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The Worst - Round Ten


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  1. 1. What is the worst song on Power Windows?

    • The Big Money
    • Grand Designs
    • Manhattan Project
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    • Marathon
    • Territories
    • Middletown Dreams
    • Emotion Detector
    • Mystic Rhythms


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In preparation for this poll, I listened to the entire album for the first time in probably a year. :blink:

 

For those of you who were fans of Rush in the seventies and followed them from the seventies through the early eighties to this album, were you devastated when you heard Power Windows in its entirety?

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Emotion Detector and it's keyboards make it my favorite Flock of Seagulls song.
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one of 2 for me, but overall, none I would consider bad....

 

Grand Designs actually lost a little ground seeing it live for me... also Mystic Rhythms is weaker than the others.

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In preparation for this poll, I listened to the entire album for the first time in probably a year. :blink:

 

For those of you who were fans of Rush in the seventies and followed them from the seventies through the early eighties to this album, were you devastated when you heard Power Windows in its entirety?

Devastated

The band that made Power Windows was NOT the same band that made Hemispheres.

I think Rush was very fortunate to survive this period of their career.

With Hair Bands, New Wave they were stuck in No mans land....

Now we chalk it up to 'growth' , but the period from 1985 ON has been nothing compared to 1973-1984

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In preparation for this poll, I listened to the entire album for the first time in probably a year. :blink:

 

For those of you who were fans of Rush in the seventies and followed them from the seventies through the early eighties to this album, were you devastated when you heard Power Windows in its entirety?

Not devastated but it was the beginning of a period where I started losing interest.

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Emotion Detector and it's keyboards make it my favorite Flock of Seagulls song.

I think Flock of Seagulls sounded better.

 

Wasn't sure who or what Rush was trying to imitate, or sound like, or what possessed them to adopt that sound for PoW.

 

But I do admire them for their guts in doing it. It seems to me, however, that they risked a lot though. That sound must have been hard to take for so many fans.

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In preparation for this poll, I listened to the entire album for the first time in probably a year. :blink:

 

For those of you who were fans of Rush in the seventies and followed them from the seventies through the early eighties to this album, were you devastated when you heard Power Windows in its entirety?

Devastated

The band that made Power Windows was NOT the same band that made Hemispheres.

I think Rush was very fortunate to survive this period of their career.

With Hair Bands, New Wave they were stuck in No mans land....

Now we chalk it up to 'growth' , but the period from 1985 ON has been nothing compared to 1973-1984

 

In preparation for this poll, I listened to the entire album for the first time in probably a year. :blink:

 

For those of you who were fans of Rush in the seventies and followed them from the seventies through the early eighties to this album, were you devastated when you heard Power Windows in its entirety?

Not devastated but it was the beginning of a period where I started losing interest.

 

 

The first Rush album I owned was Moving Pictures. But even up against MP, Power Windows is hard to take. It's not that it is a bad album, but it certainly wasn't the Rush everyone had known and loved up to that time.

 

I can hear though why younger fans would love the album.

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Middletown Dreams

Yep. I just re-reviewed the album. I had forgotten how bad this one is or was, as it were... :codger:
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The Big Money for me. Still like it......just a tad less then the rest.

 

Mick

 

I don't like it that much, actually. Their worst single, ever.

 

I love the album overall- but it took me somewhere around 28 years to reach that consensus. All critical comments about its 'cold' production values I think are valid. I'm still a big fan of it, though.

 

If we break down each period of Rush's history into five-year increments, I believe that we're looking at a different band in every single one of those periods. Rush in 1985 was different from Rush in 1978? Absolutely. Rush in the early '90s was also different from Rush in 1985, though.

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In preparation for this poll, I listened to the entire album for the first time in probably a year. :blink:

 

For those of you who were fans of Rush in the seventies and followed them from the seventies through the early eighties to this album, were you devastated when you heard Power Windows in its entirety?

Not devastated but it was the beginning of a period where I started losing interest.

I already had as has been well documented here... :codger:
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To me, it's not a bad album. it's just so un-Rush-y it makes Presto sound good.

 

Anyway, voted for Middletown Dreams.

 

By the way Narps, now that you are here, when is the surgery so Mick and I can prepare the entertainment to facilitate your recovery process?

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it's just so un-Rush-y it makes Presto sound good.

 

Let's not get carried away now.

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To me, it's not a bad album. it's just so un-Rush-y it makes Presto sound good.

 

Anyway, voted for Middletown Dreams.

 

By the way Narps, now that you are here, when is the surgery so Mick and I can prepare the entertainment to facilitate your recovery process?

Next Friday. I will probably be in la la land most of that day I would imagine. Thanks for asking... :)
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I can hear though why younger fans would love the album.

 

I don't know where I fit- I'm not really among the "old-timers", but I don't consider myself a young Rush fan, either. I just wanted to address this because I said above that I do love the album. I think the songwriting and the musicianship, the interplay, are absolutely first-rate. Do I love this album in the same way that I love A Farewell to Kings, or Hemispheres, or even Permanent Waves? No. But that's only because of the sea change that had taken place in their musical direction between the end of the seventies and the middle of the eighties. Power Windows is, as objectively as I can state it, a great album. But that's also entirely subjective at the same time.

 

I don't know why I feel such a need to clarify, or justify. But there it is.

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To me, it's not a bad album. it's just so un-Rush-y it makes Presto sound good.

 

Anyway, voted for Middletown Dreams.

 

By the way Narps, now that you are here, when is the surgery so Mick and I can prepare the entertainment to facilitate your recovery process?

Next Friday. I will probably be in la la land most of that day I would imagine. Thanks for asking... :)

Probably Saturday I will need a robust discussion of the TMT and CA tour DVD and the Clockwork Angels album. If you want to throw in a lengthy discussion regarding the merits of S & A that would be the cherry on top... :)
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If you want to throw in a lengthy discussion regarding the merits of S & A that would be the cherry on top... :)

How can you discuss something that doesn't exist?

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