Rod in Toronto Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Moving Pictures was released. It's still my obvious choice for Rush's most accomplished piece of work - musically and commercially. Are there any thoughts you have on this album - old or new? 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amps211 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I just still wish I could go out to that farm and drive that red Barchetta .... I bet it has a good radio in it 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 February 12 is also the birth date of Charles Darwin. Coincidence? I think not! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
third hand grace Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Literally had an affect on my entire life 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amps211 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 February 12 is also the birth date of Charles Darwin. Coincidence? I think not! Yes The correlation is obvious 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GabesCavesOfIce Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 February 12 is also the birth date of Charles Darwin. Coincidence? I think not! Sir, many in America might not see that as a compliment ;) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 Literally had an affect on my entire life For me too. It wasn´t the first Rush album I heard, and by the time I got to it, I only hadn´t heard The Camera Eye or Vital Signs - all other songs I´d already seen on live releases. But it did have an effect in my life, it´s probably the album I heard the most from start to finish. And keep in mind I only heard it the first time when I was 24. It quickly surpassed all Maiden albums and anything I´d heard until then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 February 12 is also the birth date of Charles Darwin. Coincidence? I think not! Sir, many in America might not see that as a compliment ;) Hey, it's Lincoln's birthday too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. JD Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I love MP. Definitely in my top 5 Rush albums. It reminds my of cruising around in my 1979 Chrysler Córdoba. Today would be a great day to visit LeStudio to celebrate. To bad it's about a 24 hour drive from my house! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamrahai Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I remember the first time like it was yesterday and not 35 long years ago... Sitting in my van in a secluded parking lot with my friend "Herb" during Daytona Bike Week '81 and Tom Sawyer came on the radio. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x1yyz Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 February 12 is also the birth date of Charles Darwin. Coincidence? I think not! Sir, many in America might not see that as a compliment ;) Hey, it's Lincoln's birthday too! All good things! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutman Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Saw that tour, And my body was much younger. :codger: :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 it is absolute perfection. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReRushed Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 It's the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutman Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 (edited) it is absolute perfection. Sure but, We both know. It's a live album. ATWAS is #1 :codger: :haz: :rush: Edited February 12, 2016 by troutman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Right in my top three. Also, the only three I rate 10/10. Masterpiece. Every song is a classic, and every classic is a major career high with this record. Side 2 is unforgivably overlooked by many around here. Witch Hunt is perfection, and The Camera Eye is a masterful track. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day of Light Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Such a beautiful album, and it sounds unlike any of their other stuff. My uncle has a country placeThat no one knows aboutHe says it used to be a farmBefore the Motor Law 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day of Light Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Side 2 is unforgivably overlooked by many around here. Witch Hunt is perfection, and The Camera Eye is a masterful track. I love side 2. It gives me more goosebumps than side 1. :) Witch Hunt really is one of their best. They set such a frightening atmosphere. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I was 19, waist-deep in pot smoking and beer drinking, flunking out of college, and going nowhere fast. But Moving Pictures made everything OK. My worship of the High Priests of Rock & Roll was at an all-time high. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day of Light Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I was 19, waist-deep in pot smoking and beer drinking, flunking out of college, and going nowhere fast. But Moving Pictures made everything OK. My worship of the High Priests of Rock & Roll was at an all-time high. That kinda sounds like me right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaminbenb Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Yikes.....I'm freaking OLD! I was a senior in high school and the first minute of YYZ was rolling around in my brain all day... IIRC...I think I was playing the rhythm on the drums before concert band practice that morning, (or a morning close to the date it was released) and thoroughly pissing off my band director who was a bit conservative as far as odd time signatures! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue J Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I was not quite eight years old in February of 1981, and Moving Pictures was the second 'new' Rush album since I had become a fan, courtesy of my older brother...he recorded the LP onto cassette for me, and the way he labeled the tape, just because of his handwriting- for quite awhile, I thought the album was called 'Moving Pictunes'. :P 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grep Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 (edited) Such a beautiful album, and it sounds unlike any of their other stuff. My uncle has a country placeThat no one knows aboutHe says it used to be a farmBefore the Motor Law 20,000 people singing that song at Madison Square Garden can't be wrong. It's such an awesome, awesome song. Sometimes I wouldn't sing it myself..just to listen to the crowd. Edited February 12, 2016 by grep 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke1 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Great memories. I was 17 when this came out and had just started work a month earlier. We got paid in cash back then and I can remember buying this on release day, the first album I bought since starting working. From memory it was $12,99 (New Zealand $). Worth every cent (and more). I can remember thinking back then how well produced this sounded and it got played over and over. Absolutely loved it.I used To record the albums onto a cassette tape to play in the car. Hemispheres, Waves and Pictures, these three were on constant play back then. Brilliant stuff. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOVING PICTURES !! :cheers: It kept me sane at a stressful time in my life. I would hear the beauty that is this album and feel encouraged to hang in there a little longer, that everything would turn out OK. ( It did ! :D ) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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