Operation: LIVEcrime is a live album, covering the album Operation: Mindcrime

Operation: Mindcrime

Operation: Mindcrime is a concept album by American progressive metal band Queensrÿche. Released on May 3, 1988, it is the band's third full-length album. A rock opera, its story follows a man who becomes disillusioned with the society of the time and reluctantly becomes involved with a...

 by American heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Queensrÿche

Queensrÿche

thumb|250px|right|Queensrÿche's classic line-up performing at the [[Sauna Open Air Metal Festival]] 2011 in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]]. Left to right: bass Eddie Jackson, lead vocals Geoff Tate, drums Scott Rockenfield and guitars Michael Wilton....

. It was released by EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

 in 1991. After Queensrÿche toured in 1991 in support of Empire, record label EMI released this limited-edition set in two versions, one containing both a videocassette and a CD, the other containing both a videocassette and an audio cassette of live Operation: Mindcrime performances.

In 2003 the CD was re-mastered along with the rest of the Queensrÿche catalog. The video was also re-released as a DVD.

Track listing

1. "I Remember Now" (Chris DeGarmo
   Chris DeGarmo
   Chris DeGarmo is an American heavy metal and hard rock guitarist. He co-founded Queensrÿche in 1981 and played with the group during their most commercially successful period. Since departing from the band, DeGarmo has continued his involvement in the music business in a much smaller capacity...
   
   ) – 1:19
2. "Anarchy-X" (DeGarmo) – 1:28
3. "Revolution Calling" (Geoff Tate
   Geoff Tate
   Geoff Tate is an American singer and musician, who rose to fame in the 1980s with the progressive metal band, Queensrÿche...
   
   , Michael Wilton
   Michael Wilton
   Michael Wilton is an American guitarist for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche. Wilton attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where he met future Queensrÿche drummer Scott Rockenfield and began recording in 1981...
   
   ) – 4:58
4. "Operation: Mindcrime" (DeGarmo, Tate, Wilton) – 4:26
5. "Speak" (Tate, Wilton) – 3:44
6. "Spreading the Disease" (Tate, Wilton) – 5:06
7. "The Mission" (DeGarmo) – 5:47
8. "Suite Sister Mary" (DeGarmo, Tate) – 11:37
9. "The Needle Lies" (Tate, Wilton) – 3:19
10. "Electric Requiem" (Scott Rockenfield
    Scott Rockenfield
    Scott Rockenfield is the drummer for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche and the band Slave to the System....
    
    , Tate) – 1:16
11. "Breaking the Silence" (DeGarmo, Tate) – 4:21
12. "I Don't Believe in Love
    I Don't Believe in Love
    "I Don't Believe in Love" is a song by progressive metal band Queensrÿche appearing on their 1988 album Operation: Mindcrime. It has also been featured in all four of their compilations, Evolution Calling, Greatest Hits, Classic Masters, and Sign of the Times: The Best of Queensrÿche, making it one...
    
    " (DeGarmo, Tate) – 4:19
13. "Waiting for 22" (DeGarmo) – 1:27
14. "My Empty Room" (Tate, Wilton) – 1:37
15. "Eyes of a Stranger" (DeGarmo, Tate) – 8:25
16. "The Lady Wore Black" (DeGarmo, Tate) – 6:44 [Bonus Track]
17. "Roads to Madness" (DeGarmo, Tate, Wilton) – 9:22 [Bonus Track]

Personnel

• Geoff Tate
  Geoff Tate
  Geoff Tate is an American singer and musician, who rose to fame in the 1980s with the progressive metal band, Queensrÿche...
  
   – vocals
• Michael Wilton
  Michael Wilton
  Michael Wilton is an American guitarist for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche. Wilton attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where he met future Queensrÿche drummer Scott Rockenfield and began recording in 1981...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , background vocals
• Chris DeGarmo
  Chris DeGarmo
  Chris DeGarmo is an American heavy metal and hard rock guitarist. He co-founded Queensrÿche in 1981 and played with the group during their most commercially successful period. Since departing from the band, DeGarmo has continued his involvement in the music business in a much smaller capacity...
  
   – guitar, background vocals
• Eddie Jackson
  Eddie Jackson (musician)
  Eddie Jackson is the bass guitarist for the progressive metal band, Queensrÿche. He has been with the group since 1981, when they were known as The Mob....
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , background vocals
• Scott Rockenfield
  Scott Rockenfield
  Scott Rockenfield is the drummer for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche and the band Slave to the System....
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

with

• Pamela Moore
  Pamela Moore
  Pamela Moore is an American singer and songwriter, mixing hard rock, pop and electronica. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington in the United States.-History:...
  
  – vocals
• Anthony Valentine – spoken vocals
• Debbie Wheeler – spoken vocals
• Mike Snyder – spoken vocals
• Scott Mateer – spoken vocals