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10 - Best Song From Grace Under Pressure


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What do you think is the best song from this album?  

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  1. 1. What do you think is the best song from this album?

    • Distant Early Warning
      176
    • Afterimage
      140
    • Red Sector A
      226
    • The Enemy Within
      151
    • The Body Electric
      61
    • Kid Gloves
      105
    • Red Lenses
      40
    • Between The Wheels
      304


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Red Sector A is my favorite but Red Lenses is really, really funny. biggrin.gif rofl3.gif

 

Still, all the background story behing Geddy's parents and how tragic the whole thing must have been for them, it steals the show from Between the Wheels for me. smile.gif Still like BtW though wub.gif

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This being my favorite RUSH album, the one that stands by it self has to be RED SECTOR A

 

My daughter and I just visited the Holocaust museum and received my second insite as to what happened there. The first was this song and the haunting lyrics it has provided over the years.

 

Ragged lines of ragged grey

Skeletons, they shuffle away

Shouting guards and smoking guns

Will cut down the unlucky ones

 

I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed

A wound that will not heal

A heart that cannot feel

Hoping that the horror will recede

Hoping that tomorrow we'll all be freed

 

Sickness to insanity

Prayer to profanity

Days and weeks and months go by

Don't feel the hunger

Too weak to cry

 

Peace

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This was the toughest choice for me by far. "Distant Early Warning" comes in a distant last, but all the rest of the tracks I think are fantastic. I went with "Between The Wheels" for similar reasons of others - the gloomy dissonant synths on the verses, then the flat-out rock of the chorus. But "Kid Gloves" comes in a really really close second.

 

For the longest time, "Red Sector A" reminded me of this story in a "Weird War Tales" comic from the 70s... where these aliens incinerate the surface of the earth, only to find thousands and thousands of survivors - who turn out to be vampires who came back to life because the stakes in their hearts were burned out by the alien attack. SCARY!!!

 

When I finally learned of the true source of the story, that was even more horrifying.

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QUOTE (graylensman @ Apr 4 2010, 08:39 PM)
This was the toughest choice for me by far. "Distant Early Warning" comes in a distant last, but all the rest of the tracks I think are fantastic.

Perhaps you should give DEW another spin, there was a period of time where I didn't like it but now I love it again.

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The Body Electric. Can't believe it's in 7th place!
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QUOTE (tkdryan @ Aug 8 2010, 09:54 PM)
Afterimage. Its a tough call on this album though

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I can't even remember what song I picked as a favorite, should've been Afterimage but I was probably foolish and voted quickly.

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