Alien Girl

I liked it well enough when it came out. I listen to it less and less as the years go by. Songs that were my favorites like The Alchemist, Headlong Flight, Caravan, and The Garden are still keepers to some extent, that I occasionally listen too. I loathe The Wreckers, Seven Cities of Gold and Carnies (the screaming at the beginning, while I know is supposed to be people having fun on the ride, creep me out and make it sound ominous). My overall problem with the album is the compressed sound, and the layered vocals. Ex; While The Alchemist musically is an awesome song, once the vocals come in (what I like to call Geddy's funeral dirge) they bring it down. Discordant and the lyrics themselves are lacking. Like they're trying to shoehorn too much into a sentence. They just don't fit. Not the content, but the sentence structure. And even when the album came out steampunk was waning in appeal, and god knows I'm sick of the trope now. *shrug* it's just not an album I listen to a lot nowadays, unlike older ones like Permanent Waves, Grace Under Pressure, 2112, Moving Pictures and Hemispheres. Those are all classics for a reason. I still listen to those a lot. I don't consider Clockwork Angels to be a classic, last album or not.

Children of the Sun- Billy Thorpe I first heard this song at around the age of 12 or 13 laying in the back of my step-Dad's El Camino, stargazing with my sister. I loved it on first listen but never heard it again until around 23 or so years later when my husband gave me a iPod classic and it was the very first song I downloaded. Because I remembered that moment and how strong that song hit at that moment. I.LOVE.THAT.SONG. And listening to it with headphones is another experience entirely... the spacey whooshing sounds mixed to switch from ear to ear. The guitar starts low, coming on stronger and stronger, just absolutely jamming. Then the lyrics...it's so good. The song just goes through you. 'People of the earth can you hear me?' Came a voice from the sky on that magical night. And in the colors of a thousand sunsets, they traveled to the world on a silvery light... So what does the song mean to me other than nostalgia for a time long past?...well, yeah, it does mean that, but I still stargaze with my sister when we get together. I go visit her during the Perseid meteor shower every summer. We talk, speculate, dissect the universe in both mundane and celestial ways. It's our love language, I guess. And bonus points if there's a launch at Vandenberg Airforce base. We can hardly hold ourselves together *excited squealing, ooohs and ahs*. Probably should've been astronauts or astronomers (at least ). And someday the Children of the Sun will come and retrieve us. Because obviously we belong to them.

Brian May, technically speaking. But While My Guitar Gently Weeps is one of my favorite songs so...special mention for George.

And the guy in front of her. Shocking. It's almost as if they'd released an album, or something.

I love this song. I've been saying for a while that I want In the End played at my funeral during the recessional. The live version from All the World's a Stage. It'd be totally unexpected...particularly when the first part is rather melodic, quiet and poignant sounding in tone, and then the pause and it comes in hard and oh so good. I think it'd lighten the mood a little and send everyone along on a higher note. Particularly with the applause and "THANK YOU VERY MUCH!" Not that I plan on having one soon. A funeral that is. Still...it's good to have plans.

Oh no...this is so sad! I was recently wondering how Lorraine was doing,I knew she was ill but it'd been a while since I checked in here. I always enjoyed the interactions we had. She was a very nice person. Rest in Peace, Sweet lady. :rose:

The entire lyrics to Natural Science but especially the last part... Wave after wave will flow with the tide and bury the world as it does tide after tide will flow and recede leaving life to go on as it was *Sigh* ...Sublime

The problem I have with the lyrics on the last couple records, and it's a problem I've mentioned before, is the shoehorning of the lyrics into the music...like it used to be that when crafting a song, the lyrics fit seamlessly into the music. The tempo was correct for both in a way that was smooth and attractive. But the last couple of albums there was very little effort to fit the lyrics with the music, or the length of a sentence into the time frame of the alotted melodic bit (See Armor and Sword, The larger Bowl,The Anarchist, Seven Cities, etc) The result is an awkward blend of run-on sentences, ill-fitting lyrics (not in terms of content/meaning but clunky and awkward). That combined with the lower pitch to Geddy's tone (the funeral dirge, as I like to call it) just made both S & A and CA not as good for me. Not as well crafted as their earlier albums. Dont get me wrong, there are some excellent musical bits (the Anarchist is well nigh perfect musically, it's just when the lyrics come in that they lose me), it's just with some of the lyrics and lyrical bits and the way they fit, that I take exception to.

Happy Birthday, Cub! It's a good day to be celebrating a birth. :ebert:

Happy Birthday to someone who knows a good day to born when they see it! ;)

Thanks everyone for the sweet birthday wishes! 'Twas a good day. ;) (btw, Tony...I may be old, but you'll always be older :poke: )

An old-y but a goody...from 10 years ago ;) From one mildly pissed off and moody cancerian to another... Happy Birthday Tony! http://www.thegreatzo.com/xpmb/html/emoticons/poke2.gif

And here was I thinking you were a big fan of the Roll the Bones "rap"... “Fridge, relax! Get busy with the crap” The rap becomes more and more shite over the years. I blame Rupert Hine for allowing them to do that. If I'd have been the producer I'd have said, "you're not doing that on one of my records." As producer I would’ve said, “Boys, I know you’re just takin’ the piss with this rap but it’s got to go.” I can imagine Fridge dancing to it right after he called the album a pile of crap, and really humping the stereo like a misguided RUSH Casanova, that's right Fridge wants to f**k the Roll the Bones rap! If by f***ing it you mean ramming a sawn -off shotgun up it's fetid, putrescent arsehole and squeezing the trigger as hard as I can then you would be quite correct.... :eyeroll: My but you do have a flare for the melodramatic, don't you? If you knew me in person you would know that is most certainly not the case... He's more of a dour understated curmudgeon. :hail: So kind of like this then? :codger: (I hope you know I'm just teasing you, Fridge...there are a few Rush songs that get my ire up...I've myself have been know to have a flare for the melodramatic regarding them. Just ask Goose ;) ) Here’s Fridge with a shotgun dealing with Powers Boothe and David Carradine’s kid brother: http://youtu.be/f0CSZxcmXfY So yeah, he probably won’t shoot you...but he would if it came to it. If you’re wondering what happened to one of his arms - he had a couple of mosquito bites on it one night that really irritated him so he sawed it off with the rustiest blade he could find. Melli/mellow-drama and all. *Slowly backing away to the hillside just beyond shooting distance...* His name is Keith...the Carradine that is... JB & treeduck: "What?!" *Comes a little closer..* I said...His name is KEITH!! KEITH CARRADINE!!! Fine, Fridge can dislike Roll the Bones!

And here was I thinking you were a big fan of the Roll the Bones "rap"... “Fridge, relax! Get busy with the crap” The rap becomes more and more shite over the years. I blame Rupert Hine for allowing them to do that. If I'd have been the producer I'd have said, "you're not doing that on one of my records." As producer I would’ve said, “Boys, I know you’re just takin’ the piss with this rap but it’s got to go.” I can imagine Fridge dancing to it right after he called the album a pile of crap, and really humping the stereo like a misguided RUSH Casanova, that's right Fridge wants to f**k the Roll the Bones rap! If by f***ing it you mean ramming a sawn -off shotgun up it's fetid, putrescent arsehole and squeezing the trigger as hard as I can then you would be quite correct.... :eyeroll: My but you do have a flare for the melodramatic, don't you? If you knew me in person you would know that is most certainly not the case... He's more of a dour understated curmudgeon. :hail: So kind of like this then? :codger: (I hope you know I'm just teasing you, Fridge...there are a few Rush songs that get my ire up...I've myself have been know to have a flare for the melodramatic regarding them. Just ask Goose ;) )

And here was I thinking you were a big fan of the Roll the Bones "rap"... “Fridge, relax! Get busy with the crap” The rap becomes more and more shite over the years. I blame Rupert Hine for allowing them to do that. If I'd have been the producer I'd have said, "you're not doing that on one of my records." As producer I would’ve said, “Boys, I know you’re just takin’ the piss with this rap but it’s got to go.” I can imagine Fridge dancing to it right after he called the album a pile of crap, and really humping the stereo like a misguided RUSH Casanova, that's right Fridge wants to f**k the Roll the Bones rap! If by f***ing it you mean ramming a sawn -off shotgun up it's fetid, putrescent arsehole and squeezing the trigger as hard as I can then you would be quite correct.... :eyeroll: My but you do have a flare for the melodramatic, don't you? I think the flare he might have in mind is one that sets fire to the place! Pffffffttt... yeah, I think that much is obvious.