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Roll the Bones and Fly by Night are the ones I can do without hearing again. Most of the "hits" I still really enjoy and haven't gotten tired of.

Both of her albums are great. Insanely talented singer and stylist.

On a more positive note, I've seen some recent (within the last couple years) YouTube footage of Jon Anderson's new solo touring band and it's phenomenal. It's all younger musicians who nail the material and his voice sounds shockingly good singing the 70s stuff. If he came near me, I'd have much more interest in going to see him than I would in seeing the cover band with the rights to the Yes name that tours now.

90125 at least has some good songs. Everything following it falls into one of two categories: desperately trying to chase 90125's pop success without the good songs, or desperately trying to recapture the 70s prog sound without the good songs. I also think their 70s sound could only have been achieved in the 70s and the way those albums were recorded are part of what makes it great. Trying to recreate it in the 90s and 00s with digital recording technology just makes it sound artificial and not organic.

Classic Yes is some of the best music ever made but I don't like a single thing they released after 90125 with the exception of the song "Mind Drive."

This is a good call. The stuff with Allison Krauss isn't really my thing but I can recognize that it's good. I really liked his album Carry Fire from a few years ago and he's had some other good ones post-2000 as well.

Every post-2000 Depeche Mode album is been at least very good, a few I consider great. Particularly 2005's Playing the Angel. As someone already mentioned, Cheap Trick's recent stuff has been pretty strong. Peter Gabriel's new album I/O is up there with his best. Didn't love the new Stones album but the solo album Keith Richards put out about 10 years ago is really good. Those are just a few off the top of my head.

Awesome. Hopefully to be followed by a US headlining tour.

Zero songs I skip on any album from Kings through Power Windows but Power Windows is my favorite album so by default I'll say my favorite five-album run is Permanent Waves through Power Windows. but no wrong answers with any combination of five from that seven-album period.

Best songs for me: Panopticom, I/O, Four Kinds of Horses, Road to Joy, This is Home

Full interview starts about 25 minutes in:

I think I prefer the bright side mix too.

Can't believe there's no thread for this album. It's f***ing KILLER. Best album he's put out in decades. Anyone else into it?

I tend to agree with this. I don't want to see Rush without any one of the three. If Geddy wanted to do a solo tour and play Rush songs as well as solo stuff, I would be interested in that, but they don't have to do anything. Something Alex said on the radio yesterday, too, is that he feels like the show they put together for R40, and how good they were on that tour, is a good final memory for fans and he doesn't want to go out and cheapen that if they can't do it at the same level.

Alex just did a radio interview today with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM and definitely didn’t sound like any kind of “Rush 2.0” is happening. Didn’t rule out writing new music with Geddy at some point and said he wants to do that when Geddy gets done with the book promo stuff, but Alex was adamant that he has absolutely zero interest in touring again and doesn’t know if he can still play Rush stuff as well as he did on R40 because of the arthritis. So there’s that.

This is exactly the clip I was coming in here to post. So good.

Interesting piece.

https://www.rushisaband.com/blog/2023/12/21/6052/Neil-Pearts-Silver-Surfers-coffee-table-book-due-out-this-coming-May Looks like there's finally an Amazon listing for Neil's final book on his classic car collection and it's coming out on May 7: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN1BCDC6?tag=rushisaband-20

What did they say?

"I Am You Are" is the better of the two, for sure. "Gone" is OK, not as good as the ballads on MFH. It's just nice to hear his voice again.

Watched all four episodes last night. It's a good time.

Definitely agree they should use extra musicians -- a full-time keyboard player so Geddy can focus on bass, and maybe even a second guitarist to help Alex out. As far as the vocals, I also worry that Geddy's voice wouldn't be able to hold up for a full tour. He sounded *fine* at the Taylor Hawkins shows last year but there's a big difference between being able to do three songs at two one-off shows with a ton of time to rehearse, and having to play a two-plus hour show several times a week. I don't think they'd need to get a different vocalist, I just think they'd have to be smart about what songs they play. Some of their recent tours (Clockwork Angels for example) focused on the mid-80s stuff that's a lot more reasonable for Geddy to be able to still sing, and he sounded great. R40 was rough in places because they were playing a lot of the 70s stuff. So keep the focus on the later Rush material in addition to solo material and some of the "mellower" older stuff to get around the vocal issues.

Seattle crowd was fine.

Years ago I sat down and ranked all of their songs from 1-175. Just pulled up the document on my computer and I stand by it. Here's my top 10: 1. Red Barchetta 2. Xanadu 3. Subdivisions 4. Tom Sawyer 5. 2112 6. YYZ 7. Marathon 8. The Anarchist 9. Limelight 10. The Pass

Every one of these interviews feels like they're trying to back Geddy and Alex into a corner to say they're going to tour together as "Rush" again and they're clearly still on the fence about it.