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The darkest Rush song musically and lyrically?


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Musically it's a toss-up between Cygnus X-1(Part I) and The Necromancer. Both songs sound very creepy, mean and dark to me. Cygnus X-1 contains 'the meanest' Geddy's bassline ever. And this vocal melody at the end of song Cygnus X-1 honestly scared me during the first listening:

Sound and fury

Drown my heart

Every nerve

Is torn apaaaaart...

 

Lyrically it's probably Between the Wheels or Red Sector A.

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The ENTIRE Grace Under Pressure album. I would say that GUP was actually a pioneer in the genre of dark wave. Light sounding music with an incredibly dark theme....

 

1.Fear of nuclear war

2.Loss of a love one

3.The holocaust

4.The effect of mental illness

5.Living in a dystopia

6.Bullying

7.McCarthyism/The Red Scare

8.Life during wartime

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I'd go with The Necromancer.

 

Speaking of which, does anyone else notice how damn quiet it was mastered to CD? Even the '07 remaster I have requires the volume to be pretty much maxed out to hear it at all during the beginning.

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The ENTIRE Grace Under Pressure album. I would say that GUP was actually a pioneer in the genre of dark wave. Light sounding music with an incredibly dark theme....

 

1.Fear of nuclear war

2.Loss of a love one

3.The holocaust

4.The effect of mental illness

5.Living in a dystopia

6.Bullying

7.McCarthyism/The Red Scare

8.Life during wartime

 

Thematically, this is one of Peart's greatest achievements. I still think the lackluster production (and some of the inherent cheese to the 80s sounds) is all that's really holding this album back, it excels everywhere else.

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The Weapon is a dark song? Scary maybe. But dark??

 

By the way, EP, are you back at college now? :)

 

Sitting in the dining hall as I type! Classes started today! Woot!

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The Weapon is a dark song? Scary maybe. But dark??

 

By the way, EP, are you back at college now? :)

 

Sitting in the dining hall as I type! Classes started today! Woot!

 

Make us proud of you now! :yes:

 

Stay out of trouble. :yes: :madra: :hi:

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A dark one would be Red Sector A, can't get much darker than a Nazi concentration camp.

 

Thought the exact same thing.

 

Did you know that Joseph Stalin starved an entire country until they were reduced to cannibalism?

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A dark one would be Red Sector A, can't get much darker than a Nazi concentration camp.

 

Thought the exact same thing.

 

Did you know that Joseph Stalin starved an entire country until they were reduced to cannibalism?

jeffrey dahmer had a set of twins in his freezer. he had to throw them out because they were spoiled rotten.
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A dark one would be Red Sector A, can't get much darker than a Nazi concentration camp.

 

Thought the exact same thing.

 

Did you know that Joseph Stalin starved an entire country until they were reduced to cannibalism?

Technically, it was just one of the socialist republics. Could have been a breadbasket to the world, too.

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