― Lostandfound, Thursday, 3 May 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Joe, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link
I knew there was a Best Rush Album thread!
I just bought Signals on CD! I don't think I've ever owned that on CD! I'm such a goddamn happy camper I don't know what to do with myself. SUBDIVISIONS ALONE!
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 December 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy shit people I am DYING here, listen the the faux reggae beat of "Digital Man"!!!
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 December 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link
The Police would be jealous, right???
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 December 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
NEW WORLD MAN WILL WIPE THE MARBLE FLOOR CLEAN
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 December 2007 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
No seriously, I do not understand how they did this faux reggae thing on "Digitial Man". That shit is the fucking deal.
Stewart Copeland would be so goddamn jealous I know we've been over this before but oh my god.
― Bimble, Monday, 24 December 2007 07:24 (sixteen years ago) link
NEW WORLD MAN
I can't even breathe, man. That is just the absolute shit.
"Losing it"...oh my god. I put that on a comp of sad songs I made in 1989. That shit goes way deep with me.
I'd never say Signals was their best album, but Jesus. I just can't stand it.
Music is the most incredible thing in the world.
― Bimble, Monday, 24 December 2007 07:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Peart actually got lessons from Copeland at one point.
Yes, I'm in the process of discovering 80s Rush right now too. I'm wrapping my brain around Power Windows and Grace Under Pressure right now...
― Nate Carson, Monday, 24 December 2007 11:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh I fucking love Power Windows, dude. Meant to play that last night and didn't get to it. Wish I had Grace Under Pressure on CD. Hell I don't even think I've even got that on cassette anymore.
― Bimble, Monday, 24 December 2007 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Quick question, do Rush sell out shows?
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 28 September 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Sometimes they do. Follow this link for attendance data on their last tour. I assume the financial info is gross, not net.
http://www.rushisaband.com/tour.php
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 28 September 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i find it hard not to listen to Hemispheres with a complete, calm smile on my face, in a room where there is no time or place...
― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 April 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i had forgotten how much farewell/hemispheres seems like a 2112 rewrite
― j., Monday, 14 July 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
i prefer 'hemispheres' to '2112' -- the sidelength suite is my favorite of their songs, and side two is perfect. it's their 'close to the edge' imho, and "la villa strangiato" gives "siberian khatru" a run for its money in GPM (goosebumps per minute). but i'd take '2112' over 'farewell to kings' for sure
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 14 July 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Farewell to Kings has "Xanadu", which is frankly better than any side 2 track on 2112.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
side 2 of 2112 is kind of an afterthought for me
but side 1 is so iconic that i dunno, for that stretch of time it dominates the whole idea of the band, so that the albums after that for a while are kind of like, rush doin rush stuff, until the blues/zep/etc. elements have been kind of refined out / absorbed into the 80s style and it seems like things have moved on
― j., Monday, 14 July 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
I also prefer Hemispheres to 2112, but Hemispheres is one of my favourite albums of all time, so...
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
does HOld Your Fire suck
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 05:19 (nine years ago) link
No, I think its great. Synth-y in a good way.
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 11:31 (nine years ago) link
As in, I think people have a problem with the production on this album but the sound of it seems inseperable from the writing.
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 11:33 (nine years ago) link
I love hold your fire
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 11:35 (nine years ago) link
I also love hold your fire
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
'open secrets', 'high water' both slay
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 13:06 (nine years ago) link
I think of power windows and hold your fire as twin records, they have the same production pretty much, but power windows got all the worldly songs and HYF got the introspective ones so its even more deeply uncool than baseline rush
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
Love Hold Your Fire. Production suits the songs, but there's some incredible playing, particularly the drum fills and guitar solos (even more so than usual). I love the arrangements, too. Like Power WIndows better, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 13:35 (nine years ago) link
thanks dudes. I checked it out and I actually liked it a lot on first listen! reminded me of Peter Gabriel at times.
also checked out Roll the Bones. like quite a few of the songs but the main thing that bugs me is the production is sterile as hell, and the arrangements fairly dull. it sounds like session musicians playing, nothing to stand out as Rush. yet I don't *dislike* it, but weirdly it sounds more dated than the albums that came before it. the bass on the title track sounds like the generic "funk-pop" bass that was popular in those days.
I guess now I've heard all of their albums except the debut and Test for Echo.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 28 May 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link
Ha, it's possible I'm in the same boat! I mean, I love Rush, and have for ... 25 years? Wow. But I don't think I have ever heard the first album or listened to Test for Echo more than once.
Of all the Rush albums, Presto seems the most outlier to me. Almost singer-songwritery, with this really intriguing spare production totally unlike anything that came before or after.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 May 2015 03:34 (nine years ago) link