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My father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate told me otherwise.

Are you sure? Maybe if we fine-comb the lyrics we can find a cryptic reference to bats.

 

Geddy sounds like a bat in some parts

 

http://apps.npr.org/bats/

I like the big gong at the end of the song too.

 

Hemispheres has everything. :)

 

it doesn't have bats

 

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/GTY_swarm_of_bats_BE9805-001_jt_131124_16x9_992.jpg

I guess I'd say Prelude. But the song still blows.

 

Should I add an option that says "everything before the *ding*"?

 

Or everything before and after the ding.

 

I updated it.

I guess I'd say Prelude. But the song still blows.

 

Should I add an option that says "everything before the *ding*"?

I used to be borderline-obsessed with mathematics but never had the patience to get very far with it, although I used to read tons of stuff about the history of mathematics. I always found the "back-stories" of why and how different forms of mathematics came into existence to be far more interesting than the implentation itself and I wish the math courses I took actually went into those stories and reasons. Would've gave an interesting context to what we were learning instead of the dull way they presented it.

The entire thing as a whole is perfect. What is the point in breaking it into parts?

 

Why don't you ask the band why they did that?

 

They should've just called the entire song THE SPHERE

 

That's not the point. I was asking why we had to prefer one part or the other. The entire song is one epic. We don't have to dissect everything.

 

You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. Just like no one has to answer your question.

 

Why don't you lie in the street and protest this thread?

 

But you did.

 

But I didn't have to.

I did like that extra line they added before the solo on Presto during the TM Tour. Although I initially found it awkward I now miss it when I listen to the studio version.

Geddy sounded like a banshee back in the day.

 

ban·shee

ˈbanSHē/

 

noun

noun: banshee; plural noun: banshees

1. (in Irish legend) a female spirit whose wailing warns of an impending death in a house.
    
   
   "the little girl dropped her ice cream and began to howl like a banshee"
   
   

Like A Prayer is a GREAT ALBUM

It's the best Madonna album.

 

See? We agree on a lot of things! ;) ;)

 

It is! I wish she carried on this quality through the nineties...although i love Ray Of Light.

 

I was going to mention Ray of Light before I saw that you did. You have good taste (sometimes).

The entire thing as a whole is perfect. What is the point in breaking it into parts?

 

Why don't you ask the band why they did that?

 

They should've just called the entire song THE SPHERE

 

That's not the point. I was asking why we had to prefer one part or the other. The entire song is one epic. We don't have to dissect everything.

 

You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. Just like no one has to answer your question.

 

Why don't you lie in the street and protest this thread?

The entire thing as a whole is perfect. What is the point in breaking it into parts?

 

Why don't you ask the band why they did that?

 

They should've just called the entire song THE SPHERE

http://cdn.phillymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CheeseAssortment1.jpg

59 Yes votes.

 

What happened with this thread? I wasn't on here much yesterday and things turned it to a processed dairy product.

Don't ask. It started late yesterday afternoon. After I left, it really took a nose-dive. :(

 

No, we were discussing Presto therefore it elevated the thread.

In the 1970s, his voice was WAY to high and screechy. I could never think about singing like he did back from Rush to Hemispheres. And people have told me that I sound just like Geddy when I sing Rush songs (albeit they've only heard me sing The Spirit Of Radio and Subdivisions) His voice really changed both around Permanent Waves and Signals. He did lose a lot of range, but I felt his voice really stabilized around 1982-1984 and became amazing...

What do you mean when you say he lost "a lot of range"?

 

He lost that screechy high voice.

 

He stopped smoking

The more I think about it the more I think Hold Your Fire does the best with philosophical and instrospective themes as well as their execution.

 

The themes themeselves may not be as "big" or lofty as some other albums but it's certainly more consistent song by song with conveying those ideas in a thoughtful and precise manner.

http://jamesostafford.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/rush-hemispheres-gatefold.jpg

Hemispheres is a Yes wannabe album.

Maybe, but it doesn't even remotely sound like anything Yes would do or had done by that time.

 

Ok that came out wrong.

 

Hemispheres is the closest they ever got to matching a Yes album with an epic.

 

It doesn't sound like Yes but it almost matches Close To The Edge or Relayer in terms of quality.

 

Wannabe was a stupid word.

 

Not 'stupid'; just say it was too harsh, or something like that.

 

I've never thought about how it is stylistically and structurally similar to Close to the Edge. I can definitely see that. But even still, the sound is completely, uniquely Rush.

 

I was referring to the high standard of the album, nearly equally matching the Yes epics!

 

I wasn't saying Hems sounds like Yes. It is all Cool Cheese!

 

fixed

It means what the thread title states....

 

:/

 

Well, I'm heartened by your insistence on linguistic precision. I guess I should have said that it depends on how the people responding to the poll are interpreting the question. In my experience, most people more or less equate "intellectual" and "intelligent," though also in my experience, they aren't necessarily related at all. As George Orwell said, some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. Anyway, maybe people here are making the distinction, maybe not. Either way, no matter.

 

Well it doesn't really matter. Most people can't think so we'll take what we can get ;)

Savage, why must you repeat yourself in every thread two and three times? We hear you the first time.

 

I don't know what happened...

I was just teasing you. I know there is some kind of quirk in the system here that causes that to happen for some people.

 

No, I didn't mean to post that hair comment here. I thought I was on the other thread. Unless there's a glitch that makes posts spread to other threads...

I say Power Windows.

 

And this is the only answer that really matters ;)

Savage, why must you repeat yourself in every thread two and three times? We hear you the first time.

 

I don't know what happened...

So did you imply that Hemispheres was already dated when it was released in 1978 in that other thread, Lorraine ;)

And now ten pages about Alex's hair

Now another ten pages on Alex's hair...