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"Here Again," Alex chimed as he picked-up his axe, strummed a chord, then looked at Geddy and said: "I don't wanna sing my robotic vocal contribution in Subdivisions because it's challenging to watch Neil's hands, pretending he is holding two unicorns."

 

I don't understand Alex's position, but The Mighty F#7add4 Chord sounds as good as it ever has!

 

"Maybe I should learn that chord!," said one unicorn, bouncing off drum-heads, hooves thundering across Neil's indestructable toms. The unicorn's horn snapped-off in Neil's hand, and the beast flew across the studio. I wonder why the horn sounded like a big wet gong hanging on the Elephant's tusk. Geddy sighed, as once again

another addition, as if we need one.

 

 

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Vapor Trails

 

Snakes and Arrows

Natural Science

 

The Trees

Okay, here's the experiment (nut not an MST3K experiment):

 

For those of you concerned about the supposed poor quality of the first year of B5, try this. There are what I think are six crucial episodes you need to see. Watch these in order:

 

Midnight on the Firing Line

Soul Hunter

And The Sky Full of Stars

Signs and Portents

Babylon Squared

Chrysalis

 

These will give you what you need going forward. From the first episode of Year 2 ("Points of Departure") you pretty much need to watch every episode. But trust me, it's worth it.

Hello, fellow Babylon 5 fans! I'm new to the Rush forum, but not to B5. In fact - if it's okay to do a bit of promotion - I am co-host of The Babylon Podcast, the only podcast dedicated to all things B5. One of our other hosts is Jeffrey Willerth, who was a producer's assistant on the show and spent many overheated hours in the encounter suit.

 

Please check us out at www.babylonpodcast.com!

In the episode "Stranded in Space", the female lead shows up at the hero's door, obviously worked over by the evil Perfect Order. Before there's any line of dialog, Crow chimes in with "My name is Luka I live on the second floor."

 

I just about wet myself laughing.

 

Oh - if you're wondering how he eats and breathes, and other science facts - just repeat to yourself it's just a show, I should really just relax.

Yeah, amazing stuff. If you made that up, nobody would believe it.

ESL

 

ASOH

Oh, and another.

 

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My humble offering:

 

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I'm with those who say take the daughter over the front row. It's the right thing to do; it's paying it forward: when she has kids, and debating a similar dilemma, she'll remember what you did for her, and she'll gladly make the same choice for her offspring.

 

There are many choices I make in my life based on choices my dad made for me and my siblings; it inspires me to do as well as my dad.

arrrgghhh...tough choice....

 

Moving Pictures

 

Hemispheres

Redd Kross

Green Jelly

 

I was going to say Mudhoney, but I guess that's more a flavor.

You know you're a Rush fan when a new aquaintance hands you a cassette labeled "RUSH" and you ask if it's 2112 or Moving Pictures... and he says, Limbaugh.

Moving Pictures

 

Grace Under Pressure

"Here Again," Alex chimed as he picked-up his axe, strummed a chord, then looked at Geddy and said: "I don't wanna sing my robotic vocal contribution in Subdivisions because it's challenging to watch Neil's hands, pretending he is holding two unicorns."

 

I don't understand Alex's position, but The Mighty F#7add4 Chord sounds as good as it ever has!

 

"Maybe I should learn that chord!," said one unicorn, bouncing off drum-heads, hooves thundering across Neil's indestructable toms. The unicorn's horn snapped-off in Neil's hand, and the beast flew across the studio. I wonder why the horn sounded like a big wet gong hanging

Like everybody else, I would have picked a baker's dozen. But in the end, having to pick one, I chose...

 

Tom Sawyer

 

Is it my personal favorite? Probably not. Is it their best? Arguably so.

 

It's the one Rush song EVERYBODY knows, but it doesn't necessarily elicit smirks and snarky comments. It encapsulates many of the qualities of Rush's songwriting-complex rhythms, intricate basswork, an ear-shredding guitar solo that isn't just wanking off, a synth sound that's well-balanced with the rest.

 

Additionally, it stands on a knife's edge in the band's development - it sounds like the logical development of the work that came before, yet is entirely new; and it points the way to subsequent work without sounding partially-realized.

 

 

I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose Permanent Waves. (Hmmm. Doesn't scan too well.)

I chose Grace Under Pressure, partly for nostalgic reasons - It's the first Rush album i ever bought. However, I think its consistently strong and it always sneaks up behind me and clobbers me over the head when I least expect it. Also, IMHO, it seems its the record where Rush grew up. All throughout, the themes of the songs seem more mature, more complex.

The Seeker, but mostly because I think Pete Townshend is a god. Rush do justice to the tune.

Hemispheres blows COS away, no question. For me, it's not that Hemispheres is so amazingly great (though it has The Trees and LVS) but I think COS is pretty lame. It has all of Rush's worst impulses in one easy-to-avoid package.

I second micgtr's opinion. LVS and YYZ are compositions. The overtures are simply previews of the musical themes to come. The later instrumentals are more like jams. I go with LVS because of its epic qualities.

How do you chose amongst perfection? Each track is remarkably different from the other, yet they all carry an unmistakeable sound of a band at its best. I ended up choosing "Limelight" because I'm a sucker for that riff.

 

IMHO, Moving Pictures distills all that had come before and points the way to what comes after. Truly a seminal work.

This was the toughest choice for me by far. "Distant Early Warning" comes in a distant last, but all the rest of the tracks I think are fantastic. I went with "Between The Wheels" for similar reasons of others - the gloomy dissonant synths on the verses, then the flat-out rock of the chorus. But "Kid Gloves" comes in a really really close second.

 

For the longest time, "Red Sector A" reminded me of this story in a "Weird War Tales" comic from the 70s... where these aliens incinerate the surface of the earth, only to find thousands and thousands of survivors - who turn out to be vampires who came back to life because the stakes in their hearts were burned out by the alien attack. SCARY!!!

 

When I finally learned of the true source of the story, that was even more horrifying.