Since we've got threads on Maiden and Savatage, figured I might as well start one on Queensryche too.

These guys are fantastic. Operation Mindcrime is my second favorite concept album ever, behind Pink Floyd's The Wall.

Empire is pretty fantastic too, the title track in particular.

"Silent Lucidity" is the song that got me into Queensryche. Though I live in MA, I am able to get a couple of NH radio stations on my radio and I tend to prefer them because they play more of the stuff I want to hear. Both of them do block party weekends, where they play three or four songs by an artist in a row, and one of them would sometimes cheat and do "hair metal" blocks and use it as excuse to play random 80s bands that didn't have a lot of big hits without doing a full block of any particular one. So I happen tune in one day, and they were play "Silent Lucidity", and I thought it was a new Pink Floyd song. Then I Googled it and found out it was a Queensryche song from 9 years prior. I went out bought Empire the next day, and I loved it. Operation: Mindcrime followed shortly thereafter, as did Rage For Order.