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Albums Moving Pictures or Grace Under Pressure

 

Songs Tom Sawyer, Spirit of Radio, Free Will, Limelight, Red Barchetta, Working Man, New World Man, Fly By Night

I kinda see Caress of Steel like I do Rush in general. Great album, but not for everybody. I love the album but there's pretty much only one Rush album I can't stand at all(Hold Your Fire)

I don't think I would call Zeppelin or Sabbath for that matter Metal. But pretty much all Metal bands based their sound on those 2 bands first few albums.

 

Rush is a started out as a bit of a Zeppelin clone but quicky when towards Proggessive Rock with a Harder rock tone than most prog rock. But still very much Proggressive Rock.

John Bonham was completely different animal. He could sound completely different and out of this world any night you heard him. There is nobody that is more physical with the drums than John Bonham. It's mind boggling how heavy he was. The fills he had were amazing also. There is nobody that comes close to him as far as talent goes. Neil is an experienced and techincal drummer. He's had basically 50 years of drumming under his belt now so he's probably got the technical part of drumming down. But Bonzo's style and physical talent are just impossible to compare to.

If Rush has a new album out next year which we have no idea if they will have one or not at this point, they'll probably pretty much play all of that. They haven't played some of those songs since the 70s. They haven't played Fly By Night(the song) since the 70s I think.

I'm not sure I can pick just 3 from Grae Under Pressure or Moving Pictures. Or Clockwork Angels. Or any songs from Hold Your Fire

If it was good enough for McCartney.....

It was good enough for Jimmy Page. He played on Goldfinger.

 

As good as Rush is they are probably more popular now than in the 70s and 80s. It is wierd that A-ha who otherwise basically had one hit did a Bond theme though.

You Don't Love Me Anymore by Eddie Rabbitt

 

I have no clue who he is and have never heard the song before

Rabbitt had a bunch of good country songs and several songs that made the billboards top 100 pop charts. He might have been the biggest younger country artist of that period.

 

You Don't Love Me Anymore is easily one of the most depressing breakup songs ever.

 

But if you want some of his better songs it's I Love a Rainy Night or Suspisions

Roll on Eighteen Wheeler by Alabama. Good song, great band.

It's just okay. Honestly not really a fan of that era for Johnny Cash. I love his 50s-60s stuff and the stuff he made with Rick Rubin from the 90s till his death. But in between he wasn't near as consistently good with his music. If you like JC like I do, you'll like it just fine though.

Anything from Grace Under Pressure is fine by me

 

The Weapon is from Signals.

Before the CA tour I'd have said no, considering just how "80's" and outdated it sounds, but since they pulled out The Body Electric, anything from that era seems possible. Hell yes!

 

Subdivisions is arguably their most dated song and they've pretty much kept it as a live staple since Signals era. The only way they play this song is if they bring back the Fear Series. Which as I've said in the other thread, I'm all for.

Any Grace Under Pressure song gets a yes from me since it's my favorite Rush album. Kid Gloves is probably one of the weaker songs from Grace but it's still a good song.

why do folks complain about this one? tom sawyer's always one of the best parts of the show. the crowd actually seems excited

 

Okay, I'll bite.

 

I'm not a fan of Tom Sawyer because of the lyrics. One of the reasons I love Rush so much is because (most of) their lyrics are so great. There are stories, insights, and (my favourite) tales of dystopian futures. But in Tom Sawyer it seems as though most of the lyrics are there mostly because they rhyme, and some don't even make sense. "Catch the spit"? What in the heck does that mean? It doesn't do anything for me.

 

I do like the music in TS. And my feelings about this song probably wouldn't be so strong if it wasn't their most popular song ever that gets played way too much. Personally, it doesn't live up to the hype and I think they have many better songs that should be played more often.

 

The song is basically about the ultimate individualist. "Catch the Spit" means to take the hits you get in life In other words if someone spits on you, just catch the spit. It's not a story driven song like most early Rush songs were. But from Permenant Waves on Rush was going away from that style. The style of Rush had already changed at that point.

 

No his mind is not for rent, to any god or government, always hopeful, yet discontent, knows changes aren't permenant

 

As a libertarian anarchist like I am this song to me is one of the songs that best defines the individual.

 

Peart has said he still loves playing it because it's such a difficult song to play to his perfection. Tom Sawyer and Spirit of Radio are going to be played at a Rush concert till the band calls it quits.

I don't think they've played The Weapon or The Enemy Within in almost 30 years. Enemy Within seems like a song that would be awesome to play live with it being such a motivational type song. All of the Fear Series is about motivations from fear in some ways but TEW especially hammers this down. I would love for them to bring back the Fear Series.

I haven't heard the song live in almost 2 years, I think I'm having Tom Sawyer withdrawal...

 

In all seriousness, while at this point it seems inevitable that they're gonna play it live, I think most of this forum wouldn't shed a tear if they didn't play it for once.

This is probably a song they will always play live as long as they are still playing together on stage. Probably the same with parts of 2112 and Spirit of Radio.

It's between LVS and Tree Song with me. I think I will go slightly with Tree Song because I like how it goes through the song making you turn the song on it's head in the last line of the song. It hypes up that the Oaks are the bad guy throughout the song for the most part and at the end it's everyone that suffers.

This one is really the only complete no-brainer of any Rush album as to the best song. 2112 is probably the best song Rush ever did in it's 20+ minute form. What is so awesome about it is that it is both available to listen in it's seperate parts and as a whole and still sounds amazing. It's an epic tale of an individual taking on authority. Some longer songs from even Rush or Zeppelin or Pink Floyd etc you kinda don't really like parts of the song or you lose attention really this doesn't happen with 2112 because ever part is important to the whole. The other songs are decent songs for the most part but just don't hold a candle to 2112.