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Happy Birthday canadianice ! :chickendance:

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I always thought Hold Your Fire was really simple and boring. Just lots of red and three dots. It looked easy, I could have created it? But after Neil passed away and there were internet memes and pics of only two dots...it looked surprisingly sophisticated and true. Suddenly the most simply artwork was transformed into a reality we never thought was possible?

I have to get this finished. It has felt like a task, something I have often thought of over the years, but here proposed as a challenge, and the last few weeks I was very busy. To choose only two? Which songs say the most? Which stand out more than others? Listening to the albums, so many songs sound fantastic, but what did (Neil) choose to write about? Geddy made if difficult because he makes almost everything sound great, and Alex can accent many phrases and so many songs do sound amazing, but I tried to select lyrics that stand out from typical rock song lyrics. I would change many songs in an instant, believe me, but had to select only two. Like a "signal transmitted, message received", here is my list: RUSH Finding My Way; Take A Friend. Fly By Night Anthem; In The End Caress Of Steel Bastille Day; Lakeside Park 2112 Something For Nothing; The Twilight Zone A Farewell To Kings A Farewell To Kings; Closer To The Heart Hemispheres Circumstances; The Trees Permanent Waves The Spirit Of Radio; Freewill Moving Pictures Red Barchetta; Vital Signs Signals The Analogue Kid; Losing It Grace Under Pressure Red Sector A; The Body Electric Power Windows Manhattan Project; Middletown Dreams Hold Your Fire Time Stand Still; High Water Presto The Pass; Scars Roll The Bones Heresy; The Big Wheel Counterparts Nobody's hero; Everyday Glory Test For Echo Test For Echo; Virtuality Vapor Trails Sweet Miracle; How It Is Snakes And Arrows Far Cry; Good News First Clockwork Angels Headlong Flight; The Garden END Yup, strike me down! There are 38 other songs that probably should have made the cut. 72 more that were perhaps more deserving to be listed. "One must choose to decide"...

Fifty Pages of :heart: for you Lorraine!!!! 50! We think of you on your journey. Every day :rose:

treeduck, I love that you are making so many new threads and topics - thank you! But, seriously, I hated this album at first listen. It is a long story, but after a few years of life stuff and not really paying attention to the band, there came this album. I was, like, WTF? I decided it was more energy than most of us can (maybe?) appreciate - the whole re-starting, let's each not be too, too large with our sounds...too late! And all that, after deciding to do more music together. They could have ended but chose to keep going. What a potential sh*t show. I don't wish to sound flaky when I say it sounds "organic", but a bit over the top? But being the dudes they are, it was worked into an album for release. Even had to be re-mastered. I really feel it is part of the band's story, as much as Caress Of Steel ("down the tubes!"), or, 2112 (too weird!), Moving Pictures (when we got huge)...Vapor Trails...when we went nuts!! And that is why I sincerely love, LOVE, the sounds of Snakes & Arrows. The follow up of them playing together, again. More refined, more cohesive. An amazing follow up album. ...plink, plink...

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At Power Windows, so far. That is 11 out of 19! I am trying... This has been a good project for me. I am using the "2 songs per album" formula. Hard. Super hard. Thanks for the extra task, to do. Aside from daily life, I love the idea of trying to stuff a huge vinyl record into my new (used) Forester and listening to the play back. Ugh, but yes that would be fun to try? Always listening to songs...always wishing I came across a puzzle that took, like, a minute. But this longer puzzle is better, it has given me a good reason to re-read the lyrics of every album. :rush: A few more to go

taurus...you are a senior member on these forums. Good God, NO! What was that you found, "click bait"? How did you even come across that? It just feels wrong in every way possible. Both talented "acts", nothing in common but a media mixer person who found a similar key of musical scale. Yikes!!

Ordered!! All in. Sucks that it took so long, but it's the music in my car lately. No scratches...yet. And it's an old CD :heart: And I love all of the extras.

I love your deep speculation Entre_Perpetuo. Two things come to mind, I have read about how Alex and Geddy would jam and use a "drum beat machine" or whatever to keep timing. Perhaps the choice of rhythm/beats pre-empted some of Neil's direction? And Geddy has said a few times how he and Neil would be back and forth with lyrics so Geddy really got a feel of the words and felt the impacts. He perhaps would insert or emphasise some lyrics to enhance the playing off of each other? Like, instead of singing a phrase on a page, he got into a sense of "striking" some words and " sliding" others to let a drum hit for an accent? Not ignoring Alex's contributions, just thinking more about the vocal impact and the synergy with the beats. I also love the interplay between the three. They sure had a gift for emphasis and timing. Brilliant, I say!

Fifty times, you rock!! I sometimes still wonder at the "reaction" to the news. For me it had a lot to do with the fact they were quiet for a while, Geddy touring his BBBB, not much news, the End sinking in, some interviews. Then the announcement of Neil's passing was like a double shot: What?!! And...No Wonder! Holy Sh*t...they're actually DONE. No more Rush, no more debate. I was outside of myself in that moment of hearing the news on the radio. Long story already told, but I was in an auto-pilot mode for a while.

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I've been listening to SOH lately, also.

Yes, they have that going for them...but? As you are considering technology and the fact these young ones will be able to celebrate 2112...it's time to think differently? Like photo booths of the past twenty years, and streaming on demand, and the advancement of virtual gaming... They will call up a program, type in a concert to fill the room...And say: Grandpa liked this music? Who the heck is the Elder Race? But, let's hope...one of those little ones will find a guitar and ask: What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it gives forth a sound...

And I have read that The Beatles were a band for less than ten years. Brit media and pop crazes made sure cameras were everywhere, making a dime off every snap shot. Rush simply was not that scene?

Ugh, I have thought about this a few times. A couple of years ago I made a book of all the song lyrics and my choices will be made by reading through them and "hearing" the songs. Not an easy task, thanks treeduck for the challenge :) It seems appropriate to want to send a message, if one is going to choose only two songs from each album. What if the compilation album created was to be sent into space on the nose of the next space craft? It has to say something about their music. Self imposed deadline: Very soon and before I get too busy again.

I have only a few tour books ( A Farewell To Kings, Test For Echo, Vapor Trails and R40) and arguably each has some studio photos. But a photo in a hallway or off to the side for a photo shoot is hard to discern if it's a studio photo or some kind of context promo photo. Aside from the album cover jackets. For me, I think they were such a live band most photos are going to be of them playing live? And then there is a sh*t tonne of supporting artwork to augment a lot of their photo coverage. That should count for a balance of photo takes? Neat perspective, though, thanks Timbale for the idea.

Congratulations on 14 years! Sweet.

Some relief up on the western shore of Lake Superior. The nights have been -30 for so long (debate the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius, with a bit of wind, hardly much difference) I just dreaded looking at the thermometer holding a cup of coffee every morning. But chilly, yes, and now expecting some relief for a week or so. There is a Dog!!!

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Every year around this time I am with a search/rescue volunteer group that teaches winter wilderness survival stuff to first year would-be pilot students at the local flight college. During the first outdoor class I wait until they have suffered the early cold start (-27 C this year) and are getting into the whole start a camp, make a shelter mode and starting to gel as a group. It gets warmer, snow starts falling. Many are first time with snowshoes, it's still knee deep in snow, branches poking them every which way. They have to use a flint striker to start their little practice fires. I always ask "Who likes Rush? Any fans?". I usually get blank stares, perhaps "my older brother likes them". Yesterday I asked the group (of seven) and one student said "you mean, like Tom Sawyer? Limelight?". Another called out from his spot where he was sawing down a balsam fir (for the boughs that will be their shelter mattress) "The Trees? Xanadu?". Blew me away. Not much extra radio play up here north of the border since Neil's passing, but two of the group actually knew Rush songs! These students are in their late teens, early twenties. Awesome!! That made my day! :macallan: was had last evening, "after drop" was hitting hard and a hot shower didn't quite warm me up.

Still going with the bracelets and buttons?

I never got into The Matrix very much - I hope that's a "What? How do you go back in numbers?" and not " are you clueless to how post counts work". I gathered it was a joke from the start...I hope?!