Eel Yddeg Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 (edited) Time Stand Still strikes to me, could've been made by any '80s popstar. New World Man, too. Though there's nothing wrong with liking pop, IMO, though those two songs I really hate. Songs like Mystic Rhythms and Subdivisions are Rush doing pop much better. Edited December 25, 2016 by Eel Yddeg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasbo Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 How annoying,you lot have me imagining Celine Dion singing to Rush's 'lighter' moments.Is this because Geddy has a high voice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 New World Man, and it's also the heaviest and closest to death metal that the band ever produced. Geddy's much deeper vocals are frightening here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Dad Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 You Bet Your Life comes to mind. i just threw up in my mouth a little.......just the title alone gets me, lol Mick "Be-bop or a one-drop or a hip-hop lite-pop-metallist"... classic. Whers my little forehead slap emoji? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Dad Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 I'm proud to be a prat Great song One of my favorite concert going experiences ever was seeing Robyn Hitchcock and realizing he was singing Staying Alive. Acoustic. Solo. Fantastic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 How annoying,you lot have me imagining Celine Dion singing to Rush's 'lighter' moments.Is this because Geddy has a high voice. No, it's because they're both Canadian. :P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 No matter what, Hold Your Fire has the most songs that qualify for this. Some may choose "Time Stand Still" as most poppy, but I think it's "Second Nature." Easily. The only song in Rush's catalogue that would be right at home with Celine Dion singing on it. It's AM radio adult contemporary, and I can't believe it's a Rush song.Once again our boys concurring another genre. I really enjoy Hold Your Fire, of course it came out when I was maturing into adulthood. Had I been 14 years old I might had considered the album sell out garbage.Coincidentally, I had just turned 15 when it came out and that thought never crossed my mind. I just thought that it sounded different but I liked it anyway. Besides, it wasn't toooooo far of a leap from Power Windows. To answer the op's question, my first thought was Time Stand Still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disk98 Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 Totem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 New World Man.Their highest charting single. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 I'm proud to be a prat Great song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBw25CrUS-o :7up: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeson90 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Scars would make a great clubbing dance track but if you talking pure poppy sh*t gotta be new world man or anagram (i hate putting the 'for mongo' in brackets) just call it anagram ffs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DistantEarlySignals Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 HYF seems really poppy on the surface until you realize that the bass lines are so complicated that Geddy says the reason they didn't play songs like Lock and Key and Turn The Page after the HYF tour is because of over complexity. Presto and Roll The Bones are the poppiest albums. From Presto, Anagram and Superconductor come to mind. From RTB, The Big Wheel and Face Up, YBYL come to mind as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Scars would make a great clubbing dance track but if you talking pure poppy sh*t gotta be new world man or anagram (i hate putting the 'for mongo' in brackets) just call it anagram ffsNot a fan of Blazing Saddles? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 No matter what, Hold Your Fire has the most songs that qualify for this. Some may choose "Time Stand Still" as most poppy, but I think it's "Second Nature." Easily. The only song in Rush's catalogue that would be right at home with Celine Dion singing on it. It's AM radio adult contemporary, and I can't believe it's a Rush song.The bass playing on that album compensates for any synth pop pretensions that may otherwise drag it down. It's got killer basslines and memorable bass melodies on almost every song. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 No matter what, Hold Your Fire has the most songs that qualify for this. Some may choose "Time Stand Still" as most poppy, but I think it's "Second Nature." Easily. The only song in Rush's catalogue that would be right at home with Celine Dion singing on it. It's AM radio adult contemporary, and I can't believe it's a Rush song.The bass playing on that album compensates for any synth pop pretensions that may otherwise drag it down. It's got killer basslines and memorable bass melodies on almost every song. No doubt. Geddy's bass tone leaves a little to be desired, but his playing is real good. But there are still more pop-like songs on that album than I care to have. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 No matter what, Hold Your Fire has the most songs that qualify for this. Some may choose "Time Stand Still" as most poppy, but I think it's "Second Nature." Easily. The only song in Rush's catalogue that would be right at home with Celine Dion singing on it. It's AM radio adult contemporary, and I can't believe it's a Rush song.The bass playing on that album compensates for any synth pop pretensions that may otherwise drag it down. It's got killer basslines and memorable bass melodies on almost every song. No doubt. Geddy's bass tone leaves a little to be desired, but his playing is real good. But there are still more pop-like songs on that album than I care to have.When I first got that album in 1987 I didn't really listen to it properly at first and sort of dismissed it as boring. Once I got back to it though and listened to it properly i had no problems with it. I had already got over my synth-era doldrums somewhere in the years between Signals and Power Windows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GabesCavesOfIce Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 I'm runnin i' here, I'm runnin' thereI'm lookin' for a girl'Cause there's nothin' I need, there's nothin' I want moreIn the whole wide world Well, I need it quick and I need it nowBefore I start to fade awayThat's why I'm searchin', that's why I'm lookin'Each and ev'ry day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAccountant Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Surprised Lakeside Park has not been mentioned. On a scale of 1 to 5 with a 1 being not just a bad Rush song, but just a bad song, and a 5 being a great song by Rush's standards, I would rank it a 4. So obviously I like it a lot. But I also find it to be a pop sounding song (by 70's Rush standards). I figured a ton of folks would jump all over HYF, Presto, RTB and some the material from Signals & Grace Under Pressure. But I figured Lakeside Park would get mentioned quickly as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 New World ManKid GlovesTime Stand StillSuperconductorNeuroticaYou Bet Your Life I like all of these, especially the last two... Anybody got a problem with that? ... No, I didn't think so :madra: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeson90 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 (edited) Scars would make a great clubbing dance track but if you talking pure poppy sh*t gotta be new world man or anagram (i hate putting the 'for mongo' in brackets) just call it anagram ffsNot a fan of Blazing Saddles?just too long-winded for general discussion purposes bud, no problem with the title per se but having to type Anagram (For Mongo) every time just does my head in :) Anagram kinda works enough, seein as the song basically a play on anagrams obviously. not a major issue like. at least i dont think so, everything being relative and such. Hope everyone having a great Boxing Day. Edited December 26, 2016 by lifeson90 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Relative to time of release. Fly by night. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Scars would make a great clubbing dance track but if you talking pure poppy sh*t gotta be new world man or anagram (i hate putting the 'for mongo' in brackets) just call it anagram ffsNot a fan of Blazing Saddles?just too long-winded for general discussion purposes bud, no problem with the title per se but having to type Anagram (For Mongo) every time just does my head in :) Anagram kinda works enough, seein as the song basically a play on anagrams obviously. not a major issue like. at least i dont think so, everything being relative and such. Hope everyone having a great Boxing Day.No prob. Actually, I'm a fan of the movie but not the song. I don't hate it or anything but if I never heard it again I wouldn't be hurting :hail: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grover Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 I like Anagram (the song) but not so much the movie. I was about 15 when Mel Brooks' History of the World came out and I thought it was hilarious and saw it twice. About 5 years ago I got the DVD and didn't find it very funny at all. Hold Your Fire has the big but soft production of the time but they built up to it and it was in my top 5 Rush albums for years. After going a few years without playing it the production was a bit jarring. In 1989 the change in productionto Presto was more jarring. However, the songs are not as pop sounding to me as on RTB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 The big Wheel. it could pass for a Cher song. looking for LOOOOOOVE Mick It IS a Cher song. I also love it haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Dad Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 New World ManKid GlovesTime Stand StillSuperconductorNeuroticaYou Bet Your Life I like all of these, especially the last two... Anybody got a problem with that? ... No, I didn't think so :madra: YBYLis putrid. Starts off kinda cool but...no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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