Re: HITNF is a great album

I agree that Toby Wright or no, the Beatle-isms are far more apparent
overall than any grunge-ness. And I don't know about most folks (even those
who like the record) but All I Want is a fav track of mine on there.

Loren
(Who admittedly is a Beatles freak<g>)

"yet683" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Everyone thinks they were trying to mimic grunge on this album and
> thats understandable given Toby Wright who worked with Alice In Chains
> was the engineer. But there are other songs, the more melodic ones,
> that attempt the modernize the Beatles style: Some People Fly, Miles
> AWay, All I Want, Hero just to name a few. Some of them succeed,
> others fail miserably.
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> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 19:49:22 -0600, "jvq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> >"Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> I can't understand why so many people hate "Hear In The Now Frontier".
> >This
> >> has honestly got to be one of the most underrated rock records ever
> >> released.  There is not a single song here I dislike, unlike for
example
> >> "Rage For Order".  It's probably their 5th best album behind
"Operation:
> >> Mindcrime," "Promised Land," "Empire," and "Warning".
> >>
> >> The fact is, Queensryche never released a bad album with Chris DeGarmo
in
> >> the band (though "Rage For Order" came close).
> >
> >IMO Rage was a good album, although the production was horrid.   As for
> >HITNF, my biggest problem with it was that it tried to sound grungy in
order
> >to mimic other bands of the time, and it failed on that end.  It had some
> >good tracks and some bad tracks, but overall it just fell short of what
QR
> >is capable of, probably the biggest compaint in this group.  Nothing
about
> >it really stands out, just a mediocre album from some very talented
> >musicians.
> >
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