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Reed Lover 
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 Posted: December 22 2004 at 19:31 |
Rush are not prog.
They are unique.
So they defy classification!
So don't do it.
Or else.
OK?
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Garion81
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 19:27 |
I had a friend back in the late 70's and we had this discussion about Rush back then. He kept pulling out their early albums and compared them to ELP. (Of course he played guitar and I played keyboards so you can imagine which side of the fence we were on) But in the end I did respect Rush for creating prog music. Not completely in the box prog but prog none the less. I think of several songs even their radio cuts, that could be classified as prog as the structure of the song was so different than your usual rock and roll or pop song. They are not huge favs of mine but I do like them and I do think they are prog and they do belong here.
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Syzygy
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 19:27 |
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 19:08 |
 Syzygy wrote:
Reed Lover wrote:
Syzygy wrote:
After seeing Spinal Tap do 'Stonehenge' it's impossible to keep a straight face through '2112'.
They have a well deserved place in my heart, my adolescence and the archives, but the world has moved on since then.
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And so have RUSH!.
been thinkin How do you pronounce your nickname?
Is it sausages?
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Close enoughh - think of an adjectival form of sausage.
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As in that sausage tasted very sausagey?
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Syzygy
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 19:05 |
Reed Lover wrote:
Syzygy wrote:
After seeing Spinal Tap do 'Stonehenge' it's impossible to keep a straight face through '2112'.
They have a well deserved place in my heart, my adolescence and the archives, but the world has moved on since then.
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And so have RUSH!.
been thinkin How do you pronounce your nickname?
Is it sausages?
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Close enoughh - think of an adjectival form of sausage.
Edited by Syzygy
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 18:57 |
Syzygy wrote:
After seeing Spinal Tap do 'Stonehenge' it's impossible to keep a straight face through '2112'.
They have a well deserved place in my heart, my adolescence and the archives, but the world has moved on since then.
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And so have RUSH!.
been thinkin How do you pronounce your nickname?
Is it sausages?
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Syzygy
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 18:54 |
After seeing Spinal Tap do 'Stonehenge' it's impossible to keep a straight face through '2112'.
They have a well deserved place in my heart, my adolescence and the archives, but the world has moved on since then.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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maani
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 17:55 |
Oh no - I agree with Aqualung on this! 
I have always considered Rush borderline prog, though, like Aqualung, I don't really have a problem with them on the site.
Styx, on the other hand, does not qualify as prog even on a good day...
Peace.
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Sweetnighter
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 17:05 |
Eddy wrote:
i agree with certidid. rush more of a rock with some prog flair. |
whoa whoa, how can you say that? the material on albums like a farewell
to kings and hemispheres is not just hard rock with "prog flair," its
PROG! If Rush is hard rock with prog flair, than groups like Opeth or
Queensryche shouldn't be considered prog either.
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I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die.
"Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend
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aqualung28
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 16:59 |
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I personally think Rush is very borderline hard rock/prog but I'm fine with them in the Archives. Styx on the other hand ...........No, just no
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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart
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Eddy
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 16:53 |
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i agree with certidid. rush more of a rock with some prog flair.
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Certif1ed
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 16:48 |
I've never been sure about considering Rush a prog band - they're not really, are they?
Fantastic hard rock/metal band that goes above and beyond, writing epic length tracks with quiet bits and heavy bits and all manner of sections - but is it really prog?
No.
But I'm glad they're in the archives - EVERYONE should hear Rush.
Mind you, I hear what the Dead Jester is saying...
Maybe I've had one too many "happy ciggies" tonitgh...
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Dead Jester
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 14:02 |
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 13:58 |
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Dead Jester
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 13:42 |
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Sweetnighter
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 13:39 |
passionfruit?
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I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die.
"Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend
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project23
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 11:42 |
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They aren't prog, more just rock this days.They were more "progressive" at one time. I still like them alot.
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headboy
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 11:14 |
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sigod
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 11:03 |
A passion fruit?
Sgt.: Huh! 'Flu, eh? They should eat more fresh fruit. Ha. Right. Now,
self-defence. Tonight I shall be carrying on from where we got to last
week when I was showing you how to defend yourselves against anyone who attacks you with armed with a piece of fresh fruit.
(Grumbles from all)
Palin: Oh, you promised you wouldn't do fruit this week.
Sgt.: What do you mean?
Jones: We've done fruit the last nine weeks.
Sgt.: What's wrong with fruit? You think you know it all, eh?
Palin: Can't we do something else?
Idle (Welsh): Like someone who attacks you with a pointed stick?
Sgt.: Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves
against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh
fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad.
When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes
after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me! Now,
the passion fruit. When your assailant lunges at you with a passion
fruit...
All: We done the passion fruit.
Sgt.: What?
Chapman: We done the passion fruit.
Palin: We done oranges, apples, grapefruit...
Jones: Whole and segments.
Palin: Pomegranates, greengages...
Chapman: Grapes, passion fruit...
Palin: Lemons...
Jones: Plums...
Chapman: Mangoes in syrup...
Sgt.: How about cherries?
All: We did them.
Sgt.: Red *and* black?
All: Yes!
Sgt.: All right, bananas.
(All sigh.)
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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headboy
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Posted: December 22 2004 at 10:57 |
what are you saying about Rush...?! 
that would make a good question...
If Rush were fruit what would they be?
Should inspire some interesting answers!
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he's not the messiah,he's a very naughty boy!
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