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That bottom image really needs rotating anti clockwise 90° for full effect, let's be clear here is an abstract image that nobody has admitted to its precise nature, is kind of meant to get you thinking about it and guess what - rotate so fireball at top and you get an unmistakeable representation of the WTC on 9/11

 

This is the rush album in the direct wake of 9/11, it is near to incredulous that such an abstract image looking so like the towers on 9/11would not be so, the coincidence would be ridiculous.

 

Furthermore the album's very title kind of alludes to the event, perhaps even saying the tracks themselves are vapor trails to 9/11.

 

I personally dont get why some can't see this, that image depicts the towers on 9/11 absolutely no doubt about it. The band and their marketing team etc just couldn't admit it straight up, probably regarded as too sensitive and maybe inappropriate at the time but they took a risk on it as they had to acknowledge the momentousness of the time. This is the rush album produced through 9/11, they needed to emphasize that fact.

this is actually one of the greatest videos ever

Nice article but the vapor trails comet thing a joke when clearly depicts the WTC on 9/11

 

Thats why the album called what it is,, the tracks are the vapor trails of the planes that day

Good News First

Al doing something with kirk hammett sounds quite exciting

I still think he should replace Dusty Hill in ZZ Top

Al doing something with kirk hammett sounds quite exciting

Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres

One little victory. Remastered v

Probably too idiosyncratic for them

A show of hands

Depends what meant by talent, right now i'm listening to the Peppers' By The Way album and nothing more creative than that, so far as technical proficiency goes a few bands like Yes probably unsurpassable there but if you take a combo of both qualities then yeah, i'd say Rush top of tree

Yeah i cant see why neil's death should have have any effect on personal album favs, i have a few that can be no.1 at a particular time - quite a long list but is true, at some point in life i've listened to these things and thought 'this could be my fav rush album'

 

PeW

P/g

VT

PoW

Signals

CP

CoS

HyF

 

Why AFTK or Hemispheres isnt in here i know not why, other than at the time was a late starter and they were competing with PeW which, for me, was is and always will be perfection

 

Truth is also, when T4E and Snakes on i kinda get no.1 vibes about those too but gotta draw line somewhere

 

Been listening a lot to p/g recently, that and PoW such feel good albums

 

The country thing sounds kinda promising, looking forward to hearing that

Found the track a little monotonous at first, one of two i tended to skip on an otherwise great album, the other being nobodys hero Two or three years ago began listening to it again and of course now one of my favs, agree with above post the guitars ethereal

 

After presto and roll the bones, which were great albums but kind of light on the power button, counterparts was such a shot in the arm what a great great album

 

Good days

There are no albums out there by anyone better than COS 2112 AFTK or Hemispheres, quite a few of equal standard none better, although some have advantages in their differences

 

Zep a totally different kind of music can't be compared really, is like comparing rush with the Human League or something

Reminds us what the Nazis actually did manage to deprive mankind of, to think of all the great scholars, musicians and sportspeople etc we never got to see. RIP indeed

Up there with spirit of radio and tom sawyer as my fav short rush track is that good for me was genuinely something very different and edgy even for this band

 

Standouts for me were a subtle crackling guitar from Al in background accompanied by Ged's sublime keyboards and whose bass never sounded like anything else, like an animal, more like a lead guitar in part, just the coolest this band ever get, really showed the kids how it's done.

 

Remember spending months just immersed in BU2B alone with Caravan. We had a glorious summer at the time, very happy days indeed.

 

Remember thinking, not because right or wrong, that the track could even be Satanic - not saying it is, just it felt more interesting to view it that way, for effect. :)

No contest, S&A a world apart from the remixed VT monstrosity, although original VT trumps S&A by a mile

From the titles and general composition of the pieces it sounds as if they could be for a tv series or something

More like musical doodles really but i'm happy if the great man is

 

looks great in the website pics

Yeah they all unique but none more so than COS, no other rush album remotely like it really

Hard to believe mike knew very little about rush or ged thats just crazy. :)

Presto an album that, when i think about it yeah it falls a bit short of the very best but, when i actually listen to it i think is brilliant :)

 

No such issues with HYF, I dont think either would be in my bottom two, in fact the only album that gets in it is clockwork angels (or half of it anyway)

 

Glad COS didnt get in Ged's bottom two i know the band had issues with it being a bit quirky but heck thats a great album, could easily be my fav

 

 

The Weapon

Just the slightest potential of Al and Ged getting together with another drummer and even a singer and coming back with their own brand of actual metal excites me

 

As for actual rush metal im one who never saw them or their material anywhere near that category

By the old definition of “metal” all RUSH albums prior to Signals qualified. I would argue by the old definition all new millennium RUSH studio albums qualify as well.

There's less than half an hour in the total Rush catalog that would qualify as metal by any reasonable definition.

Yeah of course there may be snippets of metal in rush material as their are with many bands of every music genre but rush are far away from being metal for me personally. Can only fit them in prog rock really, other than that in their own unique category, nothing else like rush