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Nobody else notices that the chorus tune is plagiarized from Jay Sean's "Down"? "Baby, don't worry! You are my only!"

QUOTE (Spindrift @ Jul 16 2011, 08:06 PM) QUOTE (J2112YYZ @ Jul 3 2011, 08:24 PM)The lyrics to 'The Trees' is a dead give away that Neil was partaking in some recreational use as well. Are you serious? The Trees is a social/political analogy. I don't see the connection with drug use. His point is that you'd have to be high to come up with that kind of analogy in the first place.

I feel bad about bumping my own thread like this, but I hadn't expected it to just fizzle out after three replies.

QUOTE (reani14 @ Jul 15 2011, 05:27 PM) but u2 holds the edge.. ...You don't say.

QUOTE (LeaveMyThingAlone @ Jul 13 2011, 09:12 AM) but those conceptual pieces do that. That's the way they're arranged. 2112 overture hits on a lot of stuff that is repeated musically throughout the rest of the song You take Tommy and there's repetition throughout that album. The Wall, Relayer, Close to the Edge, etc all do this There's a difference between revisiting a theme and literally repeating a quarter or so of the song.

Eh.

I've been meaning to start this thread for a while now. "Neo-prog" and the like are welcome, if you're into that kind of thing. If you can't rank the albums, alphabetize them! I'll start: The Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd Fragile, by Yes The Grand Wazoo, by Frank Zappa Hemispheres, by Rush I Robot, by The Alan Parsons Project In the Court of the Crimson King, by King Crimson Masque, by Kansas Red, by King Crimson (again, because they deserve it) Selling England by the Pound, by Genesis Thick as a Brick, by Jethro Tull

QUOTE (An Enemy Without @ Jul 12 2011, 11:34 AM) QUOTE (ILSnwdog @ Jul 12 2011, 12:31 PM) QUOTE (GUP1771 @ Jul 10 2011, 10:18 PM) Why does Hemispheres have so much? Because it's a little tedious. How exactly? It repeats itself without changing the arrangement, and it has a trite, obvious lyrical theme.

Having Robert Christgau to keep me company.

QUOTE (Tommy Sawyer @ Jul 9 2011, 04:18 PM) QUOTE (Good @ bad,andrush,Jul 9 2011, 05:27 PM) This thread should be pinned and it should be a requirement for all TRF members, active or not, to post in this thread daily. If they post in this thread, how is it possible for them to be not active. If it's pinned, why would it even matter? Read the OP.

The first Rush song that I ever heard, and the one that made me actively seek the band out when I heard it again several years later, was "Leave That Thing Alone". Still great.

Presto (honorable mentions go to Power Windows and Moving Pictures) and Counterparts, although the latter really doesn't have much competition.

I am such a buzzkill.

Both are deplorable, but the rap is sillier. The noir-wannabe monologue in "Double Agent" just comes off like bad teenage poetry.

QUOTE (apetersvt @ Jul 8 2011, 01:17 PM) If someone can make it smaller, please do. I don't know why you'd want to do that in a post-dialup world, but open it in Paint, hit Ctrl+W, and fill in both "Resize" boxes with the size (as a percentage of its current size) that you want to change it to. Make sure that you use the same number for both, or it'll get squished out of shape.

"Alien Shore". Gets way too much of a bad rap around here.

Why is this still a thread?

QUOTE (Tommy Sawyer @ Jul 7 2011, 08:15 PM) The word is RE-donkulous not RI-donkulous The claim is IN-defensible. http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-smug.gif Here: Ridere (Latin) -> Ridicule -> Ridiculous -> Ridonkulous (Not actually a word, but whatever.) (I can't believe that I'm actually posting this.)

QUOTE (hobo73 @ Jul 7 2011, 03:22 PM) and does it really matter how it's spelled? it's not even a real word! lmao you knew what I was saying, correct? Off-topic here, but, being derived from a real word ("ridiculous"), the part of it that's the same should be spelled the same. TL;DR: spell it with an I.

"I HAVE TERRIBLE TASTE IN RUSH ALBUMS" http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-smug.gif All right; I'll be serious: "RUSH: 1974-2112" "HERE WE GO... VERTIGO!" Some quote from "Red Barchetta", "Dreamline", "Driven", or "Ghost Rider" might work.

I wouldn't recommend A Farewell to Kings at all, actually. It's stylistically similar, yes, but the actual tunes are garbage, and Geddy's singing is at its absolute shrillest. Then again, it does have "Xanadu"...

"The Spirit of Radio", although "Natural Science" was a close contender.

QUOTE (g under p @ Jul 3 2011, 07:38 PM) I'll give it to MP my a minute hair ONLY because of THE CAMERA EYE. I was never all that about the MP album but I always would listen to it JUST to get to TCE or I would just skip right to it. I can never get enough of that song. Agreed. I just got back into that song; I don't know why I ever stopped liking it (for some reason, I thought that it needed more variety), because it really is great. With that in mind, I'd definitely go with Moving Pictures.

QUOTE (Dobner has assumed control @ Jul 4 2011, 02:35 PM)Nice I'm not familiar with galaxy quest. I'm assuming it's a pc game? It's a parody of Star Trek starring Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver. It's also awesome. QUOTE (Dobner has assumed control @ Jul 4 2011, 11:29 AM)I think the "neuchacho" rock creature from Futurama could have been inspired by the rock formation inukshuk on the Test for Echo album art. Either that, or people have been imagining anthropomorphic rock creatures for millennia, and Rush happens to have featured a statue made of rocks on one of their album covers. /thread