Queensrÿche Albums Ranked!

hello everyone and welcome to the Green Man Channel hope you're doing good and well so it's time for another band discography ranking on the channel and this time I'm tackling the albums of the legendary band Queens Reich I will be ranking these albums from my least favorite to my favorite in the usual fashion and I'm dealing with 16 Studio albums this time I'm not including 2007's take cover partly because that was a cover's album and partly because I've never actually listened to it so it wouldn't be fair to it wouldn't be fair to include that in this list I will however be including Jeff Tes Queen re frequency unknown from 2013 partly because that's on Wikipedia's list of Queen strike albums it was before their sort of official uh settlement with who would use the band's name I just thought what the hell I include Jeff Tes Queen Dr that first album on this on this list uh for the hell of it um but there may be some debate as to whether or not I should and as with always with my band album rankings these are always subjective I know I should never really have to say that every time but just keep that in mind and feel free to drop your own album rankings in the comments I'd be interested to know how you interpret and what you think of Queens WR various albums over the years in all their different eras as well one thing I'd like to say before I kick on with this album ranking as well is that all the albums stacked towards the bottom of my list all have very similar justifications for where they're stacked to for why they're stacked towards the bottom of the list so I apologize if I repeat myself and regurgitate the same reasons over and over again for those albums but that's just how I feel about those albums and so you're going to get a little bit of repetition in this video for this particular ranking so just apologies about that up front but anyway without any further chitchat let's crack on with my list uh of Queens Reich albums ranked from my least favorite to my favorite we're starting with number 16 here which is Jeff Tes Queen frequency unknown from 2013 and this is suffering from the problems of lots of that era of Queens Reich albums it's lackluster in songwriting it's lackluster in potency in much that's very memorable um I suppose there's a little tiny bit of punch here and there with the song but it's just really for me just lacking in much imagination and um you know I just really don't particularly like this album so it's my least favorite Queens Reich album say Queens Reich may be inverted commas given the circumstances with the band having two different split bands at this point but yeah it's my least favorite Queen Dr album coming in at number 16 frequency unknown and also it's pretty edgy having that album cover with the fu on two of the different Rings uh you know to sort of um yeah you know what maybe Jeff Tate was trying to say with the album cover there but anyway let's just move on from my least favorite album very quickly but number 15 it's very similar reasons for it being uh low down on the list that's dedicated to chaos from 2011 surprise surprise another lackluster album another album I think has very lazy songwriting it just sounds like a safe by the Numbers Rock album really nothing very interesting about it nothing memorable about it and I'd rather have a Bad album with character than one which is very flat-footed and insid like dedicated to chaos or you know the Jeff Tates Queen's like album so again very similar reasons as hard the anything to be fair there's nothing really between this album and my bottom album uh with frequency unknown it's just dedicated to chaos and frequency unknown are just both to me very very poor albums uh at the bottom end of this list and you know what I haven't even known to any favorite tracks from the album so far because I don't really have favorite tracks particularly on those two albums at all and it's going to carry on a bit like that for a bit longer on this list so apologies again about that my number 14 is going to be um operation mine crime 2 the attempt at somewhat recreating the magic of the original album with a sequel to that concept album a continuation of the story if you will but again for many of the similar reasons as with the AFF mentioned two albums before this one uh it's just lacking in substance and depth despite the story being there somewhat it still doesn't have songs which deliver any Punch or potency still lacking in the Dynamics of early Queens right still lacking in that big guitar sound the guitar tones just aren't really there it's just the production's pretty bad on operation line crime 2 as well again it's just an album I can't really dig into or enjoy it's a real struggle to get through but the reason this album is number 14 and it's not bottom is because I think there are at least efforts to make this a good album even though it's not a good album I feel like there an effort there with this album um and it also does have a song I Really quite like called the hands and I think yes it's still suffering a bit from a lackluster delivery but that song is a good song and I think if it was the old queens re delivering the hands I'd absolutely love that track so that's the reason operation mcme 2 is number 14 because there's a song or two on there that I kind of dig but it's still very lackluster okay getting a tiny bit more positive with my number 13 which which is American soldier from 2009 I can totally get behind the reasons and inspiration for this album and uh the sentiment as well I I can feel that at least I I at least appreciate the reasons for making this album and for uh giving that to us but again It suffers from a lack of potency uh lazy songwriting for me still even though there's an inspirational theme here there's just the songwriting is still not there the song structures are still lacking in much imagin um I do like a couple of songs towards the end of this album again that's just the very slight difference that pushes this album a little bit higher than the other three albums mentioned on my list so far so American soldiers coming in here at number 13 I quite like M down and remember me as my favorite tracks from American soldier from 2009 now we're moving on to number 12 and we're again getting a tiny bit better to here but these are still all pretty you know pretty poor albums by the standards of Queens Reich I think personally with tr from 2003 the band in this ER where they're trying to move with the times a bit and this sound this album at least has some character and some personality about it and I do think it has some punch in its production those are the reasons why this one is above the previous four albums it just has something a little bit more of a personality and a punch to it a flavor I can kind of get behind a bit more for me personally I really like Losing Myself tribe uh and tribe on this Al the track um the art of life is kind of cool as well well so overall still pretty lackluster still pretty dull stuff but tribe I can just about manag to get through without struggling too much it's oh it's still to be honest it's still pretty bad but we're getting better now finally at number 11 I feel like there's a pretty big golf between tribe and this next album on my list I feel like we're getting into I can breathe a bit more I can get out of the slightly negative space I'm in with just cuz I really don't enjoy those previous albums I can get into a more positive head space now with this and we can start talking brightly and positively about this band because they are a great band at the end of the day despite this era which I don't really like so at number 11 we've got here in the now Frontier from 97 my favorite tracks on here include the likes of all I want anytime anywhere and actually it's on the reissue of the album but chasing blue sky is a magnificent track I think why isn't that song on the original album somebody told me I've not found out but chasing blue sky is an amazing song um anyway this is a pretty solid album Still Still I've got to say again lacking in any particularly great songwriting apart from a a few songs maybe I do think we're moving into the albums now where I find there are a few gems there are at least a few songs I quite enjoy and can pull out and listen to more selectively I still struggled to get through this whole album A bit here in the now Frontier and you know Queen re I can understand somewhat a lot of bands were under pressure in that era to move with the times to go with the trend and change the sound and that's what Queens did with hearing the nail Frontier but the problem is when band start to lose their authen authenticity and move in that direction they lose a bit of their identity and the music suffers for that their their their talents where they best directed are no longer directed in in that direction if you get what I'm saying they're directed in a way which doesn't serve the song so well uh or or the band's uh originality if I if I would say and here an Al Frontier just doesn't sound like my kind of Queens re so I don't really dig that album so it's my number 11 so number 10 we've got q2k um which maybe is higher up than most people would put this album I think because it's another kind of Fairly you know Queens like in that alternative rock styled era still sort of I think you know losing their originality a little bit here but but I quite like this album actually I can listen to this one I could even choose to listen to it and not find myself drifting out of it too much particularly I like the second half of q2k and I really love beside you liquid sky and the right side of my mind that Trio tracks pretty cool but just generally the second half has got a bit more about it you got a bit more passion with Jeff's focals which I enjoy in this album I can hear that here definitely and it's sort of a little bit of a Dark Horse I'm not sure I would include it on a series like Dark Horse discs from a couple of years ago I don't necessarily think I'd include it on that kind of a series but it's got a little glimmer of dark horseness about it it's a little bit underrated um and I quite enjoy some of it so q2k is my number 10 on this list now we move on to number nine uh which may be a slight hot take um because it's my least favorite from the todl tour Rejuvenation reinvigoration Revival of Queen Reich starting in 2013 um there self-titled album with him starting in the band so first album sort of I say post divorce it wasn't quite post divorce was it with Jeff Tate um but you've got some good stuff on here but I still think people got a bit carried away when this album came out I think they got a little bit carried away because Queens right sounded a little bit more like their old selves than they had at this point but I still think this album lacks a little bit of um you know not so many exciting tracks for me personally and uh Todd Lor is still finding his feet a little bit maybe with this album I think the band are still finding their Synergy uh and you can hear that in this album as compared to the later albums with Todd that's all I'll say I still think this is a good album I think this is a solid album don't get me wrong but from the Todd era for me it's one of my least favorites actually it's my least favorite Todd album I would say but it's their first with him it's understandable but it's still better than all the affir mentioned how many several albums I've gone through on the list so so far it's still better than those now we go to the top half of the list and for me the better half the better albums all around this is where we dig into classic sounding Queens Reich territory the best albums to me the biggest sound I love the cracking tracks we're getting there now we're we're there we're in real positive teritory now so let's get on with things with number eight which is condition human an honorable mention on my recent 2015 list I love this album this is an album I'd actively listen to i' actively choose to listen to conditioned humans got great tracks on you've got the like to Guardian toxic remedy The Hourglass really memorable really catchy songs but also Punchy potent good production Todd sounds great the band sound great I I you know I really like Michael Wiltson that he's given space to really perform really do some great guitar work on this album as well and it's just Queen's wght coming back Really this time even more so than with that first Todds album they're really just getting into the swing with this album much more and you can hear it on condition human my number seven is Promised Land um still a older Jeff album which is a really underrated album was actually a dark horse disc on the darkh horse disc series that we did as I say a couple of years back I've still got a playlist of that if you want to check out that um that particular album discussion with um Chon couch reviews and JC rocker meta reviews promis land a good album solid tracks on here damaged bridge and I love the big ballad someone else I think it's an incredible Jeff Tate performance um you know don't get me wrong I love Jeff Tate's vocals I just think you know that that you you know there's it's all the latest stuff with him in the band and all the sort of um everything that went on with with with him and the band's relationship which I think it was just it feels like more than a coincidence that after he left that they got better again so anyway we'll move on from that um but yeah condition hum sorry Promised Land a really great album from that original sort of older era the last I think of the Classic Albums promised land so or the classic early albums from the band I should say next up at number six maybe a hot take because I'm going for the verdict from 2019 the third album to feature Todd Lori on vocals I love this album I really love it I think it's it's one of those albums in danger of being forgotten about it's quite recent but it's also an album that wasn't particularly well received of the Todd era stuff um and yet I think it's one that's grown on me quite a bit since I first listened to it and to a point where I'm including it at number six because I think it's a really good record I think it's very well refined I think it all fits together nicely into one whole piece of an album um even more so with Promised Land I'm not so sure about the structure of that album but I really like the structure of the verdict it's very compact it just delivers great songs like light years um Lawns of the conscience and portrait and it's just I just prefer that about this album to be honest I know it's it's a bit controversial having it as high as number six but I really enjoy the verdict really dig that album the third with toddl Tor coming at number five is a classic Queens right album the warning their debut full length album after their EP from the year before but the warning is no doubt a classic um you got tracks like no Sanctuary take hold of the flame roast to manness I love that closing song on this album it's just a great album from 84 lots of that original authentic Queen stri sound and and um yeah it was the start of some great things for the band and very close to their really Golden Era I would say coming up at number four we've got another album from that said Golden Era Empire and it's the most commercially successful album of the band I sort of see this album is a bit as Queens re's Black Album to me uh it's the same sort of time and it has that energy and that commercial success behind it um I love tracks on here like hands- on heart Silent Lucidity is a classic song a classic slow but beautiful track with the very best for me of je Jeff Tate's vocals coming out on that song with absolutely wonderful um sort of beautiful verses as well as the chorus of that track being great too so I love that song um and that's a great album I love the title track to Empire from 1990 is my number four summer number three is going to be digital noise Alliance the only thing I don't really like so much about this album is its album title because the music is damn solid and it's damn brilliant and I think this album in time will get the recognition it deserves as one of dream W's best albums yes it's a Todd album yes it's not Jeff tape but it's really really great I love so much this album I think it's backto back really really strong tracks great songwriting great guitar work great drumming the production solid um and you know you got stuff on a here like I don't know lost in sorrow Behind the Walls uh out of the black tormentum it's just riddled with superb Stellar songs recapturing that sound that no one would ever think Queens Reich would could recapture in that 2000's era when they're in that sort of flat sounding ERA with the band here this sounds like Queen's R revived and you know this is my ranking so I'm entitled to put this album as high as I want hell I could maybe put it even higher than this but I'm putting at number three because there are still two albums I slightly prefer to this from their absolute classic era and my number two I'm moving on to now is Rage for order from 1986 what an album this is and this is true just Queens Reich wellin form on the second album doing what they do best but what I love about this album as well is it's straight to the point it just goes straight to the point with its songs with their song structures um not quite in this sort of more Progressive eras uh era um but I love it for that reason I love walk in the shadows NOA Regal and London I love listening to London a lot as well um and it's it's it's a classic album from the band that does a lot that their later era albums don't or that particular era of the band that I'm thinking of again doesn't do it's just straight to the point that really great songs great production um great 80s sound um yeah r order is a classic no doubt so that leaves us I'm a bit exhausted by the end of this list to be honest at least my number one I think it's been an exhausting this has been one of the more tiring rankings because of those bottom stacked albums that I really struggled to get through to be frank but number one is Operation mind crime and I guess this is predictable but what what an album and one of the best one of the original progressive metal concept albums with uh a fantastic story behind it delivered to Perfection um yes some of the narrative moments people might not like but I think if you really immerse yourself in the experience of this album is so rewarding uh every so many songs on here Revolution calling uh I don't believe in love uh eyes of a stranger just classic sweet sister Mary unbelievable epic song um Jeff of course sounds fantastic on this album all the band members are playing to their strength so I think on operation mind crime all the ingredients are here coming together at the perfect time to um bring us an absolute Queens Reich classic album and that's the end of my ranking hope you enjoyed this Queens Reich album ranking do drop your own Rangers in the comments as I say otherwise hope you've enjoyed this do drop a like and a sub if you enjoyed this kind of content you like my lists I do album reviews I also do some horror and fancy content so that's it for me for now until next time bye for now

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Length: 18min 48sec (1128 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 28 2024