Queensrÿche: Operation Livecrime is simply the best concert of all time.
As much as I love Radiohead, Hendrix, The Who, Pearl Jam and other great rock bands, none have released a concert film this perfect. The magnificent performance, the incredible songs and lyrics ... WOW.
The lyrics are so brutally honest about the politics of America. And this was written in 1989, long before the internet, alternative media and discussion of the 1% that rule the country.
"Spreading the Disease"
Religion and sex are powerplays
Manipulate the people for the money they pay
Selling skin, selling God
The numbers look the same on their credit cards
Politicians say no to drugs
While we can pay for wars in South America
Fighting fire with empty words
While the banks get fat
And the poor stay poor
And the rich get rich
And the cops get paid
To look away
As the one percent rules America.