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Definitely more of their catchier tunes... Finding My Way Working Man Closer to the Heart The Spirit of Radio Freewill Natural Science Tom Sawyer YYZ Subdivisions Bravado Where's My Thing? Leave that Thing Alone Limbo Far Cry The Main Monkey Business Hope Malignant Narcissism Caravan Headlong Flight The Garden

:( I love that track, the lyrics are really clever and the music kicks. Plus, it's the only time you'll ever hear Geddy sing 'Sad son of a bitch'! But a dog bitch. Not an actual insulting one. So it can't count. :(

Members of a family! Or a cult...as some might put it.

See my list on page 1. ;) Crap! I must've missed it! My bad.

You never originally heard "One Little Victory" repeated a lot? With headphones, though, I heard Geddy making weird "yah yah yah" noises or something. It sounds funny.

Digital Man is a pretty upbeat song! I find New World Man to be kind of boring and slow compared to other Rush songs. NWM is obvously not a positive song, and I don't see how Digital Man can be viewed as one either. Upbeat rhythms don't equal upbeat songs. Depending on the listener, that is completely incorrect.

Digital Man is a pretty upbeat song! I find New World Man to be kind of boring and slow compared to other Rush songs.

I see where he's coming from. Kind of like a transition from progressive rock to a more powerful, synth sound. I don't know why they did. I love Signals but I feel this album was the start of a downfall in their guitar driven songs and it was a huge bummer, to me. I still love the synth era but my goodness...it's like Alex was just kind of tossed to the side.

I wish I got to see those live!

All 4 of those sound terrific on vinyl.

Have we all forgotten about Prime Mover?

OMG, you're right. Nice eyeballs, guys! I....don't see it.

OMG, cannot unsee this now you pointed it out! Oh good, then it's not just me :P It looks like a monkey with an angry mask.

Stare into their souls and turn the volume up higher.

There's no way I'd have the balls to attempt to song a RUSH song in front of people. Major props. The enthusiasm was the greatest during the bass groove before the drum solos. Made me want to go play mine now. :D

I only really thought he was out of control with the layering on VT. Without the solos and keys he felt a need to fill in the sound. If I had to pick anything I guess my biggest issue with them is the safe song writing. They are so far away from what I loved about 2112-MP. They were a lot more creative and adventurous back then. Even with CA, they made it sound like this was going to be a prog album, but its not really any different than any other albums from the 90s or 00's. I was expecting a lot of parts, time changes, complex sections, a couple really long songs, some crazy instrumental work here and there, but there's really none of that. Nick seemed like he really wanted to push them with this album and go back to their roots a bit which I think would have been so refreshing but Geddy wasnt having it. Even with Neil writing a long story, Geddy cant get out of safe song writing mode and said he wanted each song to be able to stand on its own. WHY????? Just go nuts, this could be your last album you ever write, so why have rules that theyve been chained to since maybe Signals. Did we listen to the same Clockwork Angels album? I'm with Trenken on this for the most part but I do think CA is a huge step in that direction compared to S&A Being adventurous with their lyrics can be up for debate. But it is a very difficult album to play. For guitar, possible for most. But bass/vocals and drums. It's insane. There are time changes everywhere in this album, too. Clockwork Angels (the song), itself, has about 12-14 different spots where it changes. Talk about crazy instrumentation...try being Geddy and singing to The Anarchist and Headlong Flight. My goodness. When it comes to length, hell, the album is 3 times the length of the only song people pay attention to from 2112. Plus, most of the songs are pretty lengthy, in general. Just a couple minutes shy of hitting Xanadu/Cygnus X-1 time.

Girls and boys together.

I only really thought he was out of control with the layering on VT. Without the solos and keys he felt a need to fill in the sound. If I had to pick anything I guess my biggest issue with them is the safe song writing. They are so far away from what I loved about 2112-MP. They were a lot more creative and adventurous back then. Even with CA, they made it sound like this was going to be a prog album, but its not really any different than any other albums from the 90s or 00's. I was expecting a lot of parts, time changes, complex sections, a couple really long songs, some crazy instrumental work here and there, but there's really none of that. Nick seemed like he really wanted to push them with this album and go back to their roots a bit which I think would have been so refreshing but Geddy wasnt having it. Even with Neil writing a long story, Geddy cant get out of safe song writing mode and said he wanted each song to be able to stand on its own. WHY????? Just go nuts, this could be your last album you ever write, so why have rules that theyve been chained to since maybe Signals. Did we listen to the same Clockwork Angels album?

I left mine at a hotel 3 hours from where I live last week. :( It sucks.

I have all of those records, except Clockwork Angels and 2112, as well! I got them all for 3-5 bucks each. 2112 was a birthday present.

And I thought the "What do you lack?" at the end of Clockwork Angels was freaky. Now I hear this...thanks for the nightmares tonight.

The Signals 5.1 mix uses a lot of alternative takes. Other than "The Weapon" this is the first I've heard of this. Sources? Same here. I'm intrigued they would make a Signals 5.1 before 2112. They have a 2112 5.1. Yes, I understand that. I own it. But I'm referring to Signals.

"Freewill" underrated? I don't think so. Depends where you go and who you talk to, I guess. Of course. But I've noticed that whenever Rush plays "Freewill" in concert it's a highlight and always brings the audience to its feet. And the fact every rock radio station has Freewill on their rotation.

The Signals 5.1 mix uses a lot of alternative takes. Other than "The Weapon" this is the first I've heard of this. Sources? Same here. I'm intrigued they would make a Signals 5.1 before 2112.

Yes we get it, Goobs doesn't like the album. I doubt he's going to waste his time here. If he does; he's silly. Every regular on this forum knows his opinion.