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awsomecoolguy
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wow i just downloaded a bunch of rush. fuck put that shit o super loud it's way good. gets me all pumped
Nov 11 2005 3:37PM
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oakjewlery
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yay canadain rock
Nov 11 2005 5:41PM
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zepscratch
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rush is sick
Nov 12 2005 10:41AM
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weazelzb
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YYZ
Nov 12 2005 2:15PM
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CanadianSkiGod
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"Attention all members of the Solar Federation... we have assumed control. We have assumed control".

Holy fuck are you kidding me?? I thought I was the only Rush fan on all of NS. They rule!!! Neil Peart's drumming is pure genious (attempt making that many time changes) and Geddy Lee's voice is even more powerful than Robert Plant's... ever tried playing a mean bass while singing? The amount of energy they pack for a THREE man band is amazing!!! For those Rush newbs out there, essential songs:

-2112 (20 minutes long hard rock suite, with softer parts)!!!
-Xanadu
-Cygnus X-1
-Cygnus X-2: book two
-The Spirit of Radio
-The whole Moving Pictures (Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Limelight, The Camera eye)
Nov 12 2005 4:33PM
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Charley.
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yay rush! YYZ !
Nov 12 2005 8:20PM
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oakjewlery
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listen i said yay first so no that can't happen
Nov 12 2005 8:35PM
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troublemakers101
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tom sawyer is a good song
Nov 13 2005 6:14PM
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line1260ski
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Subdivisions
Jul 27 2006 11:04AM
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thecoyote
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Haha....you know whats awesome.....Neil Pearts brother, is my boss of 5 years.....I got floor seats and backstage passes for free last time....been a rush fan since I was 10

Make sure you reccommend Fly By Night.....its a classic that everyone needs to know....and of course you all know "Tom Sawyer" from Deadsy's cover in the trailer of SM3? or Focused...or some MSP findangle.
Jul 27 2006 6:40PM
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MrPantyDropper
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You left out Working Man? wow.
Jul 27 2006 7:16PM
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AtomicTweaker
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fly by night is one of there most underrated songs
Jul 27 2006 8:46PM
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CanadianSkiGod
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For God's sake, that was a short list I made a year ago (old thread). I'm still in love with Rush, of course, and I'd definetely say Fly by Night and Working man are among their top -notch songs. There are others I love too:

-A passage to Bangkok
-La Villa Strangiata (great instrumental)
-Bastille Day (Caress of steel is sooo underrated)

But basically it's all good until Moving Pictures. Then it's rathe unknown territories for me. And piss off (lovingly, of course) to the guy who has the backstage passes, that's my dream...
Jul 28 2006 12:20AM
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ATLskier
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ah, rush, they are so awesome. Neil pearts drumming is just mind boggling. I've been playing drums for 8 years. His stuff is so damn hard to play to. YYZ is hard, but I can play it pretty well now.


I need to go get 2112 so bad. I just bought retrospective vol. 1(I already had vol 2 from years and years ago). It's so good. I seriously, have never heard a bad rush song.
Jul 28 2006 10:50AM
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Geoff.
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just learned of them they are good
Jul 28 2006 11:24AM
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Maxfreeride
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Rush is so good. Alex Lifeson is definitely an underrated guitarist i think. 2112, YYZ, limelight, all their songs are good
Jul 28 2006 2:42PM
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bigbromskier
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fly by night is definitely one of my favorite songs to listen to and to play on guitar
Jul 28 2006 10:21PM
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Mat.
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yeah Rush is probably one of my all time Favourites.

if any of you havent heard "the pass" then i realllly sugggest doing so.
Jul 29 2006 2:02PM
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another1260poser
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wow, didn't realize there were so many fans of them here.

one of my friends listens to them almost religiously it seems. i can't get into it at all. i can see where the talent/skill is there in the music, that guy's drumming is truly genious like someone else said, but i can't see past that voice. to me it's annoying as hell. some people make fun of pop-ish bands like fall out boy, coheed and cambria, etc. for having high "whiny" voices but yet a band like Rush is accepted as having a powerful, moving voice? i dunno, i think it sounds like a woman's voice. i honestly thought it was a woman singing until a few months ago.

don't mean to bash on them too much, hope i haven't offended anyone, i dunno.. it just doesn't do it for me.
Jul 29 2006 4:32PM
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jimmychung
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FLY BY NIGHT AWAY FROM HERE!
Jul 29 2006 8:09PM
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720laxskier
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limelight is my favorite, but YYZ is titled that cause the intro is the morse code for the letters "Y" "Y" "Z" kinda cool
Jul 29 2006 9:52PM
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GANDALF
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yeah i love rush. i enjoy drumming to it too. neil peart is so innovative. great band.
Jul 30 2006 2:13AM
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ATLskier
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that is encredible. I jsut looked at the morse code alphabet and it goes perfectly with the song. sick stuff.
Jul 30 2006 3:57PM
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CanadianSkiGod
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What? How cool, I didn't know. Actually thought it was named that because YYZ is the airport code for Toronto, their hometown. Meh.

So third post in this thread... just bought "RUSH" and "Fly by night" today because it was their only records from before Moving Pictures I didn't own. Uh... it FUCKING RULES. Long live Rush.

A new record is supposedly coming out (relatively) soon. Psyched.
Jul 30 2006 10:09PM
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