Good,bad,andrush Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Anybody got a link to some? I want to see what stupid people have to say about rush. The highlighted stuff in btls somewhat in the beginning of the movie (where they are criticizing rush) would be a good read. Does anybody know where I can find reviews like those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdFireYYZ Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Rush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good,bad,andrush Posted March 21, 2011 Author Share Posted March 21, 2011 Haha thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zogoto Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Robert Christgau... ugh. His reviews are so pretentious, often overly negative, and unamusing. Despite this, I'm always somewhat drawn to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I remember reading one of the early time machine reviews that criticised the setlist for lacking their more "philosophical tunes". I laughed because not only was the reviewer clearly not there, but he didn't even bother to google the setlist. I'll post it if I manage to find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ucsteve667 Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 look up the old Rolling Stone reviews from the 70's. total dooshe bags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamLerxst Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 My favorite "bad" review of Rush will always be the quote about Geddy's voice from BTLS: "He sounds like a cat being chased out the door with a blowtorch up its ass." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driventotheedge Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 QUOTE (ucsteve667 @ Mar 24 2011, 08:40 AM)look up the old Rolling Stone reviews from the 70's. total dooshe bags I remember reading several bad reviews of Zep from that f***ing rag back in the 70s too. And they didn't even bother to review Sabbath IIRC. Meanwhile, never gonna be bands like The Iron City House Rockers got rave reviews from them. So once again, I send out a hearty and big fat "f**k you" to Jann Wenner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teababe27 Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 QUOTE (TeamLerxst @ Mar 24 2011, 01:38 PM) My favorite "bad" review of Rush will always be the quote about Geddy's voice from BTLS: "He sounds like a cat being chased out the door with a blowtorch up its ass." This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 QUOTE (teababe27 @ Mar 25 2011, 08:01 PM) QUOTE (TeamLerxst @ Mar 24 2011, 01:38 PM) My favorite "bad" review of Rush will always be the quote about Geddy's voice from BTLS: "He sounds like a cat being chased out the door with a blowtorch up its ass." This. Love that one. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silas Lang Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 http://syrinxconcepts.com/Images/rush_hemispheres1.jpg Review in Creem Magazine (Feb 79) by Joe Nick Patoski The trouble with kids these days is, there's damn few good wars left for them to fight. Who wants to go to Uganda or some banana republic where the work is hard and the wages low? Unh-uh. But there are hazardous side effects to the national psyche when you've gone nearly 10 years without a fight, which is why Youth digs hard rockola so much these days. There is no alternative. For the same reason, England has been a hard rock haven for twice as long as the U.S., elevating deserving home boys like E. Cochran, B. Holly, J. Hendrix, J. Thunders, y Los Ramones to their rightful pedestals of praise long before things started cookin' likewise stateside. If you've followed the theory thus far - i.e. hard rock has replaced the draft as a preoccupation of American teens - then you know why I ain't lyin' when I say that the hardest, diamond-tuff, nuke-powered rock comes from North of our border. Yup, Canadians, who haven't had a real conflict with anybody for eons and who also don't have nothing to do but stay inside and play guitar during the long winter months, produce the best hard rock in the world. (If Burton Cummings had known this he'd be kickin' out the jams with ice fishermen in Winnipeg instead of slinging pap in Hollywood.) Without a doubt, the most ruthless trio to emerge from this Sylvan scenario of musical industry is Rush, three geezers after our hearts and minds. After slowly introducing themselves to the foreign tastes of the U.S.A. over the first few albums, they lay their cards ON THE TABLE with Hemispheres, which has gotta be the primo war concept album of the year. Proof positive can be heard in "Armageddon, the Battle of Heart and Mind" (see, what'd I tell you?) and seen on the back cover where the floating brains move in formation across the desert as if they were making a guest appearance on Rat Patrol. But war is only part of the story here. This is an album which addresses such timely and illuminating issues as balance, cause and effect, de-forestation, French, man vs. nature, and Dionysus, all brought to the forefront for the listener's edification. Hearing the whole thing in one sitting is kinda like going back to college. Of course, I never go to sleep listening to Rush like I did in class because I never had a professor like Renaissance dude Neil Peart or even a T.A. who could play guitar with the destroyer aplomb of Alex Lifeson, who crackles the amps for about one half of this balanced project. Actually, I wouldn't mind if Rush lectured for five hours on the skills of good chemical engineering writing because they're the only band on earth to have personally incurred the wrath of the Texas legislature for playing too loud. For which we should all be thankful. They're not fascists, mutilators, or apologists, or even too weird. Just the stuff America needs to nudge its way into the 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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