micgtr71 Posted July 9, 2010 Author Share Posted July 9, 2010 QUOTE (Silas Lang @ Jul 9 2010, 01:24 PM) Great: Red Tide, Available Light, Anagram, The Pass, Chain Lightning, War Paint, Scars Good: Show Don't Tell (starts great; chorus a letdown), Superconductor (same) Average: Presto (doesn't really do anything for me musically or lyrically), Hand Over Fist Overall #13 or 14. Better than S&A, RTB, HYF & Signals. I am not sure how you are posting...do you count Signals in your bottom 3? It is one of my top 3 favorite Rush albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rush Cocky Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 QUOTE (micgtr71 @ Jul 9 2010, 03:22 PM) I am not sure how you are posting...do you count Signals in your bottom 3? It is one of my top 3 favorite Rush albums. Diff'rent strokes, diff'rent folks. It's all good. I have Signals at #3 as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tick Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 I've said it a million time before. Its a great album!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Presto was my first ever CD purchase. Maybe I'll dust it off and give it a spin this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarkus406 Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Presto was the album that took the longest to grow on me and Presto was the song that took longest to grow on me. Now I love every song on that album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pause Rewind Replay Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Was my first Rush album (OK, cassette, whatever ) and have always loved it. Every song on it is good or better. Excellent: Show Don't Tell, War Paint, Scars, Superconductor, Red Tide, Available Light Merely damn good : Chain Lightning, The Pass, Presto, Anagram, Hand Over Fist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Not Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Superconductor = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In A Tidewater Surge Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 9 2010, 07:45 AM) QUOTE (Mystic Slipperman @ Jul 9 2010, 07:40 AM) If you took the best tracks from Presto and RTB and made one 45 min CD out of it...now we're talkin'. Realistically, the only songs I listen to from Presto & RTB are: Dreamline The Pass Chain Lightning There are other songs I think are passable, but those are the only ones I ever have any desire to listen to from both of those albums combined. I honestly don''t get the love for Dreamline. I'll agree it is a good song, as are all Rush songs.. but for me it is near the weakest. I think the only song I would replace with Dreamline on a set list would be Working Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 QUOTE (In A Tidewater Surge @ Jul 9 2010, 02:18 PM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 9 2010, 07:45 AM) QUOTE (Mystic Slipperman @ Jul 9 2010, 07:40 AM) If you took the best tracks from Presto and RTB and made one 45 min CD out of it...now we're talkin'. Realistically, the only songs I listen to from Presto & RTB are: Dreamline The Pass Chain Lightning There are other songs I think are passable, but those are the only ones I ever have any desire to listen to from both of those albums combined. I honestly don''t get the love for Dreamline. I'll agree it is a good song, as are all Rush songs.. but for me it is near the weakest. I think the only song I would replace with Dreamline on a set list would be Working Man I think Dreamline was their best song from Presto through VT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
friendlyvoice Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 My 3 least favorite albums are Presto, RTB, and CoS. Every couple of years I go back and listen to them in their entirety to see if maybe my feelings about those records have changed. So far they still haven't. I think Kevin Shirley said it best when he said in the doc. that Presto & RTB had no balls. And, from my point of view, Alex is practically non-existent in many places on Presto. I do love The Pass & the title cut...Chain Lightning, Superconductor, & Show Don't Tell are Ok, too. I think Anagram & War Paint are 2 of their absolute worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TullSkull Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 QUOTE (tick @ Jul 9 2010, 01:32 PM) I've said it a million time before. Its a great album!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 The only real "skipper" for me on this one is Hand Over Fist. Love, love, love Scars, Available Light, Chain Lightning. And yes, I shamefully confess to being a Superconductor fan as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandDesigner Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Big fan of this album! I dislike War Paint, Scars, and Superconductor and pretty much love every other track (except for SDT which I merely like). Chain Lightning, Presto, and Available Light are three of their best songs IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flight YYZ Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 QUOTE (micgtr71 @ Jul 9 2010, 06:04 AM) Always partial to Show Don't Tell, the Pass and Presto, but they were extra good this time. CL and WP were great listens as well. Then came the problem. The dreaded Superconductor and Anagram (who the hell is mongo?) These songs I admit were hard to listen to even with my forced open mind. Then the end of the album got better. Red Tide was very enjoyable for me. Even the cheesy synths worked for the song (I forget this is really an 80s album). HOF, well...not the greatest piece of music but a great set of bass fills at the end. Great guitar riffs as well. Available Light is a fantastic piece of music. I listened to it again as if it were the first time. Presto was the 1st Rush studio album I really liked. It made me a Rush fan (am I a late comer?) What keeps me going back to Presto are the lyrics: Anagram Presto The Pass War Paint Available Light I love the integration of grand piano with hard rock guitar. Throughout the 80s, Rush was driven by synthesizer, with little for Alex to do. There are some good solos on Signals, Power Windows and Grace...but still it seems that all of it came together on PRESTO - my all time favorite. Presto was the first tour I saw. WOW......they played Xanadu, Analog Kid, Red Barchetta, YYZ......and so much more. It was a great show. But I'll always love Presto for the music and lyrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steel Rat Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Show Don't Tell - best on the album Chain Lightning is great The Pass is fantastic There's nothing wrong with War Paint itself, it's a good song, it just sounds so much like Territories, Heresy, Anagram, and Hand Over Fist. Seriously, you can sing "Paint the Mirror Black" over any of those songs. Scars - the first time I heard "scars," it was on the RiR documentary without the words. When I heard it, I was like "WTF is that?!?! Another instrumental?! That has got to be the coolest song in the world." Yet, when the lyrics get put back in, you lose focus on the music. This just goes to prove that you may not be listening to the music as much as you think you are; you may be missing out on huge parts. Presto is good. Superconductor rocks equivalently to "Limelight" or "Freewill." I like Anagram. Red Tide? "Let us not go gently into the endless winter niiight!!" Red Tide most certainly has balls. I love Hand Over Fist. Available Light is the second best on the album. The problem with the album is that the songs are all somewhat prone to grow tiresome. I don't know what's wrong with them, none of them make me want to listen to them twice in a row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losingit2k Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 It's a good album, not great! It does hold one of my favorite songs! Available Light! Why they never played this live is beyond me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdryan Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Guess i will go pick this one up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutman Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Great album, lousy sound!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadu93 Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 The production is my only problem. I love every song on the record... and yes, that includes "Stupidconductor" and "Anagram (for Mongo)". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 There area few weaker tunes for sure (Hand Over Fist, Superconductor, Anagram)...but none of those are awful either. And some of the really strong songs (The Pass, the title track, Available Light, Scars, Show Don't Tell) are pretty awesome tunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelocator Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Hate to start off with such a downer post, but I absolutely detest this recording and wish that the band had just shelved this one and started anew, erased the contents of the master tape and made a new fresh start in the studio... The word 'Sterile' is what comes to mind here, on the rare occasions that I do grab a listen...No hooks, no memorable melodies, no guitar riffs to be found anywhere, no keyboard patterns to get excited about... This is essentially a non-entity, a non-thing...not a thing....nothing. I wish that the guys took the time to write their memoirs during this specific timeframe, or possibly engage in the painstaking task of printing the first twenty books of the bible on the head of a pin...anything but this pointless exercise in agony... Oh, and did I mention that I happen to love Rush!? Can't really tell that fact with all this overt slander, right? Where's the dang thread for the recent RUSH documentary - Beyond the Lighted Stage? I want to add my two cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 QUOTE (thelocator @ Jul 11 2010, 01:08 AM)Hate to start off with such a downer post, but I absolutely detest this recording and wish that the band had just shelved this one and started anew, erased the contents of the master tape and made a new fresh start in the studio... The word 'Sterile' is what comes to mind here, on the rare occasions that I do grab a listen...No hooks, no memorable melodies, no guitar riffs to be found anywhere, no keyboard patterns to get excited about... This is essentially a non-entity, a non-thing...not a thing....nothing. I wish that the guys took the time to write their memoirs during this specific timeframe, or possibly engage in the painstaking task of printing the first twenty books of the bible on the head of a pin...anything but this pointless exercise in agony... Oh, and did I mention that I happen to love Rush!? Can't really tell that fact with all this overt slander, right? Where's the dang thread for the recent RUSH documentary - Beyond the Lighted Stage? I want to add my two cents. Are you entitled to your opinion? Do I respect your opinion? I like Presto a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanadoo Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Presto is great Most underrated RUSH album by far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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