Genial and timeless

With "Operation: Mindcrime" Queensryche have created one of the best concept albums of all time. Catchy songs, polyphonic spacers, intelligent lyrics, exciting story - in short, everything is just right. Geoff Tate delivers a vocal performance that really can not be exceeded, no matter whether in the highest terms (without nerves) or more deep. Most of the songs are crisp, short and above all quite hard, which was neither before nor after again the case.
And the story is likely to be known to everyone anyway: a disillusioned political henchmen of the Reagan era closes an underground revolt that politicians kill. All have Queensryche also musically excellent in 10 songs and 5 spacers. And some text citations as true today as 15 years ago:
"Operation Mindcrime" - mislead the masses (for example, the propaganda of the US government against the Middle East - and of course, vice versa)
or the line "Politicians say no to drugs while we pay for wars in ... (from" Spreading The Disease) "- finance wars with drug money (then South America, today Afghanistan?)
Conclusion: A musically very challenging album that also still delivers intelligent texts to think.