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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.

*clap* *clap*

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!

Power Windows

Permanent Waves

Clockwork Angels

...and now I'm seeing Cheap Trick open for Poison at the PNC Arts Center. I'll blow off the Poison encore and hit the road before the traffic.

 

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

Is Roger Water suing him over this?

 

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?

Grand Designs is the best synth era song, imo.

Actually my top two albums...

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.