Should I drop Rush definitively after S&A

Oh yes, I'd agree that this is not an album in the 'old Rush' mode if that's what you wanted to know, Erik. IMHO, the songwriting is better than in a long while and for me, it is the quality of the songs that counts rather than them doing an epic for the sake of having an epic on the album, but I would also agree that if you weren't really into Counterparts or Vapor Trails you may not like this one that much either, Erik. Give it a listen by all means though...

I'm actually quite pleased with them not trying to make an album like Hemispheres (which is my favorite Rush album) ... they're a different band today, in a different world. I'm quite sure that had they attempted to make such an album, most people who are now disappointed because they didn't would instead accuse them of not "progressing".

Was that a syntactically valid sentence?

Snow Dog wrote: MajesterX wrote: Angelo wrote: Brought to you by the letter A That reminds me- what's the story behind the whole "brought to you by the letter...." in the album packets? Sesame Street? Yep!

From the April 1992 Kerrang interview: "That started on Power Windows," recalls Alex, "when we were sequencing the tracks and Neil commented that 50 percent of the songs began with an 'M' - 'Marathon,' 'Manhattan Project,' 'Middletown Dreams,' and 'Mystic Rhythms.' It's as innocent as that. It's nothing to do with 'Sesame Street'!" "We throw a lot of silly little things into the credits," shrugs Geddy, "little inside jokes. It's just an immature habit we developed!"

Thanks Salmacis, good to read these very specific reviews, one of the reviewers I know personally (Martien Koolen also works for Background magazine), it looks like a huge challenge to discover the presence of the unsurpassed Mellotron on the new Rush album . Anyway, I have decided to buy the new Rush album because I have become so curious to it but I am aware that it is way from the Seventies and even Eighties sound.

Edited by erik neuteboom - May 06 2007 at 05:58

erik neuteboom wrote: Tomorrow I will try to buy Snakes & Arrows (yesterday it was sold out in the 3 record shops I visited  ) and very soon I will add my view on the new Rush album, it's one of the mostly reviewed CD's at this moment, Rush is hot and perhaps Tony R30 is willing to give his view on the homepage, I am looking forward to it

Good review Tony, definitely the best I've read alongside E-Dub's as in both there's no hidden agenda to slam the album out of prejudice or to overpraise it with the veneer of the fanboy. I think I've played the album enough to review it at some stage over the next week and I take it you've heard the album went in at Number 13 in the UK album charts? That really is a superb achievement.

Tony R wrote: no it is a bazouki he plays, its a new  Prog instrument you've not heard of Eric - as powerful as a bazooka and as tasty as a cookie..

LMAO 

erik neuteboom wrote: I have just bought Snakes & Arrow, for euro 14,99 at the Mediamarkt in The Hague, this evening I will have my first listening session, you will hear from me soon because I am very eager to review it after Tony R30 his euphoric words

erik neuteboom wrote: Thanks Snow Dog but there is one 'final ultimate decisive' element that convinced me to buy the new album and that is the presence of an instrument you can also hear in the song Tears  , many years ago: