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So, 16 and a half minutes a side!

Yeah, but only Vapor Trails at 67 minutes, Snakes and Arrows at 63 minutes and Clockwork Angels at 66 minutes are long enough? Genesis managed to squeeze 50 minutes onto a single record, Foxtrot is just over 51 minutes for example.Presto is 52 minutes Roll the Bones 48 minutes Counterparts is 54 minutes Test for Echo is 53 minutes

Ah yes, forgot about King Crimson

Lack of Rush activity led me to thinking that Rush is the only 'prog' band not to issue a studio double album. Closest would have been if they combined Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures or Moving Pictures and Signals. Would have had Permanent Pictures or Moving Signals. Apologies if this has been discussed before.

And then there's this. Sounds familiar.

I can find something inspiring on every Rush album apart from what I call the Yin and Yang albums; Counterparts and T4E.

Totally disagree with this, I find 2112's B side has dated, most of the songs are easy to play, Lessons is not much different from Discovery. Whilst I like AFTK's it is disjointed, I actually thought that if the record company didn't like CoS, they surely must have wondered about this. Hemispheres has a beautiful spatial sound to it, those Lifeson arpeggios are beautiful and hark back to Hackett in early Genesis material. The intro to Cygnus is superior to the intro to 2112 in sound and musicianship, agree they just get away with it becoming repetitive in the early sections.

The letters on the key ring are too big on top of the star so it looks like Star Trek

If there is a 40th anniversary release of Hemispheres,please no crap cover versions. Instead give us a decent live version of Cygnus X1 - Book 2, there are a few around.

That's 9Hz and applies to all sarcastic, sanctimonious Rush fans.

Anyone else listening to these on Youtube. Being flooded with Rush songs at 432Hz, sound really good and interesting in the case of Xanadu which is unpitched so sounds like it would live.

Have they ever been popular in Australia? No, small pocket of fans. Lately people are becoming aware of them after people like me keep badgering about them. Rage, the major Aussie music show has at least been playing The Big Money video but you would never hear them on the radio.

This was a hard one, first I had to eliminate the Ying and Yang albums; Counterparts and Test for Echo, both of which I find little to rave about. So as some people have done referred to albums I would listen to, most of the clunkers come from the later synth albums where Neil's lyrics focussed on personal type issues. So my 5 are; 1.Second Nature 2. High Water 3.Neurotica 4. Open Secrets 5. Out of the Cradle

Yes, some of us are still on a mission to convert the masses here in Australia. My daughter goes to piano lessons at the local music shop and I was astounded that none of the guitar, bass, drum teachers had heard of Rush. I screamed sacrilege, how can you be teaching music when you are unaware of one of the major influences in rock.

Not sure what it was like in the US but in the UK, Rush were terrible at promoting anything. Remember thinking subsequent singles; New World Man, Big Money, Time Stand Still would have charted better than they did but it was like they were released and then nothing.

Literally a decade between the two so different horses for different courses in terms of song writing, construction and production.

Wouldn't have thought either Afterimage or Red Sector A have guitar solos, sort of guitar breaks

In no particular order; 1. Necromancer 2. Xanadu 3. The Trees 4. La Villa Strangiato 5. Freewill 6.Red Barchetta 7. Camera Eye 8. Analog Kid 9. The Weapon 10. Mission Honourable mentions; By-Tor, Kid Gloves, last noodle on Natural Science.

Either; 1. Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and Signals 2.Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures

Listen to see if you can hear Geddy sort of sing the word Chemistry at the beginning, at around 0:44.

Pretty good write up.

I just revisted CA in an attempt to find the 'masterpiece' that so many claim it to be. But, once again, the full album strikes as overwrought and (in the order presented) a dull listening experience. Trimmed and resequenced I can enjoy it, but as presented it's a drag. Yup. Liked it when it first came out. Like it, liked it, liked it...and then, suddenly, I didn't. I like the first 4 songs and The Garden but the rest becomes what our sound engineer called wearing in that there's no light and shade so your ears become weary of listening to it.

I can't say I love any Rush album seriously after Signals. Albums after have some good songs, and Power Windows is great but the low point for me was Counterparts and Test for Echo, totally Ying and Yang. I committed heresy and sold Counterparts, and I've played Test for Echo twice to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

Lucky to hear it Christmas Eve 1979.

Countrparts and T4E are Ying and Yang albums as for two consecutive albums they are so different. Neither album appeals to me and it feels like the band had lost direction at that point, going from Roll the Bones to Counterparts to T4E.