Does anyone else like Dog Years?

[KenJennings]

I for one think Dog Years is a fantastic song, which carries a cheerfull and upbeat sound, I also very much like the message. Seems I'm one of very few who like this song. Oh well...

[Drumnut]

Dog Years takes a ribbing for having corny lyrics but I like the song. The music is great as far as I'm concerned.

[Red Porschetta]

The music itself is sweet. It would be really cool if it was instrumental. Either way, I love the song. There are plenty of songs with cornier lyrics.

[softfilter]

I like it also ,didn't Neal had a hangover when he wrote this?

Read that somewhere maybe from contents under pressure.

[Indica]

I like the music to the song. But the lyrics are kind of corney but that's ok, I don't listen to lyrics in a lot of songs anyway. I know some other people that really love this song so know that you aren't alone when you say you like it a lot.

 

Compared to most other Rush songs this is one of my least favorites but it doesn't matter what I think, as long as you like it, that's all that matters.

[different strings]

Hi I don't personally like the song for both it's musical content and lyrical content but hey, I agree with Indica we cant all like every song even if it is

[kooma]

Not one of their best songs, actually...

[Arndrake]

Yes, the lyrics are very corny. Gotta wonder how much of The MacAllan Neil had drank the night before writing this. I've never really liked the music much either, but that's because I usually find upbeat music to be irritating. Give me music that hits on base emotions like sadness or anger and I'm hooked. Dog Years, unfortunately, is too coy to be liked by me.

[Grandpa Grizz]

I love Dog Years. I'd like to be a span of geological time.

[kbomb106]

It's certainly not a lyrical breakthrough, but I dig it. It's fun to play, and sometimes that makes me like a song. In this case, that's not the determining factor; I liked it before I learned how to play it.

[Pags]

I think I've probably pushed Dog Years more than most in this Forum. I've got post after post talking up about it, including this week. I think it's a great song, and you can sign me up on any pro Dog Years / Test For Echo support group you need me on.

 

I'll always go to bat for it.

[sullysue]

No. Period. No. No. No. No. No. No.

 

 

Sorry, Pags. But, no.

 

 

[Pags]

QUOTE (sullysue @ Jan 18 2006, 10:27 AM)

No. Period. No. No. No. No. No. No. Sorry, Pags. But, no.

You're funny.

 

No need to be sorry. I don't need you liking it in order to enjoy it for myself. I can totally get why people don't like this song, and that's fine.

 

I didn't like it either when I first heard it. I liked the lyric in the bridge, immediately - but that was it. Something changed when I watched Neil's video, and I've loved the song ever since.

 

 

[sullysue]

QUOTE (paganoman @ Jan 18 2006, 09:36 AM)

I don't need you liking it in order to enjoy it for myself.

 

Why do I get the feeling you said, "So there!" and stuck your tongue out at me when you wrote that?

 

I'm listening to it right now....

 

 

 

Ahhhhgggg. He just said, "bitch," and that dumb, "tail between his ears," thing.

Edited January 18, 2006 by sullysue

[Pags]

QUOTE (sullysue @ Jan 18 2006, 10:49 AM)

QUOTE (paganoman @ Jan 18 2006, 09:36 AM) I don't need you liking it in order to enjoy it for myself.   Why do I get the feeling you said, "So there!" and stuck your tongue out at me when you wrote that?   I'm listening to it right now....       Ahhhhgggg. He just said, "bitch," and that dumb, "tail between his ears," thing.

[Moonraker]

I'm not the biggest fan of Dog Years, but I think Virtuality is far worse.

[sullysue]

QUOTE (Moonraker @ Jan 18 2006, 10:53 AM)

I'm not the biggest fan of Dog Years, but I think Virtuality is far worse.

And, the fact that they're back to back makes for a rough ten minutes. Thank God for "Resist," eh?

[Midway Hawker]

I love Dog Years. I think the lyrics are "clever" not corny.. So maybe Neil was drunk when he put this together, but a drunk Neil is much more artistic than most.

 

Also, the song has enough musical breaks and rhythms to be quite enjoyable.

 

I also like Virtuality and Resist, but then again I am a homer...

 

The song on T4E I don't care for is Carve away the stone...

 

 

[KenJennings]

I like every song on T4E, it's easily among my five favorite Rush albums.

[Mustard Death]

It's not a bad song at all... But the only Test For Echo songs I listen to anymore are "Totem", "Limbo" and "Resist".

[Hatchetaxe&saw]

Great track, beats lumps out of Virtuality, lyrics wise.

"Put a message in a modem, and throw it into cyber-sea". No,

[Margana]

LIke others, I like the music, but the lyrics are really cringeworthy.

In fact, I suspect Neil set out to write the worst song possible as

a. an experiment

b. a filler

c. amusement

d. he was in a bad mood!

 

I am quite sure he could have written more thought provoking lyrics about dogs.

 

 

 

 

[madra sneachta]

I agree 100% with Margana and others - Great music, very dodgy lyrics. I think what makes the lyrics worse for me (and the same principle holds for Nobody's Hero) is that while the message is worthwhile, the lyrics are so clunky that they detract from rather than add to what the song is intended to say.

 

I'd rather be a tortoise from Galapagos

Or a span of geological time

 

Careful Neil, you might get what you wish for!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

A thousand years have come and gone

But time has passed me by

Stars stopped in the sky

Frozen in an everlasting view

Waiting for the world to end

Weary of the night

Praying for the light

Prison of the lost - Xanadu

[progrush2112]

Dog years, along with the rest of T4E, is great writing

[endlesslymocking]

well for a while Rush was the only band I liked...I'd listen to rush cd after rush CD.....but now I only listen to them when I have my entire library on shuffle.....and I DONT skip dog years when it comes up....I am guilty of skipping Cygnus X-1 and Tom Sawyer.....

 

I think the problem here resides not in the quality of the music....but a psychopathic need I have to be different.....Rush was a band nobody listened too so I got into them cus they were MY band....and then I found this place....and Dog Years and Vapor Trails are stuff that most people don't like.....but I do...I think they're great....