winter17

BBBoB as well as Wandering the Face of the Earth

I thought this guy does a really good job of breaking down everything that goes into the song, and just how complex the music that Rush made was. Also I never noticed the harmony part in the second verse, that part really blew my mind.

Hello all. I guess I'd consider myself an intermediate level guitar player. Here are a few of the songs that I know all the way through and enjoy playing: More Than A Feeling Crazy Little Thing Called Love Limelight Subdivisions Time Stand Still What are some other Rush and non-Rush songs that I could learn that are around this difficulty level or are a little bit tougher?

Don't murder me for this opinion, but I always put the debut in my bottom two. It's got four of my favorite Rush songs, but the other four are just terribly weak and I always pass over them. The other album in my bottom two is Test for Echo, with a two or three relatively good songs, and the rest of them are either just average or also terribly weak. Also, "terribly weak," "average," and "relatively good" are all compared to Rush's catalog. I'd take Dog Years and Tai Shan over a lot of other music.

Big fan of the tone all throughout Limelight

Live Rush is crazy, and studio Rush can be just as good. There are certain songs though that just sound 1000x better live than they did in the studio. For me, they are Presto Faithless (and most of S&A) Caravan Finding My Way Entre Nous What are yours?

I know there are isolated bass tracks for the studio version, but I really think Geddy plays the crap out of the bass during LVS on Time Machine and I think it would be amazing to here it isolated. Does anyone have it or know how to make one?

I was wondering if anyone has any videos or recordings of Neil from the debut tour. The only ones I've been able to find are with Rutsey.

My first two vinyls! I've been hoping to start a Rush vinyl collection and my brother started me out with Moving Pictures and Permanent Waves.

I just peed my pants Where should it go?

I have given Caress of Steel another listen, and The Necromancer went up to a 6/10 and I Think I'm Going Bald went to a 3, which increased Caress of Steel's average to 6.6. Caress of Steel is now in this order: Clockwork Angels Caress of Steel Vapor Trails

Show Don't Tell to Roll the Bones Where's My Thing to Counterparts Before and After to Fly By Night Most of their albums have a distinct sound to me so that's the best I could come up with

Most of the hate that goes towards Greta van Fleet is that their sound is too Led Zeppelin-esque, and some even accuse them of being poor attempts at a copy of Led Zeppelin. Honestly, I don't quite understand it. If the lead singer, Josh, didn't sound so much like Plant, and it isn't really his fault, then they would not sound like Led Zeppelin any more than a lot of other 70s bands did. I don't hear Page in their guitar, Jones in their bass, or Bonham in their drums. "Well that's because they aren't nearly as talented as Led Zeppelin!" Well no kidding! If we determined if a band was good or not based on whether they were as good or better than Led Zeppelin, then we wouldn't have very many good bands at all. I think Greta van Fleet has a sound not heard since the 70s, but with new flares that continue to develop the music of old while they find their own style. They've only produced one album (and a couple EPs), so I expect them to really come into their own if they continue on the trend I believe there are on now. Just my two cents...

I gotta say generally I go for Greta van Fleet over YYNOT, although I enjoy YYNOT over any other modern band (outside of Greta van Fleet) Yeah you heard that right. As far as current bands go, Greta van Fleet is 1 and YYNOT is a close 2

Great photos, embarrassing neckwear I didn't realize Alex was using a Les Paul back then

Catching lots of flack for having the debut at the bottom. Not surprised, but I might as well offer my justification. Take a Friend, Need Some Love, Finding My Way, Before and After, and In the Mood I ranked 5/10 or below, again in comparison to other Rush songs. For reference, Caravan was a 6, Lessons was a 5, and Ceiling Unlimited was a 4. Those songs outweighed Working Man, What You're Doing, and Here Again. Take a Friend was the lowest of those 5, I'm not at all a fan of the lyrics. Need Some Love and Finding My Way are good, but the lack of Neil on these tracks and iffy lyrics are what caused me to rank them low. In the Mood was a 5, good song but I think it is just a little too repetitive. Before and After was also a 5, I enjoy this song, but for some reason I can't quite define, I can't justify ranking it better than a perfectly average Rush song.

The way to correct this would be to weigh the longer songs more heavily. Because side 1 of 2112 is top 5 in their catalog and side 2 is reallllllllllly spotty. I could see how it would lose points in a ranking like this. I thought about that, and there could be ways to weight the songs based on length or weight the albums based on total minutes or total songs, but I decided that I wanted to look at the albums holistically, which meant I needed to disregard song length or number of songs.

And since its in excel you can make some graghs! Already done!

What do you get when you have an engineering student with a passion for Rush that is procrastinating on homework? A large excel spreadsheet ranking each Rush song 1-10 (by Rush standards), and using that to determine my album rankings, and then using that to rank every Rush song from 1-165. I spent too much time on this. Anyways here's what I ended up with for the albums, and if anyone wants to see the full spreadsheet or my ranking of every Rush song, just let me know. Permanent Waves: 9.5 Hemispheres: 9 Moving Pictures: 8.71 A Farewell to Kings: 8 Signals: 7.63 Grace Under Pressure: 7.25 Power Windows: 7.13 2112: 7 Clockwork Angels: 6.75 Vapor Trails: 6.31 Roll the Bones: 6.3 Fly By Night: 6.25 Caress of Steel: 6.2 Hold Your Fire: 6.1 Counterparts: 6 Snakes and Arrows: 5.77 Presto: 5.55 Test for Echo: 5.27 Rush: 4.88 Please don't hate on me too much, for the rankings themselves or that I shared them here.

Great thanks. With yall's help could you help me make of list of songs he's used this on or tell me why he might use this snare drum instead of his normal one?

I don't think it's accurate to characterize Neil's behavior as childlike, especially given what he's gone through. He said he had a bit of a tantrum in his hotel room that evening. From the R40 Documentary: https://www.rollings...learned-122571/ I don't see that as childlike at all. The man thought he was done with touring, and I'd be privately upset to if I were called out of retirement. The fact that he was willing to admit it in the documentary shows that he views his reaction with more humor but has decided he is done. Let him be.

I know its a snare, but why does he have two snares, what's the purpose, and why is it so far out of reach? I can only recall him using it on a handful of songs. It's the one just to the left of his head here And in the top right corner in this picture

I don't think it's accurate to characterize Neil's behavior as childlike, especially given what he's gone through.

Yes, I know that favorite albums can change, sometimes quite frequently, but I'm just curious if my somewhat unique experience is similar to the bulk of Rush fans. Being the unfortunate youngling that I am, the only Rush album that came out while I was a Rush fan was Clockwork Angels, and even then I probably knew no more than 25% of Rush's catalog (I'm especially disappointed that they'll never play again, since by the time R40 rolled around, I only knew about 50%, so I still couldn't get the whole experience. I now can only live the full Rush experience through audio and video recordings). Since Clockwork Angels was "my" album, it quickly became my favorite. Fast-forward to now, when I know the full Rush catalog inside and out, frontwards and backwards. In recent months, I have started to take a new appreciation to a plethora of Rush songs in a way that I can't really describe. All I know is that I find myself constantly playing the deep tracks like "Vital Signs," and my new favorite album is Permanent Waves, even though "The Garden" remains at the top of my list. Is this a familiar story? Was your favorite Rush album the first one that was released while you were a fan, at least for a time?

I couldn't agree more. I've only seen Time Stand Still twice: once in theaters and a second time at home on DVD. I haven't whipped it out again because I know my reaction will be the same as the first two.