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QUOTE (Choose/the/light @ Feb 27 2008, 06:19 PM)
I think the fade out solo on Mission is one of Alex's best solo's

100% agreed. yes.gif I'm learning to play this on guitar, and the first thing I wanted to learn was the solo. Simply beautiful. smile.gif

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QUOTE (Show Don't Tell @ Feb 27 2008, 05:45 PM)
I simply love the end of Marathon live on A Show Of Hands. I also love the chorus to Marathon. Those and all of Mission have made me spring a leak in the eyes. yes.gif Beautiful.

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QUOTE (Choose/the/light @ Feb 27 2008, 06:19 PM)
I think the fade out solo on Mission is one of Alex's best solo's

100% agreed. yes.gif I'm learning to play this on guitar, and the first thing I wanted to learn was the solo. Simply beautiful. smile.gif

I definitely need to learn this the next time i have ANY free time. It. is. awesome.

 

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The instrumental part that fades out at the end of Countdown.

 

The arpeggios create a VERY vivid atmosphere in my mind, and the radio chatter in the background is great as well. It fades out beautifully and has moved me on more than a few occasions. I feel like the ending of Countdown is genius.

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La Villa always moves me.... Also Hemispheres.

 

And there are so many, lately I have been really digging Mission (read my signature)

 

Natural Science is also such a fantastic song. But this one gets me in the right mind every time I hear it -

 

"All of us get lost in the darkness

Dreamers learn to steer by the stars

All of us do time in the gutter

Dreamers turn to look at the cars"

 

Presto is on right now and I am listening to it, there are some fine verses there too!

 

Red Sector A is probably one of the bands most powerful songs,and has always moved me. My son recently was studying the Holocost and I had him listen to Red Sector A and read an interview with Geddy talking about that song and when he and his Mom and family went to Germany to see Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz...

http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/205

 

All that we can do is just survive

All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive

 

Ragged lines of ragged grey

Skeletons, they shuffle away

Shouting guards and smoking guns

Will cut down the unlucky ones

 

I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed

A wound that will not heal

A heart that cannot feel

Hoping that the horror will recede

Hoping that tomorrow we'll all be freed

 

Sickness to insanity

Prayer to profanity

Days and weeks and months go by

Don't feel the hunger

Too weak to cry

 

I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate

Are the liberators here?

Do I hope or do I fear?

For my father and my brother, it's too late

But I must help my mother stand up straight

 

Are we the last ones left alive?

Are we the only human beings to survive?

 

 

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All of TFE version of Resist.

 

All of Ghost Rider

 

Final chorus of marathon with the 2 key changes then the huge charge into the halftime

 

All of the pass

 

Instrumental Section of DEW

 

Instrumental section of TSOR

 

Chorus of Color of Right

 

2nd chrous of TWTWB

 

many many more

 

and most importantly for me

 

The drum fill from S+A tour on Ghost of a Chance at 5:04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCapHXrKZXk

 

All of mission (espeically the harmony on "if their lives were exotic and strange," and of course Al's solo)

and my favorite mission moment:

THE DRUM FILL AT 2:56

 

just before ged starts singing the 2nd chours. don't act like i'm crazy, from a very musical drummers standpoint, this is the best fill neil has ever come up with. it is simply BRILLIANT

 

 

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The Fountain of Lamneth-Still, I am.

2112-my lifeblood...spills over

Cygnus X-1-the x-ray is her siren song, my ship cannot resist her long

La Villa Strangiato-(Has better lyrics than most other songs) the really heavy guitar part after the solo right before the rhythms become jazzy again

Different Strings-all there really is, just the two of us

Vital Signs-the chorus towards the end...Everybody got to elevate from the norm

Losing It-thirty years ago, how the words would flow (being a writer myself...wow.)

Between The Wheels-we can go from rocket's red glare...down to brother can you spare another war...another wasteland...and another...lost generation

Middletown Dreams-dreams flow across the heartland

Time Stand Still-time stand still...I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now

Prime Mover-anything can happen

Mission-the intro, because when I saw it with my dad on the Snakes and Arrows tour (and this was one of the first time I ever decided to do something with my dad; we used to not get along; he asked me to go with him, and I didn't know much about Rush then...but I went anyway) he cried when this song opened up (it had been his favorite)...ever since then, my dad and I have become absolute Rush fans

The Pass-Christ what have you done? (This song made me complete forget about ever considering suicide)

Ghost Of A Chance-I don't believe in forever...or love as a mystical state

Bravado-we will pay the price...but we will not count the cost

Everyday Glory-though we live in trying times...we're the ones who have to try

Leave That Thing Alone-the background during the whole song takes me to another world

Cold Fire-I said if love has these conditions...I don't understand the songs you love

Resist-you can fight without ever winning...but never ever win, win without a fight

Hope-the whole song

Faithless-but I still cling to hope...And I believe in love

Bravado on Different Stages-the extension, especially towards the end...always hits me...this is my favorite song in the world.

 

 

 

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Marathon's final chorus is waaaay up there. Anyone who shuns the synth period really should listen to this song, It's a masterpiece.

 

Another great one is Time Stand Still, especially now. it's so relative in my life, I'm going into the real world. I wish I could just slow it all down.

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QUOTE (drewb93 @ Aug 31 2007, 02:02 PM)
Resist, where it goes, "You can surrender without a prayer ...", I feel that's a very moving part. I also like The Pass, and Losing It. Both are both emotionally moving songs!

I just love that part of Resist:

 

You can surrender

Without a prayer

But never really pray

Without surrender

 

You can fight

Without ever winning

But never ever win

Without a fight

 

That totally moves me.

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  • Available Light - the outro gets me every time. "I'll go with the wind... I'll stand in the light..."
  • Marathon - the whole song
  • Ghost Of A Chance - basically from the second chorus till the end. Beautiful.
  • Afterimage - the instrumental middle section. Also, I always get chills when Alex hits that harmonic at 2:17.
  • Losing It - the outro
  • Everyday Glory - the solo
  • Between The Wheels - the solo, and the refrain after it
  • Mission - the whole song
  • Time Stand Still - the musical interlude in 7/8 (with Aimee's reverbed vocals)
  • 2112: Soliloquy - needs no explanation
  • The Analog Kid - "Too many hands on my time, too many feelings..."
  • Open Secrets - the whole song, but especially, "I find no absolution..."
  • Bravado - the extended outro and solo by Alex on Different Stages, Rio, and many from the Roll The Bones and Counterparts tours
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