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That's arguable,
But the best known Peart showcase
Would be YYZ

― dlp9001, Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I thank you, and will
keep this tune in mind next time
I'm CD shopping.

― Deluxe (Damian), Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

it must be rush day on vh-1 classic, all rush all the time.

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 15 January 2006 05:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd like Rush a lot more if they wore black capes covered with gold $ signs...

How about robes?

http://www.designvortex.com/greenman/rush/images/2112group.jpgwidth=539>

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Sunday, 15 January 2006 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Er...

http://www.designvortex.com/greenman/rush/images/2112group.jpgwidth=539>

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Sunday, 15 January 2006 09:49 (eighteen years ago) link

rickenbacker bass
slingerland and tama drums
gibsons for alex

gibsons for alex
yes, it was true, now mostly
he plays Paul Reed Smith

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Sunday, 22 January 2006 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, I count over 100 Rush haiku here!

(25 of 'em are mine)

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link

How was R30,
anyone who bought it?
Looked good on TV.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link

R30 gives you
two dvd, two cd,
and two guitar picks

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i have been to both
la villa strangiato
and sphyrinx's temple

― prince rupert, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

new "Replay x 3"
three videos, one cd
Best Buy has bonus

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Rush pretty much rocks my world. I'm always saddened by the amount of unfounded hate that is heaped upon them. These guys have been cranking out consistently high quality albums for over 30 years, you'd think someone would cut them some slack!

The string of albums starting with Permanent Waves and ending with Power Windows were basically flawless, and there are many great songs throughout their catalog.

Please stop the hate!

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to say, Matt
I appreciate your love
But that's no haiku

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Good point Jesus Dan, just had to get that off my chest.

Here you go:

Rush in Rio rocks
Brazilians go nuts during
Alex's solos

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Your bad haiku has
One too many syllables
In the second line

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey Matt #2
Let's not get all pedantic
It's the thought that counts

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

This machinery
Making Rush haiku can still
Be open-hearted

― LC (Damian), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

...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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

― gear (gear), Friday, 23 June 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

The early records
are sorely underrated
2112 rules

― Lynco (lync0), Friday, 23 June 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Cool old videos?
Remember "Subdivisions"
Atari Tempest

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

eight 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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

― NYCNative, Monday, 12 March 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

DUD!

― wesley useche, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

absolute shit.

I mean DUD.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Jeff W, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Pye Poudre, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Agreed with Alfred
That their early eighties sound
represents their peak

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

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