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Best Rush song intros?


The Weapon
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QUOTE (The Weapon @ Jul 28 2010, 10:39 PM)


2. Xanadu (creates a dreamy atmosphere, then it erupts)

3. Camera Eye (there's just a great tension/build up - like something's about to happen, then Alex comes in with the open chord and it's a monstrous anthem)

In honor of you, I'd hafta say....Count Floyd!! Just listen to that synthesizer!!

 

ok, no really, I agree with you on Xanadu and Camera Eye. Add to that La Villa Strangiato (live and studio), YYZ (when the triangle or whatever-the-heck that thing is starts, you got about 3 seconds until POW! full throttle Rush attack!

 

Witch Hunt is awesome how is starts slow and creepy and puts you right there in the middle of the hunt.

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The Spirit of Radio

Vital Signs

Mystic Rhythms

Between Sun and Moon (I've always liked that intro for some reason) Xanadu

Fly By Night

Jacob's Ladder

Emotion Detector (LOVE that "breath" synth)

Dreamline

New World Man

Far Cry

Where's my Thing?

One Little Victory

The Colour of Right

Secret Touch

La Villa Strangiato

YYZ

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Great post!! Every other Rush song has a great, great catchy intro. Think about it... how few songs do they have that DON'T have a great intro? They're in the minority, aren't they?

 

Great intros, great choruses. Great verses, great solos. Great bridges, great extended instrumental sections. And many a great outro.

 

Superb songsmiths, they are.

 

Anywho, here's a few more unmentioned great intros:

 

Fly By Night

 

Cygnus X1

La Villa Strangiato

 

Red Barchetta

YYZ

New World Man

 

Distant Early Warning

Body Electric

 

Manhattan Project

Big Money

Grand Designs

Territories

 

Turn the Page

Open Secrets

Time Stand Still

Tai Shan

 

Show Don't Tell

Dreamline

Cold Fire

Alien Shore

 

Caravan

 

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Here again( I said I played this song so many times before

That the melody keeps repeating...

 

 

 

Entre Nous ( We are strangers to each other

Full of sliding panels

An illusion show)....

 

Rush has a lot of them...

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Xanadu

2112 Overture

Fly By Night

The Trees

Red Barchetta

 

 

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QUOTE (Slaine mac Roth @ Jul 31 2010, 05:10 AM)
One of the ones I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned is Before and After. I just love that slow build until alex kicks in with a great riff

Good call, shame they've never (and 99% sure they never will) play that song

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Thanks for reupping this, TexasKing.

 

There are SO many different types of intros in their catalog.

If I had to pick ONE...

...it would be Animate.

Because everybody should highlight their greatest strength.

 

Analogy: Guns n Roses started Sweet Child o Mine with that iconic guitar riff.

It highlights GnR's greatest asset -- Slash. (Axl was a close second.)

 

Let's be honest: Rush's greatest asset was Neil.

No other band could start a song with a killer drum groove like that.

So they wisely rode that horse.

It's symbolic, in a way.

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