Flavia2112

I was sitting in front of a computer watching the Subdivisions music video with my friend, a casual Rush fan. This was in February or March of 2020. I knew nothing about Rush other than the fact that they had written Tom Sawyer, Limelight, 2112, and Subdivisions, which were fast becoming my favorite songs. My friend remarked that one of the members of Rush had died a couple months ago. Neither of us really cared since we barely knew the names of the band members at the time. As quarantine progressed, I learned more about the band, the people behind the music I so loved. I never had that moment of the Facebook post or the text from a friend and being devastated. For me it just slowly sank in. I started listening to two or three Rush albums on the 7th of every month. I am still very sad.

That is absolutely untrue.

Not what I'm saying. It is probably true that there are more male fans than female fans. What I'm saying is that it's sexist to say the reason is that women only like dance music or whatever. Yeah, overall -- GENERALIZATION INCOMING -- many women like to feel romanced by male singers. It's a tradition as old as troubadours in Provence. Ged and Neil emphatically did NOT romance anybody in the vocals. Instead they sang about evil galactic priests, radio waves, and how we gotta deviate from the norm. Maybe it would've been different if they hadn't been married, and actively dating. Regardless, their minds were evidently elsewhere. I doubt that's because of anything inherent about women. As Entre_Perpetuo was saying, it's likely due to gender stereotypes.

Nocturne--The Roches

Thank you for the correction! Note to self-- double-check lyrics before posting them here.

Nocturne - Rush/The Roches

Roll The Bones You know I've played this song so many times before, that the melody keeps repeating...

Not what I'm saying. It is probably true that there are more male fans than female fans. What I'm saying is that it's sexist to say the reason is that women only like dance music or whatever.

Okay, right after I created this thread I listened to Power Windows, and now I've got another genius lyric to add. I can't believe I've been obsessed with the song "Territories" for like forever and only realized this now. The whole wide world, an endless universe Yet we keep looking through the eyeglass in reverse For the longest time I just thought Neil meant a spyglass, instead of an eyeglass. Like a telescope. And then I realized it could actually mean eyeglasses. If you're looking through your eyeglasses in reverse, you're looking at yourself.

Go back and read my post. I did not say that. I am saying that most of the fans who were posting on this thread are being sexist by making unfair and untrue assumptions about women.

When you come up with a lyric idea while listening to Grand Designs. Then you hit a wall while writing so you listen to Manhattan Project which un-wall-ifies you.

What are the most mind-blowing, clever, rewind-and-listen-to-the-song-again lyrics you've ever heard? I know this is The Rush Forum, and Neil wrote a lot of genius lyrics, so most of these responses will be Rush lyrics, but mine... isn't :blink:. It's from the song "Broken Places" by the Roches. "When the chips are down, we play our aces Hiding them in our broken places" What's a broken place? A heart. A broken heart. But you don't hide aces in your heart--you hide them up your sleeve. So if an ace is up your sleeve and that's your heart, you're wearing your heart on your sleeve. That took me around ten years to figure out and blew my mind. Also worth mentioning is "The hopeful depend on a world without end/Whatever the hopeless may say" from "Manhattan Project"--however you feel about nuclear technology, I've always liked the double meaning of "hopeless." :haz:

Signals. I think I had to fight not to squeal (I know, that makes me sound 13 years old, but still) by the middle of Analog Kid.

Could this thread be any more sexist? If there are less female fans than male fans, it's certainly not for any of the reasons previously discussed on this thread. Women are not more likely than men to want to be turned on by music, nor less likely than men to be interested in the things Rush writes about. We do not only care about dance music and sexy musicians.

The Roches Kate Bush Yaz

Haha, yeah.

Ha ha, actually the Bangkok/Working Man thing was separate from the trivia. What happened was I asked this person what his favorite Rush song was, he said Working Man, and then immediately started singing A Passage to Bangkok. I pointed out his mistake and he was impressed (and possibly embarrassed) since I've only been a fan for about a year. Then we started going back and forth with the trivia questions.

That would be cool. What's cooler, though, is "live Rush experiences," plural. :(

Sounds like justice to me. Hahahhahahaha but seriously I don't think they get along as well anymore

I might do that...but Xanadu is one of my all-time favorites...and I wouldn't really want Cygnus X-1 Book Two without Book One... Maybe I'd sacrifice...what's something I don't like as much...Hold Your Fire for Permanent Waves and Hemispheres. Yes, don`t let my indifference to AFTK drag you down. I can`t exactly pin it down, but I just don`t think it`s as good as the other pre-1985 stone-cold classics. I wonder why. For me everything in the 70s and early 80s (except maybe the first album) is fully amazing (notwithstanding the few Ayn Rand-ian sentiments that bother me), then as you get into the mid-80s, there'll be the occasional not-so-good song (except on Presto), more so in the 90s...sorry for talking your ear off typing your eyes off, but I'm curious. Not liking (or being indifferent to) AFTK specifically is very different than, say, not liking the first album or the synth era. You`d do well to talk my ears off type my eyes out, as I`m happy to converse at great length about anything! I completely agree with you, my AFTK problem makes no sense. Chronology and/or synths are far more often the reasons for favouring one record or era over another, or indeed Neil addressing wider issues than the self could be another. Many think it is their favourite. I can still remember the sense of disappointment I felt when I heard it the first time, as like you, I`m newer to the band than most TRF stalwarts. Maybe it depends on your love of Coleridge? I know that I had always disliked Kubla Khan, so approached Xanadu in a slightly jaundiced way, and much prefer Neil`s own thoughts. I`m not saying they should have interpreted Sylvia Plath, but I like literature grounded in my world or at least about things I can relate to. I am confused by how the majesty of Hemispheres and PW sit after AFTK, which for me lacks the personal, observational and insightful lyrics of Circumstances, TSOR, Natural Science. AFTK seems to be about other people and other things, detached, and lacking in great riffs too to my ears, so I feel that I`m removed too, rather than engaged. I`m trying to explain what is fundamentally an album that leaves me strangely cold. I don`t think I`ve done it very well! I see your point about it being detached. Xanadu and Cinderella Man are based on other things, I don't know what Madrigal's about... I should research this. I actually knew nothing about Coleridge until I heard Xanadu, and then when I read Kubla Khan I was too busy being like "oh, that's what they were talking about!" to actually think about whether I liked the poem. Errrr...stay on topic, Flavia. Ummmm...I don't have time to think about what I want to type... I guess this really proves that there isn't just the fan who only cares about Tom Sawyer, the fan who hates the synths, and the fan who thinks Rush can do no wrong. I`m not entirely alone, as there are at least two other TRFers who share my position on AFTK. But I`m almost certainly on my own in truly not understanding the love for Xanadu. Madrigal and Cinderella Man have a B-side quality about them, again, in context of the records that followed, and I think the title track is really missing some "ooompphh". The joy of Rush is at its mostest when the best elements of the three majestic powers are apparent - if I may be so bold, I don`t think that happens here. "Three majestic powers" hahaha Edit: 100TH POST! SENSE O'CLOCK NEWS HERE I COME!

:laughing guy:

So am I, which is why I am really perplexed how I wound up as Alex. :huh: I took a different quiz about this and got Alex, probably just 'cause I play guitar...it wasn't a very good quiz.

Same here even though it is FROWN upon on here...It is really more of a joke to read about them, but to each their own. I know that Geddy and Alex are really married to their wives for over 40+ years, but we gals can dream right?? I mean, Dirxst is definitely not true, but sometimes it's fun to read. Geddy and Alex would probably think it's hilarious. (Actually, they probably know about it...I can see some fan at a meet and greet asking "is there any truth to Dirxst?" and Alex makes some joke about it and Geddy's like LERXST OMG... but I digress.)

Did you manage to get every single Rush song title into that poem?

It's a fine line between love and illusion