Guitar riffs: Iinfluential ones, ones that changed everything, worth listening to...

[reflection]

140. One of the best albums ever made.

Period.

A lot of QRs catalog is throwaway for me. 'Hear in the Now Frontier' was the end of it, and I put them down. But everything leading up to that? A solid body of work.

There was a period in my life, during college, when Operation Mindcrime was in my car stereo 24-7 for about 9 months. Over and over and over. The whole thing is just produced so well. I saw Peter Collins once at an event years later and practically knocked some folks over just so I could shake his hand and tell him what a great job he did on O:M (as well as a big chunk of Rush's catalogue).

Your 14-year old is in good hands if you're feeding him/her that album.

On edit: When I said I was a member of the Queensryche fan club, I meant, I sent my money in, got the poster and some other schwag, and had access to better tickets. I was a big-time geek there for a minute.