1 of the 7

Been off the board for a week, and did get CA last Saturday, so have been mostly listening to that, but I did get a little further in the challenge - up through Show Don't Tell on Presto now. Will keep going in order mixed in with listens to CA! I did listen to a mix of Rush on Rush Radio while waiting for the listening party to start Tuesday night.

I bought the blue vinyl - couldn't resist that cool colored vinyl.

QUOTE (Chicken hawk @ Jun 14 2012, 07:40 PM)

QUOTE (Rushchick10 @ Jun 14 2012, 07:14 PM) http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/547330_4239111223870_486171438_n.jpg Wonder if Geddy really does swear?   More in interviews and private settings than out in public. I think he reins it in when he knows people might mind, but lets it fly when he knows people won't care. He lets a few slip in the documentary, and more in the articles for the magazine that came with the CA fan pack (as a recent example).

Their spirits were divided into blinded hemispheres

Well, you know we're having good days

^ Well, this time it wasn't because I was sick - I actually wanted it!

 

Colby-jack cheese

Happy 4th, Multiplied Reaction!

I got 11/20, but it helped to read this thread. I'm lost on the modern bands, and I should have gotten Nirvana. Duh.

So sorry to hear this. I love both those songs. What a nice soft voice he had, too.

Geddy learned to steal the adapters out of hotel rooms (recent interview)

 

But seriously, I take the line in the song to mean that circumstances forced you to do what you might not otherwise have done.

Got up to part of The Weapon on Signals today. That "you move me, you move me" part of Analog Kid and the accompanying synths totally do move me. I also LOVE the lyrics "When I leave, I don't know what I'm hoping to find, and when I leave I don't know what I'm leaving behind". Reminds me of all the times I've had to move on in life. And Chemistry is just under, under, underrated. I think it would be so cool live.

 

For their Hearts were so unclear

 

Tea with honey and lemon

bread

GEDFAN (I want GEDDYFAN but keep forgetting to check if it's available).

AL FAN

LUVRSH

LUVGED

LUV AL

 

Poor Neil, his name won't fit.

 

WKGMAN

ANTHEM

XANADU

VSIGNS

PRESTO

FACEUP

RESIST

FREEZE

Happy Birthday, Pound of Obscure!

QUOTE (Dog Tales @ Jun 5 2012, 11:32 AM)

Danny & The Pancakes He Ate At Denny's

Clicked!

My version of beef stroganoff. Mmmm.

Between the CD and the vinyl, I'll probably listen to nothing but the new album for a week or two. After that, I'll mix the old stuff back in, but still listen to CA a lot. Maybe a month before back to completely normal - I don't want to get burned out on the new album, because I'll be hearing songs from it a lot on tour this fall.

Still haven't caved in. Will wait until the CD and/or LP shows up.

Both the regular novel, and the audiobook. It'll be my first audiobook - I was sold when they said Neil would be reading it.

I don't mind it, and my boyfriend loves it. He's not crazy about Rush like I am, though, so it makes sense that he'd like a song that's outside the norm of their work.

I'd email them and make sure it DIDN'T go through either time (they're good at responding, though it can sometimes take a while), then ask them to advise on what to do.

Well, I'm kinda cheating and going out of order - skipped over PeW 'cause I don't have a copy for the car. Went on to Moving Pictures and got through all that and Subdivisions from Signals.

 

Moving Pictures marks the time where I really became more aware of who Rush was - I saw them for the first time in the Limelight video on MTV. Therefore, I really identify with the sound of this album and the following as what I think of when I think of Rush.

 

Geddy's bass(es) sound great on this album - he was transitioning between them, right? Tom Sawyer has some of my all-time favorite lyrics - "changes aren't permanent, but change is". YYZ really illustrates how an instrumental can tell a story, if you know the background, and I was really struck this time at how funky parts of this song are. The Camera Eye is just a beautiful showcase of Geddy's vocals, and their last epic, and I thought about how different it sounded from their early ones. Witch Hunt just blew me away again, like it does every time I hear it. And Vital Signs signs off with definite signs of The Police's influence, but it's still very Rush, complete with Geddy's cheeky "evelate from the norm".

 

We're in new territory, but I like it.