Weatherman

You sound like a delight.

That same smooth late 90s production sound. I dig it. Maiah's vocals are such a breath of fresh air.

This is pretty cool. That piece was begging for a classical reworking.

I have not heard another bassist quite like Geddy. He reaaaally found his own musical voice.

He's been Conan O'Brien's assistant producer for almost 30 years. They turned him into an actual character over the decades: excessively picky, fastidious, only wanting the best in everything, obsessed with Italy. One of their best bits was when Conan dressed him up in a tuxedo and made him eat at Olive Garden.

I can never tell if Jordan Schlansky is doing a bit. But evidently he's a huuuuge Rush nerd. This is very funny.

I would like to give compliments to Philo, but Neil's drum parts rest on a high peak of perfection and it's so sad to watch less trained drummers fall off the side of the steep walls as they try to ascend...

Yeah, for me it's bottom third of their catalog for sure. Which is weird, because I love the 3 albums before and 3 albums after. Mystic Rhythms is the only bright spot, for me.

Geddy's voice: maybe the prechorus on Turn the Page ("every day we're standing in a wind tunnel"), maybe an unpopular opinion but that part of that song gets me Geddy's bass: lots of emotional moments, but probably in Limelight the smooth way he snakes back into the song under Alex's phenomenal solo is extra special sauce Al's guitar: the midpoint of the solo on The Weapon, when Neil changes to double-time feel and the whole song kicks up a couple of gears - the way Alex plays across that transition and then slowly descends to resolve on the root is goose-bumps time, just outstanding (chef's kiss) Neil's drums: too many to pick

"everybody needs reverse polarity" gets me in the feels every time

They have sooo many other songs that are undeniable top-tier classics. So ... doubtful. I mean, I listen to songs on Signals and GuP and HYF and Presto all the time. I revisit A Farewell to Kings and Xanadu sometimes. I jam out on 2112 way more than I'd like to admit. But I rarely feel the need to put CTTH on.

Somebody should do a new thread on best prechoruses. Rush was really good at them. Turn the Page, especially.

It's the circle of life, for a musician. How we start out is how we end up.

I love more than half of that album. Alex sounds so good on Kabul Blues -- much better than he sounded on VT or CA. Maiah's voice is terrific.

Last year I showed my new young wife (who doesn't know Rush at all) the video for Time Stand Still. She laughed at it. I do too, honestly. BUT she liked the song more when I played it without the video, in the car. We listened to most of HYF and she really liked Turn the Page, esp the prechorus ("Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel").