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Velvetclown View Drop Down

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Posted: September 16 2004 at 04:50

Test For Echo is a brilliant record

So no, they´ve never jumped the Cod

richardh

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Posted: September 16 2004 at 02:20

Rush are not and never have been 'POP' (he says again).That descrription of Rush's music really gets under my skin.The nineties albums are excellent and 'Animate' is one of the greatest songs ever written.Prog is not just defined by how long the songs are.

dropForge

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Posted: September 15 2004 at 21:24

Point is - Have they produced any tracks since that are longer than 5 minutes and are not POP!

"One Little Victory" from Vapor Trails, an excellent album if you can get past the mix. Or rather, if you just buckle down and TAKE IT LIKE A MAN!

Seriously, it's a great album. Some excellents songs on there. "Freeze," "Nocturne" and "Earthshine" are stellar!

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Posted: September 15 2004 at 15:44

My post-MP Rush albums are 'Power Windows', 'Hold Your Fire', and ' Test for Echo'. The first 2 reflect their finest hour during their techno-pop oriented era, since it recaptures much of the complexity of symphonic prog in many tunes (Marathon, Manhattan Project, Mission, Turn the Page). I also enjoy commercial tracks such as Big Money, Time Stand Still and Force Ten, since they are well crafted (besides catchy, of course). The latter also includes lots of complex passages and clever arrangements (Test for Echo, Driven, Time and Motion, Limbo), giving an air of exquisteness to the rough sound they already had achieved in the previous album 'Counterparts'; there is also this beautiful acoustic ballad titled Resist - nevermind the 6 minute stuff, it's a beautiful ballad, with some clever chord twists, and amazing sounds on dulcimer, acoustic guitars, and a delightful eerie guitar solo.

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James Lee

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Posted: September 15 2004 at 10:46

On one hand, I totally understand where you're coming from; Rush became much more accessible during the 80s. However, hardcore early-Rush fans will tell you that "Permanent Waves" and "Moving Pictures" are pretty darn poppy themselves- they certainly featured the band's signature 'hits' and were quite different from my more-prog favorites (Hemispheres and A Farewell to Kings).

To be honest, the "Signals" and "Grace Under Pressure" albums have really grown on me over the years- I think they may be the most interesting period in the band's history, before they totally committed themselves to producing mainly shorter pop-rock songs (albiet IMAO unique and sometimes impressive ones).

I guess most Rush fans have a particular "jumped the shark" nominee. I used to think that they were bad from the moment they released "The Big Money", but again, the passage of time allowed me to enjoy "Roll the Bones" and even the uber-poppy "Time Stands Still". And I thought "Vapor Trails" was almost a comeback album (to before "Power Windows", if not quite to the days of "Xanadu").

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Posted: September 15 2004 at 07:49

I listened to and binned "Signals" - I haven't listened to any Rush album that was after MP!

Point is - Have they produced any tracks since that are longer than 5 minutes and are not POP!

Edited by Swinton MCR