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12-22-2011, 08:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Flushing, MI, United States. | | | Rush fans... Cygnus X-1 Book I or Book II?
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Which of the two parts to Cygnus X-1 is your favorite?
Cygnus X-1 Book I on A Farewell to Kings, or Cygnus X-1 Book II on Hemispheres?
I personaly like Cygnus Book I. I love the bass and it's a truly perfect song to finish the album up with. What do you guys think? |
12-22-2011, 09:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Maui, HI | | | Where does Book II actually start?... is it the moment that Cygnus appears over Olympus? One could argue that the entire Hemispheres story was Book II as it describes Cygnus' landing spot.
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12-22-2011, 09:42 AM
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12-22-2011, 09:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | Tough one. I guess if you put a gun to my head it would be Book II |
12-22-2011, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by avvie Where does Book II actually start?... is it the moment that Cygnus appears over Olympus? One could argue that the entire Hemispheres story was Book II as it describes Cygnus' landing spot. | Book I ends with the character being sucking into the Cygnus X-1 black hole.
Book II does NOT start at that moment...the character appears halfway through Book II, as the battle is happening between the two gods. Before that, it introduces both sides of the conflict, then a war, and he just falls out of the Hole, and then the battle ends, and they're all happy and fantastic.
I think that there is a pretty huge diffrence in the sound and the style change between the two parts. Cygnus Book I is reflective to the "Farewell to Kings" sound, and Part II does the same with "Hemispheres". I just think it's a really huge leap from two albums connected by this song and I think it's intresting which part people prefer. |
12-22-2011, 10:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco | | | Book II
one of my all time favorite Rush tracks. |
12-22-2011, 01:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Toronto Canada | | | Geddy and the boys dressed much cooler for the Farewell to Kings tour, then they did for the Hemispheres tour, just sayin!
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12-22-2011, 01:25 PM
| | | | I like them equally. They both have amazing bass lines and they rock.
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12-22-2011, 01:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Newfoundland | | | Book I for me, and one of my fav Rush tunes. The whole concept is cool though. I've always wondered how much of Hemispheres Neil had mapped out in his head (or on paper for that matter) when AFTK was recorded.
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12-22-2011, 03:11 PM
|  | Friends, Romans, Bass Players... | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | Definitely Book 2 for me. It took me close to a year to play it on guitar(1/2 ass, of course), and I'm trying to learn it on bass now, also 1/2 ass. I'll tell you all one thing - if you want to get good on your instrument, learn Book 2! 
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12-22-2011, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London, England | | | Cygnus X-1 is one of my favourite Rush tracks, it's got it all.
I'm afraid Hemispheres doesn't do much for me, it doesn't have enough variation or development to sustain it's length IMHO.
I know that's a pretty blasphemous thing for a Rush nut to say, but..!
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12-23-2011, 05:26 PM
| | | | i say book 2 i cant change the song when it comes up on my ipod! |
12-23-2011, 06:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Definitely Book I for me. I've always been disappointed that the sequel wasn't more about space and science. The guy got sucked into a black hole, I was hoping to hear a little more about that. (I get into Circumstances and La Villa much more off Hemispheres) |
12-23-2011, 06:19 PM
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12-23-2011, 06:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sheffield | | | No doubt in my mind; Book II is possibly my favourite Rush track. I have nothing against Book I but Book II is the one for me. Now I'm going to listen to Hemispheres and go to bed.
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12-23-2011, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by BassPlayer900 I like them equally. They both have amazing bass lines and they rock. | +1 I really can't choose! They're both equally amazing. |
12-23-2011, 06:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Alexandria, Virginia | | | Wow, this is tough. Depends on my mood. Book I is way more of a prog metal song than Book II, and that bass riff in the intro is so evil and heavy. Book II is a more proggy tune and has longer passages that appeal to me. I also like the bass line from Book II better. And that stereo soundscape thing they did on Hemispheres with that swoosh effect and the "single perfect sphere" line across left and right channels is great.
But I think Book I has to win because it's got the greatest Geddy scream ever in it. For everyone who hates Rush just because they don't like Geddy's voice, that's got to be tough to take. But for those of us who appreciate it, that's one of the greatest recordings in rock and roll history.
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12-23-2011, 06:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Louisville Kentucky | | | Book II for sure. Much more interesting, and had much more of a story line, IMO.
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12-23-2011, 07:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Annapolis, Maryland | | | Hemispheres was the first time I was exposed to Rush, around 1980..I hated it at first but about three months later they were my favorite band and Hemispheres my favorite album..still a huge fan 30+ years later! |
12-23-2011, 08:52 PM
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Just kidding, I'm a rush geek too. (but this is pretty geeky!)
ahem. Book 2
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