Every once in a great while you stumble across an album that you
\nfeel is truly one of the best ever recorded. My tastes in music are
\nusually more eclectic than most, so I usually keep these opinions
\nto myself to avoid senseless bar room discussions that cannot ever
\nhave any true resolution. In the case of
\nOperation: Mindcrime<\/i>, however, I’ll pull out all the stops,
\nand offer my greatest praises for an album that was largely
\nunnoticed by the mainstream.<\/p>\n
\nOperation: Mindcrime<\/i> is a concept album, masterfully written
\nso that it achieves novel-like story development and in only a
\ncouple of hundred words. The story revolves around Nikki, a drug
\naddict who gets mixed up in a crime syndicate and is recruited to
\nmurder a priest and a destitute named Mary. The priest had rescued
\nMary from the streets while she was a prostitute, and had been
\nforcing her to grant sexual favors to him in repayment of his good
\nwill. Nikki murders the priest, but winds up falling in love with
\nMary, and finds it difficult to complete his orders.<\/p>\n
Eventually, under pressure from the syndicate, he returns to
\ncomplete his assignment to murder Mary. We eventually find Mary
\ndead, but mystery surrounds her death. Was it suicide, or did Nikki
\nmurder her?<\/p>\n
Behind this wicked tale is masterfully composed music with a
\nmetal flair. When you listen to this album, your mind fills with
\nmovie like images from the story, while the music thunders along in
\nthe background like a good movie score. At album’s end, you are
\nleft with a chilling feeling that sticks for a while. The music
\nremains resident longer. It’s an album that you can listen to a
\nhundred times over and still pick up something new every time.<\/p>\n
\nOperation: Mindcrime<\/i> was a relative bomb on the charts,
\npeaking at #50 in 1988. Their follow up,
\nEmpire<\/i> (1990) was a typical compilation of rockers and
\nballads that went double platinum, thanks to MTV’s near constant
\nairplay of “Silent Lucidity.”<\/p>\n
Typically, concept albums are not big sellers. Record labels
\nstipulate that the rock audience isn’t interested in albums that
\nare complicated musically, or lyrically. Because of this, albums
\nlike
\nOperation: Mindcrime<\/i> usually don’t receive much promotion
\nand languish on the charts while brainless Sammy Hagar-penned Van
\nHalen tunes rattle the top 10. If you’re into rock music with a
\nharder edge, and like a good story, give
\nOperation: Mindcrime<\/i> a whirl. The music will blow you away.
\nThe story will bring you back time and time again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5642],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-24290","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-queensryche","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/24290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/24290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24290"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=24290"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=24290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}