman in the world, and we have since had a beautiful baby boy ALL BECAUSE of this amazing song. Thank you Queensryche!!!
Queensryche is so good they even get the ladies for other people. Congrats
More relevant today than when the lyrics were first penned.
Indeed
50 also... Do you remember reading George Orwell's "1984" in high school? We are living in his prediction. No one seems the transformation. Conditioned generation by generation...
Amen to that
I'm sure all Queensryche songs are relevant and everybody's life the whole life not just when they first heard the song but now so I think it's relevant completely in life least people can sing about how other people feel and that's pretty hard if you ask me but you're not on you? 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
1984 indeed! Seeing more truth drops in our generations music than ever. Where do songs come from? They're stream of conscious. We're living in a time where news is fake and movies are real. A small group of friends have COVID-1984 t-shirts!
Back when they were the greatest. They were so good back then!!!!!!I miss them as as unit!
In my opinion they never the same without him! Great front man
I’m so happy my father had me listening to these guys before I could even walk. He told me that when I was a baby I couldn’t sleep at night unless he put on silent lucidity. I’m going to have my sons listen to this and keep this kind of music living on
Then your father succeeded in two ways: he got a great taste in music and - most important - he raised his son right.
@@wEdits0nly you know that's the coolest thing anyone has ever said to me about my dad and the music he likes. Thank you very much
Well I did the same thing
My kids were baptized in music
But these guys went deeper
Giving us life lessons and wisdom of our human nature and the world at large
Silent Lucidity is an even more incredible song if you have the ability to lucid dream. I've done it. Not every day. What a thoughtful and insightful band!
God bles Your Father.. .he Has 😈
Omg This Man Has One Of The Best Vocal Voice I've Ever Heard.. So Magical Beautiful Powerful WOW
And The Song Is So Beautiful Touching Filled With Strong Power
SUPER EXCELLENT
No argument there Jamila
I agree 💯 % best band ever far as I'm concerned! So sad that they broke up 😢
@@robing915 Yes dear Robin, they are where really an excellent band 💯.. I agree, so sad that they broke up 😢
Geoff's voice is truly amazing!!! I've been listening to Queensryche for decades and I never get enough of the music !!!!!
Chris DeGarmo was a musical genius...unbelievable talent...coupled with Geoff Tate's vocal ability these songs are absolutely incredible and timeless
Omg, Degarmo is so good....
Listening to this again 30 years later. This is the best song on the album.
Oh my goodness. His voice....
"just do what u love and don't worry about anything" I hold on to your words. Thank u🤗
Who said that?
@@Qwerty789LLsomeone out there who cares about me, that I haven't met (yet). That's who.
@@Qwerty789LLI have an idea who. But I could be wrong.maybe the same guy who said,"maybe out of all the people in the world someone out there cares about u and wants u. Time will tell. yes. Time will surely tell many things.
One things for sure. Is that I am truly loved. By who? I don't know. But I feel loved. I feel it strongly in my soul. I am not alone. Never was. 😅@@Qwerty789LL
“Anybody listening” is one of their best . One of my favorites. Kickass tune!
I've listened to Is Anybody Listening...70 times in the past week and a half. I can't get enough of it. I go to bed singing it .wake up singing it. In Love!!
Amazing talents in this band. Loved them in 1991 and more so today. Geoff has a voice that hypnotizes and creates so many emotions. I am addicted
You are not alone
Hi pat
Hello
Me too. I've only just discovered them and I'm not disappointed.
Hugely underrated band! Awesome vocals!!!!!
How am I supposed to enjoy that? There was not ONE big booty ho', no Bugatti, and where were their gold grills? Disgraceful
Ok. This guy's voice is so clear!
I'm enjoying the view too
Yep. Good times all round
Hi krista
He's a looker for sure
I'm 40 years old and I've been listening to Queensrhyce for just a year now, and I think how they make these songs more meaningful than what they sound like, not the lyrics, but the choice of tone and the way they set the tempo, is really interesting!!
LOVE..... Empire album!
Sadly, Silent Lucidity reminds me of my 31 yr old brother, “Leaving the game of life” committing suicide due to depression.
May, he Rip always and forever. 🙏🏻💕
He was a Wonderful person and brother - my “favorite brother” I miss him so much! 😢
I couldn't agree more. These guys had it ALL!! Nobody could touch them, the original lineup. They had a sound like no other. They were the best, ever. Miss them dearly.💔😪
One of the greatest band’s in the 80’s
This was the first Queensryche song I ever heard. I was stunned by it's beauty and power. From the Empire album I went backwards to their beginnings and was amazed at the quality of the music, vocals, and lyrics! Decades later I'm STILL amazed! And they're still my favorite band in the universe. I've seen then live and met them many times, and was so impressed every time!!
"...Stepped out on the stage, a life
under lights and judging eyes..." Amazing song!!! Amazing band!!!
Stunning. Mind blown, even after all of these years. x
In the midst of the grunge movement came one of the best rock bands and one of the best albums of all time. In my humble opinion of course...
Geoff, without you, Queensryche isn't the same... Your music rocks my world!
Geoff was Queensryche. He still is even though the other band members don't see it. He has talent and tons of charisma. So glad he's still performing
Present day Queensryche is better than latter day Geoff Queensryche.
Best song on the album. A seven minute masterpiece.
Yes, Geoff. Many have been listening, have seen what's going on. Continue to see the light. At all costs. Just know that some light can never be "seen".
His message still stands strong. I wish the whole world would listen and GET ANGRY!!!!!!!!
Legends in their own time! This band did it... perfectly.
Anybody listening in July 2024??❤
Good lord! The bass tone and clarity!
This is a masterpiece!!! The lyrics are so powerful and Geoff Tate singing them makes it so easy to get lost in the song. I am a fan of Queensryche from way back and always will be.
I do get lost in the song.
✌️😎
I have never heard a vocalist better than Geoff Tate from any other mainstream artist. Queensryche was a band I could disappear to during my hard childhood. Thank you for sharing your art Queensryche. You'll never understand how you was there for me.
There are many great vocalist out there obviously robert plant and lead singer of white snake. David Riverdale. Lead singer for shine down. All amazing.
@@anthonyhitchman9789 a baritone that can hit E5!
@@anthonyhitchman9789 it's coverdale... lol.
I can relate. They were my escape.
@@anthonyhitchman9789 David can't really sing anymore and Dino Jellusick will be singing on the White Snake final tour.
this song takes me back to my teenage years.... vividly..sitting in my room...shutting out all the crap and listening to queensryche..what a band they once were...
Me too!
Im sitting in my back yard under the stars LISTENING....LOUD
This is the first song I ever heard and it blew my 10 year old mind!!
I’m 62 and still listen to Queensrÿche now and way back in the day when they first started out.
Amber G, you were 10 when you first heard of Queensrÿche and their music ?
They put on a fantastic show live also! Super impressive!
I still love this band! Geoff’s vocals are incredible, he puts so much feeling into the words. This song could be describing the world today.
Saw these kids open up for Kiss in St Louis way back in the 80's, had no idea who they were, but when Geoff hit those notes that only a few have ever hit, I was blown away...the headline at the time for them was of course the legendary...TaKE HOLD OF THE FLAME! You just knew they were on their way to superstardom, and man they did not disappoint! My oh my...saw them 5 times over the next two decades and they never disappointed live, always exceeding expectations in the studio....Operation Mindcrime, and Empire have to be two of the best heavy metal albums I ever owned, and anyone who says this is not heavy metal, never sawed them live! Peace!
Rockenfield and Jackson are the tightest rhythm section ever. I have never seen them live; those two alone must be amazing in concert.
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That's where I first saw them. The Warning had just been released. Awesome concert.
That's cool.....yeah I saw them open for AC/DC in Sacramento in 1986 and I was blown away. I became a fan instantly. Rage for Order became my "soundtrack" for my Senior year in high school. Operation Mindcrime became my soundtrack for my sophomore year in college, and Empire became the soundtrack for my Senior year in college. This particular song "Anybody Listening?" is a beautiful song.
@@nathanritzo2228 What a shame.
They...the original 5 were amazing.
I saw them so many times...I lost count.
I love how the bass is really front and center in their music
i love queensryche, Geoff voice is one of the best voices I had ever heard.
The height of their power. They never recovered from Chris leaving.
is there anybody listening... in 2020?
Probably not
totally trying to escape the cage .......
Verno V yup
Here
I am. Great music.
"Is there anyone who smiles without a mask?"
These decades later, might still be the most cutting lyric I've ever heard. Queensrÿche fucking ruled.
His voice cuts my soul. I feel it in my core.
Love This Band! SOOO Underappreciated!!
One of the most beautiful melodies I´ve heard in my life.
One of the best albums of the 90s
I never get sick of it
One of the best bands ever they do not make music like this anymore at all
Queensryche are/were true artists.....the feeling in this song, the beauty, the emotions.....fantastic!!!!
This song wipes the floor with the past 20 years of "music"...
Jesus Geoff's voice is AWESOME. U can rly feel what he's feeling when he sings🖤🖤🤘🤘
They are an amazing group of artists and creators. Incredible! I remember so well during that time of Queensryche. I love them.
This is my favorite song from Queensryche!
Chris DeGarmo's sound, feel, and technique has always cut to my soul like no other guitarist. I'm not saying he is the best of all time, but he might well be my personal #1.
Geoff Tate, Jeff Kieth, Sebastian Bach, and Stephen Pearcy were, and still are, some of my favorite vocalists. Geoff Tate, of course, takes it to a whole new level!
Together, they are great. Apart, they are nothing. Grown men should see that.
It's so true what's been going on for decades But unfortunately there are still so many still asleep and not listening