Lorraine Posted November 23, 2017 Author Share Posted November 23, 2017 From another thread: I remember buying it the day it came out. Ran to my dorm room. Put it in the cd and rocked out approvingly to Show Don’t Tell...and then sat there speechless as the crap started to ooze out of the CD player. Mostly awful songs. Awful production. Awful album. It still stings a little how much this album disappoints me.Haven't you come to appreciate any of it after all this time? No. Indeed time has only increased my conviction that Presto is an uninspired milksop of an album to which I give no quarter. You laugh at my trauma?!?!?!?????? Heaven forfend!!!!No. I laughed at the string of words used to describe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted November 23, 2017 Author Share Posted November 23, 2017 One of my top 5 favorite albums. I love almost every song on it. A very solid record. Show Don't Tell, Presto, Chain Lightning, Red Tide and Available Light were all on heavy repeatIt's uplifting to see 3 Canadian socialists deeply inspire a man who quotes Adolf Hitler.If they are socialists, why aren't they giving 90% of their millions to us lesser folk? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union 5-3992 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 One of my top 5 favorite albums. I love almost every song on it. A very solid record. Show Don't Tell, Presto, Chain Lightning, Red Tide and Available Light were all on heavy repeatIt's uplifting to see 3 Canadian socialists deeply inspire a man who quotes Adolf Hitler.If they are socialists, why aren't they giving 90% of their millions to us lesser folk?I misspoke. *liberals* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 One of my top 5 favorite albums. I love almost every song on it. A very solid record. Show Don't Tell, Presto, Chain Lightning, Red Tide and Available Light were all on heavy repeatIt's uplifting to see 3 Canadian socialists deeply inspire a man who quotes Adolf Hitler.If they are socialists, why aren't they giving 90% of their millions to us lesser folk?For Alex and Geddy, I believe they do their charitable work based what their heart tells them. For Peart, his motives are a little more ulterior, in my opinion... Around my home in Westside Los Angeles panhandlers often stood at the long red lights leading onto the Pacific Coast Highway. I always liked to help them out—never understanding how colder hearts could fail to see it was mental illness that put them there, not laziness. When I call over the unfortunate one and hand over the bill, if they give me the “God bless you” line, I shake my head while saying, “This has nothing to do with God—it’s between you and me.” http://www.neilpeart.net/index.php/space-for-news-items/june-2015-backstage-byways/ One of the nicest guys in rock.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 From another thread: I remember buying it the day it came out. Ran to my dorm room. Put it in the cd and rocked out approvingly to Show Don’t Tell...and then sat there speechless as the crap started to ooze out of the CD player. Mostly awful songs. Awful production. Awful album. It still stings a little how much this album disappoints me. Pretty much my experience. I remember digging the start of the second track up until "sun dogs fire on the horizon" . . . what a huge letdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Does anyone here remember their first reaction to the album when it came out?Not really. I just remember really dig it. GUP was jarring to me, nothing I expected after PeW, MP, and Signals. Power Windows smoothed things out, I dug the sound. Then the HYF follow up. So Presto is just what I wanted, I had matured becoming a man. No longer living off the meat of Heavy Metal.Are you serious or are you pulling my leg? It's hard to tell with you.Totes literally serious. Fam, your reaction is well lit! Proper good vibes son! Chill to the soul, peace to the max! Presto is a great album. Flawed but its best songs make up most of my top ten lmao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate2112 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 One of my top 5 favorite albums. I love almost every song on it. A very solid record. Show Don't Tell, Presto, Chain Lightning, Red Tide and Available Light were all on heavy repeatIt's uplifting to see 3 Canadian liberals deeply inspire a man who quotes Adolf Hitler. edit: socialists to liberals Can we not bring politics into this. If you must, rant your panties off in SOCN, not in Lorraine's thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Hold Your Fire and Roll The Bones are better. My favourite songs are: Show Don't TellChain LightningPrestoThe PassSuperconductorAvailable Light Red Tide is great as well. The rest is a bit meh. Production is weak but I always enjoy coming back to this one. But funnily enough Roll The Bones, an album I used to hate, I now find overall a lot better. But Presto is a top ten Rush album for me still. I really miss Rush. I need to get back to these guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 I am going to spin Presto tonight. For some reason I really feel like I need this band right now. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Segue Myles Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Playing Presto through headphones. Its a really funky little album. I actually really like the way it sounds and Scars really has grown on me! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union 5-3992 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 One of my top 5 favorite albums. I love almost every song on it. A very solid record. Show Don't Tell, Presto, Chain Lightning, Red Tide and Available Light were all on heavy repeatIt's uplifting to see 3 Canadian liberals deeply inspire a man who quotes Adolf Hitler. edit: socialists to liberals Can we not bring politics into this. If you must, rant your panties off in SOCN, not in Lorraine's thread.Weird, your reply was somehow more immature than mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driventotheedge Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 (edited) I had just moved to San Diego literally 2 weeks before it came out so it always reminds me of that time in life which was good. As for the album itself, good not great. Edited November 23, 2017 by driventotheedge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiBeers Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 (edited) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saIlYHLcdHs Any album that involves someone named Rupert is automatically sound like a :pussy: . Hence the pictures involving bunnies and cats. Edited November 24, 2017 by HemiBeers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 In another universe this is my reaction: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 And I'll follow that up with this: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate2112 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 One of my top 5 favorite albums. I love almost every song on it. A very solid record. Show Don't Tell, Presto, Chain Lightning, Red Tide and Available Light were all on heavy repeatIt's uplifting to see 3 Canadian liberals deeply inspire a man who quotes Adolf Hitler. edit: socialists to liberals Can we not bring politics into this. If you must, rant your panties off in SOCN, not in Lorraine's thread.Weird, your reply was somehow more immature than mine. Oh man how will I ever recover. Go profuse your political superiority somewhere else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union 5-3992 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 One of my top 5 favorite albums. I love almost every song on it. A very solid record. Show Don't Tell, Presto, Chain Lightning, Red Tide and Available Light were all on heavy repeatIt's uplifting to see 3 Canadian liberals deeply inspire a man who quotes Adolf Hitler. edit: socialists to liberals Can we not bring politics into this. If you must, rant your panties off in SOCN, not in Lorraine's thread.Weird, your reply was somehow more immature than mine. Oh man how will I ever recover. Go profuse your political superiority somewhere else edgy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 I loved it. A return of the guitar as the central instrument, great drumming and vocals. The production sound was of its time, I think. Very INXS. Still a favorite. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 One of my top 5 favorite albums. I love almost every song on it. A very solid record. Show Don't Tell, Presto, Chain Lightning, Red Tide and Available Light were all on heavy repeat:ebert: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted November 24, 2017 Author Share Posted November 24, 2017 (edited) I am going to spin Presto tonight. For some reason I really feel like I need this band right now.You'll be surprised how good they sound when you haven't listened to them for awhile. Makes you realize all the more why you loved them to begin with. :rush: :Neil: :geddy: :Alex: :rush: Edited November 24, 2017 by Lorraine 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted November 24, 2017 Author Share Posted November 24, 2017 I loved it. A return of the guitar as the central instrument, great drumming and vocals. The production sound was of its time, I think. Very INXS. Still a favorite.What makes you say "very INXS"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted November 24, 2017 Author Share Posted November 24, 2017 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saIlYHLcdHs Any album that involves someone named Rupert is automatically sound like a :pussy: . Hence the pictures involving bunnies and cats.Thanks for clearing that up. I was wondering. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 I am going to spin Presto tonight. For some reason I really feel like I need this band right now.You'll be surprised how good they sound when you haven't listened to them for awhile. Makes you realize all the more why you loved them to begin with. :rush: :Neil: :geddy: :Alex: :rush: Been playing Rush all day! Grace Under PressureHold Your FirePrestoRoll The BonesCounterparts At this point in time, my top five Rush albums. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefox4000 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 I wish i could join in......but got 3 songs into Power Windows and was well and truly bored so.....another time, lol Mick 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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