Presto-a RUSH fan!

Easily a 9 for me. My first concert, first album or cassette, which I wore out and had to buy another one. I love every song with the only song I just like being Available Light. It's hard for me to remove myself from this being my first album and how amazed I was by it at the time and the memories that went with it. I just know that it's still in my rotation and I don't skip any songs including AL. And when I haven't heard it for a while, I go thru a few weeks of just listening to it alone.

QUOTE (WCFIELDS @ Apr 12 2012, 12:06 AM) QUOTE (canadianice @ Apr 11 2012, 06:12 PM) How the hell can you judge anything by a 30 second clip You can't.... Especially without any vocals.... Ok.... I'm being half serious, half joking and half "really?" Yeah, that's 150%!! The point is simply....you heard 30 seconds a song called Headlong Flight by the musical band called RUSH, as has been said...without vocals. Did you like what you heard? That's all...not trying to determine that this is the greatest ever, just when the sound waves penetrated into your ear drums, did your brain think..."hmmm, I love that 30 seconds of music...I'd like to hear more." OR Did your brain think... "I don't like that music, I don't want to hear it NO MORE!!" Ok...let me break it down like this. You know how there are jingles in commercials? Sometimes you hear them and they are 30 seconds and you say to yourself, "I don't like those musical sounds I just heard". OR You hear 30 seconds of musical sounds and say, "You know what??? I like those sounds that I heard" Ok so to summarize. The question isn't: Do you think that based off the 30 seconds of Headlong Flight that this album will be the greatest RUSH album of all time and HF will be the greatest song in the history of music? The question is also not did you enjoy the lyrics and the singing? (that's kinda a trick question because there were no lyrics or singing) It was simply...30 seconds of a RUSH song called Headlong Flight was released. When you heard those 30 seconds (without vocals and lyrics)...did you like it or did you not? I can keep trying to break this down to make it clearer if you need me to. I've had a horrible day and breaking down this simple poll question has been the highlight of my terrible day so I could go on and on and on. In fact, I might try to think of more ways to explain the poll question, the intent behind it, what the meaning of it was....OR is? (you see it could be "was" or "is" and I could go into that to make it clearer I'd even be willing to explain what a "poll" is and the reason they are made. Whatever, it's cool. Just let me know. (And if it will make you feel better because of this sarcastic response, I will allow you to define me as a "poll" (that would be what's called a double entendre which I could also explain as well) So from all that...I think you now understand that this poll question is really after you strip it down to it's core: "Will RUSH play Headlong Flight on their 3rd tour AFTER they release 2 more albums and will it become the next Tom Sawyer?" That is basically what I am trying to determine with this poll question when stripped down to it's basic elements. How can you not get that?

QUOTE (canadianice @ Apr 11 2012, 08:12 PM) How the hell can you judge anything by a 30 second clip Again? Does it say, do you think HF will be the greatest song of all time? For the love of RUSH? Do you like the CLIP??? Is that so hard?

QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Apr 11 2012, 08:10 PM) Dig it, but it needs context to love it. If the rest of the song sucks, it won't matter. If the rest of the song is as or even cooler, then it'll be a smash. Well...yeah. The question is...what do you think of that clip? I was just blown away that it was almost a complete runaway love it.

Ok, so I stole the poll idea from RIAB but I wonder what TRF thinks. The overwhelming winner on RIAB is Love It, which I voted for. Love it! 227 89.4% Like it. 24 9.4% It's ok. 2 0.8% Don't like it. 1 0.4% Hate it. 0 0.0% TOTAL VOTES 254 as of 8:04 PM EST So what do you think? And do you think the results will be similar? I predict it will be similar but there will be some haters just because that's what some people do. But ZERO haters out of 254 votes? Could this be the album that old, mid and new fans all embrace?

Pretty sure the day CA comes out as soon as stores open, or really 2 or 3 days before when people who work at music stores get there hands on it and it leaks...that will be a busy day. Record breaking...I have no idea what that is so who knows...people hearing all of CA...yeah...that might be the day a record gets broken, IMO.

Edited because I'm stupid and quoted the wrong post

If I was gonna rip on RUSH for one thing, it would be RUSH.com. It looks AMAZINGLY cool. But has one bit of any of the news we have gotten come from RUSH.com? Even the little video refers back to RUSH.com and you go there and nothing. I don't really care because I know with TRF and RIAB as well as the other RUSH sites, you find out quick. But lately, you want new RUSH news...go ANYWHERE else but RUSH.com. Granted it says coming this June...RUSH.com on the clip, but wouldn't RUSH prefer people having to go to their website to see the clip? But we find out about the album cover, the track list AND the 30 sec clip from Billboard.com? I don't know...I'm not bitching about it...it just makes NO sense to me. Wouldn't you want to find out anything about RUSH from RUSH.com? Because lately, the last place I check for RUSH info is RUSH.com. Maybe it's some marketing reason that I just don't get, like have all the info "leak" out to other sources, but not "confirm" it on the official site to create a buzz???? I don't know...but it sure doesn't make much sense to me.

QUOTE (treeduck @ Apr 10 2012, 04:18 PM) X Infinity!

Wow!!!! Could it be? Could RUSH put out an album that almost all the fans will enjoy? That clip to me sounded AMAZING! Granted, like someone pointed out...it's just a clip, but I like what I have heard so far...all 30 seconds of it! April 19th can't get here fast enough!!! I was initially annoyed that they would "most likely" release the radio edit for sale, then hold out the album version...but right now, I don't care how they do it! And with a price of $19 on Amazon for the album, it's leading me to believe this is gonna be 2 discs!!!!!!!!!!!!! (although it does say in the description "Number of Discs: 1", but Amazon often does this when they don't have all the info....so hopefully 2 discs!!!) I can't wait! PLEASE SOMEONE JUST LEAK THE FREAKING THING ALREADY!

QUOTE (GeminiRising79 @ Apr 10 2012, 08:32 PM) Nice sketch, but it looks like Geddy has hepatitis. Maybe u should've sketched Keith "Jaundice" Richards instead

Damn that's great!! It almost looks like you took a photo and Photoshopped it! You are talented!!!! You need to do Alex and Neil now! Get to it!

So I saw all 3 of the Swedish versions of this series already. They all jumped into my top 30 films (I'm just guessing on the number there) of all time. Now today I received the rental copy from Netflix of the American version. I pull it out of the sleeve and it literally looks like a DVD-R that someone took a magic marker and wrote "The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo" on. It looked so real, and when I say real, I mean fake, that I was like "holy shit, either they ran out of copies and started burning them or someone ripped Netflix off." The giveaway is the "Rated R" in the actual printing on the DVD. But it's a pretty amazing job and while I was 99.9% sure that this was legit and I figured I could just Google it, I decided to just call Netflix since they have the best customer service I have ever experienced from any company on the face of this planet. I mean that, BTW. Longest I've ever waited, 2 mins. You speak to someone from America, and no offense to other nationalities, but I hate when I call some customer service and talk to "Doug" with a heavy Indian accent who I can't understand a word "Doug" is saying. So anyway, since it's so easy to call them and quick, I just called and confirmed, this is a real disc and then I asked is this really how it was printed, or did you just get a batch without the title on it and have to improvise? It looks that...real...er fake. He said they have gotten deluged with calls from people saying "you guys sent me a burned DVD-R or someone ripped you off". I of course prefaced my question with..."I'm 99.9% sure this is just great marketing to make the DVD look like a burned copy to go with the idea of the movie...BUT..." Anyway, if you haven't seen the actual DVD here is a pic of it. Pretty cool marketing: http://media.tecca.com/2012/03/21/ran-630-gwtdt-disc-news-head-630w.jpg

QUOTE (Union 5-3992 @ Apr 6 2012, 06:32 PM) You don't have to buy the radio edit. Because it will be on Youtube of course! I know, but of course I'd want it on my mp3 player, computer and burned to CD. It's just getting annoying at this point. And I have been one to say "hey, let them do their thing (RR), RUSH deserves this". But making the fans, which I damn well know I will drop the $ for the "radio edit" and then buy the album, is just is annoying. I'd rather them not have released the radio edit for sale, just let it be out there for people to put on youtube. But to have a shitty edited version for sale? Then again, some idiots who only have an attention span of 4 mins will probably only want the radio edit. If they downloaded the song and it was 7 mins long, they'd be "what's all this drumming and solo stuff". Oh well. It just pissed me off for a second. I know I'll end up buying it and I think that is what pisses me off.

I have been gladly putting up with the marketing of CA by Roadrunner records until I read this on RIAB " It sounds like only the radio-edit will be available for digital purchase until the album itself is released." Are you f***ing kidding me? We have to buy a shitty edited down version then wait for the album to buy the album version? I mean I'm not buying it, I will just let one someone else buy it and post it online then listen to it. But to want us to buy the edited version THEN buy the long version on the album? That kinda annoys the shit out of me. For some reason it didn't bother me as much after I thought about it that we would hear the radio edit, then have to wait for the album for the real song, but to make the radio edit available so we will all want to buy it just to have it, then get the original version. I think they are going overboard on this. I would think it would be reasonable to have the radio edit out their, but don't sell it. Enough people will record it and leak it out to us. But to sell the f***ing radio edit? f**k off RR.

Just saw the trailer on Tosh.0 and it looks pretty good. I have gotten out of Superhero movies lately, although I usually end up seeing them and thinking they are ok, but I'm excited about this one after seeing trailer.

Anyone who watched Tosh.0 tonight, I don't think this is a spoiler if you haven't seen it but...I "That was disgusting...I hate tea" EDITED TO ADD: How is this thread only 2 pages long and why have I not posted here...I don't think I have before!! This is the one show I watch every Tues, if I am available right after it completes taping! Have to FF thru commercials!! Although, they did show an Avengers commercial that I watched which looked pretty cool!

From the Trans-Siberian Rail Road episode When asked what super hero Karl wanted to be...Bullshit man!!! I'm paraphrasing: "When there's a meeting going on and people are talking bullshit, I'd just fly in and say 'That's bullshit!'" I could watch and listen to Karl Pilkington all day!!!

Just saw the Mount Fuji episode. I haven't laughed that hard in a long while. Every part of that episode was incredibly funny!

QUOTE (KenJennings @ Apr 2 2012, 12:38 PM)So I said; "Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch, this show is pretty funny!" You hit it right there....that is why I like it. That skit your pulling that from can be related to by any man who has ever been married! Here it is: These guys are both smart and the humor is usually smart. Sometimes they miss the mark, but alot of times they hit it. I loved the bit they did about Obama wanting to teach his daughter how to do things like drive and go to the ATM. They showed him in different situations thru out the show. Here is part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naUFIUZ2Ryc I can't find the ATM bit and I wish I could because I know some people will think "Oh, just black guys pointing out the injustices of racist white America" But in the other bit, he is at an ATM and there is a line of other black people behind him, and trust me, they make just as much fun of black people as they do of white people. The bottom line is they find the humanity that makes any situation funny and hit on it, whether it bags on black or white America and most the time, it's funny. Here is one other one I saw when I was looking for the ATM bit and I thought it was a great take on reality TV. They cut it short, which left out a few funny lines but it's still pretty good. One more that is pretty funny and touches on "racism" but done smartly and hilarious, IMO.

Absolutely the best album ever, not only by RUSH, but by any band in the history of this planet or any other! CA will go Quadruple Platinum, in fact they will have to make a new category for it alltogether, and it will break every record (pun intended) in sales for every thing, not just music, but sales of any single item in the history of mankind! You know how people say I need a Kleenex when they need a Tissue? 25 years from now people will be saying, I'm going to buy a Clockwork Angels when they are in their virtual pods about to purchase a 12 song group of music from one band! Clockwork Angels will just be synonomous with buying an album from anyone! Or it could just be middle of the pack.