jnoble

Working Man: "Log it up, seven, yay! and Ill go to work at nine..." and later towards the end: "Well they call me the working maid..."

2112: "We've taken care of everything The words you eat the songs you sing..." And later: "...never need to work or have a wife..."

You said exactly what Ive thought for a long time. His tone went from moderately aggressive (Ric/Fender late '70s, early '80s) to distinctive but thin and dinky (Steinberger/Wal) and back to aggressive with CP which was good but yeah....TFE was the beginning of his overreliance on DI and distortions/overdriven sound and it often doesn't sound good to me...an example would be his tone on the recent live revival of Where's My Thing....his tone is much too dirty and clangy. The Wal had so much more finesse to its tone.Geddy too often sounds like he's playing through a stack of blown amps and broken speakers cranked to 11

Official releases? Best: Exit Stage Left Worst: either Time Machine or R40

And then....soooo tiiiiiiiight! I hate this song even more than I realised. The 'so tight' bit is actually in Double Agent, and not Stick it Out. I was trying to piece the song together in my mind and it wasn't working! Now I know why! I won't replay Stick It Out though. Arg that song makes me so angry that I want to shoot cute things. *myself hehehe* I like Stick it Out. I like most of that album. I do not care for Nobody's Hero and The Speed of Love. But the rest I like. Its better than RtB. Cut To The Chase and especially Between Sun&Moon are very good. Never understood why BS&M wasnt played live until Vapor Trails tour and then forgotten about again

I really liked this! Know what would be awesome? If animations just like this for ALL of the epic songs were made....By-Tor, Necromancer, The Fountain of Lamneth, Xanadu, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres..... :7up:

I also wondered why only one video from RTB especially considering MTV videos were still a thing and that album charted very well. Dreamline or Ghost shouldve been done too

I really liked his studio vocals on Presto

I like and love most of the album, I hate this song. It is the only Rush song I truly hate. Nothing else even approaches strong dislike! (Actually as I type that You Bet Your Life came to mind). Counterparts is an odd album, but a good one. I loved the return to a harder louder sound on that album but didn't care much for many of the lyrics or themes.

Anyone else find it odd Rush never made any videos for anything off Permanent Waves?

The Body Electric was never released outside of Through The Camera Eye either along with the aforementioned Countdown

FIFY! :D

Only 8 for the 4 albums skipped. And of those 8, only 4 played on any given night. Big f'in deal :eyeroll:

oh yes, I'm clearly the ONLY ONE ever on TRF who was disappointed they skipped over everything between '85 and '91.... :sarcastic:

here's what I think may have made a better show. First and foremost, not skipping any albums. Two songs are included from each that can be mixed and matched for an A/B/C alternating setlist: Clockwork Angels/Anarchist Far Cry/Main Monkey One Little Victory/How It Is Test For Echo/Driven Animate/Between Sun And Moon RTB/Dreamline Show Don't Tell/The Pass Force Ten/Time Stand Still Big Money/Marathon Distant Early Warning/Red Sector A Subdivisions/Analog Kid/Losing It Tom Sawyer/YYZ *Second half of show break* Spirit/Jacobs Ladder Hemisphere's Prelude (in normal key up until the vocal part then segway into Cygnus X-1) Xanadu 2112 overture Bastille Day/Lakeside Park Anthem/By-Tor (abbreviated) What You're Doing Working Man Also, Geddy would only use his Fender Jazz basses and later on the '70s material, his Rickenbacker. No switching to one increasingly ugly bass after another every song.

COS wasn't as produced or recorded as well as FBN was.For one thing Geddy's vocals in FBN were doubletracked in a lot of songs which lent them a nice thickness. Not so much in COS which sounds plain in comparison or sort of half-baked.

Snakes and Arrows has Far Cry. If it was only one song long (that one) I'd like it much better. :|

kids today, with their "Youtube" and "celluar camera phones"....why, back in MY day, you had to sneak in a walkman with a live record function and maybe get some hissy crappy warbley sounding audio with people around you talking to hear a song live that wasn't available legit! :codger: :eyeroll:

You can remaster till you're blue in the face, but those albums will never sound aggressive or ballsy outside of a complete re-record with different instruments. I don't know why some on here think a remaster is suddenly going to turn Presto or RTB into Ride The Lightning or something :eyeroll:

It's half a great album. If it only consisted of Dreamline, Bravado, RTB, Where's My thing, and Ghost Of A Chance it would be (to me anyway) an absolute classic. Too bad the second half of the album sounds mailed in. It's not even so much the lyrics or music, it's the tinny production and Alex's choice of guitar tone etc etc.

I love how the studio cut of Anthem stops as abruptly as the song starts

his solo on the live version of Secret Touch is kick-ass too.

Yeah, the story of "how we became Rush". I'm sure they've only told that 3 billion times by now lol I'm also a big Elton John fan and I've heard that poor guy answer the "where did you and Bernie Taupin meet?" and "how do you write songs...does the music come first or do you write to the lyrics?" questions about 5 zillion times too :eyeroll:

A lot of folks here and elsewhere always say the live version of a Rush song is better, but personally I go back and forth. So here's my list of which version of a particular Rush song I'll never get tired of hearing and prefer over any other version, some of which may surpise some of you: Working Man: studio What You're Doing: All The World's A Stage (blows the studio version away) Anthem: studio (Geddy Lee never quite sang it live the same way as the FBN cut) By-Tor: Exit Stage Left video 2112: ATWAS Xanadu: studio Closer To The Heart: studio (Geddy's vocals on the live ones even in the '70s never quite topped the album) Cygnus X-1: studio The Trees: official live video from '78 (Geddy's bass tone was unreal) La Villa: A Show Of Hands video (for some reason Rush's late '80s/early '90s sound worked better for this song than the earlier era) Spirit Of Radio: studio Tom Sawyer: Exit Stage Left (slightly faster tempo and didn't sound as "clean" as the original which I've probably heard too many times anyway) Limelight: Exit Stage Left video YYZ: A Show Of Hands video Subdivisions: studio The Big Money: studio Force Ten: A Show Of Hands Where's My Thing: Roll The Bones live soundboard bootleg Dreamline: Different stages Secret Touch: Rio (blows away the album version) That's all I can think of off the top of my head, wasn't going to go through literally every song.

Neil and the other two are on record admitting that Presto couldve been better than what it was and if they had one album to re-record, it would be that one. If anything, it was the first baby step towards getting away from the lush overproduced "everything but the kitchen sink" thrown in sound of the previous two albums and going more stripped down guitar/bass/drums.