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One for me is Sweet Miracle, from the 2 min mark. I don't think there's another with that particular intensity. Also the guitar solo in La Villa., very moving

 

Do you have any moments in Rush music that evoke strong emotion?

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I'd have to say Subdivisions, particularly "any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth."  Reminds me of my early junior high school days, 7th-9th grade.  Definitely not a fun time for me as a skinny, intelligent, very late bloomer.

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For me it is in Freewill.  Right when the guitar solo ends, the band goes back into the pre-chorus/secondary verse section, but without any vocals.  Alex plays the opening descending riff starting on F and then goes right into the Bm11 arpeggio.  But when he shifts to the F chord, instead of playing it in the 1st position like the other times, he goes up to the 8th position and plays it there, and then stays there for the C arpeggio.  Both times he hits the high C on the E string.  Then he does to the D chord and goes between D and Dsus4 in what, to me, anyway, one of the the most powerful moments in rock history.

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The few seconds of empty space before the guitar solo in Totem is one of my favourite moments.

 

The entirety of Available Light is one long emotional high for me as well.

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The entire vocal section in "Half the World".  To think that the lyricist who had written so many great lyrics in the past had sunk to this sort of third grade poetry was truly heartbreaking.

 

Seriously, though, probably either Entre Nous or Subdivisions had the most emotional impact.

 

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26 minutes ago, laughedatbytime said:

The entire vocal section in "Half the World".  To think that the lyricist who had written so many great lyrics in the past had sunk to this sort of third grade poetry was truly heartbreaking.

 

Seriously, though, probably either Enter Nous or Subdivisions had the most emotional impact.

 

Subdivisions is like The catcher in the rye in the form of a song.

 

 

 

 

 

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11 hours ago, condemned2bfree said:

One for me is Sweet Miracle

Good to see a fan of this track, one of the most emotionally intense of the catalog.  The entire VT album is an achievement in that respect, with Sweet Miracle, Stars Look Down, Ghost Rider, Earthshine and How It Is* standing out in particular.  :cheers:

 

* Faith in bright tomorrows giving way to resignation...

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2 minutes ago, goose said:

Good to see a fan of this track, one of the most emotionally intense of the catalog.  The entire VT album is an achievement in that respect, with Sweet Miracle, Stars Look Down, Ghost Rider, Earthshine and How It Is* standing out in particular.  :cheers:

 

* Faith in bright tomorrows giving way to resignation...

Agree about VT being emotionally intense. That and the music being aggressive is a beautiful thing 

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End of the garden last 40 seconds or so, Alex driving it out one last time finishing with the cello so neither of them played the last note

 

Seriously, just listening to Alex drive that thing out at the end, the end of Rush, just chokes me up thinking about it and i rarely listen to it these days just too emotional

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1 hour ago, tangy said:

Subdivisions is like The catcher in the rye in the form of a song.

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, and though the writers are superficially constitutionally similar, Salinger resisted the urge to write long, detailed travelogues, IMO fortunately.

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Geddy's voice: maybe the prechorus on Turn the Page ("every day we're standing in a wind tunnel"), maybe an unpopular opinion but that part of that song gets me

 

Geddy's bass: lots of emotional moments, but probably in Limelight the smooth way he snakes back into the song under Alex's phenomenal solo is extra special sauce 

 

Al's guitar: the midpoint of the solo on The Weapon, when Neil changes to double-time feel and the whole song kicks up a couple of gears - the way Alex plays across that transition and then slowly descends to resolve on the root is goose-bumps time, just outstanding (chef's kiss)

 

Neil's drums: too many to pick

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These lyrics in Time Stand Still hit hard every August (and at other times)

 

Summer's going fast, nights growing colder
Children growing up, old friends growing older
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Experience slips away
Experience slips away
The innocence slips away

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39 minutes ago, laughedatbytime said:

These lyrics in Time Stand Still hit harder every August (and at other times)

 

Summer's going fast, nights growing colder
Children growing up, old friends growing older
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Experience slips away
Experience slips away
The innocence slips away

Sucks that those like myself who were once subdivided are now losing it....

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1 hour ago, laughedatbytime said:

These lyrics in Time Stand Still hit harder every August (and at other times)

 

Summer's going fast, nights growing colder
Children growing up, old friends growing older
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Experience slips away
Experience slips away
The innocence slips away

Hell yes!!!!  Exactly the part of Time Stand Still I was going to mention.  Its 1 of the 2 songs that hit me the most.

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8 hours ago, pjbear05 said:

I'd have to say Subdivisions, particularly "any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth."  Reminds me of my early junior high school days, 7th-9th grade.  Definitely not a fun time for me as a skinny, intelligent, very late bloomer.

Yup - Subdivisions was the other song I was going to mention.  Esp:

 

Growing up it all seems so one-sided

Opinions all provided

The future pre-decided

Detached and subdivided

In the mass production zone

 

Nowhere is the dreamer

Or the misfit so alone

 

Subdivisions -

In the high school halls

In the shopping malls

Conform or be cast out

Subdivisions -

In the basement bars

In the backs of cars

Be cool or be cast out

 

I turned 14 in 1980 so I grew up during the 1980's.  I lived in upstate NY "in the far unlit unknown" - or at least very close to it.  No street lights near the farm I lived on.   But the school district I attended went from there (I was at the edge of it) right into the Subdivisions.  So I was a teen ager in the 1980's - the era of Ronald Regan and I was not interested in "opinions all provided".  I was a dreamer who read fantasy and played D&D (and really understood the game - played it every Saturday I could plus a bit after school and as much as I could in the summer).  I did not "conform" - I was (and am) a lefty - basically a socialist in the era of Ronald Regan.   Not only that I thought history and politics were interesting.  What girl was going to be interested in that?  Yes - I enjoyed sports and could talk about the NFL / NBA / MLB / Boxing / Pro Wrestling with any guy.  That kept me barely tolerable.  But basically I was "cast out".  Also in high school I was not into drinking / drugs.  Again - "cast out".  Finally, I was a talkative, outgoing loner.  So I did not "conform and was (mostly) "cast out".  The lyrics still hit me (big time) all these years latter because even though much has changed but much has not.  I still feel "cast out" to some extent.

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The outro jam in "Big Money" makes me happy every single time I hear it.

 

"Entre Nous"

"Mystic Rhythms"

"Everyday Glory"

"The Larger Bowl"

"Headlong Flight" 

 

All have a great marriage of lyrics to music.

 

***Just an edit to note I misread the point of the thread: Not "emotional song" but "passage of a song." I should have been more specific with my list.***

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10 hours ago, pjbear05 said:

I'd have to say Subdivisions, particularly "any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth."  Reminds me of my early junior high school days, 7th-9th grade.  Definitely not a fun time for me as a skinny, intelligent, very late bloomer.

Wait...you used to be intelligent? :bolt:

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30 minutes ago, HemiBeers said:

Wait...you used to be intelligent? :bolt:

Bwahaha I still am, but it wasn't appreciated back then. I was not "like the cool kids", far from it. Stayed a sawed off runt of 5' 5" throughout, and emotionally sensitive.

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2 hours ago, Nova Carmina said:

The outro jam in "Big Money" makes me happy every single time I hear it...

 

"Mystic Rhythms"

 

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