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Poll Question: Best song on "Signals"
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    Posted: February 08 2009 at 09:00
On any given day any one of these I could really enjoy , Signals was my first ever experience with Rush and I have always had a special place for it . The Drumming on Digital Man sends me crazy , the emotion in Losing It really hits home , The slightly cynical yet brutally honest lyrics in Subdivisions I find enlightening and the other songs I wont describe always wet my appetite for more Rush ..  Oh I forgot to Mention Alex's guitar solo in analog kid how great is that !  This is a wonderful recording I feel  Smile





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My personal favourite on this album is "The Weapon", both for its music and its very true lyrics about how our own fears can be used as a weapon against us. From a musical point of view, even though I understand it may not be everyone's cup of tea, the song shows the band incorporating elements from electronic New Wave, a genre that was very popular in the early Eighties  - as they incorporated reggae rhythms in my second favourite track, "Digital Man".
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^^   "The Weapon" is fantastic,  I considered it but ended up voting for "Losing It"  for personal reasons. 
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I saw this post and thought I'd pop it in the Cd player and remind myself of why I love rush....,

Lee's bass lines always do it for me see Digital man.

New World Man... that brings back memories from an old band I used to play in where we used to cover it and link it in to Police's Syncronicity II... how's that for an 80 rocking / reggae  medley !

Losing it is a beautiful song and one of the albums gems and gets my vote.

Thanks for the nostalgia trip.




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My favourites are Subdivisions, Losing It and The Weapon in this order. If I made a top 10 Rush songs (in fact I started making one some years ago but never finished because it was so damn difficult) at least the first two would be in it.
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Love Signals! "The Analog Kid" really struck me when I first bought the album over 20 years ago, and still love it. Lifeson's solo just kills.

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'Losing It' followed by 'The Weapon'.
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Digital Man is one of my favorite Rush songs.

All of these are fantastic though.
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Great and Very Underrated Album.....The Weapon
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I love Signals. The only weak parts are Chemistry and Countdown. I went with Losing It because it's so sadly beautiful. The sublime lyrics match perfectly with the music.  No contest although there are plenty of other gems on this album.
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Losing it, one of the most underrated Rush tracks ever.
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The Analog Kid is the one that always gets me going.
"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

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The mean bass parts on Digital Man have always been appealing to me
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Subdivisions !!!
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I love all of them! right now I'll go for The Weapon
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It was in between Digital Man and Subdivisions, but I went with the latter.
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'Losing It' though it's close, but those heartfelt lyrics and Ben Mink's weeping electric violin
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Losing It, then Subdivisions.
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Back and forth between Analog Kid and Losing It, both excellent songs but different ends of the emotional spectrum--in the end I voted energy over melancholy.
 
I remember my mom walking into the family room back in 1982 when I was listening to Losing It.  Sublime, I'm thinking.  She says, "This isn't music!"  Ahh, memories . . .
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the only Rush album i listen in its entirety.. i love it.. absolutely love it..Digital Man for me...
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