Capitol/EMI to Release Sign Of The Times: The Best Of Queensryche
New CD & Digital Album Release Features 17 Career-Spanning Tracks,
Including Seven Top 10 Hits; 2-CD Deluxe Collectors Edition Adds 15 Rare
and Previously Unreleased Recordings
Queensryche to Join 'Heaven And Hell Tour' In September
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- In a career that spans nearly
25 years, Queensryche has released 15 albums that have sold more than 20
million units around the world. On August 28, Capitol/EMI will release Sign
Of The Times: The Best Of Queensryche in CD, 2-CD Collectors Edition
packages and digitally. The new career-spanning hits collection features 17
of Queensryche's best singles and album tracks, including seven Top 10
Mainstream Rock hits, packaged in a jewelcase with a sixteen-page booklet
featuring custom artwork, a discography, and track notes from the band's
singer, Geoff Tate. The Collectors Edition, presented in deluxe digipak
packaging, adds a second disc of 15 rare and previously unreleased demos,
outtakes, remixes, live recordings, television performance audio,
recordings for soundtracks and a new, never-before-heard song making its
release debut on this collection.
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"In an era that valued style over substance, Queensryche emerged as a
contrary force to the happy-go-lucky sounds of hard rock in the late '80s
and early '90s," explains Paul Gargano in his Sign Of The Times liner notes
essay. "In hindsight, one might even go as far as to say that the band
succeeded despite themselves. Whether knowingly or not, they zigged when
the industry zagged, progressed while the scene regressed, and offered
provocation while others opted for escapism. There's a subtle irony, then,
that their best-of collection is called Sign Of The Times."
Among Sign Of The Times: The Best Of Queensryche's 17 hits and
favorites are the #1 smash "Silent Lucidity," "Jet City Woman," "Eyes of a
Stranger," and "Another Rainy Night (Without You)," and more than a dozen
other well-known songs. The 15 tracks on the Collectors Edition's rarities
disc include three demo recordings by Myth (lead vocalist Geoff Tate's band
prior to Queensryche), three demo recordings from The Warning, three bonus
tracks from the reissued Empire album, bonus tracks from the reissued
Promised Land and Q2K albums, an intoxicating live version of "Silent
Lucidity," a previously unreleased version of "Della Brown" recorded for
"MTV Unplugged," and a new track making its release debut, "Justified,"
recorded with original Queensryche guitarist Chris DeGarmo.
Beginning September 5 in Binghamton, New York, Queensryche and Alice
Cooper will join Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny
Appice on the "Heaven and Hell Tour" for a U.S. trek that is expected to
continue through early November.
For more information, visit Queensryche's official Website:
SIGN OF THE TIMES: THE BEST OF QUEENSRYCHE (CD & Digital Album)
1. Queen Of The Reich (from the EP Queensryche)
2. Warning (from the album The Warning)
3. Walk In The Shadows (from the album Rage For Order)
4. Take Hold Of The Flame (from the album The Warning)
5. The Lady Wore Black (from the EP Queensryche)
6. I Don't Believe In Love (from the album Operation: Mindcrime)
7. Eyes Of A Stranger (from the album Operation: Mindcrime)
8. Silent Lucidity (from the album Empire)
9. Bridge (from the album Promised Land)
10. Jet City Woman (from the album Empire)
11. Another Rainy Night (Without You) (from the album Empire)
12. Sign Of The Times (from the album Hear In The Now Frontier)
13. I Am I (from the album Promised Land)
14. Real World (from the Last Action Hero soundtrack album; also a bonus
track from the reissued version of the album Promised Land)
15. Some People Fly (from the album Hear In The Now Frontier)
16. Until There Was You (bonus track from the reissued version of the
album Q2K)
17. All The Promises (from the album Operation: Mindcrime II)
SIGN OF THE TIMES: THE BEST OF QUEENSRYCHE (2-CD Collectors Edition)
(Contains Disc 1 + 2nd Disc of Rarities)
DISC 2
1. Take Hold Of The Flame - Myth (Original Demo Version) (previously
unreleased)
2. Walk In The Shadows - Myth (Original Demo Version) (previously
unreleased)
3. Before The Storm - Myth (Original Demo Version) (previously
unreleased)
4. Waiting For The Kill (previously unreleased: demo for The Warning)
5. No Sanctuary (previously unreleased: demo for The Warning)
6. Prophecy (previously unreleased: demo for The Warning)
7. I Dream In Infrared (1991 Acoustic Remix: bonus track from the
reissued
version of the album Rage For Order)
8. Dirty Lil Secret (bonus track from the reissued version of the album
Empire)
9. Last Time In Paris (from the soundtrack album The Adventures Of Ford
Fairlane; also a bonus track from the reissued version of the album
Empire)
10. Scarborough Fair (bonus track from the reissued version of the album
Empire)
11. Della Brown (previously unreleased: "MTV Unplugged," New York, NY
4/27/92)
12. Someone Else? (with full band: bonus track from the reissued version
of the album Promised Land)
13. Silent Lucidity (live at The Astoria Theatre, London 10/20/94: from
the "Bridge" CD single)
14. Chasing Blue Sky (bonus track from the reissued album Hear In The Now
Frontier)
15. Justified (NEW TRACK)