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I've been concentrating on this album the last day or so, wondering why people hate this track and like this track etc. So finally I need to see once and for all what gives.

 

Give me your 1-11 ranking of Test For Echo. Let's see what happens...

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QUOTE (Cyclonus X-1 @ Jul 4 2012, 03:05 PM)
The Color of Right
Driven
Carve Away the Stone
Virtuality
Totem
Time and Motion
Limbo
Test for Echo
Half the World
Dog Years
Resist

I like Carve Away the Stone, but I like Time and Motion better than you appear to...

 

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QUOTE (treeduck @ Jul 4 2012, 03:12 PM)
QUOTE (Cyclonus X-1 @ Jul 4 2012, 03:05 PM)
The Color of Right
Driven
Carve Away the Stone
Virtuality
Totem
Time and Motion
Limbo
Test for Echo
Half the World
Dog Years
Resist

I like Carve Away the Stone, but I like Time and Motion better than you appear to...

 

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Oh, I think T&M is a cool song. I find it running through my head every so often. And I seem to enjoy T4E overall more than most people do--I think I had it 11th or so the last time we did the album-rankings thing--so T&M placing in the middle of the pack really isn't a bad thing.

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1. Driven

2-11. the rest

 

I don't listen to the rest of them enough to rank them appropriately, though if forced to I could.

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QUOTE (Cyclonus X-1 @ Jul 4 2012, 03:17 PM)
QUOTE (treeduck @ Jul 4 2012, 03:12 PM)
QUOTE (Cyclonus X-1 @ Jul 4 2012, 03:05 PM)
The Color of Right
Driven
Carve Away the Stone
Virtuality
Totem
Time and Motion
Limbo
Test for Echo
Half the World
Dog Years
Resist

I like Carve Away the Stone, but I like Time and Motion better than you appear to...

 

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Oh, I think T&M is a cool song. I find it running through my head every so often. And I seem to enjoy T4E overall more than most people do--I think I had it 11th or so the last time we did the album-rankings thing--so T&M placing in the middle of the pack really isn't a bad thing.

I have it ranked low, in the bottom three, but that doesn't mean I don't like it. I'm one of those freaks who likes all RUSH albums to some degree, I always get something out of their albums.

 

The drum sound and playing is some of Peart's best too so that's a plus...

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Can they all tie for worst? tongue.gif

 

Just kidding, but really, I don't think I could rank them because the only song I can tolerate, but still not enjoy too much, is Time and Motion. And the RIR versions of Driven and Resist, but I guess that doesn't count since they're not the ones from this album. All the rest to me are just... bleh. Though I do know that Virtuality and Dog Years would have a hell of a battle for the last spot on my list.

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QUOTE (Shreddy Lee @ Jul 4 2012, 03:21 PM)
Can they all tie for worst? tongue.gif

Just kidding, but really, I don't think I could rank them because the only song I can tolerate, but still not enjoy too much, is Time and Motion. And the RIR versions of Driven and Resist, but I guess that doesn't count since they're not the ones from this album. All the rest to me are just... bleh. Though I do know that Virtuality and Dog Years would have a hell of a battle for the last spot on my list.

If you don't like it so much then I'm surprised you're posting. If I felt like you I'd not have been bothered to open the thread...

 

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1. Time and Motion

2. Driven

3. Test for Echo

4. Dog Years

5. Totem

6. Limbo

7. Carve Away the Stone

8. Half the World

9. Resist

10. Virtuality

11. Color of Right

 

 

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1. Carve Away the Stone (yes, really!)

2. Color of Right

3. Totem

4. Test For Echo

5. Half the World

6. Time and Motion

7. Resist

8. Driven

9. Dog Years

10. Virtuality (should have scrapped the vocals, added more Lerxst solos, and made this the instrumental instead of the following:)

11. Limbo (a Rush instrumental that's actually boring)

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wub.gif 5 songs off Test 4 Echo:

 

1. Half the World

2. The Color of Right

3. Resist

4. Driven

5. Limbo

 

These 4 songs are fine, although not particularly memoriable:

6. Time and Motion

7. Test for Echo

8. Totem

9. Carve Away the Stone

 

Then, of course, the "problem children". These 2 really annoy me because the music is pretty rocking and solid for both of them. rage.gif If they just had run of the mill, average, non-*erm* lyrics, they would both be in the top of the list, because I like the music. rage.gif I just don't like being slightly mortified when listening to lyrics.

 

10.11. Dog Years/ Virtuality

 

 

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I listen to T4E less than any other Rush album except RTB. Its a good album with a nice energy, but with no stand-outs or 'modern classics'. The singes are no better than the rest of the songs generally, IMO, just a bit more accessible or obvious for being singles. I won't bother revisiting T4E for doing a ranking, but I think my impressions go someting like this...

 

1. Totem wink.gif

2. Resist

3. Time & Motion

4. Test For Echo

5. Dog Years moon.gif cheer.gif

6. Virtuality

7. Half The World

8. Limbo

9. The Color Of Right

10. Carve Away The Stone

11. Driven confused13.gif

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Not a very solid album for me. I like #1-3, #4-6 are okay, #7-8 suffer quite a bit for their lyrics, and #9-11 I can do without.

 

1) Driven

2) Time and Motion

3) Test for Echo

4) Limbo

5) Totem

6) Resist

7) Virtuality (if this were an instrumental it'd probably leap to the #3 spot)

8) Dog Years (yeah, not a popular tune but still not the worst of the lot)

9) Carve Away the Stone

10) The Color of Right

11) Half the World

 

Come to think of it, many of these songs have somewhat hokey lyrics. smilies-8579.png

 

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1 Time and Motion

2 Test For Echo

3 Driven

4 Color of Right

5 Carve Away the Stone

6 Limbo

7 Half the World

8 Totem

9 Resist

10 Virtuality

11 Dog Years

 

Totem has dropped down in my estimation lately...

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Guessing I'm different than most when it comes to some of these songs...

 

1. Carve away the Stone (yep)

2. Driven

3. Dog Years (uhh...yep)

4. Resist

5. Totem

6. Time and Motion

7. Color of Right

8. Limbo

9. Test for Echo

10. Half the World

11. Virtuality

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1 Driven

2 Test For Echo

3 Half the World

4 Time and Motion

5 Resist

 

6 Carve Away the Stone

7 Color of Right

8 Limbo

 

9 Totem

10 Dog Years

11 Virtuality

 

The very first time I heard Virtuality and Totem, I thought I was listening to outtakes from PoW or RtB. I literally thought, "I think I've heard these 2 songs. Except these versions are worse than I remember."

TfE contains an astonishing THREE out of the four Rush songs that I consider "poor" (Didacts and Narpets being the fourth).

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1. Driven

2. Test For Echo

3. Color Of Right

4. Time And Motion

5. Resist

6. Half The World

7. Limbo

8. Carve Away The Stone

9. Totem

10. Virtuality

11. Dog Years

 

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