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Your list of top 10 synth-era songs (Signals - Hold Your Fire)?


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This sounds like fun and since I've nothing else to do:

 

1. Mystic Rhythms

2. Subdivisions

3. Time Stand Still

4. Red Lenses (Yep, that's right. Red Lenses. I loves dis song which is often dissed!)

5. The Big Money

6. Turn The Page

7. Force 10

8. The Weapon (Should I include this? It's really the live Count Floyd intro version I prefer. It ROCKS more than the studio.)

9. The Analog Kid

10. Red Sector A

 

Honorable Mentions:

 

Lock And Key

Territories

Chemistry

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Not in first to last order but these are my 10:

 

Analog Kid

Subdivisions

Afterimage

Kid Gloves

Distant Early Warning

The Big Money

Marathon

Middletown Dreams

Lock and Key

Turn the Page

 

Crafty!

That was just lucky!

 

And Mission, I've never been all that big on it. It's solid but there's a few other ones that would make this list ahead of it, probably about five or six songs.

 

Mission has some of Geddy's best vocal melody writing, and some of his best singing. And then there's the instrumental break in the middle.

Yeah well, it's not heavy enough! :haz:

 

Oh, it's got some weight. It's weighty. It weighs! :16ton:

The bass is heavy. Maybe it's too ballady? Or reminds me of that film starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons?

listen to the vocals at 3:57.. gives me goosebumps!

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Not in first to last order but these are my 10:

 

Analog Kid

Subdivisions

Afterimage

Kid Gloves

Distant Early Warning

The Big Money

Marathon

Middletown Dreams

Lock and Key

Turn the Page

 

Crafty!

That was just lucky!

 

And Mission, I've never been all that big on it. It's solid but there's a few other ones that would make this list ahead of it, probably about five or six songs.

 

Mission has some of Geddy's best vocal melody writing, and some of his best singing. And then there's the instrumental break in the middle.

Yeah well, it's not heavy enough! :haz:

 

Oh, it's got some weight. It's weighty. It weighs! :16ton:

The bass is heavy. Maybe it's too ballady? Or reminds me of that film starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons?

listen to the vocals at 3:57.. gives me goosebumps!

http://youtu.be/If9gFVnmQ8c

Don't you think I've heard it before about 400,000 times in the last 33 years?

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Not in first to last order but these are my 10:

 

Analog Kid

Subdivisions

Afterimage

Kid Gloves

Distant Early Warning

The Big Money

Marathon

Middletown Dreams

Lock and Key

Turn the Page

 

Crafty!

That was just lucky!

 

And Mission, I've never been all that big on it. It's solid but there's a few other ones that would make this list ahead of it, probably about five or six songs.

 

Mission has some of Geddy's best vocal melody writing, and some of his best singing. And then there's the instrumental break in the middle.

Yeah well, it's not heavy enough! :haz:

 

Oh, it's got some weight. It's weighty. It weighs! :16ton:

The bass is heavy. Maybe it's too ballady? Or reminds me of that film starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons?

listen to the vocals at 3:57.. gives me goosebumps!

http://youtu.be/If9gFVnmQ8c

Don't you think I've heard it before about 400,000 times in the last 33 years?

 

400,000 times???

 

So, you DO love it! :haz:

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Not in first to last order but these are my 10:

 

Analog Kid

Subdivisions

Afterimage

Kid Gloves

Distant Early Warning

The Big Money

Marathon

Middletown Dreams

Lock and Key

Turn the Page

 

Crafty!

That was just lucky!

 

And Mission, I've never been all that big on it. It's solid but there's a few other ones that would make this list ahead of it, probably about five or six songs.

 

Mission has some of Geddy's best vocal melody writing, and some of his best singing. And then there's the instrumental break in the middle.

Yeah well, it's not heavy enough! :haz:

 

Oh, it's got some weight. It's weighty. It weighs! :16ton:

The bass is heavy. Maybe it's too ballady? Or reminds me of that film starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons?

listen to the vocals at 3:57.. gives me goosebumps!

http://youtu.be/If9gFVnmQ8c

Don't you think I've heard it before about 400,000 times in the last 33 years?

 

400,000 times???

 

So, you DO love it! :haz:

Well I listen to the whole album, because I usually listen to whole albums. To me Mission is the atmospheric track. It gives you a bit of respite after the more buoyant run of songs Open Secrets, Second Nature, Prime Mover and Lock and Key and sets up Turn the Page which is my favourite track on the album.

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Yeah that's not happening, lol. It would take multiple hours of my life to first rank each song within context of its album then combine the album tracklists to rank the songs against each other.
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Yeah that's not happening, lol. It would take multiple hours of my life to first rank each song within context of its album then combine the album tracklists to rank the songs against each other.

 

we did it, so can you!

 

Oh I believe I can, but for me to do it would take more time away from my schoolwork than I'm willing to commit.

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In no particular order.

 

Subdivisions

The Weapon

Analog Kid

New World Man

Kid Gloves

Between the Wheels

Middletown Dreams

Grand Designs

Marathon

Second Nature

Second Nature... jajaja
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signals

the analog kid

digital man

distant early morning

red sector a

between the wheels

grand designs

marathon

territories

tai shan

wasn't expecting Tai Shan

signals

the analog kid

digital man

distant early morning

red sector a

between the wheels

grand designs

marathon

territories

tai shan

wasn't expecting Tai Shan

 

and i never knew there was a song called signals.........

I was just checking to see if anyone would notice my two mistakes. You win the door prize.

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signals

the analog kid

digital man

distant early morning

red sector a

between the wheels

grand designs

marathon

territories

tai shan

wasn't expecting Tai Shan

signals

the analog kid

digital man

distant early morning

red sector a

between the wheels

grand designs

marathon

territories

tai shan

wasn't expecting Tai Shan

 

and i never knew there was a song called signals.........

I was just checking to see if anyone would notice my two mistakes. You win the door prize.

LOL you got me with those :clap:
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As mentioned number one for me is

 

Time Stand Still

 

the other 9 in no particular order are:

Subdivisions

New World Man

Digital Man

Distant Early Warning

The Big Money

Manhattan Project

Analog Kid

Force Ten

Mission

 

Others slip in now and then too. Not a hard and fast list though Subdivisions and New World Man would always be there along with TSS. I already dropped Analog Kid in and moved Mystic Rhythms out so as mentioned, a fluid list. Can we choose 20? :)

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Signals:

Subdivisions (duh)

Analog Kid (half-time feel in chorus is killer)

The Weapon (love the odd solo, esp when Neil kicks into gear)

 

GuP:

Afterimage

Red Sector A (that solo!!)

Distant Early Warning

 

PW:

Mystic Rhythms (that drum pattern + guitar arpeggio!)

 

HYF:

Time Stand Still (gets better with age)

Lock and Key (criminally overlooked)

Open Secrets

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No particular order:

 

Subdivisions

 

Afterimage

 

Marathon

 

Mission

 

The Analog Kid

 

Between The Wheels

 

Red Sector A

 

Middletown Dreams

 

Turn The Page

 

The Manhattan Project

 

Tough choices to make too. So many great tunes from this era.

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Why the Between the Wheels love, everybody?

Good chorus, but those two-chord keys during the lyrics are WAY too harsh. Ged evidently didn't bother writing a melody for the lyrics either.

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