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This machinery
Making Rush haiku can still
Be open-hearted

― LC (Damian), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

I say "Brazilians"
With three syllables, not four.
Does anyone else?

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

Let's see: bru-zil-yans.
I say Brazilians with three,
Not four syllables.

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

...and this argument
Makes me glad there's no Rush song
Called "Aluminum."

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

...and this argument
Makes me glad there's no Rush song
Called "Aluminum."
-- dlp9001 (mysticalbeas...), June 23rd, 2006.

Oh, but there should be - I can just hear Geddy Lee singing "Al-u-min-i-yum!" Don't know what such a song would be about, but I know it would rock!

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

wish I still got high
when A Passage to Bangkok
comes on in the car

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Friday, 23 June 2006 19:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

Liked Rush as a teen
Started listening again
Brings back those old days

Friend's smoke-filled basement
'Anthem' blasts on the hi-fi
Air guitars abound

― Lynco (lync0), Friday, 23 June 2006 19:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

I have two copies
Of the three-dvd set
All shrink-wrap intact

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 23 June 2006 19:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

for some strange reason
i don't possess any rush
should remedy that

― gear (gear), Friday, 23 June 2006 19:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

gear:

Moving Pictures and
Counterparts and Grace Under
Pressure are all great!

Permanent Waves and
Signals plus Power Windows
rock and roll my world!

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Friday, 23 June 2006 19:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

The early records
are sorely underrated
2112 rules

― Lynco (lync0), Friday, 23 June 2006 19:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

A Farewell to Kings:
forged their creativity
closer to my heart

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 23 June 2006 20:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

Loved Exit Stage Left
When I was at boarding school
Not so much today

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 24 June 2006 00:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

Cool old videos?
Remember "Subdivisions"
Atari Tempest

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

A Rush song I like
goes: "One zero zero one
zero zero one..."

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

That Freaks & Geeks guy
had more drums than Neal Peart. Be
cool or be cast out.

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Saturday, 24 June 2006 05:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

The new Rush single: Far Cry is being streamed @ Official Rush website

http://www.rush.com/

the track has a similar feel to Porcupine Tree on the In Absentia album in 2002

― djmartian, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

for a "prog" band their
eighties albums sound a lot like
the police, but cool

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 12 March 2007 22:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

This thread was awesome
We should all do more haikus
And start ILH

― NYCNative, Monday, 12 March 2007 23:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

What do you think of this song, martian? It's not embarrassing but it doesn't strike me as anything extremely special either and it's a little annoying. Very much in the Vapor Trails vein + that build-up to the triumphant chord that sounds straight off "Hemispheres." It seems like Geddy decided at some point that he could just declaim things instead of writing vocal melodies.

― Sundar, Monday, 12 March 2007 23:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

Plato, Socrates,
What use do I have of these,
When I have "The Trees"?

Edward Bax (EdBax) on Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:21 (1 year ago)

Genius!

― J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

DUD!

― wesley useche, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

The song's actually growing on me a bit after hearing it on the radio. I still think the intro and breaks are more exciting than the song qua song but it's got a hook or two.

― Sundar, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 02:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

Been a long time since
I'd listened to Show of Hands
Boy Rush liked their synths

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 03:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

absolute shit.

I mean DUD.

― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 15 March 2007 03:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ha, well, that's the easy take on them.

The truth is, these guys wrote some pretty...interesting music. I won't say "good" necessarily, b/c Geddy's voice has issues and there's just something about their aesthetic that screams "LOSER."

But as I listen to Show of Hands, which is kind of their "Rush in the 80's" record, I defy anyone who's heard "Manhattan Project," "Subdivisions," or "Red Sector A" to say that these guys didn't know their way around a good tune or have a pretty remarkable sense of pop dynamics. Particularly on the former, the synth stuff is surprisingly sophisticated.

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 04:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ok, not to take this TOO far, but is it just me or does Geddy sound like he's going through an auto-tuner on this version of "Spirit of Radio"?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DelSXAtiB48&mode=related&search=

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 04:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

haha yeah I never thought about that but even the shouts and exclamations sound like they are right on pitch. That's great if he's doing it on his own. I need someone like that to help me out with my solfège struggles.

― Sundar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 04:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

pot kettle black
"there's just something about their aesthetic that screams "LOSER."
wow, to worry about what's aesthetically screaming loser on an internet board, wow
Classic

― kamerad, Thursday, 15 March 2007 04:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

not enough haikus
in this thread revival, folks!
I quite like "Far Cry"

― Jeff W, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

But as I listen to Show of Hands, which is kind of their "Rush in the 80's" record, I defy anyone who's heard "Manhattan Project," "Subdivisions," or "Red Sector A" to say that these guys didn't know their way around a good tune or have a pretty remarkable sense of pop dynamics. Particularly on the former, the synth stuff is surprisingly sophisticated

Yup. I've been saying this for years. For me, the '70s stuff was their apprenticeship; the results were the eighties synth-pop.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

I grew up on Rush
Tom Sawyer, 2112
No fault before God

― Pye Poudre, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

The new Rush song sounds
like the old Rush songs I like
but just not as good

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

Agreed with Alfred
That their early eighties sound
represents their peak

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yes. Moving Pictures
Too much strange beauty for us
Mere humans, my ears

But synthpop? Hardly
And while Permanent Waves and
Signals shine brightly

They hold no candle
To 2112, it's strong
Light o'ermasters theirs

For this band knows peaks
Then valleys: brilliant flashes
Come sudden, then gone

― Pye Poudre, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

I dig Geddy's appearence in the new ESPN fantasy baseball commercial!

― Stormy Davis, Friday, 16 March 2007 00:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm quite enjoying "Mystic Rhythms" right now. Oh, and Anne Dudley on Power Windows?!? My...

― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 16 March 2007 04:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

r.i.p. john rutsey.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

RIP duder -- never knew that's why he had to leave the band.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

on a whim bought tickets for Rush at the Excel Center on Thursday nite!

SOOO OOOO OOEXCITED : ) : ) : ) : )

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 20:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

I think Rush have a bunch of great songs, but I wouldn't call myself a fan: their fans tend to be kinda obsessive. But that's awesome. One of my regrets is that a friend of mine was a huge Rush fan (also Dream Theater and Jethro Tull) when I met him, and I turned him on to alternative rock in the mid 90s and he just gave up on Rush and the others. That's too bad: I found his Rush obsessiveness interesting. So I'm glad that there are still Rush fans out there.

― Euler, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 20:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

They still bring it live. too bad about Rutsey, the first album was a beast.

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 20:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

Seeing them on Sunday! For the first time ever, I might add.

I'm starting to think their new live album just might be their best to date.

― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 20:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

All the World's A Stage is a nearly unbeatable live album. So if you say that, I guess I gotta hear this new one.

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 20:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

so freakin awesome - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mav12Hm8fSs&feature=related

― will, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

one of my very first concerts (back in the Hemispheres days)...practically wore out my copy of All The World's A Stage before I caught the "back in the dressing room" banter at the end of Side 4...("oh man, what a show!")...sad about Rutsey...I recall rumors about Neil Peart having leukemia...maybe true, maybe fans confusing him with Rutsey...

― henry s, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

Granted, my taste in Rush is a bit on the weird side, I tend to prefer their 82-87 output. I guess because those were the years where I first got into the band.

― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:13 (5 years ago) Permalink

AB-I think your tastes are in line with this thread, nothing weird about that. I'm more of a '70s fan, with 2112 being, in my opinion, their best. But I also love the 80s stuff.

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

My favorite album is still the first one I got by them -- A Show of Hands, of all things. I think they're a band that you end up loving whatever you get into first.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

Thought I'd seen it all
Til I saw that video
Finding My Way smokes

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

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