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I don't think I saw this one mentioned. Hottest video chick ever (IMHO, with all due respect to a young Tawny Kitaen), esp at 3:13.

A friend just sent me this link: http://rateyourmusic...ore_you_die/20/ The Kinks have four albums on the list, their four albums made from '66 through '69 -- Face to Face, Something Else..., Village Green, and Arthur. Since this is a Rush forum, the authors included two: 2112 and Moving Pictures.

This live version of "See My Friends" is amazing. These guys were genius.

Venturing outside their early stuff, I really love "Daylight" and "Sweet Lady Genevieve" from Preservation I (though I wouldn't recommend the album unless you're already a true believer). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl6hv7nUPlU

I was listening to a bar band once who played some decent tracks sprinkled within the dross, like early Stones, Who, etc. When they were on a break I asked the guitarist if they do any old Kinks. He was unaware of their songs apart from You Really Got Me and Come Dancing. I thought we were from different planets. How can you play rock guitar and not have been into '60s/'70s Kinks at some point in your life?!? Anyway, they might not have been as big as The Beatles, The Stones, and Who in the mid-sixties, but I always thought they were the coolest of the bunch (like the Beatles stuck in '66), which I guess is why so many "IN" music acts like The Pretenders and The Jam, not to mention (of course) Van Halen, have either covered them or cite their influence. My personal favorites (I like most of their stuff, but I've got a definite weakness for their early period): Well Respected Man Dedicated Follower of Fashion See My Friends Party Line Rosie Won't You Please Come Home House in the Country Big Black Smoke Pretty much all of Something Else and Village Green Victoria This Time Tomorrow And One for the Road is one of the best live albums ever. The opening with Hardway, Catch Me Now I'm Falling, and Where Have All the Good Times Gone is so k*ck-*ss. I remember when that album came out that it was one of the albums "to have," whether you liked the band or not, like Boston's first, Back in Black, or Frampton Comes Alive.

Yup again. Kinks have always been one of my favorite bands and Village Green has always been one of my favorite albums. Face to Face, Something Else, and Village Green are a near-prefect threesome, just like Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt Peppers. I could go on and on but I'll stop here for now.

"Who is Bond compared with Kronsteen?" My favorite.

Narpet, you and I have a lot in common. I'll watch the recent stuff, but for me, the real Bond is Connery and Moore. I was 12 when The Spy Who Loved Me came out, and back then you could buy one ticket and then sit through all the consecutive showings you wanted. Me and a friend watched TSWLM all day every Saturday and Sunday it was in the local theater. Couldn't get enough of the Lotus and Barbara Bach (Ringo you sly dog). I even designed my own Fiat X19 submarine car figuring I wouldn't be able to afford a Lotus. Still my favorite Bond movie. Anyway, Nobody Does it Better and Live and Let Die are at the top for me, without a close second. And to think the producers didn't want McCartney to perform it; good thing he insisted.

I'm one of those '70s/early '80s dinosaur types, but I watched the DVD over the last couple nights and it really changed my perception of a lot of their middle material. While I've always really liked "The Pass," most of the other post-Grace Under Pressure songs I could live without, but...they really sounded good in that show. Stronger, less synthy sounding to me. I didn't see them live this tour because of the set list, yet ironically, I probably enjoyed this filmed show more than any since Exit Stage Left. I also appreciate Clockwork Angels more now. I do though wonder why Geddy's voice sounds so good singing their recent material, yet so shaky singing "The Spirit of Radio" or "Tom Sawyer"; are they really that different of a register? They aren't "Cygnus X-1" after all. Anyway, small complaint, overall I was really impressed by the old boys. I hope they have at least one more tour in them (and another album); next time I'll be sure to be there live.

Danger Mouse has said that after he made The Grey Album, rap and hip-hop artists would come to him all the time and say that they had no idea The Beatles music was that amazing (after having listened to The White Album because of The Grey Album). I was anti-Beatles growing up. The turning point was a combination of hearing The White Album and Tomorrow Never Knows. I realized I had been a giant dope for a long time. That was the start of a thorough conversion.

This is off topic, but I can't resist as I suppose a thread called "The Worst Cover Ever" probably wouldn't go anywhere. First the original. It builds slowly, so if you want to hear why it's so great, skip to 3:13. Then go to the cover (if you dare; I cannot be held responsible for adverse reactions, especially for people with previously-diagnosed medical conditions)... The original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EJ4wEtuRYU The cover:

Maybe not as clever as Satisfaction, but another great Devo cover. Listen to the 15 seconds starting at 1:56 on a good system, ideally on vinyl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VxGsCKXy1U

Mick Jagger said it was his favorite of all the various covers of the song.

Not from Cleveland but lived there for three years, and loved it. Cleveland rocks indeed. I still have friends there, and if I was still single, I'd make the drive from Baltimore.

Yeah. I don't think I listed it, but I had considered it for the "Best Three Song Opening" thread, but as I considered Funeral for a Friend and Love Lies Bleeding two songs, I didn't include it. Perfect side though, you nailed it. I remember buying this album as a fifth or sixth grader. Two high school girls were behind me in the checkout line. They commented to me that I had good taste in music. As a fifth grader, having high school girls say something non-condescending to me was like being hit on by Selma Hayek during her snake dancing vampire years. Good times.

I think MBV and Slowdive are kind of the benchmarks (MBV has certainly been annointed that, for good reason). I never thought of Cocteau Twins as Shoegaze, but there's an undeniable continuity I suppose. Speaking of Cocteau Twins, I remember the first time I heard Treasure. Man, like Led Zeppelin at their peak, they were more than mortal in their early years.

"RTB was meant to be addictive, and that's why it got so much radio play and sold more than the albums that came immediately before it and after it. I think that's also the reason the hardcore don't like it." Can't speak for anyone else, but I don't like it simply because I don't like it. I had no idea until I joined this forum (the only music forum I've ever joined) that it sold any better than any of the other Lost Years albums. Oh, and why I came here ... I really like Snakes & Arrows. My favorite Rush album since Moving Pictures.

"Roll The Bones is the kind of album Hemispheres should have been, but wasn't" -- Segue Myles Wah?!? What does that mean? I normally appreciate your opinions/input, but I hope you're not saying that Hemispheres should aspire to be Roll the freaking Bones!?!

You're making good progress. You won't gain access to the hardest of hard-core Rush circles unless you praise Hemispheres to the high heavens and adamantly refuse to rank anything that came after Power Windows (with the possible exception of Clockwork Angels) above anything that came before Signals. These are circles I'm glad to be barred from. :codger: That's the formula for sure....... Absolutely, and I resemble that remark!

Those first two Big Country albums are among my favorites by anyone. Mike Peters is one of the few people who can probably pull off replacing Stuart Adamson, vocals-wise. I YouTubed "Big Country Mike Peters" and came across a live performance of Harvest Home, and it sounded pretty good. God I love that album.

Different Strings

I really liked that first EP also. I remember defending them against some disparaging turds at a high school party. They didn't like my shoes either. I don't think I miss being young all that much.

Don't disagree, but the problem with those albums (PoW and HYF) is not that they sound like the music of their time, but that they sound like the bad music of their time, or poor attempts at imitating the better music of that time. There was good "new wave/alt/indie/etc" music in the mid/late '80s, like The Smiths, Pixies, U2, etc, but Rush doesn't sound like them, instead they sound like Rush doing Cindy Lauper or Mr. Mister. That's the problem for many of us who don't care for those albums. Yes, well said. I grew up on hard rock and metal and in the 80s was listening to a lot of new wave (starting with Ultravox, thanks to Rush) and alternative. But never, ever did I listen to that Howard Jones/Cindy Lauper/new wave's answer to easy listening music. In fact, once I learned about it, I got really into the hard industrial music, stuff like Skinny Puppy & Front Line Assembly. It blew away the thin, wimpy, jazzy Rush. Yeah, my problem as well. It wasn't that I was stuck on '70s hard or progressive rock during the '80s, as I was into bands like Skinny Puppy, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Big Black, Pixies, etc in the '80s. The problem was that unlike Rush of the '70s where they were among the best of the hard rock/prog rock bands, the Rush of the mid/late '80s didn't compare at all to the bands they were ostensibly imitating.

Shoegaze thread reminded me of side 2 of House of Love's Babe Rainbow (not really shoegaze, but sometimes grouped with bands that are). Every side 2 track is strong with two singles starting the side, the first one being:

Really like it! Little bit of Ride, little bit of House of Love (ca. Babe Rainbow). Great combination.