CBS is playing "Limelight" as they segue to commercials during the KC-Houston NFL game. From the "Moving Pictures" album in 1981 which IMHO was Rush's best work.
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My god! 2112 and Cygnus in their entirely + Xanadu and La villa Strangilato like the cherry on top of sundae! I have no doubt a setlist like this could cause a riot! Lol!
For the concert I attended it was more "conform or be cast out"! Haha!
Well yesterday I went to record store and bought the deluxe edition of 2112 album in DTS 5.1 with CD/Blu-ray inside a comic book with lyrics:
https://elusivedisc.com/rush-2112-cd-blu-ray-comic-book-super-deluxe-edition-box-set/
BTW, maybe I was not "In the mood" to book an SP this weekend but "quarter to height" it's pretty much the usual time I'm used to receive SP in the evening!
My favorite Rush tune. Simple but beautiful in it's brevity:
Closer To The Heart
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
The blacksmith and the artist
Reflect it in their art
They forge their creativity
Closer to the heart
Yes closer to the heart
Philosophers and plowmen
Each must know his part
To sow a new mentality
Closer to the heart
Yes closer to the heart, yeah, oh
Whoa whoa
You can be the captain
And I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
Well closer to the heart, yeah
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
I said closer to the heart
Well closer to the heart, yeah
Closer to your heart
Closer to your heart, whoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syEBKVIZO34
Until you've seen this live at an open air concert theater during the calm of a perfect summer evening you haven't seen anything. When the percussionist plays the xylophone at the beginning and then at the 1 minute mark. It is an open air concert and you are with your first love and your best friends high on life and everything else...You raise that red solo cup and say Whew!!! in between stanzas when you you hear the the bells and the perfect clarity of that tune.
I will never get tired of that song from the A Farewell to Kings album.
Thank you Neil Pert for that memory. I'm going to PM my old girlfriend. I'm so glad I didn't merry her. She was such a beauty back then.
Closer To The Heart
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
The blacksmith and the artist
Reflect it in their art
They forge their creativity
Closer to the heart
Yes closer to the heart
Philosophers and plowmen
Each must know his part
To sow a new mentality
Closer to the heart
Yes closer to the heart, yeah, oh
Whoa whoa
You can be the captain
And I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
Well closer to the heart, yeah
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
I said closer to the heart
Well closer to the heart, yeah
Closer to your heart
Closer to your heart, whoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syEBKVIZO34
Until you've seen this live at an open air concert theater during the calm of a perfect summer evening you haven't seen anything. When the percussionist plays the xylophone at the beginning and then at the 1 minute mark. It is an open air concert and you are with your first love and your best friends high on life and everything else...You raise that red solo cup and say Whew!!! in between stanzas when you you hear the the bells and the perfect clarity of that tune.
I will never get tired of that song from the A Farewell to Kings album.
Thank you Neil Pert for that memory. I'm going to PM my old girlfriend. I'm so glad I didn't merry her. She was such a beauty back then.
Oh boy! tough to pick only one, there is so many great songs.
But if I had to pick only one it will be Red barchetta from epic Moving pictures album.
Especially since a road trip I had few years ago with my sport car with this song playing when I was traveling through the valley of Matapedia in the beautiful region of Gaspesie in the north of Quebec:
My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits
Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime
Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge...
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal…
Mr. P I was just about to post that Red Barchetta is my favorite RUSH song. Here is the music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAvQSkK8Z8U
Absolute masterpiece and best song on Moving Pictures.
When I was in college, the 3 rock albums I played over and over again were Moving Pictures by Rush, Days of Future Passed By the Moody Blues, and Diary of a Madman by Ozzy Osbourne. Of those 3 I probably played Moving Pictures the most.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAvQSkK8Z8U
Absolute masterpiece and best song on Moving Pictures.
When I was in college, the 3 rock albums I played over and over again were Moving Pictures by Rush, Days of Future Passed By the Moody Blues, and Diary of a Madman by Ozzy Osbourne. Of those 3 I probably played Moving Pictures the most.
Yes EB I think MOVING PICTURES is probably the best RUSH LP track for track. Limelight is probably my favorite song of theirs. Apparently Peart wrote the lyrics reflecting on his unease with being famous, and Lifeson said he loves his solo because it sounds so sad and almost exists outside of the realm of the song itself, something I noticed as well. I also really like GRACE UNDER PRESSURE. Plus their covers EP FEEDBACK is really underrated....their version of Summertime Blues is amazing.
If I had to pick a second one, it will be the next one on the same album ... YYZ!
I used to be a basis and of course to play this song. So much groove in the base! :rockon:
Here is a cover performance of YYZ from New world Men band I bought tickets yesterday for their next concert in March:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGWlCFuM1F4
One of my friend attended their concert yesterday at Chambly and he told me this morning it was a great and emotional performance!
I used to be a basis and of course to play this song. So much groove in the base! :rockon:
Here is a cover performance of YYZ from New world Men band I bought tickets yesterday for their next concert in March:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGWlCFuM1F4
One of my friend attended their concert yesterday at Chambly and he told me this morning it was a great and emotional performance!
^^^ I love it P. Fly by Night's another one. It is another song that is just perfect in it's simplicity and sounds so good.
Listen to Xanadu. There is about a 5 minute instrumental than at 5:55 he sings Xan-aaaa-duuuuu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuOoMprDqg
And the sounds they make with the synthesizer and the lyrics:
Xan--a--duuuu
To stand within the pleasure dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immortal man
To find the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
Oh, I will dine on honey dew
And drink the milk of paradise, oh paradise
There is about 3 different tunes in one song. A Fucking masterpiece.
Correct me if I'm wrong but only Yes who had a similar style, put as much into the lyrics and the album art and providing an overall mind blowing experience like Rush.
I was told I went to at least one other Rush concert. I don't know. They are all blending together. I went to a couple of Alice Cooper concerts and there was one, the Mad House Rock tour where I was on a hallucinogenic and the stage show blew my mind. Alice used to jump out through slits in a screen and he would perform and then he would jump back through the screen and he would be on video...I went to so many concerts and a few times I had to cancel. I couldn't spare the brain cells....but That first Rush concert and the Alice Cooper concert made such an impression on me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1hmDpa8bo
La villa Strangiato.
Listen to Xanadu. There is about a 5 minute instrumental than at 5:55 he sings Xan-aaaa-duuuuu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuOoMprDqg
And the sounds they make with the synthesizer and the lyrics:
Xan--a--duuuu
To stand within the pleasure dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immortal man
To find the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
Oh, I will dine on honey dew
And drink the milk of paradise, oh paradise
There is about 3 different tunes in one song. A Fucking masterpiece.
Correct me if I'm wrong but only Yes who had a similar style, put as much into the lyrics and the album art and providing an overall mind blowing experience like Rush.
I was told I went to at least one other Rush concert. I don't know. They are all blending together. I went to a couple of Alice Cooper concerts and there was one, the Mad House Rock tour where I was on a hallucinogenic and the stage show blew my mind. Alice used to jump out through slits in a screen and he would perform and then he would jump back through the screen and he would be on video...I went to so many concerts and a few times I had to cancel. I couldn't spare the brain cells....but That first Rush concert and the Alice Cooper concert made such an impression on me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1hmDpa8bo
La villa Strangiato.
Yes Hungry Fly By Night is a fantastic song! You just brought a memory flooding back. I was a radio DJ at college and I used to play that song all the time. We had to follow Can Con rules and play something like 40% Canadian content. I would always play Rush or Triumph...or sometimes Lee Aaron or Anvil haha.
Lol! that's my third one in row with the previous ones! We were playing this one each time me and my friends were jamming!
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STN, you certainly mean R40 tour and you are right, Working man is the last ever song performed by the band.
Yes, my error. They were in Montreal for Father's Day, my son took me and he was amazed at the performance.
Hey guys, would you say that Rush is the most popular Canadian rock band , worldwide?
I think so myself..
If not , then who ?
The Hip , Nickelback , BTO ?
I think so myself..
If not , then who ?
The Hip , Nickelback , BTO ?
Rush, then BTO/The Guess Who, which I lump together as Randy Bachman enterprises. If we are just discussing artists, I would put Neil Young on top.
Yes, I would say Neil Young may be at the top. Is Burton Cummings of the Guess Who somehow affiliated with BTO? I forgot about the Guess Who. I love the Guess Who but I don't think any of them are as good as Rush (as the Rush Instrumental plays in my heard). I don't know what shelf Gordon Lightfoot is on (Rock? Pop?) but who wants to drive on the North Shore of Lake Superior without Gordon Lightfoot playing?
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