These guys never put on a bad show. Thank Dog I saw them a dozen time before I saw this terrible video for the first time.

One of my favorite songs by Queensryche wasn't even fast: Empire

That is a great video as long as you close your eyes while watching it.

PainInTheASP: That is a great video as long as you close your eyes while watching it.

Yeah, and turn the volume all the way down.

Exactly how much coke do you have to do before signing that band to your label?

Two Dogs Farking: Yeah, and turn the volume all the way down.

Winktologist: Exactly how much coke do you have to do before signing that band to your label?

Not QR fans, eh?

Youre slipping awaaayyy, yeah...
queen of the reeiiich.......

\m/

Better metal bands, let me show them to you.

List includes nearly all metal bands ever but especially Iron Monkey.

Warning was a better album imho. Still, great song...epic fail video!

Every Sunday I come here to read the haters. Every Sunday they show up, without fail, to knock the submission no matter who it is I leave satisfied.

Love that song and that band. Mindcrime is one of the greatest albums of all-time.

absolute worst video


Wait, this isnt Dream Warriors by Dokken.

Madbassist1: Every Sunday I come here to read the haters. Every Sunday they show up, without fail, to knock the submission no matter who it is I leave satisfied.

According to some people, music must be boring to be enjoyable. I say music is better if it involves Satan and boobs. But that's just me.

TeddyBallGame: Two Dogs Farking: Yeah, and turn the volume all the way down.

Winktologist: Exactly how much coke do you have to do before signing that band to your label?

Not QR fans, eh?

Quiet Riot rocks! This band, on the other hand...meh. They don't suck--I liked Rage for Order--but I don't think they're great & I never got why people like Operation Mindcrime so much. To each his own, though--rock on.

Wow, that song lacked heart, and the singer screamed too much. I thought that Queensryche blew before, but now I am certain.

so it's not Balls to the Wall, then?

To be fair, there is a worse band than Queensryche. Dragonforce.

I will always put Grim Reaper up for debate for worst metal band ever. Hard on the ears and doubly hard on the eyes. The singer and his mullet were disturbing. You may him being critiqued by Beavis and Butthead. 'His whole head sucks!

Folks, it was - The 80's -. A lot of bands looked this bad. Anyway, QR is/was one of the better bands out there and Operation Mindcrime and Rage for Order still find regular rotation gigs in my MP3 player.

Queensryche is metal? Stop fooling yourselves! It's farking prog rock!

Great tune, terrible video. Typical of the era.
Gotta love that Chris Degarmo solo.

/Wishes he would come back to the fold.
//Mindcrime II was good, but not Degarmo good.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: To be fair, there is a worse band than Queensryche. Dragonforce.

Dragonforce rules because they don't take themselves seriously. They play on every metal stereotype, and that's what makes them cool.

To put things in perspective: this song and this video were produced independently. No label, no record company, no recording contract. This was done on their own dime, way before the age of being able to make a professional sounding album on your home computer in your basement for under $5K. Now, quickly: name all the bands from 1983-84 that produced material even half as good without a recording contract. None, right?

And there's your perspective.

Maybe you had to have been there, but this song was a big shot in the arm for American metal during a time when the metal airwaves were ruled by LA hair-pop-metal bands like Motley Crue, Ratt and Dokken. And they only got better each and every album, all the way up until Empire in 1990. It was really quite an impressive string of releases, matched by few other bands, so like them or not, give kudos where it's deserved.

rudemix: I will always put Grim Reaper up for debate for worst metal band ever. Hard on the ears and doubly hard on the eyes. The singer and his mullet were disturbing. You may him being critiqued by Beavis and Butthead. 'His whole head sucks!

Grim Reaper - See you in Hell

You are welcome.

filth: Queensryche is metal?

Wondering that myself. I heard polka bands that were heavier.

Worst Video? That was awesome. You have to watch until the leader of the 5 great warriors bounces lazer beams off of an aluminum foil rock that happens to be sitting on the ground.

I can watch that 50 more times.

Magics5RIP: rudemix: I will always put Grim Reaper up for debate for worst metal band ever. Hard on the ears and doubly hard on the eyes. The singer and his mullet were disturbing. You may him being critiqued by Beavis and Butthead. 'His whole head sucks!

Grim Reaper - See you in Hell

You are welcome.

Jesus Christ! The singer hit that high note and woke my dog from a sound sleep from accross the room! He bit my subwoofer (no pun).

Abbath would kindly disagree.

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This is THE worst. Fairly NSFW/misogynistic.

Not safe for eyes or ears really, either.

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Queensryche were the only concert I have ever had to walk out on. They were a total joke. The singer was obviously lip synching, and on top of that he was prancing around in some leather speedo contraption. There was some theme crap going on where he was being followed around stage with paparazzi snapping pics of him the whole time. Walked right out after the 2nd song.

The Billdozer: TeddyRooseveltsMustache: To be fair, there is a worse band than Queensryche. Dragonforce.

Dragonforce rules because they don't take themselves seriously. They play on every metal stereotype, and that's what makes them cool.

Negative. To me it's almost like Dragonforce was solely conceived to be featured in Guitar Hero. They're arrogant, and awful live. They are complete phonies, and anyone who is a fan of theirs doesn't know what real metal is, and also probably loves Queensryche.

Ken Hawk: Wait, this isnt Dream Warriors by Dokken.

I yield to your obvious knowledge of the worst videos of all time. That farking robe Don is wearing haunts my nightmares to this day!

SPna15: Abbath would kindly disagree.

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What the fark is that, Norway's Funniest Home Videos?

it's so bad it's awesome

monkeysay: This is THE worst. Fairly NSFW/misogynistic.

Not safe for eyes or ears really, either.

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jesus, people listen to that voluntarily?

If you listen closely you can hear Kurt Cobain and Krist Novelsic picking up their guitars out of disgust for this kind of shiat

karmachameleon "To put things in perspective: this song and this video were produced independently. No label, no record company, no recording contract. This was done on their own dime, way before the age of being able to make a professional sounding album on your home computer in your basement for under $5K. Now, quickly: name all the bands from 1983-84 that produced material even half as good without a recording contract. None, right?"

Mötley Crüe's Too Fast for Love?

The did the album and a video in '80-81 IIRC. (I could very well be mistaken)

On another note...

I always thought if two Heavy Metal bands could play each other's stuff (ala BYO split series like NoFx playing Rancid tunes and Rancid playing NoFx tunes, etc)...

Iron Maiden could do a rather KICK ASS version of this song - possibly even better than the original.

I'd suppose Queensryche could maybe cover "The Trooper" or something quite well also... but it would never be as good as Maiden right?

And you Farkers think rap isn't music?

filth: Queensryche is metal? Stop fooling yourselves! It's farking prog rock!

Back when QOTR came out, they were maiden wanna-bes.

Good band though. Had tickets to see them on the last tour, and they cancelled due to Geoff being sick. Hope I have better luck this spring.

I'll see your Queensryche in a sci-fi video and raise you Motley Crue in a kung fu video (new window).

rudemix: I will always put Grim Reaper up for debate for worst metal band ever. Hard on the ears and doubly hard on the eyes.

You are utterly wrong. Ugly? Yes. A bad metal band? No. Give their album See You in Hell a spin sometime. Seriously.

monkeysay: This is THE worst. Fairly NSFW/misogynistic.

Not safe for eyes or ears really, either.

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I can't decide if this is some kind of joke, or if this is the true legacy of Pantera.

Derwood: monkeysay: This is THE worst. Fairly NSFW/misogynistic.

Not safe for eyes or ears really, either.

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jesus, people listen to that voluntarily?

I'm not sure, but I think I apparently just did

SPna15: Abbath would kindly disagree.

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The sequence starting at 2:43 gets me every time. GOLD!

Worst? it didnt have anything to do with cRap music so in my book its full of win

They may be posers, but their music is kickass

Love the band, but certainly not one of their best songs. I'll check the video after work to see how bad it is, but I tend to judge bands by their music, not their videos.

Came to see the QR and metal haters, and was not disappointed. This was one of the most cheesy videos they ever did, but Gonna Get Close To You really takes the cake in cheese.

That being said, Take Hold Of The Flame is one of the greatest prog-metal songs ever written.

Madbassist1: Every Sunday I come here to read the haters. Every Sunday they show up, without fail, to knock the submission no matter who it is I leave satisfied.

This.

Oh, and a bad, cheesy 80's video? I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I say...

Queensryche isn't metal. Good as they were, and Empire was an awesome album, they aren't metal.

WhyteRaven74: Queensryche isn't metal. Good as they were, and Empire was an awesome album, they aren't metal.

Metal was invented, perfected, and declined with the release of Machine Head. (new window)

/Frank Zappa and the Mother's had the best place around.