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A simple game

 

One user posts a song from any officially released Rush album

 

The next user tries to post the PRECISE length of that track in minutes and seconds

Try to answer the question WITHOUT looking it up

After you post, go and find out and edit your post - tell us how close or WAY OFF you were :rofl2:

 

Finally, post the NEXT SONG that the next user should try to guess

 

It'd look like this

 

Poster A

Face Up - 4 minutes, 18 seconds

edit - actual time 3 minutes,  54 second - not too bad

 

NEXT TRACK - Headlong Flight

 

Poster B

Headlong Flight - 6 minutes, 37 seconds

.....

 

AND SO ON

 

 

I will start the game as below

Mystic Rhythms - 5 minutes 22 seconds

EDIT - actual time - 5 minutes 53 seconds - a bit off - I was sure it wasn't six full minutes but didn't think it would be that close

 

NEXT TRACK

Best I Can

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yyz305

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Best I Can - 3 min 10 seconds

Actual time - 3 min 24 seconds.

 

Next track

Peaceable Kingdom 

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Bahamas

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Peacable Kingdom - 5 min 20 seconds

Actual time - 5 min 23 seconds. 

 

I need to express something here because I didn't cheat and Vapor Trails is not my go-to album - but it is very important to me because it's the "reunion" of these amazing guys and the only album to be re-released as a re-mix.

 

The game. I hummed the song since yesterday and remembered all the interludes and instrumental bits, off-key grunge and also the melodies. It's not a super long song but must be at least 5 minutes? So I guessed and got lucky. 

 

But note to players: The CD doesn't list the song times. The liner notes do not list the song times, so unless you have an album on vinyl or CD prior to the last 3 albums (VP, Snakes and Clockwork do not show song times - in fact Clockwork Angels lists every song as 0:00, ha ha!) or other sources for reference, some song times might be more challenging to post than others. A nice challenge and more to learn :7up:

 

Next track

Rivendell

 

 

 

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yyz305

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Rivendell - guess 2 min 10 seconds

Actual time 4 min 52 seconds.

I was WAY off this - possibly that it comes across as a sleepy song that my mind switches off, and has no concept of time passing...

 

Next track:

High Water

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Bahamas

Bahamas

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Not coming to mind, so I usually put that in the "middle albums" category. Will look up the song (carefully) and begin my humming journey!

Bahamas

Bahamas

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High Water - 4 minutes, 50 seconds

Actual time - 5 minutes, 33 second. 

 

Next track

Time Stand Still

yyz305

yyz305

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Time Stand Still - 4 min 37 seconds

 

One of my favourite Rush tunes. Fairly confident on this one.

 

Actual time: 5 min 09 seconds

 

Next Track:

Resist

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Bahamas

Bahamas

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3 min 10 seconds - It always felt like a bit of a "filler song" and it was said to be a break for Neil after drum solos, I can see the acoustic guitars with Alex and Geddy...

And now I want to say longer. D'oh! A break would have to be longer - 4 minutes with lots of cheering and stage displays to stretch it out?

Looking up now...

Test For Echo...

Actual time: 4 min 24 seconds.

 

Edit (to suggest the next song, lol)

 

Next track

Ghost Rider

 

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Adding the next song.
yyz305

yyz305

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Ah, a song from my favourite Rush album. Have a feeling it's over 5 minutes. Thinking of the show (third song of the second set) possibly confirms that.

I'll just make it easy and guess:

 

Ghost Rider

Guess:  5 min 00 seconds 

 

Actual time:  5 min 41 seconds 

 

Next:  Something For Nothing 

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Meow

Meow

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Guess: 3 min 44 seconds

 

Actual time: 3 min 59 seconds

 

It’s been forever since I last heard this one – clearly my memory’s a bit rusty :old:

 

Next: Nobody's Hero

yyz305

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Mid-length sort of song, so going for 4 mins 10 seconds.

 

Actual time: 4 min 55 seconds 

 

Next song:

 

Natural Science 

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Bahamas

Bahamas

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I once fell asleep listening to that track. 12 minutes?

Looked in my book of albums and songs - actual time 9:16. Oops!

 

Next song:

 

Jacob's Ladder

grep

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New World Man.  3:57. 

They needed a filler song for SIG, and they called the writing and recording of it Project 3:57.    

Bahamas

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But I will guess at lengthy. If I recall, he wanted to express a lot of emotion and memories. Poor song gets the most ribbing of any Rush song - if not Rivendell?

 

5 minutes?

 

Oops.

 

4:14. Sorry, I gave it 46 seconds too long!

 

 

Countdown.

yyz305

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Nice one. Imagine the band opening the tour with Countdown, with a long intro...

 

Anyway, guessing 5:15

 

Actual: 5:49. Not too bad.

 

Next song:

 

Cut To The Chase

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yyz305

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Guess: 4:50

 

Actual: 5:44

 

Next:

 

Superconductor 

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yyz305

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On 11/11/2025 at 6:29 AM, TheGhostRider said:

Guess: 4:35

 

Actual: 4:45

 

Pretty close. 

Next?

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Slime

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Great track, gotta be not too long or short - I think above the five minute mark but less than six

Guess - 5 27

 

Actual - 4 49??

Not wildly off the mark, but I would lose on Price is Right rules :laugh:

 

NEXT TRACK - a favorite of mine

Earthshine

 

Bahamas

Bahamas

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Vapor Trails. "Brought to you by the letter '3'". Boy, those fellows were something else!

 

I will take a stab. Not my most played album and I hear the chorus, Geddy sounds so good, it's a compressed kind of vocal. Starts with all the guitar grinding. Songs on that album are longer (?). And some trail off quietly - adding a few second. I will go for on the shorter side.

 

Guess: 3:50.

Actual: 5:38

 

D'oh!

 

And I will edit this when I find the RUSH forum here that posted all the lyrics and times of songs, a way back. Because the CD does not show song times. It was obviously a lot of work.

Next song is popular on the forums right now...

 

The Pass

 

Edit: Look at the forum topic "Anthems". RushRevisited and GhostGirl put a tonne of work into it, all the albums, lyrics and song times listed. Thank you  both :cheer:

But I now realize - no looking at it before posting guesses! It's a reference.

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Finding Anthems forum
Blue J

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The Pass is 4:50, right?

 

I don’t know, I’m close

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