gudbuytjane Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Has this changed your relationship with Power Windows at all? I am listening to it right now, and this is probably the most interested in it I've ever been. I've even warmed up to Hold Your Fire, but so far PoW has eluded a place in my heart. I'm on "Manhattan Project", and enjoying it a lot. I think this setlist might have finally made me a PoW lover. -Jane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtpoet Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Emotion Detector is one of my favorite ballads. P/G was my first concert. PoW was my first album where the passion really took off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jomboni Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 It's always been one of my favorite albums of theirs, so not really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tas7 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Power Windows was a relief after the disappointment of Grace Under Pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifloveremains Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Yes. Territories did it for me... I used to skip it every so often if it came up on shuffle, but seeing it live completely changed it for me. I've neglected that album, but no longer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FountainOfSyrinx Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 QUOTE (tas7 @ Oct 18 2012, 03:02 PM) Power Windows was a relief after the disappointment of Grace Under Pressure. P/g was one of the best.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AddictedRushian Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Not only Power Windows but Clockwork Angels! I used to listen to the album only as a whole because individually it didnt appeal to me as much as other stuff but now I love every second of it! But yes, I love Power Windows even more now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drgrendel Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 If Big Money was removed from PoW, then it would easily be my favorite RUSH album. I remember first hearing it(the entire cd) and thinking it was incredible. Still is in my thinking...apart from the song mentioned above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfrushfan0122 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 (edited) I think seeing the live shows adds to the value of each song that was played. It seems like I'm enjoying those songs more then I would have had I not heard them live. CA still for me after 45-50 plays in its entirety, I'm still hearing small nuances that give me chills. It's incredible how much detail has gone in to it. I've also been warming up to Presto (b/c of The Pass), PoW (b/c of Territories, The Big Money, and Grand Designs. Middletown Dreams was ok, but not as good as the others), HYF (Force Ten!, That was so awesome live!), and Roll The Bones (b/c of Where's My Thing and Dreamline which were spectacular!) As Neil says in the tour book, most of their songs are "Made 2 B Played," and he's right. The live shows give so much more definition to the songs and make them even more incredible then they already are! Edited October 18, 2012 by pfrushfan0122 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaminbenb Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Never liked the album at all.....Middletown Dreams was interesting because I lived in Middletown, PA at the time (and before that album wrote a letter to Neil...weird coincidence? Who knows....) But PW was never a favorite of mine...HyF is probably the second least played in my collection (RtB is the least played) I look at the tunes they are playing this tour, and give them the pass on it...you have to love that they don't continue to play the same X-amount of songs year after year after year, and they give each album it's "due"... Bottom line...it's they are still playing live...they aren't playing the same 20 tunes, and they can still do it! But...I'm still not pulling PW out of the sleeve and giving it a go on the turntable...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don'tMeetInBars Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 I really didn't care much for the 80's stuff after Grace Under Pressure, but yes after the live renditions I've gone back & now I like them. The sonics are pretty dated but I really appreciate the songwriting, there are some great tunes. It's cool to hear those songs with how Rush sounds NOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindrifting Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Yes I went back and listened to a remastered version of Power Windows and its a much stronger listen than I remember. I can't believe I've almost heard all of these played live at one time or another. Its all excellent in its own way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindrifting Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 QUOTE (Don'tMeetInBars @ Oct 18 2012, 09:51 PM) It's cool to hear those songs with how Rush sounds NOW. No doubt, I almost wish they'd go back and record all their old albums with their late career sound. That's partially why their idea to get as much as possible as a live recording is so great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshine Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 I used to loathe Power Windows when I was a kid, but over the years it has become one of my faves - easily one of Rush's top tier works and, for me, it's the peak of their synth era. Had you told me before this tour that Rush would be favoring it strongly in their set I would have laughed, so good on them. I think the themes of PoW are strikingly relevant today, and I think the juxtaposition between the synth heavy sound of the first set versus the hard rocking, "organic" sound of the second set work very well together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todem Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 (edited) #5 on my all time favorite Rush albums list. Power Windows was a bombastic production. Neil's drums explode out of the speakers. Rush used strings and sequenced keys for the first time.....lot's of bold moves and a totally new approach to how they record albums with Neil playing to a click track etc. Peter Collins re-invented Rush on Power Windows. Some fans did not change with them....but fan's like myself embraced this new direction that started with Signals and culminated with Hold Your Fire. A key period for Rush and IMO what made them so unique and great. They took all the new wave sound influences around (Tears For Fears for example) them at the time and crafted a brilliant Rush album. The genius of Rush has always been being able to internalize the sounds around them at that time and incorporate it into their signature style. The 1982-87 catalog is a shinig example of why Rush 25 plus years later is still relevant. This setlist is amazing.....and 11/3 can't get here soon enough. Edited October 19, 2012 by Todem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Bay Rush Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Maybe I'm not as hard-core as I once thought, not as much as many people on here for certain!! Holy shit... But, when Rush would put out a new album, I would just go and buy it. Then I'd listen to it. I never thought of disecting it or analyzing it or labeling it as anything. When I first listened to Power Windows, to me, it was just another good Rush album. I didn't didn't think about how much synth, how compressed, "are the drums up front enough," or whatever. It was Rush. For the record, I always thought PWs was a great album and a heavy one too. Listen to the guitar in Territories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxdistortion Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 great post. I always liked Power Windows, I first bought it when I was 13 (28 now). but I would totally agree that hearing these songs definately made me appareciate it a whole lot more. I barely recognized Territories until the chorus, and since the show 5 days ago I've been listening to it almost daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerxt1990 Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Appreciate Grand Designs and MD more after hearing them live, they popped and were a little harder live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerxster Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 I really enjoyed Grand Designs. I remember how Rolling Stoned referred to Alex's solo as "white noise" in a review, and me playing PW and GD in the parting lot at work with an old friend. Power Windows. The good old days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weakly Criminal Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 QUOTE (dtpoet @ Oct 18 2012, 01:48 PM) Emotion Detector is one of my favorite ballads. P/G was my first concert. PoW was my first album where the passion really took off. Not sure I'd call it a ballad, but the traditional RUSH jam done 80's synth style makes it one of my favorites. You just prompted me to turn the sound down on the game and listen to it now. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbirdsong Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 (edited) Power Windows... let me think. I was 20 years old and in the Navy living in Pensacola, Florida. That means I bought it on cassette. It was so big and loud and I immediately liked it better than Grace Under Pressure. It is very much of its time. It sounded very 1985. When my daughter sees pictures of that time or old TV shows or hears the music she asks how we could stand to be so corny and ill dressed. I just laugh and say you had to be there honey. I can't wait until she has children of her own so I can A- turn them onto Rush and B- show them all the old corny pictures I have of her. She used to love to watch Power Rangers so my Power Windows will trump her in the end. Being in the military meant I couldn't get to very many show by anyone so finally hearing so many 80s songs on this tour was like a free ticket back in time and I appreciate Rush so much for taking me back there. Edited October 20, 2012 by drbirdsong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I loved it out of the box and listened to it daily for 1 year straight. CA is the best CD since PW IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanadoo Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Power Windows is now my favorite Rush album as a result of hearing it live. I listen to it in full at least twice a week. Grand Designs is one of Rush's best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 It's never been one of my fave albums of theirs and having them play tracks from it on this tour hasn't changed my opinion of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micgtr71 Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 It's always been one of my favorites. Especially side 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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