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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkPW5K1IaKo No matter how many times I hear it, it always makes me smile.

I was surprised just how good it was ..... and it stands up to repeated listens.

Each to their own I guess!

Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, Limelight and YYZ all great, rest all good.

I last saw them on the 45th anniversary tour in 2017. It was a set picked from across their career but they did not play This Ain't The Summer Of Love.From the Agents of Fortune album they played True Confessions, Don't Fear The Reaper and Tattoo Vampire. I should have went to the LA show on this tour. They played a 20 or more song set including the whole debut album. I went to the OC Fair show the next day where they did a much shorter set. But I did get Lip In The Hills for the first time! Yes, it was a great setlist when I saw them in Glasgow although it was 15 songs - Lips In The Hills was played but also Joan Crawford which pleased me. I had heard that they didn't always play Astronomy but thankfully it was played also.

What about a beaver dam made out of apples?

Yup, it's all prog lovers vs. synth posers! :outtahere: Hehehe .... I think if I had been a teenager in the '80s perhaps my tastes in music would have been different, and my perceptions of Rush's music would have been different also.I blame it on an accident of birth!! I was a teenager in the 80s and have very similar musical tastes (big Zeppelin fan and favorite Rush albums are COS,2112,AFTK,HM) Clearly a man of taste!!!

AC/DC for me. Queen are great and all that but DC rock your doodahs off!!! .... especially when Bon Scott was alive!!!

Yeah .... a sexy sextet .......... sounds like an all girl band!

I last saw them on the 45th anniversary tour in 2017. It was a set picked from across their career but they did not play This Ain't The Summer Of Love.From the Agents of Fortune album they played True Confessions, Don't Fear The Reaper and Tattoo Vampire.

Yup, it's all prog lovers vs. synth posers! :outtahere: Hehehe .... I think if I had been a teenager in the '80s perhaps my tastes in music would have been different, and my perceptions of Rush's music would have been different also. I blame it on an accident of birth!!

- Epic in scope - Mysterious, magical and lyrical in word - Dynamic and intricate musical sections - A perfect soundscape. Rush have created several epic compositions (in fact Cygnus X-1 on this same album is another fine example) but for me Xanadu was the pinnacle. Look, the great thing about Rush is that we can all get something different from their wide portfolio of music. For some, the epic proggy stuff is not necessarily what 'floats their boat'. For others, the more synth driven commercial sound doesn't always sit well. The great thing is that we have lots of variety to listen to and discuss!! An oldster like me falls into the epic proggy category and personally I find Xanadu the greatest epic of them all, from AFTK, my favourite album of them all.

Both books ordered!!!!

They're both chockful of facts I didn't know about the band, and there's also stuff I knew, but it's tactfully addressed by the author so as to not seem redundant for long time fans like us. And he talks about each and every song they released! I've just 'negotiated' a deal with my missus ...... If I buy the first volume, she will buy me the second volume as a Christmas present! (according to Amazon UK it will be released in two days time.)The downside is that I will not get my hands on it until Christmas but it gives me plenty of time to read and digest volume one!

I have not read the first of these volumes but I am considering purchasing both volumes - I can get them on Amazon. They look like good reads and worthwhile reference material.

Oh heck! Rush is in another trilogy head to head ... this time with three albums which featured at #12 or lower in my rankings of all Rush albums! Worse to come ..... they are up against the mighty Yes! But wait! ..... which Yes albums?? ............ only three albums of mediocre synth-pop doggy doings ... thats what! Rush take it with a first round knockout.

I'm surprised RUSH is in this fight. Although, my suspicion is that you could pair AFTK with two Justin Bieber albums and the trio would win any poll. People seem to adore it. That's because .......

Totally. Not sure where I`d sit on Hemispheres and Permanent Waves vs WACF and FW... pretty much the four greatest records I`ve heard. I’d put anything from Hemispheres to Moving Pictures definitely beating VH’s debut (their best). But to be clear, they’re all perfect 10s. TBH, the only thing that made me have to think twice about this vote was Caress of Steel. It just falls short. But 2112 and AFTK are unstoppable giants IMO.

hehehe ... yeah ...... great option!!!

Sadly I never got to see them. I had to pass up on Castle Donington in '84, as unfortunately in the '80s, life was getting in the way big time! I missed a lot of good stuff in the '80s.

What a cool song. This album rocks-------BOC RULE. Indeed it does!! ...... It gives great hope to old codgers like me, that old codgers like BOC can still deliver the goods!!

Hopefully you will enjoy it!! A fine album!

Another from the new one ...

From the new album ....