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To those of you who actually believe that the "lyrics" aren't of the utmost importance to Pratt, I salute you for your impeccable comedic talents... So many bad Rush lyrics come to mind it's hard not to make a joke but they're definitely more than 1% of the Rush equation. If Rush had kept the lyrical themes of the first album I would not be a fan, even if the music stayed the same

I'm not enamored with Signals either, however, I'll take it over any album released post CP... For sure! I have a soft spot for T4E but otherwise I agree.

kinda hard to top the staples like zep, sabbath, beatles, etc. and that's coming from a guy who's been accused of being a hipster because I like some bands that don't play hockey arenas I'm right there with you then cuz none of my faves are shared on this forum haha yeah, a lot of people here have the attitude that youre not a legit band unless you're playing the taco bell super dome or trojan condoms amphitheater Or "if they weren't popular when I was in high school, they can't be any good....... Except for dream theater!!!"

Thobbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Songs aboot holding hanz r dum

YYZ is hard to duplicate live but Geddy and Neil nail that f***er every time. Alex is such a diva sometimes :P

I think High Water is underrated but Open Secrets Witch Hunt

The Necromancer Time And Motion

kinda hard to top the staples like zep, sabbath, beatles, etc. and that's coming from a guy who's been accused of being a hipster because I like some bands that don't play hockey arenas I'm right there with you then cuz none of my faves are shared on this forum haha

Signals is only as acclaimed as it is within the fanbase (in a lot of your top 5), because age-wise, many of you became fans after Moving Pictures came out. Signals isn't that great. If all the same people became fans after Presto you would all be calling Roll The Bones a masterpiece. I'll never understand the Signals love and I enjoy every other 80s album

Why am I surprised at how many of you are picking the same 15 or so bands

Thrash metal does nothing for me as far as metal goes

Lol I agree. Like really? A Farewell to Kings? That's what you were doing in 77? and geddy van fleet in 74 by the way, I love AFTK. Me too, but by 1977 standards it might as well be from medieval times! Ba dum tsss

Lol I agree. Like really? A Farewell to Kings? That's what you were doing in 77?

Tom Sawyer Freewill

You own the debut, Fly By Night, Caress of Steel, AND Archives for some ridiculous reason

Lock And Key Available Light

YYZ Driven

This one song is a tour de force of political meaning: Revol Mr. Lenin - awaken the boy Mr. Stalin - bisexual epoch Kruschev - self love in his mirrors Brezhnev - married into group sex Gorbachev - celibate self importance Yeltsin - failure is his own impotence Revol - revol Revol - revol Lebensraum - Kulturkampf - raus, raus - fila, fila Napoleon - childhood sweethearts Chamberlain - you see God in you Trotsky - honeymoon, serenade the naked Che Guevara - you're all target now Pol Pot - withdrawn traces, bye bye Farrakhan - alimony alimony Revol - revol Revol - revol Lebensraum - Kulturkampf - raus, raus - fila, fila Revol - revol Revol - revol Lebensraum - Kulturkampf - raus, raus - fila, fila I could talk about MSP all day, some bands make me Google words or names but MSP makes me go to the library haha This is either completely, insanely brilliant or submoronic...after five minutes with Wikipedia, my bet is on the latter, a bunch of postmodern twaddle. Give me Coverdale or Hagar, at least they're harmless. So what do you think it means then? No f***ing clue, (although it would probably be worse if there was actual though twisted coherence behind it) it's just a name check of some of history's worst people (along with Yeltsin and Chamberlain for some reason), along with comments that have nothing to do with the evils they've sprung on the world to the tune of 9 figure casualties. Any side in the Kulturkampf someone who sides with a piece of shit like Castro is the wrong one. Hate the Nazis, sure. But there are other choices that aren't just as evil and sadistic. it just seems like the musical equivalent of diarrhea thrown at a wall, framed, and hung in some art museum with an absurd origin story. In other words, you have no idea, which is what I thought. To be fair, it does require a little research, and I've cut and pasted a little from various comments as well as adding my own. Richey's (the songs writer) comments on this were : "Revol/Lover - All adolescent leaders of men FAILED. All love FAILS. If men of the calibre of Lenin and Trotsky failed, then how can anyone expect anything to change? Won't get fooled again." Mr. Lenin - awaken the boy Lenin, as the revolutionary leader of 1917, 'awakened' socialism/marxism Mr. Stalin - bisexual epoch Once again, love/sex symbolism is used - 'bisexual' refers not to Stalin's sexual orientation but his seemingly dualistic appearance. Kruschev - self love in his mirrors Kruschev, as Stalin's successor cultivated a different kind of image of himself. "Self-love in his mirrors" possibly refers to his apparent jocular approach in front of the cameras. Brezhnev - married into group sex Perhaps this refers to Brezhnev's interventionist foreign policy, more commonly known as "The Brezhnev doctrine" under which the Soviet Union reserved the right to intervene, with its Warsaw Pact allies, in the domestic affairs of satellite states in defense of socialism. Gorbachev - celibate self importance As president, Gorbachev witnessed the demise of the Soviet Union - his failure (which Richey drew upon) was his inability to prevent the breakup of his country into smaller independent states. Yeltsin - failure is his own impotence Economic meltdown, internal unrest, the reemergence of the communist party, and growing humiliation All the other statements are analogies such as above....the idea is that all leaders and revolutions fail ultimately, there is no particular political allegiance Thanks, though I was right about being better off not knowing. Give me Poundcake over this kind of obscurantist bullshit any day. Or Spinal Tap's analogies about taking the subject of sex and putting it on a farm. At least those were funny. The caliber of Lenin and Trotsky? I guess murderers and looters do have things they're good at. As thinkers, not so much. You really need to get past your right-wing hard-on and accept that there is intelligent thinking behind ideologies you may not agree with. There is no intelligent thinking associated with Communism, just theft and butchery. That is not a right wing position, it is a sentient one. One which notices things like 100 million dead within 100 years because of it. That's not Communism any more than our government is a Democracy. It may have started as such, but somewhere along the way, the people in charge lost they minds. Lenin wasn't a Communist? Mao wasn't a Communist? Lol pot wasn't a Communist? Castro wsnt a Communist?I Even if you buy this silly argument, why do Communist regimes always devolve into murderous ones? Face it, the whole sick theory is based on theft. "Lol Pot"

Anagram is one of their best choruses, and many of their best are on Presto The Body Electric is probably their worst chorus, or at least the dumbest

"Circle" on Netflix. Kind of a modern day The Cube. Pretty intense for a movie with one set.

Could you post me a link? I think their full albums are on YouTube on their official account. Check out the Salt Lick EP. It really grinds through the every song. If that's not your taste, God's Balls was their debut album. I vaguely remember reading about them in Kerrang sometime late 80sand checking out their stuff...pretty good, nice and raw. He's got a sort of Lemmy throat rattle that I find much "grungier" than an Eddie Vedder "meatball stuck in my throat" mumble

Could you post me a link? I think their full albums are on YouTube on their official account. Check out the Salt Lick EP. It really grinds through the every song. If that's not your taste, God's Balls was their debut album.

It's almost as bad as all that football they show around the dancing autotuned puppets. At least the Stanley Cup doesn't have Justin Bieber hop on and figure skate