Test4VitalSigns Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 There's that f***ing word "overrated" again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadu93 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 QUOTE (Rush Cocky @ Jun 25 2009, 05:10 PM) QUOTE (LeaveMyThingAlone @ Jun 25 2009, 04:46 PM) I mean Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, and Limelight...that's just freakin' ridiculous 20 minutes! Tru dat. I can't think of 4 songs off of one album that have gotten more concert play. "Yours Is No Disgrace", "Starship Trooper", "I've Seen All Good People", and "Clap" have been in most Yes setlists since 1970. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rush Cocky Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 QUOTE (Xanadu93 @ Jun 25 2009, 05:35 PM) QUOTE (Rush Cocky @ Jun 25 2009, 05:10 PM) QUOTE (LeaveMyThingAlone @ Jun 25 2009, 04:46 PM) I mean Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, and Limelight...that's just freakin' ridiculous 20 minutes! Tru dat. I can't think of 4 songs off of one Rush album that have gotten more concert play. "Yours Is No Disgrace", "Starship Trooper", "I've Seen All Good People", and "Clap" have been in most Yes setlists since 1970. Corrected for those among us choosing to be smartalecks today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mankad89 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I think Signals edges it, but no. Moving Pictures is utter magic in the form of a compact disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Thats the easist poll Q EVER... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gompers Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 QUOTE (Xanadu93 @ Jun 25 2009, 05:35 PM) QUOTE (Rush Cocky @ Jun 25 2009, 05:10 PM) QUOTE (LeaveMyThingAlone @ Jun 25 2009, 04:46 PM) I mean Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, and Limelight...that's just freakin' ridiculous 20 minutes! Tru dat. I can't think of 4 songs off of one album that have gotten more concert play. "Yours Is No Disgrace", "Starship Trooper", "I've Seen All Good People", and "Clap" have been in most Yes setlists since 1970. Fragile is a great album but I am so sick of Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround... Fragile is over-rated anymore. I used to love that album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted June 25, 2009 Author Share Posted June 25, 2009 QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 25 2009, 03:30 PM) Fragile is a great album but I am so sick of Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround... Fragile is over-rated anymore. I used to love that album. Don't make me start another poll! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gompers Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 QUOTE (Rushman14 @ Jun 25 2009, 06:31 PM) QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 25 2009, 03:30 PM) Fragile is a great album but I am so sick of Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround... Fragile is over-rated anymore. I used to love that album. Don't make me start another poll! Don't even get me going on Dark Side of the Moon... There is a good reason I stopped listening to Classic Rock stations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted June 25, 2009 Author Share Posted June 25, 2009 QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 25 2009, 03:33 PM) QUOTE (Rushman14 @ Jun 25 2009, 06:31 PM) QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 25 2009, 03:30 PM) Fragile is a great album but I am so sick of Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround... Fragile is over-rated anymore. I used to love that album. Don't make me start another poll! Don't even get me going on Dark Side of the Moon... There is a good reason I stopped listening to Classic Rock stations. well, I will agree if I never hear Roundabout or Money ever again, it'll be too soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg2112 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Absolutely not. Period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Sphinc-Tor Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Come on.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theworkingman Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 No and anyone who thinks it is needs to rethink their posts. Also, since when do radio-hits make an album any better or worse? You're sick of a song so the album is overrated now? Please. Here's a tip. DON'T LISTEN TO THE RADIO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadu93 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 25 2009, 06:33 PM) QUOTE (Rushman14 @ Jun 25 2009, 06:31 PM) QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 25 2009, 03:30 PM) Fragile is a great album but I am so sick of Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround... Fragile is over-rated anymore. I used to love that album. Don't make me start another poll! Don't even get me going on Dark Side of the Moon... There is a good reason I stopped listening to Classic Rock stations. Thanks to the radio stations I've been listening to for years, as well as "fans" who only know a few songs by an artist, I'm sick of "Freebird", "Sweet Home Alabama", and "What's Your Name". Apparently those are the only songs Lynyrd Skynyrd ever made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-D-RocK- Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 QUOTE (Xanadu93 @ Jun 25 2009, 05:31 PM) QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 25 2009, 06:33 PM) QUOTE (Rushman14 @ Jun 25 2009, 06:31 PM) QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 25 2009, 03:30 PM) Fragile is a great album but I am so sick of Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround... Fragile is over-rated anymore. I used to love that album. Don't make me start another poll! Don't even get me going on Dark Side of the Moon... There is a good reason I stopped listening to Classic Rock stations. Thanks to the radio stations I've been listening to for years, as well as "fans" who only know a few songs by an artist, I'm sick of "Freebird", "Sweet Home Alabama", and "What's Your Name". Apparently those are the only songs Lynyrd Skynyrd ever made. Ooh, can't forget "That Smell". Classic Skynyrd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddysMullet Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 QUOTE (theworkingman @ Jun 25 2009, 07:26 PM) No and anyone who thinks it is needs to rethink their posts. Also, since when do radio-hits make an album any better or worse? You're sick of a song so the album is overrated now? Please. Here's a tip. DON'T LISTEN TO THE RADIO It has nothing to do with being overplayed for me. I simply don't think it's that special an album. The only song on it that is among my Rush favourites is YYZ. I did come to like Red Barchetta after many years and several killer performances of it on last year's tour, and the other songs on the record range from listenable to enjoyable in the car, but there's nothing else on it that is indispensable for me, nothing else on it that I ever get a specific yen to listen to. I had a copy of Moving Pictures long before I became a proper Rush fan, and the fact that I had been told by so many that it was "the best," "the classic," "the essential," "the quintessential" Rush album is part of what kept me from really exploring Rush for many years. I felt that if that album and the songs of theirs I'd heard on the radio represented their very best work, I wasn't missing much. I'm glad I discovered that I was wrong about that, and I like Moving Pictures somewhat better than I used to, but I just don't think it's ever going to represent those superlatives for me that it does for other Rush fans. To each our own! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted June 26, 2009 Author Share Posted June 26, 2009 QUOTE (GeddysMullet @ Jun 25 2009, 05:04 PM) I simply don't think it's that special an album. The only song on it that is among my Rush favourites is YYZ. I did come to like Red Barchetta after many years and several killer performances of it on last year's tour, and the other songs on the record range from listenable to enjoyable in the car, but there's nothing else on it that is indispensable for me, nothing else on it that I ever get a specific yen to listen to. I had a copy of Moving Pictures long before I became a proper Rush fan, and the fact that I had been told by so many that it was "the best," "the classic," "the essential," "the quintessential" Rush album is part of what kept me from really exploring Rush for many years. I felt that if that album and the songs of theirs I'd heard on the radio represented their very best work, I wasn't missing much. I'm glad I discovered that I was wrong about that, and I like Moving Pictures somewhat better than I used to, but I just don't think it's ever going to represent those superlatives for me that it does for other Rush fans. To each our own! my eyes, my eyes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Money Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 No, it's not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCM Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 QUOTE (mankad89 @ Jun 25 2009, 05:16 PM) Moving Pictures is utter magic in the form of a compact disc. Just imagine how much more magical it was when it came in the form of a vinyl record. I think this was said above, but as the day goes on my ability to understand the written word becomes less and less, so here goes: I think that for those who are nutty Rush fans (I use the term nutty with all love and respect here) MP may be overrated as the nutty Rush fan knows how much more there is to Rush before and after MP. For the casual or fair weathered Rush fan MP is not overrated as they think it's the best the band has to offer and it generates radio play still today. Granted it's certainly got a lot to offer, the drum work alone makes it a classic start to finish in my book. Those that listen to and are immersed in the entire Rush catalog know that it a great record, but we also know they've given us a lot more great stuff than just MP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 QUOTE (theworkingman @ Jun 26 2009, 11:26 AM)No and anyone who thinks it is needs to rethink their posts. Also, since when do radio-hits make an album any better or worse? You're sick of a song so the album is overrated now? Please. Here's a tip. DON'T LISTEN TO THE RADIO Exactly One sure way to put someone off a masterpiece...which DSOTM undeniably is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Territorial_Game Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Hell No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerxt1990 Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jun 25 2009, 03:17 PM) Look, it's EASY to pin-point a band's most popular record as overrated. You can do that with Kiss's Destroyer too. And let's face it, MP is Rush's most widely popular LP. Frankly it's not even close because mostly it's older diehards (and prog fans) who own 2112. MP was and remains a more widely accessible album. It's more mainstream...has shorter, more radio-friendly songs, contains their all-time most-well-known tune, etc. Still and all there's often a REASON it's so widely admired beyond being a "darling." Now that may not jive with your own tastes, fine enough. You like Coke, I dig Pepsi...so be it. But I think it's generally safe to say that Moving Pictures is only overrated in your own mind, much like nice tits are overrated...or a Porsche Carrera is overrated. You're a legs man...or you dig a Maserati instead. Cool. But Moving Pictures is still the bomb-digity. That's as close to FACT as it gets when discussing Rush-related "opinion." I'll stand by it too. We'll always quibble about the merits of Vapor Trails and Counterparts, but not Moving Pictures. Not really... Post of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test 4 Gecko Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jun 25 2009, 02:17 PM) Look, it's EASY to pin-point a band's most popular record as overrated. You can do that with Kiss's Destroyer too. And let's face it, MP is Rush's most widely popular LP. Frankly it's not even close because mostly it's older diehards (and prog fans) who own 2112. MP was and remains a more widely accessible album. It's more mainstream...has shorter, more radio-friendly songs, contains their all-time most-well-known tune, etc. Still and all there's often a REASON it's so widely admired beyond being a "darling." Now that may not jive with your own tastes, fine enough. You like Coke, I dig Pepsi...so be it. But I think it's generally safe to say that Moving Pictures is only overrated in your own mind, much like nice tits are overrated...or a Porsche Carrera is overrated. You're a legs man...or you dig a Maserati instead. Cool. But Moving Pictures is still the bomb-digity. That's as close to FACT as it gets when discussing Rush-related "opinion." I'll stand by it too. We'll always quibble about the merits of Vapor Trails and Counterparts, but not Moving Pictures. Not really... A band's most popular - in sales terms album - seldom coincides with their best work, and MP is no exception. It may be a competent and reasonably cohesive album, but sure as eggs is eggs it ain't Rush at their best. I remember to this day how flat I felt after first hearing MP, where was anything of the caliber of TSoR? Freewill? Xanadu? LVS? The Trees? Circumstances? By-Tor? Working Man????? Answer - missing. Still you gotta admire the sheep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del_Duio Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Honestly, no way. MP, PeW, Hemispheres, 2112, Kings.. all classic albums. Plus you know it has to be good if the only songs the radio ever plays from Rush are from either MP or PeW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gompers Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 QUOTE (Steevo @ Jun 25 2009, 09:54 PM) QUOTE (theworkingman @ Jun 26 2009, 11:26 AM)No and anyone who thinks it is needs to rethink their posts. Also, since when do radio-hits make an album any better or worse? You're sick of a song so the album is overrated now? Please. Here's a tip. DON'T LISTEN TO THE RADIO Exactly One sure way to put someone off a masterpiece...which DSOTM undeniably is. Well, I can see that point, but really, if I hear another cut from DSotM, it'll be too soon. Funny, though, as much as I have listened to AFtK and Hemispheres, I'm still not sick of them. Are they masterpieces? I guess it's by whose standards that can be determined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 QUOTE (MCM @ Jun 25 2009, 06:48 PM) Granted it's certainly got a lot to offer, the drum work alone makes it a classic start to finish in my book. I can't tell you how many times I've listened to this album, side one especially, and listened and focused JUST on Neil's drumming. Not only is it exemplary of crystal clear production, but just phenomenal drumming. It really is a marvel to listen to, and that's not even considering the amazing bass, guitar, singing and the entire package. Peerless songs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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