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Honestly.........the Syd stuff.

 

and um......most of Wish you were Here

 

Mick

 

Yes Mick! Every Syd song is INSIPID!

:no:

Syd rules! (and sometimes drools) :(

"It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here..."

Every song by Roger Waters Solo SUCKS!!!!

I won a copy of the Radio Kaos cassette in 1987, and cannot disagree with your statement.

"Magic Billy...in his wheelchair...is picking up all this stuff in the air..."

He also sounds like someone is sitting on his chest most of the time.

"Seamus"

"A Pillow of Winds"

Almost everything from The Final Cut ("My self-pitying goes up to 11!")

 

there's more; they weren't above some filler . . .

The Final Cut somehow found a way to be even more miserable than The Wall, although with less memorable tunes.

There were a few dull ones on the More soundtrack, "San Tropez" is a little over-ripe, as is "Biding My Time" (despite a good guitar solo).

"Embryo" is atmospheric, but pretty f***ing dumb and sounds like an aborted "Julia Dream" :P

1. "Natural Science" - Permanent Waves (1980)

2. "Xanadu" - A Farewell to Kings (1977)

3. "Limelight" - Moving Pictures (1981)

4. "Cygnus X-1: Book I - The Voyage" - A Farewell to Kings (1977)

5. "Subdivisions" - Signals (1982)

6. "Prime Mover" - Hold Your Fire (1987)

7. "Animate" - Counterparts (1993)

8. "La Villa Strangiato (An Exercise In Self-Indulgence)" - Hemispheres (1978)

9. "Time Stand Still" - Hold Your Fire (1987)

10. "Circumstances" - Hemispheres (1978)

11. "Jacob's Ladder" - Permanent Waves (1980)

12. "The Spirit of Radio" - Permanent Waves (1980)

13. "Red Barchetta" - Moving Pictures (1981)

14. "A Farewell to Kings" - A Farewell to Kings (1977)

15. "Tom Sawyer" - Moving Pictures (1981)

16. "Garden Road" - Rush ABC: Live From Cleveland's Agora Ballroom 1974 (1974)

17. "Cygnus X-1: Book II - Hemishpheres" - Hemispheres (1978)

18. "Dreamline" - Roll the Bones (1991)

19. "The Analog Kid" - Signals (1982)

20. "2112" - 2112 (1976)

21. "The Big Money" - Power Windows (1985)

22. "The Camera Eye" - Moving Pictures (1981)

23. "Closer To The Heart" - A Farewell To Kings (1977)

24. "YYZ" - Moving Pictures (1981)

25. "Show Don't Tell" - Presto (1989)

26. "Emotion Detector" - Power Windows (1985)

27. "Distant Early Warning" - Grace Under Pressure (1984)

28. "The Garden" - Clockwork Angels (2012)

29. "Territories" - Power Windows (1985)

30. "The Trees" - Hemispheres (1978)

31. "Bastille Day" - Caress Of Steel (1975)

32. How it Is - Vapor Trails (2002)

I thought live songs weren't supposed to be included on the list. Rush has 167, and not 165 songs.

 

I only included a live song as there is no studio version of "Garden Road" (at least that I'm aware of).

Damn good song though!

1. "Natural Science" - Permanent Waves (1980)

2. "Xanadu" - A Farewell To Kings (1977)

3. "Limelight" - Moving Pictures (1981)

4. "Cygnus X-1: Book I - The Voyage" - A Farewell To Kings (1977)

5. "Subdivisions" - Signals (1982)

6. "Prime Mover" - Hold Your Fire (1987)

7. "Animate"- Counterparts (1993)

8. "La Villa Strangiato" - Hemispheres (1978)

9. "Time Stand Still" - Hold Your Fire (1987)

10. "Circumstances" - Hemispheres (1978)

11. "Jacob's Ladder" - Permanent Waves (1980)

12. "The Spirit Of Radio" - Permanent Waves (1980)

13. "Red Barchetta" - Moving Pictures (1981)

14. "A Farewell To Kings" - A Farewell To Kings (1977)

15. "Tom Sawyer" - Moving Pictures (1981)

16. Garden Road :haz:

The Who Sings My Generation

 

 

Duhhhh

Are you Big Moose? Say hi to Midge for me. :P

As much as I love 60s Who, gotta go with the Beatles here.

Happy to see you am I!

Unintentional stained glass 2:

Unintentional stained glass 1:

The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson. As much about the Chicago World Fair as it is about HH Holmes, but seems thoroughly researched and is quite attractively written.

 

Read this a year or two ago. Stupidly well-researched, and very well written. I liked that the author recognized Capote's In Cold Blood as being a major influence. Have you read In Cold Blood?

 

I just read a stupidly well-researched book about the New Jersey shark attacks of 1916, but unfortunately the book sucked. :(

Oh! I had that book! "Close to Shore", right? I gave it away when I moved house last; alas I didn`t finish it.

 

I have In Cold Blood, and it`s on my list of books to read - reading material which undoubtedly will take longer than I have left on earth to read. I`ve just started "Killers of the Flower Moon", about the birth of the FBI amongst other things.

 

:lol: "Close to Shore" is next on my list, and is supposed to be good. I just finished "12 Days of Terror" by R Fernicola. Lotsa info, but really poor organization of material, and needlessly repetitive. It really needed an editor.

Lester Stillwell's horrifying last words: "Hey fellas, watch me float!"

 

I read "In Cold Blood" 4 or 5 years back and really enjoyed it. I ended up buying a copy, and re-read it last year. Harper Lee (of "To Kill a Mockingbird" fame) had a lot to do with the book, helping Capote with interviews, notes, etc. Apparently, it's the first non-fiction novel, so it's a very compelling read - much like "The Devil in the White City."

 

Just started "Brave New World" this morning. Looks like a good read to get into the Christmas spirit. :P

I had to (pretend) to read Brave New World at Uni. Didn`t figure it would be my thing, but that was a long, long time ago...

 

Kinda foolish of me to think I could guess the book on the 1916 shark attacks that you were reading - it`s quite likely there is more than one, so hopefully you`ll like the one I know much more. I was given it in 2005 by a very brief girlfriend who had a thing for sharks - not a great sign of their loving ways :facepalm:

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed "Brave New World." It was a pretty breezy read, although I avoided the Introduction and Foreward. It reminded me of Vonnegut more than once.

The funny thing about those 1916 shark attack books is that they were both published in the same year by New Jersey authors, so it's easy to get them mixed up.

"Close to Shore" seems a sequential re-telling of the attacks, sometimes from the shark's point of view, with plenty of background information.

"12 Days of Terror"starts off with the attacks, then drifts into the murky waters of minutiae and conjecture, with plenty of background information.

I can see why you left "Close to Shore" behind, it's very slow and pretty dry so far (ooh! tell me more about Philadelphia!). "12 Days of Terror" jumps all over the place and seems to be written while highly caffeinated.

:cheers:

Due to 2020, Random Samples etc. It's generally a fun place to hang out and feel mildly connected. It can also be fairly hilarious, and laughter is damn good medicine.

 

It's different with Orfie not being around, but it's still a pretty fun place.

 

I really miss him and still find it hard to believe he's dead

He reminded me very much of an old buddy of mine, a funny and quirky fellow who died too soon due to liver cancer (just a couple of months before he was to retire).

When Orf passed, I was quite depressed about it, and I think some of that had to do with my associating Orfie with my old buddy, and how their senses of humour were now both gone. I dunno. Maybe I'm rambling. Time to show myself out! :outtahere:

The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson. As much about the Chicago World Fair as it is about HH Holmes, but seems thoroughly researched and is quite attractively written.

 

Read this a year or two ago. Stupidly well-researched, and very well written. I liked that the author recognized Capote's In Cold Blood as being a major influence. Have you read In Cold Blood?

 

I just read a stupidly well-researched book about the New Jersey shark attacks of 1916, but unfortunately the book sucked. :(

Oh! I had that book! "Close to Shore", right? I gave it away when I moved house last; alas I didn`t finish it.

 

I have In Cold Blood, and it`s on my list of books to read - reading material which undoubtedly will take longer than I have left on earth to read. I`ve just started "Killers of the Flower Moon", about the birth of the FBI amongst other things.

:lol: "Close to Shore" is next on my list, and is supposed to be good. I just finished "12 Days of Terror" by R Fernicola. Lotsa info, but really poor organization of material, and needlessly repetitive. It really needed an editor.

Lester Stillwell's horrifying last words: "Hey fellas, watch me float!"

I read "In Cold Blood" 4 or 5 years back and really enjoyed it. I ended up buying a copy, and re-read it last year. Harper Lee (of "To Kill a Mockingbird" fame) had a lot to do with the book, helping Capote with interviews, notes, etc. Apparently, it's the first non-fiction novel, so it's a very compelling read - much like "The Devil in the White City."

Just started "Brave New World" this morning. Looks like a good read to get into the Christmas spirit. :P

Due to 2020, Random Samples etc. It's generally a fun place to hang out and feel mildly connected. It can also be fairly hilarious, and laughter is damn good medicine.

It's different with Orfie not being around, but it's still a pretty fun place.

Alarmist, my ass. Read this article and tell me it's alarmist, I dare you.

 

https://www.theatlan...workers/617091/

 

There are 3600 new cases a day in Iowa. That's more than double the number in Ontario at the moment, and Iowa has one-fifth the population. That's f***ed. (In the Canadian context, Ontario is doing a really shit job right now.)

 

If things keep going the way they're going, the American healthcare system is going to collapse sometime around Christmas. There won't be enough nurses and doctors still capable of working by that point to take care of the coming wave of sick people.

 

Right on track. Unfortunately. Everything is going to hell before the vaccines are widely available. Damnit.

 

"I refuse to wear a mask. It's against my rights. I refuse to not gather with family. The government isn't gonna tell me what to do."

lol "I refuse to wear pants! It's against my rights! My family WANTS to see my package. I also reject the idea of socks on occasion."

Maybe it doesn't count as a bassline, but didn't JPJ come up with the Black Dog riff? That's a pretty sweet riff.

(supposedly based on Muddy Waters "Tom Cat" - or something from the Electric Mud album)

The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson. As much about the Chicago World Fair as it is about HH Holmes, but seems thoroughly researched and is quite attractively written.

Read this a year or two ago. Stupidly well-researched, and very well written. I liked that the author recognized Capote's In Cold Blood as being a major influence. Have you read In Cold Blood?

I just read a stupidly well-researched book about the New Jersey shark attacks of 1916, but unfortunately the book sucked. :(

 

Brace yourself:

• 
  You shall have no other gods before me.
   
  You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
   
  You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
   
  You shall not take the name of the Lord in vain, for the LORD your God will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
   
  Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
   
  You shall not murder.
   
  You shall not commit adultery.
   
  You shall not steal.
   
  You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
   
  You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.
  

I see no ass coveting going on.

 

:P

lol "brace yourself" - did Moses say that too? :P

"I'm not drunk, I'm drunk!"

"I'm not drunk, I'm lush!"

Power Windows is quite lush

Foster Brooks lush? Or old-school Ursula Andress lush?

There was a stupid man who walked a stupid mile,

He had a stupid hat and a really stupid smile.

He had a stupid little wife, and a stupid little kid,

He even had a stupid job where stupid things he did.

He read some stupid books, and listened to stupid sounds,

Looked at stupid things, walked on stupid ground.

And then one day his time was up, his end of life had come,

He lay in bed, sighed and said: "Boy, life sure can be dumb."

- Stu Piddity