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CA Album Battle 11: Clockwork Angels vs. Power Windows


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I am perfectly chill. No worries. :)

 

Honestly, I didn't know it was going to cause that much of a kerfuffle...I don't typically rock the boats of other Rush fans, saying provocative things...

 

 

...unless said other Rush fans are having nasty things to say about...oh, Hold Your Fire, for example. If that be the case, then all bets are off!

 

They are very serious about spoilers J

 

BTW, intended to mention some of the stats from CA tour, not have a massive spoiler chat.

 

Two NYC shows on the first CA leg, NJ did great, Brooklyn not as well. I couldn't find Cincy on this CA leg, but did find Columbus, which did 8611. The promoter also plays with capacities alot on this tour. an NHL arena, even with backstage seats closed off, holds more than 10,204. Barclays curtained some sections, and did not include those seats in the capacity number.

 

Even with the small Brooklyn crowd, the two NYC shows netted close to $2 million. R40 is going to have some monster gross sales. Imagine if they were able to price tickets to market value.

 

Five NYC shows will fund a mini residency in London. 2017 at an arena near few.

 

Sat, Oct 20 Prudential Center: Newark, NJ

attendance 12,139/12,139 ($1,022,913) SELLOUT [setlist]

 

Mon, Oct 22 Barclays Center: Brooklyn, NY

attendance 9,904/10,815 ($870,736) [setlist]

 

Thu, Sep 20 Nationwide Arena: Columbus, OH

attendance 8,611/10,204 ($587,173) [setlist]

 

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The crowds on the CA tour were the deadest I've seen other than Jones Beach S&A leg two. Crowds just don't respond to the synth albums.
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The crowds on the CA tour were the deadest I've seen other than Jones Beach S&A leg two. Crowds just don't respond to the synth albums.

 

I felt like a cheerleader during the heavy synth songs in set 1 and also during the hour of CA in set 2 in the CA tour. As a die hard Rush fan, CA tour was borderline embarrassing. R40 has changed Rush history and disproven the Neil theory, thankfully, before he retires

 

Yes you can go back in time and yes it can be the shining moment of recent memories. Makes all this CA adulation a bit bizarre (especially when CA is put near or ahead of their best work).

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The crowds on the CA tour were the deadest I've seen other than Jones Beach S&A leg two. Crowds just don't respond to the synth albums.

 

I felt like a cheerleader during the heavy synth songs in set 1 and also during the hour of CA in set 2 in the CA tour. As a die hard Rush fan, CA tour was borderline embarrassing. R40 has changed Rush history and disproven the Neil theory, thankfully, before he retires

 

Yes you can go back in time and yes it can be the shining moment of recent memories. Makes all this CA adulation a bit bizarre (especially when CA is put near or ahead of their best work).

 

Its nice a lot of rush fans love CA.

 

No excuse for a lot of the rudeness that has been directed at the none CA fanboy crowd.

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The crowds on the CA tour were the deadest I've seen other than Jones Beach S&A leg two. Crowds just don't respond to the synth albums.

 

This wasn't my experience at all, at the show I saw (second leg of the tour, about a month before it ended). Everybody was into everything. The only song I remember there being some sort of lukewarm response to (meaning the size of the roar that the crowd gives off at the moment it hits them what song the band has just started playing) was Territories.

 

So one less-than-stellar reaction, out of nearly thirty songs? Not too bad, I don't think.

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The crowds on the CA tour were the deadest I've seen other than Jones Beach S&A leg two. Crowds just don't respond to the synth albums.

 

I felt like a cheerleader during the heavy synth songs in set 1 and also during the hour of CA in set 2 in the CA tour. As a die hard Rush fan, CA tour was borderline embarrassing. R40 has changed Rush history and disproven the Neil theory, thankfully, before he retires

 

Yes you can go back in time and yes it can be the shining moment of recent memories. Makes all this CA adulation a bit bizarre (especially when CA is put near or ahead of their best work).

 

Its nice a lot of rush fans love CA.

 

No excuse for a lot of the rudeness that has been directed at the none CA fanboy crowd.

 

I should say CA over-adulation. I do my best not to be rude about it Mr Myles. It is just one of those unique things about this tiny corner of the Rush fandom universe.

 

 

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The crowds on the CA tour were the deadest I've seen other than Jones Beach S&A leg two. Crowds just don't respond to the synth albums.

 

I felt like a cheerleader during the heavy synth songs in set 1 and also during the hour of CA in set 2 in the CA tour. As a die hard Rush fan, CA tour was borderline embarrassing. R40 has changed Rush history and disproven the Neil theory, thankfully, before he retires

 

Yes you can go back in time and yes it can be the shining moment of recent memories. Makes all this CA adulation a bit bizarre (especially when CA is put near or ahead of their best work).

 

Its nice a lot of rush fans love CA.

 

No excuse for a lot of the rudeness that has been directed at the none CA fanboy crowd.

 

I should say CA over-adulation. I do my best not to be rude about it Mr Myles. It is just one of those unique things about this tiny corner of the Rush fandom universe.

 

 

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What I hate is when they start going OTT about, say, me hating on CA and being a troll.

 

And yet...they are the same crowd that rally against any serious praise of Presto, HYF or even VT!

 

Rush fans can be surprisingly narrow minded, both to music in general and even to Rush music! Seriously...gets dull.

 

CA is good, maybe great. But some of us don't really care for it as much as other Rush albums! Get over yourselves lol!

 

But these polls have been fun...its nice to see the usual CA crowd give praise for other albums and get chatting again about something other than the latest release!

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Segue it is fun, and cool they have such a good album at 60YO.

 

But I'd say, as a fan that likes all Rush albums, CA is barely a top 10, 2112-grace are solidly ahead. I'd also put cos and fbn ahead. I'm also a huge fan of Presto and CP, Two albums that don't have the sound issues of CA, despite the presto tin...

 

Sound, that is such an important part of a quality record!

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Power Windows by a country mile.

 

Every song (except Territories) is great. Even Territories is decent.

 

CA is loaded from Halo Effect on but its got a lot of music I don't like at the start and dooms it to defeat. Plus the production could be better. The production on PoW is fine.

 

Power Windows is just great. It takes a tremendous album to beat it and only 2112 and perhaps HYF are up to it.

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