Best Tune on "The Warning" by Queensrÿche

Take Hold of the Flame

Child of Fire

I went with road to madness. I dig the vibe. Could have easily gone with a couple other tracks too.

After the latest spin, my choice is that I can't pick a favourite. It's just one awesome album.

"Flame" would be the easy pic, and while I'm not exactly tired of it, I went w/the title track...

By the way, I don't think it's a concept album. At least not in the sense that there's a continuing storyline.

I actually thought after all these years I'd missed out on something when I read the original post, but after reading the lyrics... nope. There's no story here.

Definitely not a concept album. Never quite crossed my mind.

If you want a better example of concept albums released by power/progressive metal bands around that time, look no further than Fates Warning's The Spectre Within and Awaken the Guardian.

I voted 'Road to Madness', a flawless vocal performance of Geoff Tate

Lari wrote:

By the way, I don't think it's a concept album

Painkiller wrote:

Definitely not a concept album

I didn't pull that tidbit of information out of my ass, I found it on Encyclopedia Metallum (same thing, I guess?) I'll take those elitist pricks' word for it.

Not a big fan of Queensrÿche, so I'll be listening to most of these albums for the first time when picking tracks for these polls. I did have the EP, though. Love "Queen of the Reich" and "The Lady Wore Black."

After a couple listens, the one song that really stand out is "Take Hold of the Flame."

DakotaRogers wrote:

James B. wrote:

It was pretty lame to dismiss the EP (IMHO)

Feel free to make the topic yourself there, pollmaster.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Child of Fire

Somebody who recognizes a well written quality tune.

Roads To Madness... I Still remember the first time I saw them play it live during the Empire tour.... I was blown away

I have to go with "Take Hold of the Flame". That song still sends shivers up and down my spine. A beautiful tune!

Eyesore wrote:

DakotaRogers wrote:

the sentinel wrote:

Does anyone no what the "NM" stands for? New/ Next Machine? Maybe?

Number

Yup. Says it right in the song. Haha.

Anyway, this album has held up quite well. Start to finish, it's a killer album. I voted for "Roads to Madness," though I could have easily picked "Deliverance."

I know that, but what's always thrown me off is that NM is not the abbreviation for the word number. One more reason to hate the vest.

Great album, I remember my friend Jamie was the first to pick this up (probably first day) and we cranked it for days on his living room stereo alongside Powerslave which I had bought. I still remember us getting them at the same time from a local record shop. Soon after we both had our own copies.
I went with NM 156 as that track always blew me away, even from the first play. But I enjoy the whole record.

the sentinel wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

DakotaRogers wrote:

the sentinel wrote:

Does anyone no what the "NM" stands for? New/ Next Machine? Maybe?

Number

Yup. Says it right in the song. Haha.

Anyway, this album has held up quite well. Start to finish, it's a killer album. I voted for "Roads to Madness," though I could have easily picked "Deliverance."

I know that, but what's always thrown me off is that NM is not the abbreviation for the word number. One more reason to hate the vest.

This is true, but Geoff doesn't live by our silly rules.

Take Hold Of The Flame!!