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    I'm beginning to cultivate the impression that TRF has changed a little since 2008...
  2. Joe's Garage is something else. I don't know what else to say about it. I never really warmed up to Overnite Sensation or Apostrophe. I prefer Zappa's instrumentals. Sleep Dirt is a great album. Haven't really heard much else.
  3. Now, back in 2012, I was just as geeked as anybody else about this. I checked the web everyday for updates, feverishly speculated about the album, just in general went nuts for this thing. I got the leak as soon as it dropped and later went on to buy 3 copies of the album (for some reason ). So it is with a very heavy heart that I say.... CA seems like a backwards move for the band. I know that Snakes and Arrows isn't the most popular album around here, but I've recently grown very fond of it. The thing I enjoy about SnA is it's textural qualities. Alex especially utilizes some very lovely guitar textures throughout the album. It's not their best album ever, but to me, it's a very mature album that manages to really play to the band's strengths and show a new side of Rush that had previously only been glimpsed at. Clockwork Angels on the other hand really seems lacking in all of those regards. Sure, there are some really great songs on there (The Anarchist being chief among them), and two of the band's best ballads are featured as well, but I still get a "what's new?" sort of feeling from this one. Much of CA just feels like Rush trying desperately to be the band that they were in the 70's, and not really succeeding. This album marked the return of the Science Fiction/Concept themes of 2112 and Hemispheres but unfortunately included little of the inventiveness that made those albums exciting. Alex, again, is the one who really makes this album what it is. Unfortunately in this case, what he ends up making is a undefined sonic mess. Many of the tracks feature layer after layer of shapeless, muddy guitars that transform potentially good songs into sludge. The title track suffers from this worse than any other, with the guitars forming this impenetrable wall of noise that grinds the track's momentum to a halt. That is not to say that there are not great elements at work here too. While some of the lyrics are a tad on the unwieldy side (Wish Them Well) most of them range from good to down right excellent. Geddy's bass playing just keeps getting better and better. He is definitely the best he's ever been right now. While I do have reservations about the guitar on the album, even that has some really great moments. Alex's playing on Carnies is a particular highlight. It's just that, to me, this isn't the "total package" Rush album that many people seem to regard it as. All of this of course is strictly my opinion.
  4. So Rihanna, Pitbull, Miley Cyrus, and Nickleback are equal to scientifically proven perfection? Emphasis on the term "inversely proportionate".
  5. I think that a lot of this has to do with the fragmentation of the listening audience. People who actually care about music aren't listening to the radio anymore, so the radio has been overtaken by the crappiest forms of pop. That's why it seems like music isn't as good as it used to be, because genuinely artful music isn't being broadcast anymore. There is a whole world of exciting music out there if you're willing to look for it. Or, you can turn on your classic rock station, listen to "Bad to the Bone" for the 9 Billionth time and complain about how music these days just can't compare.
  6. http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/juwbCxpfmaY/maxresdefault.jpg You can see the extra guitar on a stand to Alex's right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juwbCxpfmaY That bites. Did you get the "B" setlist every time? I saw them twice and I got the exact same "A" setlist both times, so I missed out on Dreamline, The Pass, Wish Them Well and (personal favorite) Middletown Dreams.
  7. This is something that I've been wondering about for some time and I'm sure it's been discussed but I got no results from searching. For live performances of Seven Cities of Gold, Alex had a second guitar on a performance stand. On the DVD he goes up to it and strums the open strings during the outro, but I really can't hear it. I also remember him using it at the first Chicago show, to similar sonic effect. I noticed that by the Milwaukee gig in 2013, he stopped bringing it out. Does anybody have any clue what the point of the second guitar was? I can only guess that it was some kind of weird experiment that didn't really work out the way that Al wanted, so he ditched it.
  8. I would be very, very happy if they did this. Never ever gonna happen, but I would be freakin' ecstatic!
  9. I can't even settle on a first favorite band these days. Rush will probably always be near the top for me, I just keep going back. Right now, I'm unhealthily obsessed with St. Vincent. Next week, who knows?
  10. Yeah, for the audience... I always found this performance cool to watch..i dig it I used to be cold to this song but now I really love it. I've also heard Geddy say that it's one of the most difficult songs that they do. That bass is super intense. I'm a non-musician, but I would have guessed 'Malignant Narcissism' to be more technically difficult for Geddy than 'Main Monkey Business'. Both are awesome songs in my book though. I would have assumed so too, but I recall hearing it from the man himself. I think it was during the Wall Street Journal Fan QnA Geddy and Alex did about a year ago.
  11. So long as Far Cry never gets dropped, I'm ok with any S&A related setlist changes. In fact, could they just play the S&A live setlist again? I'd be fine with that.
  12. It's like if you bought a "Best of Quentin Tarantino" DVD that has selected scenes from his movies. What would be the point? I stopped buying Greatest Hits albums a while ago when I realized that real albums are artistic statements in their own right. If I want a compilation-style package, I'll pick up a live album.
  13. Ok, so Radiohead's best of album is over ten years old and it's pretty out of date by this point. Creep [Pablo Honey] The Bends [The Bends] Just [The Bends] Street Spirit (Fade Out) [The Bends] Talk Show Host [Non-Album B-Side] Airbag [Ok Computer] Paranoid Android [Ok Computer] Karma Police [Ok Computer] Lucky [Ok Computer] Everything in it's Right Place [Kid A] The National Anthem [Kid A] Optimistic [Kid A] Idioteque [Kid A] Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box [Amnesiac] Pyramid Song [Amnesiac] The Amazing Sounds of Orgy [Non-Album B-Side] 2+2=5 [Hail to the Thief] Go to Sleep [Hail to the Thief] There There [Hail to the Thief] A Punchup at a Wedding [Hail to the Thief] 15 Step [Hail to the Thief] Bodysnatchers [Hail to the Thief] Weird Fishes/Arpeggi [Hail to the Thief] Reckoner [Hail to the Thief] Bloom [The King of Limbs] Little By Little [The King of Limbs] Lotus Flower [The King of Limbs] The Daily Mail [Non-album Single] Identikit [unreleased Live track] True Love Waits [i Might be Wrong: Live Recordings] Although a best of album for a band like this is kind of pointless. Each song is merely a part of the greater whole of the albums.
  14. Yeah, for the audience... I always found this performance cool to watch..i dig it I used to be cold to this song but now I really love it. I've also heard Geddy say that it's one of the most difficult songs that they do. That bass is super intense.
  15. I've wanted to make a mix CD called "Bravado: Another Side of Rush" for a while. Tears Different Strings Losing It Second Nature Mission The Pass Available Light Bravado Resist (Studio Acoustic Version*) Hope Halo Effect *Yeah, I know that it doesn't exist.
  16. He should do the whole show in David Byrne's big suit from Stop Making Sense.
  17. I'm doing another one just to see what happens. Dao Zai Fan Ye - Christopher Tin Sleep Dirt - Frank Zappa Guaranteed Nightlite - The Polyphonic Spree Reverse Running - Atoms for Peace Caught By The Light - The Boxer Rebellion Ghost of a Chance - :rush: Gallows Pole - Led Zeppelin A Smart Kid - Porcupine Tree Halleluhwah - Can Force Ten (from "Mirrors" Roll the Bones Tour Bootleg) - :rush: (again) Undenied - Portishead Reptiles - Them Crooked Vultures Time Stand Still (from "Nuts and Bolts" Counterparts Tour Bootleg) - :rush: (really?) Anthem - :rush: ( ) Get all you Deserve - Steven Wilson
  18. Horrible song ...to exclude from the setlist. I NEED to hear them play this live!
  19. Yeah that's some shit man. I don't like Avenged Sevenfold either but it's really lousy of everyone to be jumping down your throat about it. At work I'm pretty much ashamed of 90% of the music I listen to. It's a factory job and the popular music around there is rap or metal. When I took the day off of work to go see St. Vincent and people asked me who I was going to see I tried to keep my answer vague. It would be hard to explain that I was going to be spending the evening rocking out to a girl who looks like this: http://www.nashvillescene.com/binary/8d6d/1394468160-stvincent.jpg But here in internetland I can very freely and openly admit that she put on one hell of a show. Probably best overall concert experience I've ever had.
  20. The Enemy Within - Rush The Butcher - Radiohead Fly from Here Pt. 3: Madman at the Screens - Yes The Nostalgia Factory - Porcupine Tree Circumstances - Rush Eclipse- Pink Floyd Jones Crusher - Frank Zappa The Happiest Days of our Lives - Pink Floyd Chloe in the Afternoon - St. Vincent I Know I'm Not Wrong - Fleetwood Mac Trains - Porcupine Tree Countdown - Rush Circle of Manias - Porcupine Tree Dead End Friends - Them Crooked Vultures Before and After - Rush I may need to deversify...
  21. You sir are a damn fool! But seriously, I think that you're getting Vapor Trails confused with Test for Echo.
  22. how does this happen? Clearly there must have sessions where they wrote and rehearsed the songs before they recorded them. Geddy didn't realize before the recording process that the key they wrote the songs in was really high? I love the vocals in Hemispheres but they would have to drop the tuning if there was ever a chance of performing any of it live. According to Geddy, Hemispheres (the whole album) was basically written in the studio. They had nothing going in (though it might be fair to assume they probably had some instrumental bits and pieces roughly worked out from sound check jams and such.) So yeah, they work out this awesome 20-minute piece, record it, studio time's ticking away and they've gotta get back out on the road soon and Geddy's now ready to do the vocals and... uh oh! The experience of recording Hemispheres was a turning point for the band in a few different ways. Not only did they decide to chuck the epic-length songs, but they also decided from that point on to slow things down a bit and do more pre-production work before going into the studio proper. ;) I just wonder why they didn't rewrite the melodies in order to be more easy to sing. It just seems bizarre that he was "forced" to sing certain melodies. Those were the melodies that were in tune with the songs. To rewrite the melodies would require reworking the instrumentals. They did not have time to do all of that.
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