Flavia2112

It's a fine line between love and illusion At the point of surrender to the burden of proof For you the blind who once could see, the bell tolls for thee

Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves!

I think half the forum at one point thought this was the lyric

I THOUGHT THAT TOO

I didn't take the quiz but I think I'm a lot like Neil.

I know someone who punched his best friend for making fun of Rush.

:huh:

Subdivisions. Because it was my introduction to Rush. SERIOUSLY FLAVIA STOP POSTING IN THESE OLD THREADS

I read some Dirxst a couple months ago and regretted it. And now I CAN'T...SEEM...TO...FORGET...ABOUT...IT...

The Trees (but only cause I'm sick of TSOR) Between Sun And Moon

Fly By Night Chemistry

Rush is in the process of getting me into prog rock. WHY FLAVIA WHY DO YOU POST ON THESE OLD THREADS

Rush is... ...maybe a hypercube?

Well, I'm getting a new music player to replace my dinky little one that is breaking and doesn't have enough space for every Rush album, so I dunno if that counts but... Edit: Oh this is from 2 years ago...oh well

Somebody was married to somebody's relative? (how's that for vague!) Yes Who Wait, I mean... You are correct Who was it?

When you just got into them this year and unofficially win a Rush trivia competition with someone who's been a fan since he was 13. (But then again, beating someone who mixed up A Passage to Bangkok and Working Man may not be the best teller of how much random Rush trivia I know.)

In The End

I must be a Rush fanatic! As if I didn't know that already... :eyeroll:

I wonder, do they write the date the European way in Canada? (And yes, I know I can look it up. But posting on TRF is more fun.)

I've never gotten that one...yet.

Okay. New question. What is the connection between Lindy Young and Geddy Lee besides the fact that Lindy was in Rush?

... and you say "Plus ca change..." knowingly to almost any applicable event in your life. I should start doing that

When anything anyone says reminds you of Rush, no matter what the, er... ...circumstances. *Randomly sings*

When you can't carry on a conversation while Rush is playing.

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.