Autarch's Blog

Today is just the same as any other day to me.

Walking wall to wall to pass the time, I picture what it's

like on the other side.

Because I'm here on the inside of blue, without you.



Day in day out on and on ... I'm missing you.



Some days it feels, just like falling down.

Some days it's easy, just like falling down.



Some days it's real, just like falling down.

Some days it's easy, just like falling down.



Day in day out on and on ... I'm missing you.

Last night I stopped at the store on the way to pick up my son. I picked up a 2007 Queensryche CD that I never even knew about. When I got in the car, I popped it in before driving off. The first song was a cover of Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine from Wish You Were Here. I couldn't believe it! I knew what it was before he sang the first word.

It is as good as the original? No. But it's still pretty good. I listened to it like six times in a row. I was calling my friends and telling them, " you have to hear this!" I thought it was just the coolest fucking thing EVER to kick off your latest album with Welcome to the Machine.

Well, as it turns out, it's an entire CD of covers. Heh. Hence the name: Take Cover. I'm stupid: I didn't even LOOK at it in the store.

So, I start thinking, "oh great, the rest of the CD is going to either suck or be songs I've never even heard of." Not true. They pull out Neon Nights from Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath and they do a great job on this one. In fact it's eerily close to the original in a lot of places.

But I got the most excited about track 6. For half a minute I just kept going, "NO WAY, NO WAY, NO WAY!" Innuendo by Queen. If you wanted to pick the most difficult Queen song ever, this is arguably it. Again, not as good as the original version but still an amazing effort. It gave me chills. For the first time in recent memory I didn't want to get out of the car when I arrived!

I didn't realize when I grabbed it but it's just kind of a novelty. Not something that I will really listen to for years to come but it made my evening.