Rush: Classic or Dud?

xxp So many perfect touches to that, not least the running time :)

Neil Peart Completely Dominates Subway Busker With 20 Bucket Setup

hemispheres rules so much

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rush-geddy-lee-interview-prog-rock-hemispheres-738828/

Cool interview. Hemispheres is where it really all coalesced for them.

for historical purposes, this is a good post about power windows

Imagine a POLL Where It All Began: Rush- Power Windows Poll

Great interview!

After decades of sentimental favoritism, I'm willing to admit that "Hold Your Fire" is relatively weak. However! The entire first side (give or take "Second Nature") is some great songwriting and arranging. "Hold Your Fire" is lovely. "Force Ten" is rousing, "Open Secrets" is some great lyrics writing and features a neat coda, and "Prime Mover" is of course awesome. Side two ... "Mission" is kind of a weaker "Marathon," though of course "Turn the Page" is cool. The rest of the songs are pretty eh. The band would get better at conventional songwriting with "Presto."

it’s a pretty uneven record imo. first side is indeed so awesome

Heh, I meant to say "Time Stand Still" is lovely. Why is this not a classic rock/AOR staple?

I'm not ashamed to admit that time stand still is the song that triggered my rush fandom at the belated age of 35.

It's really a good song, and much of it comes down to Peart's lyrics. If they were bad the song would only be OK.

just as well it wasn't made five years later, or aimee mann's part would have been given to a computerized 'rapper' voice

Hold Your Fire is the first LP in their discography that I don't like - I pretty much like to love everything before that, even the first three albums.

I like "Mission" they did it once when I saw them live

there's a doc about the last tour called "Time Stand Still" on Showtime, was nice, didn't know how much pain Peart was in

I still haven't watched that doc. Worried it will depress me too much.

Nah, it's good. Peart has gone through worse than physical pain.

watch it, it's not depressing

Heard "Tom Sawyer" on the radio yesterday. It was Two-for-Tuesday, so I readied myself for "Freewill" or "Spirit of Radio" or "Subdivisions," but then they played "Time Stand Still!" I'm not sure I've ever heard that on the radio before, it was awesome.

Pretty much was all over classic rock radio in 1987/88 (along with "Force Ten") -- but that's time and place for you.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxEJkvWUwAI6pEo.jpg:small

hell yeah

spoiler alert

Lol josh

yeah I feel like Time Stand Still is probably the one song outside of Tom Sawyer that I ever heard on classic rock radio with any regularity (maybe Big Money at the time it came out too). Great song.

My earliest memory of rush was limelight on the radio in the garage while my dad was doing something mechanical and that definitely had to be KQRS so limelight must have been on classic rock radio at least once

The ones I hear the most on classic rock radio are "Tom Sawyer," "Freewill," "Spirit," "Limelight," "Subdivisions" and "Red Barchetta." Really nothing from "Grace Under Pressure" on, bar at the time the occasional new song from new album promotion.

Rush must have been huge in Houston, because in addition to the tracks Josh named we also got "Working Man", "Fly By Night", "Closer To The Heart" and "New World Man" on the reg. All of them at least once a day, putting them up there with Zep, the Stones, and the Eagles in terms of exposure.

xxp lol i think the question was about time stand still, limelight without a doubt is being played on the classic rock radio station in heaven

Yeah, I hear all those songs, to some degree. But "Time Stand Still" I file under "the occasional new song from new album promotion." I was just too young to remember it in the radio in Philly, but I sure heard "Show Don't Tell," "Dreamline," Animate," at least (or only) during the album cycle. But "Time Stand Still" is such a great song, I'm surprised I'd never heard it on the radio before the other day.

Oh, maybe not surprising but "Show Don't Tell", "Dreamline", "Ghost of a Chance", "Big Money" all get rotation in Canada, and "In the Mood" too in addition to the early ones that C. Grisso lists. I remember hearing "Manhattan Project" during a long drive last summer.

I think I heard most of those in Buffalo and Syracuse.

Pretty sure Canada is legally obligated to play that stuff.

That, Tragically Hip and Corey Hart.

Definitely the Hip

and Gowan

aimee mann should cover time stand still live.

It's really dumb and obvious, but I always wondered why they quoted the "1812 Overture" in the "2112" "Overture" and for the first time this morning I suddenly realized, well, duh.

I don't care about the video, but Alex Lifeson grew a grey retirement beard!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ItG4jIfC0

God Lifeson is the nicest guy, cool to hear him talk about Rory

I thought this was pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbMU8mV04YE

If the sound quality wasn't so cheesy I would totally use a sample of the drums from the first uh... "verse"? (~53s)

I was just listening to "Born To Run" and realized "Red Barchetta" is basically a futuristic take on the Bruce Springsteen automobile romance. The middle sections of the two songs are weirdly similar, check out those modulating IV-I chord patterns behind "Beyond the palace, hemi-powered drones" and "Well weathered leather, hot metal and oil". Those climbing chords give the impression of cars shifting gears, revving up to the big instrumental sections, and then racing to the end in the final verses.

Well, shit.

Canadian rock drummer Neil Peart dead at 67. Peart, primary lyricist for Rush, was known for his technical proficiency, and for weaving jazz and big band patterns with a hard rock style. Publicist says Peart died in California January 7. Background: https://t.co/r0QKiYdpdu

— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) January 10, 2020

fuck

This is terrible

I sm legitimately upset

Never been a massive Rush fan but Neil Peart was absolutely, objectively, utterly undeniable.

RIP

otm

rip to the god, have to respect the technique

67 way too young

hurts my feelings