Zombie Jon Snow said:snowdog90 said:Zombie Jon Snow said:Troutslime said:snowdog90 said:
Personal final 4 long songs
Hemispheres Book 2
2112
La Villa Strangiato
Xanadu (live version E...SL)
Personal final 4 mainstream
Tom Sawyer
Freewill
Red Barchetta
The Trees
Personal final 8 post-Moving Pictures
Time Stand Still
New World Man
Earthshine
Secret Touch
Kid Gloves
Presto
Between The Wheels
The Body Electric
No love for Test For Echo?
Psssh.... not one track from Clockwork Angels. That's the crime.
Best album since MP imho.
But I know many kind of grew up in that Signals to Presto or Roll the Bones era. My cousin did and has more love for those, where I was a 2112 to Moving Pictures era person. My top 12 or maybe more would have nothing outside that era for sure.
I think it all depends what your period of intro to them was and your age.
I appreciate the love for CA. For me, Geddy's voice was at it's best long before CA. The songs are good, but Geddy can't erase all those years on his voice.
Obviously I'm not right or wrong, it's all personal opinion, and it's all part of the repertoire of the greatest band ever. It's all awesome! Well, not all, but 95%, which is still amazing. 70s and 80s are my fave, with a big love for Vapor Trails. I just don't love Clockwork Angels. Maybe it will grow on me.
Well perhaps. I mean he was able to singer higher earlier with ease and he lost that ability. So some older songs were tougher for him Live.
But the last couple of albums in particular S&A and CA I thought he lowered his register which helped a lot. I mean he may not hit those notes but he was able to perform those songs much better Live since they were lower.
Anyway as you say - so much great to choose from and people loving different eras is very interesting to me.
I'm definitely a 2112 - Moving Pictures timeframe fan. But I loved CA more so than any others since MP. The story struck a chord with me really and it was the first concept album in a long time and it worked for me. Felt truly fortunate too to see the CA tour in Dallas - they performed every song from CA (with a string ensemble) except BU2B and BU2B2 which was not the case on any other stops because they filmed both Dallas shows for the DVD/BR CA Live concert footage. Huge highlight for me. And then I took my son ti his first Rush concert on the R40 tour - his first and their last. Went out on the highest of notes for me.
Great story, and I totally agree. My oldest son is a huge fan of Rush, and it's sad he will never see them live. Maybe one day not too distant, Alex and Geddy will decide they can break out the old tunes on the road and dedicate them to Neil. I would be fine with that, and I think Neil would be fine with that. Probably won't happen.
Would be cool to do, say 30 shows, with several different great drummers, each drummer doing 5 to 10 shows. I would pay any price to take my kid. What a great memory to have taken your son to a show. Awesome!