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Mid-80s Rush First 2s


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DEW/Afterim vs TBM/GD vs F10/TSS   

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  1. 1. Which mid-80s pair do you like the most?

    • Distant Early Warning / Afterimage
    • The Big Money / Grand Designs
    • Force 10 / Time Stand Still
  2. 2. Which is your LEAST liked song?

    • Distant Early Warning
    • Afterimage
    • The Big Money
    • Grand Designs
    • Force 10
    • Time Stand Still
  3. 3. Which ones would you give a B- grade or LOWER?

    • Distant Early Warning
    • Afterimage
    • The Big Money
    • Grand Designs
    • Force 10
    • Time Stand Still
    • None. They're all at least a B or better.


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This is interesting because my least favourite album of these is GuP but these two opening songs are two of the best on the album for me, along with Kid Gloves and Between the Wheels, and they win this poll handily. In the case of HYF and Power Windows I like the opening songs but I like the later songs better and overall they're consistent. GuP has too many songs that offend my ear like The Body Electric, Red Lenses and The Enemy Within. These three songs are what ruin GuP and bring it down below lots of other albums, including the other two albums in the poll. Edited by treeduck
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Distant Early Warning and Afterimage are good songs, and they are the winning pair here ... But even though I like them and they're enjoyable enough, all the songs here grade out at a B- or less, with Big Money and Grand Designs at the bottom of this barrel
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This is interesting because my least favourite album of these is GuP but these two opening songs are two of the best on the album for me, along with Kid Gloves and Between the Wheels, and they win this poll handily. In the case of HYF and Power Windows I like the opening songs but I like the later songs better and overall they're consistent. GuP has too many songs that offend my ear like The Body Electric, Red Lenses and The Enemy Within. These three songs are what ruin GuP and bring it down below lots of other albums, including the other two albums in the poll.

I pretty much agree.

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First duo is my choice here easily.

Least fave song - a lame tune called The Big Money!

TBM, Force 10 and TST are rated lower than B in my book.

 

BTW, Keep polling here, JohnnyBlaze! :)

 

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PoW's easily my fav album out of this bunch, and HYF my least favorite, but actually HYF starts off with the strongest one-two punch. Force Ten is formidable and a bit curious in structure and hook and just all around likable, then Time Stand Still might be their best pop song. I love The Big Money, but Grand Designs is really pretty average (still great considering it's Rush we're taking about). Then there's DEW, which I adore, but it's followed by Afterimage, which is lyrically brilliant, but structured and produced semi-unflatteringly to my ears.
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PoW's easily my fav album out of this bunch, and HYF my least favorite, but actually HYF starts off with the strongest one-two punch. Force Ten is formidable and a bit curious in structure and hook and just all around likable, then Time Stand Still might be their best pop song. I love The Big Money, but Grand Designs is really pretty average (still great considering it's Rush we're taking about). Then there's DEW, which I adore, but it's followed by Afterimage, which is lyrically brilliant, but structured and produced semi-unflatteringly to my ears.

 

Agree with maybe 50% of this but i 100% like the thought taken in breaking it all down. :yes:

 

The easy-to-imagine percentages in that sentence are mostly for vaportrailer’s sake since I know how he loves numbers and my use of them at any turn. :hail:

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Grand Designs is the best synth era song, imo.

It's grown on me to become a song I really like, as have all the tracks I initially didn't care for much (Grand Designs, Middletown Dreams, Emotion Detector, Mystic Rhythms). The songs I originally liked most from Power Windows have moved the opposite direction (Big Money, Marathon, the atom bomb and "better beer" songs).
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Out of those three first two songs on Rush's "Grace Under Pressure", "Power Windows", and "Hold Your Fire", the first two, and pairs of songs I like the most is "Distant Early Warning", and "Afterimage" from "Grace Under Pressure". Out of the six songs, the one I like the least is "Time Stand Still", but I wouldn't, and couldn't rate any of them lower grades, than a B-. They are rated by graded at least, or higher, than a B. If I was able to switch, and change positions, I would put "the Big Money", and "Time Stand Still" one after another, and "Force Ten", and "Grand Designs" one after another. For interesting combinations, I would do that. Edited by Derek19
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