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The bandwagon rolled through town upon the release of exit stage left it seems.

 

Edit- i am not sure how well bandwagon applies to music especially long lived groups like rush.

 

Rush had been on most folks radar for a while on radio.

 

Simultaneous mass musical enlightenment vs gradual wearing them down that indeed Rush was a greatband?

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I'm not against the concept. To me, music is different than sports, where people that don't have a background jump in for the playoffs.

 

I think nearly everyone gets interested in a band from a certain song or album. With many of them their interest then grows and spreads to other recordings, other Prog (or metal or whatever genre) and it's a win win situation. I don't know why a band would object! Everyone likes to feel like a special fan,though, and indeed each of us is unique, but as far as the band wagon label, there are probably fans that saw Rush in Toronto bars that say, " Those Caress of Steel fans just wanna jump on the bandwagon!" :LOL: It's all relative, and all good if it gets more people listening. :)

 

I'm not sure what Neil thinks of them, but his opinion of fans in general is not high, I don't think. As my daughter would say, "It's complicated!"

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While not exactly on the topic of "bandwagon" fans, I can remember waaaaaaay back when acts like Yes, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return To Forever, Genesis, King Crimson, etc were in one group and Rush fans were in a completely different group ..

 

My recollection and experience was that fans of prog and other styles that attracted snob musicians hated Rush - they were heavy metal kid's stuff with a dreadful singer ..

 

Nowadays, you would probably be hard pressed to find a Yes fan who at least didn't appreciate Rush - but time has definitely bridged a lot of musical tastes ..

 

Perhaps it was the 80s when a lot of the bands got sucked into the same black hole

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One of the cool things about being a Rush fan is that since they never had real mainstream success or were considered "cool," you don't see kids wearing Rush t-shirts to be cool even if they only know a few songs like you do other bands from the 70s like Floyd or Zeppelin. If you see someone wearing a Rush t-shirt in public, there's a pretty good chance they're about that life.
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What do you think? And what's your opinion about Rush bandwagon fans and bandwagon music fans in general?

 

Like this guy?

 

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Have you listened to Harry Styles' album? I don't think it's great or anything, but stylistically, it's a total 70s classic-rock throwback. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he actually liked Rush.

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The first album I bought was Grace Under Pressure. For me the RUSH I know and love begins in January of 1980.

Nothing they did from that point drove me away, it made me into a fan.

 

 

 

 

 

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The first album I bought was Grace Under Pressure. For me the RUSH I know and love begins in January of 1980.

Nothing they did from that point drove me away, it made me into a fan.

 

 

 

 

 

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:ebert:

 

1980-89 is probably my favorite RUSH decade. There are two albums from the 70s that I don't enjoy much, and only one from the 80s (and I'd take it over the two 70s albums).

 

I am lumping PWaves with the 80s.

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The first album I bought was Grace Under Pressure. For me the RUSH I know and love begins in January of 1980.

Nothing they did from that point drove me away, it made me into a fan.

 

 

 

 

 

.

:ebert:

 

1980-89 is probably my favorite RUSH decade. There are two albums from the 70s that I don't enjoy much, and only one from the 80s (and I'd take it over the two 70s albums).

 

I am lumping PWaves with the 80s.

Then you would be wrong, so...

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The first album I bought was Grace Under Pressure. For me the RUSH I know and love begins in January of 1980.

Nothing they did from that point drove me away, it made me into a fan.

 

 

 

 

 

.

:ebert:

 

1980-89 is probably my favorite RUSH decade. There are two albums from the 70s that I don't enjoy much, and only one from the 80s (and I'd take it over the two 70s albums).

 

I am lumping PWaves with the 80s.

Then you would be wrong, so...

No space travel or wizards. It's an 80s album.
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The first album I bought was Grace Under Pressure. For me the RUSH I know and love begins in January of 1980.

Nothing they did from that point drove me away, it made me into a fan.

 

 

 

 

 

.

:ebert:

 

1980-89 is probably my favorite RUSH decade. There are two albums from the 70s that I don't enjoy much, and only one from the 80s (and I'd take it over the two 70s albums).

 

I am lumping PWaves with the 80s.

Then you would be wrong, so...

No space travel or wizards. It's an 80s album.

 

A quantum leap forward

In time and in space

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The first album I bought was Grace Under Pressure. For me the RUSH I know and love begins in January of 1980.

Nothing they did from that point drove me away, it made me into a fan.

 

 

 

 

 

.

:ebert:

 

1980-89 is probably my favorite RUSH decade. There are two albums from the 70s that I don't enjoy much, and only one from the 80s (and I'd take it over the two 70s albums).

 

I am lumping PWaves with the 80s.

Then you would be wrong, so...

No space travel or wizards. It's an 80s album.

None necessary since it was created and finished in the 80s. Or are you one of those who bestow magical powers on the recording companies and their wrapping process.

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The first album I bought was Grace Under Pressure. For me the RUSH I know and love begins in January of 1980.

Nothing they did from that point drove me away, it made me into a fan.

 

 

 

 

 

.

:ebert:

 

1980-89 is probably my favorite RUSH decade. There are two albums from the 70s that I don't enjoy much, and only one from the 80s (and I'd take it over the two 70s albums).

 

I am lumping PWaves with the 80s.

Then you would be wrong, so...

No space travel or wizards. It's an 80s album.

None necessary since it was created and finished in the 80s. Or are you one of those who bestow magical powers on the recording companies and their wrapping process.

Only if they have dined on honeydew.
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Signals drove them away.

 

Wrong. This is the first Rush album I bought. And I'm not alone.

 

So that means you can't speak for the folks who bought 2112 in 1976 and wondered what the hell they were listening to in 82

 

This attitude a little exemplifies what I don't understand about many of the opinions I hear voiced on this board. There are 11 (12 if you count Feedback) RUSH albums from 1982 onward and only 8 albums before. The two other albums released in the 80s could be considered transitional, since songs like Vital Signs and Spirit Of Radio musically would feel at home on Signals or Grace Under Pressure. So let's take your statement as fact, for a segment of the fan base that joined in the 1970s: Signals left fans perplexed at what they were listening to and presumably did not like the album or the subsequent releases. So why stick around? Especially why still call yourself a fan after 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 consecutive albums you dislike??? I mean, if you hate Roll The Bones and the 5 albums that came before it, why would you call this band a favourite? There are bands in my collection that I loved their first few albums, but didn't like subsequent albums. I do not consider those bands favourites. I would never bother patronizing a fan board or devoting so much energy to a band that spent the majority of its time creating music I dislike. What a fantastic waste of energy and life that would be!

 

The bands I consider favourites are characterized by having an album I loved when I discovered them, followed by subsequent albums that I enjoyed equally or greater. A poor album here or there is fine as long as the vast majority (like 75%) of the albums the band releases after the point I join in are awesome by my standards. I judge albums released prior to my join point a little differently: Depending on how long the band continues after my personal join in point, prior albums decrease in importance as far as needing them to be awesome. For example, I dislike most of Caress Of Steel, Hemispheres, The 1st Album, and even feel nonplussed about 2112 & Fly By Night, but the fact that I love Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and almost all of the subsequent albums means that not only do I love the majority of the RUSH catalogue, but the band has generally been on an upward trajectory in my opinion. Why would I be interested in a band that I feel is just getting worse all the time, especially if that point came 9 albums into a 19 album career!!!

 

I see this opinion voiced often here (Rush albums have gotten progressively worse since Hemispheres with few exceptions). I postulate to you that if Signals was your breaking point and that you like little that the band has released since, then you don't actually like RUSH. You like specific albums in a short time period that RUSH released before they happened upon the sound they ultimately preferred and spent the rest of their career perfecting. Loving Hemispheres above all other albums by all bands doesn't make you a huge RUSH fan. It makes you a huge fan of that album. Even if those 8 albums prior to Signals are your 8 favourite albums of all time, but hate 9 through 19, you are still not really a RUSH fan as much as a fan of a sound that for all intents and purposes is dated. It is dated to the point that the band themselves never completely revisited it and only ever came close to reproducing on their final album. I'm not trying to start a fight. I am legitimately confused as to why someone would call themselves a RUSH fan if they dislike everything they've released after Moving Pictures. I certainly would not.

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