WCFIELDS

Happy Birthday man...

Happy Anniversary bud...

Taxi Driver and Goodfellas come to mind....

Listening to The End of all Flesh right now.....awesome album. Their new one is pretty good too....

QUOTE (adace1 @ Aug 15 2012, 03:31 AM) This album is amazing. Give it a listen ASAP after a few listens it sounds pretty good....not as good as Night is the new Day.

QUOTE (losingit2k @ Aug 12 2012, 11:19 AM) QUOTE (CygnusX-1Bk2 @ Aug 6 2012, 03:44 PM) Why is that weird? How many bands have been together as long as Rush with such a divers catalog? Anyone who is a member here is obviously a Rush fan. Anyone who doesn't like a given recording is being honest. However liking an album just because somebody you like made it is dishonest. That is what is going on here. Suddenly it is cool to be a Rush fan so the mob mentality is taking over as if they've been fans all along. 99% of Amazon reviews is a terrible argument for why you like an album, or justifying your saying you like. My opinion is based upon what I've come to expect from Rush as well as being an audio professional and musician. My opinion is not based on any input from another being other than myself. I KNOW that CA is not a good Rush album. I can hear it in the production and in the material. I love Rush. They are by far my favorite band but they are far from infallible. They know when they make a good record and when they make a bad one. They rarely play material from HYF because they knew when they made it it wasn't good. They weren't having fun while they made it. As a result it sounds forced and lacks energy. When they talk about it they say it reminds them of bad stuff. Same with Caress of Steel. Of course they have to say they feel strongly about it because they just made it. But let me pose this: Had they truly felt strongly about all of the material they wouldn't have released only 2 songs and then toured. They would have pushed through to finish the album and then toured. I think they forced themselves to make this album and that's what it sounds like. So that everyone here would buy it and they have an excuse to tour again which is where they make their money now. Why do you think they release so many DVDs of tours? Because the tour is where the money is. The age of the album is over, as much as I hate to say it. Same thing for the arena rock star. The acts that come up now and in the future will not be able to generate the kind of audience for large venue tours. As all of the 70's and 80's bands (some 90's too) fade into memory so too will stadiums filled with music fans. This is the biggest pack of Bull Shark I have ever read. I had too read it twice just to make sure but You haven't even make one valid comment. You completely lost me on your comment that they don't play HYF any longer when its almost present on every tour: Presto Tour: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Mission Roll The Bones: Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Counterparts: Time Stand Still Test For Echo: Force Ten Vapor Trails: (Absent) R30: Force Ten Snake & Arrows: Mission Time Machine Tour: Time Stand Still So since HYF its been in every tour except Vapor Trails, that hardy constitutes not playing it live. You ever thought that they released Caravan & BU2B because they felt stongly about it? No, Not never entered your ignorant mind. As for us loving CA because its cool now? You are so deluted on this one its not even worth commenting on!....But here goes: I've been a fan since Signals, I'm an accomplished Keybaordist singer/ song writer and I also sing classic music for the Master Chorale of South Florida. So I can say I know a little about the art and I can also say this is their best album since the early 80's. The problem with many fans like yourself is a complete unwillingness or incapability to adjust to new ideas or concepts. You are unable to change or even adapt when others change. Hence you get left behind with your antiquated ideas which creates animocity. I'm truly sorry (For You) that CA doesn't sound like RUSH's 2112-MP Era. But I for one a m glad, Cause if you start reproducing the same album over and over again you become stagnet and fall to the way side. RUSH's logevity is due to their constant change. They don't rest on their laurels, they break new ground, sometimes painfully, but eventually they reach their set goal. Clockwork Angels is another Plateau for RUSH of many! Name another band that has acheived such heights while enduring perpetual changes! No-One! "No changes are permanent, only change!" Neil laid the foundation of RUSH's History Past and Future in that line alone. Deal with it! I suggest you read his post a third time then....he said "They RARELY play material from HYF". Some truth to that, because lately (compared to a lot of their other albums), they don't play that much from it...

Musicianship 7 Bass 7 Artwork 5 Drumming 7 Song Writing 5 Overall concept/story 4 Guitars 6 Vocals 4 Song Lyrics 6 Sound Quality 3

QUOTE (GernTheFish @ Aug 9 2012, 09:11 AM)It's interesting to me that some people claim they don't notice the difference in sound quality between VT, S&A and CA. This can only be attributable to 3 things: 1. variety of sound systems. 2. People hear things differently 3. They're lying 4. Fanbois

QUOTE (Ya_Big_Tree @ Aug 6 2012, 04:21 PM) Just got into this show and I'm about done the second season. DAMN I am seriously hooked!! From what I hear people saying it just keeps getting better. Season 2 is the best IMO....of course so are the others.....but it was my favorite...

QUOTE (Gompers @ Aug 6 2012, 12:21 PM) QUOTE (metaldad @ Jul 26 2012, 03:08 PM) QUOTE (losingit2k @ Jul 26 2012, 10:09 AM) The truth is that if many of the older fans didn't like Signals Bullshit . I love it and think it is the last Great album they have put out I thought you loved CA? you're thinking of S&A...

QUOTE (CygnusX-1Bk2 @ Aug 6 2012, 04:29 PM) QUOTE (Tombstone Mountain @ Aug 6 2012, 01:55 PM) QUOTE (CygnusX-1Bk2 @ Aug 6 2012, 03:44 PM) I KNOW that CA is not a good Rush album. I can hear it in the production and in the material. I love Rush. They are by far my favorite band but they are far from infallible. They know when they make a good record and when they make a bad one Please don't take this like a slap, because it's not: So you're saying that the band was being disenguious about their motives. You know, getting their chops at their playing peak? that's why they released two of the stronger songs. toured to get into great playing shape, then record. that part is just BS coming from the RUSH camp? By saying that you know CA is a bad album you represent a VERY, VERY small minority. Anyway, thanks for all that you do for TRF When I can get past the production values to evaluate the material my reactions on an emotional level is not excitement or joy. It's hard to find the narrative in the lyrics. Ultimately it doesn't suck but it is far from their greatest effort, let alone a masterpiece as so many claim. There will be no Classic Album episode about Clockwork Angels as there is for Moving Pictures and 2112 because it will not be a Classic Album. For many other bands this might a great album but from Rush it is not. It is fair to decent for them. I agree with this. Way too many people on here throwing masterpiece around with this album, probably not realizing what it even means. It's not even close to being Rush's best album, let alone a masterpiece.

a couple of each....

ATWAS.

QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 5 2012, 08:28 PM) QUOTE (J2112YYZ @ Aug 5 2012, 09:04 PM) QUOTE (metaldad @ Aug 4 2012, 05:24 PM) Testament has less than half of the recording budget Rush has yet this album sounds 100 times better than C.A. I once read that Chuck Billy was an owner of a trucking company. He uses that as a second source of income when Testament isn't doing anything. Maybe he's making more money than we think and can afford to make the production so good. The new Rush is great but it would be incredible if it had the production quality and clarity that Dark Roots has. My favorite songs on the album are all in a row. Native Blood, Dark Roots Of Earth, True American Hate and A Day In The Death. The whole album is great but that four song run is awesome I like their cover of Powerslave but every time I hear it I have to go listen to the original right after. My copy still hasn't arrived yet... Can't you buy your CD's anywhere locally? This album is awesome.....front to back.

One of the better episode's so far this season

QUOTE (Union 5-3992 @ Aug 5 2012, 09:50 PM) QUOTE (WCFIELDS @ Aug 5 2012, 11:48 PM) pretty good episode..... Wait, why did I even look at this topic to read this? I must avoid the temptation! That's why I didn't elaborate any further....I knew you have seen it, and didn't want to spoil anything....

pretty good episode.....

QUOTE (ReflectedLight @ Aug 5 2012, 08:48 PM) they are definitely going to play the wreckers which means it's a pee/beer break but if they play 7 cities followed by the wreckers and than headlong flight after that, which they will probably do, it's a very tricky pee/beer break. have to be out quick after 7 cities, than hope the beer line isn't too long in order to get back for headlong flight in time. more like nap time....

Great classic song.....I can do without it live though. Wouldn't want to hear Ged attempt this one....

QUOTE (patjnev @ Aug 4 2012, 02:27 AM)I wish I could say I do like the last three studio cd's but I don't .Basically what I like in a Rush song has dissapeared . Looking back I guess It was kinda silly of me to expect a band that doesn't repeat itself to repeat itself. Isn't the definition of crazy something to effect of doing the same thing over again and expecting different results? I have been pondering my position since the release and still can't fiigure out why I hate the new Rush and everyone else loves them . Was I even a Rush fan to begin with? Maybe I liked Rush for reasons everyone else didn't. I became a fan in 83 or so right at the pinnacle of their popularity . I remember "Cool" kids in school wearing their concert jerseys. Tom Sawyer was the first Rush song I ever heard and I was a fan since. Being a fan of Synthesizers since I first seen Michael Iceberg in Disney as a kid ,I loved the way Rush used them to texture their sound. Not knowing who they were I was elated to see they had such a rich recording history. Then it happened. I heard Circumstances . With the synthesizer middle 8 and solo I was hooked. Then Signals came out and I loved playing allong to the record on my Poly61 and guitar. Rush just doesn't excite me anymore. I wish they did . But I have moved on . Like Geddy says " We have no control over losing fans at different stages of our career" Its been a wild ride and I will always love Rush . But I will be damned if I think this stuff is good . Its not . It's not a matter of repeating themselves or making Permanent Waves Pt.2......it's a matter of writing good, cohesive, melodic songs that flow without sounding disjointed. Those days pretty much ended around with HYF/Presto...While there are a few ok songs on CA, they just don't write songs like the use to. It's been "new Rush" ever since Presto. For me personally, I could maybe make 1 good album from all of the albums since Presto. Most of the elements that made me love Rush to begin with are long gone. It's all about expectations. I don't expect much from them anymore, so I don't get disappointed..