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Presto is awesome.

 

Wait, that has nothing to do with this thread.

 

Got confused...voted Soft As A Dove.

Magnification is better than Presto.

I like:

 

Test For Echo

Driven

Half The World

The Color of Right

Time and Motion

Totem

Virtuality

Resist

Discuss.

I choose the title track

Natural Science

Freewill

Jacobs Ladder

TSOR

Different Strings

Entre Nous

Caress Of Steel

2112

A Farewell To Kings

Henispheres

Permanent Waves

Moving Pictures

Grace Under Pressure

Power Windows

Hold Your Fire

Presto

Counterparts

Vapor Trails

 

All these albums I think are superior to Clockwork Angels. Roll The Bones is equal.

 

Signals has slipped out if my top 12. Its actually far from my favourite.

Signals is better than anything after GuP.

I've had 2 1/2 years to listen, reflect, digest, ensure that there's no "novelty effect", etc.

 

I think this is now, officially (for me, that is), Rush's best album.

 

 

thoughts?

 

Clem

 

Respectfully, No.

 

It's not bad. Not by any stretch. However:

 

FBN, 2112, Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, GUP, Power Windows, HYF (Yes, I said it), Presto, and Counterparts are better IMO.

I would say that CoS, (maybe) 2112, Kings, Hemispheres, PeW, MP, Signals, GUP, PoW, HYF, and VTR are better. That means it's out of the top 10.

In terms of percent of songs I like:

GUP: 100% (8/8)

PoW: 87% (7/8)

HYF: 80% (8/10)

Presto: 64% (7/11)

RTB: 40% (4/10)

CP: 55% (6/11)

T4E: 45% (5/11)

(Skipping VT since I'm doing VTR)

S&A: 42% (6/13)

CA: 75% (8/12)

VTR: 93% (12/13)

Yes - 90125 (1983)

Owner Of A Lonely Heart: 11/15

Hold On: 10/15

It Can Happen: 12/15

*Changes*: 12/15

Cinema: 10/15

Leave It: 11/15

Our Song: 10/15

<City Of Love>: 7/15

Hearts: 11/15

Overall rating: A (Very Good/Good)

Track by track:

•Owner Of A Lonely Heart is easily the most well-known track from the album, being Yes's highest charting single. While I rarely purposefully listen to it outside of 90125 it leaves a good impression overall.

•Hold On has a bit of arena-rock genericism that prevents it from getting a higher grade.

•It Can Happen is just well-done fun nonsense, and an easy pick for "second best".

•Changes works marvelously, with a great chorus (I especially like "One word will bring you 'round" *BAM* "CHANGES"), and only the somewhat dippy verse lyrics prevent it from getting a 13.

•Cinema is a nice little instrumental, but honestly it seems more like a bridge between sides to me.

•Leave It is possibly the cheesiest thing Yes have ever done, but it still works due to the WONDERFUL vocal layering.

•Our Song doesn't quite live up to the energetic opening, but it does start to get going a little more in the chorus.

•City Of Love is the sole "true" clunker on here, based off of a not particularly imaginative two-chord riff which is repeated... and repeated...

•Hearts is a wonderful throwback to the 70's that would probably be an easy 13 if not for the ultra-generic solo from Rabin. Eeeeww.

Wait! IT'S TOM HANKS!!!

 

 

When will Hollywood make a movie about Rush? Hanks is obviously Neil!

 

Who would play Alex?

 

Who would play Geddy?

Sting is there too! Heck he can play Alex! What irony!

It figures the timing of this eh? All the excitement down below about all of The Police stuff going on?

They put Sting in the rainbow ribbon but not Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland!

 

Perhaps The Police can play RUSH in a movie.

 

I give up.

 

I can't believe how good Jane Fonda looks. Commie.

"Every Thing You Do Is Tragic"

 

Covered by RUSH

Does STING ever age? I have more white in my whiskers than him! WTF?

Wow! Lots of Police video! Lot's of love for the band. I never knew that Sting lost his art form to write songs.

 

Neil lost his art form on "Test For Echo."

Awesome! My own thread in the Rush section! It's all about ME ME ME!! I'm STING!!

16975

Lady GAGA Performing STING!!!

 

Where's Tony Bennett?

"If I Ever Lose My Faith In You." GaGa nailed it.

 

STING IN TEARS!

 

Now "FRAGILE"

 

My favorite! NOTHING BUT THE SUN!

 

HOLD YOUR FIRE!

If this thread gets moved or deleted it doesn't matter! FUN!

 

When will Rush get invited to the Kennedy Awards?

 

When Hillary Clinton is President?

 

I'm moving to Canada! LOL!

Wow! I'm moving to Jersey! THE BOSS IS ON!

 

Moving back to Jersey! That's where my parents were born! BORN IN THE USA!

I can't stand Springsteen. He's great!

Holy Shit!!!! Bruno Mars is nailing "So Lonely!" "MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE!"

Forget politics! Even the Obamas look like they are fun!

 

What a wonderful show.

 

We now return you to the Rush Forum........

 

Keep talking and typing about the same old shit over and over and over again!

 

Rush is the greatest band in the world but there is so much more out there to explore.

 

 

Happy New Year everyone! So glad to be back on my favorite forum.

 

Please drink responsibly and drive safe!!

 

I love you all.

 

Signed,

 

"My Name Is Earl"

Kenny Aronoff is one of the greatest drummers alive!! He is always the drummer at ever major awards show!!!

 

His early stuff with John Mellecamp is off the charts!!!

 

I love his pounding snare sound!! EPIC!!

 

Signed,

 

"Pink Houses"

damn

 

Holy shit my heavy metal brother! You responded!! Sorry! I didn't mean to keep this thread going.

I thought it would stop at the Tom Hanks Neil Peart joke, but it kept going and going and going and going and going.

 

Signed,

 

The Energizer Bunny

I need an Advil. Goodnight!

less is more my friend

(unless you're in TOST)

So. The Big Wheel

 

When I was 17 or so, my best friend and I found his old Big Wheel in his basement. We did what any highly intelligent, responsible beings would be expected to do: we drenched it in lighter fluid, set it alight and rolled it down the hill at the end of his driveway. It veered off into the neighbor's lawn where it melted into a puddle of smoking plastic and toxic fumes, while Jim & I convulsed in helpless laughter.

 

Someone should have given this same treatment to the song: set the lyrics on fire before studio time was ever booked.

 

Still, it's light years better than "Neurotica".

Nazi's. Seriously? Grow up...

 

Well that's exactly how they act. GOD f***ing FORBID my opinion differs from theirs.

 

How old are you anyway?

 

20.

 

I just wondered. I guess maybe as you get older others opinions don't really matter as much to you.

Possibly... I wouldn't know from experience but judging from the general "gradient" on this forum that makes some sense.

GUP: C (Very Good/Great)

PoW: A (Very Good/Good)

HYF: 9 (Good)

Presto: 7 (Mediocre/Good)

RTB: 5 (Mediocre/Bad)

Counterparts: 7 (Mediocre/Good)

T4E: 6 (Mediocre)

VT: 8 (Good/Mediocre)

S&A: 6 (Mediocre)

CA: 9 (Good)

VTR: A (Very Good/Good)

The tail end of their "Golden" period.

 

Are we talking about Presto again?

No, we're talking about PoW.

Easy.

 

Scars.

 

If it was Scars vs Here Again, the outcome would have been very different for me!

Same here, Here Again is easily the best song on the debut.

 

Even over Working Man? I wouldn't agree with that.

I love Here Again as much as anybody but I would put Working Man, Finding My Way and Before And After ahead of it. All just slightly though....

For the debut, I would rank them:

1. Here Again

2. Working Man

3. Before And After

4. Finding My Way

5. What You're Doing (Scars would be about tied with it)

6. Take A Friend

7. Need Some Love

8. In The Mood

Great songs on MP: Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Limelight, The Camera Eye

Great songs on CA: title track, The Anarchist, Headlong Flight

Awful songs on MP: huh?

Awful songs on CA: BU2B (not BU2B2), Seven Cities Of Gold, Wish Them Well

...

Easy.

 

Scars.

 

If it was Scars vs Here Again, the outcome would have been very different for me!

Same here, Here Again is easily the best song on the debut.

Rush - Test For Echo (1996)

 

Test For Echo: 13/15

Driven: 13/15

Half The World: 9/15

The Color Of Right: 11/15

Time And Motion: 10/15

Totem: 13/15

<Dog Years>: 3/15

Virtuality: 6/15

*Resist*: 14/15

Limbo: 12/15

The Color Of Right: 10/15

 

Overall rating: 8 (Good, bordering on mediocre)

100th review, 4 days in :clap:

91. Isis - Panopticon: 10 (Olympian) by PolarizeMe (v.2, original at 06) [link]

92. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing: A (Very Good/Good) by Mr. Not [link]

93. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet: B (Very Good) by Mr. Not [link]

94. Dir En Grey - Arche: D (Great/Very Good) by PolarizeMe [link]

95. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet: 10 (Olympian) by PolarizeMe [link]

96. The Devin Townshend Project - Addicted: E (Great) by PolarizeMe [link]

97. Porcupine Tree - The Incident: 9 (Good) by Mr. Not [link]

98. Rush - Roll The Bones: 6 (Mediocre) by PolarizeMe [libk]

99. Rush - Rush: 5 (Mediocre/Bad) by Mr. Not [link]

100. Rush - Test For Echo: 8 (Good/Mediocre) by PolarizeMe [link]

81. ABBA - The Visitors: 10 (Olympian) by Segue Myles [link]

82. Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks: E (Great) by Segue Myles [link]

83. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound: E (Great) by len(songs) [link]

84. Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying: 9/15 (Good/Mediocre) by movinghemispheres [link]

85. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun: B (Very Good) by Mr. Not [link]

86. Porcupine Tree - In Asbentia: 8 (Good/Mediocre) by Mr. Not [link]

87. Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair: C (Very Good/Great) by PolarizeMe [link]

88. Dir En Grey - Uroboros: F (All-time Great) by PolarizeMe [link]

89. Isis - Oceanic: F (All-time Great) by PolarizeMe (v.2, original:05) [link]

90. Yes - Close To The Edge: 10 (Olympian) by PolarizeMe [link] (The only album to get an Olympian rating from two different reviewers... :D)

From now on, if a rating is redone its entry will be highlighted in red with the "version number" and previous review link in parentheses.

Here you go Len: :burger: . Have a whopper instead! It will have to do. Or, you can have some popcorn and a Pepsi: :d13:

Coke, please. :)

Don't be picky.

Sorry :(