I apologize, sir, if my sense of taste offends you. On a sidenote, I'm sure I could do better too.

 

He also looks like the guy on Hemisphere's cover.

I predict this will be the best album since... Signals? :O

 

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Just about everything you wrote rings true for me. I honestly thing Moving Pictures-Hold Your Fire is the best Rush ever made, but I'd even be willing to drop Moving Pictures out of that and that period would still be better than everything that came before. BU@B and Caravan left be a bit flat, and at least 50% of it is from the production. It's just squashed and in your face all the time. The songs can never really breathe like they need toIt's not quite the terrible master job of Vapor Trails, but come on. Maybe the final mix for the album will be better.

that was my first thought when i heard caravan.  however, some of my lesser favorite rush albums (counterparts) have been growing on me lately, so i'm totally psyched for this.  the clips def sound like a nod to the past and a push to the future.  very modern production, but listenable and warm.  love ged's bass sound!  my first reaction to the artwork was that it was plain compared to caravan's.  however, i really like the simplicity of it.  very straight forward.  damn, so excited for this!!

very good points.  i've forced myself to deal with modern production and just enjoy hearing the instruments.  a spine tingling melody is a nice bonus as would be so great.  but the above comment is correct.  noting really too singable since Dreamline?

The Larger Bowl.

And much of Vapor Trails was very melodic, but the melodies were idiosyncratic, complex, not catchy and singable.

Now I see what happens when I stay off the Archives and Rush forums for a few days. Can't believe I missed this, but I'm so excited!

i have already ordered it.....

in my dreams at least.

Instead of the way better single art

also

NEW SINGLE “HEADLONG FLIGHT” LANDS AT ROCK RADIO ON APRIL 19TH

The track times are:

 

 

Ooh a 7 minute song! *gets wood*

 

It also looks like they're going after religion again, always good fun.

 

You can set your clock by Epignosis turning up to tell us Rush aren't anti-religion.

Or Will Smith in Wild Wild West, those give you the idea of the Steampunk themes.....

 

I'll do my best to ignore it.

If this is inbetween those two I will be happy (ish)

 

Both Caravan and BU2B are part of a longer story...To me BU2B makes some sense now that I understand the story a bit more.

 

But that is your choice to be disappointed before understanding the whole storyline.

 

A: I might be wrong.

Oscar Wilde: YOU ARE USUALLY WRONG.

That's cool. I'm as witty as Wilde! I must toss off that play I've been thinking of.

 

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night.

 

Alone.

 

As usual.

This is a bit of change in attack. Tell me why and I might.

Same thing me and my dad said!

Too much to ask?

i think not

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As an extreme Rush fan, i'm disappointed by this song. But this is my first listen so.

But from a more unbiased standpoint, here are some thoughts:

The bass is awesome.  I hear echoes of Hemispheres in Geddy's bassline.

The vocals are stellar, as usual.  At the same time, I think they're missing the emotional quality that Geddy's vocals have always had, but that I think he lost a little bit on S&A.

I often enjoy repetition in music, but it sounds like they repeated the verse and chorus three or four times and the bridge three times just so they could say they wrote a long song.  It could easily have been trimmed down a minute and a half or so.

The instrumental section was kind of disappointing, as it pretty much just repeated the riffs from the verse and chorus.  The solo was blazing and interesting but lacked emotion.

It's not prog, by any stretch of the imagination.  Overall, I think it has more of an alt-rock sound; whereas VT and S&A mixed this sound with progressive tendencies, this song is basically full-fledged alternative rock.  I hear a major Foo Fighters influence.

I think I'm going to enjoy the album very much, but from an objective standpoint I have to say that it doesn't look like it's going to be one of their better ones.  Of course, anything Rush puts out is a thousand times better than most rock music out there, so I'm not complaining.

Remember that Rush made mention this song was a straight up fast hard rock/metalish song.

 

I think you have to reserve judgement for the song since it is part of the concept. The song may not have prog qualities, which who cares, prog is dead anyway .......But the album as a whole is very progressive based on what they are doing with it and the storyline.

 

I'm looking forward to the whole thing......

I definitely heard a good deal of Foo Fighters influence on that song.  The beginning of the instrumental section, especially, reminded me of Bridge Burning (which reminded me of VT).  I think we're seeing kind of a back and forth effect: Rush influences FF, who influence Rush, who influences FF...etc.

I thought the drumming was good, and I wouldn't call it uninspired, but I wouldn't say it stands out at all compared to what he's done in the past.  It's fast, but speed has never been the best thing about Peart's playing.

 

 

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When was Neil's concept introduced, and how did it affect what everybody was doing?

"That really started to come to light in Toronto. Two weeks or so into it, as Geddy and Alex were writing more music, we all kind of looked at one another and said, 'Hey, this is really turning into something. It's tying together.' Then one day, Neil walked in the room and said, 'It's done. I finished it.'

"For the next 20 minutes, Neil talked about this vision he had for the concept of the record, and it was one of those moments I'll never forget. Listening to him, watching him speak – it was amazing! I wish we were filming him so we could put it on YouTube. And right there, the whole record just clicked. Once Geddy and Al heard where Neil was going, they churned out some amazing music. I think Headlong Flight came the next day."