RushBoingo

Rush-Most Meh

Fly By Night-Most Potential

Caress Of Steel-Most Pretentious

2112-Most Overrated

A Farewell To Kings-Most Experimental (for them)

Hemispheres-Most Scattered

Permanent Waves-Most Recommended (as a first album)

Moving Pictures-Most Accessible

Signals-Most Variety

Grace Under Pressure-Most Cohesive

Power Windows-Most AWESOME, Wonderful, Amazing, best instrumentation, writing, playing, ...(The fan boy went that way ->)

Hold Your Fire-Most enjoyable through repeat listens

Presto-Most Unfortunate Producer

Roll The Bones-Most Disappointing

Counterparts-Most Balanced Mix Of Songs

Test For Echo-Most Underrated

Vapor Trails-Most Noisy

Feedback-Most Unneeded

Snakes and Arrows-Most forgettable

Clockwork Angels-Most Needed return to form

I would love a Rush themed Guitar Hero-esque game, but considering that Guitar hero made a big tribute to 2112 in Warriors of Rock, and Rock Band is full of rush songs to download, I can't see it happening (unless Rush commissions them to do it. They are fans, but its still a long shot)

Have you guys not heard? Rock Band 4 is coming out, and there is a website where you can suggest songs you want to see in the game. I would suggest we flood them with requests. I have already put votes in for The Big Money, Dreamline, and Force Ten.

Weird. I know some more modern CD's can have some playback issues in older players that are put in cars, but I have never heard of anything like that. For me, the only two problems I have had is that a bunch of Blank discs I bought for mixes would replace the bass (not the guitar, but the thump-thump kinda stuff) with clicks in certain cars, and I own one CD that was published by a record company that otherwise has no flaws with their CDs, yet this one particular one refuses to play in my car, and my car alone.

 

By The Way, CDs are not dead. So long as someone wants a package that contains: Physical Artwork, good quality music, car playback, and an ease of sharing the media, CD's are the best format. Vinyl covers the first two categories, and regular online distribution can cover the last two, but the CD gets all four.

Yeesh, everyone is a downer here. I get where people are coming from on the critique of the most recent songs from drones, but I feel like a lot of people are criticising their two most recent albums based on the added electronics. I see this mirroring Rush quite a bit here. They are moving on with their song writing. They wrote what they wanted on those first four albums, and they have progressed to what they want to write about now. Regardless of what I may think of their most recent singles (alright, but not any favorites yet) I applaud them for their strife at progress.

 

Side note, I feel like they are shooting for the billboard top 40 with Dead Inside, which would explain why its the album opener, despite its weak attempts at being introductory.

 

You call it progress, I call it degradation. It's not just the electronics -- their music became more electronic with Black Holes and Revelations and they did good on that album. Psycho and Dead Inside simply suck :huh:l

Progress, is a term that means move along, their quality of music shifted in one way or another. I was not personally pointing at one or another opinion, just saying that they were changing, and getting bashed for doing so. I personally hate when people expect musicians to produce an album with the same sound and style as the last one.

 

Personally, yes they did very well with black holes. They went a little too far with The Resistance (trying to hard to be epic, that they forgot to give their songs strong bones to work off of), but I quite enjoyed the second law (still some filler tracks, but very cohesive). With Psycho and Dead Inside, though, I don't find anything spectacular there, it makes me optimistic about what else will be on the album.

Easy prank if you have a garage. Just move a family member's car out of it, and park it down the street so they think its stolen. Be sure to be awake when they try to get going to work, so you can quickly tell them where it is if they are running late.

Fantastic Band. Even in the Quietest Moments is a great album

I can safely say, that the oldest shirt I have (2010) that still fits, has survived countless washes, and rush concerts with only one tiny hole (easily sew-able if I cared enough) in one of the arm pit seams. That shirt is a power windows shirt, and the graphic after all these years looks practically the same. I only wear it to concerts now though, because I am always getting new shirts, so I have kind of a rotation going on, not in a fashion sense, but I keep finding funny shirts I like.

In the mood actually would be a pretty awesome ending. Toss in some Confetti, and a little jam session at the end, that will work.

I'm not bothering to vote, both Cinderella Man, and Madrigal are good in their own right.

Sadly, Working man will probably be one of them, which I was never a big deal for me. My hope is The Spirit Of Radio for the final encore, and for the main set closer, probably Tom Sawyer.

 

I'm hoping the encore is this

 

Dreamline

Marathon

The Spirit Of Radio

Well, if the results are going to be anything like the Ratings thread I did way back when, BU2B will be considered the worst, followed by Tai Shan. After that is a mix of stuff from the debut, Roll The Bones deep cuts, Superconductor, and Dog Years.

I don't mind it. I don't think it was that special since for the most part the songs are not changed around that much. I get its release (due to being in tandem with R30), but I would much rather hear them give the Rush treatment to music that they have enjoyed over the years that have influenced their sound, rather than the music they grew up with. I know Geddy is a fan of Radiohead. I would be fascinated to hear them cover them.

60s

Yes

 

70s

Rush

(I don't really listen to 70s and before that much

 

80s

They Might Be Giants

Oingo Boingo (Technically they were a theatre troop in the 70s, but their rock debut album was in 81)

Weird Al

The Buggles

R.E.M

 

90s

Daft Punk

Beck

Green Day

The Smashing Pumpkins

Queens Of The Stone Age

 

00s

Animal Collective (Panda Bear included as a solo artist)

Owl City

Muse

Phoenix

Paramore

 

10s

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks

Sharon Van Etten (technically 09)

Lindsey Stirling

Courtney Barnett

 

Well that's the best I can do for the moment. At least I can say I have a decently sized 10s section.

Clockwork Angels was the best. Great set list of deep cuts, and good new album tracks, not to mention good presentation. The same reasoning is behind why S&A is the worst, with odd deep cuts, bad new album tracks, and a lackluster stage presentation

Yeah, that clip of her band playing Cygnus x-1 always gives me some faith in her. Not to mention, her first hit, I Kissed a Girl, has a chorus that sounds exactly like a riff from Hemispheres.

For some here PWcrap is Power Windows and PWgreat is Permanent Waves. ;)

For most here this is a gross statement. Its PW Great(Classic) for Permanent Waves and PW Great(Musicianship) for Power Windows

And that's that.

Thread closed.

:laughing guy: I think Permanent Waves and Power Windows is also acceptable... ;)

1980 or 1985 will work for some of us

Fixed for us purists...

Re-Fixed for us Gregorian Calendar Purists ;)

I love how the concert is set on April 1st

She (when her music is not utter garbage), is just tasteless enough. I do admit I enjoy Last Friday Night, beyond that though...No thanks. I suppose there can always be far worse of course.

Glad to see another Rush fan has accepted our new robot overlords.

 

Yes, Daft Punk is an amazing duo of writers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

 

Off their Random Access Memories album which you are picking apart right now, I find the two best tracks to be the Minimalist and Maximalist tracks, Doing it Right and Touch. The simplicity, yet well calculated rhythms are amazing, and Panda Bear's (My favorite artist) vocals are the cherry on top. Touch meanwhile plays all the right cards in instrumentation and arrangement.

 

I also seriously recommend their live album, Alive 2007, it is just astounding how they mix their tracks, and its in my top five albums of all time for sure.

Yeesh, everyone is a downer here. I get where people are coming from on the critique of the most recent songs from drones, but I feel like a lot of people are criticising their two most recent albums based on the added electronics. I see this mirroring Rush quite a bit here. They are moving on with their song writing. They wrote what they wanted on those first four albums, and they have progressed to what they want to write about now. Regardless of what I may think of their most recent singles (alright, but not any favorites yet) I applaud them for their strife at progress.

 

Side note, I feel like they are shooting for the billboard top 40 with Dead Inside, which would explain why its the album opener, despite its weak attempts at being introductory.

The Superconductor video is the most embarrassing thing they've ever done.

 

And that includes recording Half the World. It sucks that much.

 

I literally CANNOT bring myself to watch past the bridge kicking in and the crowd swaying like hippies. Thing is, I can kinda see what they were going for.

I like the video because its that cheesy, which is what the song is going for (and half of Rush fans don't seem to get)

Gotta go for the body electric (is that the animated one?).

No, the animated one is a standalone short that featured the music of rush. The Body Electric video featured the same sets as The Enemy Within,

 

Wait, I don't think I've seen that. Link plz?

This is the official Video

 

This is the short film. It was animated by the same Canadian company that made Heavy Metal (if your familiar with that film)

Though I do enjoy the video for The Big Money and Mystic Rhythms quite a bit, Subdivisions wins for me. I love it for its simplicity in camera work, and how the resolution really matches the time frame and music. Also I love the trope where a character from the story of a music video watches the band playing the current song on tv, which of course is present in the video.