The Big Money vs. New World Man?

[Texas King]

Which tune do you prefer here?

 

 

[TheAccountant]

New World Men is excellent but The Big Money is clearly better.  Easy vote for me.

[blueschica]

New World Man for the win!

[Nova Carmina]

"Big Money" is a top-ten song for me, really great.  I still remember where I was when MTV debuted the song and I loved it right away. The outro never fails to make me smile in appreciation.

 

"New World Man" was the first Rush song I owned (on one of those K-Tel current hits tapes), but it's no "Big Money."

[goose]

The Big Money has been getting radio play here lately, and I love the riff, but New World Man is better overall, having none of the silly Casio noises that painfully date the PW and HYF material 

 

 

 

[blueschica]

5 hours ago, goose said:

The Big Money has been getting radio play here lately, and I love the riff, but New World Man is better overall, having none of the silly Casio noises that painfully date the PW and HYF material 

 

 

 

I agree!  I put Big Money on in the car once and my daughter said, "Is this even Rush?  It sounds like an 80s movie!"   

[Mosher]

Big Money has an outro that really pays off great live, but I like New World Man better lyrically.

It's close.  They're both mid-tier songs for me as Rush goes. 

I'll take New World Man today.

According to the ranking of Rush songs I made in response to Hi_Water's thread I like Big Money better. 

So this is something that can change daily.

 

 

[YYZ Working Man]

that was hard -  2 totally different vibes

BM has so much more going on instrumentally and is a side 1 1st song album starter with a video . They started concerts with this one too and is the more powerful song 

NWM has been around longer and has a great reggae groove - short- to the point I always enjoy hearing it every time it comes on -since 82 - for that-i voted for it 

[zepphead]

Not much in it, but personally I prefer New World Man.

[Alex’s Amazing Arpeggios]

Big Money still excites me to this day as much as when I first heard back in ‘85 !

😎⭐️

 

New World Man I find a wee bit repetitive and whilst I know Sir Lerxst has often said he found it refreshing that he didn’t feel the need to include an  solo  😮

 

.. but for me ‘82-‘85 is my favourite era for ‘s amazing inventive, pushing the limits in terms of the amazing creativity and adaptability of his solos from another dimension 🫠

So I’d have loved to hear a dreamy or atmospheric solo 😍

Denied - oh well ! 🙃

[grep]

One million dollars

[goose]

On 6/24/2023 at 2:40 PM, Mosher said:

Big Money has an outro that really pays off great live