Entre_Perpetuo Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Simple. Pick your favorite Geddy Lee Synth songs from each album and all together. (I'll be back later to make my post)Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len(songs) Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Note: Only AFTK-CA count AFTK: XanaduHemispheres: HemispheresPeW: JLMP: TCESignals: SubdivisionsGuP: Distant Early WarningPoW: Manhattan ProjectHYF: MissionPresto: ScarsRTB: Roll The BonesCP: LTTAT4E: Time and MotionVT: Probably none but I say Vapor Trail (I swear I hear some at 1:50!)S&A: TMMBCA: The Garden (Not much on here...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geddy's Soul Patch Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 AFTK: XanaduHemi: The TreesPeW: Jacob's LadderMP: Camera EyeSig: The WeaponGUP: The Body Electric/Red LensesPoW: Manhattan Project/Territories/Mystic RhythmsHYF: Turn the PagePresto: Show Don't TellRTB: Roll the BonesCP: Nobody's HeroT4E: ResistVT: N/ASnakes: TMMBCA: Garden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savagegrace26 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) XanaduThe TreesJacob's LadderVital SignsSubdivisionsThe Enemy WithinMiddletown DreamsOpen SecretsScarsWhere's My Thing?Nobody's Hero Edited August 31, 2014 by savagegrace26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 XanaduCircumstancesJacob's LadderVital SignsNew World ManThe Body ElectricMiddletown DreamsForce TenWar PaintWhere's My Thing?Nobody's HeroThe Garden (even though there's not a lot of synths) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Digital Man Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Do you mean when there's just keyboards and no bass guitar or very little bass like Afterimage, Between The Wheels, Scars, or almost everything else they've ever done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savagegrace26 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Do you mean when there's just keyboards and no bass guitar or very little bass like Afterimage, Between The Wheels, Scars, or almost everything else they've ever done? Forgot Scars. Have to change mine. I think he means the most effective use of synth regardless of the amount. I almost picked The Analog Kid because it's very subtle but very effective. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Digital Man Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Actually Scars is a sampled bass line but i guess would count as a synth song! The interpretation of this thread is too open making it worthless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savagegrace26 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Actually Scars is a sampled bass line but i guess would count as a synth song! The interpretation of this thread is too open making it worthless! What do you mean too open? Which songs do you personally like for the use of synths? Why is that difficult? Of course Scars would count. Any song with synths would count. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeson90 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Ged's synths are simple and beautiful and just perfect for this band, they're all sublime the guy's an underrated genius in rock on those things and way too many to mention but la villa demonstrates their quality perfectly and their welcome return on BU2B for me took them to even greater heights. The band made a point the synths werent always necessary with VT but their inclusion has been fundamental in this great band's development 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savagegrace26 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Saw this comment here: I agree with it. Maybe they should've continued along that path. "They were clearly moving uncharted territories with these albums, from power windows to hold your fire. . and a little residual influence of the truly progressive power and energy and optimism and uplifting hope. . . then that old producer told them their music was losing its 'balls" and forced alex to return to a dry guitar sound and replacing the mid range with alex's distorted guitar when geddy was brilliantly filling this mid range with atmospheric pads and synth sounds that were filling the mid range beautifully . ... after this came counterparts and test for echoes. . unfortunately , I kind of stopped following them. I had every album to that point. they returned to a hard-edged, rather cynical sounding effort to return to moving pictures.. . they should have kept going with geddy's MIDI contributions. ..they could have done ever increasing exploration of that futuristic, optimistic sound. . .. oh well, just one opinion among millions.. .what do i know? really? " 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savagegrace26 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I don't understand the purpose of placing arbitrary rules on creating music such as not using any synths on Vapor Trails. I think the album could've benefited greatly from using some synths even just as some subtle accents here and there instead of all of those guitar layers and geddy choirs and oohs and aahs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len(songs) Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I don't understand the purpose of placing arbitrary rules on creating music such as not using any synths on Vapor Trails. I think the album could've benefited greatly from using some synths even just as some subtle accents here and there instead of all of those guitar layers and geddy choirs and oohs and aahs.Actually I think I hear synths on Vapor Trail, at 1:50. They're pretty buried in the mix, but I'm sure they're there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savagegrace26 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I don't understand the purpose of placing arbitrary rules on creating music such as not using any synths on Vapor Trails. I think the album could've benefited greatly from using some synths even just as some subtle accents here and there instead of all of those guitar layers and geddy choirs and oohs and aahs.Actually I think I hear synths on Vapor Trail, at 1:50. They're pretty buried in the mix, but I'm sure they're there There might be some buried but hardly enough. Synths or strings or something could have been used in place of the Geddy "yea-ahhs" in that particular song. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geddy's Soul Patch Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I don't understand the purpose of placing arbitrary rules on creating music such as not using any synths on Vapor Trails. I think the album could've benefited greatly from using some synths even just as some subtle accents here and there instead of all of those guitar layers and geddy choirs and oohs and aahs.Actually I think I hear synths on Vapor Trail, at 1:50. They're pretty buried in the mix, but I'm sure they're there I think there is synth in Sweet Miracle. Not sure about Vapor Trail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 I don't understand the purpose of placing arbitrary rules on creating music such as not using any synths on Vapor Trails. I think the album could've benefited greatly from using some synths even just as some subtle accents here and there instead of all of those guitar layers and geddy choirs and oohs and aahs.Actually I think I hear synths on Vapor Trail, at 1:50. They're pretty buried in the mix, but I'm sure they're there I think there is synth in Sweet Miracle. Not sure about Vapor Trail Vapor Trail just sounds like layered guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Just the albums I've yet gotten to, as per usual: 2112: 2112 OvertureAFTK: A Farewell To KingsHemispheres: La Villa StrangiatoPeW: Jacob's Ladder (honorable mentions: The Spirit Of Radio and the piano backups in Different Strings if you can count that)MP: YYZ (talk about a perfect entrance) (honorable mentions: Vital Signs, Tom Sawyer)Signals: Subdivisions (honorable mention: Losing It)P/G: Distant Early Warning (honorable mention: Red Sector A)PoW: THE WHOLE DARN ALBUM!!! It's an overlooked masterpiece of rock synthesizer playing. But if I had to pick one, my vote goes to the air cutter synths in Territories. Scared me a bit first time I heard it.HYF: Lock And Key, just for the intro. Love that powerful, urgent sound. (Btw, anyone else think the synths on HYF actually aren't as prominent as on PoW, I guess I never noticed before, but maybe that's part of the reason HYF is such a difficult album to get into for a lot of fans. From synths to guitar, there's just not as much memorable mid range going on as in previous albums) CA: If it counts, whatever the effect is right at the start of Caravan. Best I can think of. (Honorable mention, Halo Effect, again for the beginning). Overall: YYZ/Distant Early Warning (honorable mention: THE WHOLE DARN POWER WINDOWS ALBUM) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len(songs) Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Just the albums I've yet gotten to, as per usual: 2112: 2112 OvertureAFTK: A Farewell To KingsHemispheres: La Villa StrangiatoPeW: Jacob's Ladder (honorable mentions: The Spirit Of Radio and the piano backups in Different Strings if you can count that)MP: YYZ (talk about a perfect entrance) (honorable mentions: Vital Signs, Tom Sawyer)Signals: Subdivisions (honorable mention: Losing It)P/G: Distant Early Warning (honorable mention: Red Sector A)PoW: THE WHOLE DARN ALBUM!!! It's an overlooked masterpiece of rock synthesizer playing. But if I had to pick one, my vote goes to the air cutter synths in Territories. Scared me a bit first time I heard it.HYF: Lock And Key, just for the intro. Love that powerful, urgent sound. (Btw, anyone else think the synths on HYF actually aren't as prominent as on PoW, I guess I never noticed before, but maybe that's part of the reason HYF is such a difficult album to get into for a lot of fans. From synths to guitar, there's just not as much memorable mid range going on as in previous albums) CA: If it counts, whatever the effect is right at the start of Caravan. Best I can think of. (Honorable mention, Halo Effect, again for the beginning). Overall: YYZ/Distant Early Warning (honorable mention: THE WHOLE DARN POWER WINDOWS ALBUM)The piano on DS was done by Hugh Syme. Same with the 2112 synths and the Tears mellotron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len(songs) Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 (edited) Double post Edited September 1, 2014 by len(songs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Just the albums I've yet gotten to, as per usual: 2112: 2112 OvertureAFTK: A Farewell To KingsHemispheres: La Villa StrangiatoPeW: Jacob's Ladder (honorable mentions: The Spirit Of Radio and the piano backups in Different Strings if you can count that)MP: YYZ (talk about a perfect entrance) (honorable mentions: Vital Signs, Tom Sawyer)Signals: Subdivisions (honorable mention: Losing It)P/G: Distant Early Warning (honorable mention: Red Sector A)PoW: THE WHOLE DARN ALBUM!!! It's an overlooked masterpiece of rock synthesizer playing. But if I had to pick one, my vote goes to the air cutter synths in Territories. Scared me a bit first time I heard it.HYF: Lock And Key, just for the intro. Love that powerful, urgent sound. (Btw, anyone else think the synths on HYF actually aren't as prominent as on PoW, I guess I never noticed before, but maybe that's part of the reason HYF is such a difficult album to get into for a lot of fans. From synths to guitar, there's just not as much memorable mid range going on as in previous albums) CA: If it counts, whatever the effect is right at the start of Caravan. Best I can think of. (Honorable mention, Halo Effect, again for the beginning). Overall: YYZ/Distant Early Warning (honorable mention: THE WHOLE DARN POWER WINDOWS ALBUM)The piano on DS was done by Hugh Syme. Same with the 2112 synths and the Tears mellotron. Oh yeah, forgot Geddy didn't do 2112...I guess the weird wind effects in The Twilight Zone then. The piano in DS did sound a bit beyond Ged anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Digital Man Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Actually Scars is a sampled bass line but i guess would count as a synth song! The interpretation of this thread is too open making it worthless! What do you mean too open? Which songs do you personally like for the use of synths? Why is that difficult? Of course Scars would count. Any song with synths would count. What i mean is that about 90% of Rush songs have synths on them and that's a lot of their music and it's impossible to pick favorites as there's just too much choice, that's all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Actually Scars is a sampled bass line but i guess would count as a synth song! The interpretation of this thread is too open making it worthless! What do you mean too open? Which songs do you personally like for the use of synths? Why is that difficult? Of course Scars would count. Any song with synths would count. What i mean is that about 90% of Rush songs have synths on them and that's a lot of their music and it's impossible to pick favorites as there's just too much choice, that's all! 100% of Rush's music is Rush's music and in album form, but from all that I can say A Farewell To Kings is my favorite album of theirs, though the rest of their music is awesome as well. Not too open methinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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