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QUOTE (ReflectedLight @ Apr 14 2012, 05:49 PM) i don't like the chorus which sounds very bland and not catchy, and the solo just sounds out of place. it's almost like nick r. was secretly taping alex soloing and they decided to stick in the song. you know, there's even a bit where you think Al might have missed a note or something in that solo so you might have a point, although obviously they kept it in for whatever purpose, maybe for the spontaneous feel of it.

i feel ok about it to be honest. thanks for asking.

oh thats easy gotta be The Garden. no contest really.

do they make holographic or even 3d cd covers? would be a nice idea for that swirling cloud thing imagining falling down into it

the story of 2112 was absolutely spot-on as a short concept album piece from a band like rush, it wasnt meant to be even a very short novella just the very bare bones to hang their music on disillusioned kid finds a strange object we know as a guitar learns to play it very fast wants to share it with the world gets stamped on by the mega authoritarian regime cant handle life without his new found means of free expression and kills himself...... thats it, in a nutshell, then fill it out with RUSH you cant talk about 2112 as a story, you have to talk about it as a combination of storyline and the sound of rush it seems to me that clockwork angels gonna be a little more fleshed out to say the least and we'll probably have the right to criticize it as a story in itself, particularly as an actual novel being published around it

im confused, does it look like CA going to be a full concept album from start to finish every track part of the story or whatever? coz thats the impression you get looking at the tracklisting

ok so obviously the CA clock makes reference to 2112 but why? i'm sure Neil or anyone else didnt just say oh well we got a clock and we made an album called 2112 so hey i got a goofy idea let's make the time on the clock 9:12pm yeah? i mean clockwork angels is a new work in itself and if there isnt a reasonably strong conceptual connection to a previous album then why hint at one? of course they might have just needed a time for the clock hands to point to and every other time seemed pointless so at least 9:12 has some kind of rush connection, but..... what if there happens to be an actual conceptual connection between the album 2112 and clockwork angels?...... like maybe CA is a kind of rehashing and basically a modern retelling of 2112? for instance maybe this watchmaker character is father brown in the temples of syrinx? i'm just curious as to why they would use this time if the only connection is it was the title of a previous album, seems lazy to me.

they dont seem real to me but then again nothing does

that devil character was apparently a fallen angel so i wouldnt automatically asscoiate the angel concept directly with heaven in this case, especially bearing in mind the hellish fiery clock furnace cover art..... by the way the only thing i can make out in the middle of the red swirl is possibly an 'R' but probably not intentional

as well as being unhappy at being forced to pay for a fan pack or wait a couple weeks, i'm also a bit unsure at rush being sold in the uk as a classic rock package, like they a bunch of old timers from a bygone era..... rush are still on the cutting edge they never retired they'll never make a comeback, and even if most of their albums from the 70's -80's are definitely classic in one sense of the word i wouldnt imply in any way by packaging them as classic that they exist or come from a somewhat bygone era i mean wtf are they packaging this modern and totally relevant band under the classic thing anyway there's no need just sell the album to the kids without that overtone shit ffs just sell us the album why do we have to buy it under classic rock or wait two freakin weeks honestly, a lot of us have patiently waited more than two years for this and still we get pissed on

all it says on the trailer is clockwork angels, leading one to maybe speculate that the track could be of the same name, but riab sayin its headlong flight and people who heard HF describing a similar bastille day kinda sound so who knows if anyone can provide conclusive evidence for one or the other id like to hear it, so far havent heard any, even from riab.

pretty cheesed off they forcin me to purchase the uk fan pack to be honest... i mean if i dont, then i'll have to endure a two week wait and they know thats difficult..... yeah i pretty cheesed off with that marketing ploy, reminds me of callofduty mw3 where elite members get the dlc's weeks before everyone else forcing us to get elite membership......... something stinks when you apply that to rush and their devoted uk fans nevermind

honestly dont know how i feel about it until i hear the clip in context with the rest of the track, there just isnt enough info for me there.... a lot of S&A was a bad experience for me just didnt hit the usual spot and i dont know how much influence the same producer exerting, so i'm hanging back can understand why some fans excited by the funky fast pace of it all though

come on man you know how it goes, we're british we get ripped off they can always squeeze us for more and make us wait longer..... thats the way it has been way it is and way it always will be Amen.

the guy doesnt have a clue

preferred the sidewalk image to be honest much classier but the signals reference probably precluded it as main cover art, all you can say about the clock is bold, direct, striking and to the point...... cant say it completely blows my socks off but there's a clear singular message in there like a headlong flight straight into a fiery furnace of hell or something

QUOTE (Alchemical @ Apr 11 2012, 02:42 AM) HOLY SHITE IT SOUNDS AMAZING! But.. June 12th? Ugh, two more weeks of waiting. Not digging the album art either... it's neverending mate

QUOTE (adace1 @ Apr 11 2012, 01:54 AM) Sounds great! Hope we hear the radio edit today! that clip might be all we get, they werent sure what limited release would take place today, hope there is a radio release though.

QUOTE (eshine @ Apr 10 2012, 02:09 PM) QUOTE (Tony R @ Apr 10 2012, 02:04 PM) Apparently they're going to do a two-year stint in Vegas supporting Tom Jones. Seriously - why not have Geddy and Elton John playing dueling pianos?? terrible idea - cmon Rush dont forget billy joel for the triangle

wouldnt bother mate... i'm beginning to wonder if rush ever really existed at all.

totally disagree, with the exception of the very last one without phil which i havent heard, all the post-gabriel genesis albums were exceptional just a touch more mainstream, and ive no problem with that if it works.

you know, rush are the artists here, ive taken everything they've given me with gratitude till now, and i'll take anything they give me in future, so long as they happy with it and it representative of rush.

QUOTE (RushIslander @ Apr 7 2012, 07:58 AM) All too often, artists depict a crescent moon near the horizon with the illuminated portion opposite from the angle of sunlight depicted throughout the rest of an image...like this one. could indicate another source of illumination like another sun but the observation is noted

based on caravan and bu2b in particular i think there's reason for hope that CA could be what VT was to T4E and or what CP was to RTB............. there's a big big chance this could be an epic album