The Body Electric

This is a funny forum So many people who want to be pleased by Rush but who can't bring themselves to be. CA is the best album Rush have EVER made, if you consider it without your nostalgic know-it-all-arse-head on. Way too many people who cant see the wood because they are precious about "the Trees" imo ;-)

QUOTE (J2112YYZ @ Jul 12 2012, 02:15 PM) It gets no respect because it doesn't honestly deserve any. It's an interlude on a concept album and it's nothing more than that. Anyone who's heard concept albums in the past has heard things done like this before. Yes, it ties into the story but as far as concept album interludes go, there have been others done before and in a much better way. Like goober said, it's also oddly placed on the album and it should be after The Wreckers. Instead it's placed after the fun and powerful Headlong Flight and it just doesn't work there. The character seems to be in a positive frame of mind on HF and BU2B2 just doesn't fit after it. It does fit after the sad events in The Wreckers though. Good point!

Personally, I think it's up there with their very best. I think it's beyond many people's ability to reconcile their present with their past, and so they will always look with rose-tinted specs at older material but are incapable of either realising or admitting to themselves that something current from an older band can be just as good as during the halcyon days when they (the listener) were younger and life seemed so much more full of promise, and they were generally less curmudgeonly and world weary. I think Clockwork Angels is an album that has musical depth, power, emotion, real cohesiveness as a piece of work and shows a band that is really pushing themselves. I also think that this is the first Rush album I have heard since Counterparts that I will always take pleasure from listening to on an ongoing basis, and it is the first since g/p that genuinely stirs my emotions when I listen to it and speaks to me in the here and now of my existence and my beliefs and experiences. I want to sing (well, shout loudly) along with it and parts of it have already had me in tears of joy, and as far as i'm concerned, that makes me further indebted to and respectful of a band that have basically been my favourite band over my whole teenage and adult lifespan. Rush albums used to (in the 80s at least) take a good 10 -15 listens to get properly involved with. This was like going back to the 70s (how I wish that I could live it all again) because it only took 5 to really start reaping the benefits. I cannot wait to see them do this album next year. I may be 47 now but I will be 16 again on 22nd May 2013. BU2B in Rush. I still very much do.

QUOTE (ReflectedLight @ Jul 15 2012, 10:46 PM) QUOTE (The Body Electric @ Jul 15 2012, 04:43 PM) BU2B. The Blind Watchmaker / Dawkins reference in the lyric is obvious but I absolutely adore the vehemence and anger with which "while our loving Watchmaker loves us all to death" is delivered at the end. Very satisfying delivery of Neil's feelings about faith in religion and neatly sums up how many of us feel about such indoctrinations. One of the best aspects of the CA storyline IMO. just when you thought he got everything off his chest with s & a, and almost everyone going into the making of ca thought he was going to move on to something else. I think when you feel you've had to fight against something from the formative years of your life just to make sense of your own existence in your later life, it's easier with individuals than it is with a belief system to "wish them well" heheh

BU2B. The Blind Watchmaker / Dawkins reference in the lyric is obvious but I absolutely adore the vehemence and anger with which "while our loving Watchmaker loves us all to death" is delivered at the end. Very satisfying delivery of Neil's feelings about faith in religion and neatly sums up how many of us feel about such indoctrinations. One of the best aspects of the CA storyline IMO.