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Worst Song on Grace Under Pressure?


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  1. 1. Worst song on P/G?

    • Distant Early Warning
      1
    • Afterimage
      2
    • Red Sector A
      1
    • The Enemy Within
      1
    • The Body Electric
      10
    • Kid Gloves
      5
    • Red Lenses
      20
    • Between The Wheels
      2


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After some consideration, voted for Afterimage. It`s a strong album alright, with three tracks that I don`t think are quite as strong as the others - Afterimage, Red Lenses, The Body Electric.
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Red Lenses - A duff song on a pretty mediocre album.

Mediocre? Can't agree with you there. I didn't take the poll because I love GUP, it was one of the albums that hooked me. I came along late in their career so I didn't know as much about the older albums. I played GUP over and over and I don't think there is one song I don't like. As for Red Lenses, the line "The national midnight star, it's true!!' it cracks me up everytime. Putting the tabloids in their place :laughing guy:

I may be dense, but I don't get the National Midnight Star thing.

 

It's an SCTV thing - a comedy sketch about a tabloid. I think Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson went to school with one or two of the cast members.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS_dARXoj90

@2:05, the proof of life after death bit! :laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy:
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Red Lenses - A duff song on a pretty mediocre album.

Mediocre? Can't agree with you there. I didn't take the poll because I love GUP, it was one of the albums that hooked me. I came along late in their career so I didn't know as much about the older albums. I played GUP over and over and I don't think there is one song I don't like. As for Red Lenses, the line "The national midnight star, it's true!!' it cracks me up everytime. Putting the tabloids in their place :laughing guy:

I may be dense, but I don't get the National Midnight Star thing.

 

It's an SCTV thing - a comedy sketch about a tabloid. I think Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson went to school with one or two of the cast members.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS_dARXoj90

I thought it was a Canadian tabloid like our National Enquirer but it was in a skit on SCTV, thanks for finding this. Still fun, throwing shade at the infotainment industry.

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Red Lenses - A duff song on a pretty mediocre album.

Mediocre? Can't agree with you there. I didn't take the poll because I love GUP, it was one of the albums that hooked me. I came along late in their career so I didn't know as much about the older albums. I played GUP over and over and I don't think there is one song I don't like. As for Red Lenses, the line "The national midnight star, it's true!!' it cracks me up everytime. Putting the tabloids in their place :laughing guy:

I may be dense, but I don't get the National Midnight Star thing.

 

Some of the older heads may need to correct me, but I think there was a Rush fanzine in the early '80s called the National Midnight Star -- but the gag of using the title there is the similarity with tabloid names, like the Sun or the Star, with their blaring alarmist headlines. It's a knock on tabloid breathlessness and an inside joke, all rolled into one!

 

Still my least favorite song on one of my favorite albums.

 

I guess I am in trouble for picking Kid Gloves then...

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Red Lenses - A duff song on a pretty mediocre album.

Mediocre? Can't agree with you there. I didn't take the poll because I love GUP, it was one of the albums that hooked me. I came along late in their career so I didn't know as much about the older albums. I played GUP over and over and I don't think there is one song I don't like. As for Red Lenses, the line "The national midnight star, it's true!!' it cracks me up everytime. Putting the tabloids in their place :laughing guy:

I may be dense, but I don't get the National Midnight Star thing.

 

Some of the older heads may need to correct me, but I think there was a Rush fanzine in the early '80s called the National Midnight Star -- but the gag of using the title there is the similarity with tabloid names, like the Sun or the Star, with their blaring alarmist headlines. It's a knock on tabloid breathlessness and an inside joke, all rolled into one!

 

Still my least favorite song on one of my favorite albums.

 

I guess I am in trouble for picking Kid Gloves then...

Kid Gloves? You picked Kid Gloves? Come on!!

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Red Sector A is my least favorite song from the album. Two reasons I think. The intro guitar just really jangles my nerves and the second reason is just the subject matter. It brings up such horrifying images of the Holocaust.

 

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Red Sector A is my least favorite song from the album. Two reasons I think. The intro guitar just really jangles my nerves and the second reason is just the subject matter. It brings up such horrifying images of the Holocaust.

 

:hi: Hi there, Eagle!

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Some information on 'Red Lenses' here that's worth a read, along with a blogger commentary here.

 

'Red Lenses' in a way was probably like pulling teeth for the band when it came to writing the song.

 

'Wish Them Well' was also rewritten many times from interviews read.

Edited by RushFanForever
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Red Sector A is my least favorite song from the album. It brings up such horrifying images of the Holocaust.

Well, yeah... it's the Holocaust.
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Red Sector A is my least favorite song from the album. It brings up such horrifying images of the Holocaust.

Well, yeah... it's the Holocaust.

Would've been odd to make it a jaunty, polka number. You could hardly write a song that would be appropriately horrifying and still be listenable.
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"Red Lenses" is actually a cool track that suffers from sounding incredibly unfinished and incomplete. Either verse-chorus structure needed improvement or it should have been made an instrumental.
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"Red Lenses" is actually a cool track that suffers from sounding incredibly unfinished and incomplete. Either verse-chorus structure needed improvement or it should have been made an instrumental.

 

If it had been an instrumental it would be outstanding. As it is it's the worst on the album.

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