Silas Lang

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foreigner

QUOTE (amish_ashaman @ Jun 13 2010, 12:31 AM) I don't really see how anyone could listen to FBN-MP and think that the music didn't start to slip a little with Signals. I've struggled with describing this for a long time, but at some point in the 80's, music in general seemed to get lighter, almost "bouncy" (for lack of a better word), in a way. Song structure changed, songs began to sound more processed. Rush had changed every album, but at some point they seemed to lose their fire. If you can't hear a difference, I don't really know what to tell you. All bands do it. They hit it big and lose the hunger that got them there. This is one of the most ridiculous arguments. All bands do it. They lose the fire and start playing lighter, more commercial sounding stuff. Many of them make some sort of recovery, but never really get back to the magic of the old days. I agree with you on Signals and Hold Your Fire but your reasoning i completely disagree with. They were experimenting with new sounds, approaches, textures and not all experiments are always successful. They weren't trying to be commercial or lose their hunger or passion for making music. Anyway they came back with a vengeance on Grace Under Pressure and Power Windows, two albums loaded with great music.

Some links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB3mcYs5IU4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zhd9k74DHo I can post more if you like

QUOTE (amish_ashaman @ Jun 12 2010, 03:47 AM) I had the displeasure of hearing it on the HYF tour. That had to be the worst tour they've ever done. That whole era needs to die and stay dead. Power Windows, Hold Your Fire and Presto are three really bad albums.

Black Sabbath War Pigs - Black Sabbath Black Juju - Alice Cooper 2112 - Rush The Red And The Black - Blue Oyster Cult Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin Man On The Silver Mountain - Rainbow Space Truckin' - Deep Purple Cities On Flame - Blue Oyster Cult Working Man - Rush The Green Manalishi - Fleetwood Mac Hot Rails To Hell - Blue Oyster Cult Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd

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Red Sector A - "i must help my mother stand up straight" (2nd time) The Body Electric - "a struggle to exist, to resist" 2112: Presentation - "listen to my music and hear what it can do" (2nd time) Under The Shadow - last 30 seconds or so

Grande Finale Fly By Night or What You're Doing Anything from Caress of Steel

Is there anyone who still thinks these songs aren't catchy or melodic? I've only listened to them about 15x each but i was singing them in my head all day.

Voted BB&B. Title track would be a nice surprise though.

New World Man

Any of these would be great (picked the Body Electric).

I've listened to them 10x each now...absolutely no complaints. I still like em better than anything on S&A. Then again i love Counterparts, T4E & VT as well.

Great stuff!! These tracks blow away anything on S&A! Raw and energetic with some classic Neil fills again

QUOTE (theredtamasrule @ May 31 2010, 03:52 PM)http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/shining-1980-jack-nicholson-pic-3.jpg Really? That's so cool. I've been a huge Geddy Lee fan for years. But if it's not METAL enough I think I'll chop up my wife & kids.

I pick The Necromancer but anything from this album would be amazing.

Territories!

Turn The Page

Presto was the one that brought me back after being disappointed with the first 2 synth era albums. It was a hearing them get back to being a power trio again after what seemed an eternity of mellowed out, poppy new wave. Counterparts was even more a , as it was reminiscent at times to the first 4 albums (the debut, CoS, 2112, ATWAS being my first ones). Bottom line is they've produced great stuff in every decade (synth era included). It's all good.

So many great songs on here...AL, Anagram, Scars, WP, SDT. But my pick is...RED TIDE!!