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xxxMidgexxx wrote:6 words.
"Led Zep Can Suck... My ...."

Sabbath, Rush, and Queen are the definitive classic rock royalty.

Great film, great night. Geeked out singing all the words. Felt good to see a film in Manhattan again.
Fuck the haters.

-Midge f Lightweight

FormerLurker wrote:All this shit is for dads with a high probability of ponytail.

scannest wrote:I'll give Rush maybe a dozen good-to-great songs ("Subdivisions" being their best). Queen has a few more - maybe 20. Sabbath doesn't count as Classic Rock. Radio has always ignored them outside the occasional spin of "Iron Man" or "Paranoid".

As far as 'Classic Rock' goes, there's no way to top Beatles/Stones/Who.

FormerLurker wrote:All this shit is for dads with a high probability of ponytail.

Markonomicon wrote:Rush were a phenomenal band with terrible vocals.

FormerLurker wrote:

Markonomicon wrote:Rush were a phenomenal band with terrible vocals.

And terrible lyrics.

FormerLurker wrote:Thanks to this dumb thread I had the rap part of "Roll the Bones" running through my head all weekend. Eff all y'all.

Hal wrote:My son and I had a great experience at the West Hartford showing last Thursday. I'd had a difficult time listening to Rush since Neil died. Seeing R40 on the big screen was rejuvenating. We had a lot of fun. I've spent the week listening to the Rush catalog in reverse order (ala R40). Just reached Power Windows on my Friday commute. Looking forward to enjoying the rest of the catalog on vinyl over the weekend.

Yup, plenty of ponytail'd dudes. I wasn't one of them.

scannest wrote:I'm picturing a theater full of Comic Book Guys hotly debating the relative merits of TEST FOR ECHO vs. VAPOR TRAILS while licking fake butter off their fingers.

SamDBL wrote:I was into them very early on. Farewell to kings and permanent waves were a couple of my earliest purchases. They oddly always made sense to me. Geddys vocals, in particular… just fit and I never gave it a second thought. Then, after years of people complaining, I *guess* I could see where they were coming from. Still always sounded (and sounds) totally natural and great, to me. Their songs, weird and long as they are, were always extremely catchy to me as well. The lyrics are fine. I’m not head over heels for them, but I don’t they stand out as corny or super lame, either.

FormerLurker wrote:

SamDBL wrote:I was into them very early on. Farewell to kings and permanent waves were a couple of my earliest purchases. They oddly always made sense to me. Geddys vocals, in particular… just fit and I never gave it a second thought. Then, after years of people complaining, I *guess* I could see where they were coming from. Still always sounded (and sounds) totally natural and great, to me. Their songs, weird and long as they are, were always extremely catchy to me as well. The lyrics are fine. I’m not head over heels for them, but I don’t they stand out as corny or super lame, either.

Don't you have a ponytail, tho? See?

SamDBL wrote:I was into them very early on. Farewell to kings and permanent waves were a couple of my earliest purchases. They oddly always made sense to me. Geddys vocals, in particular… just fit and I never gave it a second thought. Then, after years of people complaining, I *guess* I could see where they were coming from. Still always sounded (and sounds) totally natural and great, to me. Their songs, weird and long as they are, were always extremely catchy to me as well. The lyrics are fine. I’m not head over heels for them, but I don’t they stand out as corny or super lame, either.

lewdd wrote:Midge do you remember that time that you were going to visit me and go to my neighbors Rush Jam festival.

JGJR wrote:

SamDBL wrote:I was into them very early on. Farewell to kings and permanent waves were a couple of my earliest purchases. They oddly always made sense to me. Geddys vocals, in particular… just fit and I never gave it a second thought. Then, after years of people complaining, I *guess* I could see where they were coming from. Still always sounded (and sounds) totally natural and great, to me. Their songs, weird and long as they are, were always extremely catchy to me as well. The lyrics are fine. I’m not head over heels for them, but I don’t they stand out as corny or super lame, either.

I gotta agree with all of that (always dug his vocals, etc.) except I didn't hear them until the Atlantic era (specifically, when Presto came out in 1989 when I was a freshman in high school), but at the time I also heard a bunch of their back catalog (most of their stuff up to Permanent Waves and then some of the late '80s stuff like A Show of Hands, etc.) because I had a friend who was a huge fan (a drummer, of course, lol).

These days, I gravitate heavily towards Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, and parts of Signals (kinda think scannest is right about "Subdivisions" maybe being their best song) when they streamlined the 18-minute songs and Neal grew a lot lyrically, too, going from Ayn Rand tributes to, well, more interesting/relatable things.

I did acquire 2 of the 1st 3 albums (s/t and Caress of Steel iirc) in a collection a few years back and they are all fun and listenable, etc. but I just don't really think they hit their stride until they started becoming influenced heavily by The Police.
I think previously I only knew that material on greatest hits comps and All the World's a Stage.

SamDBL wrote:

JGJR wrote:

SamDBL wrote:I was into them very early on. Farewell to kings and permanent waves were a couple of my earliest purchases. They oddly always made sense to me. Geddys vocals, in particular… just fit and I never gave it a second thought. Then, after years of people complaining, I *guess* I could see where they were coming from. Still always sounded (and sounds) totally natural and great, to me. Their songs, weird and long as they are, were always extremely catchy to me as well. The lyrics are fine. I’m not head over heels for them, but I don’t they stand out as corny or super lame, either.

I gotta agree with all of that (always dug his vocals, etc.) except I didn't hear them until the Atlantic era (specifically, when Presto came out in 1989 when I was a freshman in high school), but at the time I also heard a bunch of their back catalog (most of their stuff up to Permanent Waves and then some of the late '80s stuff like A Show of Hands, etc.) because I had a friend who was a huge fan (a drummer, of course, lol).

These days, I gravitate heavily towards Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, and parts of Signals (kinda think scannest is right about "Subdivisions" maybe being their best song) when they streamlined the 18-minute songs and Neal grew a lot lyrically, too, going from Ayn Rand tributes to, well, more interesting/relatable things.

I did acquire 2 of the 1st 3 albums (s/t and Caress of Steel iirc) in a collection a few years back and they are all fun and listenable, etc. but I just don't really think they hit their stride until they started becoming influenced heavily by The Police.
I think previously I only knew that material on greatest hits comps and All the World's a Stage.

Yes, I agree the mid period 80s stuff… even the keyboard heavy stuff… is the pinnacle, I’d say moving moving pictures, permanent waves, grace under pressure, signals and even hold your fire are my go to albums. Funny, this is the era a lot of people seem to write off. But I found a lot of their later stuff when they ditched the keys good but kind of boring. I think some of it has to do with Alex trying to find his place with the keys heavy stuff. He has said in interviews that he had trouble coming up with guitar parts when the synth took up so much room. But I think that limitation made his playing really awesome. Having to find weird voicings and chord fragments so as not to muddy stuff up. Something I learned (from him) much later in life.