Take Cover by Queensryche (CD, Nov-2007, Rhino Records USA)

After the departure of Chris DeGarmo, Queensrÿche still didn´t found the right direction, after the disappointing OPERATION: MINDCRIME II, it seems to me that the band principal reason to do a cover´s album (Queen, Peter Gabriel, The Police, U2, etc.) is try to earn some time with barely regular results.

Geoff Tate´s voice is still powerful and hears fine and Mike Stone´s guitar is good; but I still preferred DeGarmo´s lead guitar.

Every song in this cd, carry the Queensrÿche sound, so the songs that I wasn´t familiar with them (Almost Cut My Hair, For What It´s Worth and For The Love Of Money; theme of the Celebrity Aprentice), if they don´t tell me they´re covers, I swear that the band write it.

They do a good work on the other covers with no stand outs from the originals.

The highlights of the cd are NEON KNIGHTS(Black Sabbath), WELCOME TO THE MACHINE(Pink Floyd) and HEAVEN ON THEIR MINDS(from Opera Rock Jesus Christ Superstar, originally sung by Murray Head).

For the reasons before mentioned, my recommendations are:

1)If you are a superfan of the band, buy it, although the cd is not too good, is good enough.
2)For new listeners, buy it better the greatest hits or some other disc of the band specially from the 80´s(Operation:Mindcrime, Rage For Order, Empire).
3)For the ones that listen samples of the songs and like what you heard it; buy it only the song and buy it with the original artist too, because nobody beats an original good song.

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i was surprised by the selections, some of these versions were a little different but as i found different can be good. i have never been a huge fan of covers so this was a big step for me to buy, but i really enjoy it. quite frankly there is not a person who can listen to geoff tate singing odiessa and not be moved. this whole cd is amazing as well as brave. this is the only cd i have ever bought that was only made of cover songs but it was well worth it.

Shut up and sing. Keep your politics to yourself. I'm sick and tired of uneducated entertainers suffering from "rich guilt" thinking that we care where they stand politically. I really looked forward to OM II, until I heard the anti-American single. Glad I didn't give them my money for that one. You wanna help the world? Sell your riches and give it ALL to "worthy causes".

Wide range of songs performed by Queensryche with hard rocking style and respect towards the original tracks! Some of the political oriented tracks resound with as much urgency as they did when originally done. Five Stars!

hi! very diverse song choices performed by a very capable band! a fine job on the crosby song " almost cut my hair" and " heaven on their minds ". the most absolutely best song was the live "bullet the blue sky ". i saw queensryche live at the uptown theatre in kansas city back before they were well known and i knew they had potential. they blew away the other band at the time which was twisted sister.