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La Villa Strangiato

The Camera Eye

Red Sector A

2112

Xanadu

Territories

A Passage To Bangkok

Earthshine

The Pass

Test For Echo

 

This can change by the hour.....feel like changing something already.

So do I. And not just something. I'll leave The Pass because that could just mean something very personal to you as In The End does for me... :LOL:

 

Oh yes The Pass most certainly does, TFE could easily be switched out for Lessons, Earthshine....man I just love that little rocker plus my constant facination with the moon hell space in general. Many songs just have a little something that makes them stand out from others for the most obscure reasons one can thing of.

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Jacob's Ladder

The Camera Eye

Xanadu

La Villa

Bravado

Losing It

Witch Hunt

Cygnus Book II

Natural Science

2112

 

The order of these has changed several times since I typed it, but I'll leave it at this.

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Grand Designs

 

The Weapon

 

Dreamline

 

Limelight

 

Chemistry

 

Emotion Detector

 

Lock And Key

 

Open Secrets

 

Marathon

 

Between The Wheels

 

11. Middletown Dreams

Could be persuaded to insert the Body Electric at the expense of one of them

Would like to have inserted Kid Gloves too funky guitar solo love it.

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Earl, 'tis a pity you never met Spaghetti Lee. The two of you would have hit it off nicely! :yes:

 

Hahaha! Bummer! I like his handle! Was he banned?

Yes, it was a tragedy! Edited by Geddy's Soul Patch
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"Earthshit"

 

Earl, 'tis a pity you never met Spaghetti Lee. The two of you would have hit it off nicely! :yes:

 

Hahaha! Bummer! I like his handle! Was he banned?

Yes, it was a tragedy!

 

Thanks buddy for the honesty! I had no clue! What a bummer!

 

Are there any old threads and posts on here by him that I can read or are they all deleted by the Priests Of Syrinx?

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"Earthshit"

 

Earl, 'tis a pity you never met Spaghetti Lee. The two of you would have hit it off nicely! :yes:

 

Hahaha! Bummer! I like his handle! Was he banned?

Yes, it was a tragedy!

 

Thanks buddy for the honesty! I had no clue! What a bummer!

 

Are there any old threads and posts on here by him that I can read or are they all deleted by the Priests Of Syrinx?

I can't think of any threads off the top of my head, but I can only assume they're around...anyway, I was able to find his classic Amazon review of Snakes and Arrows:

Production notwithstanding, this album is SUCH a step backward from Vapor Trails (not that that was a great album, but it was at least catchy and listenable besides the horrible digital clipping).

 

A few basic problems with this album:

 

1) Not catchy whatsoeverat least Vapor Trails was memorable and rocked besides the clipping noise. Rush's gift always held true the fact that they could write what was seemingly on the surface a 'catchy as hell' memorable simple song that only took one listen to rememberbut under the surface was technical as hell (Red Barchetta for a great example of a totally 'accessible by anyone' song that's also amazingly complex and intricate yet it takes NOTHING away from the catchiness and doesn't overwhelm-or underwhelm-the casual listener). Rush have completely lost both the ability to be both catchy and complex on anything above an elementary level.

 

2) Boring musicianshipthis is supposed to be RUSH; "holding back" for the last 17 years is NO LONGER a valid excuse. I HATE it when mindless Neilsheep state "It's so cool to hear Neil just sit back, groove, and not overplay" for the MILLIONTH TIME as if he's been playing at "Natural Science/Cygnus X-1/Subdivisions/Losing It/Jacob's Ladder/Marathon/Mission/The Fountain" caliber constantly for the last 30 years! HE'S BEEN "HOLDING BACK" FOR FREAKIN' DECADES! C'MON, BLOW US AWAY FOR AT LEAST 20 SECONDS IN ONE SONG! Dammit, this is supposed to be Rush. Throw us at least ONE thing that makes us go "WOW!!!!!" again! And all the blind supporters need to STOP reciting what others say about "It's so great they are going subtle"they've been subtle since 1990! It's time to STOP with the lameness! Stop making excuses!

 

3) Neil's lyrics can't possibly get any worse. STOP USING THE GRADESCHOOL SIMILES AND METAPHORS!!!!! EXAMPLES:

 

"LIKE A CORAL REEF", "LIKE A GHOSTRIDER", "LIKE A MOUNTAIN", "LONELY THINGS LIKE NIGHTS", LIKE SURRENDER", "LIKE MALICE", "LIKE LOVERS AND HEROS", "LIKE EMPIRES", "LIKE THE TIDE", "LIKE PRIDE", "LIKE HURRICANES", "LIKE LOVERS" "LIKE BIRDS OF PREY", "LIKE DANCING GIRLS", "LIKE A MILLION LITTLE DOORWAYS", "LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD", "LIKE THE HEART OF THE EARTH", "LIKE A TIMEBOMB", "LIKE A STRANGER", "LIKE THE CHINESE CALL", "LIKE A RARE AND PRECIOUS METAL", "LIKE A RIGHTEOUS INSPIRATION", "LIKE A TEARDROP IN THE OCEAN", "LIKE A STEELY BLADE", "LIKE AN HOURGLASS", "LIKE A SHIPWRECKED MARINER", "LIKE A PAIR OF VAGABONDS", "LIKE A WOLF IN THE SUN", "LIKE WE'RE BACK IN THE DARK AGES", "LIKE CRUSADERS IN UNHOLY ALLIANCE", "LIKE THE SOLITARY PINE", "LIKE A STONE IN THE RIVER", "LIKE THE WILLOWS IN THE WIND", "LIKE A FOREST BOWS", "LIKE A FLOWER", etc

 

You get the idea!!! They should change their name from Rush to "LIKE"!!! You can TELL that Neil didn't finish school. I think by about the 11th grade, English classes wouldn't ALLOW you to write such simple mindless idiotic similes or you'd instantly fail the assignment. Lyrics so inane come across as being written in 30 minutesjust in time to skip town to head back out on another Middle America hateride. Neil's lyrics appeared "intelligent" when I was 8. Funny thing is, howeverthey didn't get gut-wrenchingly bad until around 1990. I think Neil does it now on purpose just to fuel his own disdain for the fans ("Let's see what kind of crap I can write that these imbeciles will think I'm God for writingthey'll fall for anything"). C'mon Neilthe juvenile nature of your lyrics and uneducated writing style is beyond insulting at this point.

 

4) Geddy: please use an amp. Get a real bass sound again. And stop that "chunka chunka chunka" flamenco crap and play some melodic, memorable, catchy, and amazing bass lines again. Stop being so basic. And, did I mention a real amp? Hey Geddy, there's an album with a great bass sound on it. You might like it. It's called "Moving Pictures." It's also called "Signals." Hell, even though it's completely different, "Power Windows" at least has a unique bass AMP sound. Your current bass sound sounds like a ProTools plug-in.

 

5) And to the fanboi's and fangurl's: Learn to think on your own. Just because you read online that one person says, "I hear traces of all eras of Rush in this new album," DO NOT endlessly post this same mindless drool over an over as if you think it yourself. If Geddy said, "Yes I used the same bass tone as I had on Caress of Steel" (while clearly he did not) there would be 100's of fanboi's sprouting, "The bass on the new album sounds just like 'No One At The Bridge!!!!!!!'" just because they read that Geddy said something to that effect. Kinda like how people are saying, "The new album is a return to Rush's roots." Yeah? Where??? I don't hear anything whatsoever similar to anything except 90's era Rush. "This new album represents all of Rush's past." Really? Where's the Power Windows era represented? Funny, I don't hear any synth. Or did you fanboi's forget that the 80's were dominated by very imaginative synth work? LEARN TO THINK FOR YOURSELF. AND, STOP REPEATING WHAT YOU READ ON THE INTERNET AS IF YOU THOUGHT OF IT FOR YOURSELF, ESPECIALLY IF YOU CAN OFFER NO SUPPORTING EVIDENCE AS TO WHY YOU ARE SPEWING YOUR UNFOUNDED WORDS. Just like all the fanboi's posting "This is the best album since Hold Your Fire!""The best since Moving Pictures!""The best since 2112!" all because they READ it from SOMEONE ELSE.

 

It's almost as ifhow completely DEVOID can Rush become of RUSH until ANY of the fanboi's realize it? It seems that as they get rid of EVERY ounce of what MADE them "RUSH", the fanboi's EMBRACE it! Geddy's singing lower! Great! Geddy's more monotone! Great! Neil isn't doing much of anything! Great! These lyrics are so deep LIKE a gradeschooler wrote them! Great! The drums still have that 1987-era reverb on them! Great! Geddy plays nothing like his old self! Great! There's NO synthesizers at all! Great! There's NO long songs! Great! There's no catchiness! Great! There's nearly no guitar solos! Great! There's no instrumental virtuosity! Great! They're holding back! Great! They've been holding back since "Presto"! Great! They don't write fantasy epics! Great! They write pseudo philosophical "I'm better than you and here is what is wrong with the world" lyrics! Great! They lyrics don't really fit the music and sound forced! Great! Geddy continues to multi-track cheesy vocal sounds rather than use Taurus pedals! Great! Neil plays at his most elementary just to piss off fans who crave 1/100th of the old Neil! Great! They completely stopped writing strange time signature parts and challenging musical passages! Great! They've written boring, bland, simple, contrite, uninspiring, unimaginative, and basic music! Great! But, they're having FUN! Great!!!

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"Earthshit"

 

Earl, 'tis a pity you never met Spaghetti Lee. The two of you would have hit it off nicely! :yes:

 

Hahaha! Bummer! I like his handle! Was he banned?

Yes, it was a tragedy!

 

Thanks buddy for the honesty! I had no clue! What a bummer!

 

Are there any old threads and posts on here by him that I can read or are they all deleted by the Priests Of Syrinx?

You can still check his posts out. http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?/user/5092-spaghetti-lee/

 

When you've read some of them, come back and let us know what you think. :)

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"Earthshit"

 

Earl, 'tis a pity you never met Spaghetti Lee. The two of you would have hit it off nicely! :yes:

 

Hahaha! Bummer! I like his handle! Was he banned?

Yes, it was a tragedy!

 

Thanks buddy for the honesty! I had no clue! What a bummer!

 

Are there any old threads and posts on here by him that I can read or are they all deleted by the Priests Of Syrinx?

You can still check his posts out. http://www.therushfo...-spaghetti-lee/

 

When you've read some of them, come back and let us know what you think. :)

I miss anyone who could make me laugh. The Westboro Baptist Church sign regarding Bravado is one that always stands out in my mind. That and of course something about Marv Albert... :LOL:
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"Earthshit"

 

Earl, 'tis a pity you never met Spaghetti Lee. The two of you would have hit it off nicely! :yes:

 

Hahaha! Bummer! I like his handle! Was he banned?

Yes, it was a tragedy!

 

Thanks buddy for the honesty! I had no clue! What a bummer!

 

Are there any old threads and posts on here by him that I can read or are they all deleted by the Priests Of Syrinx?

You can still check his posts out. http://www.therushfo...-spaghetti-lee/

 

When you've read some of them, come back and let us know what you think. :)

I miss anyone who could make me laugh. The Westboro Baptist Church sign regarding Bravado is one that always stands out in my mind. That and of course something about Marv Albert... :LOL:

I've met dude. Enjoyed the time with him and his GF. Very nice folks in person
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"Earthshit"

 

Earl, 'tis a pity you never met Spaghetti Lee. The two of you would have hit it off nicely! :yes:

 

Hahaha! Bummer! I like his handle! Was he banned?

Yes, it was a tragedy!

 

Thanks buddy for the honesty! I had no clue! What a bummer!

 

Are there any old threads and posts on here by him that I can read or are they all deleted by the Priests Of Syrinx?

I can't think of any threads off the top of my head, but I can only assume they're around...anyway, I was able to find his classic Amazon review of Snakes and Arrows:

Production notwithstanding, this album is SUCH a step backward from Vapor Trails (not that that was a great album, but it was at least catchy and listenable besides the horrible digital clipping).

 

A few basic problems with this album:

 

1) Not catchy whatsoeverat least Vapor Trails was memorable and rocked besides the clipping noise. Rush's gift always held true the fact that they could write what was seemingly on the surface a 'catchy as hell' memorable simple song that only took one listen to rememberbut under the surface was technical as hell (Red Barchetta for a great example of a totally 'accessible by anyone' song that's also amazingly complex and intricate yet it takes NOTHING away from the catchiness and doesn't overwhelm-or underwhelm-the casual listener). Rush have completely lost both the ability to be both catchy and complex on anything above an elementary level.

 

2) Boring musicianshipthis is supposed to be RUSH; "holding back" for the last 17 years is NO LONGER a valid excuse. I HATE it when mindless Neilsheep state "It's so cool to hear Neil just sit back, groove, and not overplay" for the MILLIONTH TIME as if he's been playing at "Natural Science/Cygnus X-1/Subdivisions/Losing It/Jacob's Ladder/Marathon/Mission/The Fountain" caliber constantly for the last 30 years! HE'S BEEN "HOLDING BACK" FOR FREAKIN' DECADES! C'MON, BLOW US AWAY FOR AT LEAST 20 SECONDS IN ONE SONG! Dammit, this is supposed to be Rush. Throw us at least ONE thing that makes us go "WOW!!!!!" again! And all the blind supporters need to STOP reciting what others say about "It's so great they are going subtle"they've been subtle since 1990! It's time to STOP with the lameness! Stop making excuses!

 

3) Neil's lyrics can't possibly get any worse. STOP USING THE GRADESCHOOL SIMILES AND METAPHORS!!!!! EXAMPLES:

 

"LIKE A CORAL REEF", "LIKE A GHOSTRIDER", "LIKE A MOUNTAIN", "LONELY THINGS LIKE NIGHTS", LIKE SURRENDER", "LIKE MALICE", "LIKE LOVERS AND HEROS", "LIKE EMPIRES", "LIKE THE TIDE", "LIKE PRIDE", "LIKE HURRICANES", "LIKE LOVERS" "LIKE BIRDS OF PREY", "LIKE DANCING GIRLS", "LIKE A MILLION LITTLE DOORWAYS", "LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD", "LIKE THE HEART OF THE EARTH", "LIKE A TIMEBOMB", "LIKE A STRANGER", "LIKE THE CHINESE CALL", "LIKE A RARE AND PRECIOUS METAL", "LIKE A RIGHTEOUS INSPIRATION", "LIKE A TEARDROP IN THE OCEAN", "LIKE A STEELY BLADE", "LIKE AN HOURGLASS", "LIKE A SHIPWRECKED MARINER", "LIKE A PAIR OF VAGABONDS", "LIKE A WOLF IN THE SUN", "LIKE WE'RE BACK IN THE DARK AGES", "LIKE CRUSADERS IN UNHOLY ALLIANCE", "LIKE THE SOLITARY PINE", "LIKE A STONE IN THE RIVER", "LIKE THE WILLOWS IN THE WIND", "LIKE A FOREST BOWS", "LIKE A FLOWER", etc

 

You get the idea!!! They should change their name from Rush to "LIKE"!!! You can TELL that Neil didn't finish school. I think by about the 11th grade, English classes wouldn't ALLOW you to write such simple mindless idiotic similes or you'd instantly fail the assignment. Lyrics so inane come across as being written in 30 minutesjust in time to skip town to head back out on another Middle America hateride. Neil's lyrics appeared "intelligent" when I was 8. Funny thing is, howeverthey didn't get gut-wrenchingly bad until around 1990. I think Neil does it now on purpose just to fuel his own disdain for the fans ("Let's see what kind of crap I can write that these imbeciles will think I'm God for writingthey'll fall for anything"). C'mon Neilthe juvenile nature of your lyrics and uneducated writing style is beyond insulting at this point.

 

4) Geddy: please use an amp. Get a real bass sound again. And stop that "chunka chunka chunka" flamenco crap and play some melodic, memorable, catchy, and amazing bass lines again. Stop being so basic. And, did I mention a real amp? Hey Geddy, there's an album with a great bass sound on it. You might like it. It's called "Moving Pictures." It's also called "Signals." Hell, even though it's completely different, "Power Windows" at least has a unique bass AMP sound. Your current bass sound sounds like a ProTools plug-in.

 

5) And to the fanboi's and fangurl's: Learn to think on your own. Just because you read online that one person says, "I hear traces of all eras of Rush in this new album," DO NOT endlessly post this same mindless drool over an over as if you think it yourself. If Geddy said, "Yes I used the same bass tone as I had on Caress of Steel" (while clearly he did not) there would be 100's of fanboi's sprouting, "The bass on the new album sounds just like 'No One At The Bridge!!!!!!!'" just because they read that Geddy said something to that effect. Kinda like how people are saying, "The new album is a return to Rush's roots." Yeah? Where??? I don't hear anything whatsoever similar to anything except 90's era Rush. "This new album represents all of Rush's past." Really? Where's the Power Windows era represented? Funny, I don't hear any synth. Or did you fanboi's forget that the 80's were dominated by very imaginative synth work? LEARN TO THINK FOR YOURSELF. AND, STOP REPEATING WHAT YOU READ ON THE INTERNET AS IF YOU THOUGHT OF IT FOR YOURSELF, ESPECIALLY IF YOU CAN OFFER NO SUPPORTING EVIDENCE AS TO WHY YOU ARE SPEWING YOUR UNFOUNDED WORDS. Just like all the fanboi's posting "This is the best album since Hold Your Fire!""The best since Moving Pictures!""The best since 2112!" all because they READ it from SOMEONE ELSE.

 

It's almost as ifhow completely DEVOID can Rush become of RUSH until ANY of the fanboi's realize it? It seems that as they get rid of EVERY ounce of what MADE them "RUSH", the fanboi's EMBRACE it! Geddy's singing lower! Great! Geddy's more monotone! Great! Neil isn't doing much of anything! Great! These lyrics are so deep LIKE a gradeschooler wrote them! Great! The drums still have that 1987-era reverb on them! Great! Geddy plays nothing like his old self! Great! There's NO synthesizers at all! Great! There's NO long songs! Great! There's no catchiness! Great! There's nearly no guitar solos! Great! There's no instrumental virtuosity! Great! They're holding back! Great! They've been holding back since "Presto"! Great! They don't write fantasy epics! Great! They write pseudo philosophical "I'm better than you and here is what is wrong with the world" lyrics! Great! They lyrics don't really fit the music and sound forced! Great! Geddy continues to multi-track cheesy vocal sounds rather than use Taurus pedals! Great! Neil plays at his most elementary just to piss off fans who crave 1/100th of the old Neil! Great! They completely stopped writing strange time signature parts and challenging musical passages! Great! They've written boring, bland, simple, contrite, uninspiring, unimaginative, and basic music! Great! But, they're having FUN! Great!!!

 

 

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"Earthshit"

 

Earl, 'tis a pity you never met Spaghetti Lee. The two of you would have hit it off nicely! :yes:

 

Hahaha! Bummer! I like his handle! Was he banned?

Yes, it was a tragedy!

 

Thanks buddy for the honesty! I had no clue! What a bummer!

 

Are there any old threads and posts on here by him that I can read or are they all deleted by the Priests Of Syrinx?

You can still check his posts out. http://www.therushfo...-spaghetti-lee/

 

When you've read some of them, come back and let us know what you think. :)

I miss anyone who could make me laugh. The Westboro Baptist Church sign regarding Bravado is one that always stands out in my mind. That and of course something about Marv Albert... :LOL:

I've met dude. Enjoyed the time with him and his GF. Very nice folks in person

 

He was nice on here too. i know I'll catch crap for saying that, but I liked him. He went over the top now and again though. :unsure:

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"Earthshit"

 

Earl, 'tis a pity you never met Spaghetti Lee. The two of you would have hit it off nicely! :yes:

 

Hahaha! Bummer! I like his handle! Was he banned?

Yes, it was a tragedy!

 

Thanks buddy for the honesty! I had no clue! What a bummer!

 

Are there any old threads and posts on here by him that I can read or are they all deleted by the Priests Of Syrinx?

You can still check his posts out. http://www.therushfo...-spaghetti-lee/

 

When you've read some of them, come back and let us know what you think. :)

I miss anyone who could make me laugh. The Westboro Baptist Church sign regarding Bravado is one that always stands out in my mind. That and of course something about Marv Albert... :LOL:

 

:laughing guy:

 

I'd go get it and bring it back, but he posted so many of those things (remember those old-fashioned postcards he posted with updated sayings on them?). with dial up it takes forever for his post pages to load.

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"Earthshit"

 

Earl, 'tis a pity you never met Spaghetti Lee. The two of you would have hit it off nicely! :yes:

 

Hahaha! Bummer! I like his handle! Was he banned?

Yes, it was a tragedy!

 

Thanks buddy for the honesty! I had no clue! What a bummer!

 

Are there any old threads and posts on here by him that I can read or are they all deleted by the Priests Of Syrinx?

You can still check his posts out. http://www.therushfo...-spaghetti-lee/

 

When you've read some of them, come back and let us know what you think. :)

I miss anyone who could make me laugh. The Westboro Baptist Church sign regarding Bravado is one that always stands out in my mind. That and of course something about Marv Albert... :LOL:

I've met dude. Enjoyed the time with him and his GF. Very nice folks in person

 

He was nice on here too. i know I'll catch crap for saying that, but I liked him. He went over the top now and again though. :unsure:

You're not alone in that opinion :D
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In alpha-numeric order:

 

2112

Earthshine

Entre Nous

Far Cry

Ghost Of A Chance

Jacob's Ladder

Leave That Thing Alone

Presto

Red Barchetta

Subdivisions

 

 

:sundog: :sundog: :sundog:

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"Earthshit"

 

Earl, 'tis a pity you never met Spaghetti Lee. The two of you would have hit it off nicely! :yes:

 

Hahaha! Bummer! I like his handle! Was he banned?

Yes, it was a tragedy!

 

Thanks buddy for the honesty! I had no clue! What a bummer!

 

Are there any old threads and posts on here by him that I can read or are they all deleted by the Priests Of Syrinx?

You can still check his posts out. http://www.therushfo...-spaghetti-lee/

 

When you've read some of them, come back and let us know what you think. :)

I miss anyone who could make me laugh. The Westboro Baptist Church sign regarding Bravado is one that always stands out in my mind. That and of course something about Marv Albert... :LOL:

I've met dude. Enjoyed the time with him and his GF. Very nice folks in person

 

He was nice on here too. i know I'll catch crap for saying that, but I liked him. He went over the top now and again though. :unsure:

You're not alone in that opinion :D

Agreed. There are some here who just don't like any "potty humor" at all and I can respect that too. We are all different but I could just weed through it and find the stuff that was funny to me and there was plenty. Oh well I have a song for just this occasion. Sorry Lorraine if you can't see it. Always liked this one BTW...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQWlL-jj5Q

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