Bastille Dave

For the benefit of Mr. Kite, there will be a show tonight......

I dont really care about what some mag or online poll says about 70's rock bands. They are just insane in the membrane! oh great, ya had to go and mention Insane Clown Posse, now that song will be played repeatedly in my brain for the rest of the day!

I like his work, some great songs. RIP bro.

QUOTE (sullysue @ Dec 31 2010, 02:29 AM) Are you kidding me? no. I liken that song to a big ugly boil on a beautiful face.

I love all Beatles: The first 3 albums fun and poppy perfection, the next 2 coming of age musically and lyrically, the classic "R" albums experimentation (in more ways than one), the psychadelic year of 1967, the Apple years of each member expanding their own sound from '68-'70. I love it all, and all the singles sprinkled thoughout as well. Well, I lied. The only Beatles songs I'm not a big fan of are the George Harrison Maharishi-hindu songs like Inner Light and Within you-without you. They annoy me, but he did write some great songs other than those.

I highly doubt this ever happened. Besides, Eddie would get killed in a fight, him being all of 105 lbs and skinny as a rail back then.

QUOTE (Fridge @ Jul 18 2009, 03:03 PM) I saw them way back in the "Denim" days - great stuff. I'm jealous. I love Saxon.

QUOTE (Babycat @ Nov 16 2010, 03:19 PM) Hemispheres - 51 points. me too. 51 points-Hemispheres. Rush's greatest album and my fave too.

I dig me some ABBA, they have about 15 hit songs that are great and I'm not ashamed to say I sing along to 'em. I'm sure their catalog is good but with ABBA I'll probably never delve further than a greatest hits or anthology or something like that.

I like Racer X a bit but I love Paul Gilbert's guitar playing. I have an album by Darrell Mansfield Band called "Revelations" from 1985 and Paul Gilbert plays on it. He holds back a bit on it (and he still is awesome) and he plays a more bluesier style as well. If you're a big PG fan, look for it and get it.

When SBG came out in 1987, they were definitely death metal at the time, although now it would be classified as thrash metal. They went into a more technical thrash direction as time went by. Scream Bloody Gore was HEAVY. kinda crappy production and horrible insipid lyrics but man that was some heavy and fast s**t!!

I bought "Scream Bloody Gore" when it came out and also bought the next 4 albums at the time of their release as well. I had a live video back then that also had Forbidden, Faith Or Fear, and some other band I dont remember. It was in 1988 and it was off of their "Leprosy" tour. It was awesome.

how awesome is "Animal Magnetism" by The Scorpions. Fun to listen to on headphones; those guitars just find their way into your head like a drill bit.

QUOTE (Deathbass89 @ Sep 8 2010, 11:57 AM) I think it's just that us Rush fans acknowledge the greatness of their other songs. Tom Sawyer just so happened to be the song radio stations decided to milk, along with Limelight and The Spirit of Radio. To us though, when pitted against songs such as Xanadu, La Villa Strangiato, and Natural Science, I suppose Tom Sawyer isn't all that special. I feel the same way, although any song off "Moving Pictures" is special. But yeah, I love their epic tracks and obscure and instrumental tracks and passages more than the radio songs.

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I'm somewhere between the first and second choices. I am obsessed with the music of the '74-81 years and beyond somewhat. I'm a fan of alot of music so Rush is just one of many; although they are in a class all by themselves. I'm learning to like the post-Power Windows years but it's a slow process, I'm not much of a newer music fan of any band (last 15-20 years). The golden era of rock's ship sailed many years ago.

QUOTE (Lost In Xanadu @ Sep 1 2010, 02:58 PM) Going by the definition of "jumped the shark" I think that is the only choice... unless you think they were done with after X was released. yeah, after I looked up the actual definition of "jump the shark" I suppose that term doesnt really doesnt apply to Rush for the most part. I guess I shouldve gotten the true definition of it before I wrote my response. Let's just say they let alot of outside influences into their circle when the 70's came to a close.

I think it was a long time comin' starting maybe possibly with Pew but you could say that about any album from PeW on up to maybe Counterparts. I voted for PoW, even though their 80's sound was gradually beginning to take shape since MP or Signals, they took a major leap in that direction with PoW. "The Big Money"....nuf said.

Grace Under Pressure was not a highly anticipated album by me in 1984, in fact I didnt buy it until a year later. I heard "Distant Early Warning" and "Red Sector A" on the radio alot in '84 and they didnt impress me much. I was into harder music and Rush was going the exact opposite direction I was going musically. When I did buy it in '85 I played it in bulk periods, 3 or 4 times in a couple weeks and then not again for 3 or 4 months. When I saw them in '86 I had to brush up on my current Rush so I listened to PoW and P/G quite a bit prior to the show. It was a great show but I had slowly lost interest in Rush after that. anyway, about the album; I like it alot now especially with the modern remastering and better playback equipment we all have. It's not my "go to" Rush album but I do enjoy it for what it is in the time period it was created in.

well, sorry dude but I gave up after "Take A Friend", "Madrigal", and Going Bald". I would rather hear Madrigal 10 times a day for a year than hear anything theyve done in the last 20 years. Narrowminded? yeah, maybe but the classic Rush is THE Rush.

the other day I went for a bike ride and listened to Moving Pictures, well every song except for Tom Sawyer (since I hear it alot on bootlegs and live albums, I decided to skip it). I loaded my bike into my dad's Blazer which only had FM radio. The first song I heard on the drive home was Tom Sawyer. OK, not a big coincidence since most classic rock stations play it daily but I thought it was kinda cool.

QUOTE (Tarkus406 @ Aug 24 2010, 08:24 PM) The nasal bastard from Green Day. can't stand that. I so agree.

Crystal Planet is my favorite album from him but I think his 2000's material is even stronger than his 1990's material. Of how many artists can it be said that they actually were better in their late 40's and 50's than they were in their 20's and 30's? short list.

QUOTE (EmotionDetector @ Aug 20 2010, 08:22 AM) To me, all of Satch's material is solid. I know some people call his newer material 'pedestrian', because he's gotten away from the shredding that dominated his first few albums, but honestly, it doesn't bother me at all. He has focused more on becoming a songwriter in recent years, and he still manages to pull of great songs. I love all of his recent albums, and he is one artist that I can usually say I am very confident that I will enjoy whatever he releases. I agree 110% I'm a huge fan of everything he's done, every single song he's ever done. The only song of his I'm not a big fan of is that Woodstock Jam song from "Time Machine". Heck, I'm sure Joe would probably admit it's crap and not even a real song anyway.

being a huge music fan is like knowing a big secret that nobody else knows, ya know. I'm not talkin' about people online (there are millions of music fans, alot on here as well) but I'm talkin' about people in your everyday life who dont love music 1/10 as much as you do. In my daily life, I dont know anyone who loves music as much as me. Sure some people own louder steroes and more expensive audio stuff and maybe even owning an instrument but that doesnt mean beans as far as loving music, eating-breathing-sleeping-living-music, ya know. and no just because someone plays a guitar doesnt mean they love music more either.