Rush: Classic or Dud?

Rush is like the Blood
Brothers: both singers' vocals
scare away poseurs

except, unlike the
blood brothers rush can write a
good tune and has jams

hey now, the jaguar love album last year was pretty good, you have to give them that

I have heard this "Rush"
like Christmas, with power chords
to my ears it was

That was quite nice.

Ah man now I feel bad for making a snarky comment in the MJvsNC thread.

Well, you'll get yours.

i think you'd have to pay a lot of money for some of those post-presto albums on vinyl (and in fact, I think some of them were never released on vinyl). most of them sound varying degrees of awful anyway though (vapor trails being the absolute worst of them all).

rush must be enjoying their new profile, they were referenced in both Adventureland and I Love you Man (obviously more than referenced in the latter).

...and appeared on "The Colbert Report"

i've definitely seen snakes & arrows on vinyl

The Colbert Report appearance was kind of awkward... Colbert jumped in front of them and they had to cut short Tom Sawyer because of time or some shit like that

"I have heard this "Rush"
like Christmas, with power chords
to my ears it was"

Fantastic. And extra points for doing it like Yoda.

Tonight at my weekly Dj gig in Portland, my co-host DJ BRKFST SNDWCH and I are going to have a Rush-off battle--2 hours of Rush songs back and forth. It's going to be ridiculous, and will definitely bum out more than a few patrons and staffers.

Okay at the bar today I heard "Closer To The Heart". My musical encyclopediac mind capitulated. What fucking album was that on??? I asked two bartenders and one guy at the bar and they didn't know jack shit. It drove me nuts!! Rush's "Closer To The Heart". What fucking album was that on? Not Moving Pictures, but it didn't seem like it was that one that had Spirit Of Radio on it either. Damn, dudes. I missed that fucking song in my Rush trips, even though I heard it before. Yowza. Grabbing it on iTunes, it says it was on Farewell To Kings? What in the living fuck? I never even had that album! I plead innocence!

Also every bar really needs to have someone with a musical encyclopedia knowledge so that I don't have to go through that again.

I haven't listened to Rush in years and years, but was a big fan at one time (high school) and seem to recall A Farewell to Kings being one of the better '70s Rush albums. The first really "Rush-y" Rush album.

Rush doc nabs Tribeca audience prize

The documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, about Canada's iconic rockers, has captured the audience award at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.

The feature — which was one of two films that opened Toronto's Hot Docs International Documentary Festival on April 29 — captured the prize at a wrap party on Saturday night.

Directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn also got $25,000 US. All the other festival awards were handed out on Thursday.

The film chronicles the band's 42-year history, profiling bandmates Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart.

"It was great to see Rush fans and non-fans enjoy the movie together," said the directors in a statement released Saturday night.

Festival executive director Nancy Schafer called the film "an intimate but energetic portrayal of one of the most prolific rock bands."

McFadyen and Dunn are old hands in the genre of music documentary. Their previous credits include Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Global Metal and last year's Juno-winning Iron Maiden: Flight 666.

http://www.youtube.com/user/RareRushReview#p/a/u/0/sk8hbSxY0sE

I've heard that this movie is fantastic.

Whoah super psyched for this! Hopefully it will get a normal engagement in nyc as I wasn't really paying attention to Tribeca...

I'm pumped for this as well

yay!

Wow, I can't wait!

In the meantime, new haiku:

'Limelight' is so great!
Perfection held in a song.
Sublime. Joy. And bliss.

couple of my friends got tix to see Rush this summer playing Time Machine in its entirety. Should I have bought tickets, too!? Shit sold out in like 10 minutes. Not my fave Rush album tho.

pre-sale for San Antonio starts tomorrow morning, I'm all over this.

"Time Machine"?

lol oops it's Moving Pictures they're playing -- the tour is called Time Machine ...

they almost always have played 90% of that record anyway so it's kind of funny that by adding one song they now get to ride the 'classic albums played live' wave.

It is a little silly, although I'm psyched to hear The Camera Eye as it is one of my favorite Rush tracks and one I've been hoping to hear live for a long time.

Also, they'll be premiering unreleased tracks from their forthcoming album plus they'll be playing some more obscure oldies. I'm pretty sure Jacob's Ladder will be one, not sure of any others though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFLKUlNfNuk
part 1 of the Rush episode with Alex Lifeson (it just came on Direct TV last week)

Ricky: "they got these lyrics aboot how trees are talking together, how different sides of your brain works or outer space bullshit"

So psyched for the film, the tour, and the next album!

Got my tickets for the San Antonio concert this morning. Woot!

http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/ID=1445449710

Interview with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on five Rush songs that are being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters' Hall of Fame. Long as hell but fairly in-depth re the songwriting process for a TV interview with a rock band. It's interesting to hear people remember how they first composed a hugely successful song before I was born, how they reacted to an anti-radio critique becoming a radio hit, etc.

Just watched a screener DVD of the new Sam Dunn documentary on Rush. If this film doesn't make you love Rush, it will make you WANT to love Rush.

In select theaters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk8hbSxY0sE

I haven't LOVED Rush since I was about 18, but I'm definitely up for watching this.

This is playing in theatres here in Canada in a couple weeks. I'll be there.

I heard Eddie Trunk rave about this thing the other day, he says its one of the best docs hes seen. My life will suck until I see this movie, cant wait.

Just bought my ticket for the screening in Rotterdam. So glad I'm able to go after all, I was supposed to go see Mastodon (who cancelled) that very evening. Can't wait, it will be drumming-in-the-dark awesome!

Looks like the doc will be playing in Austin in a couple weeks, gotta get me some tickets!

new album, clockwork angels, out next year; new single, "caravan," out next week
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Rush-Unveils-New-Music-Legendary-Rock-Band-Return-With-New-Single-Caravan-Plus-Additional-1266086.htm

I borrowed a friend's copy of Power Windows a few weeks ago – what a shame these kinds of synths aren't used much anymore.

The synths on M83's Dead Cities album remind me a lot of Grace Under Pressure.

"Power Windows" and "Grace Under Pressure" are my faves. Loved the addition of "Between the Wheels" to the last couple of tours.

I think it's too bad the band is doing the "play the whole album thing" with re: "Moving Pictures." In the Rush catalog, its place in the canon is vastly overestimated. It's not like it's their "Back in Black" or something, and it's def. no better than "Permanent Waves" or "Signals." Bigger "hit," I guess, but they play that one all the time, anyway. Kind of curious what they dust off to fill the rest of the set.

Well, it actually is their biggest hit.

yeah i was PUMPED when they did between the wheels

yeah i'd rather see a lot of albums in their entirety rather than moving pix

hell i'd be pysched for like farewell to kings or something

Or even Presto.

I'm excited to hear all of Moving Pictures just because I've been wanting to see them play The Camera Eye for a long time. Otherwise I could take it or leave it. The played 5 out of 7 tracks off Moving Pictures on their last tour, so they were practically doing the whole album already.

I'm hoping that they will pull out some other obscurities on this tour. That seems to be the direction they've been headed recently. I read one rumor that they'll be playing Jacob's Ladder, which should be pretty cool.

Between The Wheels was definitely a highlight of their last tour. They did a bunch of other really great tracks pulled from the vault as well including Digital Man, Entre Nous, Mission, Circumstances, Ghost of a Chance, Witch Hunt, and Passage To Bangkok. I hope this trend continues with Time Machine.

Yeah, I mean, how many Rush fans only own that one album? How many people in the world only own one Rush album, for that matter? They're sort of an all-in kind of band. It's not like they wouldn't have sold out their tour if they were doing "Presto" or whatever. Like it was said above, it's spending too much time on an album that gets pretty well represented every show, anyway, and this from a band that no longer has opening acts to make room for more songs people want to hear. And having seen Mr. Big open for the group on the "Presto" tour, I'm doubly glad it's been "A Night with Rush"-mode from there on out.

"Ghost of a Chance" very underrated. "Presto" and "Roll the Bones" really marked the band's transition into secular humanist territory, no doubt enhanced by Peart's personal double whammy.

and it's def. no better than "Permanent Waves" or "Signals."

^ you're crazy. Moving Pictures blows both of those out of the water.

I love "Ghost of a Chance"; the change from piledriving verses to mellow, weary chorus (buttressed by remnants of eighties echo) is beautifully executed. Nice piano part too.

Moving Pictures blows both of those out of the water.

I can imagine preferring it, but blowing them out of the water? Nah.