[** Best Rush song nomination thread **]

[Death 296]

What's the best Rush song?

La Villa Stangiato

2112 Side 1.

Tom Sawyer.

Spirit of the Radio

Working Man

Ghost of a Chance

Xanadu

Limelight

Vital Signs

YYZ

Red Barchetta

Time Stand Still

Bastille Day

Temple of Syrinx

Subdivisions

Closer to the Heart

[frank 2,259]

The worst answer will be better than 99% of other bands best songs. 

[Death 296]

1 minute ago, frank said:

The worst answer will be better than 99% of other bands best songs. 

Nominate something. We need a break from the politics.

[kutulu 1,630]

Best value for your dollar at the bar jukebox has for to be 2112 side 1. Pick that as your last selection and the bar will be listening to your tunes all night   

[HellToupee 1,370]

19 minutes ago, Death said:

What's the best Rush song?

I nominate 

La Villa Strangiato

Song by Rush

 

 

Please don’t post this in the political forum 

[kutulu 1,630]

Tom Sawyer is like their Stairway, great songs overplayed to death. Probably a good thread idea. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

School's Out

[Hardcore troubadour 14,424]

Nerd rock. Spirit of Radio

[easilyscan 746]

When I wanna Rock

 

 When I'm mellow

 

[kutulu 1,630]

4 minutes ago, easilyscan said:

 

Great pre NP song

[DonS 3,288]

Tough choice for sure, but I'll go with Limelight. 

[jerryskids 6,317]

Rick Beato is one of my favorite youtubers.  He makes a good case for Xanadu, and breaks it down musically.  He said they basically did one practice run to set up the equipment, then recorded the second take.  Amazing.

The vid is 37 minutes long; FF to 4:15 where he names his pick of Xanadu, then around 6:30 he talks about how the recording is a little sharp and brings a brightness, then starts breaking down the song.

[edjr 6,429]

Shark Dance

[Death 296]

31 minutes ago, edjr said:

Shark Dance

Rusty II remastered my first six albums and put them on Spotify and YouTube.

Then he found an old cassette tape of me focking around on acoustic guitar, digitized it, remastered it and threw that out there as well.

My biggest fan is some wanker in Finland.

Then there are dozens of unreleased songs on cassettes and CDs in addition to like 20 more I've yet to record.

They're all terrible, but fock it!

[Mike Honcho 4,854]

The one that goes Da da da da DA DA 

[Herbivore 1,076]

so many great ones..I'll go with Vital Signs.

 

[seafoam1 2,617]

Pimpledoosh is such a moron. 

[patweisers44 760]

Avoiding all the radio hits, give me Red Barchetta.

[Fumbleweed 492]

I know this will be an unpopular pick, but I love Time Stand Still off one of their later albums. 

[DonS 3,288]

2 minutes ago, Fumbleweed said:

I know this will be an unpopular pick, but I love Time Stand Still off one of their later albums. 

Not unpopular with me.  Some very emotional lyrics in that one. 

My wife chose that song for the son/mother dance when our son got married last May.

She did go with the version the Army band did as a tribute to Neil Peart, though.

 

[DonS 3,288]

1 hour ago, jerryskids said:

Rick Beato is one of my favorite youtubers.  He makes a good case for Xanadu, and breaks it down musically.  He said they basically did one practice run to set up the equipment, then recorded the second take.  Amazing.

The vid is 37 minutes long; FF to 4:15 where he names his pick of Xanadu, then around 6:30 he talks about how the recording is a little sharp and brings a brightness, then starts breaking down the song.

I will dine on honeydew b1tches!!!! 

[Thornton Melon 597]

Bastille Day

Temples of Syrinx ( the short version)

Subdivisions

[jerryskids 6,317]

My intro to Rush was Moving Pictures, specifically Tom Sawyer.  I was about 14 at the time.  It was one of a handful of times in my musical life where I was like "whoa, what in the f*ck was that awesomeness$#@!?"  Mostly it was Neil Peart's drumming, I had never heard anything like that.  So while I can't say it was their best song, it probably has the most personal meaning to me.  

I did go back to really get into Permanent Waves; I played the crap out of that and Moving Pictures.  I also got into 2112, not sure why, as I wasn't an Ayn Rand conservative at the time (at least to my knowledge).  I knew the more famous older songs like Closer to the Heart, Xanadu, the Trees, to a lesser extent La Villa Strangiata.  But for whatever reason, I never explored those entire albums in much detail.  I'm guessing whatever friend groups I was in, didn't do so.

RIP Neil, the GOAT of rock drumming.   

[TheNewGirl 1,224]

2 hours ago, edjr said:

Shark Dance

I still have my CD around here somewhere. 

[The Girlfriend 92]

Rush gives women the ick.

[Fnord 1,802]

2112 easily the choice here. Most of their other decent songs are ridiculously overplayed.

When I think about Rush, I think about this scene

[posty 2,523]

4 hours ago, Death said:

Rusty II remastered my first six albums and put them on YouTube.

Links?

[edjr 6,429]

 

RIP NP

[SUXBNME 1,446]

YYZ has to be up there
 

 

[mattman7168 39]

Xanadu

Closer to the Heart

Time Stand Still