[QUOTE=RNR]Ahem! Darn right!

What's everyone's opinion of the song Subdivisions? I love the keyboards on it.[/QUOTE]

thats one of my favorite songs by them
i cant get enough of it

its just sooo good

I only have 2112 still, I hope to get more of their early stuff. I'll go for Hemispheres or Fly By Night next probably, or maybe a live album.

[QUOTE=RNR]Ahem! Darn right!

What's everyone's opinion of the song Subdivisions? I love the keyboards on it.[/QUOTE]

I like it, except the chorus doesn't appeal to me. But the rest is pretty good.

Trav, I suggest Hemispheres before Fly By Night. But that's just me.

Yep, Hemispheres before Fly By Night. I'd also suggest A Farewell To Kings and Permanent Waves. Those are possibly better than Hemispheres.

[QUOTE=rockinbass17]I like it, except the chorus doesn't appeal to me. But the rest is pretty good.[/QUOTE]

Meh, thats my favorite part of it. I do think that its kinda hurt by all the 80s synths, but it still a quality song.

[QUOTE=RNR]Yep, Hemispheres before Fly By Night. I'd also suggest A Farewell To Kings and Permanent Waves. Those are possibly better than Hemispheres.[/QUOTE]
Hemispheres is my favorite album by Rush, but A Farewell to Kings is excellent. It's probably better for people who aren't already big Rush fans.

And it has Xanadu, which is possibly the greatest drug-inspired epic of all time.

It's drug inspired? I always thought it was based on Samuel Taylor Colridge's poem Kubla Khan. [url]http://etext.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Kubla_Khan.html[/url]

[quote=wholedzep]Hemispheres is my favorite album by Rush, but A Farewell to Kings is excellent. It's probably better for people who aren't already big Rush fans.

And it has Xanadu, which is possibly the greatest drug-inspired epic of all time.[/quote]
Xanadu is inspired by Kubla Khan, which is a drug inspired poem.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Kubla Khan was written while the author was high on opium and something else I think. I've been reading the Rush Wikipedia article.

/noob :upset:

Let's not forget about the title track and Cyngus X-1, which are also great songs, possibly better than Xanadu ftw.

[quote=rockinbass17]Let's not forget about the title track and Cyngus X-1, which are also great songs, possibly better than Xanadu ftw.[/quote] Cygnus X-1 Book 1: The Voyage is a fantastic song. I like it more than Book 2: Hemispheres. Hemispheres does have one of my favorite lyrical themes though. Neil Peart is a genius song writer and drummer. Books 1 & 2 are supposed to be related, but I have a hard time finding the relationship. In Book 1: The Voyage, the character flies his ship into the black hole called Cygnus. Then Book 2: Hemispheres is about the battle between Dionysus and Apollo. Cygnus brings balance between the two. I guess thats kind of a relationship.

I believe that my girlfriend and I are going to do a cover of Resist (the acoustic version) for a bunch of people at my dad's birthday party... it should be pretty sweet.

[quote=Kenny_Fever]I believe that my girlfriend and I are going to do a cover of Resist (the acoustic version) for a bunch of people at my dad's birthday party... it should be pretty sweet.[/quote]
Thats cool, I prefer the acoustic version to the version on Test For Echo.

[QUOTE=132WalrusesInMexico]Thats cool, I prefer the acoustic version to the version on Test For Echo.[/QUOTE]

I don't have Test For Echo, and I don't think I've heard the studio version.... but it's just such a pretty song... I love it

[quote=Kenny_Fever]I don't have Test For Echo, and I don't know if I've heard the studio version.... but it's just such a pretty song... I love it[/quote]
Test For Echo is one of their weaker albums in my opinion. There are only a few tracks that I like, Resist being one of them.

I'm really looking forward to doing this song though... actually I've been playing it a lot tonight. I started playing along with the DVD to learn it, and ultimately I could probably do it on my own, but I'd like to do it with someone else.

Anyway, I'm off to bed. Goodnight all :wave:



EDIT: sorry for the occasional bad punctuation (and spelling mistakes)... I've been noticing it after I post

rush did a resist acoustic version?

WHERE??!! upload/send please

[email]mowracer211@gmail.com[/email]
thanks :)

[QUOTE=thunderzstruck]rush did a resist acoustic version?

WHERE??!! upload/send please

[email]mowracer211@gmail.com[/email]
thanks :)[/QUOTE]

It's on the Rush in Rio DVD...

[QUOTE=BurningSky]It's on the Rush in Rio DVD...[/QUOTE]

and R:30, where they also did an acoustic cover of The Yardbirds' "Heart Full Of Soul"


btw, thunderzstruck, I would send it maybe, but my internet is painfully slow

so what is Xanadu about exactly?

[QUOTE=BurningSky]It's on the Rush in Rio DVD...[/QUOTE]

wow never even noticed that

ill have to check it out

[QUOTE=Kenny_Fever]and R:30, where they also did an acoustic cover of The Yardbirds' "Heart Full Of Soul"


btw, thunderzstruck, I would send it maybe, but my internet is painfully slow[/QUOTE]

heh thats alright

[quote=Trooper Rabbit]so what is Xanadu about exactly?[/quote] Xanadu is about a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Xanadu is the name of the summer capital for the ruler Kubla Khan who ruled over much of Asia. Xanadu was said to be such a splendid place, it (along with opium) inspired Samuel Coleridge to write a poem about it. It also became a metaphor for wealth.

I know I throw a reference to Xanadu into a song every chance I get :D

I reviewed Roll The Bones. [url]http://sputnikmusic.com/review_6860[/url]

Read!

Haha, the rap in Roll The Bones is hilarious.
If I remember correctly, there was an animated skeleton on the big veiwscreen during that part when I saw them live two summers ago.

Yep, that's what they do :(. I saw it on one of their dvds. So funny and yet so lame.

[quote=rockinbass17]Haha, the rap in Roll The Bones is hilarious.
If I remember correctly, there was an animated skeleton on the big veiwscreen during that part when I saw them live two summers ago.[/quote] Yeah, it's pretty lame haha. I have heard the original recording of rap section where it has Geddy actually doing the rapping. Its funny.

So, I've never been a fan of Rush. But I heard Freewill on the radio about two days ago, it was pretty damn awesome. What album is that song on, I really want to check out more of their stuff now.

Permanent Waves. I would reccomend The Spirit of the Radio, Natural Science, and Jacob's Ladder from that album as well.