Blue Barchetta

I remember that Batman movie. He said, "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!" Classic!

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Vapor Trails for me. But there were a couple of not so great ones between Hold Your Fire and there.

Never have understood the hate for this album. I mean, you knew up front they were cover songs. I think the did a terrific job on all of them. Maybe it has to do with the finite nature of time and the career of a band. If RUSH only ever had 20 albums in them, I think most fans would trade an album of covers for a new original album any day. Vapor Trails was released in May of 2002 while Snakes And Arrows came out in May of 2007; in-between we got Feedback in June of 2004. Even if it is an EP and not a full length album, I would have much preferred an originals release sometime in late 2004 over a covers album. It is just a waste of time and effort for me. The time the three of them had left in their careers in the studio recording together was already so fleeting by 2004, that it feels like such a disappointment not to get something truly RUSH rather than this collection. That said, we all understand that, especially the way they work, that recording 8 covers is a completely different undertaking than 8 original songs, but I would have taken 5 or 6 originals over any number of covers. An EP of originals would have been more than welcome as far as I am concerned. So I think that the hate over Feedback has little to do with what it actually is, but has everything to do with what it isn't. It probably reminds fans of what could have been if only different choices were made. I'm generally not a fan of covers regardless of the band undertaking them, so Feedback just ends up being a RUSH album in my collection that means as much to me as Chronicles or Retrospective III. It is there. It exists. I look at it thinking "well... this happened" and never listen to it. I would have at least listened to an EP of new originals released in 2004 many, many times. I can count on one hand how many times I've listened to Feedback straight through. . Great point!

In all honesty, I think they always sounded great live. The production and sound on a couple of the DVDs sucked, but I've never seen them live and came out thinking, "They sounded like crap tonight!" In fact, after R40 in Atlanta, I commented to my buddy that they'd never sounded better. That's a true comment. Sometimes, I guess, production hurts. All the World's a Stage...perfect live album...minimal production. That album captures the spirit and musicianship of Rush to a T. I'm gonna quit before I start rambling like RUSHHEAD666!

Fly By Night Tour, hands down. No Tom Sawyer, none of Hemispheres, PW, or AFTK. None of the synth period stuff. Uninspired set-list.

Never have understood the hate for this album. I mean, you knew up front they were cover songs. I think the did a terrific job on all of them.

I once thought I heard them playing "Dog Years" at Walmart. Turns out it was just an old guy bending over to check out the flip-flops and farting.

In Dog Years, America is 1,687 years old!

I've said it before, and by no demand whatsoever, I'll say it again...except for Summertime Blues, Crossroads, and For What It's Worth, I'd never heard these songs. This album made me seek out the originals. I have to say, the Rush versions sound waaaaay better. Maybe it's just because I heard them first.

Cold winter day? Please...take some of this muggy, sticky Georgia heat. Help yourself!

Styx is okay, but "Dinner With Rush at a Hunting Lodge" is better than any song THEY ever did. As for the poll...Red Barchetta. None of the other songs are close enough to see its taillights. Especially with those tires spitting gravel... You're still my hero RUSHHEAD!

Are you fuckking kidding me? "Face Up" is filler? I guess you pay no attention to Neil's drumming on that song. The intro is KILLER! NOT FILLER!!!!!!! I am with grasbo! This album gets a shitload of HATE from so-called real Rush Fans. Yet they gush all over "Vapor Trails." The St. Anger of Rush albums! "Roll The Bones" is polished perfection minus that annoying rap section. Alas it was just done for a joke. You Rush Fruits are so uptight. Need everything to be so serious all the time. I saw the "Roll The Bones" Tour four times with Primus opening. Yet many of you fake Rush fans on here rip this record, and you have probably never even seen the band play live! HAHAHAHAHA! This is the most entertaining Forum on the planet Earth because there are so many fraudulent Rush fans on here and they constantly post how much they know and love about a band that they have never seen or the ones that think RUSH will tour again. If RUSH ever does tour again you better be making at least 300000 USD a year gross to afford a ticket. If RUSH ever does play again I am willing to beat it will be in Toronto for a benefit show. Better save "The Big Money" you phonies who have never seen them yet actually type in your opinion about this band. Your opinion means nothing to me. "Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one." Glad I am an asshole too. I am nothing to the RUSH WORLD. I've met wonderful people around this globe who have seen RUSH 151 times!!!! I never saw the first decade of RUSH live! Oh well! THANKS MOM AND DAD! HAHAHAHA! "ROLL THE BONES" IS A GREAT RECORD! "FACE UP" ASS DOWN HATERS! Signed, Andrew Dice Clay I bet most of you who read this have no clue about my wit. No wonder you think I'm on meth and Budweiser. LOL!! If you drink Bud you get wiser! HAHA! "Animals" playing now. "PIGS" IN ZEN, Love, Jane's Addiction If this dude doesn't have his own website, it's criminal!

If you don't like "Time Stand Still", you have no concept of good music! Yours truly, Aimme Mann

"Net boy...net girl...send your signal 'round the world" without me for a while. Bed is calling.

Underrated song, for sure. The whole "Signals" album is a little underrated.

My husband tolerates them for me. I took him with me to the R30 concert. He had an ok time, but afterwards I asked him how he liked it and his reply was 'Well, it was a little long". Haven't taken him to a concert since. LONG...pfffft. At just over 3 hours? NOT LONG ENOUGH, I SAY! "Too long" Pffffffttt...as if. No, I'll go by myself before I ask him to go with me again...and I have. And that's fine with him. ;) Yeah...people that don't get Rush...I'm not sure we can trust them. Always be leery, always be cautious. So long as they let you listen to it they're fine. If they otherwise impede your listening pleasure, drop 'em like a hot potato. By the way, I think you sell yourself short in your profile. I find you very interesting..and sweet, to boot!

"I had a dream of a Winter garden, a midnight rendezvous, silver-blue and frozen silence...what a fool I was for you" That will stick with when you're going through a break-up. Why? I don't know...but I don't make millions to write lyrics.

My husband tolerates them for me. I took him with me to the R30 concert. He had an ok time, but afterwards I asked him how he liked it and his reply was 'Well, it was a little long". Haven't taken him to a concert since. LONG...pfffft. At just over 3 hours? NOT LONG ENOUGH, I SAY! "Too long" Pffffffttt...as if. No, I'll go by myself before I ask him to go with me again...and I have. And that's fine with him. ;) Yeah...people that don't get Rush...I'm not sure we can trust them.

I wouldn't be too sure of that. When I was in the 6th grade I roller skated repeatedly around the block of a boy I liked carrying a boom box and playing a seemingly endless loop of 2112...at the time I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever heard. Eventually he came out and asked me to stop. Turns out he was a Van Halen fan, and in those days, and that neighborhood, never the twain shall meet. I was the anomaly. I was the weirdo who liked Rush. Meh...his loss. That is the coolest thing I have ever read (and I've read Tolkien)

DAMN!

Where is RUSH666 when ya' need him?

And I love The Pass..just have never been able to get past that, "...dreamers learn to look at the cars" line. Great song, but they've done much better.

"Workin' Them Angels"...yes! "Turn up the music and smile, get carried away by the songs and the stories of a vanished time.." We give Neil hell on this site, but those are some poetic f***ing lyrics! Almost makes up for Dawg Ears!

I've been trying to get my girlfriend to like Rush for years. She doesn't get them, and, I'm afraid, never will. But she took me to R40 in Atlanta a few years back for my birthday and sat through it. Best gift ever, and I love her for it. And, damn...she saw the guys live and still is not a fan! As an aside...I've seen Rush since the Power Windows tour and that night in Atlanta for R40 was the best concert I've seen in my life. If it's not bootlegged somewhere, it should be!