RushianRoulette Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Probably a post that has been battered to death with over usage, but I'm curious to hear answers, so here goes it. There's a new law that restricts everyone to have one Rush song to listen to, their favourite one. Without any smart answers here, what's your favourite Rush song, (the one you choose) and why? After long deliberation and vacillation, mine is Presto, because it's my favourite Rush song and I never get sick of listening to it no matter how many times it comes on shuffle. It's hard though!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclonus X-1 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Subdivisions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianice Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Headlong Flight :rush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disk98 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Xanadu! Soaring vocals, awesome instrumentation, and a killer guitar solo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x1yyz Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Cygnus X-1, books 1 and 2, because that's really all one song, right?! I've always loved this whole piece. I love the story, the epic-ness of it, the music, the vocals. If I can't get away with that then I would choose The Spirit of Radio. It was one of the first songs I heard from Rush back in 1980, all aspects of the song are incredible, and it so aptly describes the state of commercial radio and radio used to mean a lot to me. (This song may have helped me decide that working in commercial radio would have been a soulless job, so I later went to work in college radio, which was everything I wanted from radio except the paycheck :P ) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Ggggrrr... BUT DIFFERENT ERAS OF RUSH ARE LIKE DIFFERENT BANDS! 70's: I have to go with, erm...Bastille Day...or Xanadu 80's: CHAIN LIGHTNING 90's: Cold Fire 00's: Nocturne Well, a top ten would feature no music of Rush from RTB onwards, so... Ok...Xanachainstille it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Xanadu - It's hauntingly beautiful. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbobby10 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Subdivisions I love everything about that song 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GabesCavesOfIce Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 No LVS?? Huh, wha...immma lost?,!?! We'll let me walk up to the podium then.... LVS. Gabriel out. (That's my old cats name ;) ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Ok...if someone held a gun to my head...I would probably say Xanadu. I played it today and I just melted...one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard, and for whatever reason it really stood out today as i played AFTK (moreso than normal). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brucey Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 La Villa Strangiato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) Cygnus X1 As close to "cinematic" as a musical composition can get .. .. and Geddy's voice - I love it Edited April 14, 2015 by Lucas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJW Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Freewill. The way Alex opens the song does it for me. Also, all three of them kill it in the middle instrumental part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJW Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Cyguns X1 As close to "cinematic" as a musical composition can get .. .. and Geddy's voice - I love it I agree %1000 Well said 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narps Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Cygnus X-1, books 1 and 2, because that's really all one song, right?! I've always loved this whole piece. I love the story, the epic-ness of it, the music, the vocals. You totally got away with it. Nuff said... :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeson90 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 right now it's Half the World. Al could do a whole album with that mandola for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rush Fan in Michigan Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 "Time Stands Still" isn't just my favorite Rush song, it might be my favorite song period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtron Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Hemispheres 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertrobyn Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 The Camera Eye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Become an outlaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasbo Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Red Barchetta.While I love Xanadu,Hemispheres,Natural Science,Free will and all the later day stuff like Presto,Nobody's Hero,Earthshine, RB holds a balance between the two main eras.I feel there is a distinct camp that feel that Moving Pictures is the last great Rush album and its downhill from there.Back to subject,i am a person to listen to music first, lyrics later,but this is one song which got me in with both.And the music builds with the lyrics.I remember I first had Moving Pictures on cassette and I had an Australian Valiant Charger E38(a very fast muscle car)and gunning it when Alex's solo came on through my mega car stereo.And then 'a gleaming alloy air car came into view.And yes I was sober but high on the music.Along with Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow Rising those tapes lived in my car stereo in the early eighties. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Dad Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Subdivisions Natural Science Red Barchetta La Villa Strangiato 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushianRoulette Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 "Time Stands Still" isn't just my favorite Rush song, it might be my favorite song period. I empathise with this, it's a fantastic song. When I heard it live it was magical. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rutlefan Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Red Barchetta. Toss up with Xanadu but today I'll say RB. Hard leaving any of the second side of Hemi behind though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 So many..! :D I have three favorites: Finding My Way, In The Mood and Working Man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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