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Combine T4E through CA to make one album that’s somehow better than any of them individually? A challenge, but sure, plausible. Suggest that Rush somehow had the ability to record only your favorite songs from those four records and put them all on one album despite the first and last records being a decade and a half apart? Preposterous.

 

Also how do you pick Virtuality from T4E when Driven and Time And Motion exist?

 

Haha I do relate to you here.

 

But then again you rate Roll The Bones very low and hate on it, yet defended Hot Space or whatever that Queen album is called hahaha

 

tbf Hot Space is actually my least favorite Queen album. If I weren't such a huge Queen fan, I might hate it. But that band almost always comes back around for me. I don't even have to look for redeeming qualities, they just appear. RTB just doesn't flatter Rush for me the same way Hot Space flatters Queen.

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I'd be more interested in seeing the first 4 albums turned into one album. Most of my favorite Rush songs are omitted by combining the last 4 Rush albums, but I can do without a lot of the goofy, adolescent phase of Rush.

 

Side 1:

2112

Beneath, Between, Behind

Lakeside Park

 

Side 2:

Bastille Day

Anthem

Fly by Night

A Passage to Bangkok

Bastille Day

Working Man

 

51 minutes and that's basically all I don't skip from the first 4 albums. I even arranged it into 1 vinyl album appropriate to the period it was released in!

 

But on... Test for Echo, Vapor Trails, Snakes and Arrows, Clockwork Angels?

 

Geez.

 

 

Driven - 5

Half the World - 8

Time and Motion - 13

Totem - 18

Resist - 23

Limbo - 28

One Little Victory - 33

Ghost Rider - 39

Peaceable Kingdom - 45

How It Is - 49

Vapor Trail - 54

Secret Touch - 61

Earthshine - 66

Freeze - 73

Far Cry - 79

Armor and Sword - 85

Working’ Them Angels - 90

The Main Monkey Business - 96

The Way the Wind Blows - 102

Malignant Narcissism - 104

Caravan - 110

BU2B - 115

Clockwork Angels - 123

Headlong Flight - 130

The Garden - 137

 

And that's omitting a bunch of songs I really like.

 

No, sorry, can't be done. The last 4 albums are a big part of why I'm still a massive Rush fan. Otherwise Rush is on the level of Styx for me - a good look into 70's and 80's classic rock, and nostalgic, but not particularly significant to my life story in the way Rush is.

It is most likely a product of when one is initially introduced to Rush. My introduction was CoS in 1976, with my first concert being the AFTK Tour. RUSH >FBN>CoS>2112>AFTK>Hemispheres>PW are indispensable to me. In my estimation, this period, while formative and adolescent, is unblemished, raw and fearless. It is the essence of what morphed into a much more refined and focused (and commercial-like) companionship. Nevertheless, their worst effort is better than 99% of what is being passed off as music today.
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How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest

 

From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big Money

From HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the Page

From RTB: Dreamline, Roll the Bones

From T4E: Driven

 

About as long as Permanent Waves, and maybe close to half as good, but as close to chicken salad as you can make from the raw material.

You chose the 2 worst songs from PoW.

 

No. The two worst songs from PoW are Middletown Dreams, and Emotion Detector. Absolute dreck. :boo hiss:

I thought you loved Middletown. Must be thinking of someone else...
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How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest

 

From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big Money

From HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the Page

From RTB: Dreamline, Roll the Bones

From T4E: Driven

 

About as long as Permanent Waves, and maybe close to half as good, but as close to chicken salad as you can make from the raw material.

You chose the 2 worst songs from PoW.

 

No. The two worst songs from PoW are Middletown Dreams, and Emotion Detector. Absolute dreck. :boo hiss:

Middletown Dreams is a fantastic song!
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How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest

 

From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big Money

From HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the Page

From RTB: Dreamline, Roll the Bones

From T4E: Driven

 

About as long as Permanent Waves, and maybe close to half as good, but as close to chicken salad as you can make from the raw material.

You chose the 2 worst songs from PoW.

 

No. The two worst songs from PoW are Middletown Dreams, and Emotion Detector. Absolute dreck. :boo hiss:

Middletown Dreams is a fantastic song!

I’ve agreed with you twice this month...perhaps America is not as divisive as I thought.

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How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest

 

From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big Money

From HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the Page

From RTB: Dreamline, Roll the Bones

From T4E: Driven

 

About as long as Permanent Waves, and maybe close to half as good, but as close to chicken salad as you can make from the raw material.

You chose the 2 worst songs from PoW.

 

No. The two worst songs from PoW are Middletown Dreams, and Emotion Detector. Absolute dreck. :boo hiss:

Middletown Dreams is a fantastic song!

Actually it's not.

 

But you go ahead and keep thinking it is.

 

Seriously, no skin off my nose.

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How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest

 

From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big Money

From HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the Page

From RTB: Dreamline, Roll the Bones

From T4E: Driven

 

About as long as Permanent Waves, and maybe close to half as good, but as close to chicken salad as you can make from the raw material.

You chose the 2 worst songs from PoW.

 

No. The two worst songs from PoW are Middletown Dreams, and Emotion Detector. Absolute dreck. :boo hiss:

I thought you loved Middletown. Must be thinking of someone else...

Some other alien.

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How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest

 

From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big Money

From HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the Page

From RTB: Dreamline, Roll the Bones

From T4E: Driven

 

About as long as Permanent Waves, and maybe close to half as good, but as close to chicken salad as you can make from the raw material.

You chose the 2 worst songs from PoW.

 

No. The two worst songs from PoW are Middletown Dreams, and Emotion Detector. Absolute dreck. :boo hiss:

Middletown Dreams is a fantastic song!

I’ve agreed with you twice this month...perhaps America is not as divisive as I thought.

Middletown Dreams is the musical equivalent of NY style pizza, dreary, depressing, bland, non-descript, unappealing, dull...you get the idea. Edited by laughedatbytime
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How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest

 

From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big Money

From HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the Page

From RTB: Dreamline, Roll the Bones

From T4E: Driven

 

About as long as Permanent Waves, and maybe close to half as good, but as close to chicken salad as you can make from the raw material.

You chose the 2 worst songs from PoW.

 

No. The two worst songs from PoW are Middletown Dreams, and Emotion Detector. Absolute dreck. :boo hiss:

I thought you loved Middletown. Must be thinking of someone else...

Some other alien.

...looks for the opening...and simply pulls a string...love comes walking in.

 

 

I do remember for certain that you're a huge VH Sammy era fan, am I right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:P

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How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest

 

From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big Money

From HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the Page

From RTB: Dreamline, Roll the Bones

From T4E: Driven

 

About as long as Permanent Waves, and maybe close to half as good, but as close to chicken salad as you can make from the raw material.

You chose the 2 worst songs from PoW.

 

No. The two worst songs from PoW are Middletown Dreams, and Emotion Detector. Absolute dreck. :boo hiss:

I thought you loved Middletown. Must be thinking of someone else...

Some other alien.

...looks for the opening...and simply pulls a string...love comes walking in.

 

 

I do remember for certain that you're a huge VH Sammy era fan, am I right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:P

 

*Gasp*

 

The Devil you say!!

 

http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/night-stalker-1972-carl-kolchak-cross-ending-darrin-mcgavin-review-300x210.jpg

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How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest

 

From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big Money

From HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the Page

From RTB: Dreamline, Roll the Bones

From T4E: Driven

 

About as long as Permanent Waves, and maybe close to half as good, but as close to chicken salad as you can make from the raw material.

You chose the 2 worst songs from PoW.

 

No. The two worst songs from PoW are Middletown Dreams, and Emotion Detector. Absolute dreck. :boo hiss:

I thought you loved Middletown. Must be thinking of someone else...

Some other alien.

...looks for the opening...and simply pulls a string...love comes walking in.

 

 

I do remember for certain that you're a huge VH Sammy era fan, am I right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:P

 

*Gasp*

 

The Devil you say!!

 

http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/night-stalker-1972-carl-kolchak-cross-ending-darrin-mcgavin-review-300x210.jpg

Kolchak!

 

:ebert:

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Combine T4E through CA to make one album that’s somehow better than any of them individually? A challenge, but sure, plausible. Suggest that Rush somehow had the ability to record only your favorite songs from those four records and put them all on one album despite the first and last records being a decade and a half apart? Preposterous.

 

Also how do you pick Virtuality from T4E when Driven and Time And Motion exist?

Preposterous?? I respect that your opinion differs from mine. Controversial opinions, of course, yield controversial debate. Controversial debate often yields derisive mockery. I expected it when I posted my opinion. As Pratt put it, "All that you can do is wish them well". Accordingly, I wish you well sir. Edited by tks95747
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How about the shittiest song from each album (if there is one...post debut):

 

Rivendell

Going Bald

Tears

Madrigal

Tai Shan

Hand Over Fist

Neurotica

Speed of Love

The Color of Right

Out of the Cradle

We Hold On

BU2B2

You misspelled Half the World.

 

Or forgot about it. Which makes you lucky enough to be a perpetual lottery winner.

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Honestly this thread is dumb just because the albums were recorded 15 years apart. It's silly to assume that if one album was made in 2012, it would've included all those songs.

 

But if I had to pick choice cuts from those 4 (doing 3 apiece):

Totem

Resist

Limbo

One Little Victory

Secret Touch

Earthshine

Far Cry

Armor and Sword

The Main Monkey Business

Caravan

BU2B

The Garden

 

 

But that would be excluding a lot I like.

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I like Alien Shore and Leave That Thing Alone. And that is it. :codger:

If I was forced to be completely honest, my list would be closer to yours...
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Honestly this thread is dumb just because the albums were recorded 15 years apart. It's silly to assume that if one album was made in 2012, it would've included all those songs.

 

But if I had to pick choice cuts from those 4 (doing 3 apiece):

Totem

Resist

Limbo

One Little Victory

Secret Touch

Earthshine

Far Cry

Armor and Sword

The Main Monkey Business

Caravan

BU2B

The Garden

 

 

But that would be excluding a lot I like.

If this thread is "dumb", why are you participating in it? Maybe "Dumb" applies elsewhere here...
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How about the shittiest song from each album (if there is one...post debut):

 

Rivendell

Going Bald

Tears

Madrigal

Tai Shan

Hand Over Fist

Neurotica

Speed of Love

The Color of Right

Out of the Cradle

We Hold On

BU2B2

Because I believe that the worst Rush songs are far better than any so-called "music" being thrust upon us today, I wouldn't necessarily call any of their music "Shi**y". Instead, I would say "weakest". With that being said, I would agree with your assessment of Rivendell, Going Bald, Tears, Madrigal, Tai Shan, Hand Over Fist, Neurotica, Speed of Love, The Color of Right and Out of the Cradle (OMG that one sucks). As to Snakes and Arrowns, I would pick "The Larger Bowl" and for CA, I would pick "Wish Them Well".
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