In 2011, earlier than the cut up that tore Queensÿrche into two separate bands, singer Geoff Tate advised Prog why their 1992 single Silent Lucidity turned their solely UK Prime 20 on its second launch.
Even when most individuals regard the 1988 idea album Operation: Mindcrime because the apogee of Queensrÿche’s profession, it was the follow-up, 1990’s Empire, that was their largest business success. It additionally gave them their solely Prime 20 single within the UK when Silent Lucidity made it to Quantity 18 in August 1992.
Written by guitarist Chris DeGarmo (who left in 1997, returning briefly in 2003 and 2007), the track is assumed to be about lucid dreaming. “Effectively, that’s one of many sub-themes of it,” says vocalist Geoff Tate.
“It was actually about being a dad or mum and waking up in the course of the evening by your child who’s had a nasty dream. It’s attempting to clarify to a younger baby that goals aren’t essentially a nasty factor or factor.”
Tate has his personal concept concerning the observe’s success. “I believe it actually linked with individuals at the moment for a lot of causes. The Gulf Battle was happening and folks have been separated from their households and family members. That tends to place individuals’s emotional radar a little bit bit larger than regular. Additionally, that album got here out on the top of recognition for rock music.”
On first launch as a single in April 1991, Silent Lucidity solely acquired to Quantity 34 within the UK charts. It was solely when launched for a second time that it took off, with EMI’s backing.
“We had a functioning document business with tens of millions of {dollars} to place behind the promotion of a document then,” Tate recollects. “Individuals have been actually uncovered to that track. There was an incredible deal with rock music at the moment, and Silent Lucidity had all the precise components.”
Nonetheless, it didn’t match what could be considered the same old parameters for a success single; it stood other than a lot that was in style on the time, partly due to its internal power and substance.
“Most singles are about love in a technique or one other,” Tate says. “However there’s a easy cause why we put it out – it’s a ravishing track.”
