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rush are coming to toronto....can't hack going...the thirteen year old in me is dying to go....but the 23 year old is saying "yo guy there gonna play the new stuff"....but back to the point of the thread...there has been much rush praising on this board...and while i still consider myself a HUGE fan i offer these songs as total duds:

closer to the heart (it blows) yyz (sounds like the theme to a late night talk-show) that lame newer acoustic tune about the guy with aids roll the bones (worst song ever/worst rap ever recorded) cinderella man (gay) new world man (gayer) big money (gayest) Time stand still (gayest+1)

oh god i hope rush don't read this list I LOVE YOU GEDDY! Cygnus X-1 FOREVER

....holy shit i'm a loser...time to start new thread to validate some level of coolness

― geeg, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

YYZ is amazing. Nobody's Hero is the worst one I can think of.

― Kris, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Twilight Zone" makes me say, "I just heard the gayest song on Earth!"

That stupid robot voice in "Subdivisions" turns the whole song into a joke.

― dave q, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Think I'm Going Bald" off CARESS OF STEEL is the worst they've done, bar none.

"Subdivisions" is wholly redeemed by the line: "Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth, but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth." Nice.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jesus, iambic septameter ahoy!! I'll say "Living in the Limelight" because it's one of the very few I know as it was severely overplayed in my hometown "market", and I do hate it so.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Who is John Galt?

― Sean, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"2112" *ducks*

p.s. what's with this "gay" crap?

― zebedee, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose, logically, that the longest one would be the worst one, no?

― Mark, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rush could conceivably be called many things, but I dare say that "gay" is not among them (despite Alex Lifeson's fetching hat and scarf combo and Neil Peart's mustache on the back cover of 2112). I doubt that particular demographic really go for Ayn Rand-inspired egghead metal with shamelessly proggy leanings when there's showtunes, Liza Minelli, Streisand and Peter Allen albums to be played.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the fountainhead is the campest (good) movie i haf evah seen!!

― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Gay" is the new "lame", don't you know. So Rush is gay.

― Andy, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Then again, Placebo have been often compared to Rush (given Brian Moloko's piercing pipes), and Placebo are very proudly and IRREFUTABLY gay, so maybe we're onto something here!

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I doubt that particular demographic really go for Ayn Rand- inspired egghead metal with shamelessly proggy leanings when there's showtunes, Liza Minelli, Streisand and Peter Allen albums to be played.

True, how true. *puts on Liza album*

― Sean, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

has to be "fly by night"

― mike bott, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A setlist from the current tour. Looks like they're playing a mix of early stuff and material from the current album, much of which I enjoy. I have my ticket for the Toronto show.

Now, first of all, I think "Fly By Night", "Limelight", "Cinderella Man", and "Closer To the Heart" are all great. I'm sure Josh is embarrassed about this now but I'd never really noticed how brilliant the "Limelight" solo is until he commented on it once. It just takes the song into this totally other space for its duration. The way the tone shifts like light and shade with the phrases resisting the pull of the drums - if you can look past the AOR-ness it's really quite impressive. Mostly I really like the melody of that track. "Cinderella Man" is just a great piece of angular pop-pomp (with a somewhat rub guitar solo). I kind of agree with geeg about "YYZ" (Why do even non-fans always like this?) and feel somewhat similarly about "La Villa Strangiato" but I doubt either is one of their worst ever tracks. "Roll the Bones" and "Big Money" are awful, I agree, but "Nobody's Hero" gets my vote as possibly the worst song of all time.

― sundar, who remembers when it felt kinda out-there to talk about Rush on this bo, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Looking over that setlist, I guess there is a bit of the mid-to-late 80s/90s stuff, including almost all the songs I criticized. Still, they do a "By-Tor & the Snow Dogs"/"Cygnus X-1"/"Working Man" encore as well as the "2112" overture, "Natural Science", and "Tom Sawyer".

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just wanted to say that I found the phrase "rush are coming to toronto" a bit strange, because I thought they lived here. In fact, I once saw Geddy coming out of a Shopper's Drug Mart into an illegally parked car driven by Daniel Richler.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Two sets??? Back in the day, you were lucky to get one as long as either of the two linked to.

― Jeff W, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Waking Life in a downtown theatre not three seats away from the Ged.

― Mark, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I kind of agree with geeg about "YYZ" (Why do even non-fans always like this?)

Probably because it's so uncharacteristic (perhaps why you two don't like it?) -- for one thing there's no Geddyvox (who's often a turn-off) plus the bass/drums is like some small band adaptation of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time. All the guitar fills during the main melody are Lifeson at his fussiest, again the ornamentalized, mutating melody line is very Ornette (it's basically a jazz fusion song themed around a rhythm and a melody rather than around changes is what it boils down to). And the guitar solo has all this strange, intervallic playing in this totally legato style that sounds like something Allan Holdsworth might do if he had any knack for rock phrasing at all; it's unlike anything else Lifeson ever did. It probably isn't that much different than the canned studio music of the time, but still for Rush it's very unique.

― Kris, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At the Toronto show, we stood behind these two beefy guys with mullets, baseball caps, tattoos, and facial hair. They sang along to every song, including overtly campy synthpop like "Vital Signs" and would go mad every time someone played a fill. During "Spirit Of Radio" they had their arms around each other's shoulders and did a can-can sort of dance. After the song they kissed each other on the cheek and neck. So maybe Rush is gay after all.

"YYZ" and "Strangiato" are growing on me.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Although Lifeson ruined the latter with this dumbass monologue.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Quite obviously "I Think I'm Going Bald." Awful.

― Dare, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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