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  1. Mr. X is hands down the best, if not tied with Shut Up Shuttin' Up. Lerxst just lets it RIP! That may be my infatuation with instrumental wankery talking though.
  2. Holy moses ASOH is LAST?!?!?! Are you guys for cereal? We can no longer be friends TRF.
  3. Power Windows easily. Signals is a [not so close] second.
  4. Ceiling Unlimited needs love D: That, Earthshine, Secret Touch & Freeze are the best of the lot IMO.
  5. Honestly the only 3 I listen to nowadays are Half the World, Limbo and Totem [with the occasional Virtuality or Color of Right]. I say the horrifically under appreciated Limbo.
  6. I changed my vote. I will have to PASS on my old favorite, and commit heresy (wrong album I know) and go with Available Light. Show Don't Tell is probably the best in actuality. Dat bass solo.
  7. I can't believe Mission is not number one here. It's blasphemy really. Especially their rendition on A Show of Hands DVD.
  8. :goodone: Basically this. I really think by "restoring it" they will just take away what partially makes the music so powerful. I don't want S&A mastered VT... it would ruin it.
  9. I used to have to listen to that song at work :/ I took over the cd player one day and threw in some obscure Rush and King Crimson among other things.
  10. It's not Geddy's band :P Alex is the founding member. All the hit singles listed are the lulz I would think the list would go more Tom Sawyer, Spirit of Radio, Limelight, and Closer to the Heart
  11. Dang people hate Virtuality... The lyrics are fun 01. Totem 02. Virtuality 03. Half the World 04. Time and Motion 05. Limbo 06. Test For Echo 07. Driven 08. Resist 09. Dog Years 10. Carve Away the Stone 11. Color of Right TBH, I've listened to this album quite a bit, and I skip the last 2 EVERY time. I just can't get into that sound at all. I made an exception for Half the World and Dog Years (the latter because it's good fun). Needless to say Wish Them Well & Seven Cities of Gold on CA aren't my cup of tea either, since they sound like the songs I don't like here, but that's a story for another thread. Totem just flows really well to me and I think it's one of their catchier songs. I really like the lyrics in it actually. Virtuality is just Rush rocking out, and I find it to me the most memorable of the pack TBH other than the Tom Sawyer of the album (Driven) or the 'it must be good because it's slow' Resist. Limbo, while not being one of their strongest instrumentals, is still a Rush instrumental. All Rush instrumentals are awesome. I think the Transylvania Twist part is what really turns people off besides it does seem to drag some. Time & Motion, in my opinion, picked up where Double Agent from CP left off and lead to songs like Spindrift on S&A. Test For Echo the song just seems like not as good Show Don't Tell, but that's just me. I'll give Carve Away the Stone and Color of Right a chance the same day I give Wish Them Well and Seven Cities of Gold a chance. That day may never come. It still doesn't change the fact that I love every Rush album though
  12. QUOTE (Kelly D @ Jul 7 2012, 09:56 PM) QUOTE (spock @ Jul 7 2012, 07:13 PM) Maybe it's just me, but I've listened to S&A many times. Sure it was Rush playing new Rush music, it will obviously sound like Rush... But, I just keep finding bits and pieces of old songs or odd references in CA that are just so...odd/obvious/up front. If I tried to list them all, I'm sure half of you would quickly point out ones that I miss, so I'll just throw it out there - what have you heard or wondered about? Like: The obvious Bastille Day riff in HF - but I also heard some Bytor licks at the end of the HF solo The lenses inside of me paint the world black; the pools of poison, the scarlet mist (Red Lenses? War Paint). The closeness of the WTW argeggio with Carve Away the Stone Coincidences? No way to not self reference? I only wonder because I just didn't hear so much old bits in VT or S&A...wonder if the music is a retrospective much like the story is a life story? Or, I could just be donning my Captain Obvious cape again Maybe they're just lacking in creativity I try not to over analyze it so I don't notice it
  13. POWER Windows. My name kinda gives away that I like it a lot song vs song Big Money > Subdivisions Grand Designs > The Analog Kid (though all biased aside, they're equal) Chemistry > Manhattan Project Marathon > Digital Man The Weapon > Territories Middletown Dreams > New World Man Losing It > Emotion Detector Mystic Rhythms > Countdown 5-3 for me. I feel like PoW is just more consistent as an album, and having the theme of power sounds cool, as does all the powerful synth behind it. Signals sounds... dated to me I know, I know, shoot if you must. I've never been into New World Man (they threw it together in like 5 minutes and it's just way too simple and poppy for me) or Subdivisions (idk if people are attached to this song because it was relate able to them during the albums heyday or what. I'm 22 so Presto is older than me xD) but that isn't to say I love everything on PoW. Manhattan Project has just slipped away from me for some reason, and it really feels like it drags sometimes (on the album. ASoH is a different story. The buildings blowing up while Neil is banging away is f***ing awesome). Top songs for me from both albums would be Signals - Chemistry, Digital Man, The Weapon Power Windows - Grand Designs, Marathon, Big Money I see a lot of people saying they like the darker sound, which is weird since OP said nobody really liked GUP, which is definitely one of the darkest ones in their catalog (Red Sector A, After Image, Between the Wheels, etc.) I was going to go on, but I feel like I'm ranting.
  14. It was a tough choice for me between The Pass & Bravado... but I just had to go with The Pass. Now if it was Bravado live or The Pass, my vote would be different Oh yeah, The Garden. Overrated... big time. Don't get me wrong, it's a really good song, but people are letting modern polish etc. get in the way I think. The Pass and Bravado are from albums a lot of people consider to not have balls, and people just can't seem to get around production.
  15. Earthshine from Rush in Rio. Just because
  16. QUOTE (UltimoGuitarist @ Jun 29 2012, 02:38 PM)And lol....did I just see someone arguing that Ghost of a chance is better than Carnies? That's funny, good joke! =p Carnies = Masterpiece.
  17. QUOTE (ReflectedLight @ Jun 28 2012, 07:04 PM) QUOTE (av450 @ Jun 28 2012, 04:56 PM) His guitar work on CA shines through his riffs. The opening riff in carnies is the best riff he's done since Ghost of a Chance IMO. 7COG also stands out. carnies blows away ghost of a chance.
  18. It's always a tough call...PeW, Hemispheres, PoW, GUP, etc. POWER Windows gets my vote though. I've been neglecting it because of CA Time to fix this.
  19. Limbo just always gets overlooked it's very tragic. I actually have A REALLY hard time ranking the instrumentals, but my gut always puts La Villa at #1 even though it isn't my favourite. Honestly, Part IV of the Gangster of Boats Trilogy has to be it for me especially a live version of it. Has anyone tried listening to the instrumentals backwards minus MalNar? They kinda flow...minus the fact that they're all produced differently and what not. 1. Main Monkey Business 2. Limbo 3. Leave That Thing Alone 4. Where's My Thing
  20. QUOTE (D3strukt @ Jun 28 2012, 04:15 AM) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLyHMhQetoU Mirrors Soundboard. Where's My Thing? There are 3 LIVE limbo soundboards, Technically 6 if you could scanners. Echoes on the Stage (Rehersal Soundboard) Bigger, and Better in Texas (Soundboard) Black Ice (Scanner, Tampa) Great Woods, and Summer Skies (Soundboard, Not great, like some people think. I find it to be much too distant.) and Toronto 1997 (Scanner) Mirrors is such a good SB. I have my old computer in the garage, but I was able to get a lot of the boots from the different stages part of TRF as well as other places. I need to get them off of there and maybe upload them to mediafire or something and hit up that area of the site to help restore it to it's former glory. MU shutting down pretty much decimated it.
  21. The proof is in the...uh...pudding I guess. I've scoured the interwebs for a long time to find Limbo performed live soundboard style or something, but nothing has turned up :s Still found a decent one though where there's some extra bass stuff not on the original track. Idk if this even the right place to post this, I just wanted to share the best live instrumental vidjas I could find. La Villa Strangiato This. This is just insane. YYZ - ASoH This video actually turned me on to Rush in High School and I haven't been able to stop listening ever since. Bootleg style. Fantastic quality. What sets this version apart from the album version in the awesome intro and the Alex's solo that just tears the album version a new one. Ahh, The Palace at Auburn Hills (aka the dvd that never was). There are so many great performances of this song, and they're all great in their own respective way, but this version just captures the song as it was meant to sound... I mean it's the Counterparts tour Apparently this performance was supposed to be on the Different Stages DVD and got cancelled or something to that degree. It could be better, but it's the best available to my knowledge. Surprisingly enough, a fan made video. Idk where the audio is from, but it's definitely soundboard quality to these ears. I prefer this version to the album version, especially for Alex's solo, which isn't really a solo as much as it is atmospheric noise, but the sound he makes coming out of it just blows my mind. The Main Monkey Business - Live in Holland I used to not be a big fan of this song, but seeing this performance changed everything. Rush is just absolutely top notch with their instrumentals, and this song isn't an exception. Anyway, hope somebody finds this at least slightly amusing or something.
  22. QUOTE (Steel Rat @ Jun 21 2012, 01:55 AM) 10: Limbo 9: Bravest Face 8: Cygnus X-1 7: Witch Hunt 6: Natural Science 5: Jacob's Ladder 4: Between the Wheels 3: Mystic Rhythms 2: Fountain of Lamneth 1: Hemispheres For once, I think I did a good job here. Pretty awesome list. I had a big Limbo kick for a while and scoured for like a month to try and find a great live performance of it lol All I ended up with was some fan recorded stuff, but it was still really cool. Geddy added some bass parts that either aren't there (I've tried listening really hard) or he adds them live. I find myself kinda sing/humming the bass part I mentioned Bravest Face has been in my playlist this week, and I must say it's grown on me a lot. I've really grown to love S&A a lot besides a few tracks, but I'm very open minded to Rush. Speaking of S&A, has anyone watched The Main Monkey Business Live in Holland? It absolutely SMOKES the album version. The Main Monkey Business - Live in Holland via YouTube
  23. QUOTE (AndroidOnTheRun @ Jun 21 2012, 09:58 AM) QUOTE (Chronos @ Jun 20 2012, 09:22 PM)QUOTE (GUPower Windows @ Jun 19 2012, 01:04 AM)*The Weapon (Signals) the P/G DVD/CD version so beastly. +1. A stunning work. I can watch/listen to Neil in this video all day. Not only that, this vid is a prime example of why I cannot agree with others in a different thread who remarked that Alex is essentially replaceable by many other guitarists. I'm sure others can cover his parts, but it's his unique textural compositions that makes him one of a kind. His flavor is what makes Rush quintessentially Rush. I heartily agree. Few guitarists in rock utilize the full textural capabilities of the guitar the way Alex does; that's what makes him great. His style and unique part-crafting set him apart. I also particularly like that he plays such intricate, complex, and stylistically exciting parts while approaching the instrument like an old-school rocker from a technique / attitude standpoint. Many guitarists can outdo him in terms of shred skills like sweep picking et al, but his playing has so much more soul than those technique hounds, IMO. I once heard a disc of Rush covers by mostly modern prog-metal types, and though incredibly skillful, it all sounded so hollow. I was like, "Man, these guys just don't get it." 2x The Weapon is so underrated, especially the solo from mentioned DVD. Rush live is just completely absurd. It sounds even better. It's the main reason I'm looking forward to the CA tour and hopefully a DVD release of said tour so I can enjoy some of the finer moments of the album live, especially if the pull out some real gems traveling with an orchestra (I'm really hoping for Losing It, Mission & Marathon). Their attire is ridiculous on this tour, but as far as their DVD's go, the GUP one is possibly the best one IMO. ASOH has a better setlist for my preference, but it really lacks in the power that the GUP DVD had. Anyway, back on topic. Alex Lifeson is definitely not replaceable. I argue it constantly with people who say his parts aren't super complicated etc. and how a lot of people could play it. I always respond to them that they couldn't play the parts if Alex didn't write them, and I think the composition card is enough to pull to solidify him a spot as one of the greatest guitarists, not to mention all the soul behind it. All three members are very into what they do, and that what's makes them I have the "Man these guys just don't get it" felling sometimes with Dream Theater I like DT a lot, I really do, they just can't compare to their main influence. They can solo/shred all day, but it just feels, as you said, hollow sometimes.
  24. What's wrong with PoW and HYF?
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