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... oh ... and Wishbone Ash - The Pilgrim (Live Dates version) Clocks in at 9:15, but it's epic, anyway

Yes - Heart of the Sunrise (4 times)

QUOTE (GeddyLeeRoth @ Feb 7 2012, 06:31 AM) 1. BNW--The closest to classic Maiden. 2. TFF--Much better than its predecessor. 3. DOD--Criminally under-rated. Fans are too distracted by the shoddy artwork. Its got a lot of up-tempo stuff, great hooks, and two neo-classics with the title track & Paschendale. 4. AMOLAD--IMO, fans oogle over the cover art (which is killer) and associate it with the 2 Minutes To Midnight cover. Hence, its over-rated. The songs are good to great, but they should have trimmed the fat off some of the songs (to be fair, they could have w/some of the songs on other new albums). Collectively, the album is too slow, morose, and despondent sounding. Couldn't agree more, especially on AMOLAD. Maiden lost me with that. Even X Factor was better than that (as it produced a classic with Sign of the Cross, and AMOLAD didn't). The only point I'd make is that the DOD title track is far from good. Whereas Paschendale ranks with their very best work - as three or four tunes on BNW do.

QUOTE (LyndseyG @ Feb 1 2012, 08:23 PM) QUOTE (LyndseyG @ Feb 1 2012, 08:19 PM) QUOTE (furie @ Feb 1 2012, 08:06 PM) So did the europeans do a Rush day on Jan 02, 2012? See my post above! Sorry! Ignore this post, I misread it! As it happens I did celebrate that 2/1/12! Did, too. Nevertheless: Happy Rush Day to America!

... I just hope that Cut to the Chase and half of the "unplayed" Vapor Trails tracks (Peaceable kingdom, Out of the Cradle, Vapor Trail, Sweet Miracle) are not part of that list. I've read that Alex quote about Madrigal and Different Strings - although I hope they reconsider rearranging the latter. Maybe Losing It is another one of those tracks. And Tai Shan sure is!

Well, my first four were ... Grace Under Pressure Power Windows Caress of Steel Permanent Waves Worked for me, why shouldn't it work for others. Though it took some time to get into Number three - as I only knew the two Eighties outputs before. But after six or seven spins, I loved it. For a present newbie, I might replace Power Windows by Moving Pictures and, probably, Caress of Steel by Counterparts. On the other hand ... why not Caress of Steel. If you dig this one, you're really into Rush.

QUOTE (Tommy Sawyer @ Jan 14 2012, 06:13 AM) I heard Benoit David, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, Alan White, and Chris Squire do some fairly decent Yes covers these days....

... oh ... and I forgot Take Your Whiskey Home and 'The Cradle ...' ... Makes twelve. Well, I'll have to drop the two Van Hagars. I guess ...

QUOTE (Silas Lang @ Jan 14 2012, 10:18 AM) In no particular order: Mean Street - possibly Eddie's all time meanest riff (appropriately enough) and Roth's most serious lyric ... possibly one of the ten best hard rock songs ever recorded. I took the present pre-release hype about VH as an opportunity to listen through a few records of a band I had nearly forgotten upon - and realized how good 'Fair Warning' actually was. A gem, really. Like the first album and 'Women and Children First'. I never really got into VH II (have to listen to it again), and 'Diver Down' and '1984' are, in my eyes, pretty lame. As is most of Van Hagar. So, my choice one the VH top ten would consist mainly of songs from these albums (in no particular order, apart from Mean Street). 1st: Runnin' With the Devil, Eruption, Little Dreamer (tough decision, 'coz there's two or three more nearly on par with those I mentioned) WaCF: Fools, Could this be Magic FW: Mean Street, Push Comes to Shove, Unchained Leaves two - from the Hagar era: Mine all Mine and Right Now.

QUOTE (danielmclark @ Jan 14 2012, 01:26 AM) I listened to the re-recorded tracks from the Scorpions' Comeblack (silly name) album, and was really very surprised and impressed. I like them quite a lot. Klaus Meine's vocals have matured in a really positive way over the years and the classics ('Hurricane, The Zoo, Blackout, etc) sound really good to me. Everything the Scorpions have been trying to do in the last ten years (or more) is trying to cash in on the two or three years during the Eighties when they were accidentally relevant for parts of the music business. I was a fan of them then, but I was 14 ... They have been releasing one embarrassing album after another, only topped by their interviews and overall appearance. They are really the best example for a band that should have called it quits at least twenty years ago. Now, they release an album half consisting of half-hearted "modern" renditions of a few 'classics'. The other half are cover versions which make 'Feedback' sound like a valuable statement of art (what it probably is). Hell, they even stumbled through a disgraceful pseudo metal version of 'Tainted Love'. And Rush should choose to be on a level with THEM? Certainly not. Sorry.

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jan 6 2012, 11:50 PM) QUOTE (barchetta90480 @ Jan 6 2012, 03:20 PM) Indeed ... no competition here. AFTK by far. The other two albums have a weak side each - 2112 not so much as it's saved by Something For Nothing and Bangkok, whereas Side one of Hemispheres is one of the most forgettable pieces of music Rush ever put together (still love listening to it, for it's Rush) Side one of Hemispheres has really grown on me over the years - it's still a lot to take in, but it's an amazing song. Where AFTK loses out for me is Cygnus X-1 - really good song, but I always get a little annoyed by the narration and by Geddy's screaming at the very end - I know that might seem like minor parts of a long song, and they are, but it generally keeps me from wanting to hear the song, and I usually turn the album off prior to that. Seriously though, if you took side one of AFTK and side two of Hemispheres and smushed them together, you'd have the best album of all time by anyone. You're right with Cygnus X-1, though the rest of the song kicks ass. Might have been a fine instrumental (as it was done in later tours). But AFTK is pretty special for me among 'earlier' Rush albums. Hell, I even dig Madrigal ... Side Two of Hemispheres plus the 2112 epic would certainly make one of the best albums ever, though not the best. That would be side one of GUP with side two of ... hmmm ... GUP.

GUP would get my vote even if there were PeW, MP and Signals in the poll ...

Indeed ... no competition here. AFTK by far. The other two albums have a weak side each - 2112 not so much as it's saved by Something For Nothing and Bangkok, whereas Side one of Hemispheres is one of the most forgettable pieces of music Rush ever put together (still love listening to it, for it's Rush)

QUOTE (the masked drummer @ Jan 2 2012, 05:22 PM) Deep Purple are international superstars. Thin Lizzy is a bar band. Just tell me where that bar is and reserve a seat for me ... (And I don't mean that one where Phil and Gary are already jamming. I've got a seat reserved there already. Hopefully ...)

Right at this very moment I listen to one of the best records of the 20th century : Bone Machine by Tom Waits. Probably light years away from Rush, but brilliant still ...

QUOTE (rushfanNlv @ Jan 6 2012, 06:43 AM) There is no pint to this poll. There is.

Vapor Trails, easily. One of their five best albums, even with this production. With a better one, it might be their third best ever ...

QUOTE (Ron2112 @ Dec 30 2011, 01:09 PM) Funny how people are so divided over these songs. For me, if I was going to trim any songs from HYF (which I wouldn't, but let's just say), I would get rid of "Open Secrets" and "Lock and Key" before I got rid of HW or TS. Peace, Ron Interesting ... Open Secrets counts as one of the great lost gems in their catalogue for me. Definitely in my Top 5 lists of songs to dig out of the vaults for one of the next tours. As for High Water, I liked it from the beginning. Nice, quiet closing track. And not one of their worst (closing) songs. You Bet Your Life, Carve Away the Stone or Everyday Glory are much less remarkable. Even Mystic Rhythms or Countdown are songs I'd rather have dropped, although I can live with them. Tai Shan never did too much for me, as did Time Stand Still, BTW. And ... Echo and the Bunnymen were a fine band in their own right. And ... I like Big Generator ...

2014 would mean 30 years of GUP. So - the second set should be the mighty mighty GUP in its entirety and a number of 80s gems, partly from deep in the vaults (Open Secrets, Red Tide and Losing It being my personal No. 1 choices). For the first half - The first LP will be 40 then. Though I'm not sure I would want to here that in its entirety. Here Again and Before And After would be slick, though. And there's still time left to play the obvious standards. Won't happen? Right, I'll go with the CA tour and hope they come to Germany again.

QUOTE (RUDT @ Nov 16 2011, 10:29 PM) They should have "left that thing Alone" in the archives forever... I beg to differ. It was a highlight of this tour - other than Caravan or Faithless ...

QUOTE (Something4Nothing @ Nov 26 2011, 08:29 PM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Nov 25 2011, 09:56 PM) QUOTE (USB Connector @ Nov 25 2011, 07:25 PM) I hope they keep it at 2 or less. Three was one too many on S&A, one suffered from mediocrity and the other from downright uselessness. I thought they were all pretty great. Mind you, none of them were YYZ or Overture or La Villa, but they were better than any other post-MP instrumentals. What about Leave That Thing Alone? Thanks for asking. To me, their second best instrumental after La Villa. Far superior even to YYZ - which is among the first of the classics I'd like to see dropped from the setlists. If they replaced it completely with LTTA, I'd be all fine. Where's My Thing is one of the better tracks on Roll the Bones (not that this would mean a lot), and Limbo is forgettable. The three S&A tracks were an improvement to those two. Malignant Narcissism has been one of my favourite two tracks from that album right from the start. What an explosion! Hope is a fine miniature that gets too much bashing here, IMHO. And Monkey Business is decent, though it has lengths. To the question: If there's a longer epic, it will have an extended instrumental section at the start or in the middle. That's what I think. They talked about ten songs for the album - and Neil has to get some messages across ...

QUOTE (presto123 @ Nov 10 2011, 11:06 PM) QUOTE (barchetta90480 @ Nov 10 2011, 04:21 PM) Ordered it the day before yesterday ... can't wait to get it... Just ... is Marathon as great as it was? And ... I can't get bored with Subdivisions or Vital Signs. no way. Faithless, Caravan, BU2B, that's another story - but maybe they'll drop these for the next tour (although I don't really believe it in Caravan's case). And: Bring Back Red Sector A next time ... Are you kidding. Caravan and BU2B are two of the best songs on the DVD IMO. The energy is off the charts. To each his own I guess. It's songs like Tom Sawyer and Limelight that I skip through. Got the DVD. Probably their best since Rio. And I even dig BU2B and Faithless. Still hate Caravan more than Dog Years, but I can do with one stinker in the setlist - especially as so many here seem to thinnk differently about that song. And I'm not too fond of Limelight as well, but it's a staple. Great setlist, Great DVD! Great concert! Next time - GUP in full length ... Please ...

QUOTE (Merely Space @ Nov 10 2011, 06:38 AM) You forgot The Police. Their influence is all over post- Permanent Waves Rush. You're absolutely right. But I love this influence - in spite of hating Sting ... The Stooges is a good one!