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That set list IS correct. But, I'll elaborate a hair. *Video 1 Subdivisions Big money Force Ten *Banter with crowd Grand designs Body Electric Territories Analog kid Bravado - with long Alex solo Where's My Thing Drum Solo One Far Cry Intermission *Video 2 *8 piece string ensemble appears behind drums (2 cellos and 6 violins/violas) Caravan Clockwork angels - with drum kit rotation The Anarchist Carnies The Wreckers Headlong flight - with short drum solo Alex Electric solo containing BU2B2 Halo Effect Wish Them Well - Alex raps some gibberish toward the end The Garden *Pause for a technical issue. Alex tells a joke. Manhattan project *Drum Kit rotates again* Bizarre sounding electronic drum solo Red Sector A *Kit rotates back YYZ *The Strings retire* Working Man (reggae intro) Encore Tom sawyer Spirit of radio

QUOTE (savagegrace26 @ Sep 5 2012, 08:36 PM)Rush - none Fly By Night - none Caress of Steel - none 2112 - none A Farewell to Kings - vague medievalish theme, but mostly because of the music Hemispheres - none Permanent Waves - communication via technology Moving Pictures - each song is an epic cinematic scene Signals - isolation/disconnectedness via technology Grace Under Pressure - the decline of western civilization Power Windows - examination of various forms of "power" Hold Your Fire - intrinsic human drives and motivations Presto - the death of romanticism Roll the Bone - random chance vs fate Counterparts - interrelationships Test for Echo - mass media and forms of communication Vapor Trails - attempts to understand the universe via survival and healing Snakes & Arrows - war on religion Clockwork Angels - meditations on various perspectives of faith well done, sir.

QUOTE (Transparent Green @ Sep 5 2012, 06:05 PM)I haven't read thru every string-related thread...but Nobody's Hero had a string score by Michael Kaman. This one would appear to be a prime candidate for strings. Just puttin' it out there. OMG, I love that song and I had no idea Michael Kamen did the score. That guy was awesome. R.I.P. I praised him here: Michael Kamen I would LOVE to hear Nobody's Hero. Rooting for it!

QUOTE (BrightAntennae @ Sep 5 2012, 01:13 PM)My wife and I switched seats last tour when the guy next to her threw up on himself and then passed out. It's hard enough to drag her to a Rush show... and then we end up sitting next to "that guy". Hey, man, I'm really, really sorry about that. Wait. Excuse me for 1 second... Phew... sorry again. So, how did the rest of the concert sound? Any good? Did they play that "Modern Day Warrior" song? yeah. kickass.

QUOTE (GeddysMullet @ Sep 4 2012, 09:56 PM)What exactly IS a "classic"? Based on the "Rush Gold Standard", that is, songs that are included on their Gold/Restrospective collections, you would expect 1-3 songs to be included on a future major release. Shockingly, Roll The Bones is represented by four tracks on Restrospective 3. But we'll dismiss that as an anomaly. For the next Collection, I imagine the record label would award a full 3 songs to Clockwork Angels, given the band's positive attitude toward it, and the generally glowing reaction from fans and critics. Headlong Flight seems to be the signature song, as the single that accompanied the release of the album. It's pretty much a given. Of course, you can regard Caravan in a similar light, as it was the first representative of the new work. For a third choice, it gets muddy. I imagine that the band might prefer including the groundbreaking The Garden. But the title track has emerged as a fan favorite. And The Wreckers has been chosen as the second single. The last of my 2 cents: IMO, none of the songs on CA will reach "classic" status as defined by "Tom Sawyer", et al, because none will receive enough mainstream exposure to capture the public's imagination. Not that several songs aren't completely deserving of lasting public acclaim. But sometimes exposure happens in strange ways. Refer to "Don't Stop Believing" and "Candle in the Wind."

QUOTE (ReflectedLight @ Sep 3 2012, 10:59 AM)i'm a fan of the first album, and i wouldn't mind hearing what they could put together for an album without any added effects, additional strings, pedals, etc..., but would you? It would be a super stripped down sound of nothing but guitar, bass, and drums. Umm... yeah. It's called Feedback. That's exactly how it would sound. I don't think they can comfortably strip it down any further than that.

QUOTE (Shredder2 @ Sep 2 2012, 03:12 PM)There's a whole bunch of numbers on my water bottle... 082112234WF077 1156BB02/20/14 You get bonus points for finding 2112. I think I found "BU2B" in there, too!

Jeff Buckley. His album Grace is the only thing I recommend, without reservation, to absolutely anyone who enjoys rock.

QUOTE Signals minus Countdown plus Vital Signs. Done. I win. QUOTE 2. Choose at least one song from each album. Nope. Actually, you fail. I'm betting you'll enjoy the third installment of this exercise a lot.

QUOTE And, until Clockwork Angels, The Body Electric was to be the last in the illustrious lineage of Rush SciFi/Fantasy story songs. So, here is the company tBE rightfully belongs in: By-Tor Rivendell Necromancer TFOL 2112 Xanadu Cygnus X-1 Hemispheres Red Barchetta The Body Electric Never thought about that, but...

QUOTE Just over 47 mins.. bite me with the time constraint Heh. Like I said, the exercise is easy and boring if we don't make it tough. And I won't bite you, but some retired, senile record executive somewhere is still cursing the day that the "damn hippie bands started making 20-minute songs."

I joined too late to hop in here and mourn the passing of Ronnie James Dio. RIP He will forever be on the Mount Rushmore of Metal Singers. I only got into Sabbath because I'm from the whole Purple/Whitesnake/Rainbow crowd, so Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules were just another link in that chain. OMG so great. And I'm glad Ronnie was able to do a couple more good things with Iommi and company before he left us. I can easily live without owning anything by Ozzy. But I can't deny the power and influence of early Sabbath. Huge.

QUOTE Time for a new wife. The wife is going to the Rush show in Manchester with me, so I think I'll keep her.

QUOTE I posted something like this before, namely if you take the recording time bands had in the 80's or 90's and put your best from CA on that it's pretty damn good. Albums have been able to hold more and more music through the years so the challenge to make a masterpiece from start to finish is greater. Clockwork Angels has about 67 minutes of music. Permanent Waves has a little over 35 minutes. Would Permanent Waves still be considered the masterpiece it is if Rush had to record an additional 32 minutes worth of stuff? Take the best 35 minutes from CA: Caravan BU2B Clockwork Angels The Anarchist Carnies Headlong Flight There's your album if it were 1981. That's a pretty damn intense album from start to finish that I think people would be a bit more inclined to compare favorably to the classics. Does the album get bogged down a bit in parts? Yeah, but I'd bet Permanent Waves would too if they doubled the time Anyway, I get what the OP is saying and agree, but the bigger point is overall I think you have to look at this album as amongst Rush's all time best if nothing else than for the consistency from start to finish Well, that's a good argument, but it's only half an argument. Sure, CA is 67 minutes long, but it took 5 YEARS to make. How much music did Rush put out in any given 5-year stretch from '74 to '93? Normally it was 3 or 4 separate albums. Even having 3 albums in 5 years would yield something like 120 minutes of music. So, when you say an old album would suffer if they doubled the time, it's a false argument. They DID take AFTK and double its running time - it's called Hemispheres and it came out a year later. And then they'd still have 3 years to spare if they followed a 5-year plan like they do now. This illustrates that the music game has changed. If CDs didn't hold so much music, if digital sales weren't so important, if concerts weren't such a big deal, if singles and radio play still determined which artists got rich... well then, Rush would still be putting out two 35-minute albums every 2 years like they used to, and not a chock filled CD every five years.

QUOTE It's hard to pick only 2 from signals though. it still has a lot of that classic era magic Agreed. I sometimes think Vital Signs and Subdivisions would like to swap houses so that Subdivisions could hang out with Red Barchetta in the basement of Moving Pictures playing Nintendo. And Vital Signs could with Digital Man over in Signals Land.

QUOTE Cant do it because I would never use the title "Perfect Rush Album - the Synth Years" Sorry, Animate. Maybe you can make "The Optimal Rush Album - the Synth Years"

in chronological order: 1. In The End 2. Necromancer: part 2, Under the Shadow (parts 1 and 3, starring Gimli - using his witness protection voice - are OK. However, the guitar work in the middle section is killer.) 3. FoL: Panacea 4. FoL: The Fountain 5. Tears - love the mellotron! 6. Red Sector A - gets a lot of love, but not enough 7. Anagram - love the piano! 8. Ghost of a Chance - has my favorite Rush lyrics 9. Between Sun & Moon 10. Sweet Miracle

One vote for both! I also LOVE the lyrics of Cold Fire. Among Neil's very best, and they bounce through the melody beautifully, IMO. QUOTE I don't understand those songs you love' She said, 'This is not a love song This isn't fantasyland' The flame at the heart of a pawnbroker's diamond is a cold fire Don't break the spell The look in your eyes as you head for the door is a cold fire ouch. I can relate to that, thanks to some, *ahem*... missteps... when I was a bit younger.

I'm also going to have to agree. Kind of. Taking a quick look at my song-by-song ratings, I have the first 9 songs of CA averaging exactly "very good/excellent". Although I'm still holding back a bit on a couple ratings while the album is new - it could go up. I have to go back to Signals to find a stretch with an average that high, and Signals only has 8 songs! As I rank it, Hemispheres also averages exactly "very good/excellent" and has nine songs in total. Every other album is worse than CA or doesn't have enough songs to compete. I think we have effectively illustrated that Clockwork Angels has entered rarified air.

1 Subdivisions 2 Time Stand Still 3 Red Sector A 4 Turn The Page 5 Distant Early Warning 6 Mission 7 The Analog Kid 8 Marathon Gotta start the collection with one of my top 5 songs. Turn the Page closes side 1 in grand style, and Distant Early Warning kicks side 2 off with a bang. I close with my favorite Rush song.

We had many great responses for Part 1 - the Kimono Years here. For part 2, let's try the Synthesizer Years (Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows and Hold Your Fire). We're skipping over Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures, which are darn-near perfect on their own, not as synthy, and usually placed in their own "Classic" Era. It was really the Signals album that marked a new style. The Rules: 1. Choose eight songs from the four synth albums (S, P/G, PoW, HYF). Why eight? Because S, P/G and PoW have eight songs, and songs #9 and #10 from HYF seem to be conveniently forgotten, anyway. 2. Choose at least one song from each album. 3. No time restrictions! There are no epics to worry about! 4. Optional: You may include "Vital Signs" from Moving Pictures, because musically, it belongs with the Synth Era. Go!

The only Rush song that would wake me up is Dog Years. I'd jump up and throw the clock out the window into traffic. Just about any other Rush song would make me crawl back in bed, listen some more, and be late for work.

Symphonic Live isn't too shabby, either. A 28-minute live version of Ritual!

I had actually never heard of the band. But a couple months ago, I came across a live performance broadcast on Palladia (a kickass cable channel that shows all kinds of concerts and rockumentaries). I was spellbound, cuz I knew Bonham and Bonamassa. Then my wife asked me who the old guy was. I said, "Woman, it's Glenn Hughes - THE VOICE OF ROCK!" But she was creeped out by all the weird faces he was making and I had to change the channel.