ReRushed Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 How could it not be "Tom Sawyer"? Seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losingit2k Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 It's between Tom Sawyer and Limelight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krinkle Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Limelight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarcaravan Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 I most definitely think it's Tom Sawyer or The Spirit of Radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BL2112 Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 guess im alone on this one. 2112 Its the song that made Rush, the Rush that went on to write Hemispheres, Spirit of the Radio, Tom Sawyer, and etc. I believe it was said what song captures the spirit of rush. I feel all the songs named are just a opinion of most popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geodesicdomer Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 For a diehard: Xanadu and Natural Science are nice choices. For the masses: Tom Sawyer and Limelight. For the quietly desperate: Subdivisions and Between the Wheels. I think H. D. Thoreau would have dug Rush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfGumby Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 QUOTE (Hoovermac @ Jul 23 2010, 01:41 AM) I would have to go with YYZ, La Villa Strangiato, or Freewill. I'd go with La Villa if Rush stopped recording before MP. The band's catalog is just to vast to really name a song as their signature. I agree with either Freewill or Spirit of the Radio, but Tom Sawyer is just as good in this context. This being that one considers songs casual Rush fans/the masses actually know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReRushed Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 "Tom Sawyer" is the ambassador of Rush songs. And it has done a fabulous job. There can be no other signature Rush song, IMO. After almost 30 years, I have not tired of it. It's that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfGumby Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 QUOTE (BL2112 @ Jul 24 2010, 01:03 AM) guess im alone on this one. 2112 Its the song that made Rush, the Rush that went on to write Hemispheres, Spirit of the Radio, Tom Sawyer, and etc. I believe it was said what song captures the spirit of rush. I feel all the songs named are just a opinion of most popular. True, but then how many people who now call themselves Rush fans really know there is more to 2112 than the Overture and The Temples of Syrinx? Possibly we'd have to pull one song from each recording, or one song from each era and use them as a signature catalog? And consider the band opening the Vapor trails tour with One Little Victory. That song says so much about the band, and especially Neil, going through some shit that would have killed most bands and even caused the band member to yell, "Check Please!" as he swan dived into the street from the top of a skyscraper. I take that to be a moment of triumph, a moment of resistance and a message to the world that they were still here, still intact, still relevant and still strong. But then I am now struck with Resist being their signature song. It fits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg2112 Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 I think its gotta be Tom Sawyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathbass89 Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Natural Science for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgbam42 Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 I would have to say Tom Sawyer, Limelight, or Spirit because those three songs are what everybody that has heard of Rush automatically thinks of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silas Lang Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 QUOTE (ReRushed @ Jul 24 2010, 10:03 AM) "Tom Sawyer" is the ambassador of Rush songs. And it has done a fabulous job. There can be no other signature Rush song, IMO. After almost 30 years, I have not tired of it. It's that good. Freewill is also that good. It also sums the Rush philosophy in one concise line: I will choose freewill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddnbeth Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Dog Years..... or seriously...Natural Science ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 In some guitar magazine [Guitar for the Practicing Musician perhaps]about 15 years ago, a very similar question was asked of Geddy. It was something like, "What song would you say typifies the Rush sound?" He stated that it was Distant Early Warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Not Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 QUOTE (JohnnyBlaze @ Jul 25 2010, 12:35 AM) In some guitar magazine [Guitar for the Practicing Musician perhaps]about 15 years ago, a very similar question was asked of Geddy. It was something like, "What song would you say typifies the Rush sound?" He stated that it was Distant Early Warning. DeW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER Posted July 25, 2010 Author Share Posted July 25, 2010 QUOTE (Kenneth @ Jul 25 2010, 03:47 AM) QUOTE (JohnnyBlaze @ Jul 25 2010, 12:35 AM) In some guitar magazine [Guitar for the Practicing Musician perhaps]about 15 years ago, a very similar question was asked of Geddy. It was something like, "What song would you say typifies the Rush sound?" He stated that it was Distant Early Warning. DeW I hadn't even thought of DEW. Great call!!! Distant Early Warning has every the makes RUSH.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaine mac Roth Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Personally, I think it all depends upon what you mean by "signature song". If you're talking about the song that everyone thinks of when you mention Rush, then it would have to be Spirit of Radio in the UK as that has been, so far, their only single to have made a major impact on the charts and, thus, the general public's attention. Listening to the US fans, I suppose Tom Sawyer holds a similar face (explaining why so many UK fans seem to hate SoR and so many US fans seem to hate TS). however, if you're talking about the song that can sum up the band in a short time, I think I'll have to agree with Pod (vocalist/bassist with Rush tribute Bravado) and go with The Trees. He always describes it as "Rush in a bottle" and I have to agree with him. In under 5 minutes, you've got acoustic passages, heavy guitar passages, a great solo from Alex, Geddy singing in both upper and lower registers, Neil utilising his range of perscussion, keyboards, arpeggios and non-basic lyrics. what else is there that sums up what Rush are all about? some may, correctly, argue that Natural Science includes all of these elements (and, to my mind, is a better song) but NS clocks in at just under 10 minutes so, for me, The Trees is the perfect Rush shorthand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaldad Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Tom Sawyer or Limelight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flight YYZ Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Tom Sawyer is their signature song, in that it's the song most often played on radio. But if I had to pick a song to introduce a friend who is not a fan to Rush, I would pick Mission. Lyrically and musically, I think it best embodies the "Rush experience". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Avatar Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Based on your criteria, I'd say The Spirit of Radio, Limelight, or Subdivisions. Commercially speaking, of course it's Tom Sawyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Gotta say Tom Sawyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Sawyer Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Making Memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 QUOTE (SilverSurfer @ Jul 27 2010, 11:13 AM) Gotta say Tom Sawyer Same here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddysMullet Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 QUOTE (Snyder80 @ Jul 23 2010, 01:46 AM) Rush is far too dynamic to have a signature song. However, I think the song that best describes them musically would be "The Spirit of Radio". Nothing else they've ever written encapsulates that bands collective musical personality than that song. "...but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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