― Bimble, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
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― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
I burned "The Manhattan Project" and "The Big Money" onto my iPod a couple of weeks ago; the synth textures and Synclavier effects on the former would be the envy of Some Great Reward-era Depeche Mode.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
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― NYCNative, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link
radiant cocktail of rock
radiant rocktail of cock
― Edward Bax, Thursday, 3 May 2007 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Sundar, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
put your message in a modem, and throw it in the cyber sea..
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
and all too soon a canine will be chasing cars in doggie heaven
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
that dog one is my actual least favorite rush song
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
ha ha, was just coming to post the exact same lyric
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
i heard test for echo once.
once...
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
I like some test for echo tracks despite lots of dopey lyrics. Driven, Totem, and Time and Motion are pretty solid.
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
i heard test for echo once.once...― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 6:56 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 6:56 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's enough to leave an impression!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
glad there ended up being so much Hold Your Fire chat here, because I think that might be my answer (having heard everything between Moving Pictures and it over the last couple of days)
― imago, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:12 (nine months ago) link
it's just too huge, the arrangements are too epic, everything is delivered from on high as heroes defeat evil universes, Turn The Page is the greatest song ever, etc etc
― imago, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:14 (nine months ago) link
Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, Hold Your Fire and Presto are probably Peart's peak as a lyricist.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:16 (nine months ago) link
I love Grace Under Pressure and Power Windows, but fairly meh on the other 2
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:33 (nine months ago) link
The more the decades go by, the more I love Power Windows.
Mystic Rhythms especially. Probably their most overlooked single.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:37 (nine months ago) link
to me Signals seems to belong more to the run of albums after it than what came before
― imago, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:44 (nine months ago) link
True
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 21:01 (nine months ago) link
I would go all-in on super deluxe editions of Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Hold Your Fire but AFAIK apart from that "Power Windows Demos" bootleg CD (which isn't as interesting as it seems) there's little in the way of extras outside of live shows. I don't think they ever worked in a way that generated lots of outtakes or alternate directions.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 21:43 (nine months ago) link
Well that run of albums is notable in that even though they were a multiplatinum smash and worldwide megastars, they just kept churning out an album pretty much every year! It's hard to think of another band who refused to rest on their laurels to such an extent. Such output seems to tell me they had a lot of clarity when they went into the studio, hence the lack of outtakes
― imago, Thursday, 17 August 2023 06:48 (nine months ago) link
to me Signals seems to belong more to the run of albums after it than what came before― imago, Wednesday, August 16, 2023 3:44 PM (yesterday)glad there ended up being so much Hold Your Fire chat here, because I think that might be my answer (having heard everything between Moving Pictures and it over the last couple of days)― imago, Wednesday, August 16, 2023 3:12 PM (yesterday)
― imago, Wednesday, August 16, 2023 3:44 PM (yesterday)
― imago, Wednesday, August 16, 2023 3:12 PM (yesterday)
I appreciate how their first 3 live albums serve as lines of demarcation in their catalogue, like ending credit scenes from a cinematic entry in some grand trilogy. While I don't view "Different Stages" as sharing a similar role, it does serve as a nice in-joke to their whole "trilogies have 4 parts" ethos.
As for HYF, I learned that the key to appreciating it as a whole album (rather than a just a delivery system for the "Force Ten"/"Time Stand Still" opening salvo) is to view it as a prog-leaning New Age-adjacent record, like if Windham Hill let Michael Hedges or Alex DeGrassi create their own sub-label. The choir vocals/synths, calm strings, and empty space of "Mission", "Tai Shan", "Prime Mover", and "High Water" make a fairly enjoyable listen. If you can turn off the whole "Is this supposed to be Rush? Where's the distorted riffage and/or wild drum/bass interplay?" part of your brain - and besides, those *are* there, just in a very subordinate role to those other 3 elements listed above - it is damn near transcendent.
One other HYF point that someone made in a comment section from a surely-dead prog-rock blog that I wish I could find: "Open Secrets" might (ahem) secretly be a great "Invisible Touch"-era Genesis song, especially the chorus.
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:01 (nine months ago) link
turns out the person why recommended me HYF was also busy doing a huge in-depth interview about it too :)
https://www.spin.com/2023/08/band-jury-fire-toolz-rush-hold-your-fire/
― imago, Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:29 (nine months ago) link
I remember reading something (no doubt linked to on this thread somewhere) about each Rush album evolution coming in pairs.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:42 (nine months ago) link
It felt like a huge departure from Moving Pictures, which in itself was a little bit removed from the albums immediately prior.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 18 August 2023 03:06 (nine months ago) link
HEMISPHERES
― ivy., Thursday, 25 January 2024 04:12 (four months ago) link
i like their 1st album
y'know before they became libertarians
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Thursday, 25 January 2024 06:26 (four months ago) link
didja get my skrewdriver joke
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Thursday, 25 January 2024 06:27 (four months ago) link
ivy. OTM
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 25 January 2024 20:15 (four months ago) link