Oakhugginghippie

First RUSH show for me too. I can't express even in my own language how great it was so I'm not gonna try here. Hopefully the audience was big enough so that they don't have to skip Finland next time if they still do an European tour. In a magazine review it read tickets were almost sold out, but I saw some empty seats. Well, Finns are known to be a bit shy and reserved folk (except while drunk). But that doesn't mean we don't love the band. Alex's and Geddy's view here (starting at 0:47): http://www.katsomo.fi/?progId=206616

I move to another dwelling next month. I heard it's going to be room number 21 (but not for long )

QUOTE (CruisingInPrimetime @ Jul 8 2012, 10:49 PM)Take your time going through the back catalog, and don't expose yourself to too many songs or albums at once. Let one album soak in fully before moving on to the next. Also, it might be cool to leave one song from each album unlistened to. For example, listen to all off Moving Pictures except The Camera Eye, and then go back to TCE at a much later date. I still haven't heard Middletown Dreams, but I've heard every other song from that album (Power Windows) hundreds of times. I know I have a treat waiting for me when I finally decide to listen to it. There's a few songs like that that I am holding out on. Thanks for advice (and sorry about off-topic)

QUOTE (SlyJeff @ Jul 8 2012, 09:27 PM)QUOTE (Oakhugginghippie @ Jul 8 2012, 02:20 PM) I'll give it an 8. I'm a new RUSH fanatic and have constantly listened to RUSH for only one month or so. That means CA competes of my listening time with such classic albums as Moving Pictures , Permanent Waves and A Farewell to Kings. If I find time for CA besides these it can't be worse than 8. The only instant classic song is The Anarchist (The Garden comes close) but there are plenty of songs that are great and then some that still need more listening. I envy you right now. How did you find the band? I heard it fist time when one of my favourite bloggers posted a link to Freewill this March. I was fascinated by the song because of its message, but not enough to listen to their other songs. After that the name of the band popped up in other occasions (a fellow students music player in a park, some stranger in a cool 2112 shirt) and I had to find out more so I put Permanent Waves in my iPod and then my head exploded I felt so lucky that I still could get the tickets to next year's show in Finland. And I'm sure I've been in some altered state of consciousness for one month now. But myself, I envy those who have known about RUSH for a long time and seen them play live since the 70s or 80s. I wasn't even born back then.

I'll give it an 8. I'm a new RUSH fanatic and have constantly listened to RUSH for only one month or so. That means CA competes of my listening time with such classic albums as Moving Pictures , Permanent Waves and A Farewell to Kings. If I find time for CA besides these it can't be worse than 8. The only instant classic song is The Anarchist (The Garden comes close) but there are plenty of songs that are great and then some that still need more listening.

As a former metalhead, I think Rush is quite "metal" compared to other prog rock bands I've heard. I never got into Pink Floyd or Yes and that's why I've been ignorant about Rush for so long, because I had no interest to dig deeper to that kind of music. Some examples of things Rush shares with metal music: -big, heavy sound -individualistic attitude, integrity as the highest value -"art as expression"; not preaching political messages, getting girls, money or such things That's what I liked about metal and also like about Rush. So to me Rush is "metal" in that positive sense. Because in no other genre you can find those features. But it's still metal as an adjective, not the ultimate definition, so both sides are right in their own way