GUPower Windows

Entre Nous and Different Strings keep Permanent Waves from beating Power Windows for me. I love both songs, but Power Windows is Rush's most concise effort to this day without a doubt. Still not surprised with the results other than Counterparts getting beat out by Power Windows.

lel how are these albums even comparable? Hard Rock, Progressive, Neo-Prog/New Wave, Alternative/Soft Rock, and well the sonically bombast Vapor Trails which is "Rock" I guess.

 

I picked Signals since synths are my fav.

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.

:goodone: This guy knows what he is talking about. Not giving it my favorite overall, but definitely the best in the song.

Holy moses ASOH is LAST?!?!?! Are you guys for cereal? We can no longer be friends TRF.

Power Windows easily. Signals is a [not so close] second.

Kinda assumed the big 3. You guys are so cliche. I mean really 2112, Xanadu & La Villa? :eyeroll:

They left the 70s behind for a reason. It was a choice. If the question is referring to composition, then Hemispheres takes the progressive epic cake easy. This question really shouldn't even exist in this form.

Ceiling Unlimited needs love D:

That, Earthshine, Secret Touch & Freeze are the best of the lot IMO.

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.

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.

I can't believe Mission is not number one here. It's blasphemy really.

 

Especially their rendition on A Show of Hands DVD.

I'll just be content with my copy of it. The "clipping" doesn't bother me. It makes the music that much grittier.

 

: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.

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.

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

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

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

double posted on me.

 

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.

 

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.

Earthshine from Rush in Rio.

 

Just because

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.

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.

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.

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

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)