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Losing It was very well done. Nice, full sound. Definitely stood out to me.

I prefer full albums. I usually listen to them on my phone from ripping the discs, but I just ordered some cool blank CD's that look like vinyls, so I'm gonna put those files on those and keep them in my car. It just seems more real to listen on CDs or vinyls.

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I gathered with my entire high school senior class for graduation practice. Does that count?

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So I'm a huge fan of rock music getting experimental. Great things happen when bands deviate from the classic guitar, bass, drums, keys, and vocal setup. I was wondering if anyone knew of any bands that has frequent use of the violin (besides Kansas), as I'm trying to find a band with such a sound to get into. Anything helps. Thanks!

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Don't leave early! They'll probably end with "Nothin' But A Good Time" and trust me, it's awesome. I saw them with Def Leppard and Tesla a year or two ago and they were amazing. You won't want to miss the encore.

Styx is playing near me on the night of my high school graduation. Looks like I'm not going to graduation...

Breaking All Illusions - Dream Theater 40 - U2 One Last Time - Dream Theater No Quarter - Led Zeppelin Jacob's Ladder (ESL) - Rush Marathon - Rush What You're Doing (ATWAS) - Rush Ghosts That We Knew - Mumford and Sons Lakeside Park (ATWAS) - Rush Time (Delicate Sound of Thunder) - Pink Floyd Everything, All The Time - Styx Eclipse - Pink Floyd Blue Collar Man - Styx D'yer Mak'er - Led Zeppelin Heat of the Moment - Asia

Don't give him any ideas

I have heard many answers to this, all of them different. The Synth Era undoubtedly started with Signals in 1982 (big stylistic change between MP and Signals.) But when do you think it ended? I know that their use of synthesizers went way down with Presto, but I consider the end to be after Roll the Bones, because although the synths stopped, the style and structure of the songs stayed the same until Counterparts changed it. That's just my thought. What do you think?

Voted La Villa Strangiato, but Natural Science and Something For Nothing are great contenders as well.

Presto is IMMENSELY overlooked. It's got a nice groove going on, and it seems to be one of the more calmer albums Rush has done. Anagram is awesome, the use of rhythm guitar really drives the song and makes it feel good, and the piano is a nice rare occasion in a Rush song, something that just makes the song unique. Yet, the distortion guitar crunches through the song, and it all just blends well together.

I'm just gonna try to get this back to a discussion about Clockwork Angels... I think the album is great. Personally, it's a top three because I can relate to the theme of longing for adventure. That being said, it has some hiccups, but its best to look at the album as a whole instead of individual parts. It's a concept album, so if you look at one song at a time, you will lose the continuity that allows the album to achieve its great state. And yes, it does have a Caress of Steel vibe going on. Listen to Headlong Flight's riff and tell me it doesn't sound like Bastille Day.

I would like to say right off the bat that there is nothing wrong with "Tom Sawyer." It's a great song that can definitely be counted as one of Rush's best. That being said, I wouldn't say it's their ABSOLUTE best. I don't understand why, of all Rush songs, Tom Sawyer became their big hit. Yet, when a non-diehard Rush fan thinks of Rush, the first song to come to mind is Tom Sawyer. The other songs that were widely successful on the radio ("The Spirit of Radio", "Subdivisions", etc.) make sense, but it seems weird to me that Tom Sawyer became just as big (if not more) than the others. It has a weird topic, and the reference in the title is kinda geeky, and it doesn't really have a message that the common listener could easily pick up and relate to. I think, out of the songs on MP, Limelight seems like it should have gotten as big as Tom Sawyer, based on the patterns of commercially successful rock at the time, with Tom Sawyer being an outlier. That's just what I think, what do you think?

1) Echoes - Pink Floyd 2) Raider II - Steven Wilson 3) Anesthetize - Porcupine Tree 4) Awaken - Yes 5) Xanadu - Rush 6) 2112 - Rush 7) Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage - Rush 8) And You And I - Yes 9) In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin 10) Karn Evil 9 - ELP 11) My Generation ( Live At Leeds ) - The Who 12) The Musical Box - Genesis 13) A Passion Play (Part 2) - Jethro Tull 14) The End - The Doors 15) Lady Fantasy - Camel 16) Close To The Edge - Yes 17) Cygnus X1 Book II - Rush 18) The Necromancer - Rush 19) Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin 20) The Fountain Of Lammeth - Rush 21) Cinema Show - Genesis 22) 157 Riverside Avenue - REO Speedwagon 23) Learning to Live - Dream Theater 24) Supper's Ready - Genesis 25) Grendel - Marillion 26) Syntelman's March of the Roaring Seventies - Amon Duul II 27) Suite Sister Mary - Queensryche 28) Ballet for a Girl in Buchannan - Chicago 29) Octavarium - Dream Theater 30) Piece of Mind - Curved Air 31) Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden 32) Amarok - Mike Oldfield 33) Station To Station - David Bowie 34) Tarkus - ELP 35) Invisible Limits - Tangerine Dream 36) Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - Bob Dylan 37) Telegraph Road- Dire Straits 38) Alice's Restaurant Massacre - Arlo Guthrie 39) Sheep - Pink Floyd 40) Babe, I’m On Fire - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 41) Three Days by Janes Addiction 42) Marquee Moon - Television 43) Voodoo Chile - Hendrix 44) Out Bloody Rageous - Soft Machine 45) Song For Eternal - Hatsune Miku 46) The Girl Who Was...Death - Devil Doll 47) Street Hassle - Lou Reed 48) Jordrök -- Änglagård 49) Didn't We Deserve a Look at the Way You Really Are - Shellac 50.) The Gates of Delirium - YES 51.) Song For America - Kansas 52.) Starless - King Crimson 53.) Ancestral - Steven Wilson 54.) Luminol - Steven Wilson 55.) Arriving Somewhere But Not Here - Porcupine Tree 56.) Deliverance - Opeth 57.) The Camera Eye - Rush 58.) Thick as a Brick (part I) - Jethro Tull 59.) Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd 60.) The Odyssey - Symphony X 61.) Swim to the Moon - Between the Buried and Me 62.) Milliontown - Frost* 63.) Joey - Bob Dylan 64) Moments in Love - Art of Noise 65) In-a-Gadda-da-Vida - Iron Butterfly 66) Child in Time - Deep Purple 67) Whipping Post - Allmans 68) Fool's Overture - Supertramp 69) Albuquerque - Weird Al 70) Bridges In The Sky - Dream Theater

I love Pink Floyd, but honestly, Roger Waters is a terrible singer.

29. Styx - One With Everything (With the Contemporary Youth Orchestra)

My least favorite 3: Test For Echo, Caress of Steel, Vapor Trails One Little Victory Bastille Day Vapor Trail Test For Echo Half The World How It Is Lakeside Park Secret Touch Driven Earthshine

1. Losing It 2. The Weapon 3. Subdivisions 4. The Analog Kid 5 Countdown 6. Digital Man 7. New World Man 8. Chemistry

"The Trees" is a really dumb song when you consider the fact that it is meant to be taken as a literal story. "You Bet Your Life" fun to listen to, and is very catchy. "Closer to the Heart" gets kinda boring after a while.

This list is basically my list of Rush songs I can't stand (except Face Up and Emotion Detector)... especially Rivendell.

I was just listening to some Dream Theater because, you know, they're awesome... Anyway, I was listening to their song "The Bigger Picture" from their 2013 self-titled album, and a certain lyric sounded a bit familiar. The lyric was: "Wounds that never heal, A heart that cannot feel" I immediately started thinking about where I had heard that line before, but it quickly struck me: Red Sector A. The line in Red Sector A is: "A wound that will not heal, A heart that cannot feel" Now, I know that Rush was/is a big influence on Dream Theater, John Petrucci has stated it multiple times, but I couldn't find anything that officially stated that it was quoted from Red Sector A. Surely if they are big Rush fans they would know the song, so they must know the line, but they may have mindlessly regurgitated the line from their memory without realizing it was a Rush line. What do you think?

The Garden "Are they oblivious to a soft spring rain..."