Queensryche - "Real World"

And now, for something completely different. There is plenty to appreciate about Queensrÿche: Geoff Tate's 4-octave vocal range (he's a classically trained opera singer, as was his mother), the intricate arrangements of guitarist Michael Wilton (also a classically trained musician), the umlaut over the 'y' in the band's name that you would probably expect from a progressive metal band (I'm not going to attempt to recreate it in this post, but you can see it in the album cover shown in the video below). Queensrÿche has always possessed a bit of a flair for the orchestral (see also "Silent Lucidity"...better yet, don't see, just listen and ignore the video; it was 1991), and this track is a good example of that. For some reason, I never really explored their music much beyond the "Empire" album; odd, because the album was quite good. This track (sadly enough) wasn't on the "Empire" album, or any studio album of theirs...it appeared on the soundtrack to "Last Action Hero", one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's more - how do I say this - perplexing project choices. But the song is good. Seriously. Just listen.

Update: Of course I had to figure out how to do the umlaut over the 'y'...it was a technical challenge and took all of 3 seconds on Google to find, so I added it to the paragraph above. I still can't figure out how to get it into the post title, though. Blogger doesn't seem to accept html codes in that spot. Oh well.