Xanadu Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I have to admit that I often skip this one just because of the length. It's one of those marathon songs you have to be in the mood for (see what I did there?)..... But I listened to it in my car yesterday and was really enjoying it. It's a solid piece of work, in my humble opinion. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedRush Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I have to admit that I often skip this one just because of the length. It's one of those marathon songs you have to be in the mood for (see what I did there?)..... But I listened to it in my car yesterday and was really enjoying it. It's a solid piece of work, in my humble opinion. :smoke: In the mood now? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geddy's Soul Patch Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 (edited) One of the greatest compositions of all time. There's so much youthful passion in both the playing and lyrics, only matched by 2112, Xanadu and Hemispheres IMO Edited February 13, 2015 by Geddy's Soul Patch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 TFOL is Awesome....An epic story...Love it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I am always in the mood for Fountain and Hemispheres. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I'd say some parts are better than others but overall its pretty damn good. The Necromancer is better. I agree 100% and thank God it didn't evolve in something like "Tales From Topographic Oceans" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driven_to_xanadu Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 FOL is one of many highlights from the 70's period for Rush. It was an ambitious song for a band that had only released two albums prior. Many will disagree but I prefer 20+ mins of Lamneth goodness over any of that Cygnus nonsense. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I'd say some parts are better than others but overall its pretty damn good. The Necromancer is better. I agree 100% and thank God it didn't evolve in something like "Tales From Topographic Oceans" Tales is the sort of album seventies Rush could only dream of making. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 FOL is one of many highlights from the 70's period for Rush. It was an ambitious song for a band that had only released two albums prior. Many will disagree but I prefer 20+ mins of Lamneth goodness over any of that Cygnus nonsense. Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I'd say some parts are better than others but overall its pretty damn good. The Necromancer is better. I agree 100% and thank God it didn't evolve in something like "Tales From Topographic Oceans" Tales is the sort of album seventies Rush could only dream of making. I'm not questioning the music itself (even less that Yes line up!), but just the 80 mins / 4 tracks album format that can be hard to fill from one side and hard to digest from another. IMHO other Yes' 20 mins masterpieces ("Close To The Edge" and "The Gates Of Delirium") had better luck 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtron Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I'd say some parts are better than others but overall its pretty damn good. The Necromancer is better. I agree 100% and thank God it didn't evolve in something like "Tales From Topographic Oceans" Tales is the sort of album seventies Rush could only dream of making. Rush subtitled one of their proggiest songs "An Excercise in Self Indulgence" and kept it under ten minutes. I think they had enough self-awareness to not wanna go that far off the deep end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I think I am going to indulge in seventies Rush. I have lost sight of what made them great. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaminbenb Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Being a person that likes long tunes (well I did when I had a job that it took me 30 minutes to get to in traffic every day) it's one of my favorite long songs...although it's like a bunch of shorter songs tossed together. This was the first studio album I got from Rush, and it was always a favorite! (you never forget your first) And as someone else said, When I got Archives to "fill in some blanks" (and on 8-track, no less) I still felt it was the superior album of that bunch, and liked it on the whole more than I liked 2112 at the time! But as far as my favorite LONG Rush songs, it's probably a slight second under Hemispheres, and I'd guess equal with 2112 which I like just as much. Caress of Steel on a whole is just one of those albums that I need to listen to in it's entirety during one sitting. (LIKE Queen's A Night at the Opera, or Yes's Close to the Edge, Hemispheres, The Who''s Tommy, etc.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disk98 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Hate it.I'm not surprised. When I saw one vote for "unlistenable" I said to myself "I bet that's Disk." Sure 'nuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disk98 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Hate it.I'm not surprised. When I saw one vote for "unlistenable" I said to myself "I bet that's Disk." Sure 'nuff.You know me so well. :laughing guy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I almost went Pretentious and Half Baked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Dad Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Never thought I would ever say thisbut in rhe case of TRF definitively overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheels Within Wheels Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 The guitar solo during No One At The Bridge (starts around 8:39) is probably the highlight of the entire piece for me. There's not much more there unfortunately, at least for me. But to each his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_hi_water._ Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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