Rush - their new single

[Alone]

Got a copy, as well as tickets to see them Sept 12th.

 

[Slickone]

Wal Mart has an exclusive CD version with a video clip, which was aired previously on VH1C (I never saw it). Not sure if it's on the CD or you download it.?
info (this says both "includes" and "download" for the video).

 

[Slickone]

Both CC's I checked around me were OOS, but BB PM'd to CC with no problems. They had a copy of CC's ad (& CD is in the ad).

 

[Luthien]

Rush at this point has sucked as much as it has been great.

Dont bet me wrong I like rush but only the older stuff.

 

[redgtxdi]

Agreed. Rush stuff is just lost these days. Can't blame 'em. Once you make billions of dollars, you can do what you want whenever you want. I'm sure they still love their fans, but when they get into the studio they're going to make the music THEY want to make.


As a side note...........


If you look in the "gallery" section and look at the "90's Pics", there are a few pics in there where Neil looks SO MUCH like Hugh Laurie (House M.D.) that it's not even funny.

(See the 2 pics of him banging on the drums & the one of him looking up)


HILARIOUS!! House on drums!!! :laugh:

P.S. I couldn't figure out how to cut & paste here, if anybody else can.

 

[ethebubbeth]

Originally posted by: f4phantom2500
What, only one bass drum? How simplistic.

You should take a look at Mike Portnoy's Albino Monster

Originally posted by: Rubycon
This album is a total blowout. WAY WAY WAY overcompressed. :|

Music is good - but they totally TORCHED and I mean TORCHED it - Vapor Trails style.(

Ouch

I have never been fond of the mastering on rush albums... one would think that great musicians would expect great recording/mixing.

I was really worried when it was announced that Paul Northfield (Permanent Waves, Exit Stage Left, Moving Pictures, Signals, A Show of Hands, Grace Under Pressure, Different Stages, Vapor Trails) was the recording engineer on Dream Theater's new album Systematic Chaos.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: Luthien
Rush at this point has sucked as much as it has been great.

Dont bet me wrong I like rush but only the older stuff.

Your opinion of course. And I have had another friend, who wasn't a Rush fan per se, say the same thing, but he never really gave any of it a 2nd chance. But if you do believe what you said, then you should be saying the same about any band from the 70's/80's. Yet millions of old school Rush fans around the world have loved most of everything Rush has put out to this day, yet there will always be a few who don't think a band should change one bit, and always put out albums that only sound exactly like the first one, or like the one that had the most hits. People change. Music changes. No one should be expected to, or is going to, put out an album that sounds exactly like an album made 20 or 30 years ago. I certainly don't want to hear the same old stuff redone over and over different ways.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: ethebubbeth

Originally posted by: f4phantom2500
What, only one bass drum? How simplistic.

You should take a look at Mike Portnoy's Albino Monster

Originally posted by: Rubycon
This album is a total blowout. WAY WAY WAY overcompressed. :|

Music is good - but they totally TORCHED and I mean TORCHED it - Vapor Trails style.(

Ouch

I have never been fond of the mastering on rush albums... one would think that great musicians would expect great recording/mixing.

I was really worried when it was announced that Paul Northfield (Permanent Waves, Exit Stage Left, Moving Pictures, Signals, A Show of Hands, Grace Under Pressure, Different Stages, Vapor Trails) was the recording engineer on Dream Theater's new album Systematic Chaos.

Really? What in particular don't you like? I've never heard anyone complain about the mastering on anything but VT. I am no engineer, but they all sound great to me (especially the remasters), all except VT. Most Rush fans seem to feel this way. I'm not sure how the band let VT's sound slip through the door, and I wish they would remaster it, but perhaps they feel it wouldn't sell enough to make up for the remaster/reissue cost. Who knows.

 

[Vic]

I finally picked it up today (and am only about halfway through the first listening) but so far I really like it. The first track and single, Far Cry, is a bit Vapor Trails-ish, but the rest I've heard so far is much more like Farewell to Kings/Hemispheres/Permanent Waves. Admittedly, Peart's lyrics (and the mood of the entire album) seem to be really dark, and the subject matter is really heavy, so I can see how some could be easily turned off by that.

However, accusations that the band has "lost it" or "sucks now" are completely off-base. Yeah, they're playing what they want to play. Like they've always done and always will. I can't wait to see them again on July 21st!

 

[Kadarin]

I have tickets for the Aug 1st show... :thumbsup:

 

[Anubis]

im gonan go see them on the 4th of july woots

 

[Slickone]

The album debuted at #3.

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Enduring Canadian rock trio Rush's first studio effort in five years, "Snakes & Arrows" bows at No. 3. The Anthem/Atlantic set moved 93,000 units and is the group's 27th album to impact the Billboard 200. Rush's highest charting set remains 1993's "Counterparts," which scored No. 2.

 

[Vic]

It rocks! :thumbsup:

 

[broon]

I really like the three instrumental songs. As a whole it's good. There isn't really one song that blows me away though. I think it sounds a lot like Test For Echo.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: broon
I really like the three instrumental songs. As a whole it's good. There isn't really one song that blows me away though. I think it sounds a lot like Test For Echo.

Rush has always been about the whole album as opposed to any single stand-out song.

After many listenings, my opinion is that, of their previous albums, this album most resembles Presto, which was also quite heavy, dark, moody, and existential. The intro to the 3rd track, "Workin' Them Angels" is almost the same as Presto's title track even.
Vapor Trails I only hear in the first track, Far Cry, and I don't hear any Test for Echo on it at all. Test for Echo was Rush's last album with producer Peter Collins, who also worked on Power Windows, Hold Your Fire, and Counterparts. Vapor Trails was produced by Paul Northfield, who was the engineer for Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure.
OTOH, Nick Raskulinecz took Rush and Snakes & Arrows in a different direction IMO, which it looks like Peart was already doing with his dark, moody lyrics and complex rhythms.

And yeah, I really like the instrumentals as well. Particularly "Hope," the first Rush song written entirely by Lifeson. The way I see it, that song is a big F'you to everyone who has refused to give him the credit as a guitarist that he's deserved all along.


edit: 24,000th post... damn WTF I need a life