Operation: Mindcrime

This article covers the music album. For the band see Operation: Mindcrime (band) .

Operation: Mindcrime
Studio album from Queensrÿche
Publication (s)	May 26, 1988
Label (s)	EMI
Format (s)	CD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	Progressive metal
Title (number)	15 Republication 2003: 17
running time	59:14 Re-release 2003: 68 minutes
production	Peter Collins
Studio (s)	Kajem / Victory Studios
chronology Rage for Order (1986) Operation: Mindcrime Empire (1990)

Operation: Mindcrime (Eng .: Operation: Thought Crimes) is the third music album by the American progressive metal band Queensrÿche and was released on May 26, 1988.

Emergence

The idea for this concept album came from singer Geoff Tate one night while visiting a church. For the album, the band first worked with producer Peter Collins. According to Tate, writing the album took a total of four months, during which the band worked 18 hours a day. It then took 14 months to record the entire album. The mix of the album was completed at noon on February 25, 1988 in the Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum (Netherlands).

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It is a concept album that tells the story of a man who, frustrated over American society, an underground organization connects to attacks on corrupt politicians exercise. Spoken dialogues between the songs propel the story forward and establish connections between the individual songs. The album is considered to be one of the first progressive metal albums. In January 1989, Kerrang! Magazine voted the album 34th of the 100 best heavy metal albums of all time.

Characters

• Nicki
• Dr. X
• Sister mary
• preacher
• Nurse
• Radio announcer
• gear

Track list

1. I Remember Now (Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton) - 1:17
2. Anarchy-X (Chris DeGarmo) - 1:27
3. Revolution Calling (Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton) - 4:39
4. Operation: Mindcrime (Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton) - 4:45
5. Speak (Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton) - 3:42
6. Spreading the Disease (Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton) - 4:07
7. The Mission (Chris DeGarmo) - 5:47
8. Suite Sister Mary (Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate) - 10:39
9. The Needle Lies (Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton) - 3:08
10. Electric Requiem (Scott Rockenfield, Geoff Tate) - 1:22
11. Breaking the Silence (Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate) - 4:34
12. I Don't Believe in Love (Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate) - 4:23
13. Waiting for 22 (Chris DeGarmo) - 1:05
14. My Empty Room (Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton) - 1:32
15. Eyes of a Stranger (Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate) - 6:53

Bonus tracks on re-releases since 2003

1. The Mission (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, England on November 14th and 15th, 1990) - 6:11 am
2. My Empty Room (Live at the Astoria Theater , London, England on October 20, 1994) - 2:41 am

Publications

The album was first released in the United States on May 3, 1988. On May 26, 1988 the album was also released in Europe. On July 24, 2003, Operation: Mindcrime appeared for the first time in a digitally revised version. As part of the Queensrÿche Remastered series, the album was re-released as bonus tracks with a digital 24-bit revision and two previously unreleased live recordings. On June 29, 2006, the album was finally released again in a deluxe edition, the first CD of which is identical to the re-release from 2003. This version is offered in a noble digipack including a booklet and contains a previously unpublished concert recording on a second CD, which was recorded on November 15, 1990 in Hammersmith, London and contains the entire album live. A DVD is also included, which contains the video: Mindcrime , which was previously only released on VHS, as well as a making-of and a TV commercial. Also in 2006, the band released "Operation: Mindcrime II" - their ninth studio album - a continuation of their successful album, which, however, failed to meet commercial and artistic expectations.

Video: Mindcrime

In 1989 an approximately 30-minute VHS entitled Video: Mindcrime was released, which contains a cinematic adaptation of the following songs and was not released individually on DVD:

1. I remember now
2. Anarchy X
3. Revolution calling
4. Operation: Mindcrime
5. Speak
6. Breaking the Silence
7. Waiting for 22
8. Eyes of a Stranger

Operation: LIVEcrime

On November 5, 1991, Operation: LIVEcrime , the band's first live album, was the first complete live recording of the album on CD and music cassette. The album, which was also released on video and DVD, contains the following tracks:

1. I Remember Now - 1:19
2. Anarchy-X - 1:28
3. Revolution Calling - 4:58
4. Operation: Mindcrime - 4:26
5. Speak - 3:44
6. Spreading the Disease - 5:06
7. The Mission - 5:47
8. Suite Sister Mary - 11:37
9. The Needle Lies - 3:19
10. Electric Requiem - 1:16
11. Breaking the Silence - 4:21
12. I Don't Believe in Love - 4:19
13. Waiting for 22 - 1:27
14. My Empty Room - 1:37
15. Eyes of a Stranger - 8:25
16. The Lady Wore Black - 6:44
17. Roads to Madness - 9:22 am

Mindcrime at the Moore

With Mindcrime at the Moore , another live album was released in 2007, also on CD and DVD, which contains a live recording of both Mindcrime albums on two CDs and DVDs.

Chart placement

album

year	Charts	placement
1988	The Billboard 200	50

Single releases

year	Surname	Charts	placement
1989	Eyes of a Stranger	US mainstream rock tracks	# 35
1989	I don't believe in love	US mainstream rock tracks	# 41
1989	Breaking the Silence
1989	Revolution calling

Sources and individual references

1. ↑ CD with EAN 077774864022, information without pregap
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Http://www.rocktimes.de/haben/opq/queensryche/interview06.html
4. ↑ http://www.metal-hammer.de/das-archiv/article172570/queensryche.html
5. ↑ List of Kerrang! Magazine's 100 best heavy metal albums of all time
6. ^ 1988 Billboard album charts (excerpt)
7. ↑ Single extracts from the operation: Mindcrime ( memento of the original from July 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.