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12 - Best Song From Hold Your Fire


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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?

    • Force Ten
      173
    • Time Stand Still
      288
    • Open Secrets
      80
    • Second Nature
      36
    • Prime Mover
      114
    • Lock and Key
      72
    • Mission
      201
    • Turn The Page
      108
    • Tai Shan
      20
    • High Water
      25


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Every song is great on this album if you like "adult contemporary" Rush as someone put it wink.gif

 

Time Stand Still is great lyrically and all, but it does get a bit tiresome hearing over and over.

 

I especially like a lot of Alex's guitar melodies on this album, as well as Geddy's vocal melodies and Neil's best emotional relationship lyrics. Open Secrets is a great example of this.

 

High Water and Prime Mover are actually pretty deep philosophical lyrics. Great loud.

 

Lock and Key and Mission are good as well, a bit poppish, like Force Ten.

 

Tai Shan is in a class all its own, and you either love it or hate it. Love it.

 

But for me, being a bass player, loving Alex's bright textures and harmonics in his searing solos, loving aggressive synths, and agreeing so much with Neil on his lyrics in this one, my #1 pick for this song is ---

 

1022.gif TURN THE PAGE 1022.gif

 

Still raises the hairs on the back of my neck when I get a chance to crank it really loud and am looking for a pick-me-up firedevil.gif

 

That bass line is one of those that, even though your left hand is fatigued and about to give out, the RUSH of adrenaline it gives forces you to go on anyway. And the chaos at the end... yummm

 

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Time Stands Still-for the message,melody and Aimee's wonderful vocal.

 

This is one of only two Rush-albums where I don't care much for the sound and arrangments.

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I voted for Force Ten.

 

It's so hard to choose only one of anything that's your favorite when it comes to RUSH really, but that one is slightly higher than the rest for me.

 

I liked the stripped down version they did of it on R30. I don't know what it was, but it was nice hearing the song in a different way.

 

Other favorites on this one:

 

Turn the Page

Lock & Key (maybe this will get into the 2008 set, hmm?)

Prime Mover

Open Secrets

Mission

 

HYF is a great album. I don't know why so many people crap all over it all the time.

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Turn The Page... especially after seeing ASoH and watching them perform it... awesome.
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