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Read an interview
Where Peart described some of his
Practice methods. Wow.

And I don't mean to
Be facetious. That stuff was
Cool to a young me.

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

2112 rocks.
Dude, A Passage to Bangkok
is in 7/8.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Band denies, but we
know what "Passage To Bangkok"
is really about.

― Edward Bax, Thursday, 21 October 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Who in the hell messed
up the production on the
Vapor Trails LP?

― Edward Bax, Thursday, 21 October 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Went to a Rush show,
the first ten rows were filled with
teen boys air drumming.

― Edward Bax, Friday, 22 October 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

"Dude, if you like Rush,
you will love Dream Theater!"
"No, I don't think so."

― Edward Bax, Friday, 22 October 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

we know many scales
watch us play pretentious shit
please, we are the Rush

― The TAO that can be Posted is not the TAO! (The Tao that can be Posted is), Friday, 22 October 2004 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link

'Passage to Bangkok':
Peart plays that 'oriental theme'
on tuned percussion

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Friday, 22 October 2004 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link

My first rock concert
Peart's solo is awesome; pot smoke
wafting through the air

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Friday, 22 October 2004 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

how can you go wrong
with the dubious ayn rand-
influenced lyrics?

― amateur!!st, Friday, 12 November 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link

just heard "overture/
temples of syrinx" online
on knac

oh my fucking god
i mean, oh my fucking god
oh my fucking god

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

i see my friends clock
made from the power windows
picture disc, fucks sake!

― bg, Friday, 12 November 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Naked dude learns
Guitar, like that! Has bummer:
Life blood spills over

______________________

Look at videos
The Trees to Power Windows
Geddy has nose job

― Mehama Mama, Friday, 12 November 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Recently, I've been listening more to stuff from the post-synthpop lightly-funky-math-AOR/dadrock phase that basically seems to run from the late 80s until the present day, which was the first stuff by them I ever heard and which (embarrassingly? I dunno) stirred me as a preteen. There's something to be said for this period. The grand sentimental statements and the quirkily wordy and quasi-intellectual lyrics actually come together in a way that makes it less corny than it could be. There's a lot to listen to in the playing and production that accompanies the broad melodies (which I realize a lot of people find cheesy and/or 'inert' in Martin Popoff's words); the solos tend to be elegant in their conciseness. It's kinda proto-DMB in a way but not in a bad way as such. I really like "The Pass".

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Presto was pretty great. I never bought it -- in fact, when it came out I felt as though I was more or less "over" Rush. But these dudes I used to hang out with in high school bought it when it came out and used to play it constantly; we all used to congregate at these dudes' house after school and play Euchre and drink beer and basically fuck around until we had to go home to eat dinner with the folks. Anyway, these guys bought Presto and played it all the time, and though I wasn't as big a Rush-head as I had been just a scant few years prior, I had to admit that the thing sounded pretty good. Like, they were kind of rocking out again. "Show Don't Tell" has an awesome structure; still love that one. I remember "Superconductor" had a real hot riff to it. I don't remember "The Pass" though, I'll have to seek that one out.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link

It's kind of a really sappy ballad. You might not like it. (Pre-chorus to chorus goes something like "Now you're standing on a rocky ledge/Staring out into a heartless sea/Can't waste time on the razor's edge/Nothing's what you thought it would be/All of us get lost in the darkness/Dreamers try to live by the stars/All of us do time in the gutter/Dreamers learn to steer by the cars/Turn around and walk the razor's edge/Don't turn your back and slam the door on me" if that rings any bells). "Show Don't Tell" is cool, yeah.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Dud. Can I do a limerick instead of a haiku, 'cause that's what I got.

There once was a Canuck named Geddy,
Who sang in voice nasal and heady,
His pretensions grand
plus ideas from Ayn Rand
Cause my gastric juices to eddy.

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 13 November 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Did anyone get Rush In Rio? How is it?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I really like "The Pass".

I did too a lot at the time -- you have inspired me, I am listening to Presto for the first time in who knows how long. (The start to "Show Don't Tell" is a freakin' treble-fest.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually now it seems like the whole album is. What were they on?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, the pun of the title of "Anagram (For Mongo)" makes me want to hurt someone. (Flipside: I do enjoy that the album was "brought to you by the letter 'D'")

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha, and the instrumental break with the synth on "Superconductor" actually makes me think of the Chameleons!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Rush was awesome the more new wave they got.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 13 November 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I always wished that "Rattled by the Rush" would be about the band instead of Rush Limbaugh. I'm still hoping that when Matador releases the deluxe "Wowee Zowee: the Rad Edition" that there is a bonus version of the song with alternate lyrics.

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 13 November 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, that I could bend my fret outwards
Leave your thumb hurting
Pluggin' my bass in
Notes I play so well
Cause your tour shirt smells
Worse than your lyin'
Caught Ayn Rand cryin'
Loose like the wind
From the North we get beer
Alberta woman
Waiting to rock

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned, very good. You came back with that very fast. Is that because: you had it lying around somewhere, because you are a pro and you just whipped it up, or because that is the actual lyric and, as usual, I just wasn't paying attention?

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 13 November 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The second one (it's amazing what you can do with a lyrics database and a sense of humor).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

sundar: late rush as DMB precusor is a stroke of inspiration!

are they from alberta?!?!?!?!?! rush i mean. i don't really know the whole rush mythology.

― amateur!!st, Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I just said Alberta as it fit the flow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

they are warriors from the mounts of heaven

― big chaki (chaki), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

in the chuck eddy spirit i will say that i don't really know if i can explain what it means to "rock," but these guys really rock.

― amateur!!st, Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

bass like the thunder
guitars like serrated knives
it never lets up!

― amateur!!st, Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

whats the best rush album?

― big chaki (chaki), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

the all music guide
says they are from toronto;
i could have figured

― amateur!!st, Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

whats the best rush album?

You'll get a thousand answers. For me, Caress of Steel, Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves, A Show of Hands (hey, it was my Rush album - sentimental reasons) and Vapor Trails are the standouts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link

The best Rush album?
A Farewell To Kings vs
2112 FITE

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm willing to call it
a draw so that we all can
blast rush and lez up

― amateur!!st, Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Geddy trips on log
What could this strange device be?
A guitar, dumbass

― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 14 November 2004 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

I think this might be
The best thread that I've started
In the past four years

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

"What about the voice of Geddy Lee
How did it get so high?
I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

Most days I'm real glad
that the rap on Roll the Bones
exists, It's roffle-worthy

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Classic, but that don't
mean that I want to hear their
early or later stuff

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

"Geddy Lee looks like
The Wicked Witch of the West!"
a friend pointed out

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Too lazy to haiku.

I have much enjoyed relistening to Rush tracks earlier this month after having not heard them for at least ten years, despite some shark-jumping around 1991.

When I think about Aerosmith's last 25 years, well, how can I complain about Rush?

― Mitch Mitchell (mitya), Thursday, 29 September 2005 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link

A sad but true fact :
No women, none, anywhere
Are fans of Rush. None.

hello I am a
woman, and a fan of Rush.
Sorry. Bubble burst.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

That was my haiku
Under a different name
Vegemite, sorry

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

On "Rush In Rio"
The audience sing along
To "YYZ", ha!

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Forgiven is Matt.
He knoweth not what he does.
Tom Sawyer rocks hard!

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a friend who
says his favorite bands are
Rush and Hum. What the...!

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

When I was a kid
"Afterimage" made me cry
cuz my dad had died.

I haven't heard that
song in years I wonder if
it would still be sad?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

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