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I still wish they used the juggler for the cover though

It can't be denied that out of Signals, GUP, PoW, and HYf, the keyboard sit the most comfortably on this album.

I'm not even saying they're worth exploring haha! They're one of the most "not for everyone..." bands there is. Even Carcass, who I mentioned alongside Napalm Death and went unnoticed, have been accepted by a broader group of people than "angry teens". Napalm Death do not take themselves seriously and laugh when people do. They know it's ridiculously over the top and the opposite of commercial. They're worth exploring it you're into things that are insane for the sake of insanity, which I enjoy. Think of them as if The Evil Dead was a band. It's over the top, violent, funny, controversial, etc. Is it going to win an Oscar? No. Do these qualities make it not a movie? Of course not. Napalm Death is human beings making sound with instruments. It's music that sounds noisy, but still music, even if you don't wake up humming it. P.S. like Aerosmith, they were also in the Armageddon soundtrack: the alternate ending where that meteor obliterates earth! Haha!

Sorry to you :)

So you changed Rocks to Sucks? And then put Napalm Death on the list? Just wanted to see how long it would stay like that lol. And at least ND never did Roll The Bones :P Too bad Napalm Death never did Roll The Bones. They would have had a platinum album instead of making a career out of recording unintelligible noise. I'm not surprised the general Rush fanbase can't appreciate something that doesn't have lyrics about trees and spaceships and isn't played with a "look how good I am!!!" attitude. I'm sorry you have such a shallow opinion of a them, but if you don't "get it" or like it you aren't likely to ever so I'll leave it at that. It's worth noting that they invented a genre, regardless of how artistically valid you think that genre is, that's saying something. How many bands on that list can that be said for? Your point is somewhat ironic, seeing as how you elected to change another poster's choice from "Rocks" to "Sucks." I'm guessing you're not an Aerosmith fan. So you're free to criticize Aerosmith, but criticizing Napalm Death somehow displays a lack of open mindedness? I'm surprised my Beavis and Butthead ripoff joke has gone this far. You're free to tell me why Aerosmith doesn't suck, that's how a discussion works

Rush lyrics are like members of this forum: Most of them don't make sense, they think they're smarter than they are, and they peaked in the 80s!

So you changed Rocks to Sucks? And then put Napalm Death on the list? Just wanted to see how long it would stay like that lol. And at least ND never did Roll The Bones :P Too bad Napalm Death never did Roll The Bones. They would have had a platinum album instead of making a career out of recording unintelligible noise. I'm not surprised the general Rush fanbase can't appreciate something that doesn't have lyrics about trees and spaceships and isn't played with a "look how good I am!!!" attitude. I'm sorry you have such a shallow opinion of a them, but if you don't "get it" or like it you aren't likely to ever so I'll leave it at that. It's worth noting that they invented a genre, regardless of how artistically valid you think that genre is, that's saying something. How many bands on that list can that be said for?

"I know him, and he does!"

So you changed Rocks to Sucks? And then put Napalm Death on the list? Just wanted to see how long it would stay like that lol. And at least ND never did Roll The Bones :P

1. Cyndi Lauper- She's So Unusual 2. Huey Lewis and the News- Sports 3. ABBA- Visitors 4. Sonny and Cher- In Case You're In Love 5. Michael Jackson- Bad 6. AKB48-Kamikyokutachi 7. XTC- Drums and Wires 8. Talking Heads- More Songs About Buildings and Food 9. Prince- Sign O The Times 10. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 11. Rolling Stones- Some Girls 12. Toad the Wet Sprocket- Fear 13. George Michael- Faith 14. The Outfield- Play Deep 15. Frankie Goes To Hollywood- Welcome To The Pleasure Dome 16. Men Without Hats- Rhythm of Youth 17. Ultravox- Vienna 18. Bee Gees- Main Course 19. Talk Talk- The Color of Spring 20. Phil Collins- But Seriously 21. The Beatles- Rubber Soul 22. The Smithereens- Especially For You 23. Outkast- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 24. Tears For Fears- Songs From The Big Chair 25. Christopher Cross 26. Judas Priest- Turbo 27. Alan Parsons Project- Pyramid 28. David Bowie- Let's Dance 29. Asia- Asia 30. Yes- 90125 31. Men At Work- Business As Usual 32. Elton John- Honky Chateau 33. The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds 34. Linda Ronstadt- Heart Like A Wheel 35. Taylor Swift- 1989 36. The Carpenters - Carpenters (1971) 37. Beck Hansen-Colors 38. Queen - Hot Space 39. Duran Duran - Rio 40. The Raspberries (self titled) 41. Badfinger -- Straight Up 42. McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run 43. ZZ Top - Eliminator 44. Rush - Moving Pictures 45. Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed the Fish? 46. The Knack - Get the Knack 47. ELO - Face the Music 48. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration 49. The Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat 50. Michael Jackson - Thriller 51. Genesis - Abacab 52. Def Leppard - Hysteria 53. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love 54. The Partridge Family - The Partridge Family Album 55) Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life 56 Oasis - What's the Story? 57. The B-52's - Cosmic Thing 58. Genesis - Genesis 59. Toto - IV 60. Billy Joel - An Innocent Man 61. Lush - Spooky 62. Peter Gabriel - So 63. The Corrs- Forgiven, Not Forgotten 64. Richard Marx - Richard Marx 65. The Cars - The Cars 66. Blondie - Parallel Lines 67. Dr Dre - The Chronic 68. Madonna - Ray Of Light 69. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill 70. Icehouse - Primitive Man 71. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA 72. Billy Joel - Glass Houses 73. Madonna - Like a Virgin 74. Pink - Missundaztood 75. Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor 76. Milli Vanilli - All or Nothing 77. Panic! At The Disco - Pray For The Wicked 78. Santana - Supernatural 79. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality 80. INXS - Kick 81. Falco - Falco 3 82. Helen Reddy - I Am Woman 83. ABC - The Lexicon Of Love 84. R.E.M.-Out Of Time 85. Red-Taylor Swift 86. A Flock of Seagulls - debut 87. The Cars - Candy O 88. Fountains Of Wayne - Utopia Parkway 89. Bee Gees - Odessa 90. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead. 91. Panic! At the Disco - A fever you can't sweat ou t 92. Barry Manilow - I Write the Songs 93. Madonna - Madonna 94. Marine Girls - Beach Party

1. Aerosmith - Sucks 2. The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed 3. Rush - Hemispheres 4. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman 5. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane 6. Queen - A Day at the Races 7. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour 8. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality 9. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind 10. Yes - Close To The Edge 11. The Cars - Candy-O 12. Def Leppard - Pyromania 13. Tom Petty - Hard Promises 14. AC/DC - Back In Black 15. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy 16. Husker Du - New Day Rising 17. GODFLESH - Pure 18. The Ramones - Road To Ruin 19. Muse - Absolution 20. Lacuna Coil - Comalies 21. The Killers - Sam’s Town 22. Boston - Don't Look Back 23. Styx - Pieces of Eight 24. Kansas - Point of Know Return 25. Permanent Waves 26. Wings - Venus and Mars 27. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick 28. Duran Duran - Rio 29. Fleetwood Mac- Tusk 30. The Who - Quadrophenia 31. Soundgarden - Down on the Upside 32. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies 33. Bon Jovi - New Jersey 34. Bruce Springsteen - The River 35. The Clash - Sandinista! 36. Marillion - Clutching At Straws 37. Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys 38. Genesis - A Trick of the Tail 39. Dio - Last in Line 40. ELP - Tarkus 41. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules 42. The Beatles - Revolve 43. Behemoth- I Loved You At Your Darkest 44. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure 45. Kiss - Rock And Roll Over 46. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness 47. Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration

Somehow I lost my Counterparts CD about 5 years ago so haven't heard that album since. My opinion of it was outdated! That's a 9/10 album. To think I used to prefer Test For Echo over it!!! (I still like T4E)

He's putting Sharpie to a flat surface either way. I'd rather have an illegible scribble on something I've loved for years than a book I haven't read yet.

Generally they don’t let you bring anything, because if everybody had something they wanted him to sign besides the book, you could be there all day and night. But, if he’s only going to sign one thing and you switched it out, maybe it would be ok? I know that the bookstore in New Jersey doesn’t let people bring in backpacks, probably because they think people are going to still try to get other things signed, and it would just slow down the process. At the Grapes Under Pressure we were told not to bring anything because we'd be getting a special item signed by Geddy and Alex. We got the bottle of wine with the label signed by them, and now I don't know how to properly preserve it. Some of us broke the rule and brought items anyway, which they gladly signed...I wish I had done the same! If he does one in Vancouver and I end up going I'll try to bring something and let you all know!

Hoping for one in Vancouver! So if the book is the "ticket" and they already have your money, could you bring a record and have him sign that instead of the book? I figure he's signing something either way and it shouldn't make a difference. Anyone have experience with this?

Yeah I didn't want to touch on the lyrics but really.....

My girlfriend and daughter are out of town so I came home yesterday night ready to relax only to find the cats had puked in 10 different spots around the house. On top of that, my girlfriend who's a stay at home mom, left the 2 weeks worth of dishes she said she would do before leaving. So by the time I'm done the dishes a(no washer) at 9 o'clock, I'm ready to take a shower but we're out of hot water for some reason. No shower. I finished dinner at 10, get into bed to watch something, and check my phone for the first time since I got home at 6 to find that my girlfriend is pissed that I haven't replied or asked how her trip is going. She's lucky I love her haha

1. Aerosmith - Rocks 2. The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed 3. Rush - Hemispheres 4. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman 5. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane 6. Queen - A Day at the Races 7. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour 8. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality 9. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind 10. Yes - Close To The Edge 11. The Cars - Candy-O 12. Def Leppard - Pyromania 13. Tom Petty - Hard Promises 14. AC/DC - Back In Black 15. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy 16. Husker Du - New Day Rising 17. GODFLESH - Pure Their 1989 debut album Streetcleaner is still their most highly regarded album but the following year with Pure they pulled in the reigns a bit and made a tighter, heavier, more cohesive masterpiece.

I had a teacher in highschool who would see my Rush shirts and would always go "oh yeah I know that band uhhhh... The one about the suburbs!" He didn't know Tom Sawyer when I played it

The economics and statistics of the decline of album sales and rise of online downloading is discussed very interestingly in the book How Music Works by David Byrne (from Talking Heads). It was a very eye opening book in every way. I remember him saying that if a Talking Heads song sells for $1.95 on iTunes, as 1/4th of the band, he sees like 10 cents

Counterparts is lyrically fantastic to me. Especially CTTC, Double Agent and Cold Fire Cold Fire?? Holy hell. It's putrid. "It was long after midnight, when we got to unconditional love" So bad it should've been on Test For Echo. That's not even the worst line! She said just don't disappoint me, You know how complex women are. or It was just before sunrise when we started our traditional roles Oh Neil, please shut up. It's all just so cringeably bad. That song always felt like Neil trying to get away with Leonard Cohen-type blunt sex stuff

But it's lower than the middle of Freewill for example and he nailed that for a while after

I caught some flack a while back for saying "Tom Sawyer is my bathroom break" when I see Rush live. Partly because it's sooooo overplayed it just doesn't excite me anymore like less played songs. The main reason I don't like hearing Tom Sawyer live is this: The way he sings it the line "...is what you say about society". On the album, it's a descending note shriek that sounds glorious: "IS WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT SOCIETY!!!" Virtually every live version I've heard, he dulls it down to an awkward hiccup-y thing: "is WHAT you SAY about so-CI-e-TEE..." Am I alone in finding the way he sings it live extremely grating?

I think it's almost certainly him pressing down on the string above the nut, as to my knowledge he wasn't using guitars with a tremolo at that time, unless of course he made an exception for that track. The sound seems to be in perfect time with the song, which, while coincidentially possible, makes me think the sound isn't an accidental artifact. I agree, it always sounded intentional to me but my guess was it was him tapping on the pickup. What do I know though

I think The Analog Kid easily could have fit on MP. Every song from GUP, PoW and HYF could be on any one of those 3 albums IMO. p/g and HYF are interchangeable? Pretty close. They have a hugely different sound. Songs, production, everything... That's like saying Fly by Night and Permanent Waves are the same thing