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Neither. I prefer the Single Version as well. Why is that not an option? I cannot vote between these two choices. Please edit if possible.

Retrospective III is well worth the money, if for nothing else than the DVD portion. I believe Earthshine & One Little Victory are the same mixes that would eventually appear on Vapor Trails Remixed. Please correct me if I am wrong. I think that is the last compilation worth having released by the band.

No Alanis or The Box either.

It's not in my Top 20 RUSH songs from the 2000s! I don't like this song at all.

I dislike the lyrics of The Trees, so I prefer A Farewell To Kings.

Honestly for me the album starts superbly (Caravan & BU2B) and ends with great passion (Wish Them Well & The Garden), but everything in-between hovers between unremarkable and bad to my ears. The only other songs I like are the last two singles (The Wreckers & The Anarchist). I guess having 6 great songs out of 12 isn't terrible, but as far as I am concerned it was a huge drop off from Snakes & Arrows and the worst album the band had done since the 1970s. For me, it was kind of a sad note to leave off on. The loudness doesn't help either. To this date the only two albums that are only available with loud & compressed terrible mastering in the RUSH catalogue are this one and Vapor Trails (yes the remixed version is still loud, albeit less so).

So this was the the first studio album (Chronicles was actually the first) that did not get a North American release on vinyl. This meant that the artwork was designed and planned for CD measurements. I think that had a lot more to do with the artistic choice of the size of the dice than what the artist's preference was. Had this been designed for a vinyl LP I suspect it would have had smaller dice with a capital R. I have to say though, I disagree with you since both the U and the S can be interpreted as being lower case, especially if the font in question is in a kind of vertical-monospace (square or geometric or fixed-hieght), which is the case here. If we look at it typed it is either rush or rusH. I have to say, to my eyes the first one looks better. Having a lower-case letter to start a word that is in all caps just looks really odd and backwards. iT wOULD lOOK lIKE tHIS, rUSH. Nope, not a fan!

10 of the 13 episode titles are up, although a premier date hasn't been set yet: http://www.epguides.com/Orville/ Old Wounds If the Stars Should Appear Command Performance About a Girl Pria Krill Into the Fold Cupid's Dagger Nightmares Primal Urges

I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if Geddy & Alex never put anything out together. But I WOULD be surprised if Geddy didn't put anything out AT ALL. From the end of the Test for Echo tour to the release of My Favourite Headache was over 3 years. And that was a Geddy who was nearly 20 years younger. I want another Geddy Lee solo album like nobody's business! I hope it happens. Sooner better than later.

300) Umberto D. (1952) (Rushian King) 301) Inception ( Verena ) 302) The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (Rutlefan) 303) Mad Max 1 & 2 ( Rushian King ) 304) Animal House ( ReRushed ) 305) Psycho ( Lucas ) 306) Il Postino (goose) 307) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) (Rutlefan) 308) Raging Bull ( Rushian King ) 309) Thief (pjbear05) 310) Ed Wood (pjbear05) 311) La Cage Aux Folles (pjbear05) 312) Kwaidan ( 1965 ) (Lucas) 313) District 9 (Rutlefan) 314) The King Of Comedy (Rushian King) 315) American Beauty (IWillChooseFreeWill) 316) After Hours (Rushian King) 317) Talk Radio (goose) 318) Gattaca (Rutlefan) 319) Phantasm ( Lucas ) 320) The Terminator (1984)- The Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) ( Rushian King ) 321) Pulse ( Kairo - Japan ) (Lucas) 322) The Big Sleep ( Rushian King ) 323) Hour Of The Wolf ( Lucas ) 324) Jason and the Argonauts (goose) 325) Bullworth (diatribein) Warren Beatty raps up a storm as he deftly dissects the mess that is politics in America. Brilliant film that is oh-so-true and hilarious at the same time.

In alphabetical order so as not to designate absolute favourite (because there is none): B-52's BulletBoys Alice Cooper D-A-D (Disneyland After Dark) Death Cab For Cutie Def Leppard Duran Duran Enuff Z'nuff Extreme / Nuno Bettencourt Faith No More Flickerstick Harvey Danger Imagine Dragons Iron Maiden The Long Winters Marilyn Manson Kate Miller-Heidke Alanis Morissette Mother Love Bone Pearl Jam Placebo The Psychedelic Furs Queen RUSH Saigon Kick / Supertransatlantic / Jason Bieler (Owl Stretching) The Sounds Stone Temple Pilots TigerTailz Ugly Kid Joe Vain Butch Walker / Marvelous 3 Warrant / Jani Lane Okay... so I know the list is long, but these are the bands that I have every album they have ever released and try to have every single and rarity. It's pretty difficult. The singles are especially difficult with the bands that have been around for longer. I got some of them down though. And before you ask if I just listed every artist in my collection, the answer is no. For example, I have every Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Collective Soul, No Doubt, Tegan And Sara, The Cult, and KISS album (among many other bands) in my collection, but listed none of them as a favourite. The ones I have listed are the ones that I make an extreme effort to have as much as I can afford of theirs and to know of all the releases beforehand so I don't miss a thing.

Are we defining masterpiece as a perfect album where one loves every single song on said album? If so, then my answer is no. Moving Pictures was the right album for the right time with some spectacular songs that really caught the ear of the general public as much as people who already knew RUSH. For me though, it contains two songs I do not like, The Camera Eye & YYZ. By this definition I would only rank Grace Under Pressure and Geddy Lee's My Favourite Headache as masterpieces. Power Windows comes very close, but I do not like Emotion Detector and Permanent Waves is ruined by Jacob's Ladder in my opinion. I think in terms of public perception it could be a masterpiece, but if we are going by that definition, so is Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, Def Leppard's Hysteria, U2's The Joshua Tree, Michael Jackson's Thriller... you get the point. Top 5 RUSH album, yes; Masterpiece, no.

I think ALL OF US were fooled when the first wave of remasters started being issued. None of us could believe that the music industry would purposely put out shittier versions of the music we loved just so they could sound louder. We were all duped by these jerks, because we trusted the professionals charged with mastering to not purposely destroy the music they were working on at the behest of record execs who just thought making everything louder was the way to sell more records. We all bought into it. We all were fools.

I don't have most of the 2015 reissues. Have the originals so I had no idea. I know there was some differences on the 2004 reissue CD that are escaping me right now. (Carve Away The Stone?) I would have preferred it was the same, but I guess there's nothing wrong with a difference as long as you still have a choice. I've been telling you about how good the Test For Echo 24 bit flac download that came with this reissue is...

LOVE: Neurotica, Face Up, and You Bet Your Life. Loath: The Big Wheel, Heresy, and Where's My Thing? Overall though this is an excellent album (6th favourite) with 7 great songs out of 10. One of the strongest RUSH albums and my favourite of the ones released in the 1990s.

Agreed. The debut album truly rocks. People who hate it are Neil-ites. They seem to forget that it was Geddy and Alex that started the band...so the seeds of the class is Rush sound are definitely present and obvious. Try listening to it in the car on a summers day, long drive with the windows down...doesn't get much better. And Here Again is an underrated masterpiece. I am not a Neil-ite and I dislike the debut album. Not only that, but Here Again is the song that I dislike the most off that album. I would rate it as one of the worst RUSH original compositions ever recorded. Don't you find that the 1st album sounds like a band trying very hard to sound like Led Zeppelin? it doesn't really sound like RUSH at all to me. The only song that has any connection to what RUSH would become for me is Working Man. I can see the beginnings of who they would become in it. Otherwise, regardless of who is the drummer or the lyrics, it just sounds nothing like the RUSH I know and love from the 80s.

Snakes & Arrows easily has the most interesting songs and lyrics out of any RUSH album released after the 80s. It is absolutely fun and really makes the listener think. There are few albums that are more fun for me to blast on my stereo to sing and jump around to. Every song on this album barre 4 is more interesting and thoughtfully composed than any song on either Vapor Trails or Clockwork Angels. I think some people found themselves expecting RUSH to just put out boring LOUD monotone music after Vapor Trails and instead they went and captured the spirit of their heyday with deep thoughtful songs and amazing acoustic guitar arrangements. You want dull, listen to Vapor Trails or the never-ending drone of Clockwork Angels. The title track alone on that album feels like it goes on for a century; talk about boring! Perhaps Snakes & Arrows wasn't the album everyone was expecting, but it certainly was the album that delivered the best song-craft and imagination by RUSH in years. Truly a great album.

Agreed! I think it is in the Top 3 OVERRATED RUSH albums.

Everyone does, but somehow it still gets ratings. I think the best the Orville can hope for in the fall is coming in 3rd ahead of NBC's Will & Grace reboot / Great News while CBS has the football and 3rd ahead of Mom / Life in Pieces when NBC has football. I think beating Will & Grace and Great News is doable, but I really doubt it will make it above 4th when NBC has football. So it will be up to FOX, DVR/Streaming lift, and how much they don't mind having a fairly low rated show on Thursdays over an inane talent/cooking reality show that draws linear ratings. That means the reviews and critics will be important. If it receives critical praise, it will likely stay. If it receives a Golden Globe nomination (unlikely), it will stay for sure. If it is panned, watch out! I'm just being realistic. I think it is going to be an awesome show and I will watch every episode that airs, but neither I alone, nor all of the people on this board together have the power to influence whether or not the show makes it past the initial episode order.

I've got that! :7up: I just have the US CD and the European vinyl. I tend not to go too overboard with hits compilations though I have at least one version of everything but that Time Stand Still Euro comp. I generally don't buy the compilations myself. At least not from that late 90s to early 2000s period when the record labels were basically trying to bilk as much money as they could get out of the public by releasing multiple compilations for every band on their roster. Chronicles is different because it comes from the late 80s early 90s period when Greatest Hits albums were still relevant one off releases with their own merit. I too have the European vinyl, but the Canadian CD rather than the US. The one thing I don't have is the original packaging. I hate those "fatboy" CD cases for double albums, so I would always transfer my double CDs that came in them to the regular jewel case sized doubles. It's funny, I don't remember buying Chronicles on CD and in 1990 I was living in Portugal so I couldn't have gotten it then. Still, it was never re-released & remastered so I could have picked it up once I was back in Canada... Either way I have no recollection. It's really not as memorable as buying a new studio album the day it comes out!

You're "starting to get" it?! Haters have been complaining about the "plodding tempo" for the last 10 years. THAT and/or the vocals + lyrics. I'm not a hater. I'm a dislike-half-of-itter. ;) It is just so foreign that it hadn't even occurred to me that someone could dislike songs just because they are mid-tempo. I can understand excruciatingly slow songs being a drag, but there is none of that here. It's not Celine Dion, for goodness sake! I love mid-tempo rock. A good deal of my collection is mid-tempo rock and I don't think RUSH are strangers to it either. Snakes & Arrows does mid-tempo rock better than any other RUSH album. TRF has consistently sung the praises of Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, and Moving Pictures but it surprises you that some of us dislike Snakes?! I'm not surprised that you & others like Bravest Face. I wasn't surprised that you could dislike Headlong Flight. So I can't understand why you can't grasp the concept that Snakes isn't as liked as you'd like it to be. You like what you like. Others don't have to like what you like or for the reasons that you like something. Why is this a mystery/foreign concept? My personal Top 5 RUSH albums: 1. Grace Under Pressure 2. Power Windows 3. Permanent Waves 4. Moving Pictures 5. Snakes & Arrows You see, RUSH fans can LOVE Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, AND Snakes & Arrows; hence my confusion. To me Snakes & Arrows falls right in line with Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures. So yes, I am surprised when someone who loves those 2 albums says insipid and nasty things about an album that I feel is right up there and very much within a similar writing vein and style to them. I totally get how someone who thinks Hemispheres is the best RUSH album loves Headlong Flight and Clockwork Angels, because I do see similarities there too. What bothers me is you and others taking extra effort to slam Snakes & Arrows (and Test For Echo and Roll The Bones, for that matter) for no reason. WHY did you make your stupid comment about Bravest Face on a thread about Limelight (http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?/topic/103248-would-you-give-up-limelight/page__st__40#entry4348399)? Did you just feel like being a dick for fun, or do you think you are being witty by putting down music that others love? Why do you feel the need to come back and leave additional negative comments over and over again on the dedicated Snakes & Arrows celebratory thread? If there was a thread celebrating Hemispheres, I would say I love Circumstances, but never listen to Side A or the instrumental, so overall my rating of the album is poor and not bother to comment again. I don't think it is a particularly good idea to shit on someone's party. It's actually pretty rude and forces oneupmanship; meaning the more you take shots at what I love, I am forced to take shots at what you love to keep things balanced. It is generally a stupid way to behave. I rather focus on the positives, but some people feel the need to throw insulting comments at RUSH songs/albums I love for the fuckk of it. I'm sorry you feel the need to be such a dick about things. Bravest Face is an awesome song. I am sorry that a RUSH fan saying that on a RUSH Fan Board is so upsetting to you that you have to constantly contradict the statement. It must be a bitch being that insecure.

I detest the reboots so I'd give them Tribbles, because that is the only thing in the real Star Trek universe that matches the intelligence of the reboot.

I love both franchises, but this is no contest. Empire Strikes Back is easily the best film in the Star Trek/Star Wars universes. The challenger for me from the Star Trek side would be Star Trek: First Contact, but I'm also a much bigger fan of TNG & DS9 than the original series cast. I voted other in the favourite character poll because I feel like this is Leia's best film. We get to see her at her sardonic best, especially when rebuffing Han, but we also see her fall in love in the process and deal with real hardships in an awesomely thoughtful and caring way. My second favourite character in these films is also not on the list. I would go with C3PO, because not only is he the best cock-blocker in space, but he is also at his comedic best as he suffers constant ignominy. Yoda finishes a close 3rd.

Now that Disney have bought Lucasfilm I can say... Other: Leia

I was going to say that I generally dislike zombie movies, but there is just one that I really loved, Warm Bodies, and it is missing from the list! This film was shot in Montreal and I have pretty much been in all of the outdoor locales used, including Mirabel many many times. It gives me the warm fuzzies, as well as being an excellent film. It should be on the list. It would be the only one I would vote for. I haven't seen many, if any, of the others! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Bodies_%28film%29