Mithrandir Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 AFTK is significantly better than anything they've released since MP. Xanadu alone has more sublime moments than everything since 1984, easily. I'd put it behind Signals, Clockwork Angels and maybe even Snakes. Xanadu is it's lone truly great track.The title cut and Cygnus are stone cold classic Rush..just stop it! Cygnus is often atonal and unlistenable. The title track is fine. That's why Mick was spot on.as Charlie Brown would say, "AUUUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH"! Cygnus is epic Rush!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyfriar Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Seems that some of you are stranded south-east of Pegasus and west of Lyra... you're on a totally wrong course, morons! :P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyfriar Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Thanks Tim!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEYB2Ea3-8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Seems that some of you are stranded south-east of Pegasus and west of Lyra... you're on a totally wrong course, morons! :Plol Those lyrics actually help make Rick's point on Cygnus I. :P No doubt it has moments, but as an overall composition Cyg I is a bit of a mess. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. Backer Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Seems that some of you are stranded south-east of Pegasus and west of Lyra... you're on a totally wrong course, morons! :Plol Those lyrics actually help make Rick's point on Cygnus I. :P No doubt it has moments, but as an overall composition Cyg I is a bit of a mess. Pretty much limited to the riff they played live that everyone went nuts for. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Seems that some of you are stranded south-east of Pegasus and west of Lyra... you're on a totally wrong course, morons! :Plol Those lyrics actually help make Rick's point on Cygnus I. :P No doubt it has moments, but as an overall composition Cyg I is a bit of a mess. Pretty much limited to the riff they played live that everyone went nuts for.What they played of it on the VaporTrails tour was perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rutlefan Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 (edited) AFTK? I get the love for AFTK and also, oddly, the dismissiveness. For me, from the first time I heard it in '77 as a breathless pre-teen, it was a one-sided album. I was obsessed with Xanadu, and though I didn't love the AFTK opener, I thought it set the table for Xanadu really well (I didn't confuse my lack of enthusiasm with thinking the track wasn't excellent, much like Tom Sawyer and Subdivisions). Re side 2, I was just never into any of the songs. But, I thought it flowed well as a side and I'd give it a spin now and then. I always thought that Cygnus X-1 was a great closer even though it's heavy-handedness wasn't my thing, and CTTH was great songwriting (if they could have written half that well their last twenty years), even though its wistfulness wasn't my thing. In short, I think it's a very good album if not quite great; a very respectable follow-up to ATWAS and good table setter for the incomparable Hemispheres. To me, it's their Houses of the Holy; uneven with some weak moments but also many moments of greatness. On the whole, does them proud, I think. While the second side has never been my thing (what did the pompous Mr. Christgau call it?-- "Medieval Pomp Rock" IIRC), I think it's very well-written and constructed. The first side of course is undeniably Epic. Edited October 29, 2019 by Rutlefan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 The Clash - This Is England North and South equally good. Just premiered yesterday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 There's a lot of mostly obscure LPs that managed to squeeze out a good track or two but from big acts that should have done better these are the first three that come to mind: Since You're Gone -- Shake it Up (maybe the album is better than I remember but I just remember being really disappointed apart from Since You're Gone, which I love) It has what I find to the their most underrated song, This Could Be Love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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