"The closest the band comes to producing anything remotely interesting and like their earlier work (apart from "Damaged") is on a song such as "My Global Mind", where Tate's doubled harmony vocals are joined with a slightly more noticeable solid rhythm and then a brief spurt of the harmonic guitars. But even here we move along in a stagnant mood, hardly getting out of first gear, before having the reflecting middle section again. "One More Time" ends that journey as well, delving back into places that have some familiarity with past glories. Then we have "Someone Else" which is the album closer and is performed only by Tate on vocals and DeGarmo on piano. It is a hundred miles away from what you would expect. Compare it to the closer on the previous album, "Anybody Listening?" That had everything, and was such an uplifting song that you couldn't wait to play the album again. Here, with no band backing, only the piano, it is almost like signifying the end of a funeral. In many ways, looking back from this distance, perhaps that is exactly what it was doing".

On this episode we are going to talk about “Promised Land” by Queensrÿche, the band’s 5th studio album released 30 years ago this week, on today’s episode where “searching for the answers, all I see is damage through the haze” on Music from a Lifetime.