I want to add that while most probably hate Empire (it wasn't mentioned in the thread or included in the poll) I still have a soft spot for it. The songwriting was still way ahead of most of the crap on the radio at that time.
i have now realized that everything on "rage for order" is really great except "gonna get close to you" and "chemical youth" which are both intolerably cheesy, though in different ways
here're my most played tracks on last.fm for the last 12 months
of course, last.fm doesn't count my car stereo, cd player, or youtube plays
if it did the list would be similar but with 5 times higher numbers
just
queensryche all day every day
my girlfriend pretty much wants to murder me at this point
i have now realized that everything on "rage for order" is really great except "gonna get close to you" and "chemical youth" which are both intolerably cheesy, though in different ways
Rage for Order will always hold a special place in my heart. It was the first cassette I bought the summer I started driving. I had just spent $350 putting a Clarion car stereo and speakers (1988 dollars) into my 1979 Toyota Celica. I can still remember sitting at the traffic light, outside the record store, as the opening notes of "Walk in the Shadows" started to blare out of my rolled-down windows. Fuck that was forever ago.