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I only get 1 week vacation a year, I have 3 days left and they expire... Apr. 30. (For some reason the "fiscal year" for my vacation days is May 1-Apr 30 )So going to St. Paul will have to come out of next year's whopping 5 days off. Which will make getting to a Vikings game next season a bit of a schedule squeeze. But I cannot miss this :D-13:

This is more like 1a and 1b... 1a: Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Limelight 1b: Caravan, BU2B, Clockwork Angels, The Anarchist

Rivendell Tears Madrigal Heresy Common denominator: :zzz:

I wouldn't call it an insult. I think whether someone buys it depends on how fanatic they are about either upgrading to Blu-ray or bonus material. For me, I'm not buying it because I already have ReplayX3, RiR, S&A, TM and CA on DVD. Blu-Ray and the bonus materials aren't enough of an attraction for the price. Those who feel they must have the shows in blu-ray, or who are dedicated completists, will happily fork over the cash.

Cygnus X-1.

I just laughed at the thought of Geddy playing "My Wife" "Gonna buy a tank and an aeroplane. When she catches up with me won't be no time to explain..."

The Spirit Of Radio Subdivisions What You're Doing on ATWAS (that bass line may not be fancy, but it's lethal :haz: )

In a phrase you'll never hear on Big Bang Theory, Sheldon nailed it :D-13:

:zzz: THE GARDEN :zzz:

1. Clockwork Angels 2. Caravan 3. Earthshine 4. BU2B Instead of being limited to 5, I've got a handful I can't decide between... OLV Ceiling Unlimited Vapor Trail Workin' Them Angels TMMB The Anarchist 7COG Call them 5a through 5g

Earthshine and wearing a Vapor Trails t-shirt? :D-13:

With what they charge for beer or even bottled water at shows, I'd sooner die of dehydration. Although I did spend most of 4 renditions of Spindrift in '07-08 going :sigh: :eyeroll: The Garden was another :zzz: moment.

How It Is isn't great, but it's not a skipper. Only VT song I regularly skip is Freeze, to me it sounds helter-skelter, bits and pieces thrown together that don't fit well. I also frequently skipped Secret Touch on the original, but the remix was a huge improvement for that song.

What comes to mind for me aren't bad songs, but good ones with a "who thought THAT was a good idea?!?" moment in them: The electronic drum hits on the end of Force 10. "I mean the places were we live" in Second Nature... the "I mean" sounds jammed in there and adds no lyrical meaning. Not a bad moment, rather the amputation of a good one: Fading out Alex's solo on The Wreckers. Grand Designs: all those "whoa-oh-oh-oooh"s at the end. Should have shut Geddy up and let the song play out.

This is tough... Stadium (MP, Signals, plus the "Big 3" from PeW is unassailable) Synth (Only 2 misses total on these 3 albums: Afterimage and Tai Shan) Current (VT rocks, CA their best since at least Cp and possibly all the way back to Signals. S&A hurt by Spindrift and Good News First, but VT and CA's strength carries it up here) Prog (really picking nits between the top 4 eras... not really into Hemi (the epic) and Madrigal is a snore) Return (Schizoid... Presto and Cp very good, RTB and T4E listenable but not a lot of wow) Early (CoS by far their worst, FBN dragged by In The End and Rivendell)

This song was a huge "grower" for me. Pretty much ignored it for a long time, then one time through HYF it just "clicked". The guitar on the verses like a driving rain, the chorus about how people are still primally drawn to the shore... excellent :D-13:

I don't have a cell phone. I loathe coffee.. can barely stand to walk down that aisle in the supermarket without gagging. RushBoingo: I grew up mainly on 80's "hair bands". The only other "prog" in my CD collection is some ELP, Kansas and Spock's Beard. None of which sound much like Rush either. and now to reply to the original question and make lots of people say : ... likes Body Electric much better than Afterimage? ...finds The Garden boring? ...would rather listen to any song on Presto rather than Cygnus X-1 Book 2? ...hasn't had a copy of CoS for about 20 years because everything listenable on it is on ATWAS? ...would rather hear a 20-minute loop of Dog Years rather than TFOL? You may fire when ready :bang bang:

Rush>FBN>CoS<2112>AFTK>Hemi<PeW<MP>Sig>P/G>PoW>HYF<Presto>RTB<Cp>T4E<VT>S&A<CA

Tai Shan :zzz:

I've already got ReplayX3, RiR, S&A, TM and CA on DVD. $200 for blu-ray upgrade and R30? Pass.

Definitely yes they should. I voted for Lock and Key High Water Would also really enjoy Prime Mover The ones I do NOT want to hear: Tai Shan Force Ten (been done to death, and if they pull it out again while completely ignoring the Presto album just stay. The hell. Away. From me. )

You got that backwards

I Think I'm Going Bald Necromancer TFOL Yikes Oh... for each album? Um, sorry, but CoS is the only album with 3 consecutive bad songs on it. :outtahere:

The song wasn't odd, but the place might qualify: The SF Giants baseball stadium (whatever they were calling it then) in 2004. End Of April, playing defending champion Marlins, Giants come back from early 9-2 deficit with grand slam by rookie callup, are leading 12-9 when the closer comes in with Tom Sawyer as his entrance music. He got the save, and came in again for the save the following day game (Giants rally from 3-2 down to win 6-3) Hearing Tom Sawyer at a baseball park isn't really weird I guess, but as someone's entrance music it was a pleasant surprise :D-13:

Caress Of Steel. It's the only album I actually dislike the majority of: 5 minutes of classic (Bastille Day) 5 minutes of pretty good (Lakeside Park) 3 minutes of misfired joke (I Think I'm Going Bald) 30 minutes of well-intentioned (Necromancer + TFOL) Next "worst" would be RTB and T4E.. or perhaps that should be T4E and RTB. Anyway, the only downright unlistenable song for me on those two albums is Heresy, and at least that's only 5 minutes.