I feel bad. RUSH fan since 1982 and I'm digging this thread hijack more. 
I will check out the JJ.
I will check out the JJ.
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RUSH Clockwork Angels
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Fill in the blank. Clockwork Angels is Rush's best album since ________.
The reason I ask is, this album just keeps getting better the more I listen to it. I'm a big fan of Snakes and Arrows, and initially I wasn't convinced Clockwork Angels was that much better. But now I really think it stands taller as a unified, cohesive statement. The whole thing just flows so well, and they really achieved their stated goal of making a "concept album" where the songs stand just as strong individually.
So, once I decided this album is stronger than Snakes and Arrows, it occurred to me this could be the best (or at least my favorite) Rush album in a very long time. Thus, I pose the question to all of you. For me, I think the answer is Signals.
The reason I ask is, this album just keeps getting better the more I listen to it. I'm a big fan of Snakes and Arrows, and initially I wasn't convinced Clockwork Angels was that much better. But now I really think it stands taller as a unified, cohesive statement. The whole thing just flows so well, and they really achieved their stated goal of making a "concept album" where the songs stand just as strong individually.
So, once I decided this album is stronger than Snakes and Arrows, it occurred to me this could be the best (or at least my favorite) Rush album in a very long time. Thus, I pose the question to all of you. For me, I think the answer is Signals.
Great band...but don't they just have the worst album covers in music history?
They're keeping their tradition alive.
They're keeping their tradition alive.
Dave Siff said:
1984, Grace Under Pressure, it was IMO the last good Rush album before the keyboards took over and the straightforward predictable songs started. It's really comparing apples to oranges because every album is completely different.
kevmc28 said:
Are you kidding??? Clockwork Angels is great! It's simple but the alchemy symbols keep it interesting. There's usually some subliminal message in their covers but I haven't found anything in this one yet.
I think the strings were very subtle and tasteful. If they had not listed them, no one might have known.
Alvaro Martín Gómez A.
TalkBass' resident Bongo + cowbell player
I highly and respectfully disagree. I think most of their album covers are awesome. To me, "Moving Pictures" is Rush's magnum opus and the album cover is part of that greatness. BTW, this is a great summary of their cover concepts.
P.S.: I listened to "Clockwork Angels" last weekend, but I want to give it a couple more detailed listenings before making any comments.
Definitely said:
As mentioned earlier in the thread, look at the time, and think military time!
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Right, but I think you can still compare them. Regardless of the sound or style, some albums are stronger than others just on the basis of being a better collection of songs, and laid out in the perfect order. I think some Rush albums achieve that and others don't. Clockwork Angels does, IMO.
OT on the OT .....
Rush tix ..... in my area for a show in November.
$1367.00 USD per seat on the floor.
Thirteen hundred and sixty seven dollars .. per seat. For my wife and I that would be a $3k show, we live 200 miles from the venue so travel expenses and blabla.
Utterly ridiculous.
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When we saw them last, I think the tix were $8.50.
I guess that Rush themselves don't set the prices ... but this is just insulting. NO BAND is worth paying a full month's wages to see live. Even the nosebleeders are $60 - $70 bux. Doable .. but still .. that's just nuts .. over a grand to get on the floor.
I guess I'm dating myself here, but I've been to so many "General Admission" shows that seeing $1367.00 for center-stage floor seats is just ridiculous. I paid $25 bux for "backstage pass" tix when I saw Bad Company in '79.
You may resume conversation. Rant complete.
Rush tix ..... in my area for a show in November.
$1367.00 USD per seat on the floor.
Thirteen hundred and sixty seven dollars .. per seat. For my wife and I that would be a $3k show, we live 200 miles from the venue so travel expenses and blabla.
Utterly ridiculous.
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When we saw them last, I think the tix were $8.50.
I guess that Rush themselves don't set the prices ... but this is just insulting. NO BAND is worth paying a full month's wages to see live. Even the nosebleeders are $60 - $70 bux. Doable .. but still .. that's just nuts .. over a grand to get on the floor.
I guess I'm dating myself here, but I've been to so many "General Admission" shows that seeing $1367.00 for center-stage floor seats is just ridiculous. I paid $25 bux for "backstage pass" tix when I saw Bad Company in '79.
You may resume conversation. Rant complete.
Agreed, though if Vapor Trails hadn't been ruined that would be my favorite outside of Moving Pictures and Permanent Waves.
I saw Dream Theater on the last two nights of their 'Octavarium' tour; once in Philly with just the band, and then in Radio City in NYC a night or two later with the orchestra. Philly was 100 times better, absolutely magical and the best I had ever seen them, and Radio City was just this....DVD fodder. Leave the orchestra at home, or sample and trigger what you need.
BTW, just got the album, and liking it so far but wouldn't rate it against earlier albums yet. Since the hiatus the albums have all taken a while for them to really sink in with me - I knew immediately that 'Counterparts' was brilliance, but the recent disks have taken me a while. Absolutely love 'Headlong Flight' though
Flux Jetson said:
Um that is a ticket reseller gouging the prices. Actual ticket value is not that high.
