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Nice performance of Natural Science that night.
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Is there a video that shows him having the attack onstage? I don't want to see that. Di Meola was one of my later guitar heroes and I hope he recovers and gets back out there.
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One of my first baseball memories was watching Graig Nettles play third base for the Yankees, and watching him steal hit after hit from opposing batters, especially during the '78 World Series against the Dodgers. Every time he made an amazing play the camera would cut to Tommy LaSorda in the dugout, spitting and kicking and cursing. Nettles may have won that Series for the Yanks with his glove, and he was my first baseball hero.
I asked my dad if Nettles was the best third baseman he'd ever seen, and he said almost, Brooks Robinson was better.
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Who can name more like this? This is the only one I can think of.
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9 hours ago, laughedatbytime said:
Harder than your usual fare, huh?
I'm a bit confused. I thought TRF was designated a Spandau Ballet-free zone. There's a sign right by the door. This is supposed to be a safe space!
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41 minutes ago, Union 5-3992 said:
Here's hoping he has some more solo stuff in the tank. It'd be a shame for him to get so into bass collecting during the band's last year and never put some of them to record.
Agreed, but at least we got to see and hear several of them on the last tour. I was a little surprised to see him travel with so many vintage collectible instruments.
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On 9/20/2023 at 3:22 PM, Timbale said:
It is no secret that Wenner disliked Rush, and clearly his taste affected the coverage, or more accurately, the lack of coverage that the band received from the magazine. And that was a band made up of three straight, white males.
Wenner fancied himself an intellectual, and liked to bump elbows with influential (white male) musicians whom he also saw as intellectual in order to validate himself. Ironically enough, Geddy, Alex and Neil are/were clearly intellectual (without trying to be) who happen to be white men who wrote intellectual music. You'd think they'd be right up Wenner's alley, but I guess he saw them as math rock nerds and not cool like Springsteen and Jagger.
Wenner is a nobody, a smug and bigoted pseudo-intellectual fraud.
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On 9/11/2023 at 12:40 PM, pjbear05 said:
NY Giants, lol.
You posted that after their 40-0 loss to the Cowboys last Sunday. The "lol" was well deserved, and they carried that ineptitude over to today's game against the Cardinals, going into the room at halftime down 20--0. Imagine having a -60 point differential after only six quarters, with zero points scored?
The Giants beat the Cards 31-28.
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18 hours ago, Alex’s Amazing Arpeggios said:
I’m looking forward to reading Hi_Water
number 89 entry 😎
15 hours ago, grep said:Ditto
Ditto.
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They skipped the cool tricky unison run before YYZ's main riff, but I guess trying to get a thousand players to play that in perfect sync is asking a bit much. Still, nicely done.
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1 hour ago, Nova Carmina said:
Terrible album cover.
It looks like an art student's airbrushing project from back in the1980s.
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A dung beetle walks into a bar. He says, "Is this stool taken?"
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Don't know too many of his songs, but this one and Dream Weaver are pretty awesome, and were very ahead of their time. RIP.
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2 minutes ago, laughedatbytime said:
I think I detailed the admittedly way too high placement of Given cell when I revealed it, that was for personal reasons. We'll have to agree to disagree on T&M, I find it as AOR fodder more suited by bands that don't have nearly the musicianship and creativity of Rush.
As far as which of Second Nature or Half the World should be #165, I can only say, with lyrics which took seconds to write but are at least as good as those in the song the band actually recorded and an actual record company allowed to be released.
Half the World agrees with me
Half the World agrees with you
Half the World sits to pee
Half the World only sits to poo
It's funny, my bottom-8 songs share a common musical trait, one that doesn't quite apply to Half the World, but that song's ham-handed and painfully-repetitive lyrics drag it down to a third-worst ranking with little effort.
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14 hours ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:
Absolutely stellar job on your list, man. Early on I said I had a feeling our rankings would be comparable, and I was right. And your analyses were concise and spot-on.
And we still get to enjoy hi_water's ongoing rankings.
14 hours ago, laughedatbytime said:Thank you. From someone who knows almost infinitely more about music than I do, the compliment is very welcome.
I know, why the almost?
Despite the many similarities, your list had some real head-scratchers compared to mine. You have Rivendell all the way up at #63? That's bottom-10 for me. Time and Motion all the way down at #142, when I see it as the second-best song off of T4E and ranked in my top-50? And, perhaps most egregiously, you have Second Nature inexplicably elevated to the lofty position of #160 as opposed to its rightful last-place ranking of #165. Shame....shame.
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Absolutely stellar job on your list, man. Early on I said I had a feeling our rankings would be comparable, and I was right. And your analyses were concise and spot-on.
And we still get to enjoy hi_water's ongoing rankings.
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5 hours ago, _hi_water._ said:
90. “The Fountain Of Lamneth”, Track 5/5 (19:57), Caress Of Steel (1975)
Caress Of Steel - Entry 3 out of 5
...And here is the most debated Rush song of all. As we all know, this makes up Side B of Caress Of Steel, and closes the album. For me, this 20 minute epic opens structurally exciting with "In the Valley" - just an excellent, building intro into soaring guitars and vocals. Then we get "Didacts and Narpets", which is mostly a drum solo with Geddy Lee screaming single words - totally okay. My favorite piece is "No One At The Bridge", mainly because I love Lifeson's clean riffs. Then there is "Panacea" - which kind of falls this track down here for me - it works well in the grand scheme of the song's story, but the song itself is somewhat bleh. It ends great with "Bacchus Plateau" and the reminiscent "The Fountain". Great stepping stone for Rush.
Below: Why is it titled "The Fountain of Lamenth"?
Previously on my list...
91. “Secret Touch”, Track 8/13 (6:34) - Entry 9/13, Vapor Trails (2002)
90. “The Fountain Of Lamneth”, Track 5/5 (19:57) - Entry 3/5, Caress Of Steel (1975)
How is this album doing?
5. “I Think I’m Going Bald”, Track 2/5 (3:41) - #146/173
4. “Lakeside Park”, Track 3/5 (4:07) - #120/173
3. “The Fountain Of Lamneth”, Track 5/5 (19:57) - #90/173
4 hours ago, laughedatbytime said:A bit high. Fortunately they got things turned around by their next album; another one like this and it would have been down the tubes forever, and we'd have missed out on a great catalog.
Agree, I have it ranked lower than this. How much lower I won't say at this time.
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45 minutes ago, laughedatbytime said:
#3 2112 (2112, 1st of 6)
Not only the song that saved the band, but one that contains the most transcendent moments in the catalog. At its highs (Overture, Priests, the Grand Finale) Rush has never been better. Has any band? Not in my book. Though there were slow parts essential to the story keeping it from #1, this is THE most essential Rush song ever.
I had trouble ranking this one. Its importance in Rush's history is obvious, but it's not a song I can just pop on and listen to at a moment's notice simply because of its length and intensity (same goes for Hemispheres). It's a song that part of me wants to rank in the top-3, but I don' have it quite this high. Still, can't argue with where you placed this.
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4 minutes ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:
I love the heavy Led Zep vibe of this song, and have it ranked much higher. I feel like I'm in the minority there, but this song grabbed me on the first listen and it still delivers.
2 minutes ago, laughedatbytime said:I really enjoy the song now, but it, like most of VT, took a while to appreciate.
Yeah, a lot of VT was like that for me. Vapor Trail and How It IS are good examples of songs that flew under the radar at first but got a lot of appreciation later. Most fans don't like Peaceable Kingdom, and I felt likewise at first, but I really like the snarky guitars and the groove now.
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1 hour ago, _hi_water._ said:
91. “Secret Touch”, Track 8/13 (6:34), Vapor Trails (2002)
Vapor Trails - Entry 9 out of 13
Perhaps I am underrating Vapor Trails - this is yet another powerful song that wonderfully evokes Neil's pain prior to the album. "The way out
Is the way in" and "You can never break the chain/There is never love without pain/A gentle hand, a secret touch on the heart" are all excellent lyrics, but I feel that this may be a little too repetitive for six and a half minutes, especially in comparison to shorter songs coming up from this album.Previously on my list...
101. “In The Mood”, Track 6/8 (3:36) - Entry 4/8, Rush (1974)
100. “We Hold On”, Track 13/13 (4:13) - Entry 10/13, Snakes & Arrows (2007)
99. “Cinderella Man”, Track 4/6 (4:20) - Entry 2/6, A Farewell To Kings (1977)
98. “Totem”, Track 6/11 (4:58) - Entry 9/11, Test For Echo (1996)
97. “Cut To The Chase”, Track 3/11 (4:46) - Entry 5/11, Counterparts (1993)
96. “Lock And Key”, Track 6/10 (5:09) - Entry 6/10, Hold Your Fire (1987)
95. “The Twilight Zone”, Track 3/6 (3:18) - Entry 3/6, 2112 (1976)
94. “Chemistry”, Track 3/8 (4:58) - Entry 1/8, Signals (1982)
93. “Ghost Of A Chance”, Track 8/10 (5:18) - Entry 8/10, Roll The Bones (1991)
92. “Vapor Trail”, Track 7/13 (4:57) - Entry 8/13, Vapor Trails (2002)
91. “Secret Touch”, Track 8/13 (6:34) - Entry 9/13, Vapor Trails (2002)
How is this album doing?
13. “Peaceable Kingdom”, Track 4/13 (5:23) - #164/173
12. “Out Of The Cradle”, Track 13/13 (5:03) - #155/173
11. “The Stars Look Down”, Track 5/13 (4:28) - #138/173
10. “Ceiling Unlimited”, Track 2/13 (5:28) - #130/173
9. “Nocturne”, Track 11/13 (4:49) - #125/173
8. “How It Is”, Track 6/13 (4:04) - #116/173
7. “Ghost Rider”, Track 3/13 (5:41) - #113/173
6. “Vapor Trail”, Track 7/13 (4:57) - #92/173
5. “Secret Touch”, Track 8/13 (6:34) - #91/173I love the heavy Led Zep vibe of this song, and have it ranked much higher. I feel like I'm in the minority there, but this song grabbed me on the first listen and it still delivers.
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2 hours ago, laughedatbytime said:
#5 Subdivisions (Signals, 1st of 8)
#4 Red Barchetta (MP, 1st of 7)
No argument with either of these rankings. Some wouldn't rank Barchetta in their top-10 but I sure do.
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Question for drum techs - hi-hat mounted tambourine on a foot pedal mount?
in Making Modern Music
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You want to know if you can mount it to a bass drum pedal? You mean a second pedal that isn't also beating a bass drum?