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Has anybody here listened to all 7 of RUSH's 80's albums in one day?

I highly reccomend it.
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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

I just got an issue of the 'Prog' magazine with an interesting few pages on Rush.  I wasn't aware they were fond of weed Headbanger.............they just seemed to play too well for that to have crossed my mind Confused........


Yeah. It enchanted and enhanced Neil's lyric content.



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Points: 2549 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2013 at 16:12
Originally posted by Metalmarsh89 Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

I just got an issue of the 'Prog' magazine with an interesting few pages on Rush.  I wasn't aware they were fond of weed Headbanger.............they just seemed to play too well for that to have crossed my mind Confused........

I don't know about their current views, but I do remember reading about such things happening back in the late seventies.


Pretty much all rock bands did weed in the 70s.  Rush jokes about it now.  I don't see it as unusual.
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Points: 2549 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2013 at 16:14
Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Has anybody here listened to all 7 of RUSH's 80's albums in one day?

I highly reccomend it.


I had to do a double take when I saw that.  7 80s albums?  Really?  I guess everyone tends to group PW and MP with the 70s stuff, and Presto with the 90s stuff, but yep, the 80s were Rush's most prolific decade.

I can't believe it when people say that Rush sucked in the 80s.
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2013 at 16:17
I'll say it again, and again, and again - Hold Your Fire is one of Rush's best albums. Warmth and style ooze from it.

People who say they sucked after the 70's simply have a corrupted taste in music and are prog elitists.
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Yeah, most of Rush's best albums were made after the 70s.  The only 70s album from them I would call a masterpiece is Hemispheres, contrasted with 3 from the 80s (MP, Grace, and Presto) and 1 from the 00s (Vapor Trails).

HYF is probably better than anything in the 70s except for Hemispheres.
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2013 at 16:52
5* Records..

70's
Caress of Steel
Farewell to Kings
Hemispheres
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Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures
Signals
Hold your Fire

Vapor and Snakes are 4* btw ;]
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What about 2112?
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I can't rate it 5* based on the title track alone. Tears is iffy and Twilight Zone is too. 
Something For Nothing is a fantastic closer, but i prefer Lesson to it too.

2112 - 5*
Passage- 4*
Twilight - 3*
Lessons - 5*
Tears - 2*
Something For Nothing - 4*

And besides 2112 and Lessons, none really hit me emotionally or sentimentally so it's hard to give it that edge either.


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Glad to see someone else who thinks "Lessons" is a 5-star track Thumbs Up

I wondered what you thought of the album because it is, in many ways, quite similar to Caress.  I think that 2112 (the song) is much better than the epics on Caress but that the shorter songs on CoS were superior.
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Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

Glad to see someone else who thinks "Lessons" is a 5-star track Thumbs Up

I wondered what you thought of the album because it is, in many ways, quite similar to Caress.  I think that 2112 (the song) is much better than the epics on Caress but that the shorter songs on CoS were superior.

I have the opposite feelings i think. I haven't listened to 2112 in a while though. 
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Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

Glad to see someone else who thinks "Lessons" is a 5-star track Thumbs Up

I wondered what you thought of the album because it is, in many ways, quite similar to Caress.  I think that 2112 (the song) is much better than the epics on Caress but that the shorter songs on CoS were superior.

I have the opposite feelings i think. I haven't listened to 2112 in a while though. 


Neither have I - there are several Rush albums that I need to brush the (metaphorical) dust off and give a listen: that one, Power Windows, T4E, and Clockwork Angels in particular (listened to it a lot when it came out, then my computer crashed and my itunes stuff wouldn't play, and haven't listened to the whole thing at once since).
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2013 at 18:13
I'm too disappointed in CA to listen to it again. 

I need to listen to FbN, PW, and Counterparts.
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I was a little "meh" about CA when it came out, but my tastes have changed a little bit since then and I think I have more appreciation for what they were trying to do with it.  If you evaluate it based on "prog" standards it doesn't measure up, but I see it as a really good straightforward hard rock album (with some progressive elements).
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Points: 7868 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2013 at 16:17
Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

I was a little "meh" about CA when it came out, but my tastes have changed a little bit since then and I think I have more appreciation for what they were trying to do with it.  If you evaluate it based on "prog" standards it doesn't measure up, but I see it as a really good straightforward hard rock album (with some progressive elements).



Really? Hard rock?
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Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:


Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:


Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

Glad to see someone else who thinks "Lessons" is a 5-star track Thumbs UpI
wondered what you thought of the album because it is, in many ways,
quite similar to Caress.  I think that 2112 (the song) is much better
than the epics on Caress but that the shorter songs on CoS were
superior.


I have the opposite feelings i think. I haven't listened to 2112 in a while though. 
Neither have I - there are several Rush albums that I need to brush the (metaphorical) dust off and give a listen: that one, Power Windows, T4E, and Clockwork Angels in particular (listened to it a lot when it came out, then my computer crashed and my itunes stuff wouldn't play, and haven't listened to the whole thing at once since).


Ah man. I hate to hear stuff like that happen. I'm very sorry that happened to you.
This is one of the reasons I buy CDs just in case all is lost!
I would seriously do this....
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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

I was a little "meh" about CA when it came out, but my tastes have changed a little bit since then and I think I have more appreciation for what they were trying to do with it.  If you evaluate it based on "prog" standards it doesn't measure up, but I see it as a really good straightforward hard rock album (with some progressive elements).



Really? Hard rock?


What's the matter with hard rock?
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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Has anybody here listened to all 7 of RUSH's 80's albums in one day?

I highly reccomend it.
 
 
I think I did that once but I was too wrecked to remember the experience.
 
 
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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

I was a little "meh" about CA when it came out, but my tastes have changed a little bit since then and I think I have more appreciation for what they were trying to do with it.  If you evaluate it based on "prog" standards it doesn't measure up, but I see it as a really good straightforward hard rock album (with some progressive elements).



Really? Hard rock?
What's the matter with hard rock?


Absolutely nothing. Me loves the hard rock, but I just don't hear Clockwork Angels fitting into the hard rock genre specifically. I think it's a heavy prog album. Hard rock is more a term to describe bands like Rainbow, Disturbed and Godsmack.
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Points: 17973 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2013 at 23:05
Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Has anybody here listened to all 7 of RUSH's 80's albums in one day?

I highly reccomend it.
 
Many times!!! Family took a drive to Disneyland from Seattle once, I listened to Rush for about 22 hrs straight. Flight to New Zealand I listened for about 8 hours, I think I dozed off at one point LOL.
 
80's albums are excellent...........
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