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Rush: Album By Album book by Martin Popoff


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So has anyone else read this? I got it last week. Its a pretty decent album by album song by song (most of them anyway) review of their entire career. Popoff interviews various musicians (Kirk Hammit is one) about their opinions on the songs and changes as Rush went through the years. Popoff has always made no secret his dislike for Rush's "pop era" (HYF-RTB) and conversely his love for Clockwork Angels which he seemingly would marry if he could

Only odd thing I immediately noticed was the many errors in song lyric credit. Apparently neither Popoff nor his interviewees were aware that Lee, not Peart, penned Cinderella Man and Different Strings. On the flip side nor that Geddy did not write Panacea or Bacchus Plateau, COS was all Neil. Odd that nobody picked up on that since even most Rush fans are well aware.

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I've read at least one of Popoff's Rush books, maybe two, ever since I wrote that essay a while back. They are good as I recall.
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So has anyone else read this? I got it last week. Its a pretty decent album by album song by song (most of them anyway) review of their entire career. Popoff interviews various musicians (Kirk Hammit is one) about their opinions on the songs and changes as Rush went through the years. Popoff has always made no secret his dislike for Rush's "pop era" (HYF-RTB) and conversely his love for Clockwork Angels which he seemingly would marry if he could

Only odd thing I immediately noticed was the many errors in song lyric credit. Apparently neither Popoff nor his interviewees were aware that Lee, not Peart, penned Cinderella Man and Different Strings. On the flip side nor that Geddy did not write Panacea or Bacchus Plateau, COS was all Neil. Odd that nobody picked up on that since even most Rush fans are well aware.

 

Waiting until it hits the bargain bin...... Not much of a fan of Popoff myself but maybe I'm expecting too much.

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I've got it but haven't looked at it in detail because it was too bloody heavy to hold when my arm was freshly broken. I'm reading Chemistry by Jon Collins where I pick up random bits of trivia. It seems to be nonbiased and even in tone. I had to scratch my head over the NME criticising Rush for not feeling sufficient pain over the plight of Victorian working class and poor people. As if a rock band in the 1970's is somehow responsible for events in another century in another continent. But to socialists it seemed important to wear the correct hat while you slap that bass.
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I've got it but haven't looked at it in detail because it was too bloody heavy to hold when my arm was freshly broken. I'm reading Chemistry by Jon Collins where I pick up random bits of trivia. It seems to be nonbiased and even in tone. I had to scratch my head over the NME criticising Rush for not feeling sufficient pain over the plight of Victorian working class and poor people. As if a rock band in the 1970's is somehow responsible for events in another century in another continent. But to socialists it seemed important to wear the correct hat while you slap that bass.

 

Chemistry is one of my favorites.

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I've got it but haven't looked at it in detail because it was too bloody heavy to hold when my arm was freshly broken. I'm reading Chemistry by Jon Collins where I pick up random bits of trivia. It seems to be nonbiased and even in tone. I had to scratch my head over the NME criticising Rush for not feeling sufficient pain over the plight of Victorian working class and poor people. As if a rock band in the 1970's is somehow responsible for events in another century in another continent. But to socialists it seemed important to wear the correct hat while you slap that bass.

It's worse than that, they criticized the band of being fascists because they were inspired by Rand. Rand may be many things, but all of them are the antithesis of fascist.

 

I guess though if the guy from NME had a brain in his head though, he'd have a better job than writing for NME.

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