Okay, sure. It's not terrible, but it leaves me cold, and I don't like it. I guess it comes down to personal tastes. I've never really payed attention to who produced/mixed/engineered QR albums before, but now that I just have two seconds ago I am not surprised to find Paul Northfield and Peter Collins among the main perpetrators of the QR sound.
Of course, it turns out that some of the guys who are partially responsible for "dated glitz" sound I've always disliked about Rush are also the same guys responsible for QR's sound
And I don't even want to go into what I dislike about Northfield's DT work.
If those guys are the industry gold standard in the late 80s and early 90s, that explains why I find so much of the "industry" from that time to be pretty bad.
But my point wasn't to derail the thread with my opinion on production standards in the 80's. I was really just saying that I can't stand Tate, and find him tolerable at best even on QR's good albums, so in this case I'm glad he's gone and I'm more than happy to hear a less awkward sounding singer at the helm, even if people are going to make the argument that Tate's version of QR is more legitimate than the actual one.