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Which one of these songs has the best guitar solo ?  

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  1. 1. Which one of these songs has the best guitar solo ?

    • La Villa Strangiato
      30
    • Freewill
      3
    • Limelight
      8


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Oh man, you picked three songs that are all awesome for sort of different reasons. No fair.
Posted

La Villa or Limelight for sure. Went with LVS.

 

Those two are my favorites along with Xanadu, No One At The Bridge, Return Of The Prince, and Presentation.

Posted
La Villa. It's an instrumental piece because not even Shakespeare could find lyrics worth the music.
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Three incredible songs, and a very difficult choice. All of the solos are so different stylistically, also.

 

I have to rank them thusly:

 

1. La Villa

2. Freewill (among my favourite Lifeson solos ever)

3. Limelight

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Three incredible songs, and a very difficult choice. All of the solos are so different stylistically, also.

 

I have to rank them thusly:

 

1. La Villa

2. Freewill (among my favourite Lifeson solos ever)

3. Limelight

 

I'm with you.

 

The bass in those first two is incredible too.

 

When I was getting into Rush, way back when, I had only heard Permanent Waves and Signals was the new release at the time; I knew nothing of their older stuff. I was partying with a kid who played bass and I asked him if he could play Freewill (the bass lines had just blown me away). He kind of scoffed at me and said I can play La Vila Strangiato. I went "What is La Villa whateveryousaid?" (we were partying, remember, ala 1982-83). I went out the next day to hunt it down and haven't looked back since.

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Blasted double posts! Edited by Blue J
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Three incredible songs, and a very difficult choice. All of the solos are so different stylistically, also.

 

I have to rank them thusly:

 

1. La Villa

2. Freewill (among my favourite Lifeson solos ever)

3. Limelight

 

I'm with you.

 

The bass in those first two is incredible too.

 

When I was getting into Rush, way back when, I had only heard Permanent Waves and Signals was the new release at the time; I knew nothing of their older stuff. I was partying with a kid who played bass and I asked him if he could play Freewill (the bass lines had just blown me away). He kind of scoffed at me and said I can play La Vila Strangiato. I went "What is La Villa whateveryousaid?" (we were partying, remember, ala 1982-83). I went out the next day to hunt it down and haven't looked back since.

 

Indeed, the bass playing is just jaw-dropping; fantastic! Again, Freewill contains some of Geddy's finest bass shredding...but La Villa still takes the cake.

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La Villa Strangiato
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The solo is great in La Villa but I think of the song as an entire jam session, whereas the other two are true solos within their respective songs. In which case I have to pick Limelight.
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La Villa for me. Because of how that one builds. soft and builds to heaven.

 

Mick

 

Hey look, a post of Mick appreciating Rush! Haven't seen one of those in a while, lol.

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When I say I will choose Freewill, I don't mean that's what I'm voting for. :huh:
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Limelight for me. But that's just out of these three.
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While La Villa is a stronger musical piece, I went with Limelight for the guitar solo. It just makes me feel intense feelings whenever I hear it.

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Tough choices primarily because I really haven't listened to MP or PW in quite awhile, unlike ESL which is an album I play at least once or twice a month.

Therefore I've had to do a recap and played all three songs just a few minutes ago. I must admit, it was a close call between LSV and Freewill, but went for the former because of the slow build up and intense crescendo capped it for me. 

That said I might vote for Freewill tomorrow as I also think this is an under-rated but very well timed effort

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On 5/22/2015 at 11:47 AM, geezer said:

La Villa. It's an instrumental piece because not even Shakespeare could find lyrics worth the music.

Granted, he was unavailable   

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It’s close but it’s 

LVS for me 😎

I must add that Lerxst also produced some top 🎸 solos during the ‘ synth years ‘

when he really had to step up in terms of cutting thru the synth layers with beautiful melody, suitability to the track, each solo’s composition and his individual uniqueness during these brief windows in those songs which gave him the chance to shine 💥

 Just off the top of my head I find these following solos equally as outstanding  as the 3 listed in this poll ..

* The Weapon 

* The Analog Kid

* Digital Man

*  Chemistry 

*  Afterimage

*  Between the Wheels

*  Red Sector A

*  Kid Gloves

*  Emotion Detector 

*  Marathon 

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