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Thanks. Neil posted 4 to 7 times every year from 2006 until the middle of 2016 (posting 6 times in 9 months after Rush stopped touring). And then there was nothing. In retrospect, it was obvious something was wrong. "Suddenly, you were gone From all the lives you left your mark upon"

That was wonderful. Thanks for posting.

In this one of many possible worlds, All for the best or some bizarre test? It is what it is and whatever, Time is still the infinite jest The arrow flies when you dream, The hours tick away, The cells tick away The Watchmaker keeps to his schemes, The hours tick away, they tick away The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect In the rise and the set of the sun, 'Til the stars go spinning, Spinning 'round the night Oh, it is what it is, and forever Each moment a memory in flight The arrow flies while you breathe, The hours tick away, The cells tick away, The Watchmaker has time up his sleeve, The hours tick away, they tick away The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect (It's a measure of a life) The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect The future disappears into memory With only a moment between. Forever dwells in that moment, Hope is what remains to be seen. Forever dwells in that moment, Hope is what remains to be seen. In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect (It's a measure of a life)

Was listening to Clockwork Angels when my friend texted me about this. The Garden just came up. My eyes are watering.

Rush has been my best friend's and my favorite band since we were kids... part of the reason we bonded was because of Rush. They've been the soundtrack for our lives, while Neil's lyrics provided inspiration and wisdom. Very sad news.

Not sure why this thread is in the "Album-Related Discussion" forum, but... I was into the original Battlestar Galactica show when I was 8. As an adult, it's unwatchable. "GINO" was incredibly well done.

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I saw them opening night. I'll sum it up with one word: BALSY Started the show with seven synth-era songs (which have not generally been as well received live). Nine new songs in a row. Orchestra. Two more synth era songs after all the new stuff (Instead of diving into mainstream classics). Four Power Windows songs. Only four pre-Signals songs total (and none until the 22nd song in the set). Only one song from the 1970s (until 2112 was played at the next show). Each of those alone is noteworthy, but for them to do all that at one show is just stunning. And looking at the rest of the tour: Ten new songs (nine per night except for them playing all ten in Dallas). Five Power Windows songs, alternating between playing three and four each night (except for them playing all five in Phoenix). Their last to go Platinum before RTB, but not widely considered a classic. I'm glad they decided to celebrate the synth era (that had been underrepresented in recent tours), particularly Power Windows.

QUOTE (Deckiller @ Sep 12 2012, 01:14 AM)This whole situation (people complaining about the setlist + underselling venues) is making me rather depressed. We might be at the end after 2013 :/ I don't expect this tour to sell as well as the last one for a few reasons: TMT was heavily advertised as a nostalgia Moving Picture tour. There was hype (outside usual Rush fan circles) around the time of the TMT tour due to I Love You Man, Between the Lighted Stage, and their appearance on Colbert. They've been touring a lot recently.IMO, the focus on the synth era will have little effect on ticket sales.

QUOTE (MJH @ Sep 11 2012, 08:42 PM) I just dont get why,the signals reference on the tour book?.. Why not 4-5 songs from that album?? Many consider Signals the start of the synth era (which has been minimally represented live for the last 20+ years).

I was stoked when they played Grand Designs opening night (hadn't heard that one live before), stunned when the dove into Territories, and then completely shocked that they played yet another Power Windows song in the second set (Manhattan Project). Power Windows was my favorite album for over 25 years (until Clockwork Angels came out), so I'm pleased. Having written that, my least favorite PoW songs are The Big Money and Manhattan Project. I hope they play the B set in CT or MA.

QUOTE (LotusLand @ Sep 9 2012, 08:17 PM)Come on Rush.....Lazy. QUOTE (LotusLand @ Sep 9 2012, 09:08 PM)What is happening here is pure laziness QUOTE (LotusLand @ Sep 9 2012, 09:08 PM)This is just a lazy way out at this point in their careers Yes it's astonishing that while you've been selflessly and tireless slaving away at your keyboard posting on message forums, a band of almost 60 year olds is lazily relearning all these songs that haven't been played in 20-28 years while also practicing ten new songs, creating new videos, putting together a new light show, and playing three hour sets. Thanks for all your time and effort! You've opened my eyes to just how lazy the band is.

QUOTE (tullfan @ Sep 9 2012, 06:23 PM)I just think that Rush could put aside 45 minutes in their set list to please the older fans. After all that is the least they could do and they #!#@%ing know it. Instead they take the "This is what we are going to do and we can care less about the fans" attitude. O.K. fine. I give up. I will not be going to this show. Christ-in-a-side-car, they've played lots of stuff from the 1970s on pretty much every tour. This time they decided to mix it up and give the synth era its due after only minimally representing it for the last 20 years, while also dropping most staples. It's not the strongest collection of live songs, but I still think it's awesome that they did something so unexpected.

Starting off the show with 7 synth-era songs, ignoring everything before Signals for the first 21 songs, and skipping FBN-Hem while also playing 53 minutes of new material = Ballsy. Yeah, a lot of the synth era stuff doesn't translate as well live and I would've preferred Open Secrets (never played), Middletown Dreams, Mystic Rhythms, Red Lenses, and Kid Gloves to Force Ten, The Big Money, Manhattan Project, The Body Electric, and Red Sector A. And it's a shame that Driven hasn't been put back in the set. And I'd like to hear Freeze, Nocturne, or Vapor Trail some day (or get Earthshine back in the set). But we can't get everything. My only real complaint is that they ignored BU2B while playing Halo Effect and Wish Them Well (the only songs I skip on CA). Overall the show was awesome. 4 Power Windows songs. Where's My Thing. Analog Kid. 9 CA songs. Strings. Multiple drum solos. Most staples dropped. I'm still reeling from it. QUOTE (DBJetsman @ Sep 8 2012, 10:48 AM)Where's my Thing is awesome! I'm excited to hear that one. I'm still confused why they're playing 4 songs from such a mediocre album (PoW) and they're not playing Marathon. I hope they play the leaked setlist since there were 6 songs I would've loved to hear from it.... Marathon was played on the last tour.

Last night was Rush concert #42 for me. It's not that surprising that they gave the ASOH synth period its due after being minimally representing live for 20 years, but never did I expect them to play 9 of those songs at a single show. And they started the show with 7 of them, completely ignoring everything before Signals for the first 21 songs of the show. Wow! Doing that on a tour when they also played 9 new songs was especially ballsy. Only 4 pre-Signals songs were played (2 MP, 1 PeW, 1 Rush). All albums from FBN to Hem, Presto, and CP to VT ignored! I had anticipated a lot of new tunes, but still to get 53 minutes of new material (the most ever), all played in a row (another first) was a treat. PoW was my favorite album for 25 years (until Clockwork Angels arrived), so to get 3 of its songs early in the set plus a 4th later was incredible (though I would've preferred Middletown Dreams and Mystic Rhythms to The Big Money and Manhattan Project). Getting multiple drum solos was also very cool, as was the return of Where's My Thing. I don't care for The Body Electric, but it was fun to hear it live (especially that bass intro). Analog Kid is always awesome. The string section (yet another first) was also nifty, but it was surprising that they were only used on 2 of the synth era songs (plus CA and YYZ). I would've loved to hear them on Subdivisions, Grand Designs, Territories, and during the opening of TSOR (and on La Villa or Middletown Dreams, had they been played). My only complaint is that they played Halo Effect and Wish them Well (the only two songs from CA that I skip) while not playing BU2B (my 4th favorite from CA). Clockwork Angels, The Anarchist, Carnies, and Headlong Flight were incredible live. Just jaw dropping. Lifeson made a couple mistakes... the flub during the Tom Sawyer solo was hilarious: he realized he missed, paused as he considered how to recover, and then kept going, while grinning and laughing. He made faces at the audience, pointed to himself, and held his nose. He then smelled his armpit, and again made "I stink" gestures. Too funny. I also saw opening night in Albany in 1996 (start of the "Evening with" format, the return of Natural Science, all of 2112 for the first time) and Hartford in 2002 (Between Sun and Moon for the first time, the acoustic version of Resist, the return of Cygnus, Bytor, and Working Man) while also ignoring all Rush news until my first shows during the SnA tour (the big surprises that time were getting 9 new songs, Digital Man, Entre Nous, Mission, Circumstances, and a Passage to Bangkok) and the TM tour (unexpected was Presto, Time Stand Still, Faithless, Marathon). Hartford was probably the best show because of how emotional it was, but last night's show was the most shocking. Easily. Even though the synth era stuff doesn't translate as well live, and this was a very unbalanced set, it was a fantastic show. I look forward to Bridgeport and Boston.

Last night was Rush concert #42 for me. My first concert (by any band) was Rush in Phily in 1987, and I've seen every show in New England since 1989 plus a bunch in NY. So yeah I'm pretty hardcore. But that's nothing compared to what some fans are like. I've seen them front row once and 2nd row a couple times, and was surrounded by fans who all knew each other because they all followed the band and often saw each other at shows. To me, seeing them ~15 times in a single tour would get tiresome (given the mostly static nature of Rush sets). I saw them 5-6 times on a couple tours, and even that started to get old... at this point, to me 2-3 shows per tour is a good number.

Neil was just making a generic off-the-cuff remark about the Christian Right, which has oodles of hypocrisy (if you can't even acknowledge that, then there's no point in discussing it). Neil has been at odds with them for ~35 years, so this is nothing new. And though his views on religion are more prominent on the last couple albums, they're also present in songs written in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Tom Sawyer is often cited, but the atheist/agnostic block on the T4E tour (Freewill, Roll the Bones, Resist) is what stands out to me.

I just gifted it 26 times

Repost http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?showtopic=76362

Wow, thanks for posting... I'm going to gift it to some friends.

IMO, Caravan-Carnies is Rush's strongest 5-song-block. Rush: not even 5 strong songs FBN: not even 5 strong songs COS: not even 5 strong songs (unless TFOL movements count separately) 2112: not even 5 strong songs (unless title track movements count separately) AFTK: not even 5 strong songs (not a fan of Madrical or Cinderella Man) Hem: not even 5 songs (unless title track movements count separately) PeW: #5 (TSOR-DS, almost blocked by Entry Nous and DS is somewhat meh) MP: #3 (Tom Sawyer-Camera Eye) Sig: #4 (Subdivisions-The Weapon, almost blocked by Chemistry) GUP: Too bad The Body Electric is right in the middle PoW: #2 (Marathan-Mystic Rhythms) HYF: spotty Presto: spotty RTB: 1st side almost makes it, but the title track rap kills it (and Face Up's choruses are a tad annoying) CP: Speed of Love wrecks the run... Nobody's Hero and Stick It Out also hurt side 1 T4E: ugh VT: almost (tracks 6-12 if it weren't for 8 and 10) SnA: almost (tracks 6-9) CA: #1 (Caravan-Carnies = freakin awesome) QUOTE (LeaveMyThingAlone @ Jul 30 2012, 09:48 PM)Absolutely! When comparing CA to a MP or PW keep in mind all the extra recording time. If Moving Pictures had 40 minutes, and you took Clockwork's best 40 minutes you'd have: Caravan BU2B Clockwork Angels The Anarchist Carnies Headlong Flight The Garden Not a bad album! And that's actually ~5 minutes longer than MP. I've made that same point a couple times: Just the first 5 CA tracks + Headlong Flight > all of Hemispheres or Permanent Waves. Add in another song and it's at 40-45 minutes.

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 28 2012, 07:04 PM)I did an average of all your song scores - the average is 8.54. My average is 8.41, and that's only because I gave BU2B2 a 1 out of 10. Your average is BARELY above mine, and this is your top album of all time? For me it's only somewhere between 8-10 among Rush albums, and it probably doesn't make my top 100 of all time album list. So does that mean you don't have any albums that you give a 5 out of 5 to every song? I have quite a lot that rate that highly. Correct, I don't have anything in my collection on which every song gets 5 stars. In any case, the average of individual song ratings are only an indicator of what my opinion of an album will be (sometimes the whole is more -or less- than the sum of its parts). QUOTE (losingit2k @ Jul 29 2012, 11:02 AM)It all depends on what you like. Obviously this guy likes RUSH, thinks RUSH is better than any other band in the world and also thinks at this time that Clockwork Angels is the best Rush album better ever. Hence, Best album ever recorded. Not to bold of a statement, just a personal belief. So let him state whats on his mind. I'm sure somewhere out there somewhere has stating that CA is the Worst album ever recorded and he's welcomed to that opinion as well. Its all good! Just Wish Them Well! Bingo. QUOTE (substancewithoutstyle @ Jul 28 2012, 08:03 PM)I hope you're not serious with this. CA is a good, but not great, album. If you think it's the best ever recorded, you must have a very limited collection of music. As I wrote, I know many here don't agree with me. FWIW, I have ~700 albums in my collection (mostly rock, but some classical, jazz, folk, bluesgrass, prog-metal, etc) plus I also listen to quite a bit of Pandora. QUOTE (Tony R @ Jul 28 2012, 06:26 PM)Have you heard some better albums that haven't been recorded? Heh.

QUOTE (theredtamasrule @ Jul 29 2012, 04:33 PM)QUOTE (NYM86 @ Jul 28 2012, 10:56 PM)As far as Neil being back, where did he go? What's lacking about his work on S&A? The Neil Peart as creator of interesting and busy drum parts went into hiding after, I will argue, HYF. The Neil Peart of Presto - S &A just didn't create a whole lot of exciting drumming moments for me. Busy fills on HYF were few and far between as well, and I agree that Neil Peart has generally been too restrained for too long. That written, to be fair to S&A, there are several fun drum parts on MalNar and Far Cry (4:49 is probably my favorite on that album). The Way the Wind Blows, The Main Monkey Business, and We Hold On all have some great grooves too... arguably not as many as we got in the old days or on CA, but I wouldn't lump S&A in with HYF-VT (in terms of understated drumming). QUOTE (losingit2k @ Jul 29 2012, 10:46 AM)QUOTE (ThinkingBig @ Jul 29 2012, 07:55 AM) The long one in headlong flight. Don't know the time code, and I'm annoyed that I need to know it to answer this poll. That would be Headlong Flight 4:33. I don't know why you are annoyd. If you knew it was the one in Headlong Flight, all you had to do is play Headlong Flight and forward it to one of those time positions. Yep, I already knew a few of the fills by the time codes, but listened to the rest of them by sliding to the right spot. Back in my day, for this sort of thing we had to use a stop watch, pencil, and paper (while we messed with the tape deck). Seeing Headlong Flight get 6 spots in this poll made me think of when a buddy asked me what I thought shortly after the single came out. My reply was simply: "jamtastic, drum-fill-athon". There are so many great CA fills to choose from, but I'm going with HF 1:42. The transition from the drums to the cymbals is so cool... gets me every time. The 4:33 HF solo is probably the runner up. Anyway, most polls at this site are worthless, but this one is fun; thanks for starting it.

After almost two months (about 100 listens), my new Rush album euphoria has warn off and I've concluded: Clockwork Angels is the best album ever recorded. Yes, you read that right. My ranking and ratings of the songs: (5.0 stars) Clockwork Angels(5.0 stars) Headlong Flight(5.0 stars) The Anarchist(5.0 stars) BU2B (4.5 stars) Carnies(4.5 stars) Caravan(4.0 stars) BU2B2(4.0 stars) The Wreckers (3.5 stars) Seven Cities of Gold(3.5 stars) The Garden(3.0 stars) Halo Effect(3.0 stars) Wish Them WellTruth be told, it's not as consistant as Power Windows or Moving Pictures, and I've pulled Halo Effect and Wish Them Well out of the rotation. Some might argue that having a couple good-but-not-great songs should preclude the album from being considered "the best", but the remaining 10 songs are over 57 minutes (and the top 6 songs alone are longer than all of Permanent Waves or Hemispheres). The combination of jamming, improvisation, groove, hook, solos, fills, great lyrics, pleasant singing, and feel is simply incredible. I've been a fan for over 25 years, and I've never felt this way about a new Rush album (Snakes and Arrows and Counterparts are awesome, but Clockwork Angels is just on a different level). Of course, this is all IMO and I know many here don't hold the new album in such high regard. But I wanted to share my opinion with those who would understand the magnitude of what I'm feeling, even if they don't agree with my opinion. Normal people just can't grasp how monumental a new Rush album is Anyway, thanks for reading.

I'm not a collector, but I splurged for the gold edition because after ~100 listens, I consider Clockwork Angels their best album. Having the artwork and corresponding book's manuscript framed and signed by Neil Peart, Kevin Anderson, and Hugh Syme is nifty: http://u.rockthisthing.com/image/440/440/RUCL002003_001.jpg Hopefully the book is pretty good too