NFT: Favorite RUSH Tune?

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Entre Nous - ( New Window )

Xanadu

Can't decide

Great song.

I don't think I can pick just one? Maybe a dozen or so? Even that would be hard for me. My choices would change after hearing another Rush song. Hehe...

For today I'll go with Lessons. Tomorrow might be Xanadu, Anthem, Circumstances, The Trees, Natural Science, 2112 Suite, Entre Nous, Freewill, Fly By Night, Lakeside Park, etc... The list goes on and on. lol

The Trees, 2112 Overture/Temple of Syrinx, Working Man, Fly by night, Road to Bangkok

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Subdivisions - ( New Window )

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Far Cry - ( New Window )

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...Right now it's Xanadu.
Live at the Hammersmith Odeon - 1978 (from Different Stages CD) - ( New Window )

Maybe La Villa Strangiato at the moment.

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Red Barchetta. Temples of Syrinx and Subdivisions are close though.

...yes, I'm poking the bear.

But spirit of the radio is my fav

Like nails on a chalkboard

You dont love Geddy's screaming?

Or Limelight. Temple of Syrinx is up here

a Rush song?

that I can't stand Geddy Lee's voice. I had so many long road trips as a kid listening to my dad blast rush songs.

I will also admit that Spirit of Radio is a fantastic song. Brilliant drums as always by Neil Peart.

With better people, and better foid, and better beer.
Territories - ( New Window )

*food

In comment 13829366 Jalapeno said:

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a Rush song?

No, he uses a Pretenders song. Although I did hear him use Fly By Night as a bumper song between commerical breaks once a long time ago

Great solo by Alex.
No One at the Bridge - ( New Window )

Anthem, 2112 Grand Finale, Cygnus X-1, La Villa, Entre Nous, Afterimage, Time Stand Still, Superconductor, Where's My Thing, Half The World, How It Is

Funny someone brings this up now. I took a long drive today for a work trip to Massachusetts and brought with me their last two studio albums Snakes and Clockwork Angels and despite multiple attempts over the years, I find both of them totally unlistenable beyond two songs (Far Cry and Malignant Narcissism). Snakes is largely a mid tempo dirge of bad lyrics and non existent melodies and Clockwork is a thick dense wall of distorted noise also with non existent melodies and crappy vocals by Geddy which I don't enjoy saying. He did the best he could given the lyrics he was handed which were almost impossible to set to good music IMHO
I know the band, especially Neil, considered Clockwork to be their late career masterpiece but I literally can't sit through it. It's like work lol

In comment 13829388 Mike in Prescott said:

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Great solo by Alex. No One at the Bridge - ( New Window )

That's one of my favorite Alex solos.

I really like Aimee Mann's vocals and it always makes me melancholy thinking about how fast my kid's are growing up.

I never get depressed thinking about my own age or mortality, but every time I hear the end of that song:

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....Summer's going fast Nights growing colder Children growing up Old friends growing older Freeze this moment A little bit longer Make each sensation A little bit stronger Experience slips away Experience slips away The innocence slips away...

it really makes me think about life and priorities.

In comment 13829406 pjcas18 said:

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I really like Aimee Mann's vocals and it always makes me melancholy thinking about how fast my kid's are growing up. I never get depressed thinking about my own age or mortality, but every time I hear the end of that song: Quote: ....Summer's going fast Nights growing colder Children growing up Old friends growing older Freeze this moment A little bit longer Make each sensation A little bit stronger Experience slips away Experience slips away The innocence slips away... it really makes me think about life and priorities.

Many Rush fans dislike that era of the band...too keyboard-centric and not heavy enough but I've always considered that song one of the best overall they ever wrote

surprised it has not been posted.

In comment 13829417 Steve in South Jersey said:

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surprised it has not been posted.

It's such an obvious choice I think most of us want to go deeper. Its like saying Satisfaction is your favorite Stones song or Yesterday your fav Beatles tune

a Rush fan until Moving Pictures like a lot of my generation.

Tom Sawyer, Limelight, Red Barchetta, etc.

so Time Stand Still isn't that much of a departure IMO.

I did go back caught up over the years on their older stuff, but I still consider Moving Pictures the one that hooked me and not just their biggest commercial success, but their best overall album, so I'm not in the same category of some fans.

Most of my favorites are among the biggest commercial successes. besides Time Stand Still and Moving Pictures the album, I like Spirit of Radio, Freewill, Closer to the Heart, The Trees, Working Man, Subdivisions, etc.

amongst others...

Love that song. Temples of Syrynx for sure. I also love Distant Early Warning and Anthem.

Dream Theater just recorded a really good cover of it too

For his first and middle names. All the men in my and my wife's family are coincidentally named Tom. We call him by his middle name. He has a pretty good theme song.

...perfection. I remember hearing it for the first time as a jaw-dropping, WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST HEAR moment - from the insane opening guitar lick, to the balls-to-the-walls sound of the hook that the piece is built upon - awesome crescendo's repeatedly hit - the song is designed to deliver emotions normally reserved for live performance, and it does that in spades.

It took me a solid 2 months of work before I could nail the sick bass lick during the transitions into the hook.

Amazing song - RUSH pushed the technical envelope in a big way in the late 70's, really raised the bar for popular Rock and Roll in a way nobody had since YES and King Crimson first hit.

Yes, RUSH has more complex and thought provoking pieces than this one, but it's always been my favorite.

with Spirit of Radio and Subdivisions