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NuclearPotato posted:Presto would like to have a word with you about that title. Also yeah Presto kind of sucks, both the song and album. There's some good tracks, obviously, but it's worse than the surrounding albums (which is saying something given how incredibly embarrassing the Roll the Bones rap is)
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Boner Calhoun posted:You all may look at me funny but I really like Power Windows. Yeah the '80s synths are cheesy as hell but I don't mind them, and there's some good songs on that one. Mystic Rhythms is the poo poo!
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Boner Calhoun posted:Very true, but I thought that was just kind of expected with Rush. I mean, these are the guys that gave us a ten minute song called "The Necromancer" as well as this this awe-inspiring lyric: And yeah, the chorus of Virtuality is really bad. I actually like the sentiment, but at the time it was far more novel, and anchoring himself to contemporary technology was a really bad idea. Pyroxene Stigma posted:Not at all. I was going to make this point last night but couldn't word it as well as you did. I like Rush for a lot of reasons, but lyrical content is low on that list. (I do like the premise of 2112, naturally.) edit: also I would say that Limelight isn't corny. And generally speaking I think his stuff on social distance/isolation is not bad, stuff like Lock and Key, Entre' Nous, The Analog Kid, Middletown Dreams, Subdivisions. Those can fall under the "on-the-nose" criticism though het fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Sep 1, 2013 |
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CaptainYesterday posted:"A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission" is the worst line Peart has ever written, and I stand by this.
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AlternateAccount posted:Peart's lyrics are probably at least 30% cringeworthy, but eh, he tries and it usually works. I won't listen to Virtuality though, it causes me physical pain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taB3U0b9zdA It's maybe a product of the age (my age, not the general time period) that I became enamored with them, but I always think of them and Peart's lyrics specifically as epitomizing that particular teenage/youthful experience. It's nuanced in a way but it's really more a distillation of those emotions and observations, when everything seemed like an intellectual revelation about the world. I think that's why Permanent Waves will always be my favorite Rush album, it really fits that nerd-figuring-out-the-world mindset so well. Peart's lyrics grew beyond that to an extent but I think they always kind of had that quality to them, at least post-Farewell to Kings.
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Popular Human posted:I'm kind of amazed that they've never played Chain Lightning live. I feel that way about I Think I'm Going Bald, it's one of Alex's best riffs imho
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