Entre_Perpetuo Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted November 13, 2018 Author Share Posted November 13, 2018 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 1:2112Beneath, Between, BehindLakeside Park Side 2:Bastille DayAnthemFly by NightA Passage to BangkokBastille DayWorking 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 - 5Half the World - 8Time and Motion - 13Totem - 18Resist - 23Limbo - 28One Little Victory - 33Ghost Rider - 39Peaceable Kingdom - 45How It Is - 49Vapor Trail - 54Secret Touch - 61Earthshine - 66Freeze - 73Far Cry - 79Armor and Sword - 85Working’ Them Angels - 90The Main Monkey Business - 96The Way the Wind Blows - 102Malignant Narcissism - 104Caravan - 110BU2B - 115Clockwork Angels - 123Headlong Flight - 130The 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big MoneyFrom HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the PageFrom RTB: Dreamline, Roll the BonesFrom 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithrandir Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big MoneyFrom HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the PageFrom RTB: Dreamline, Roll the BonesFrom 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big MoneyFrom HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the PageFrom RTB: Dreamline, Roll the BonesFrom 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Girl Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big MoneyFrom HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the PageFrom RTB: Dreamline, Roll the BonesFrom 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Girl Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big MoneyFrom HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the PageFrom RTB: Dreamline, Roll the BonesFrom 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big MoneyFrom HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the PageFrom RTB: Dreamline, Roll the BonesFrom 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 November 14, 2018 by laughedatbytime 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big MoneyFrom HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the PageFrom RTB: Dreamline, Roll the BonesFrom 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 Edited November 14, 2018 by goose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Girl Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big MoneyFrom HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the PageFrom RTB: Dreamline, Roll the BonesFrom 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 Edited November 14, 2018 by Alien Girl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 How about 1 album out of 6? Call it PowerFirePrestoBonesPartsTest From PoW: Manhattan Project, The Big MoneyFrom HYF: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Prime Mover, Turn the PageFrom RTB: Dreamline, Roll the BonesFrom 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.jpgKolchak! :ebert: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theredtamasrule Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 T4EDrivenTime & MotionOLVEarthshineSecret TouchNocturnFar CryWTAA&STMMB I love CA so that album needs to stand on its own IMO. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) 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 November 14, 2018 by tks95747 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtron Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Test for EchoDrivenGhost RiderVapor TrailSecret TouchEarthshineFar CryCaravanBU2BClockwork AngelsThe AnarchistHeadlong Flight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theredtamasrule Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 How about the shittiest song from each album (if there is one...post debut): RivendellGoing BaldTearsMadrigalTai ShanHand Over FistNeuroticaSpeed of LoveThe Color of RightOut of the CradleWe Hold OnBU2B2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 How about the shittiest song from each album (if there is one...post debut): RivendellGoing BaldTearsMadrigalTai ShanHand Over FistNeuroticaSpeed of LoveThe Color of RightOut of the CradleWe Hold OnBU2B2You misspelled Half the World. Or forgot about it. Which makes you lucky enough to be a perpetual lottery winner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eel Yddeg Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 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):TotemResistLimboOne Little VictorySecret TouchEarthshineFar CryArmor and SwordThe Main Monkey BusinessCaravanBU2BThe Garden But that would be excluding a lot I like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patjnev Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 I like Alien Shore and Leave That Thing Alone. And that is it. :codger: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 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... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 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):TotemResistLimboOne Little VictorySecret TouchEarthshineFar CryArmor and SwordThe Main Monkey BusinessCaravanBU2BThe 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 How about the shittiest song from each album (if there is one...post debut): RivendellGoing BaldTearsMadrigalTai ShanHand Over FistNeuroticaSpeed of LoveThe Color of RightOut of the CradleWe Hold OnBU2B2Because 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". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. Backer Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 I’m confused. I thought 2112 was their debut? And they released albums AFTER Grace Under Pressure? Huh. ;) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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