RUSHandOSU Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Most of the songs on the album will sound fantastic live and the title track is my favorite so far with the garden in second . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cygnify Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 LOVE this song - one little detail I think is cool (and haunting!) is at the very end - the whisper. What is being said??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowman Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Dear almighty one, the waiting is killing me! But I will resist. This sounds almost too good to be true! Hopefully I have the fanpack by tomorrow. "Luck" has it that I got an serious eye infection from my children. So I will be home from work the whole week. I better get the package tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 5 2012, 07:02 AM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jun 5 2012, 08:34 AM) QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 5 2012, 05:21 AM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jun 5 2012, 08:05 AM) QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 5 2012, 04:21 AM) Yes, as this time, it is my favorite song off CA. Not fav Rush tune though. That will take time if it happens. I just can't allow myself to go all in so early on. Even though I think it's probably the best song on CA, there's no WAY I could call it their best song ever. I mean, we do live in a world where there are songs like Xanadu and La Villa Strangiato and Tom Sawyer and Subdivisions and The Spirit of Radio and YYZ and, well, at least 20 or 25 Rush songs that this song would have to climb over to reach the top spot. As much as I am loving the song, I just don't see that happening. As much as a masterpiece as the song MAY be (too early for me to tell), I still doubt I'll think it's better even than Armor and Sword, which truly is a modern-day masterpiece IMHO... As yes...perspective. Thank for this Goobs. I'm more than a little wary of comments like best song ever or best album ever or best album since MP, etc. - when it's literally one or two days after hearing a new album. True perspective takes months, usually years.  That said, it's already apparent to me that this is a great Rush song. After listening to it maybe 10 times already, it just keeps getting better. It is one of those Rush songs that has so much, you can't grab it all after even 3 listens. My current way of listening is exclusively with the rhythm/beat. I love that 3/4 feel, something Rush hasn't really done enough of in some time. After I fully understand the beat, I want to move on to listening to just Alex.  Gomper and Goober!!  this song was built on those other songs and you can't stop listening to it!! just admit it! BEST SONG EVER!!!  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHandOSU Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 (edited) QUOTE (cygnify @ Jun 5 2012, 02:05 PM) LOVE this song - one little detail I think is cool (and haunting!) is at the very end - the whisper. What is being said??? I just increased the volume and listened on audacity i hear " WHAT YOU LACK " or "WHAT TOO LACK". I also tried it in reverse and I could only make out one word and it was the very last word it said "NO" Edited June 5, 2012 by RUSHandOSU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianice Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangster of Goats Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 This song quite literally made me break out in tears the first time I heard it, mixed with a healthy dose of goosebumps and one or two out-loud utterances of "oh my god..." I know that sounds really melodramatic but it's the truth! Eight hundred billion listens to it later, it's solidified its position as one of the band's masterpieces. It's eerie, haunting, majestic, and aggressive all in turn. It really takes you places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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presto123 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 This song is everything I've wanted Rush to do again every since the 80's. Let loose and be weird again.(in a good way) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 QUOTE (Rushman14 @ Jun 5 2012, 11:31 AM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jun 4 2012, 11:30 PM) I think I've listened to the entire album 5 times now. Lots of great tracks, but I agree, the title track is the very best one. I absolutely love this track. Perhaps we wont see the backlash you predicted Goobs? Hopefully not! I think those 30-second Italian clips really bummed a lot of people out, including me, but thankfully those were a poor indication of how good the songs actually are to most people! One of those times where I'm really happy to be wrong.  Still, it's really early in the game. There was pretty universal love for S&A after it came out, and it took awhile for the backlash with that album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALifeson85 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Count ME in for loving the living hell outta the title track! CANNOT WAIT to hear it live! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanaseb Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 I love it to bits, but I -think- I prefer The Anarchist overall. I just dig that central bassline / chord progression. Hits my soul for some reason  but CA is CRAZILY GOOD of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiding in plain sight Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 I'm frustrated with this one because I love it until the blues-y bridge. The song is already a mix of colors, but the bridge seems like one too many crammed in, something that also bugged me on some of the Snakes & Arrows tracks. The song builds up a lot of great intensity and then the bridge is kind of wonky; for me it fizzles very strangely there. Still one of the best songs. The verses are gorgeous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerxster Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 QUOTE (Bangster of Goats @ Jun 5 2012, 03:25 PM)a healthy dose of goosebumps It really takes you places. I had to break down and hear something else.. to releve the pressure valve. This was the first song I found. Wow.. about half way through I started getting goose bumps, and by the end I was all whoaaa....  The sound was bad, but I could hear one deep tune. I could hear the proggy elements. I didn't hear much blues, but the player did malfunction. This tune will take several listens to begin to digest, but later when the cd comes. I was smiling through the whole thing though  Whoa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacob's ladder Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 It took me a few listens (as it usually does with any Rush song) for me to like it. It is definitely a great song- my only gripe with it is in the slow section towrds the end, I would prefer just instrumental instead of Geddy's 'telephone voice'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Sawyer Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 This is an amazing song, but not even in the top 3 on the album! Which really shows the overall quality! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 (edited) It had to grow on me a bit and now I really dig it. That smoky/bluesy/jazzy cream center is so bizarre. Comes out of nowhere. Edited June 7, 2012 by Presto-digitation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReflectedLight Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 this tune is starting to sound really good to me to now. well placed guitar and neil's drumming sounds great and the cymbal work in the beginning very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shredder2 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 This is one of the most badass songs off of CA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReflectedLight Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jun 7 2012, 09:52 AM) cream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 QUOTE (ReflectedLight @ Jun 7 2012, 07:55 AM) this tune is starting to sound really good to me to now. well placed guitar and neil's drumming sounds great and the cymbal work in the beginning very cool. i knew this was going to happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly D Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 QUOTE (Shreddy Lee @ Jun 5 2012, 02:05 AM) I might have to say, as of right now anyway, the title track is my pick for best track on the album. I'm in love with the "high above the city square" parts. Aaahhhhh that part gives me MAD shivers and goosebumps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate1647 Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 Me too, I smiled so big the first time I heard that lyric. It's basically the first time we've heard Geddy start a conceptual story in over 30 years (with a physical setting, anyway)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Na na na Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 QUOTE (Gilbertk @ Jun 5 2012, 01:36 PM) Digital Man + Double Agent + Far Cry + Grand Finale = Clockwork Angels This track is absolutely amazing, my favorite on the album so far and I can't wait to see it live! (I can't imagine they won't play it). Neil Peart has already said; he hopes the song stays in the set list forever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gedneil Alpeart Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 QUOTE (Na na na @ Jun 7 2012, 01:05 PM) QUOTE (Gilbertk @ Jun 5 2012, 01:36 PM) Digital Man + Double Agent + Far Cry + Grand Finale = Clockwork Angels This track is absolutely amazing, my favorite on the album so far and I can't wait to see it live! (I can't imagine they won't play it). Neil Peart has already said; he hopes the song stays in the set list forever One word to describe this track.....EPIC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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