q2k caught millenium bug? (Q2k: Remastered & Expanded - Queensryche)

Member Name: mpeh

Product:	Q2k: Remastered & Expanded - Queensryche
Date:	25/04/01 (93 review reads)
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Advantages: Generally good album

Disadvantages: Not as good as their other stuff

I got this album after listening to Promised Land which really impressed me and one of the most satisfying things about this is that you can hear the progression the band have made from one album to the next.
With 12 tracks the album plays for about 45 minutes but isn't so much an album as the last one. Each song, on it's own , stands up and is good but as a collection other than similar style (due more to the fact that they're all by the same musicians recorded at a simialr time I guess than anything else) the songs don't fit together in teh same way some albums do. This isn't a very harsh criticism as there are very few albums by anyone in any genre that are complete units as albums.

The unique guitar sound that Queensryche have is still there on this album but, to the good, it has changed and developed presenting a slightly different quality to that displayed on other albums. Unfortunately the lyrics, especially on the first few tracks, aren't as good as I've come to expect from Queensryche. Although the sound quality of the songs doesn't really suffer from this, once you start listening to the lyrics you get a faintly dissatisfied feeling as if they haven't put enough effort in to making those two or three lines that sound weird not sound weird.

There are some good songs on this album but their names escape me (which tells you something too) and I feel this review may sound harsher than I meant it to. This is a good album and better than many others in my collection but it's not as good as other Queensryche stuff and hence a dissapointment.

I'd still recommend it.

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