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It comes up from time to time on here but apparently any footage that was left off the final edit of the ESL concert video was lost or thrown out decades ago. Never gonna see anything extra from that, nor the GUP show. Although some guy was claiming years ago he had the missing GUP in his possession and was going to release it but it was BS

How is this going to be much different than the two or three previous coffee table books Popoff wrote about Rush album by album?

Ellish's pretentious breathy whispery voice gimmick renders her music unlistenable for me

I don't know if it was the mix or their sound or a combination of things but the mid '80s GUP/PW songs on the CA tour sounded a little rote and dull, not anything like they did on ASOH or the bootlegs I heard from the GUP/PW tours. Alex doesn't really look all that excited during The Body Electric on the DVD

I like the beginning of Spindrift and the guitar riff. But then I find myself losing interest in the song and jabbing the skip button about a minute & a half into it lol

You know, Neil penned some pretty awkward cringy lyrics from time to time but even his worst had nothing on THAT awful dreck "Pizza man wanting a slice" ?

TFE, Snakes, Feedback & Clockwork are pretty much relegated to drink coaster status for me. Vapor Trails has at least three or four songs I find worthwhile

This is going to sound nitpicky but the particular reverb on Lee's vocals on ATWAS always bothered me and took away from it. His 70's voice sounded better on live recording with a slightly drier effect like on the Different Stages disc 3 years later or how he sounded on the studio records

I'm pretty sure the bass in Scars using a repetitive looped synth was much easier (especially playing live) than playing it manually. Its the same line over and over again. No way would Geddy wanted to recreate that live on his Wal

I liked Double Agent circa 1993 when Counterparts came out. Now years later it just sounds corny

Go to YouTube and listen to Armor & Sword on 1.25x speed. Give it a few minutes to get your ears used to it like that's the way it was originally recorded and should sound. Now go back to normal speed. Sounds like a walkman with dying batteries, doesn't it? That song is a friggin' SLOG WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???

Scars is a song I've always liked but seemed like an odd type of arrangement for Rush. One reviewer said it sounded like The Fixx more than Rush

He's always held PW and RTB up as his personal favorites for many years

I noticed starting with the Signals tour, someone must have told Geddy to look more lively on stage or something. He had some pretty goofy moves and dances going lol

Since Neil wasn't in the band yet I consider not counting the debut album as a "real" Rush album for these types of lists

Everyday Glory was mixed noticeably louder than the other songs on CP. Especially the bass. It's obnoxiously loud & up front in the mix lol

It stinks and I don't like it

I get why people like the lyrics of The Garden but I don't geek out and get reduced to tears by it. It's OK. Pleasant. But not the epic soul wrenching experience a lot of fans seem to have with it

I wouldn't say I ever broke up with the band but I found my enthusiasm waning after Test For Echo (the album not the tour) which was less than a great record and then Vapor Trails I was sort of back on board mostly even though it was three or four songs too long and I wasn't crazy about the too heavy sound but by far my biggest "WTF is going on with these guys?!?" was the stupid Snakes album. After all the usual pre-release hype of "this is our best work ever!" and the hardcore fans declaring it the best thing Rush ever did post Moving Pictures, I was so let down by the record aside from Far Cry and Mal Narsissm was like a mini-YYZ and a fun little instrumental. Part of it was the times we were living in. It was pretty negative at the moment, I was tired of hearing about the Iraq/Afganistan Wars and President Bush being the constant thing to bitch about in pop culture news and music at the time and Rush generally avoided politics. So here they are popping off about war and politics and the overtly negative songs which were all recorded in the most uninteresting unmemorable unexciting way possible with some of Neil's worst lyrics ever and Geddy's worst singing ever , no hooks or exciting parts like they always seemed to come up with, and I was livid. I came so close to tossing the CD out of my car window. My favorite band had let me down big time. I saw them on tour and the only songs I enjoyed was the revival of Circumstances, Entre Nous, Mission. The performing of the new album almost start to finish was the longest bathroom and beer run break ever. I only own the album to be a completeist (sp?) I also at the time was into younger hard rock bands like Jet, Wolfmother, Velvet Revolver which in comparison were way more exciting and uptempo than tired ol' Rush with their lethargic folk rock fusion flop album and classics which I had already heard 5 million times and before Lee's voice started to wear out. Saw Velvet Revolver live at PNC Arts Center that summer 2007 and they were awesome. By the time Clockwork came out I was already aware that their songwriting abilites and Neil's lyrics had been on a downhill slope since TFE so I only bought it out of a sense of duty and it's stil the most dense indigestable slab of mostly unlistenable noise (and again three songs too long) I ever bought. A lot of the riffs and parts are good but like someone else put it, it's like Rush was just scotchtaping a bunch of parts from the garbage bin together slathtering the lyrics on top with Geddy's creaky aged voice straining and yodeling and declaring it a "song"

Caravan could've used a little less of the repetitive "I can't stop thinking big" part. It gets annoying after awhile. But I do like that echo-ey reverb effect Alex had on his guitar parts. It was recorded well.

VT has the better songs, Snakes has a better recording & mix If only they could've been combined into one good album not fatally flawed individually as they are now

VT should've ended after Sweet Miracle or Earthshine. The last three songs aren't just average at best but lyrically don't fit with the rest of the album. I'll amend that, OOTC sort of does with it's themes of rebirth and new beginnings but its a badly recorded song that should've been left off

I always thought Everyday Glory sounded like a leftover from RTB only recorded with beefier guitar & bass. I like the song well but its out of place lyrically on Counterparts. It's also noticeably louder than the other CP songs, I don't think I've ever not immediately reached to turn the volume down a couple notches whenever I have that CD playing in the car

The part in the middle of the title track where it sounds like Geddy was recorded talking over a cheap speaker phone ...WTF was THAT all about? Can anyone make out a single word of it? Lol

"Closer To The Dave'???...