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OMG this looks fantastic!! Tarantino is the vengeance flick MASTER. First Kill Bill, then Inglourious, then THIS?!

QUOTE (Test4VitalSigns @ Jun 6 2012, 08:43 PM) Coming out Christmas Day https://www.fandango.com/sweepstakes/djangounchained New Tarantino! The best Christmas present of all!!! Tarantino is my Rush equivalent in the movie world. And then KILL BILL VOLUME 3 in 2014 w00t w00t w0000t!!!!!

@D3strukt, do you have CD-quality files or are you remixing the leaked mp3s?

I recognize that piracy is wrong, but somehow I feel absolutely no guilt about it. I even understand the problem but still feel downright gleeful when I download music. I guess I have no soul

QUOTE (Gedneil Alpeart @ Jun 6 2012, 08:51 PM) Who put bu2b2 ? That's what I was just thinking. You smartass....

The Garden. It's got kind of an indie baroque chamber pop sensitive-mushy kind of vibe.... the hipsters will dig it.

QUOTE (SchemingDemon @ Jun 6 2012, 07:28 PM) QUOTE (Shreddy Lee @ Jun 6 2012, 09:27 PM) Ah, you beat me to it. Yeah, that was going to be my contribution. Not that I actually thought it said that, but seriously, listen to it. You'll hear it. Sorry It just made me laugh THAT hard! Agh, darn you people! 7 Cities is my favorite song and now it's ruinnedddd

I'd prefer they don't just because there are soooo many other songs I'm dying to hear, but if they choose to play the whole thing, I won't cry about it.

QUOTE (trenken @ Jun 6 2012, 07:48 PM) I like what he did with this album which is sing low throughout most of the songs so that when he does sing high, it sounds a little better, and overall the key is lower in the highs so they actually arent very high, but sound high since everything else around them is lower. Smart move. But when he sings with everything stripped away and no loud music to cover up the flaws, the current condition of his voice is exposed and sounds really horrible to me. Like the breakdown of Garden which I mentioned in another thread. It's the worst Ive ever heard his voice sound. Yeah.... Ged's voice was the reason I thought The Garden was one of the worst tracks on the album on first listen. His voice drives the song and generally features too prominently.... it sounds kind of strained and is difficult to listen to at times. But the melody and arrangement are strong enough that it's grown on me a lot since then. I agree with your other point too.... he seems to have found a comfortable place range-wise to sing for most the album. The quality of his voice was better on S&A, but what he chooses to do with it is better here on CA.

QUOTE (Ancient Ways @ Jun 6 2012, 04:37 PM) QUOTE (Tombstone Mountain @ Jun 6 2012, 04:20 PM) QUOTE (metaldad @ Jun 5 2012, 01:03 PM) This thread reminds me of a Styx song, Too Much Time On My Hands Just for some clarity...why does something like this cause you to say that? I mean, it's good hearted and fun..aren't those good things? it's weird and disturbing not good-hearted and fun. Stop. True, stuff like this really needs to be moved to Grand Designs, where it can die a peaceful death.

Absolution is where it's at. Every song is a gem, and it feels like a concept album.

QUOTE (Alex @ Jun 6 2012, 06:47 AM) LOL. This is an ironic thread since I just finished reading 1001's thread suggestions for this board. You're right. The sub-title has a spoiler. Mods? Oh, mods? To reply to the OP, I think you've nailed it. It sounds like One Little Victory.

QUOTE (EmotionDetector @ Jun 6 2012, 10:31 AM) QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 6 2012, 01:06 PM) S&A has a great mix, IMO. I don't get anyone else saying it doesn't have a great mix. Maybe they have a bad copy. No kidding. I mean, if people dislike the songs on S&A, that's one thing. But come on, the mix and sound is perfect IMO. True.... I'm not a fan of at least half the songs, but the mix is beautiful. There are some ear-watering textures on S&A.

QUOTE (treeduck @ Jun 6 2012, 12:19 AM) QUOTE (HowItIs @ Jun 6 2012, 02:00 AM) Not me. I refuse to support pirating unless it's this kind: http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/laserspray/internet%20stuff/smilies/Pirates_Beer.gif I will quietly resist. Or this kind... http://i.imgur.com/PJajc.jpg Now that's something I can get behind.

QUOTE (t2s @ Jun 5 2012, 10:14 PM) QUOTE (CrossedSignals @ Jun 5 2012, 10:13 PM) QUOTE (UltimoGuitarist @ Jun 5 2012, 10:03 PM) Well to each his own I suppose. Yeah I love the coldness of GUP. I love a production that compliments the type of music being played, and (this sounds ridiculous but...) the album cover. LOL. For some reason I associate the two together sometimes. GUP looks cold and wintery. And the songs sound that way too. Love that. GUP is just a perfect album. In every way. Songs. Geddy's voice. Alex's guitar. Neil's drums. The production. The lyrics. The mood. The cover. Pure and unadulterated brilliance. Excuse me while I go get a towel to wipe the fanboy off my face.... Should have swallowed like a good little fangirl

QUOTE (UltimoGuitarist @ Jun 5 2012, 10:03 PM) Well to each his own I suppose. Yeah I love the coldness of GUP. I love a production that compliments the type of music being played, and (this sounds ridiculous but...) the album cover. LOL. For some reason I associate the two together sometimes. GUP looks cold and wintery. And the songs sound that way too. Love that. GUP is just a perfect album. In every way. Songs. Geddy's voice. Alex's guitar. Neil's drums. The production. The lyrics. The mood. The cover. Pure and unadulterated brilliance. Excuse me while I go get a towel to wipe the fanboy off my face....

QUOTE (Tick @ Jun 5 2012, 04:43 AM) Once again the internet ruins the magic of what once was. Enjoy the new album...suckers! ....he said, on an internet forum. Sorry, couldn't resist.

QUOTE (snowdog2112 @ Jun 5 2012, 09:46 PM) QUOTE (UltimoGuitarist @ Jun 5 2012, 10:42 PM) I find that every producer they've had so far have had their good points and bad. Take Terry Brown. He produced all of the heavier hard edge Rush records, up to Signals, where he botched it big time and did brutal. Why? Because he's not a synths guy and had no clue. Then comes Collins, and Grace Under Pressure. BEAUTIFUL! Now you've got your solid 80's synth era Rush at their best quality. Counterparts rolls around and Rush wants to go back to Hard sound. Uh oh, Collins blows balls at this, another ****ed up album. Great.... Test for Echo wasn't terrible sounding but still probably not his area. Enter...paul northfield? what the....."lets turn up the Db beyond the walls and have a distorted record. MMMM!" WELLLP You're fired. Enter Nick. Or "Nic" w/e the hell his name is. "Let's make you guys sound as close to Foo Fighters as I can." HELL NO! Cut it out. Nic hasn't done anything horribly bad to Rush's sound so far. Having said that, he hasn't made it sound any better either. It's generic at best. The music is there, and amazing, but their sound is certainly lacking. Peter Henderson produced GUP, not Collins. And if you think Counterparts is poorly produced I just don't know what to say. on both counts. I'd say Counterparts is one of Rush's best-sounding records.

QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jun 5 2012, 09:33 PM) For now I'm still going with BU2B. I think the song is actually better now and I loved it before. I think the way the song crashes in as the new intro fades out just adds to the intensity. I'm not sure how this already great song got better, but it did.... My thoughts exactly! I loved BU2B already, but the album version is KILLER!!

Alright, here we go, what the hey.... This is my dream setlist, within the limits of what I think is actually possible. Limelight The Analog Kid Grand Designs Vapor Trail ~ video intro ~ into Caravan BU2B Clockwork Angels The Spirit Of Radio Kid Gloves Subdivisions Red Sector A *intermission* ~ video intro ~ into Headlong Flight The Anarchist Seven Cities Of Gold The Wreckers 2112 Overture/Temples of Syrinx Turn The Page YYZ into drum solo ~ new video intro with Count Floyd ~ into The Weapon Middletown Dreams Cut To The Chase Tom Sawyer Far Cry into Cygnus X-1 Bk. II: Hemispheres (teaser) Natural Science

QUOTE (Mystic Slipperman @ Sep 3 2010, 04:33 PM)Hey, isn't that Yes's new single? "Don't Hump The Whale"??? God, I have literally had "Don't Hump The Whale" the song running through my head all day. Thanks a lot!

I met a girl who was into Rush once.... but she was taken. First and last. However, interest in Rush is most certainly not a criterion for me when it comes to women.