Down to the SECOND - Can you precisely list a track's run time without looking it up??

[Slime]

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 

 

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

Edited May 30 by Slime

[yyz305]

Best I Can - 3 min 10 seconds

Actual time - 3 min 24 seconds.

 

Next track

Peaceable Kingdom 

Edited June 3 by yyz305

[Bahamas]

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 

 

Next track

Rivendell

 

 

 

[yyz305]

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

Edited June 6 by yyz305

[Bahamas]

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]

High Water - 4 minutes, 50 seconds

Actual time - 5 minutes, 33 second. 

 

Next track

Time Stand Still

[yyz305]

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

Edited June 7 by yyz305

[Bahamas]

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

 

Edited yesterday at 03:05 AM by Bahamas
Adding the next song.

[yyz305]

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 

Edited yesterday at 06:16 AM by yyz305