Signals or GuP

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Yep, the sh*tty medleys. Can't stand that. Medleys are just the worst. Genesis too.

Alex minimal? Man, I thought he was just smokin' that night, lots of aggressive playing. (Cocaine days?)

Naturally, if I could have chosen the set list myself, it would have been the first three albums played cover to cover....that's my idea of optimal Rush. But we knew we were getting "the new Rush" and so our expectations were very realistic going in.

I liked it way better than the Power Windows tour a couple years later, although that time we got to see Marillion open for Rush which was cool. As I recall, they were not that well received by the Rush fans.

Edited by Finnforest - 54 seconds ago at 16:38

^ ^ Alex was the best thing that year with his cool new minimal style.   But "I see red, it hurts my head, must be something that I read" was not Peart's best moment.   Even Body Electric's "1 0 0, 1 0 0, 1 in distress" (one of the better things on the album) was a cringe-worthy '80s mech-rock shock when compared to just two years earlier.

Ouch is the word that comes to mind, especially when we went to this show foolishly expecting something close to Signals or MP.   Did they play that awful "We know you want to hear some old stuff so we're gonna do an Old Song Medley" thing when you saw them ?   Pain.




Edited by Atavachron - 30 minutes ago at 16:09

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Well, I saw the Grace tour from the 3rd row on Alex's side, and "disappointing" does not describe our evening nor the other fans around us who were very obviously digging it. Had a total blast.

Cheesy haircuts? You got me there.

Signals for me. I do quite like GUP, but feel this album was the start of the slide into the 80s sound I wasn't keen on.

Signals, by far. It's timeless, future-focused, and the best album they ever did.

Grace Under Pressure is the most "dated" Rush album. It's not bad, but it's just "kind of there". If it disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't miss it.

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So it's not just me!

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Why not Rush vs. Presto?

Big Sky wrote: Finnforest wrote: Grace, hugely. My fave of the 80s by far. Grace Under Pressure ahead of Moving Pictures and Permanent Waves, two other 80s releases. You don't see that everyday.

For the poll, in my head I was thinking Signals-forward when using the words "by far." But you raise a good point that the two previous albums were also 80s. Taking those two albums into the mix, I would drop the words "by far," yet still I prefer Grace over both of them. Such consistency, punch, and quality songwriting. It is my clear favorite post-Hemispheres and near the top of my overall list.

Finnforest wrote: Grace, hugely. My fave of the 80s by far.

Grace Under Pressure ahead of Moving Pictures and Permanent Waves, two other 80s releases. You don't see that everyday.

Both albums are quite good. However, Signals has Subdivisions, Countdown and The Weapon that I rate ahead of any track on Grace Under Pressure.